Patent ID: 8332764

Claim:
An editing device for editing transitions each between a plurality of display screens, comprising: a transition display unit which displays a transition diagram window for allowing a user to enter the transition between the plurality of display screens; a screen layout unit which places screen nodes representing the display screens specified by the user in the transition diagram window; a transition layout unit which places a transition from the display screen before the transition to the display screen after the transition specified by the user into the transition diagram window as a link from the screen node representing the display screen before the transition to the screen node representing the display screen after the transition; a transition condition input unit which allows the user to enter a transition condition for performing the transition represented by the link; a transition condition storage unit which stores the transition condition for performing the transition represented by the link, associating the transition condition with the link; and a generation unit which generates a transition rule for performing the transition between the plurality of display screens on the basis of the link and the transition condition stored in the transition condition storage unit, wherein: the transition display unit displays a plurality of the transition diagram windows; the screen layout unit places the plurality of screen nodes in the plurality of transition diagram windows according to a user's instruction; the transition layout unit places the link whose transition source or transition destination is the screen node in each of the transition diagram windows according to a user's instruction; and the generation unit generates the transition rule on the basis of a plurality of the links and the transition condition of each of the plurality of links which are placed in the plurality of transition diagram windows, the transition rule including a transition rule for a transition from at least one of the display screens in a first transition diagram window to at least one of the display screens in a second transition diagram window.