Patent ID: 8169412

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a storage section for storing application programs; a display section for displaying an image; a touch panel for inputting commands for setting of the image to be displayed on the display section; a recognizing section for detecting the commands inputted to the touch panel and recognizing a content of each command based on a detected result, the commands including, a screen size command for displaying a screen size mark, indicative of a full-screen size of the display section, to be displayed on the display section, a size of the screen size mark being smaller than a size of the display section, a display position specifying command inputted within the screen size mark, a position of the display position specifying command within the screen size mark being indicative of a display position of an image of an application program within a full-screen size of the display portion, and an application selecting command for selecting the application program to be displayed on the display portion; a determining section for determining an application program to be executed among the application programs stored in the storage section based on the application selecting command recognized by the recognizing section; a display adjusting section for creating image information by adjusting the display position of the image associated with the application program to be displayed on the display section based on the screen size command and the display position specifying command recognized by the recognizing section; and a display controlling section for supplying to the display section the image information created by the display adjusting section, and displaying the image on the display section, upon execution of the application program determined by the determining section, the image associated with the application program appearing at the display position on the display section at the position adjusted by of the display adjusting section.