Patent ID: 8065622

Claim:
A displaying device with user-defined regions, comprising: an input unit; a display unit comprising a display area constituted by a plurality of unit regions arranged along one or two dimensions of the display area; and a central controller, comprising: a region defining unit configured for defining regions on the display area by using Up/Down keys, an Ok key and a Cancel key of the input unit to operate the unit regions and incorporating one or more unit regions in each of the regions in accordance with confirm signals from the input unit, and for generating region defining information; a content allocating unit configured for allocating contents for the defined regions in accordance with the confirm signals from the input unit, and for generating content allocating information, wherein the contents comprise images and additional information corresponding to the images; an obtaining unit configured for obtaining the region defining information and the content allocating information, parsing the region defining information and the content allocating information, and obtaining contents according to the parsed content allocating information; and a display controlling unit configured for receiving the parsed region defining information, the parsed content allocating information, and the contents from the obtaining unit, splitting the display area into the regions according to the parsed region defining information and displaying the images in a part of the regions and the additional information corresponding to the images in other part of the regions correspondingly according to the parsed content allocating information.