(12) United States Patent US006169547B1

(10) Patent N0.: US 6,169,547 B1 Tanaka et al. (45) Date of Patent: *J an. 2, 2001

(54) METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN ICON OF 4,604,653 8/1986 Shimizu ............................. .. 358/256 MEDIA DATA 4,808,987 2/1989 Takeda et al. ..................... .. 345/115

4,821,121 4/1989 Beaulier ......... .. .. 358/160

(75) Inventors: Tetsuo Tanaka, Sagamihara; Toshiaki 1i; fatsuta et al- - ~ _ - - - , , nagawa ..... ..

E0hn0’kMa‘i?1dfa’(Jg;mshl Tomlta’ 4,992,887 2/1991 Aragaki .............................. .. 358/403 awasa 1’ a 0 5,027,421 6/1991 Kanno ................................ .. 382/305

. . . 5,053,956 10/1991 Donald et al. . 364/401

(73) AsslgneeZ Hltachl’ Ltd-3°19“) (JP) 5,129,011 7/1992 Nishikawa etal. ................ .. 382/173

This patent issued on a continued pros ecution application ?led under 37 CFR 1.53(d); and is subject to the twenty year patent term provisions of 35 U.S.C. 154(a)(2).

( * ) Notice:

Under 35 U.S.C. 154(b); the term of this patent shall be extended for 0 days.

(21) Appl. No.: 08/974,226

(22) Filed: Nov. 19, 1997

Related US. Application Data

(63) Continuation of application No. 08/727,164, ?led on Oct. 7, 1996, now Pat. No. 5,771,380, which is a continuation of application No. 08/631,438, ?led on Apr. 12, 1996, now Pat. No. 5,586,316, which is a continuation of application No. 08/271,923, ?led on Jul. 7, 1994, now abandoned.

(30) Foreign Application Priority Data

Feb. 23, 1993 Jul. 9, 1993

(JP) ................................................. .. 5033020

(JP) ................................................. .. 5170021

(51) Int. Cl.7 .................................................... .. G06F 17/30

(52) us. Cl. ........................ .. 345/348; 345/127; 345/342; 707/3; 707/4; 707/102; 707/526

(58) Field of Search .................................. .. 707/3, 4, 102, 707/526; 345/348, 342, 127

(56) References Cited

U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS

Re. 33,316 8/1990 Katsuta et al. ..................... .. 395/128

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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS

1 276 347 2 535466

11/1989 (JP) . 5/1993 (JP) .

Primary Examiner—Jean R. Homere (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Kenyon & Kenyon

(57) ABSTRACT

An information processing system for creating a search data for an application-speci?c data is proposed. An application processing section inputs or edits data on the basis of an application program. An application-speci?c data storage section stores the application-speci?c data input or edited by the application processing section. A search data is created by a search data creating section for searching the application-speci?c data stored in the application-speci?c data storage section for a speci?c data. The search data creating section also creates a correspondence between the search data and the application-speci?c data. A search data storage section stores the search data created by the search data creating section. A correspondence storage section stores the correspondence between the search data and the application-speci?c data. Further; a data output section con nected to and shared by a plurality of data input or editing units including the application processing section and the search data creating section. The search data creating section creates the search data from the application-speci?c data sent from the application processing section to the data output section.

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US. PATENT DOCUMENTS 5,557,728 * 9/1996 Garrett et a1. ..................... .. 345/340

_ 5,576,946 * 11/1996 Bender et a1. .. 364/146 5,206,931 4/1993 KlIITllfa CI 8.1. ..................... .. 575867316 * 12/1996 Tanaka et al' N 707/4 572317578 7/1993 Levm 6‘ a1 5,625,810 * 4/1997 Kurosu et a1. ......................... .. 707/1

27333;; 21332 gfvegnzte‘ilélm" 5,657,433 8/1997 Murase et a1. ..................... .. 395/133 ’ ’ ' " 5,680,558 * 10/1997 Hatanaka et a1. . 345/334

5,350,303 9/1994 Fox et a1. ..... .. 5 742 808 * 4/1998 Hasuo 707/1 573677626 * 11/1994 Morioka et a1‘ , , .................................... ..

5,383,029 1/1995 Kojima ...... .. ..

5,479,602 * 12/1995 Baecker et a1. .................... .. 345/349 * cited by examiner

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