1. A display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, comprising:
display unit for displaying a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen;
input unit provided integrally with or separately from said display unit and operable, in response to the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit, to allow an instruction corresponding to said operated key to be entered therethrough;
action detection unit for detecting the execution of an action reflecting an instruction entered from said input unit through the operation of one or more of said keys displayed by said display unit;
evaluation value calculation unit operable, when the execution of said action is detected by said action detection unit, to calculate an evaluation value representing the operational status of said operated keys; and
display control unit operable, based on said evaluation value of said key, to vary the respective display colors of the display areas for said keys of said display unit in a stepwise manner using a color gradation from a color with high visibility to a color with low visibility in order of higher score of said evaluation value.
2. The display control device as defined in claim 1, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations in each of said keys within a given period of time.
3. The display control device as defined in claim 1, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative operation order in each of said keys within a given period of time.
4. The display control device as defined in claim 1, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations and the relative operation order in each of said keys within a given period of time.
5. A display control device for a touch panel-type setting-operation unit, comprising:
display unit for displaying a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen;
input unit provided integrally with or separately from said display unit and operable in response to the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit to allow an instruction corresponding to said operated key to be entered therethrough;
action detection unit for detecting the execution of an action reflecting an instruction entered from said input unit through the operation of one or more of said keys displayed by said display unit;
evaluation value calculation unit operable, when the execution of said action is detected by said detection unit, to calculate an evaluation value representing the operational status of said operated key; and
display control unit operable, based on said evaluation value of said key, to allow the background color of the display area for a first one of said keys which has the higher evaluation value than that of a second one of the remaining keys, to be changed to a different display color from the background color of the display area for said second key.
6. The display control device as defined in claim 5, wherein said different display colors are complementary colors.
7. The display control device as defined in claim 5, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations in each of said keys within a given period of time.
8. The display control device as defined in claim 5, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative operation order in each of said keys within a given period of time.
9. The display control device as defined in claim 5, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations and the relative operation order in each of said keys within a given period of time.
10. An electronic apparatus comprising:
display unit for displaying a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen;
input unit provided integrally with or separately from said display unit, and operable, in response to the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit, to allow an instruction corresponding to said operated key to be entered therethrough;
action detection unit for detecting the execution of an action reflecting an instruction entered from said input unit through the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit;
evaluation-value calculation unit operable, when the execution of said action is detected by said action detection unit, to calculate an evaluation value representing the operational status of said operated key; and
display control unit operable, based on said evaluation value of said key, to vary the respective display colors of the display areas for said plurality of keys in said display unit, in a stepwise manner using a color gradation from a color with high visibility to a color with low visibility in order of higher score of said evaluation value.
11. The electronic apparatus as defined in claim 10, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations in each of said keys within a given period of time.
12. An electronic apparatus comprising:
display unit for displaying a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen;
input unit provided integrally with or separately from said display unit, and operable, in response to the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit, to allow an instruction corresponding to said operated key to be entered therethrough;
action detection unit for detecting the execution of an action reflecting an instruction entered from said input unit through the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit;
evaluation-value calculation unit operable, when the execution of said action is detected by said action detection unit, to calculate an evaluation value representing the operational status of said operated key; and
display control unit operable, based on said evaluation value of said key, to allow the background color of the display area for a first one of said keys which has the higher evaluation value than that of a second one of the remaining keys, to be changed to a different display color from the background color of the display area for said second key.
13. The electronic apparatus as defined in claim 12, wherein said different display colors are complementary colors.
14. The electronic apparatus as defined in claim 12, wherein said evaluation value is derived based on the relative number of operations in each of said keys within a given period of time.
15. An electronic apparatus comprising:
display unit for displaying a plurality of manually operable keys on a display screen;
input unit provided integrally with or separately from said display unit, and operable, in response to the operation of at least one of said keys displayed by said display unit, to allow an instruction corresponding to said operated key to be entered therethrough;
contribution-key detection unit operable, in response of the operation of two or more of said keys to set an action reflecting an instruction entered from said input unit through said operation, to detect one or more of said operated keys which have made a contribution to the setting of the content of said action;
identification unit for identifying the respective orders of said detected keys which have been operated to set the content of said action;
operation-order storage unit for storing said identified orders of said detected keys every time said action is performed, in accordance with the identification result from said identification unit;
counting unit operable, when said action belonging to a specific category is performed plural times, to count the number of operations of each of said detected keys with respect to each of the operation orders in accordance with data stored in said operation-order storage unit;
selection unit for selecting one of said detected keys which has the largest number of operations, with respect to each of said operation orders in accordance with the counting result from said counting unit; and
display control unit for displaying the respective display colors of the display areas for said selected keys in such a manner that they are varied in a stepwise manner using a color gradation from a color with high visibility to a color with low visibility in forward order of said operation orders.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of determining a new countrytag for a website on a network, comprising:
identifying a set of country hosts for a plurality of websites, each country host having a country-related domain;
assigning a countrytag to each country host that corresponds to the country-related domain for the respective country host, wherein the countrytag is stored on a storage medium;
identifying a set of global hosts for the plurality of websites, each global host not having any country-related domain;
analyzing one or more inlinks to at least one global host from the set of global hosts to determine another countrytag for the at least one global host;
producing an augmented set of hosts that includes the set of country hosts, the at least one global host, and the corresponding countrytags for each country host and the at least one global host;
summing unique inlinking hosts and outlinking hosts in the augmented set;
analyzing inlinks to the augmented set of hosts to assign the new countrytag to the at least one global host, wherein there are more than a first predetermined percentage of unique inlinking hosts from the same country-related domain, a particular country-related domain accounts for more than a second predetermined percentage of the unique inlinking hosts, and the number of inlinking hosts from a particular country is more than a predetermined threshold value.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the country-related domain is a top-level domain.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
crawling the network to gather information about pages or sites in the network, including the top-level domain and connectivity of the crawled sites.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the network is the Internet.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the network is an intranet.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises analyzing one or more inlinks to at least one country host from the set of country hosts.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
analyzing inlinks to and outlinks from the at least one global host.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
adding extra points to a voting value for a country when a name of a non-global host suggests that country.
9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:
adding extra points to a voting value for a country when an IP address of a host is in that country.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing one or more inlinks to at least one global host from the set of global hosts to determine another countrytag for the at least one global host comprises:
assigning another countrytag to a global host when all of the following are true: there are more unique inlinking hosts from country-related domains than from global domains, there are more than a predetermined number of unique inlinking hosts from country-related domains, and there are more than a predetermined percentage of unique inlinking hosts from the same country-related domain.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the predetermined number is 10.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein the predetermined percentage is 60%.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises determining whether a root or default document page for the at least one global host exists in one and only one ODP country section.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises determining whether the at least one global host is marked for manual countrytagging.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined percentage is 40%.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the second predetermined percentage is 32%.
17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
determining a countrytag for a web subsite.
18. The method of claim 1, wherein a different test is used to determine if a website should be assigned a \u201cUS\u201d countrytag than is used for assigning countrytags of non-US countries.
19. The method of claim 1, wherein a website can be assigned more than one countrytag.