ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, SERVER, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: KUTSUMI, TAKESHI, TAKEHARA, MASAAKI, FUKUTOMI, HIROSHI, MIYANO, YASUHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 07.12.2011
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

An electronic device provided which is capable of displaying an advertisement at an appropriate timing on a second display panel different from a first displaypanel. The electronic device (100) includes: a storage device (90) for storing therein application software and first information associated with the software for specifying a server; a display control unit (11) for dispaying an operation screen of tje software on a liquid crystal panel (140) based on launch of the software; a detecting unit (13) for detecting that an input for operating the software has been received; a generating unit (14) for generating, based on the detection, a signal to be transmitted to the advertisement server (8000) specified by the first information; a transmitting unit (15) for transmitting the generated signal to the advertisement server (8000); and a receiving unit (16) for receiving, based on the transmission, advertisement image data indicating a advertisement from the advertisement server (8000). The display control unit (11) displays the advertisement that is on the advertisement image data, on a liquid crystal panel (240).