Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation
- Patent Title (中): 信息处理装置,信息处理方法以及包含具有旋转操作的信息处理程序的存储介质
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Application No.: US11893889Application Date: 2007-08-17
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Publication No.: US07975237B2Publication Date: 2011-07-05
- Inventor: Tatsuya Hama , Tetsuya Kohno , Satomi Yonezawa , Ikuo Terado , Takamoto Tsuda , Katsunori Miura , Kazuhiro Kondo , Yukako Morimoto
- Applicant: Tatsuya Hama , Tetsuya Kohno , Satomi Yonezawa , Ikuo Terado , Takamoto Tsuda , Katsunori Miura , Kazuhiro Kondo , Yukako Morimoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agency: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP
- Agent William S. Frommer; Paul A. Levy
- Priority: JP2003-304462 20030828; JP2003-304493 20030828; JP2003-304555 20030828
- Main IPC: G06F3/048
- IPC: G06F3/048

Abstract:
There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.
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