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Information processing apparatus, menu processing method and recording medium storing a menu processing program

US7308654B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 22, 2001
Grant dateDec 11, 2007
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Expiry dateApr 23, 2022

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/03547
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Characteristic menu information corresponding to applications are stored in a menu storage unit. A menu development unit discriminates an application which is now started and develops a menu corresponding to the application on a screen using the stored menu information. In the menu operation, a menu is developed on the screen by operating a defined button, a menu item is selected by scrawling while the menu is being developed and the selected menu item is executed by operating the defined button.

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