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Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

US7418671B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 26, 2004
Grant dateAug 26, 2008
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Expiry dateApr 21, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M1/72403
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

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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