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Portable telephone

US7580006B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 20, 2007
Grant dateAug 25, 2009
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Expiry dateJul 30, 2027

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2250/16
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a portable telephone according to the present invention, a display displays a block indicative of an operator, predetermined information and a pointer; the operator can be operated in directions opposite to each other; and the controller controls the display so as to shift the pointer to a desirable position within a predetermined information on a screen of the display in accordance with an operation of the operator and also display a mark indicative of a direction to which the pointer can be shifted and in which the predetermined information exists, adjacently to the block along a shift direction through the operator.

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