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

US7975237B2 · kind B2 · utility

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13References

1Claims

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Assignees

SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB · SE

Inventors

Tatsuya Hama · Tokyo, JP
Tetsuya Kohno · Okazaki, JP
Satomi Yonezawa · Yokohama, JP
Ikuo Terado · Chiba, JP
Takamoto Tsuda · Yokohama, JP
Katsunori Miura · Shijonawate, JP
Kazuhiro Kondo · Niigata, JP
Yukako Morimoto · Chiba, JP

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 17, 2007
Grant date	Jul 5, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 26, 2030

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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