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Menu display apparatus, menu display method, and storage medium containing menu display program

US8631344B2 · kind B2 · utility

3Cited by

12References

6Claims

0Family size

Assignees

SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP
Sony Mobile Communications Inc. · JP

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	Feb 8, 2011
Grant date	Jan 14, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 18, 2031

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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