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Snapping to text columns while scrolling

US9086756B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15Claims

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Assignee

Opera Software AS · NO

Inventors

Johan Schon · Säter, SE
Torbjörn Söderstedt · Säter, SE
Niklas Barsk · Säter, SE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 18, 2009
Grant date	Jul 21, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 25, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F3/0485
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for scrolling a electronic document including text, which is displayed on a display screen, including processing user input received via an input device of the computer, detecting an initiating event and pointer movement for a drag operation from the processed user input, scrolling textual content in the document according to the pointer movement of the drag operation, and automatically re-scrolling the textual content to offset a horizontal component of the scrolling of the textual content according to the drag operation.

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