发明名称 |
Graphical navigation control for selecting applications on visual walls |
摘要 |
A graphical user interface displays a first menu image on a display for an operating system on a computer. The first menu image includes a taskbar image which carries button images selectable by the user to carry out a function. The GUI also displays a second menu image on the display for a navigator software which is running under the operating system. The navigator software provides a quasi-operating system environment. The GUI displays the taskbar image in the second menu image whereby the user can carry out functions of the operating system from within the quasi-operating system environment provided by the navigator software. Three visual walls are arranged on the GUI as if the user is standing inside a three-dimensional cube and open to the sky. Clicking once either on the side walls moves the contents of the side wall to the center, in effect rotating the cube. When a wall is centered, the user can activate any function in the wall by clicking on a button. Buttons displayed in the side wall may be immediately activated by double clicking so the user does not have to center the side wall.
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申请公布号 |
US6002403(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1999.12.14 |
申请号 |
US19960664654 |
申请日期 |
1996.06.17 |
申请人 |
SONY CORPORATION;SONY ELECTRONICS INC. |
发明人 |
SUGIYAMA, TAKASHI;BAKOGLU, BRIAN;NAKANO, HIROAKI;COSSEY, GEORGE |
分类号 |
G06F3/033;G06F3/048;(IPC1-7):G06F3/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F3/033 |
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