Method and device for browsing information on a display

A hand-held device for browsing information,

• wherein the hand-held device comprises a virtual display being the display device of the hand-held device, the hand-held device comprising:
• a digital processor (30);
• a memory (60,70) coupled to the digital processor (30), the memory (60,70) comprising a virtual data object suitable for conveying information to the user of the hand-held device;
• a display device (10) coupled to the digital processor (30);
• means (30) for moving the portion of the virtual data object displayed on the display device in the same direction as the hand-held device is tilted, whereby a certain orientation of the hand-held device always displays the same portion of the virtual data object on the display device.

A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, wherein the computer program executes the program steps recorded in a computer-readable medium to perform a method for browsing information on a display device of a hand-held device, wherein the method comprises a virtual display being the display device of the hand-held device, a viewpoint from which the virtual display is viewed and a virtual data object comprising information to be viewed on the virtual display, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

• coupling the display device to a digital processor;
• mapping information content generated by the digital processor into the virtual data object suitable for conveying information to the user of the hand-held device;
• displaying a portion of the virtual data object at a time on the display device, the virtual data object comprising characters, pictures, lines, links, video or pixels that can be conveniently displayed on the display device at a time;
• wherein in the method information is browsed on the display device essentially in a mirror-like way, the method further comprising the step of:
• moving the portion of the virtual data object displayed on the display device in the same direction as the hand-held device is tilted, whereby a certain orientation of the hand-held device always displays the same portion of the virtual data object on the display device.