Method and apparatus of scrolling a screen display corresponding to the movement of a cursor
AssigneeKinpo Electronics, Inc.
InventorWenhao Hsieh
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for scrolling a display, the scrolling corresponding to the movement of a cursor, which scrolling can be performed on an information apparatus, such as a set top box (STB). The present invention enables a user to control the cursor on the screen via an input device so the cursor moves in an active window having display content. When the cursor is moved to the edge of the window, the window is scrolled to change the displaying region, and the cursor is moved sequentially to about the middle position of the new window.
Claims16
A method of scrolling a display of an information apparatus, the scrolling corresponding to movement of a cursor, a user controlling movement of the cursor in an active window via an input device, the method comprising:
- step A:
- receiving a cursor moving signal;
- step B:
- determining if the position of the cursor will be out of the active window;
- if it is not, then proceeding the step C, and if it is, then proceeding the step D;
- step C:
- moving the cursor;
- and
- step D:
- scrolling the active window along the moving direction of the cursor.
A method of scrolling a screen display of an information apparatus according to movement of a cursor, a user controlling the movement of the cursor in an active window via an input device, the method comprising:
- step A:
- receiving a cursor moving signal;
- step B:
- determining if the position of the cursor is within a predetermined region of the active window;
- if it is not, then proceeding the step C;
- and if it is, then proceeding the step D;
- step C:
- moving the cursor;
- and
- step D:
- scrolling the active window along the moving direction of the cursor.
The method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a step after the step D:
- placing the cursor at a middle position of the window being scrolled along the movement of the cursor.
A set top box for receiving network signals to link to a website and outputting an image signal to a television, a user capable of viewing content of the website via the television, the set top box providing an input device for the user to control movement of a cursor in an active window display, the set top box comprising the following conditions:
- condition 1:
- moving the cursor if the sequential movement of the cursor will not cause the cursor to move out of the active window;
- and
- condition 2:
- scrolling the window display along the direction of movement of the cursor if the sequential movement of the cursor will cause the cursor to move out of the active window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.