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AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorsTakashi Sugiyama, Brian Bakoglu, Hiroaki Nakano, George Cossey
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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.
A method for selecting and running one of a plurality of application programs in a computer system, the computer system including a processor coupled to a memory, a display device and a user input device, the computer system further including an operating system that provides a graphical operating system control for selecting and running one of a plurality of application programs, wherein the method includes the steps of:
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