Menu display apparatus and menu display method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsIppei Tambata, Akira Shinada, Katsuhiko Nunokawa, Hiroaki Okajima
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Abstract
A menu display apparatus includes a first display screen on which a plurality of first icons, each representing a selectable item, are sequentially disposed on a main circular arc; and a second display screen on which, of the plurality of first icons, the first icon selected by a user is moved and displayed and a plurality of second icons, each representing a selectable item belonging to the selected first icon, are displayed on the main circular arc. The first display screen and the second display screen are selectively displayed.
Claims19
A menu display apparatus comprising:
- a first display screen on which a plurality of first icons, each representing a selectable item, are sequentially disposed on a main circular arc;
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- a second display screen on which, of the plurality of first icons, the first icon selected by a user is moved toward the center of the main circular arc or outside the main circular arc and is displayed and a plurality of second icons, each representing a selectable item belonging to the selected first icon, are displayed on the main circular arc,
- wherein the first display screen and the second display screen are selectively displayed,
- when the first icon on the first display screen is selected, the display is changed from the first display screen to the second display screen, and
- when the first icon on the second display screen is selected, the display is changed from the second display screen to the first display screen,
- further comprising virtual emotion generating means for detecting the user's handling of a vehicle and generating virtual emotions on an assumption that the vehicle had a personality, wherein the virtual emotions are displayed at the center of the main circular arc by a predetermined character.
A menu display method comprising the steps of:
- selectively displaying a first display screen and a second display screen, the first display screen on which a plurality of first icons, each representing a selectable item, being sequentially disposed on a main circular arc, and the second display screen on which, of the plurality of first icons, the first icon selected by a user being moved toward the center of the main circular arc or outside the main circular arc and being displayed and a plurality of second icons, each representing a selectable item belonging to the selected first icon, being displayed on the main circular arc;
- changing the display from the first display screen to the second display screen when the first icon on the first display screen is selected;
- changing the display from the second display screen to the first display screen when the first icon on the second display screen is selected;
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- detecting the user's handling of a vehicle and generating virtual emotions on the assumption that the vehicle had a personality, wherein the virtual emotions are displayed at the center of the main circular arc by a predetermined character.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.