Mobile communications terminal and method therefore

A method comprising:

• presenting first representations of a plurality of digital objects along a predefined path on a display screen of a mobile terminal, the first representation of a focused one of said digital objects being shown in a focus area on said display screen;
• presenting, for said focused one of said digital objects, a second representation thereof in a preview area on said display screen;
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• in response to a user input, performing a desired scrolling operation among the first representations presented, thereby shifting the positions of the first representations on said display screen along said path accordingly where an angle between intersecting planes of one of said digital objects and the focused one of said digital objects increases depending on a distance along the path from the focus area and a visual overlap of each of the first representations of the digital objects progressively increases depending on the distance along the path from the focus area, updating said focus area to reflect a change in focus from said focused one of said digital objects to another digital object by presenting in said focus area the first representation of said another digital object, as well as updating said preview area correspondingly by presenting therein the second representation of said another digital object.

A mobile terminal having a controller, a display and an input device connected to said controller, and a digital object browser for browsing among a plurality of available digital objects, said controller being adapted to cause said digital object browser to

• present a representation of each of said plurality of digital objects along a predefined path following a non-linear geometrical curve on said display screen, the representation of a focused one of said digital objects being shown in a focus area on said display screen, wherein the representation of said focused digital object is shown at a given size on said display screen, whereas the representations of digital objects other than the focused one are shown at sizes which decrease with a distance along said path from said focused digital object and an angle between intersecting planes of one of said digital objects and the focused one of said digital objects increases depending on the distance along the path from the focus area and a visual overlap of each of the digital objects progressively increases depending on the distance along the path from the focus area;
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• in response to a user input given on said input device, perform a desired scrolling operation among the representations presented, thereby shifting the positions of the representations on said display screen along said path accordingly and changing focus from said focused one of said digital objects to another digital object.

A digital object browsing method for a mobile terminal having a display with a display screen, a representation of each of a plurality of available digital objects being presentable on said display screen, the method comprising:

• presenting said representations of said plurality of digital objects along a predefined path following a non-linear geometrical curve on said display screen, the representation of a focused one of said digital objects being shown in a focus area on said display screen, wherein the representation of the focused digital object is shown at a given size on the display screen, whereas the representations of digital objects other than the focused one are shown at sizes which decrease with the distance along the path from the focused digital object and an angle between intersecting planes of one of said digital objects and the focused one of said digital objects increases depending on the distance along the path from the focus area and a visual overlap of each of the digital objects progressively increases depending on the distance along the path from the focus area;
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• in response to a user input, performing a desired scrolling operation among the representations presented, thereby shifting the positions of the representations on said display screen along said path accordingly and changing focus from said focused one of said digital objects to another digital object.