NESTED SCROLLING SYSTEM

• US 20110016428A1
• Filed: 07/16/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Incorporated (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Incorporated (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Lota, Charan Singh, Diptiman, Tuhin, Lupton, Fred William III
• Application Number:
  US12/503,875
• Publication Number:
  US 20110016428A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

A nested scrolling system that can scroll through an electronically stored list is provided. The system can include a database, a display screen, a first scrolling control and a second scrolling control. The database can have an electronically stored list with a plurality of entries, the plurality of entries stored under a first level storage category and/or a second level storage category. The second scrolling control can be nested within the first scrolling control with movement of the first scrolling control scrolling through the plurality of entries on a micro level and movement of the second scrolling control scrolling through the plurality of entries on a macro level.

Claims

1. A nested scrolling system for scrolling through an electronically stored list, said system comprising:

a database having an electronically stored list with a plurality of entries;

a first scrolling control and a second scrolling control nested within said first scrolling control, said first scrolling control and said second scrolling control in communication with said database;

a display screen in communication with said database and operable to display at least part of said plurality of entries;

wherein movement of said first scrolling control scrolls through said plurality of entries on a micro level and movement of said second scrolling control scrolls through said plurality of entries on a macro level.

2. The nested scrolling system of claim 1, wherein said micro level is an individual listing of said plurality of entries.

3. The nested scrolling system of claim 1, wherein said macro level is a set of characters, said set of characters selected from the group consisting of a set of alphabetical characters, a set of numeric characters and a set of alphanumeric characters.

4. The nested scrolling system of claim 1, wherein moving said first scrolling control in a first direction scrolls through said plurality of entries on said micro level in a first order and moving said first scrolling control in a second direction scrolls through said plurality of entries in a reverse order from said first order.

5. The nested scrolling system of claim 4, wherein said first order is an ascending order.

6. The nested scrolling system of claim 1, wherein movement of said second scrolling control in a first direction scrolls through said plurality of entries on said macro level in a first order and movement of said second scrolling control in a second direction scrolls through said plurality of entries in a reverse order from said first order.

7. The nested scrolling system of claim 6, wherein said first order is an ascending order.

8. The nested scrolling system of claim 1, wherein said first scrolling control is a first rotary knob and said second scrolling control is a second rotary knob, said first rotary knob nested within said second rotary knob.

9. A nested rotary scrolling system for scrolling through an electronically stored list, said system comprising:

a database having an electronically stored list with a plurality of entries;

a first rotary knob and a second rotary knob nested within said first rotary knob, said first rotary knob and said second rotary knob in communication with said database;

a display screen in communication with said database and operable to display at least part of said plurality of entries;

wherein rotation of said first rotary knob scrolls through said plurality of entries on said display screen on a micro level and rotation of said second rotary knob scrolls through said plurality of entries on said display screen on a macro level.

10. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 9, wherein said micro level is an individual listing of said plurality of entries on said display screen.

11. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 9, wherein said macro level is a set of characters, said set of characters selected from the group consisting of a set of alphabetical characters, a set of numeric characters and a set of alphanumeric characters.

12. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 11, wherein said macro level is a set of alphabetical characters.

13. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 12, wherein at least a subset of said set of alphabetical characters is displayed on said display screen alphabetically when said second rotary knob is engaged.

14. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 10, wherein said set of alphabetical characters is scrolled through on said display screen when said second rotary knob is engaged and rotated.

15. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 14, wherein turning said second rotary knob in a first direction scrolls through said set of alphabetical characters in a first order and turning said second rotary knob in a second direction scrolls through said set of alphabetical characters in a reverse order from said first order.

16. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 15, wherein said first order is an ascending order.

17. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 10, wherein at least a subset of said individual listing of said plurality of entries is displayed on said display screen alphabetically when said first rotary knob is engaged.

18. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 17, wherein said individual listing of said plurality of entries is scrolled through on said display screen alphabetically when said first rotary knob is engaged and rotated.

19. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 18, wherein turning said first rotary knob in a first direction scrolls through said individual listing of said plurality of entries in a first order and turning said first rotary knob in a second direction scrolls through said individual listing of said plurality of entries in a reverse order from said first order.

20. The nested rotary scrolling system of claim 19, wherein said first order is an ascending order.