Menu selection with menu stem and submenu size enlargement
First Claim
1. A method for displaying on a screen in a computer system a plurality of items forming a menu, wherein a user refers to each of said menu items via an input device and each of said menu items represents an operation to be performed by said computer system, said method comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a menu item from said menu items in response to said user referring to said menu item via said input device;
increasing a respective size of said menu item to a predetermined size which is larger than any respective size of those other menu items displayed on said screen; and
displaying another plurality of items which pertain only to said menu item and which form a sub-menu on said screen when said user refers to said menu item on said screen, wherein a size of said sub-menu is larger than a size of said menu on said screen.
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Abstract
Multiple items forming a menu are displayed on a screen in a computer system. As the user refers to a menu item via an input device, that particular item is displayed in increased size. As soon as the user moves to another menu item, this newly referenced item becomes larger than the other menu items, while the previously referenced item is reduced to its original size. If the user-referenced item has a sub-menu associated with it, then the size of that sub-menu increases--while the menu size is decreased--as the user moves from the menu to the sub-menu.
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12 Claims
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1. A method for displaying on a screen in a computer system a plurality of items forming a menu, wherein a user refers to each of said menu items via an input device and each of said menu items represents an operation to be performed by said computer system, said method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a menu item from said menu items in response to said user referring to said menu item via said input device; increasing a respective size of said menu item to a predetermined size which is larger than any respective size of those other menu items displayed on said screen; and displaying another plurality of items which pertain only to said menu item and which form a sub-menu on said screen when said user refers to said menu item on said screen, wherein a size of said sub-menu is larger than a size of said menu on said screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for displaying objects on a screen in a computer system including an input device, comprising:
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displaying a plurality of items forming a menu, each of said menu items being referred to via said input device and each of said menu items representing an operation to be performed by said computer system; displaying another plurality of items associated with a preselected menu item in said first-mentioned plurality of items, said second-mentioned plurality of items forming a sub-menu on said screen when referring to said preselected menu item on said screen via said input device; and increasing said sub-menu to a predetermined size such that the size of said sub-menu is larger than a respective size of said menu on said screen. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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