Scroll bars with user feedback
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1. Apparatus comprising:
- a. a computer having a display; and
b. a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width, wherein opacity of the at least one scroll bar is controlled by proximity of a cursor to the scroll bar or by the selection of a scroll button.
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Abstract
A graphical user interface uses scroll bars having a single pixel width and a much larger scroll button or thumb. Both the scroll bar and the scroll button may be controlled to have selective degrees of transparency so that they underlying image information may be seen under certain conditions. In one application, the scroll bar itself is invisible until a cursor approaches to within a specified proximity. The graphical user interface permit scroll bars to be displayed which follow an arbitrary path in either two or three dimensions.
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25 Claims
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1. Apparatus comprising:
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a. a computer having a display; and
b. a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width, wherein opacity of the at least one scroll bar is controlled by proximity of a cursor to the scroll bar or by the selection of a scroll button. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer having a display; and
a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width in which the scroll bar is displayed with a scroll button having a size much greater than a single pixel in each of two dimensions. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 18)
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7. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer having a display; and
a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width, in which an input/output device for controlling a cursor provides tactile feedback to a user when the cursor approaches or crosses a scroll bar. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 19)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer having a display;
a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width; and
an eyetracker, and in which the scroll bar has a scroll button thereon in which the opacity of the scroll bar is determined as a function of the length of time a user gazes at said scroll button. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 20)
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13. An apparatus comprising:
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a computer having a display; and
a graphical user interface running on said computer, said graphical user interface configured to display at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width, in which a path defined by said scroll bar is non-linear. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 21)
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17. A computer program product, comprising:
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a. a memory medium; and
b. a computer program stored on said memory medium, said computer program comprising instructions for generating a single pixel scroll bar and instructions for controlling the transparency of the scroll bar as a function of the proximity of a cursor to the scroll bar or as a function of the selection of a scroll button.
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22. A method of controlling a view of information in a window on a computer having a display comprising the steps of
displaying at least one scroll bar of a single pixel width; - and
controlling a view in a window based on a position of a scroll button on the at least one scroll bar, wherein transparency of at least one of the scroll bar and the scroll button is controlled based on proximity of a cursor. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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