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Seamlessly combined freely moving cursor and jumping highlights navigation

  • US 6,947,062 B2
  • Filed: 07/23/2001
  • Issued: 09/20/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A consumer electronics system comprising:

  • a user feedback device for rendering user-selectable options; and

    a user input device for selection of a specific one of a plurality of options rendered, the user input device comprising;

    coarse positioning user input means for enabling a user to navigate towards a neighborhood of the specific option in a coarse positioning mode; and

    fine positioning user input means for enabling the user to navigate within the neighborhood of the specific option in a fine positioning mode, wherein the fine positioning user input means is placed around the coarse positioning user input means in such a way that the fine positioning user input means and the coarse positioning user input means are controllable be a user'"'"'s thumb.

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