Portable electronic device and character display method for the same
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1. A portable electronic device comprising a display unit capable of scrolling through images on a screen, wherein the portable electronic device uses:
- a still character font used for at least one character on a still screen; and
a plurality of scroll character fonts used for at least one character on a scroll screen, each scroll character font having at least some of the same characters as the still character font,wherein each scroll character font has at least one different visual characteristic when compared to the still character font,wherein one of the plurality of scroll character fonts replaces the still character font for one or more of the at least one character on the scroll screen when scrolling through the images on the screen, the one scroll character font selected to replace the still character font being determined based on a scroll direction of the scrolling such that at least one of a forward side of a plurality of characters of the one scroll character font facing the scroll direction and a rearward side of the plurality of characters facing away from the scroll direction is visually different when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font.
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Abstract
A portable electronic device including a display unit uses a still character font and a scroll character font. The display unit can scroll through one or more images on a screen. The still character font is used for characters on a still screen. The scroll character font is used for characters on a scroll screen, and has the same characters as those of the still character font, the characters of the scroll character font having at least one different visual characteristic when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font.
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22 Claims
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1. A portable electronic device comprising a display unit capable of scrolling through images on a screen, wherein the portable electronic device uses:
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a still character font used for at least one character on a still screen; and a plurality of scroll character fonts used for at least one character on a scroll screen, each scroll character font having at least some of the same characters as the still character font, wherein each scroll character font has at least one different visual characteristic when compared to the still character font, wherein one of the plurality of scroll character fonts replaces the still character font for one or more of the at least one character on the scroll screen when scrolling through the images on the screen, the one scroll character font selected to replace the still character font being determined based on a scroll direction of the scrolling such that at least one of a forward side of a plurality of characters of the one scroll character font facing the scroll direction and a rearward side of the plurality of characters facing away from the scroll direction is visually different when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a display unit capable of scrolling through images on a screen; means for displaying at least one character of a still character font on a still screen on the display unit; and means for displaying at least one character of a plurality of scroll character fonts on a scroll screen on the display unit, the at least one character of the plurality of scroll character fonts having at least some of the same characters as the still character font, each scroll character font including at least a portion having a different color tone than a color tone of the still character font, wherein one of the plurality of scroll character fonts replaces the still character font for one or more of the at least one character on the scroll screen when scrolling through the images on the screen, the one scroll character font selected to replace the still character font being determined based on a scroll direction of the scrolling such that at least one of a forward side of a plurality of characters of the one scroll character font facing the scroll direction and a rearward side of the plurality of characters facing away from the scroll direction is visually different when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font.
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22. A character display method for a portable electronic device comprising a display unit that displays images, and a memory, the character display method comprising the steps of:
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enabling scrolling of an image displayed on the display unit, the image comprising at least one character; acquiring character information from the memory on the basis of a direction of the scrolling; and replacing a still character font of the at least one character with a scroll character font based on the acquired character information and displaying, on the display unit, the at least one character included in the image, wherein at least one of a forward side of the at least one character of the scroll font facing the scroll direction and a rearward side of the at least one character facing away from the scroll direction is visually different when compared to a corresponding character of the still character font.
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