Scroll control according to input of cursor movement

• US 8,661,368 B2
• Filed: 05/25/2006
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
• Inventors: Maehiro, Kazutoyo, Tsushima, Tadashi, Aoyama, Koji, Yoshioka, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Assistant Examiner(s): TANK, ANDREW L
• Application Number:
  US11/420,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20060277489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,833 Days
• Field of Search: 715794-796, 715/802, 715828-831, 715856-858, 715/786
• US Class Current: 715/856
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

In a main area of a display device, buttons and a map display area where a map is scrolled are provided. A cursor can be moved to an arbitrary position of the main area according to directional input received from an input device. When a decision input is performed with the input device when the cursor points to each button, processing assigned to the button to which the cursor points is performed. When a user inputs a direction and a special input button is not selected, the cursor is moved throughout the main area. When the user inputs a direction while the special input button is selected, the cursor is moved only within the map display area and the map is scrolled as required.

Claims

1. A scroll display control apparatus that controls a display of information, the scroll display control apparatus comprising:

a display that includes a display area, the display area including a plurality of cursor movement areas, the plurality of cursor movement areas including a scroll area;

an input interface that receives a plurality of instructions via an input device, each of the plurality of instructions being received via a single user input from the input device, the plurality of instructions including a movement instruction, a scroll instruction, a scroll cancel instruction, an inner area instruction, and an inner area cancel instruction; and

a processor that executes the plurality of instructions, each of the plurality of instructions being executed in response to the single user input from the input device,

wherein the processor;

sequentially moves a cursor on the display to indicate one of the plurality of cursor movement areas according to the movement instruction input from the input device;

determines whether the scroll instruction, for scrolling information in the scroll area, is input from the input device when the cursor has been moved to indicate the scroll area;

determines whether the scroll cancel instruction, that cancels the scroll instruction, is input from the input device;

scrolls the information in the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, from when it is determined that the scroll instruction is input, until when it is determined that the scroll cancel instruction is input;

determines whether the inner area instruction, that moves the cursor to within the scroll area, is input from the input device;

determines whether the inner area cancel instruction, that cancels the inner area instruction, is input from the input device; and

moves the cursor to within the scroll area and moves the cursor to indicate a unit of information from among the information in the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, from when it is determined that the inner area instruction is input, until when it is determined that the inner area cancel instruction is input;

wherein the processor sequentially moves the cursor to indicate one of the plurality of cursor movement areas, according to the movement instruction input from the input device, when the scroll instruction and the inner area instruction have not been received,

wherein the processor scrolls the information in the scroll area when the cursor is indicating the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, when the scroll instruction has been received and the inner area instruction has not been received, and

wherein the processor displays information that is not currently displayed in the scroll area to which the cursor moves in the scroll area when the inner area instruction is received and the movement instruction moves the cursor to the information, when the inner area movement instruction has moved the cursor to the scroll area.

2. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display indicates that the information in the scroll area is scrollable when the scroll instruction is received.

3. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the processor moves the cursor to the scroll area to indicate information that is in a given position, from among the information currently displayed in the scroll area, when the inner area instruction is input from the input device.

4. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the input device comprises a plurality of direction keys for inputting directional information indicating a direction in the display area, as the movement instruction, and

wherein the cursor is moved in the display area according to the directional information input from the plurality of direction keys.

5. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor moves the cursor to the scroll area to indicate information that is in a given position, from among the information currently displayed in the scroll area, when the inner area instruction is input from the input device.

6. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the input device comprises a plurality of direction keys for inputting directional information indicating a direction in the display area, as the movement instruction, and

wherein the cursor is moved in the display area according to the directional information input from the plurality of direction keys.

7. The scroll display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the input device comprises a plurality of direction keys for inputting directional information indicating a direction in the display area, as the movement instruction, and

wherein the cursor is moved in the display area according to the directional information input from the plurality of direction keys.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing an executable computer program for displaying information on a display that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

sequentially moving a cursor on the display to indicate one of a plurality of cursor movement areas according to a movement instruction input from an input device, the plurality of cursor movement areas including a scroll area;

determining whether a scroll instruction, for scrolling information in the scroll area, is input from the input device when the cursor has been moved to indicate the scroll area;

determining whether a scroll cancel instruction, that cancels the scroll instruction, is input from the input device after the scroll instruction is input from the input device;

scrolling the information in the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, from when it is determined that the scroll instruction is input, until when it is determined that the scroll cancel instruction is input;

determining whether an inner area instruction, for moving the cursor to within the scroll area, is input from the input device;

determining whether an inner area cancel instruction, that cancels the inner area instruction, is input from the input device after the inner area instruction is input from the input device; and

moving the cursor to within the scroll area and moving the cursor to indicate a unit of information from among the information in the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, from when it is determined that the inner area instruction is input, until when it is determined that the inner area cancel instruction is input;

wherein the cursor is sequentially moved to indicate one of the plurality of cursor movement areas, according to the movement instruction input from the input device, when the scroll instruction to and the inner area instruction have not been received,

wherein the information in the scroll area is scrolled when the cursor indicates the scroll area according to the movement instruction input from the input device, when the scroll instruction has been received and the inner area movement instruction has not been received,

wherein information that is not currently displayed in the scroll area to which the cursor moves is displayed in the scroll area when the inner area instruction is received and the movement instruction moves the cursor to the information, when the inner area movement instruction has moved the cursor to the scroll area, and

wherein the movement instruction, the scroll instruction, the scroll cancel instruction, the inner area instruction, and the inner area cancel instruction are each received via a single user input from the input device.