Portable electronic device

• US 8,907,888 B2
• Filed: 08/25/2008
• Issued: 12/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bolotin, Dmitriy
• Application Number:
  US12/675,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20110057872A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,297 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 715/700, 715810-845
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons

Abstract

A portable electronic device has a display part (16) which can display a plurality of selection items; an operation part (12) for selecting the selection item displayed on the display part (16); and a control part (18) which switches the selection item to other selection item selected from the selection items displayed on the display part (16) by operation of the operating part (12). The control part (18) has a function of changing the switching speed of the selection item selected by the operation of the operation part (12) in accordance with display mode of each of the selection items displayed on the display part (16). Thus, usability is improved by, for instance, changing a scroll speed for the continuous selection operation.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device, comprising

a display part capable of displaying a list containing a plurality of selectable items,

an operation part for selecting a selectable item, and

a control part configured to switch from a selected item to another one of the plurality of selectable items by operation of the operation part,

wherein the control part changes a character size of the plurality of selectable items,

wherein the control part changes a switching speed of switching from the selected item to another one of the plurality of selectable items shown on the list, and

wherein the control part slows down the switching speed when the character size of the plurality of selectable items is increased, larger than before and the list contains the same number of selectable items.

2. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the control part changes the switching speed when an operation for selecting the selectable item is continuously carried out.

3. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 2, wherein when a screen is switched from a first screen on which a portion of the plurality of selectable items is displayed in accordance with the continuous operation for selecting a selectable item to a second screen on which the remaining portion of the plurality of selectable items is displayed, the control part changes the switching time from the first screen to the second screen in accordance with the switching speed of the selected items displayed on the first screen.

4. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable items displayed on the display part include menu items of a function menu.

5. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable items displayed on the display part include candidates for change of an input character at the time of character input processing.

6. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the control part displays the selectable item selected along with operation of the operation part by a display form different from the other selectable items being displayed on the display part.

7. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the control part sets the switching speed with reference to a switching speed judgment table.

8. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 7, wherein the switching speed judgment table maps character size to switching speed.

9. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 8, wherein the switching speed judgment table maps smaller character sizes to faster switching speeds.

10. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 7, wherein the switching speed judgment table is stored in memory.