Integrated scrollbar options menu and related methods, devices, and computer program products

• US 9,671,924 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Johansson, Fredrik
• Primary Examiner(s): Xia, Xuyang
• Application Number:
  US13/133,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20120167003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,482 Days
• Field of Search: 715786
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device includes an integrated scrollbar options menu, a display screen, and a graphical user interface for navigating the display screen. The graphical user interface includes a scrollbar that is operable to scroll display content in a first direction corresponding to an axis of the scrollbar in response to a first navigational movement of the scrollbar in the first direction corresponding to the axis. The scrollbar includes the integrated scrollbar options menu. The integrated scrollbar options menu is configured to be accessed by expanding the scrollbar using a second navigational movement of the scrollbar that is different from the first navigational movement.

Claims

1. A method of operating an integrated scrollbar options menu in a graphical user interface of an electronic device, comprising:

highlighting a scrollbar that is operable to scroll display content in a first direction corresponding to an axis of the scrollbar in response to a first navigational movement of the scrollbar in the first direction corresponding to the axis and that includes the integrated scrollbar options menu; and

accessing the integrated scrollbar options menu by expanding the scrollbar using a second navigational movement of the scrollbar that is different from the first navigational movement and includes dragging the scrollbar from a collapsed position that hides the integrated scrollbar options menu toward an expanded position that displays the integrated scrollbar options menu, wherein the integrated scrollbar options menu comprises at least one of;

a snap-to-section option, wherein scrolling of the display content in response to the first navigational movement from a first section of the display content stops at a second section of the display content that is adjacent the first section;

a screen-by-screen option, wherein scrolling of the display content in response to the first navigational movement from a first screen of the display content stops at a second screen of the display content that is adjacent the first screen;

a continuous scrolling option, wherein the first navigational movement from the first section provides continuous scrolling through the second section; and

a scrolling speed option, wherein the first navigational movement provides scrolling through the display content at a predetermined rate.

2. An electronic device that includes an integrated scrollbar options menu, comprising:

a display screen; and

a graphical user interface for navigating the display screen, the graphical user interface including a scrollbar that is operable to scroll display content in a first direction corresponding to an axis of the scrollbar in response to a first navigational movement of the scrollbar in the first direction corresponding to the axis and that includes the integrated scrollbar options menu, the integrated scrollbar options menu being configured to be accessed by expanding the scrollbar using a second navigational movement of the scrollbar that is different from the first navigational movement and includes dragging the scrollbar from a collapsed position that hides the integrated scrollbar options menu toward an expanded position that displays the integrated scrollbar options menu, wherein the integrated scrollbar options menu comprises at least one of;

a snap-to-section option, wherein scrolling of the display content in response to the first navigational movement from a first section of the display content stops at a second section of the display content that is adjacent the first section;

a screen-by-screen option, wherein scrolling of the display content in response to the first navigational movement from a first screen of the display content stops at a second screen of the display content that is adjacent the first screen;

a continuous scrolling option, wherein the first navigational movement from the first section provides continuous scrolling through the second section; and

a scrolling speed option, wherein the first navigational movement provides scrolling through the display content at a predetermined rate.