Sony Corporation

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Yukako Morimoto

Tatsuya Hama

Takamoto Tsuda

Kazuhiro Kondo

Tetsuya Kohno

Ikuo Terado

Satomi Yonezawa

Katsunori Miura

Yuichi Ito

Osamu Harada

Toshiyuki Chiba

There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a case of displaying menus beyond a display screen, a range currently displayed on a display screen among all the menus and a current cursor position within the menus displayed on the current display screen.

Menu display apparatus, menu display method, and storage medium containing menu display program

An information processing apparatus includes a tap operation detecting unit configured to detect the number of tap operations for tapping a housing and a tapped position of the housing, a storage unit storing a plurality of application programs, an activated application table storing an application program to be activated in association with the tapped position of the housing and the number of tap operations, and a control unit configured to detect an application program corresponding to the tapped position and the number of tap operations with reference to the activated application table on the basis of the tapped position and the number of tap operations detected by the tap operation detecting unit, to read out the detected application program from the storage unit, and to activate the detected application program.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and mobile terminal

Information processing apparatus, method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

A display method for displaying a plurality of icons in list form on a display device by a list-form displaying section and for enlarging and reducing an icon. When a first icon is selected while second icon previously selected is being enlarged, the second icon is enlarged to a predetermined size, and then after the enlargement, the enlarged second icon is reduced so as to have a size substantially equal to the size of each of icons which are not selected.

Display method, portable terminal device, and display program

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation

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Chiba, Japan

Yukako Morimoto