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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sung M. Choi, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jan Van Ee, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/26 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06T 3/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/26 ; G06F 3/00 ; G06T 3/40 ;
Abstract
A graphical user interface “touch screen” having an entire collection of icons displayed at a scale in which the individual function of each icon is recognizable, but too small to easily access features of the function, and wherein upon touching the screen area accommodating an area of the icon, the screen provides a zoomed in version of that area so that the user can select a desired feature.
Published as:
WO9954807A1; EP0990202A1; CN1263616A; KR20010013878A; US6211856B1; JP2002505783A; US2002030699A1; TW497063B; US6466203B2; EP0990202B1; DE69910710D1; DE69910710T2; CN1165832C; KR100557214B1; JP2012089159A; JP4932979B2; USRE43564E; JP5543426B2;