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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Soichi Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Kohno, Kanagawa, JP;
Tota Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichiro Ishii, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshifumi Ueno, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing method and apparatus free from a defect in a conventional system that complicated processing operations need to be executed before a user selects a desired application program on a task bar equipped with a start menu button and starts the selected program. A jog dial related application declares to a jog dial state monitor program C that it (application) itself is a jog dial related application. The jog dial state monitor program C then adds the application software to a list of the jog dial related applications. The display of the jog dial menu is then set to a display proper to the application and apprised to the user in the form of a jog dial guide. The jog dial related application advises the illustration of the jog dial operation in the current state to the jog dial state monitor program C in the form of a letter string.