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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2003
Toshiaki Hayashi, Uraysu, JP;
Robert S. Murdock, Oakland, CA (US);
Norio Fujikawa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron M. Kurti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Coato Workshop, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for navigating through one of a plurality of panels on a display in a moving vehicle. The apparatus includes a display coupled to a processing device and memory. The display faces a user of a motorized vehicle. The apparatus also includes a graphical user interface on the display, which comprises a plurality of panels numbered from 1 through N, where N is an integer greater than 2. A selector device is coupled to the graphical user interface through the processing device. The selector device is within a vicinity of a user of the motorized vehicle. The selector device is adapted to display any one or more of the plurality of panels from the first panel numbered 1 through the Nth panel numbered N by moving the selector device in a first direction. The selector device is also adapted to select one of the panels being displayed by moving the selector device in a second direction.