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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2007
Michael D. Layton, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Don T. Saxby, Tooele, UT (US);
Richard D. Woolley, Orem, UT (US);
Michael D. Layton, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Don T. Saxby, Tooele, UT (US);
Richard D. Woolley, Orem, UT (US);
Cirque Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A method of using a capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a zone on a surface thereof, wherein touchdown of a pointing object within the zone enables activation of a scrolling function, wherein direction of scrolling is then controlled by a gesture by the pointing object, such as moving in a circular motion in a clockwise direction to move down in a list, and in a counter clockwise direction to move up in a list, and wherein fast and slow scrolling speeds are controlled by tapping functions within the scroll zone.