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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2005
Andree Ross, Lüdinghausen, DE;
Wolfgang Theimer, Bochum, DE;
Andree Ross, Lüdinghausen, DE;
Wolfgang Theimer, Bochum, DE;
Nokia Corporation, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
The invention relates to an electronic deviceoffering a plurality of menu items to a user. In order to enable a user friendly selection of the menu items, the electronic devicecomprises a screenuser input meansstoring meansadapted to store parameters for a virtual model of a user and processing meansThe processing meansare adapted to generate a visual representation of a virtual user modelon the screenbased on the stored parameters for the virtual model of a user, to cause a movement of a visually represented virtual user modeldepending on a user input, to detect a movement of a visually represented virtual user modelthat is associated to a particular menu item, which menu item is offered for any of a plurality of applications, and to call a function that is assigned to the particular menu item.