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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
William Pat Price, Rhome, TX (US);
Timothy Elliott, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Marcus P Apitz, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Peter Schwartz, Fullerton, CA (US);
Jeffrey Briller, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
William Pat Price, Rhome, TX (US);
Timothy Elliott, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Marcus P Apitz, Yorba Linda, CA (US);
Peter Schwartz, Fullerton, CA (US);
Jeffrey Briller, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);
Vizio Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Scroll wheels have simplified the movement of cursors and changes in focus as a users navigate their way through menus, lists, tables, and other objects typically found in graphical user interfaces. Also typical of navigation schemes driven by scroll wheels is the ability of the user to accelerate the rate of movement of the cursor or focus by spinning the scroll wheel faster. One issue with this behavior is that a user who over accelerates the scroll wheel will often wind up overshooting his intended target and reversing the direction of the scroll wheel several times. The embodiment addresses this problem by giving control of the speed of the cursor or focus movement to the object being navigated. If the granularity of the list, table, menu, or other objects become smaller, the object has the ability to filter the speed input of the scroll wheel.