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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2012
Ikuyasu Miyako, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Ikuyasu Miyako, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A distance vector from the original cursor position where the cursor exists before the manipulation to the cursor movement destination position is set to a movement direction distance vector, distance vectors from the original cursor position to each button position of a plurality of buttons are set to button distance vectors, and the button having the shortest movement time is determined as a target button intended by a user by computing the movement time to a plurality of buttons using the movement direction distance vector and a plurality of button distance vectors, so that the display control of the display unit is performed such that the cursor is dragged into the target button.