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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2011
Applicants:
Ryoko Amano, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Nunomaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenzo Nishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
A graphical user interface apparatus, method and computer program product cooperate to control a display. An item is displayed at a periphery of a display and a detector detects when an object is proximate to the item. When detected the display displays a relation item. Then, when the object is detected as moving to be proximate to the relation item, a controller changes a displayed form of the relation item in response to detecting when the object is moved.