| US 7,581,195 B2 | ||
| System for managing data objects | ||
| Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Tokyo (Japan); Junichi Rekimoto, Tokyo (Japan); Haruo Oba, Kanagawa (Japan); Makoto Imamura, Tokyo (Japan); Hideyuki Agata, Tokyo (Japan); Masakazu Hayashi, Chiba (Japan); and Masato Kuninori, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Sony Corporation, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 11, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/78,790. | ||
| Application 11/078790 is a continuation of application No. 09/838484, filed on Apr. 19, 2001, granted, now 7,051,291. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2000-121298 (JP), filed on Apr. 21, 2000. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0160377 A1, Jul. 21, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G09T 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—838 [715/763; 715/764; 715/779; 715/790; 715/798; 715/810; 715/818; 715/819; 715/820; 715/821; 715/823; 715/824; 715/825; 345/428; 345/634; 345/635; 345/636; 345/640; 345/649; 345/660] | 1 Claim |
| 1. A device for managing data objects, comprising:
displaying means for displaying thumbnails representative of data objects;
defining means for defining a focus region that indicates a focus thumbnail subject to processes;
moving means for moving the displayed thumbnails along a predetermined path through the focus region; and
enable/disable means for selectively enabling and disabling the moving means, the displaying means statically displaying a
single thumbnail in the focus region when the enable/disable means disables the moving means, the displaying means displaying
the thumbnails to move along the predetermined path through the focus region when the enable/disable means enables the moving
mean;
wherein the displaying means further displays an interface portion with a plurality of indicia, and further comprising selection
means for selecting one of the indicia of the interface portion;
wherein the indicia include a plurality of order indicia each representing one of a plurality of predetermined sequence orders,
the displaying means displaying the thumbnails in an order represented by an order indicium selected by the selection means;
and
wherein the order indicia include a time indicium; and
when the selection means selects the time indicium, the displaying means displays the thumbnails separated by distance corresponding
to time between when the corresponding data objects were produced.
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