G - Physics – 06 – F
Patent
G - Physics
06
F
G06F 3/033 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2307360
To provide a method for assisting a user to operate a pointer, which enables even a person who is handicapped in his/her hand and arm and an aged person to select an object by operating the pointer by a pointing device. The method for assisting the user to operate the pointer of the present invention is directed to the method for assisting the user to operate the pointer so as to move the pointer onto a desired object by the pointing device. In this method for assisting the user to operate the pointer, a pointer movement direction in which the user wants to move the pointer is detected in accordance with a movement of the pointer by the pointing device (Step S2). Candidate objects located within a predetermined range of the pointer movement direction are displayed (Step S3). The object is selected from the displayed candidate objects (Step S4). The pointer is moved onto the selected object (Step S5).
Kinoe Yohsuke
Nakai Haruhiko
International Business Machines Corporation
Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Rosen Arnold
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