METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING OBJECT

    公开(公告)号:JPH11185058A

    公开(公告)日:1999-07-09

    申请号:JP32857597

    申请日:1997-11-28

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correctly select a three-dimensional (3D) object hidden in a compound object by conspicuously displaying the corresponding 3D object inside a main window in response to the location of a pointer inside one area in a sub-window. SOLUTION: On a main window 310 of a CRT, a columnar area having the central axis of a semi-straight line with a pointer P as a start point is defined as a search object. An object having a common part with the search object is defined as a selection candidate. A sub-window 410 is displayed in a screen 300 and divided so that a selection candidate is allocated. The pointer P is displayed inside the sub-window 410. When the pointer P enters a corresponding divided area, a display attribute of the object selected as a selection candidate is changed into highlight (high luminance) state. A user moves a mouse while carefully watching the picture of the object and moves the pointer P so as to highlight the intended object.

    METHOD FOR AIDING POINTER OPERATION

    公开(公告)号:JP2001005612A

    公开(公告)日:2001-01-12

    申请号:JP15734799

    申请日:1999-06-04

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even a handicapped person or an aged person having handicap in the kinetic functions of hands/arms to specify an object by pointer operation using a pointing device. SOLUTION: The method is provided for aiding pointer operation for moving a pointer to the position of a required object by a pointing device. In the device, a pointer advancing direction for advancing the pointer is detected from the movement of the pointer by the pointing device (S2), objects existing in a fixed range in the pointer advancing direction are displayed as object candidates to be specified (S3), an object is specified from the displayed object candidates (S4), and the pointer is moved to the position of the specified object (S5).

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