Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To adjust speed for scrolling display data of a work window displayed on a display and to visually display scroll speed which is set. SOLUTION: When the scroll of display data is instructed, the display form of the mouse cursor changes. Namely, a speed indicator appear in an instructed scroll direction. The speed indicators appear by a number corresponding to scroll speed which is set and they are arranged in the scroll direction approximately from the center of a mouse cursor body. The forms of the speed indicators are small isosceles triangles. When the apexes face the scroll direction, they appeal to the sight of the user. When the number of the speed indicators is increased like one, two and three by adjusting it to scroll speed, for example, the user can intuitively and quantitatively grasp scroll speed.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology for improving the convenience of users, who experience inconvenience in operating various devices, such as a PC. SOLUTION: A PC 10 detects and analyzes a user's operational attributes of a keyboard, a mouse or the like and creates setting information unique to each user and provides it, changing setting of the PC 10 and the other PC 50. The user obtains information, such as whether he can use an ordinary keyboard, an ordinary mouse and the like by changing a parameter or whether he should use a peripheral, such as an on-screen board and a substitute mouse. Changes in the setting of the other PC 50 is implemented by storing the setting information provided by the PC 10 in a luggable memory 30 and installing it to the other PC 50. Even after the setting is implemented, the contents of the setting may be updated by monitoring the user's operation or conducting periodical tests. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO