Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1993-11-02
1994-05-31
Herndon, Heather R.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
395156, 345146, G06F 1562
Patent
active
053176871
ABSTRACT:
A data processing system includes an operating system, a graphical user interface and a plurality of applications programs. The graphical user interface generates a window relating to an executing application programs. Menu items relating to an application program may be represented by an icon. A selected group of objects is defined over a portion of the menu and represented by a metaphor. The graphic metaphor, here an icon ring is displayed on a display device. The icon ring is evocative of an ordered arrangement of items of the selected group, includes the icon for a particular object open to selection, and is subject to direct manipulation for reordering of the underlying selected group.
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Burraston N. Kenneth
Dillon Andrew J.
Herndon Heather R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jobe Jonathan E.
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