Patent ID: 7728812
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A portable electronic device comprising: an operator block having a plurality of operation buttons arranged in matrix; a display block, arranged in the vicinity of said operator block, configured to display a screen divided into a plurality of areas corresponding to the arrangement of said plurality of operation buttons, to display a cursor for selecting each said areas, and to enter the selection by operation of each of said operation buttons; a detection unit configured to detect whether any one of said plurality of operation buttons has been operated; an item display control unit configured to relate an object displayed on said screen with a predetermined function executable by said portable electronic device, display a menu in plural areas of said screen, display an item frame assigned a function in said one area of said plural areas of the menu, and display a region on said screen corresponding to at least one of the operation buttons not to be assigned any function while the menu is displayed on the screen; and a focus display control unit configured to focus a selected item frame and not to focus said region when said operation button corresponding to said region not to be assigned said function is operated, wherein said item display control unit includes a scroll display control unit configured to execute control such that an image is displayed in scroll when said detection unit detects said first state in excess of a predetermined period of time wherein said item display control unit is configured to display said object by a first number of objects on a row or column basis and said scroll display control unit includes a change unit configured to change the number of objects to be displayed in scroll from said first number of objects to a second number of objects smaller than said first number of objects when said screen has been scrolled by one of a predetermined number of rows and a predetermined number of columns, and said change unit is configured to gradually change the number of objects from said first number of objects to said second number of objects, and to gradually change a color of said object to a color higher in brightness toward said scroll direction in synchronization with said gradual change in the number of objects.