Patent ID: 6822634
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: G09B,H04M

Abstract:
A system included on a handheld control device, the system comprising control means provided with a first and a second manual control portion and a display screen, the control means actuating a scroll-enable mode upon actuation of the second manual control portion by a user and, upon the actuating of the scroll-enable mode, the control means being arranged to scroll through a predetermined series of display items in response to actuation of the first manual control portion and to identify visually, each time in response to a scrolling step, a next display item from the series on the display screen, the control means switching to a scroll-disabled mode in response to interruption of actuation of the second manual control portion, the series of display items scrolled being selected from a number of different series of display items by a mode of actuation of the second manual control portion.