Patent ID: 6937254

Claim:
A graphical user interface for searches, comprising: a first display controller for controlling a display device so as to display, on a display screen, a coordinate axis along which graduations have been formed, a search-result display area that displays results of a search of information of interest that falls within a search range set in conformity with the graduations and set as a part of the coordinate axis, and a manipulator located at a reference position on the coordinate axis; a move-command device for applying a horizontal- or vertical-direction move command to the manipulator; and a second display controller for controlling display of the coordinate axis in such a manner that scale of the graduations is changed in response to application of either one of the horizontal- and vertical-direction move commands from the move-command device to the manipulator, and in such a manner that values of the graduations are changed in response to application of the other one of the horizontal- and vertical-direction move commands from the move-command device to the manipulator.