Patent ID: 7924265

Claim:
An analog pointing device for emulating at least one of wheel-style navigation, rocker-style navigation, and wheel-and-rocker style navigation with a selection box shown on a display, the pointing device comprising: a control mechanism controllable by a user, wherein a field of motion is associated with the control mechanism; and a position determining mechanism operable to determine whether the control mechanism has moved outside a step radius, wherein the step radius is defined within the field of motion and to determine a position of the control mechanism within the field of motion if the control mechanism has moved outside the step radius, the position determining mechanism being further operable to output at least one step motion when the control mechanism has moved outside the step radius to emulate at least one of the wheel-style navigation, the rocker-style navigation, and the wheel-and-rocker style navigation, wherein the at least one step motion causes the selection box to move from a current position to a position adjacent the current position.