Appeal No. 2005-0097
Application No. 09/645,172
Click-dragging scale controller 18 to the right or left
has the same effect of increasing or decreasing,
respectively, the scale of timeline 14 [column 5, line
59, through column 6, line 37].
As indicated above, independent claim 32 recites a system
for adjusting a setting value comprising, inter alia, a slider
bar control button which moves at a slower pace when one of the
second and third sections is selected than when the first section
is selected. Independent claims 13 and 40 contain similar
limitations. When these limitations are read, as they are
required to be, in light of the underlying specification, a
person of ordinary skill in the art would understand the
references to the pace of movement within the following context:
The mouse device driver includes a function that
maps the distance traveled by the mouse to distance
traveled by the mouse pointer. Typically, graphical
operating systems allow users to adjust this mapping
function (“gain”) to accommodate varying user
preferences. Thus, the gain can be set low so that a
large movement of the mouse is required to move the
mouse pointer a set distance, or the gain can be set
high so that a small movement of the mouse will move
the mouse pointer the same distance.
As in the embodiment of Figure 7, when a window is
opened that includes a slider control, the slider bar
control button 700 is moved to its starting position
based on a previous setting or some other value. When
a SelectButtonDown event (e.g., on a right-handed
mouse, this is holding the left-most button down) is
detected and the mouse pointer is over either of the
“slow” regions of the slider bar control button 700
(i.e., sections 704 or 706), the gain of the mouse
device driver is set to a slow speed. When the mouse
button is released, the gain setting is restored to the
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