Device having touch screen with dynamic content alignment

• US 10,146,425 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2017
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, Jr., John M., Rakshit, Sarbajit K., Trim, Craig M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tryder, Gregory J
• Assistant Examiner(s): Le, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/819,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20180074677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 378 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0693 Calibration of display systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/14 Electronic books and readers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/03 specially adapted for displays having non-planar surfaces, e.g. curved displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters

Abstract

Embodiments include touch screen devices and related systems. In particular cases, a touch screen device is configured to: obtain sensor data from the sensor indicating a portion of the touch screen is obstructed during display of the content on the touch screen; obtain data indicating a data format of the content type; and adjust a position of the content as displayed on the touch screen in response to obtaining the data indicating the portion of the touch screen is obstructed, where the adjusting is based upon the data format of the content type, and where, in the case that the data format of the content type indicates the content cannot be reformatted, the adjusting includes zooming in on the content or zooming out from the content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying content on a touch screen of a touch screen device, the touch screen device including a sensor coupled with the touch screen and a computer system coupled with the sensor, the method comprising:

obtaining sensor data from the sensor indicating a portion of the touch screen is obstructed during display of the content on the touch screen;

obtaining data indicating a data format of the content type; and

adjusting a position of the content as displayed on the touch screen in response to detecting the data format of the content type indicating that the content cannot be reformatted, the adjusting including zooming out from the content that cannot be reformatted,

wherein the format of the content type that cannot be reformatted includes portable data format (PDF) content.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the sensor data indicates a location of the obstructed portion of the touch screen.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the adjusting includes at least one of shifting a portion of the content displayed proximate the location of the obstructed portion of the touch screen to a new location on the touch screen or modifying a font size of the portion of the content displayed proximate the location of the obstructed portion of the touch screen.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the sensor includes a pressure sensor.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the data indicating the portion of the touch screen is obstructed indicates at least one of a size of a contact point on the touch screen or a shape of the contact point on the touch screen.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting of the position of the content includes calculating an area of the touch screen not obstructed, and allocating display of an entirety of the content within the area of the touch screen not obstructed.

7. A system comprising:

a touch screen;

a pressure sensor coupled with the touch screen; and

at least one computing device coupled with the pressure sensor and the touch screen, the at least one computing device configured to display content on a touch screen of a touch screen device by performing actions including;

obtaining sensor data indicating a portion of the touch screen is contacted during display of the content on the touch screen, wherein the sensor data indicating the portion of the touch screen is contacted is obtained from the pressure sensor;

obtaining data indicating a data format of the content type; and

adjusting a position of the content as displayed on the touch screen in response to detecting the data format of the content type indicating that the content cannot be reformatted, the adjusting including zooming out from the content that cannot be reformatted,

wherein the format of the content type that cannot be reformatted includes portable data format (PDF) content.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the sensor data indicates a location of the contact on the touch screen.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the adjusting includes at least one of shifting a portion of the content displayed proximate the location of the contact to a new location on the touch screen or modifying a font size of the portion of the content displayed proximate the location of the contact.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the sensor data indicating the portion of the touch screen is contacted indicates at least one of a size of a contact point on the touch screen or a shape of the contact point on the touch screen.

11. A computer-implemented method for displaying content on a touch screen of a touch screen device, the touch screen device including a sensor coupled with the touch screen and a computer system coupled with the sensor, the method comprising:

obtaining sensor data from the sensor indicating a portion of the touch screen is obstructed during display of the content on the touch screen;

obtaining data indicating a data format of the content type; and

adjusting a position of the content as displayed on the touch screen in response to detecting the data format of the content type indicating that the content cannot be reformatted, the adjusting including zooming out from the content that cannot be reformatted.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the format of the content type that cannot be reformatted includes portable data format (PDF) content.