Changing of list views on mobile device

• US 10,367,993 B2
• Filed: 11/11/2016
• Issued: 07/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Coddington, Nicole
• Primary Examiner(s): Nabi, Reza
• Application Number:
  US15/349,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064195A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 715863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming

Abstract

Various embodiments related to a hand-held mobile computing device are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises a hand-held mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device configured to receive touch input. The hand-held mobile computing device further comprises a processor and memory comprising code executable by the processor to display a scrollable list of items in a first content viewing mode having a first set of content for each of the items in the scrollable list, to detect a dynamic multi-touch gesture over the scrollable list of items, and to change the scrollable list of items to a second content viewing mode responsive to detection of the dynamic multi-touch gesture, wherein the second content viewing mode comprises a second set of content for each item in the scrollable list of items.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a camera configured to acquire an image;

a processor; and

memory comprising code executable by the processor to;

display on the touch sensitive display an image of a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting;

detect a dynamic multi-touch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display;

in response to detecting the dynamic multi-touch gesture input, display on the touch-sensitive display an image of a field of view of the camera at a second zoom setting;

detect a swipe gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in response to detecting the swipe gesture, acquire the image of the field of view of the camera at the second zoom setting displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1, where the dynamic multi-touch gesture input is detected as a change in distance between two touch inputs.

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, where the dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a wider angle than the first zoom setting.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1, where the dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a narrower angle than the first zoom setting.

5. The mobile computing device of claim 1, where the code is executable to continuously display a changing field of view based on the change in distance between two touch inputs.

6. The mobile computing device of claim 1, where the code is executable by the processor to snap between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.

7. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device comprises smart phone.

8. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable to detect the swipe gesture in the form of a finger moved across the touch-sensitive display.

9. On a mobile computing device comprising a touch-sensitive display and a camera configured to acquire an image, a method comprising:

displaying on the touch sensitive display a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting;

detecting a dynamic multi-touch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display;

in response to the dynamic multi-touch gesture input, displaying on the touch-sensitive display a field of view of the camera at a second zoom setting;

detecting a swipe gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in response to detecting the swipe gesture, acquiring the image of the field of view of the camera at the second zoom setting displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

10. The method of claim 9, where the dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a wider angle than the first zoom setting.

11. The method of claim 9, where the dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a narrower angle than the first zoom setting.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising continuously displaying a changing field of view based on the change in distance between two touch inputs.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising snapping between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the swipe gesture comprises movement of a finger across the touch-sensitive display.

20. The device of claim 14, wherein the instructions are executable to detect the swipe gesture as movement of a finger across the touch-sensitive display.

15. A hand-held mobile computing device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a camera configured to acquire an image;

a processor; and

memory comprising code executable by the processor to;

display on the touch-sensitive display an image of a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting;

acquire an image at the first zoom setting;

detect a first dynamic multi-touch stretch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display;

in response to the first dynamic multi-touch stretch gesture input, display on the touch-sensitive display an image of a field of view of the camera at a second zoom setting;

acquire an image at the second zoom setting;

detect a second dynamic multi-touch pinch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display;

in response to the second dynamic multi-touch pinch gesture, display on the touch-sensitive display an image of the field of view at a third zoom setting;

detect a swipe gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in response to detection of the swipe gesture, acquire the image of the third zoom setting displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the second zoom setting has a narrower field of view than the first zoom setting.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the third zoom setting has a wider field of view than the second zoom setting.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are executable to continuously change the field of view of the camera displayed on the touch-sensitive display as a distance between two touch inputs changes.

19. The device of claim 15, wherein the instructions are executable to snap between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.