Drag move gesture in user interface

• US 10,558,321 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, de Paz, Alexander, Reeves, Paul E., Marintchenko, Maxim
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, David
• Application Number:
  US14/839,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20160062554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,628 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display

Abstract

The disclosed method and device are directed to navigation, by a dual display communication device, through display objects.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a first gesture through one of a first touch sensitive screen of a communications device or a second touch sensitive screen of the communications device, wherein the first touch sensitive screen comprises a first display area and a first gesture capture region within the first touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the first display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image, wherein the second touch sensitive screen comprises a second display area and a second gesture capture region within the second touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the second display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image, and wherein the first gesture is received though one of the first or second display areas or one of the first or second gesture capture areas;

in response to receiving the first gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed desktop on the first display area of the first touch sensitive screen and commencing to display the first displayed desktop on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen;

receiving a second gesture though the other of the first or second display areas or the first or second gesture capture areas; and

in response to receiving the second gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed window of an application on the first display area of the first touch sensitive screen and commencing to display the first displayed window of the application on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen,

wherein the first displayed window on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen at least partially obscures the first displayed desktop on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen,

wherein the gesture received through the first or second gesture capture region enables navigation through an ordered set of desktops, and

wherein the gesture received through the first or second display areas enables navigation through an ordered set of windows.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first displayed desktop is one of the ordered set of desktops.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the application window is one of the ordered set of windows.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the gesture received by the first or second gesture capture regions enables navigation through only the ordered set of desktops and the first or second gestures received by the touch sensitive display enables navigation through only the ordered set of windows.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication device is in an opened state.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the received first gesture is a drag gesture, wherein the first and second touch sensitive screens are each in the portrait display orientation, wherein the first display area of the first touch sensitive screen thereafter displays a second displayed desktop different from the first displayed desktop, wherein a third displayed desktop different from the first displayed desktop was previously displayed by the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen, wherein the first and second displayed desktops, in response, are in active positions and the third displayed desktop is in an inactive position.

7. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 1.

8. A method, comprising:

determining, by a sensor, that a dual display communication device is in an open state, wherein, in the open state, a first touch sensitive screen of the communication device and a second touch sensitive screen of the communication device are enabled, wherein the first touch sensitive screen comprises a first display area and a first gesture capture region within the first touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the first display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image and wherein the second touch sensitive screen comprises a second display area and a second gesture capture region within the second touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the second display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image;

receiving a first gesture though one of the first or second display areas or one of the first or second gesture capture areas;

in response to receiving the first gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed desktop of a desktop stack on the first display area and displaying a different second displayed desktop of the desktop stack on the first display area;

in response to receiving the first gesture, ceasing to display the different second displayed desktop of the desktop stack on the second display area and displaying a different third desktop of the desktop stack on the second display area;

receiving a second gesture though the other of the first or second display areas or the first or second gesture capture areas; and

in response to receiving the second gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed window of an application on the first display area and commencing to display the first displayed window of the application on the second display area,

wherein the first displayed window on the second touch sensitive display at least partially obscures the first displayed desktop on the second display area,

wherein the gesture received through the first or second gesture capture region enables navigation through an ordered set of desktops, and

wherein the gesture received through the first or second display area enables navigation through an ordered set of windows.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first gesture is received through the first of second gesture capture region, and wherein the first and second desktops are adjacent members of an ordered set of desktops in a desktop stack.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first gesture received enables navigation through the ordered set of desktops in the desktop stack.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the received first gesture is a drag gesture, wherein the first touch sensitive screen is in the portrait display orientation, wherein the first displayed desktop was previously in an active state and the second displayed desktop in an inactive state, and wherein, in response, the first displayed desktop is now in the inactive state and the second displayed desktop is now in the active state.

12. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 8.

13. A dual display communication device, comprising:

a first touch sensitive screen comprising a first display area and a first gesture capture region within the first touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the first display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image;

a second touch sensitive screen touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the second display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image; and

middleware operable to perform the following operations;

determine, based on a sensor, that the dual display communication device is in an open state, wherein, in the open state, the first display area is enabled and the second display area is enabled;

receive a first gesture though one of the first or second display areas or one of the first or second gesture capture areas;

in response to receiving the first gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed desktop on the first display area and commencing to display the first displayed desktop on the second display area;

receive a second gesture though the other of the first or second display areas or the first or second gesture capture areas; and

in response to receiving the second gesture, ceasing to display a first displayed window of an application on the first display area and commencing to display the first displayed window of the application on the second display area,

wherein the first displayed window on the second display area at least partially obscures the first displayed desktop on the second display area,

wherein the gesture received through the first or second gesture capture region enables navigation through an ordered set of windows, and

wherein the gesture received through the first or second display area enables navigation through an ordered set of desktops.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the first gesture is received through the first or second display areas, and wherein the first displayed desktop is one of the ordered set of desktops.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the second gesture is received through the first or second gesture capture regions, and wherein the application window of the application is one of the ordered set of windows.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the second gesture is received through the first or second gesture capture regions, and wherein the first and second windows are adjacent members of the ordered set of windows.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the received first gesture is a drag gesture, wherein the first touch sensitive display is in the portrait display orientation, wherein the communication device has opened and closed states, wherein the first displayed desktop was previously in an active state, and wherein, in response, the first displayed desktop is now in the inactive state.

18. The device of claim 13, wherein the received first gesture is a drag gesture, wherein a gesture received by the first and second gesture capture regions enables navigation through only the ordered set of windows and a gesture received by the first and second display areas enables navigation through only the ordered set of desktops.

19. A communication device comprising:

a first touch sensitive screen comprising a first display area and a first gesture capture region within the first touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the first display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image;

a second touch sensitive screen comprising a second display area and a second gesture capture region within the second touch sensitive screen but which is outside of the second display area and not capable of rendering a displayed image;

a processor coupled with the first touch sensitive screen and the second touch sensitive screen; and

a memory coupled with and readable by the processor and storing therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

receive a first gesture through one of the first touch sensitive screen or the second touch sensitive screen of the communications device, wherein the first gesture is received though one of the first or second display areas or one of the first or second gesture capture areas;

in response to receiving the first gesture, cease to display a first displayed desktop on the first display area of the first touch sensitive screen and commence to display the first displayed desktop on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen;

receive a second gesture though the other of the first or second display areas or the first or second gesture capture areas; and

in response to receiving the second gesture, cease to display a first displayed window of an application on the first display area of the first touch sensitive screen and commence to display the first displayed window of the application on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen,

wherein the first displayed window on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen at least partially obscures the first displayed desktop on the second display area of the second touch sensitive screen,

wherein the gesture received through the first or second gesture capture regions enables navigation through an ordered set of desktops, and

wherein the gesture received through the first or second display areas enables navigation through an ordered set of windows.