ELECTRONIC DEVICES

• US 20100295801A1
• Filed: 04/10/2007
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Emme, Niels, Jorgensen, Claus, Bestle, Nikolaj
• Application Number:
  US12/595,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20100295801A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0225 Rotatable telephones, i.e. the body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis perpendicular to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0233 Including a rotatable display body part
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0235 Slidable or telescopic telephones, i.e. with a relative translation movement of the body parts; Telephones using a combination of translation and other relative motions of the body parts
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264

Abstract

A user interface for receiving touch user input to control an electronic apparatus, wherein the user interface is arranged to detect one or more touch input commands to control the activation and/or deactivation of one or more respective physical operations and/or modes of a particular physical operation of the electronic apparatus.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28. A user interface arranged to detect at least one touch input command to control at least one of an activation and deactivation of at least one of a physical operation and mode of a physical operation of an apparatus.

29. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the at least one touch input command is a swipe command.

30. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the at least one touch input command is a swipe command in particular direction.

31. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface comprises at least one touch area such that the at least one touch input command is detectable on at least one face of the apparatus.

32. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface comprises at least one touch area for at least two faces of the apparatus such that the at least one touch input command is detectable on the at least two faces of the apparatus.

33. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface comprises at least one touch area to extend over at least two faces of the apparatus such that a particular touch input command is detectable over the at least two faces of the apparatus.

34. A user interface according claim 28, wherein the user interface comprises at least two touch areas for different faces of the apparatus such that the at least one particular touch input command is dedicated for detection on a particular face of the apparatus.

35. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface is arranged such that a particular touch command is registered when touch areas on different faces of the apparatus are touched in a particular order.

36. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface is arranged such that the at least one physical operation of the apparatus comprises a particular physical configuration of the apparatus.

37. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the apparatus comprises a first and second physical configuration, and the touch command is arranged to activate transformation of the apparatus between the first and the second physical configuration.

38. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the apparatus comprises a first and second physical configuration, and the touch command is arranged to activate biased transformation of the apparatus between the first and the second physical configuration.

39. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the apparatus comprises a first and second part which overlie one another in a first configuration but which are displaced from each other in a second configuration.

40. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the at least one physical operation of the apparatus comprises an activation of at least one user output element.

41. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the at least one physical operation of the apparatus comprises an activation of at least one of a non-touch user input area and another touch user input area.

42. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the user interface is arranged such that the at least one physical operation of the apparatus comprises a physical function performable by the apparatus.

43. A user interface according to claim 42, wherein the physical function includes at least one of digital image processing, managing a radio communication over the air interface, providing an audio and video output and controlling operation of a second apparatus, wherein the second apparatus is a remote apparatus.

44. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the apparatus is a hand portable electronic apparatus.

45. A user interface according to claim 28, wherein the apparatus is a hand portable electronic device, such as at least one of a radio telephone, camera and an audio/video player.

46. An apparatus arranged to detect at least one touch input command to control at least one of an activation and deactivation of at least one of a physical operation and mode of a physical operation of the apparatus.

47. A computer program to receive touch user input to control an apparatus, wherein a user interface is arranged to detect at least one touch input command to control at least one of an activation and deactivation of at least one of a physical operation and mode of a particular physical operation of the apparatus.