USER INTERFACE FOR A TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY
First Claim
1. A device comprising a touchscreen display adapted to present a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising:
- one or more user interface elements, each said user interface element being actuatable using the touchscreen display to invoke a corresponding function;
wherein the device is adapted to;
display an overlay user input interface such that said one or more user interface elements are not actuatable; and
while said overlay user input interface is displayed, display a modified graphical user interface wherein at least one of said one or more user interface elements is presented, such that said at least one user interface element is actuatable.
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Abstract
A device, which may have a touchscreen display, and methods for its operation are provided using a graphical user interface and an overlay user input interface such as a virtual keyboard. The graphical user interface may include one or more user interface elements displayed in a first region of the display that are actuatable to invoke a corresponding function. When the virtual keyboard is invoked for display in the same region, the underlying graphical user interface is redrawn with a further user interface element corresponding to at least one of the user interface elements previously displayed in the first region, so that the further user interface element is actuatable to invoke a command to carry out the corresponding function. In another embodiment, the virtual keyboard may be modified instead to provide an action key corresponding to a function related to an application executing on the device.
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20 Claims
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1. A device comprising a touchscreen display adapted to present a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface comprising:
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one or more user interface elements, each said user interface element being actuatable using the touchscreen display to invoke a corresponding function; wherein the device is adapted to; display an overlay user input interface such that said one or more user interface elements are not actuatable; and while said overlay user input interface is displayed, display a modified graphical user interface wherein at least one of said one or more user interface elements is presented, such that said at least one user interface element is actuatable. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for operating a device comprising a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
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presenting a first graphical user interface at the touchscreen display, the first graphical user interface comprising one or more user interface elements, each said user interface element being actuatable using the touchscreen display to invoke a corresponding function; displaying an overlay user input interface at the touchscreen display such that said one or more user interface elements are not actuatable; and while said overlay user input interface is displayed, displaying a modified graphical user interface at the touchscreen display, wherein at least one of said one or more user interface elements is presented, such that said at least one user interface element is actuatable. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which when executed on one or more processors of a computing system cause the system to carry out a method of operating a device comprising a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
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presenting a first graphical user interface at the touchscreen display, the first graphical user interface comprising one or more user interface elements, each said user interface element being actuatable using the touchscreen display to invoke a corresponding function; displaying an overlay user input interface at the touchscreen display such that said one or more user interface elements are not actuatable; and while said overlay user input interface is displayed, displaying a modified graphical user interface at the touchscreen display, wherein at least one of said one or more user interface elements is presented, such that said at least one user interface element is actuatable.
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