Apparatus and Method for Gesture Control of a Dual Panel Electronic Device

• US 20110291964A1
• Filed: 12/09/2010
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kno Incorporated (Intel Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsui, William G., Cameron, Kimberly, Rashid, Osman, Straus, David M., Habib, Babur, Sydeman, Ann, Chambers, Paul S., Robinson, Kyrie
• Application Number:
  US12/964,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20110291964A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/0488 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

Abstract

An electronic device includes a processor, a first touch screen and a second touch screen. The first touch screen displays an object. An object transition module executed by the processor includes executable instructions to map a gesture applied to the object to a set of object movement parameters and then move the object from the first touch screen to the second touch screen in accordance with the object movement parameters.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor, a first touch screen and a second touch screen, wherein the first touch screen displays an object; and

on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to;

map a gesture applied to the object to a set of object movement parameters, and

move the object from the first touch screen to the second touch screen in accordance with the object movement parameters.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the gesture is a single touch gesture.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 wherein the single touch gesture is a flick gesture characterized by some combination of position, velocity magnitude and velocity direction at the point of release from a contact point.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 wherein the object transition module applies a physics-based computation to the object movement parameters.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 wherein the physics-based computation utilizes assigned parameters to additional objects of the first touch screen and the second touch screen.

6. The electronic device of claim 4 wherein the physics-based computation utilizes assigned parameters to portions of the first touch screen and the second touch screen.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the object transition module models a discontinuity between the first touch screen and the second touch screen as a hill that an object must traverse.

8. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

individual touch screens; and

on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to map a gesture to a set of object movement parameters and thereby trigger an exchange of contents between touch screens based on the object movement parameters.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 wherein the gesture is a pinch gesture across a discontinuity between two touch screens.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

individual touch screens; and

on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to;

identify a first gesture that designates a selected object on a first screen, and

identify a second gesture that moves the content of a second screen beneath the selected object on the first screen.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 wherein the object transition module receives a third gesture to attach the selected object to the content of the second screen.

12. The electronic device of claim 11 wherein the object transition module replaces the content of the second screen with content from the page following the content of the second screen.