Methods, Systems and Apparatus for Digital-Marking-Surface Space and Display Management

• US 20130249815A1
• Filed: 03/26/2012
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Dolan, John E., Smith, Dana S., Ellis, Stephen W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,592 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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

Abstract

Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for digital-marking-surface spatial management of content units and display of content units. Some aspects relate to diagrammatic gestures that invoke content-unit spatial separation on a digital marking surface. Some aspects relate to the generation and display of a transformed view of content units on a digital marking surface.

Claims

1. A method, said method comprising:

in a digital-marking-surface system;

storing a predetermined diagrammatic gesture description associated with a content-unit spatial separation function;

detecting one or more digital marks on a digital marking surface;

analyzing said one or more digital marks to determine whether said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description; and

performing said content-unit spatial separation function when said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description.

2. A method as described in claim 1 further comprising converting said one or more digital marks to one or more ink units if said one or more digital marks do not conform to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description describes a rift gesture.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description describes a rift gesture and an extent gesture.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said content-unit spatial separation function causes separation of a plurality of content units away from said one or more digital marks.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said content-unit spatial separation function causes separation of content units away from said one or more digital marks and display of said spatially separated content units in a transformed view.

7. A method as described in claim 1, wherein said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description describes a keyhole gesture.

8. A method as described in claim 7, wherein said content-unit spatial separation function causes spatial separation of a plurality of content units away from said one or more digital marks in two dimensions.

9. A method as described in claim 8, further comprising displaying said plurality of content units spatially separated in response to said keyhole gesture in a transformed view.

10. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising instructions instructing a processor in a digital-marking-surface system to:

store a predetermined diagrammatic gesture description associated with a content-unit spatial separation function in a memory;

detect one or more digital marks on a digital marking surface;

analyze said one or more digital marks to determine whether said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description; and

perform said content-unit spatial separation function when said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description.

11. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium as described in claim 10, wherein said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description describes a rift gesture.

12. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium as described in claim 10, wherein said content-unit spatial separation function causes separation of a plurality of content units away from said one or more digital marks.

13. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium as described in claim 10, wherein said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description describes a keyhole gesture.

14. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium as described in claim 13, wherein said content-unit spatial separation function causes separation of a plurality of content units away from said one or more digital marks in two dimensions.

15. A method, said method comprising:

in a digital-marking-surface system;

storing a rift gesture description associated with an content-unit spatial separation function, wherein said rift gesture description describes a rift gesture comprising a rift designation mark;

detecting one or more digital marks on a digital marking surface;

analyzing said one or more digital marks to determine whether said one or more digital marks conforms to said rift gesture description; and

performing said content-unit separation function when said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description, wherein said content-unit separation function causes spatial separation of a plurality of content units away from said one or more digital marks.

16. A method as described in claim 15 further comprising detecting a separation-extent gesture, wherein an extent of said spatial separation is defined by said separation-extent gesture.

17. A method as described in claim 15, wherein said content-unit separation function further causes said plurality of spatially separated ink units to be displayed with a transformed view.

18. A method, said method comprising:

in a digital-marking-surface system;

storing a keyhole gesture description associated with a content-unit spatial separation function, wherein said keyhole gesture description describes a mark defining a center of expansion;

detecting one or more digital marks on a digital marking surface;

analyzing said one or more digital marks to determine whether said one or more digital marks conforms to said keyhole gesture description; and

performing said content-unit separation function when said one or more digital marks conforms to said predetermined diagrammatic gesture description, wherein said content-unit modification function causes spatial separation of a plurality of content-units in two dimensions away from said center of expansion.

19. A method as described in claim 18 further comprising detecting a separation-extent gesture, wherein an extent of said spatial separation is defined by said separation-extent gesture.

20. A method as described in claim 18 wherein said content-unit separation function further causes said plurality of spatially translated content units to be displayed with a transformed view.