METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH AN OBJECT DISPLAYED ON A TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY

• US 20140019904A1
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EXO U Inc.
• Original Assignee: EXO U Inc.
• Inventors: Martinoli, Jean-Baptiste
• Application Number:
  US13/985,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019904A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0234 using switches operable in different directions
• 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

A method for providing data associated with an object displayed on a touch screen display, the method including detecting a physical contact with the object displayed on the touch screen display, detecting a given finger gesture generated following the physical contact and providing data associated with the given finger gesture and the object displayed.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method for providing data associated with a key of a keyboard displayed on a touch screen display, the method comprising:

detecting a physical contact with the key of the keyboard displayed on the touch screen display;

detecting a given finger gesture from the key of the keyboard, the given finger gesture generated immediately following the physical contact; and

providing data associated with a combination of the given finger gesture and the key of the keyboard displayed on which a physical contact of the finger is detected.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the detecting of a given finger gesture comprises identifying a key on the keyboard where a motion started, determining a motion direction and measuring a duration of a motion.

22. The method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the motion direction of the given finger gesture is selected from a group consisting of a 0 degree direction motion, a 90 degree direction motion, a 180 degree direction motion and a 270 degree direction motion.

23. The method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the duration of the motion is measured from the start of the motion to the end of the motion.

24. The method as claimed in claim 21, wherein the measuring of the duration of the motion comprises detecting a given distance covered after the start of the motion.

25. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the given finger gesture is detected from a group of finger gestures, further wherein each finger gesture command depends on the key of the keyboard where the finger motion started.

26. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the providing of the data associated with a combination of the given finger gesture and the key of the keyboard displayed on which a physical contact of the finger is detected comprises:

identifying a function associated with the finger gesture;

accessing a table with the function identified and the key of the keyboard;

retrieving from the table data associated with the function identified and the key of the keyboard.

27. The method as claimed in claim 26, wherein the function comprises a selected key of the keyboard.

28. The method as claimed in claim 27, wherein the selected key is selected from a group consisting of a “

SHIFT”

key, a “

ALT”

key, a “

CONTROL”

key, a “

FN”

key and a “

COMMAND”

key.

29. The method as claimed in claim 28, wherein the data associated with the function identified and the key of the keyboard is a corresponding mapping of the function identified and the key of the keyboard.

30. The method as claimed in claim 29, further comprising displaying the corresponding mapping of the function identified and the key of the keyboard.

31. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the data comprises one of a value, a character, a string of characters, a batch file, a data file and a program.

32. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the given finger gesture is associated with a function for toggling between various states.

33. The method as claimed in claim 32, wherein each state corresponds to a given character font associated with a character displayed on the touch screen display.

34. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed, causes a computing device comprising a touch screen panel to perform a method for providing data associated with a key of a keyboard, the method comprising:

detecting a physical contact with the key of the keyboard displayed on the touch screen display;

detecting a given finger gesture from the key of the keyboard, the given finger gesture generated immediately following the physical contact; and

providing data associated with a combination of the given finger gesture and the key of the keyboard displayed on which a physical contact of the finger is detected.

35. A computing device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

a central processing unit;

a memory comprising an application; and

a program, wherein the program is stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the central processing unit, the program including;

instructions for detecting a physical contact with a key of the keyboard displayed on the touch screen display;

instructions for detecting a given finger gesture from the key of the keyboard, the given finger gesture generated immediately following the physical contact; and

instructions for providing data associated with a combination of the given finger gesture and the key of the keyboard displayed on which a physical contact of the finger is detected.