APPARATUS, METHOD, COMPTUER PROGRAM AND USER INTERFACE

• US 20140101610A1
• Filed: 05/25/2011
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Ning, Dong, Mei
• Application Number:
  US14/119,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20140101610A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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: H04M 1/72469 for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed items, e.g. menus or icons
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

A method, apparatus, computer program and user interface where the method comprises detecting a user input comprising an acceleration of an apparatus; and in response to the detecting of the user input comprising an acceleration, displaying at least one user selectable item on a touch sensitive display of the apparatus.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting a user input comprising an acceleration of an apparatus; and

in response to the detecting of the user input comprising an acceleration, displaying at least one user selectable item on a touch sensitive display of the apparatus wherein at least one of the user selectable item and the position at which the at least one user selectable item is displayed on the touch sensitive display is determined by the position of at least one of the user'"'"'s fingers when the user input comprising an acceleration is detected.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the at least one user selectable item is an item of a menu comprising a plurality of user selectable items.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the menu items are arranged within a hierarchical menu structure and the user input comprising an acceleration enables a user to navigate to a different level of the hierarchical menu structure.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the number of user selectable items displayed in response to the user input comprising an acceleration depends on the characteristics of the user input comprising an acceleration.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user selectable items are added to the display sequentially.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 wherein the sequence in which the user selectable items are added to the display is determined by the user of the apparatus.

7. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the touch sensitive display is configured to enable a user to select the user selectable item by actuating the portion of the touch sensitive display in which the user selectable item is displayed.

10. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the at least one user selectable item is not displayed on the touch sensitive display until the user input comprising an acceleration has been detected.

11. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the at least one user selectable item is displayed as part of a home page.

12. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the at least one user selectable item enables access to a different application to content currently displayed on the display.

13. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user input comprising an acceleration comprises shaking of the apparatus.

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14. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code;

wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, enable the apparatus to;

detect a user input comprising an acceleration of an apparatus; and

in response to the detecting of the user input comprising an acceleration, display at least one user selectable item on a touch sensitive display of the apparatus, wherein at least one of the user selectable item and the position at which the at least one user selectable item is displayed on the touch sensitive display is determined by the position of at least one of the user'"'"'s fingers when the user input comprising an acceleration is detected.

15. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the apparatus comprises a touch sensitive display and an accelerometer.

16. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the at least one user selectable item is an item of a menu comprising a plurality of user selectable items.

17. An apparatus as claimed in claim 16 wherein the menu items are arranged within a hierarchical menu structure and the user input comprising an acceleration enables a user to navigate to a different level of the hierarchical menu structure.

18. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the number of user selectable items displayed in response to the user input comprising an acceleration depends on the characteristics of the user input comprising an acceleration.

19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to add the user selectable items to the display sequentially.

20. An apparatus as claimed in claim 19 wherein the sequence in which the user selectable items are added to the display is determined by the user of the apparatus.

21. An apparatus as claimed in claim 14 wherein the touch sensitive display is configured to enable a user to select the user selectable item by actuating the portion of the touch sensitive display in which the user selectable item is displayed.

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28. A tangible physical entity embodying computer program comprising computer program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, enable an apparatus at least to perform:

detecting an user input comprising an acceleration of an apparatus; and

in response to the detecting of the user input comprising an acceleration, displaying at least one user selectable item on a touch sensitive display of the apparatus wherein at least one of the user selectable item and the position at which the at least one user selectable item is displayed on the touch sensitive display is determined by the position of at least one of the user'"'"'s fingers when the user input comprising an acceleration is detected.

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