ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY

• US 20140149902A1
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIANG, ZHI-QIANG
• Application Number:
  US13/869,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149902A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• 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

An electronic device includes a processor to execute an interface module to cause an interface to be displayed on a touch sensitive display. The interface includes a slide button, a path, and a character panel. The slide button is slidable along the path, and the character panel includes a number of characters. The processor is used to determine a position of the slide button where a sliding direction of the slide button changes from a first direction to a second direction opposite the first direction, and further used to determine one of the characters corresponding to the position and select the one of the characters.

Claims

1. An electronic device with touch sensitive display, the electronic device comprising:

a storage unit to store an interface module;

a touch sensitive display;

a processor configured to execute the module to cause an interface to be displayed on the touch sensitive display, the interface comprising a slide button, a path, and a character panel, the slide button being slidable along the path, the character panel comprising a plurality of characters, the processor being configured to determine a position of the slide button where a sliding direction of the slide button changes from a first direction to a second direction opposite the first direction, and further configured to determine one of the characters corresponding to the position and select the one of the characters.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the one of the characters is highlighted.

3. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the path is circular or arcuate.

4. The portable communication device according to claim 1, wherein the path is circular and comprises a plurality of marks, each of the marks corresponds to one of the plurality of characters.

5. A method for selecting a character, comprising:

causing an interface to be displayed on a touch sensitive display;

determining whether a sliding direction of a slide button of the interface along a path changes from a first direction to a second direction opposite to the first direction;

determining a position where the sliding direction of the slide button changes from the first direction to the second direction;

determining a character corresponding to the position and selecting the character.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising highlighting the determined character.