Bezel Gesture Techniques

• US 20150160849A1
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.), Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Weiss, John G. A., Bathiche, Steven Nabil, Lutz, Moshe R., Boulanger, Catherine N.
• Application Number:
  US14/099,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20150160849A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

Bezel gesture techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a determination is made that an input involves detection of an object by one or more bezel sensors. The bezel sensors are associated with a display device of a computing device. A location is identified from the input that corresponds to the detection of the object and an item is displayed at a location on the display device that is based at least in part on the identified location.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining that an input involves detection of an object by one or more bezel sensors, the bezel sensors associated with a display device of a computing device;

identifying a location from the input that corresponds to the detection of the object; and

displaying an item at a location on the display device based at least in part on the identified location.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the bezel sensors are formed as a continuation of a capacitive grid of the display device that is configured to support touchscreen functionality of the display device.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein no part of a display output by the display device is viewable through the bezel sensors.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the bezel sensors substantially surround a display portion of the display device.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the item is an arc user interface control, an item that is selectable by a user, a notification, or a menu.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the item is configured as a control that is usable to control movement of a cursor, the movement being displaced from a location on the display device at which the control is displayed.

7. A method as described in claim 1, further comprising determining a likelihood that the detection of the object as proximal is associated with a gesture and wherein the displaying is performed responsive to a determination that the detection of the object is associated with a gesture.

8. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the item is configured to provide feedback to a user regarding the identified location.

9. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the feedback is provided such that the item is configured to follow movement of the object detected using the bezel sensors.

10. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:

determining that an input involves detection of an object by one or more bezel sensors, the bezel sensors associated with a display device of the computing device;

recognizing a gesture that corresponds to the input; and

capturing subsequent inputs that are detected as part of the gesture such that those inputs are prevented from initiating another gesture until recognized completion of the gesture.

11. A method as described in claim 10, wherein no part of a display output by the display device is viewable through the bezel sensors.

12. A method as described in claim 10, wherein the subsequent inputs are detected using touchscreen functionality of the display device.

13. A method as described in claim 10, wherein the completion of the gesture is recognized through ceasing of detection of the object.

14. A computing device comprising:

an external enclosure configured to be held by one or more hands of a user;

a display device disposed in and secured by the external enclosure, the display device including one or more sensors configured to support touchscreen functionality and a display portion configured to output a display that is viewable by the user;

one or more bezel sensors disposed adjacent to the display portion of the display device; and

one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware and disposed within the external enclosure, the one or more modules configured to determine that an input involves detection of an object by the one or more bezel sensors and cause display by the display device of an item at a location on the display device that is based at least in part on a location identified as corresponding to the detection of the object by the one or more bezel sensors.

15. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein the bezel sensors are formed as a continuation of a capacitive grid of the display device that is configured to support touchscreen functionality of the display device.

16. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein no part of a display output by the display device is viewable through the bezel sensors.

17. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein the bezel sensors substantially surround the display portion of the display device.

18. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein the external enclosure is configured to be held by one or more hands of a user in a manner consistent with a mobile phone or tablet computer.

19. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein the one or more bezel sensors are configured to employ techniques to detect the object that match techniques employed by the one or more sensors of the display device that are configured to support touchscreen functionality.

20. A computing device as described in claim 14, wherein the item is configured as a control that is usable to control movement of a cursor, the movement being displaced from a location on the display device at which the control is displayed.