INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTING DEVICE VIA MOVEMENT OF A PORTION OF A USER INTERFACE

• US 20150268733A1
• Filed: 03/24/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Tomer Rider
• Inventors: Rider, Tomer, Govindapillai, Vinod
• Granted Patent: US 9,477,316 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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 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 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

Computing devices, computer-readable storage media, and methods associated with human computer interaction. In embodiments, a computing device may include a display, a processor coupled with the display, a user interface engine and one or more applications to be operated on the processor. In embodiments, the user interface engine or the one or more applications may be configured to detect movement of the portable computing device indicating a direction a user of the portable computing device would like a portion of the user interface to move and cause the portion of the user interface to be moved, from a current location on the display to another location on the display, in accordance with the indicated direction. Such movement may facilitate the user to interact with the portion of the user interface via the interaction zone of the display. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Claims

1. At least one computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a portable computing device, cause the portable computing device to:

detect movement of the portable computing device indicating a direction a user of the portable computing device would like a portion of the user interface to move; and

cause the portion of the user interface to be moved, from a current location on the display to another location on the display, in accordance with the indicated direction, to facilitate the user of the portable computing device in interacting with the portion of the user interface.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein to cause the portion of the user interface to be moved in accordance with the indicated direction comprises output of an indicator of the indicated direction to an operating system (OS) or an application of the computing device for use by the OS or the application to move the portion of the user interface in accordance with the indicated direction.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the instructions, when executed by the portable computing device, further cause the portable computing device to return the portion of the user interface to the current location from the another location upon completion of the user'"'"'s interaction with the portion of the user interface.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein movement of the portable computing device comprises at least one of tilt or rotation of the portable computing device.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein to detect movement of the portable computing device is based at least in part on data output by an accelerometer or a gyroscope of the portable computing device.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of any one of claim 1, wherein the portion of the user interface is an interactive element of the user interface.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of any one of claim 1, wherein the instructions, when executed by the portable computing device, further cause the portable computing device to detect a predefined scroll activation action and wherein to detect movement of the portable computing device is based on the detection of the predefined scroll activation action.

8. A portable computing device comprising:

a display;

a processor coupled with the display;

one or more applications operated on the processor; and

a user interface engine to be operated on the processor to render a user interface of the one or more applications on the display, wherein the user interface engine or the one or more applications is further operated by the processor to;

detect movement of the portable computing device indicating a direction a user of the portable computing device would like a portion of the user interface to move; and

cause the portion of the user interface to be moved, from a current location on the display to another location on the display, in accordance with the indicated direction, to facilitate the user to interact with the portion of the user interface.

9. The portable computing device of claim 8, wherein the user interface engine or the one or more applications are further to be operated on the processor to cause the portion of the user interface to return to the current location from the another location upon completion of the user'"'"'s interaction with the portion of the user interface.

10. The portable computing device of claim 8, wherein movement of the portable computing device comprises at least one of tilt or rotation of the portable computing device.

11. The portable computing device of claim 10, wherein the portable computing device further comprises a movement sensor configured to detect and output data concerning movement of the portable computing device, and wherein detection of movement of the portable computing device is based at least in part on the data output by the movement sensor.

12. The portable computing device of claim 11, wherein the movement sensor comprises at least one of an accelerometer or a gyroscope.

13. The portable computing device of any one of claim 12, wherein the another location comprises an interaction zone of the display.

14. The portable computing device of claim 13, wherein the interaction zone comprises a fixed area of the display.

15. The portable computing device of claim 13, wherein the user interface engine is further operated on the processor to determine the interaction zone.

16. The portable computing device of any one of claim 8, wherein the portion of the user interface is an interactive element of the user interface.

17. The portable computing device of any one of claim 8, wherein to detect movement of the portable computing device is further to only detect movement of the portable computing device on detection of a predefined scroll activation action.

18. The portable computing device of any one of claim 8, wherein to cause the portion of the user interface to move from the current location to the another location is to scroll the entire user interface to move the portion of the user interface from the current location to the another location.

19. The portable computing device of any one of claim 8, wherein the portable computing device is one of a smart phone, tablet, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet-laptop hybrid, media player, or gaming device.

20. A computer implemented method comprising:

detecting, by a user interface engine of a portable computing device, movement of the portable computing device indicating a direction a user of the portable computing device would like a portion of the user interface to move; and

causing, by the user interface engine, the portion of the user interface to be moved, from a current location on the display to another location on the display, in accordance with the indicated direction, to facilitate the user of the portable computing device in interacting with the portion of the user interface.

21. The computer implemented method of claim 20, wherein causing the portion of the user interface to be moved in accordance with the indicated direction comprises outputting, by the user interface engine, of an indicator of the indicated direction to an operating system (OS) or an application of the computing device for use by the OS or the application to move the portion of the user interface in accordance with the indicated direction.

22. The computer implemented method of claim 21, further comprising returning, by the user interface engine, the portion of the user interface to the current location from the another location upon completion of the user'"'"'s interaction with the portion of the user interface.

23. The computer implemented method of claim 20, wherein movement of the portable computing device comprises at least one of tilt or rotation of the portable computing device.

24. The computer implemented method of any one of claim 20, wherein detecting movement of the portable computing device comprises only detecting movement of the portable computing device on detecting a predefined scroll activation action.

25. The computer implemented method of any one of claim 20, wherein causing the portion of the user interface to move from the current location to the another location comprises scrolling the entire user interface to move the portion of the user interface from the current location to the another location.