AN APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

• US 20150332107A1
• Filed: 12/24/2012
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Paniaras, Yannis
• Application Number:
  US14/655,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20150332107A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/014 Force feedback applied to GUI
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

An apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: during a detected interaction with a graphical user interface element, provide a highlight associated with the graphical user interface element, the size of the highlight dependent upon the size of the graphical user interface element prior to the detected interaction.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code,

the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

during a detected interaction with a graphical user interface element, provide a highlight associated with the graphical user interface element, the size of the highlight dependent upon the size of the graphical user interface element prior to the detected interaction.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the highlight is one or more of a visual highlight, audio highlight and a haptic highlight.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to size the highlight to be larger for smaller sized graphical user interface elements and smaller for larger sized graphical user interface elements.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide the highlight associated with the graphical user interface element by differentially increasing the size of a smaller graphical user input element by a greater amount than the size of a larger graphical user input element.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide the visual highlight associated with the graphical user interface element by differentially increasing the visual size of the visual highlight associated with a smaller graphical user interface element by a greater amount than the visual size of the visual highlight associated with a larger graphical user interface element.

6. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is configured to differentially increase the size of the audio highlight by varying one or more of the magnitude, periodicity and frequency of an audio highlight associated with a smaller sized graphical user interface element by a different amount than an audio highlight provided to a larger graphical user interface element.

7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is configured to differentially increase the size of the haptic highlight by varying one or more of the magnitude, periodicity and frequency of a haptic highlight associated with a smaller sized graphical user interface element by a different amount than a haptic highlight provided to a larger graphical user interface element.

8. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is configured to differentially increase the size of the visual highlight for a plurality of different sized graphical user interface elements, during respective detected interactions, to keep the effective visual size of the plurality of different sized graphical user interface elements substantially the same under respective interactions.

9. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the apparatus is configured to provide the visual highlight for a particular small sized graphical user interface element, the small sized graphical user interface element of a size to be obscured by the stylus used to interact with the small sized graphical user interface element when interacting with the graphical user interface element.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the size of the stylus is one or more of detected or predefined.

increase of the intensity of the highlight with increased proximity;

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providing for or increasing periodicity of the highlight with increased proximity.

19. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the graphical user interface element is a touch enabled graphical user interface element and the detected interaction is a non-actuating proximity detection, based on the proximity of a stylus, but which does not actuate the function performable by actuation interaction with the touch graphical user interface element.

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28. A computer readable medium comprising computer program code stored thereon, the computer readable medium and computer program code being configured to, when run on at least one processor perform at least the following:

during a detected interaction with a graphical user interface element, provide a highlight associated with the graphical user interface element, the size of the highlight dependent upon the size of the graphical user interface element prior to the detected interaction.

29. A method comprising:

providing a highlight associated with a graphical user interface element during a detected interaction with the graphical user interface element, the size of the highlight dependent upon the size of the graphical user interface element prior to the detected interaction.