DISPLAYING A USER INPUT MODALITY

• US 20150363008A1
• Filed: 06/11/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: VanBlon, Russell Speight, Weksler, Arnold S., Peterson, Nathan J., Mese, John Carl, Waltermann, Rod D., Parish, Jason Pratt
• Application Number:
  US14/301,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20150363008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• 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 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 aspect provides a method, including: receiving, from at least one detector, data input associated with a position of a user with respect to an information handling device; determining, using a processor, the position of the user with respect to the information handling device using the data input; and displaying, using a display, a user position based input modality based on the position that has been determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, from at least one detector, data input associated with a position of a user with respect to an information handling device;

determining, using a processor, the position of the user with respect to the information handling device using the data input; and

displaying, using a display, a user position based input modality based on the position that has been determined.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one detector is selected from the group consisting of:

a camera, a touch sensor, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the position of the user comprises identifying the orientation of the information handling device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the position of the user comprises identifying a hand position of the user with respect to the information handling device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the displaying of the user position based input modality comprises displaying a user position based input modality located at a position on the display associated with the hand position.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a currently active application on the information handling device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying a user position based input modality further comprises using the currently active application to adjust a displayed position of the user position based input modality.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a user interface allowing the user to manually select the user position based input modality.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the user position based input modality comprises displaying the user position based input modality based upon previous user selections.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user position based input modality is selected from the group consisting of:

a right-handed keyboard, a left-handed keyboard, a two-handed keyboard, a swipe keyboard, a track pad, and a numeric keypad.

11. An information handling device, comprising:

at least one detector;

a display;

at least one processor operatively coupled to the display and the at least one detector; and

a memory storing instructions that are executable by the processor to;

receive, from the at least one detector, data input associated with a position of a user with respect to an information handling device;

determine the position of the user with respect to the information handling device using the data input; and

display, using the display, a user position based input modality based on the position that has been determined.

12. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the at least one detector is selected from the group consisting of:

a camera, a touch sensor, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope.

13. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein to determine the position of the user comprises identifying the orientation of the information handling device.

14. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein to determine the position of the user comprises identifying a hand position of the user with respect to the information handling device.

15. The information handling device of claim 14, wherein to display the user position based input modality comprises displaying a user position based input modality located at a position on the display associated with the hand position.

16. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to determine a currently active application on the information handling device.

17. The information handling device of claim 16, wherein to display a user position based input modality further comprises using the currently active application to adjust a displayed position of the user position based input modality.

18. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to display a user interface allowing the user to manually select the user position based input modality.

19. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the user position based input modality is selected from the group consisting of:

a right-handed keyboard, a left-handed keyboard, a two-handed keyboard, a SWYPE keyboard, a track pad, and a numeric keypad.

20. A product, comprising:

a storage device having code stored therewith, the code being executable by a processor and comprising;

code that receives, from at least one detector, data input associated with a position of a user with respect to an information handling device;

code that determines, using a processor, the position of the user with respect to the information handling device using the data input; and

code that displays, using a display, a user position based input modality based on the position that has been determined.