MINIMIZING AND MAXIMIZING BETWEEN LANDSCAPE DUAL DISPLAY AND LANDSCAPE SINGLE DISPLAY
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Abstract
Methods and devices for minimizing and maximizing displayed output associated with applications are provided. More particularly, an application presented across two or more screens of a device in a landscape mode can be minimized to present portion of the application in one of the screens. With respect to a maximization operation received with respect to a page of an application results in the expansion of the displayed portion of the application to multiple screens of the device. Input to effect minimization and maximization operations can be entered in one or more gesture capture regions associated with the screens.
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40 Claims
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21. A method for controlling a display of a device, comprising:
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presenting a view of a first application across a first touch sensitive display and a second touch sensitive display of the device, wherein the device includes a first display controller associated with the first touch sensitive display and a second display controller associated with the second touch sensitive display; receiving a first input from a user, wherein the first input includes an input to minimize the first application to one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device; and in response to receiving the first input, displaying at least a portion of the view of the first application by a first one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device, wherein a second one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device does not display any portion of the first application. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A device, comprising:
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a first touch sensitive display; a first gesture capture region associated with the first touch sensitive display; a second touch sensitive display; a second gesture capture region associated with the second touch sensitive display; memory; a processor in communication with each of the first and second touch sensitive displays, the first and second gesture capture regions, and the memory; and application programming stored in the memory and executed by the processor, wherein the application programming is operable to; present a first portion of a view of a first application within the first touch sensitive display; present a second portion of a view of the first application within the second touch sensitive display; receive a first input entered by a user in one of the first gesture capture region and the second gesture capture region to minimize the first application; and in response to the first input entered by the user to minimize the first application, present at least some of the first portion of the view of the first application in a first one of the first and second touch sensitive displays, and discontinue presenting at least some of the second portion of the view of the first application in a second one of the first and second touch sensitive displays. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37)
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38. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions causing a processor to execute a method for selectively presenting an application across a display of a device, the computer-executable instructions comprising:
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instructions to receive an input to open a first application; instructions to determine a display preference of the first application; in response to determining that the first application has a dual-display preference, instructions to determine that the device is in an open state wherein both a first touch sensitive display and a second touch sensitive display are enabled; in response to determining that the device is in an open state and that the first application has the dual-display preference, instructions to display a first portion of the first application on the first touch sensitive display and a second portion of the first application on the second touch sensitive display of the device; in response to a first input received from a user to minimize the first application to a selected first one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device, instructions to display at least some of the first portion and the second portion of the first application on the selected first one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device; and instructions to discontinue the display of the first application on a second one of the first and second touch sensitive displays of the device. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40)
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Specification