PRECISE SELECTION BEHAVIOR FOR SLIDERS BY INTERPRETING A SECOND FINGER TOUCH

• US 20160132138A1
• Filed: 11/12/2014
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Successfactors Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Successfactors Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Angermayer, Thomas
• Granted Patent: US 9,710,076 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03548 Sliders, in which the moving part moves in a plane
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for finger gestures. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include detecting a first finger gesture proximate to or making contact with a slider element presented on a user interface; detecting a second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the second finger gesture detected during a time period comprising a time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider; and changing a resolution of the slider from a first resolution value to a second resolution value, when the second finger gesture is detected. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code which when executed by at least one processor causes operations comprising;

detecting a first finger gesture proximate to or making contact with a slider element presented on a user interface;

detecting a second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the second finger gesture detected during a time period comprising a time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider; and

changing a resolution of the slider from a first resolution value to a second resolution value, when the second finger gesture is detected.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the time period further includes a predetermined timeout period.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the detecting the second finger gesture further comprises:

detecting the second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, when the second finger gesture is proximate to or making contact with a predetermined region of a touch-sensitive display.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the predetermined region is a region associated with a presentation of a video on the user interface.

5. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

sending the second resolution value to the user interface including a video player to enable a resolution change at the video player.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

detecting another second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the other second finger gesture detected during the time period comprising the time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider.

7. The system of claim 6 further comprising:

changing the resolution of the slider to a third resolution value, when the other second finger gesture is detected.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including computer program code which when executed at least one processor causes operations comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory including computer program code which when executed by at least one processor causes operations comprising;

detecting a first finger gesture proximate to or making contact with a slider element presented on a user interface;

detecting a second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the second finger gesture detected during a time period comprising a time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider; and

changing a resolution of the slider from a first resolution value to a second resolution value, when the second finger gesture is detected.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the time period further includes a predetermined timeout period.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the detecting the second finger gesture further comprises:

detecting the second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, when the second finger gesture is proximate to or making contact with a predetermined region of a touch-sensitive display.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the predetermined region is a region associated with a presentation of a video on the user interface.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 further comprising:

sending the second resolution value to the user interface including a video player to enable a resolution change at the video player.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8 further comprising:

detecting another second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the other second finger gesture detected during the time period comprising the time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 further comprising:

changing the resolution of the slider to a third resolution value, when the other second finger gesture is detected.

15. A method comprising:

detecting a first finger gesture proximate to or making contact with a slider element presented on a user interface;

detecting a second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the second finger gesture detected during a time period comprising a time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider; and

changing a resolution of the slider from a first resolution value to a second resolution value, when the second finger gesture is detected.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the time period further includes a predetermined timeout period.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the detecting the second finger gesture further comprises:

detecting the second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, when the second finger gesture is proximate to or making contact with a predetermined region of a touch-sensitive display.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined region is a region associated with a presentation of a video on the user interface.

19. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

sending the second resolution value to the user interface including a video player to enable a resolution change at the video player.

20. The method of claim 15 further comprising:

detecting another second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the other second finger gesture detected during the time period comprising the time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider.