METHODS FOR SELECTING A SECTION OF TEXT ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE SCREEN, AND DISPLAY AND OPERATOR CONTROL APPARATUS

• US 20160320947A1
• Filed: 12/01/2014
• Published: 11/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Audi AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: KUEHNE, Marcus
• Granted Patent: US 11,003,333 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A predetermined touch action is performed by a user at a location on a touch-sensitive screen. The location is registered and associated with presentation content. If at least the first condition that the associated presentation content includes at least one portion of an uninterrupted character unit is satisfied, then at least one first selection menu is presented. The menu items from the first selection menu provide a selection option between the uninterrupted character unit and at least one second unit of text associated with the uninterrupted character unit as at least one element from the group includes a sentence and paragraph. Selection of a first menu item involves the uninterrupted character unit, and selection of a second menu item involves the second unit of text, being selected as the section of text to be selected.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A method for selecting a section of text presented on a touch-sensitive screen at least as part of a presentation, the text including a plurality of first text units and at least one second text unit superordinate to the first text units, each first text unit being an uninterrupted character unit having at least one respective character, and the at least one second text unit including at least one of a sentence and a paragraph, each first text unit being associated with precisely one second text unit, the method comprising:

registering a predetermined touch action performed by a user at a location on the touch-sensitive screen and the location;

associating the location on the touch-sensitive screen with presentation content from the presentation, as associated presentation content presented at least at the location registered on the touch-sensitive screen;

presenting on the touch-sensitive screen, when at least a first condition that the associated presentation content includes at least one portion of a first text unit is satisfied, at least one first selection menu from which functions can be selected by the user;

presenting on the touch-sensitive screen, when a predetermined function from the at least one first selection menu has been selected by the user, at least one second selection menu having a plurality of menu items that provide a selection option between the first text unit and at least the second text unit associated with the first text unit; and

receiving an indication of selection by the user of one of a first menu item from among the menu items indicating the first text unit as the section of text selected, and a second menu item from among the menu items indicating the second text unit as the section of text to be selected.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein each first text unit is associated with precisely one second text unit by virtue of the uninterrupted character unit being arranged in the at least one of the sentence and the paragraph with which the first text unit is associated.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein when at least one first function from the functions is carried out, after selection thereof by the user, the selected section of text is used.

16. The method as claimed claim 15, wherein the second selection menu is displayed at a time before the first selection menu is displayed.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising marking, when at least the first condition is satisfied, the first text unit.

18. The method as claimed in claim 12, further comprising marking, when the second menu item from the first selection menu is selected by the user, at least a portion of the second text unit currently presented on the touch-sensitive screen.

19. The method as claimed in claim 18, further comprising shifting, when the touch-sensitive screen is touched by the user in a region of a boundary for a marker with a subsequent touching movement by the user on the touch-sensitive screen in one direction, a boundary for the marker is shifted in the one direction.

20. A display and operator control apparatus, comprising:

a touch-sensitive screen; and

a hardware processor programmed

to register a location on the touch-sensitive screen where a predetermined touch action is performed by a user,

to control display of text, presented on the touch-sensitive screen at least as part of a presentation, having a plurality of first text units and at least one second text unit superordinate to the first text units, each first text unit being an uninterrupted character unit having at least one respective character, the at least one second text unit including at least one of a sentence and a paragraph, and each first text unit being associated with precisely one second text unit,

to associate the location registered on the touch-sensitive screen with associated presentation content from the presentation at the location on the touch-sensitive screen,

to check whether at least a first condition that the associated presentation content includes at least one portion of a first text unit is satisfied,

to present on the touch-sensitive screen, when at least the first condition is satisfied, at least one first selection menu having a plurality of menu items,

to provide a selection option between the first text unit and at least the second text unit associated with the first text unit using the menu items,

to select the first text unit as a section of text to be selected when a first menu item from among the menu items is selected by the user, and

to select the second text unit as the section of text to be selected when a second menu item from among the menu items is selected by the user.