Multi-screen hold and page-flip gesture

• US 8,707,174 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2010
• Issued: 04/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hinckley, Kenneth P., Yatani, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Ng, Amy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Takele, Meseker
• Application Number:
  US12/713,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20110209057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,517 Days
• Field of Search: 715/702, 715/776, 715/810, 715/863
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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

Abstract

Embodiments of a multi-screen hold and page-flip gesture are described. In various embodiments, a hold input is recognized at a first screen of a multi-screen system, and the hold input is recognized when held to select a journal page that is displayed on the first screen. A motion input is recognized at a second screen of the multi-screen system, and the motion input is recognized while the hold input remains held in place. A hold and page-flip gesture can then be determined from the recognized hold and motion inputs, and the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to maintain the display of the journal page while one or more additional journal pages are flipped for display on the second screen.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

recognizing a hold input at a first screen of a multi-screen system, the hold input being recognized when held at an initial position of the hold input to select a journal page that is displayed on the first screen;

recognizing a motion input at a second screen of the multi-screen system, the motion input being recognized while the hold input remains in place; and

determining a hold and page-flip gesture from the recognized hold and motion inputs, the hold and page-flip gesture effective to maintain the journal page for display on the first screen while one or more additional journal pages are flipped for display on the second screen.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is identified as a cross-screen combination of the hold and motion inputs.

3. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages in a direction of the selected journal page to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a different journal page on the second screen.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is configurable to at least one of:

select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens;

or

maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip the journal pages to display a different journal page on the second screen.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a non-consecutive journal page on the second screen side-by-side with first journal page.

8. A multi-screen system, comprising:

at least a memory and a processor to implement a gesture module configured to determine a hold and page-flip gesture from recognized hold and motion inputs, the hold and page-flip gesture effective to select a journal page on a first screen while one or more additional journal pages are flipped for display;

an input recognition system configured to;

recognize the hold input at the first screen, the hold input recognized when held at an initial position of the hold input to select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen; and

recognize the motion input at a second screen, the motion input recognized while the hold input remains in place.

9. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the gesture module is further configured to identify the hold and page-flip gesture as a cross-screen combination of the hold and motion inputs.

10. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens.

11. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages in a direction of the selected journal page to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens.

12. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a different journal page on the second screen.

13. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is configurable to at least one of:

select the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display two additional journal pages, one each displayed on the first and second screens;

or

maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip the journal pages to display a different journal page on the second screen.

14. A multi-screen system as recited in claim 8, wherein the hold and page-flip gesture is effective to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a non-consecutive journal page on the second screen side-by-side with first journal page.

15. A computer-readable storage memory comprising instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the instructions, a multi-screen system is initiated to:

recognize a hold input at a first screen of the multi-screen system, the hold input recognized when held at an initial position of the hold input to select a journal page that is displayed on the first screen;

recognize a motion input at a second screen of the multi-screen system, the motion input recognized while the hold input remains in place; and

determine a hold and page-flip gesture from the recognized hold and motion inputs, the hold and page-flip gesture effective to maintain the journal page for display on the first screen while one or more additional journal pages are flipped for display on the second screen.

16. The computer-readable storage memory as recited in claim 15, further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the multi-screen system is further initiated to identify the hold and page-flip gesture as a cross-screen combination of the hold and motion inputs.

17. The computer-readable storage memory as recited in claim 15, further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the multi-screen system is further initiated to flip journal pages to display two additional journal pages in response to the hold and page-flip gesture, one each of the two additional journal pages displayed on the first and second screens.

18. The computer-readable storage memory as recited in claim 15, further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the multi-screen system is further initiated to flip journal pages in a direction of the selected journal page to display two additional journal pages in response to the hold and page-flip gesture, one each of the two additional journal pages displayed on the first and second screens.

19. The computer-readable storage memory as recited in claim 15, further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the multi-screen system is further initiated to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a different journal page on the second screen in response to the hold and page-flip gesture.

20. The computer-readable storage memory as recited in claim 15, further comprising additional instructions that are executable and, responsive to executing the additional instructions, the multi-screen system is further initiated to maintain the display of the journal page that is displayed on the first screen and flip journal pages to display a non-consecutive journal page on the second screen side-by-side with first journal page.