Input pointer delay and zoom logic

• US 8,823,750 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mandic, Mirko, Ens, Michael J., Rogers, Justin E., Rakow, Matthew A., Rossi, Jacob S., Kim, Jane T., Roberts, Sandra G., Prakash, Siddhartha
• Primary Examiner(s): Hoang, Phi
• Application Number:
  US13/363,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20130176344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: 715/800, 345/661, 345/660
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Various embodiments enable repetitive gestures, such as multiple serial gestures, to be implemented efficiently so as to enhance the user experience. Other embodiments provide various approaches to zoom operations that consider a particular element'"'"'s contextual surroundings in making a zoom decision that is designed to enhance the user experience and provide efficiently-zoomed content given a device'"'"'s or rendering container'"'"'s form factor.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying an object on which to zoom;

calculating zoom ratios for an identified object and at least one other object in a display chain associated with the identified object and said at least one other object;

ranking the identified object and the at least one other object in the display chain within a plurality of categories according to the zoom ratios;

identifying a zoom object based, at least in part, on said ranking, said zoom object including said identified object and said at least one other object in the display chain;

computing a zoom ratio of the zoom object; and

causing zooming of the zoom object using the zoom object'"'"'s zoom ratio.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via touch gesture.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via an input other than a touch gesture.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via a double tap gesture.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising after calculating zoom ratios for an identified object and at least one other object, categorizing objects within the plurality of categories, wherein if there is more than one object within a category, ranking the objects within the category.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after calculating zoom ratios for an identified object and at least one other object, categorizing objects within one of the plurality of categories, and wherein if there is more than one object within a category, ranking the objects within the category; and

wherein if more than one object is ranked within a same category, identifying a zoom object comprises selecting a best object based on the ranking of the objects within the same category.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising after calculating zoom ratios for an identified object and at least one other object, categorizing objects within one of the plurality of categories, wherein if there is more than one object within a category, ranking the objects within the category wherein said identifying a zoom object comprises selecting a best object based on the ranking of the objects from a category with a highest priority.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of categories is defined for different object sizes.

9. One or more computer readable storage device embodying computer readable instructions which, when executed, implement a method comprising:

identifying an object on which to zoom;

calculating zoom ratios for the identified object and other objects in a display chain associated with the identified object and the other objects;

categorizing the identified object and the other objects within a respective priority category of a plurality of categories at least some of which are defined by object width ratios and object height ratios;

for any priority category that has more than one object, identifying a best object based on a ranking of the more than one object within the priority category;

identifying a best object overall from among the priority categories;

computing a zoom ratio of the best object; and

causing zooming of the identified best object using the computed zoom ratio.

10. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the best object comprises the identified object and at least one other object.

11. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein the best object comprises a plurality of objects that are less than the total number of objects in the display chain.

12. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein said computer-readable instructions are embodied by a web browser.

13. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein said computer-readable instructions are embodied in a software module other than a web browser.

14. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via touch gesture.

15. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via an input other than a touch gesture.

16. The one or more computer readable storage device of claim 9, wherein said identifying comprises identifying the object on which to zoom via a double tap gesture.

17. A system comprising:

memory; and

computer readable instructions stored on the memory that, when executed by a device, implement a zoom module to perform operations including;

calculating zoom ratios for an identified object and at least one other object in a display chain associated with the identified object and said at least one other object;

identifying a zoom object that includes multiple different objects in the display chain based, at least in part, on said zoom ratios, said zoom object selected to include said identified object and at least one other object in the display chain using category-based prioritization to categorize the identified object and the other objects within a respective priority category of a plurality of categories using an area-based computation; and

causing zooming of the zoom object using a zoom ratio computed for the zoom object.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the categories are defined according to object height and width ratios.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the multiple different objects included in the zoom comprise less than a total number of objects in the display chain.