Mode switching

• US 8,854,318 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2010
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Borovsky, Andrew, Martin, John
• Primary Examiner(s): MANDEVILLE, JASON M
• Application Number:
  US12/874,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20120223890A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-157, 345168-169, 345173-178, 715863-864, 708142-146, 341 22- 28
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Based on one or more characteristics of a received translation input, a computing device is switched between two or more states. The translation input may be a touch input, for example a drag operation. The states may relate to locked and unlocked states, idle screens, or other suitable examples.

Claims

1. Apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory including computer program code configured to, working with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

causing a computing device, having a locked state in which a lock screen is displayed on a touch sensitive display and unlocked states, to launch an application and to display on the touch sensitive display a first display screen in which the application is in focus, in response to input registered by the touch sensitive display when the computing device is in an unlocked state, the application substantially filling the touch sensitive display; and

causing, as a user provides a translation input across the touch sensitive display that is initiated while the application is in focus on the touch sensitive display, translation of the first display screen across the touch sensitive display with the translation input, wherein the translation input includes a touch input at a first location on the touch sensitive display that is continued to a second location on the touch sensitive display along a path, wherein at least one characteristic of the translation input meets a set of criteria corresponding to a length of the input, a direction of the input or relative locations of the first location and the second location on the touch sensitive display, and in response to a determination that the translation input meets the at least one characteristic, the translation of the first display screen reveals a second display screen which appears from beneath the first display screen wherein the application is not in focus on the second display screen and the application is displayable as a user-selectable representation of the application on the second display screen.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first display screen substantially fills the touch sensitive display prior to the translation input being provided by the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second display screen is a root navigation screen.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the translation input is a horizontal translation input.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second display screen comprises a plurality of user selectable representations of applications currently running on the apparatus.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein one of the user selectable representations relates to the application in focus in the first display screen.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the user provides the translation input by translating a finger across the touch sensitive display, and the first display screen is translated across the touch sensitive display with the user'"'"'s finger.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the computer program code is configured to, working with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to further perform:

responding to the translation input provided to translate the first display screen across the touch sensitive display by terminating the application.

9. Apparatus comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory including computer program code configured to, working with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following;

causing a touch sensitive display of a computing device to display a lock screen when the computing device is in a locked state;

responding to a translation input at the touch sensitive display while the lock screen is displayed by removing the lock screen from display on the touch sensitive display and switching the computing device from the locked state to an unlocked state;

causing the computing device to launch an application on the computing device and to display on the touch sensitive display a display screen in which the application is in focus, in response to input registered by the touch sensitive display when the computing device is in the unlocked state, the application substantially filling the touch sensitive display;

causing, as a user provides a translation input across the touch sensitive display that is initiated while the application is in focus on the touch sensitive display, translation of the first display screen across the touch sensitive display with the translation input, wherein the translation input includes a touch input at a first location on the touch sensitive display that is continued to a second location on the touch sensitive display along a path, wherein at least one characteristic of the translation input meets a set of criteria corresponding to a length of the input, a direction of the input or relative locations of the first location and the second location on the touch sensitive display, and in response to a determination that the translation input meets the at least one characteristic, the translation of the display screen reveals a further display screen which appears from beneath the display screen wherein the application is not in focus on the further display screen and the application is displayable as a user-selectable representation of the application on the further display screen.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the computer program code is configured to, working with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to further perform:

responding to the translation input provided to translate the first display screen across the touch sensitive display by terminating the application.