System and methods for interacting with a control environment
First Claim
1. A portable electronic device adapted to be responsive to a gesture based input from a user, comprising a touch screen pad used to accept the gesture based input, wherein the gesture based input comprises a motion made across a surface of the touch screen pad, wherein the motion made across the surface of the touch screen pad has at least a direction characteristic and a length characteristic, and wherein the touch screen pad comprises a plurality of gesture accepting areas, each gesture accepting area is positioned on the touch screen pad at a location that is unique with respect to the other gesture accepting areas, each gesture accepting area has a first end and a second end, each gesture accepting area is used to accept a gesture based input that is limited to a gesture based input having a single, predetermined direction characteristic, and wherein the single, predetermined direction characteristic is indicative of a motion being made within the gesture accepting area and across the surface of the touch screen pad in a direction that is towards the first end of the gesture accepting area and away from the second end of the gesture accepting area.
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Abstract
A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
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13 Claims
- 1. A portable electronic device adapted to be responsive to a gesture based input from a user, comprising a touch screen pad used to accept the gesture based input, wherein the gesture based input comprises a motion made across a surface of the touch screen pad, wherein the motion made across the surface of the touch screen pad has at least a direction characteristic and a length characteristic, and wherein the touch screen pad comprises a plurality of gesture accepting areas, each gesture accepting area is positioned on the touch screen pad at a location that is unique with respect to the other gesture accepting areas, each gesture accepting area has a first end and a second end, each gesture accepting area is used to accept a gesture based input that is limited to a gesture based input having a single, predetermined direction characteristic, and wherein the single, predetermined direction characteristic is indicative of a motion being made within the gesture accepting area and across the surface of the touch screen pad in a direction that is towards the first end of the gesture accepting area and away from the second end of the gesture accepting area.
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