Long drag gesture in user interface

• US 9,019,214 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv
• Primary Examiner(s): Moon, Seokyun
• Application Number:
  US13/223,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20120081308A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• 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 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display

Abstract

The disclosed method and device are directed to navigation, by a dual display communication device, through display objects.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting, by at least one of a gesture capture region and a touch sensitive display, a gesture;

in response to detecting the gesture, moving, by processor-executable middleware, a first image displayed on a first touch sensitive display of a communication device from a first position in a first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device to a first position in a second stack associated with a second touch sensitive display of the communication device;

moving a second image to the first position in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device;

displaying the second image on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device;

displaying the first image on the second touch sensitive display of the communication device;

determining, after the first image has moved successfully to the first position in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display, that the gesture is ongoing; and

in response to determining that the gesture is ongoing, moving the second image displayed on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device from the first position in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device to a second position in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display of the communication device, wherein the first and second displayed images are at least one of a desktop and window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second displayed images are windows, wherein the gesture is a drag gesture, and wherein the image in the second position in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display is not displayed on the second touch sensitive display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second displayed images are controlled by a common multi-screen application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein positions of the first and second images in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display before the gesture are the same as positions of the first and second images in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display after movement to the second touch sensitive display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture is received by a common gesture capture region and wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second images are windows controlled by a common multi-screen application and wherein a relative ordering of the windows is the same before and after movement.

7. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 1.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a third image on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device while the first image is displayed on the second touch sensitive display of the communication device.

8. A method, comprising:

detecting, by a gesture capture region, a drag gesture;

in response to detecting the drag gesture, moving, by processor-executable middleware, a first window displayed on a first touch sensitive display of a communication device from a first position in a first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device to a first position in a second stack associated with a second touch sensitive display of the communication device;

moving a second window to the first position in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device;

displaying the second window on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device;

displaying the first window on the second touch sensitive display of the communication device;

determining, that the drag gesture is continuous; and

in response to determining that the drag gesture is continuous, moving the second window displayed on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device from the first position in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display of the communication device to a second position in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display of the communication device, and displaying a third window on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device while the first window is displayed on the second touch sensitive display of the communication device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second windows are controlled by a common multi-screen application.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second windows are hierarchically related to one another.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the drag gesture is detected by a gesture capture region, wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed images, and wherein the first and second windows are controlled by a common multi-screen application.

12. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 8.

13. A dual display communication device, comprising:

a gesture capture region to receive a gesture;

a first touch sensitive display to receive a gesture and display images, wherein the images displayed are at least one of a desktop and window of an application;

a first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display;

a second touch sensitive display to receive a gesture and display images;

a second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display; and

middleware operable to perform the following operations;

detect, by at least one of the gesture capture region and a touch sensitive display, a gesture;

in response to detecting the gesture, move a first image displayed on the first touch sensitive display to a first position of the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display;

display the first image on the second touch sensitive display;

move a second image to a first position in the first stack associated with the first touch sensitive display;

display the second image on the first touch sensitive display;

determine, after the first image has moved successfully to the first position of the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display, that the gesture is ongoing; and

in response to determining that the gesture is ongoing, move the second image displayed on the first touch sensitive display to a second position in the second stack associated with the second touch sensitive display, wherein the first and second images are at least one of a desktop and window, and wherein the first image is displayed on the second touch sensitive display.

14. The device of claim 13 wherein the first and second displayed images are windows and wherein the gesture is a drag gesture.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second images are controlled by a common multi-screen application.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein stack positions of the first and second images of the first touch sensitive display before the gesture are the same as stack positions of the first and second images after movement to the second touch sensitive display.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the gesture is received by a common gesture capture region and wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed image.

18. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second images are windows controlled by a common multi-screen application and wherein a relative ordering of the windows is the same before and after movement.

20. The device of claim 13, wherein a third image is displayed on the first touch sensitive display of the communication device while the first image is displayed on the second touch sensitive display of the communication device.