Flick move gesture in user interface

• US 9,052,801 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Issued: 06/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, de Paz, Alexander, Reeves, Paul E., Faulk, Brett B., Schrock, Rodney W., Ficklin, Jared L., Burton, Denise, Marintchenko, Maxim
• Primary Examiner(s): Moon, Seokyun
• Application Number:
  US13/223,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20120081307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,377 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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:

displaying, in a first touch sensitive display, a first window associated with a common multi-screen application;

receiving a flick gesture, by a first or second gesture capture region on a first or second screen and associated with, but physically separate from, an origin touch sensitive display;

in response to receiving the flick gesture, determining a context of the first and second touch sensitive displays including;

whether the flick gesture was received on the first or second gesture capture region and indicate an origin touch sensitive display;

whether the flick gesture is associated with moving the first window; and

whether a second window, also associated with the multi-screen application, is opened, inactive, and logically behind the first window in a window stack;

in response, determining, by processor executable middleware, that the origin touch sensitive display comprises the first and the second windows controlled by the common multi-screen application, wherein the first and second windows provide content for the common multi-screen application; and

moving, by the processor executable middleware, the first and the second windows of the common multi-screen application, substantially simultaneously, from the origin touch sensitive display to a target touch sensitive display, wherein the movement of the first window is visible on the first and second touch sensitive displays, and wherein the movement of the second window is not visible on the first and second touch sensitive displays.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and the second windows are hierarchically related to one another.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein an ordering of the first and the second windows is maintained before and after movement to the target touch sensitive display.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed image.

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

6. A dual display communication device, comprising:

a first gesture capture region to receive a flick gesture;

a first touch sensitive display to display displayed images, wherein the displayed images are at least one of a desktop and window of an application, wherein the first gesture capture region is associated with, but physically separate from, the first touch sensitive display;

a second gesture capture region to receive a flick gesture;

a second touch sensitive display to receive a flick gesture and display displayed images, wherein the second gesture capture region is associated with, but physically separate from, the second touch sensitive display; and

middleware operable to perform at least one of the following operations;

displaying, in a first touch sensitive display, a first window associated with a common multi-screen application;

receiving, by at least one of the first or second gesture capture region, a flick gesture;

in response to receiving the flick gesture, determining a context of the first and second touch sensitive displays including;

whether the flick gesture was received on the first or second gesture capture region and indicate an origin touch sensitive display;

whether the flick gesture is associated with moving the first window; and

whether a second window, also associated with the multi-screen application, is opened, inactive, and logically behind the first window in a window stack;

in response, determining that an origin touch sensitive display comprises the first and second windows controlled by the common multi-screen application, wherein the first and second windows provide content for the common multi-screen application; and

moving the first and second windows of the common multi-screen application, substantially simultaneously, from the origin touch sensitive display to a target touch sensitive display wherein the movement of the first window is visible on the first and second touch sensitive displays, and wherein the movement of the second window is not visible on the first and second touch sensitive displays.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the first and second windows are hierarchically related to one another.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein an ordering of the first and second windows is maintained before and after movement to the target touch sensitive display.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed image.