Paging within a scrollable list

• US 9,182,899 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pure International Limited (Imagination Technologies Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited (Imagination Technologies Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Knowles, Ian
• Primary Examiner(s): Bost, Dwayne
• Assistant Examiner(s): Azari, Sepehr
• Application Number:
  US13/463,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20130120285A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/163, 345/173, 345/684, 715/738, 715/784, 715/787
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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

Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for displaying data on a touch sensitive display (2) a detector (4) and CPU (6) detect contact with the touch sensitive display (2) and control the display of data. The system is responsive to a predetermined swiping duration of a finger on the display or to a manual selectable switch to change the display of data between a scrolling of data and a paging of data.

Claims

1. A touch sensitive display system including a processor, the system being configured to display data which is scrollable in response to swiping of a finger on a touch sensitive display having a display area length, the system being responsive to a swipe of a predetermined length over the touch sensitive display to scroll a display of said data on said touch sensitive display such that said data traverses through said display area length from one end thereof to the other end thereof, wherein said predetermined length is shorter than said display area length, and said system being responsive to a swipe over the touch sensitive display of a second length longer than said predetermined length, to scroll the display of said data through said display area length by an amount proportional to said second length.

2. A touch sensitive display system according to claim 1, wherein the system is further responsive to contact of a finger in an edge zone of the display to scrolling the display of data after a swipe.

3. A touch sensitive display according to claim 1, wherein the system scrolls the display of said data in response to said swipe of predetermined length such that there is no overlap in displayed data subsequent to said scrolling.

4. A touch sensitive display according to claim 1, wherein the system scrolls the display of said data in response to said swipe of predetermined length such that there is an overlap in displayed data subsequent to said scrolling.

5. A computerized method of displaying data, comprising:

displaying data on a touch sensitive display having a display area length, said data being scrollable in response to swiping of a finger on the touch sensitive display;

responsive to a swipe of a predetermined length over the touch sensitive display, scrolling through the data such that said data traverses through said display area length from one end thereof to the other end thereof, wherein said predetermined length is shorter than said display area length, and

responsive to a swipe of a second length longer than said predetermined length, scrolling the data through said display area length by an amount proportional to said second length.

6. A computerized method of displaying data according to claim 5, further comprising continuing scrolling the display of data in response to a signal indicating contact of the finger in an edge zone of the display, after a swipe.

7. A computerized method of displaying data according to claim 5, wherein the scrolling of said data in response to said swipe of predetermined length is such that there is no overlap in displayed data subsequent to said scrolling.

8. A computerized method of displaying data according to claim 5, wherein the scrolling of said data in response to said swipe of predetermined length is such that there is overlap in displayed data subsequent to said scrolling.