Composite touch gesture control with touch screen input device and secondary touch input device

• US 9,594,405 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Issued: 03/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Papakipos, Matthew Nicholas, Cahill, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharifi-Tafreshi, Koosha
• Application Number:
  US13/276,950
• Publication Number:
  US 20130100036A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,973 Days
• Field of Search: 345/1.1, 345/1.3, 345/156, 345/169, 345/173, 345/174, 178/18.01, 178/18.06, 715/773, 715/863
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In one embodiment, a mobile device comprising a front-side touch display and a back-side touch surface determines a touch gestured by a user of the mobile device based on touch inputs to the front-side touch display and touch inputs to the back-side touch surface.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a device housing;

a touch-sensitive display disposed on a front side of the device housing;

a touch-sensitive surface disposed on a lateral side of the device housing, wherein the touch-sensitive surface is separate and distinct from the touch-sensitive display and from a back side of the device housing;

one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic that is operable, when executed, to;

detect a first touch input on the touch-sensitive display, wherein the first touch input comprises a tap gesture executed on the touch-sensitive display in a region of an application user interface;

identify an interactive element displayed on the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to a location of the first touch input, wherein the interactive element is a photo thumbnail from a series of photo thumbnails;

detect a second touch input comprising a backward lateral flick gesture on the touch sensitive surface;

determine a composite gesture made up of a combination of the first touch input and the second touch input;

delete a photo corresponding to the photo thumbnail that is present at the location of the first touch input from the device in response to the composite gesture.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising logic that is operable, when executed, to:

provide visual feedback on the touch-sensitive display at the region of the application user interface in response to the first touch input, wherein the visual feedback is a highlight effect on the touch-sensitive display corresponding to a location of the first touch input.

2. A method comprising:

by a computing device, detecting a first touch input comprising a tap gesture on a touch-sensitive display, wherein the touch-sensitive display is disposed on a front side of a device housing of the computing device;

identifying an interactive element displayed on the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to a location of the first touch input, wherein the interactive element is a photo thumbnail from a series of photo thumbnails;

by the computing device, detecting a second touch input, wherein the second touch input comprises a backward lateral flick gesture executed on a touch-sensitive surface disposed on a lateral side of the device housing;

by the computing device, determining a composite gesture made up of a combination of the first touch input and the second touch input;

and;

by the computing device, deleting a photo corresponding to the photo thumbnail that is present at the location of the first touch input from the device in response to the composite gesture.

5. The method of claim 2, comprising:

accessing data identifying a region of an application user interface corresponding to the first touch input location; and

providing visual feedback on the touch-sensitive display at the region of the application user interface in response to the first touch input, wherein the visual feedback is a highlight effect on the touch-sensitive display corresponding to a location of the first touch input.

3. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying software operable when executed by a computing device to:

detect a first touch input on a touch-sensitive display, wherein the touch-sensitive display is disposed on a front side of a device housing of the computing device, the first touch input comprising a tap gesture at a location corresponding to an interactive element displayed on the touch-sensitive display;

identify the interactive element displayed on the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the location of the first touch input, wherein the interactive element is a photo thumbnail from a series of photo thumbnails;

detect a second touch input, wherein the second touch input comprises a backward lateral flick gesture executed on a touch-sensitive surface disposed on a lateral the side of the device housing;

determine a composite gesture made up of a combination of the first touch input and the second touch input; and

delete a photo corresponding to the photo thumbnail that is present at the location of the first touch input from the device in response to the composite gesture.

6. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 3, further embodying software operable when executed by the computing device to:

access data identifying a region of an application user interface corresponding to the first touch input location; and

provide visual feedback on the touch-sensitive display at the region of the application user interface in response to the first touch input, wherein the visual feedback is a highlight effect on the touch-sensitive display corresponding to a location of the first touch input.