Presenting user interface based on location of input from body part

• US 9,817,490 B2
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Jianbang, Li, Jian
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhou, Hong
• Application Number:
  US14/463,318
• Publication Number:
  US 20160054818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,183 Days
• Field of Search: 345169, 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• 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 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

In one aspect, a device includes a touch-enabled display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive first input from a body part of a user at a first location of the touch-enabled display and receive second input from a stylus at a second location of the touch-enabled display, where the second input is identified as a request to present a window on the touch-enabled display. The instructions are also executable to, at least in part based on the first location and the second location, present the window on the touch-enabled display at a third location on the touch-enabled display, where the third location is different from the first and second locations.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a processor;

a touch-enabled display accessible to the processor; and

a memory accessible to the processor and bearing instructions executable by the processor to;

receive first input from a body part of a user at a first location of the touch-enabled display;

identify a size of an area of the touch-enabled display at which the first input is received;

receive second input from a stylus at a second location of the touch-enabled display, the second input identified as a request to present a window on the touch-enabled display; and

at least in part based on the size of the area, present the window on the touch-enabled display at a third location on the touch-enabled display different from the first and second locations;

wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to determine the third location to be more than a threshold distance from the first location;

wherein the window is a first window, and wherein the threshold distance is established at least in part based on receipt of user input at a second window presented on the touch-enabled display.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

identify the first input as input from a palm of a hand of a user; and

in response to identification of the first input as input from a palm of a hand of a user, present the first window on the touch-enabled display at the third location.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are further executable to:

determine whether the first window is presentable in full in default dimensions at the third location; and

in response to a determination that the first window is not presentable in full in the default dimensions at the third location, reshape the first window to have first dimensions different from the default dimensions and present the first window at the third location in the first dimensions.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to:

at least in part based on the size of the area, identify a distance away from the first location at which the first window is to be presented on the touch-enabled display.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein the distance is identified at least in part based on data accessible to the processor that correlates area sizes to respective distances.

6. The device of claim 4, wherein the distance is identified based at least in part on the size of the area and based at least in part on user input establishing at least one relationship between at least one input area size and at least one distance.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the user input establishing the at least one relationship between the at least one input area size and the at least one distance is received at the second window presented on the touch-enabled display, the second window being different from the first window.

8. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a touch-enabled display of a device, first input from a body part of a person and second input from an input device;

determining a size of an area of the touch-enabled display at which the first input is received; and

in response at least to the second input and at least in part based on the size of the area, presenting a user interface (UI) on the touch-enabled display at a first location different at least from a second location at which the first input was received;

wherein the method comprises determining the first location to be more than a threshold distance from the second location;

wherein the UI is a first UI, and wherein the threshold distance is established at least in part based on receipt of user input at a second UI presented on the touch-enabled display.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first UI is a context menu.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the method comprises:

at least in part based on the size of the area, determining a distance away from the second location at which the first UI is to be presented.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the distance is determined at least in part by accessing data correlating input area sizes to respective distances.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the distance is determined based at least in part on the size of the area and based at least in part on user input establishing at least one relationship between at least one input area size and at least one distance.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the user input establishing the at least one relationship between the at least one input area size and the at least one distance is received at the second UI.

14. An apparatus, comprising:

a first processor;

a network adapter;

storage bearing instructions executable by a second processor for;

receiving first input from a body part of a user at a first location of a touch-enabled display;

receiving second input at a second location of the touch-enabled display to present a user interface (UI) on the touch-enabled display;

identifying an area of the touch-enabled display at which the first input is received;

based on the size of the area, presenting the UI a distance away from the first location on the touch-enabled display at a third location on the touch-enabled display different from the first location;

wherein the instructions are executable by the second processor for determining the third location to be more than a threshold distance from the first location;

wherein the UI is a first UI, and wherein the threshold distance is established at least in part based on receipt of user input at a second UI presented on the touch-enabled display;

wherein the first processor transfers the instructions to the second processor over a network via the network adapter.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the first input is identified as input from a body part of a user hovering over the touch-enabled display, and wherein the second input is identified as input from a body part of a person contacting the touch-enabled display.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the instructions are executable by the second processor for:

based on the size of the area, identifying the distance away from the first location;

identifying the third location at least in part based on the distance; and

presenting the first UI at the third location.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the distance is identified based at least in part on the size of the area and based at least in part on user input establishing at least one relationship between at least one input area size and at least one distance.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the user input establishing the at least one relationship between the at least one input area size and the at least one distance is received at the second UI.