Device feature activation

• US 20070295540A1
• Filed: 06/23/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Nurmi, Mikko A.
• Application Number:
  US11/473,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20070295540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 178/18.01
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method of activating functions of a device. The method includes detecting at least one input to a touch display of the device, determining at least one dimension of a movement of the input, and activating or deactivating a function of the device in dependence upon the movement.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting at least one input to a touch display of a device;

determining at least one dimension of a movement of the input; and

activating or deactivating a function of the device in dependence upon the movement of the input.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising activating an application of the device in dependence upon the movement of the input.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining at least one dimension of a direction of the movement of the input to the device.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising detecting a text input on the touch screen display and determining a direction of each successive text input relative to the touch screen.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising activating a text field of the device in dependence of the determination of a direction of the movement of the input.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the movement, relative to the touch screen, is left to right, right to left, bottom to top, or top to bottom.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein a direction of the movement is relative to the touch screen of the device.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the movement of the input is along a substantially horizontal, vertical or diagonal line relative to the touch screen of the device.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the device is a PDA device.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the device is a mobile telecommunication device.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising directing the inputted text to a predetermined area of the software application in dependence upon the orientation of the input sequence of the inputted text.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying at least one application shortcut on the display in dependence upon the orientation of the input sequence of the text, wherein the at least one application shortcut is associated with a corresponding text orientation.

11. A method comprising:

detecting an input of the text on a touch enabled display of a device;

determining an orientation of an input sequence of the inputted text; and

opening an application of the device that is associated with the orientation of the input sequence of the inputted text.

13. The method of claim 11 further comprising displaying the application so a content of the application is readable in the direction of the orientation of the input sequence of the text.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the displayed application is rotated on the display of the touch screen device in correspondence to the orientation of the inputted text.

12. The method of claim 12, wherein an association between the application and the orientation of the input sequence of the text is user defined.

17. An apparatus comprising:

a display processor coupled to a touch screen;

an input detection unit coupled to the display processor that receives a first input in the form of a user forming text on the touch screen with a pointing device;

an input recognition unit coupled to the display processor that detects an orientation of a sequence of the text being inputted; and

a processing unit that activates at least one function or application of the apparatus that is associated with the detected orientation.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the display processor is configured to rotate an application open on the device to correspond with the detected orientation.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the display processor is configured to automatically rotate visual information presented by the application on the touch screen so that the visual information is read in a direction of the detected orientation.

20. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the display processor is configured to automatically display the inputted text in a predetermined area of the display in dependence of the detected orientation.

21. A computer program product comprising:

a computer useable medium having computer readable code means embodied therein for causing a computer to activate functions of a device, the computer readable code means in the computer program product comprising;

computer readable code means for causing a computer to detect at least one input to a touch display of the device;

computer readable code means for causing a computer to determine at least one dimension of a movement of the input; and

computer readable code means for causing a computer to activate or deactivate a function of the device in dependence upon the movement of the input.