GESTURED MOVEMENT OF OBJECT TO DISPLAY EDGE

• US 20080282202A1
• Filed: 05/11/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sunday, Derek E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,979,809 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• 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

The use of gestures to organize displayed objects on an interactive display. The gesture is used to move the displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved. The size of the displayed object may be reduced and/or the displayed object may be rotated such that an identified portion of the displayed object remains in the display after moving. A gesture may also be used to move multiple displayed objects to the edge of the display.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform the following upon detecting that a gesture has been made on an interactive display associated with the computing system:

in response detection of the gesture, an act of moving a displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved; and

in response to detection of the gesture, an act of changing a size of the displayed object such that at least after the displayed object is moved, the displayed object has changed sized as compared to the size of the displayed object before the displayed object is moved.

2. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the gesture is a flick gesture.

3. A computer program product in accordance with claim 2, wherein the displayed object is moved to the edge in a direction that approximately a direction of the flick gesture.

4. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the computer-executable instructions are further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting that a gesture has been made on an interactive display associated with the computing system:

an act of identifying a portion of the displayed object to keep in display; and

in response to detection of the gesture, an act of rotating the displayed object such that at least after the displayed object is moved, the displayed object is rotated as compared to the orientation of the displayed object before the displayed object is moved.

5. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the computer-executable instructions are further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting that a gesture has been made on an interactive display associated with the computing system:

an act of detecting that the gesture satisfies a set of one or more predetermined criteria.

6. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the gesture is a first gesture, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting a second gesture that is made on the interactive display:

in response detection of the second gesture, an act of moving a second displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the second displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved; and

in response to detection of the second gesture, an act of changing a size of the second displayed object such that at least after the second displayed object is moved, the second displayed object has changed sized as compared to the size of the second displayed object before the second displayed object is moved.

7. A computer program product in accordance with claim 6, wherein the first gesture and the second gesture are received by the interactive display at the same time.

8. A computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the gesture is a first gesture, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting a second gesture that is made on the interactive display:

an act of determining that the second gesture is associated with the moved displayed object.

9. A computer program product in accordance with claim 8, wherein the computer-executable instructions are further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to after detecting that the second gesture is associated with the moved displayed object:

an act of dragging the displayed object further into view in a direction of the second gesture; and

at the end of the act of dragging, an act of snapping the displayed object back to the end of the second gesture.

10. The computer program product in accordance with claim 9, wherein the act of dragging includes an act of rotating the displayed object as the object is dragged.

11. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform the following:

in response detection of a gesture on an interactive display displaying a displayed object, an act of moving the displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved;

an act of identifying a portion of the displayed object to keep in display; and

in response to detection of the gesture, an act of rotating the displayed object such that at least after the displayed object is moved, the displayed object is rotated as compared to the orientation of the displayed object before the displayed object is moved.

12. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, wherein the gesture is a first gesture, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting a second gesture that is made on the interactive display:

in response detection of the second gesture, an act of moving a second displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the second displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved; and

in response to detection of the second gesture, an act of changing a size of the second displayed object such that at least after the second displayed object is moved, the second displayed object has changed sized as compared to the size of the second displayed object before the second displayed object is moved.

13. A computer program product in accordance with claim 11, wherein the gesture is a flick gesture, wherein the displayed object is moved to the edge in a direction that approximately a direction of the flick gesture.

14. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, wherein the gesture is a first gesture, the computer-executable instructions being further structured such that, when executed by the one or more processors, the computing system is further caused to perform the following upon detecting a second gesture that is made on the interactive display:

in response detection of the second gesture, in response detection of the gesture, an act of moving a plurality of displayed objects to positions at the edge of the interactive display so that each of at least some of the plurality of displayed objects is only partially displayed after being moved.

15. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform the following upon detecting that a gesture has been made on an interactive display associated with the computing system:

in response detection of the gesture, an act of moving a plurality of displayed objects to positions at the edge of the interactive display so that each of at least some of the plurality of displayed objects is only partially displayed after being moved.

16. The computer program product in accordance with claim 15, wherein the gesture is a wave gesture.

17. The computer program product in accordance with claim 16, wherein the wave gesture includes at least two major segments.

18. The computer program product in accordance with claim 16, wherein the wave gesture is made with respect to a portion of the interactive display, wherein the plurality of the displayed objects related to the portion of the interactive display.

19. The computer program product in accordance with claim 16, wherein the plurality of displayed objects are all of the display objects on the interactive display.

20. The computer program product in accordance with claim 16, wherein the one or more computer-readable media are physical memory and/or storage media.