USER INTERFACE

• US 20110291952A1
• Filed: 05/28/2010
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Tolonen, Ari, Selenius, Jari, Ketola, Pekka, Johansson, Panu
• Granted Patent: US 8,780,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An apparatus, method and computer program are provided. The method comprises: controlling a touch sensitive display, while a user digit is detected hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display, to display a transient indication of first content for pasting, wherein if the user subsequently moves the user digit away from the touch sensitive display such that the user digit is no longer detected, the transient indication of the first content for pasting is removed from display on the touch sensitive display.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

controlling a touch sensitive display, while a user digit is detected hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display, to display a transient indication of first content for pasting, wherein if the user subsequently moves the user digit away from the touch sensitive display such that the user digit is no longer detected, the transient indication of the first content for pasting is removed from display on the touch sensitive display.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

in response to detection of touch input from the user digit at the touch sensitive display, initiating a paste operation using the first content, wherein the paste operation comprises controlling the touch sensitive display to display a representation of the first content, and continuing to display the representation of the first content after the user digit has been removed from the touch sensitive display.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the representation of the first content is at least one of:

user editable and user selectable.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the first content for pasting in response to user input.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein selecting the first content for pasting comprises performing a cut operation or a copy operation.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the displayed transient indication of the first content for pasting is not selectable by a user.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transient indication of the first content is displayed on the touch sensitive display, after detecting the user digit hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display for at least a threshold period of time.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position at which the transient indication of the first content is displayed depends upon the position of the hovering user digit relative to the touch sensitive display.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

responding to detection of the user digit moving across the touch sensitive display while hovering, by controlling the touch sensitive display to display the transient indication of the first content moving across the touch sensitive display with the user digit.

10. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory storing computer program instructions, the at least one processor being configured to execute the computer program instructions to cause the apparatus at least to perform;

controlling a touch sensitive display, while a user digit is detected hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display, to display a transient indication of first content for pasting, wherein if the user subsequently moves the user digit away from the touch sensitive display such that the user digit is no longer detected, the transient indication of the first content for pasting is removed from display on the touch sensitive display.

11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured, in response to detection of touch input from the user digit at the touch sensitive display, to initiate a paste operation using the first content, wherein the paste operation comprises controlling the touch sensitive display to display a representation of the first content, and continuing to display the representation of the first content after the user digit has been removed from the touch sensitive display.

12. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured, in response to user input, to select the first content for pasting.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the displayed transient indication of the first content for pasting is not selectable by a user.

14. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the position at which the transient indication of the first content is displayed depends upon the position of the hovering user digit relative to the touch sensitive display.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one processor is configured to respond to detection of the user digit moving across the touch sensitive display while hovering, by controlling the touch sensitive display to display the transient indication of the first content moving across the touch sensitive display with the user digit.

16. The apparatus as claimed in claim 10, further comprising the touch sensitive display.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a computer program comprising computer program instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause an apparatus at least to perform:

controlling a touch sensitive display, while a user digit is detected hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display, to display a transient indication of first content for pasting, wherein if the user subsequently moves the user digit away from the touch sensitive display such that the user digit is no longer detected, the transient indication of the first content for pasting is removed from display on the touch sensitive display.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 17, wherein the computer program instructions further cause the apparatus to perform:

in response to detection of touch input from the user digit at the touch sensitive display, initiating a paste operation using the first content, wherein the paste operation comprises controlling the touch sensitive display to display a representation of the first content, and continuing to display the representation of the first content after the user digit has been removed from the touch sensitive display.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 17, wherein the computer program instructions further cause the apparatus to perform:

selecting the first content for pasting in response to user input.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 17, wherein the position at which the transient indication of the first content is displayed depends upon the position of the hovering user digit relative to the touch sensitive display.