RESPONDING TO A DYNAMIC INPUT

• US 20140002372A1
• Filed: 06/28/2012
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Oksman, Markku Olavi
• Granted Patent: US 9,141,277 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3818 Arrangements for facilitating insertion or removal of identification devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

Apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to be responsive to receipt of a dynamic input by a touch-sensitive transducer of an electronic device configured to receive a removable member to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

Claims

1. Apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus:

to be responsive to receipt of a dynamic input by a touch-sensitive transducer of an electronic device configured to receive a removable member to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a direction of movement of the dynamic input corresponds to the direction of actuation of the removable member.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus:

to determine a location of the dynamic input on the touch sensitive transducer; and

to be responsive to the receipt of the dynamic input to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device, only if the location of the dynamic input corresponds to a predetermined location on the touch sensitive transducer.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the predetermined location relative to the touch sensitive transducer corresponds to a location of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the predetermined location overlies the location of the removable member when the removable member is received in the electronic device.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the removable member is a removable memory medium.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus:

to be responsive to receipt of the dynamic input by the touch-sensitive transducer to cause at least one processing operation associated with the memory medium to be shut down and, subsequently, to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus:

to cause a visual indicator to be displayed on a display screen, and thereafter to be responsive to receipt of the dynamic input to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device, wherein the visual indicator is configured to indicate a location on the touch-sensitive transducer at which the dynamic touch input should be provided in order to cause actuation of the removable memory medium.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the display screen and the touch-sensitive transducer together form a touchscreen, and wherein the visual indicator is provided at a location of the touchscreen at which the dynamic input should be provided in order to cause the removable member to be actuated.

10. A method comprising:

responding to receipt of a dynamic input by a touch-sensitive transducer of an electronic device configured to receive a removable member by causing actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a direction of movement of the dynamic input corresponds to the direction of actuation of the removable member.

12. The method of claim 10, comprising:

determining a location of the dynamic input on the touch sensitive transducer; and

responding to the receipt of the dynamic input by causing actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device, only if the location of the dynamic input corresponds to a predetermined location on the touch sensitive transducer.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the predetermined location relative to the touch sensitive transducer corresponds to a location of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the predetermined location overlies the location of the removable member when the removable member is received in the electronic device.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the removable member is a removable memory medium.

16. The method of claim 15, comprising:

responding to receipt of the dynamic input by the touch-sensitive transducer by causing at least one processing operation associated with the memory medium to be shut down and, subsequently, causing actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

17. The method of claim 10 comprising:

causing a visual indicator to be displayed on a display screen, and thereafter responding to receipt of the dynamic input by causing actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device, wherein the visual indicator is configured to indicate a location on the touch-sensitive transducer at which the dynamic touch input should be provided in order to cause actuation of the removable memory medium.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the display screen and the touch-sensitive transducer together form a touchscreen, and wherein the visual indicator is provided at a location of the touchscreen at which the dynamic input should be provided in order to cause the removable member to be actuated.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable code, which, when executed by computing apparatus, causes the computer apparatus:

to be responsive to receipt of a dynamic input by a touch-sensitive transducer of an electronic device configured to receive a removable member to cause actuation of the removable member relative to the electronic device.

20. (canceled)