TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY COMPENSATED FOR A CARRIER-INDUCED MOTION

• US 20140035827A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hyde, Roderick A., Kare, Jordin T., Wood, Lowell L. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US13/562,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20140035827A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

Described embodiments include a device, method, and computer program product. A described mobile computing device has a touch-sensitive display surface. The device includes a screen manager circuit configured to delineate a touch-selectable area on the touch-sensitive display surface. The device includes a display circuit configured to display a widget in a positional relationship or spatial association with the delineated touch-selectable area. The device includes a movement detector circuit configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface. The device includes a display adjustment circuit configured to apply a compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area. The compensating adjustment is responsive to an aspect of the sensed motion.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display surface, the device comprising:

a screen manager circuit configured to delineate a touch-selectable area on the touch-sensitive display surface;

a display circuit configured to display a widget in a positional relationship or spatial association with the delineated touch-selectable area;

a movement detector circuit configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface; and

a display adjustment circuit configured to apply a compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area, the compensating adjustment responsive to the sensed motion.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device includes a hand-held computing device, laptop, smart phone, tablet, or computing device mounted in mobile chassis

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the widget includes an icon.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the widget represents an activatable user control.

5. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the widget facilitates a specific user-computer interaction.

7. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the widget and the delineated touch-selectable area are elements of a graphical user interface.

10. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the widget includes a selectable widget from among a plurality of selectable widgets.

13. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the screen manager circuit is configured to delineate a touch-selectable area at a first particular region on the touch-sensitive display surface.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 13, wherein the screen manager circuit is configured to delineate a touch-selectable area at a first particular location and encompassing a first region of the real estate of the touch-sensitive display surface.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 13, wherein the screen manager circuit is configured to delineate a first touch-selectable area at a first region of the real estate of the touch-sensitive display surface and a second touch-selectable area at a second region of the real estate of the touch-sensitive display surface on the touch-sensitive display surface.

16. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface imparted by a user holding the mobile computing device.

17. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to generate a signal indicative of a user-imparted motion of the touch-sensitive display surface.

18. The mobile computing device of claim 16, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface imparted by involuntary movements, tremors, or actions of a user holding the mobile computing device.

19. The mobile computing device of claim 16, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface imparted by a motion of a chassis carrying the mobile computing device.

20. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to generate a signal indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface relative to the earth.

21. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to generate a signal indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface relative to an inertial reference frame.

22. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is configured to generate a signal indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface relative to an axis of the touch-sensitive display surface.

25. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit includes a gyroscope, micro-machined gyroscope, motion sensor, or accelerometer configured to sense a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface.

27. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is further configured to filter the sensed motion at least partially based on its time dependence.

28. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is further configured to filter the sensed motion at least partially based on a size or magnitude of the sensed motion.

29. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is further configured to extract from the sensed motion a user-imparted tremble motion component to the touch-sensitive display surface.

30. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the movement detector circuit is further configured to extract from the sensed motion a user-purposeful or user-intentional motion component to the touch-sensitive display surface.

31. The mobile computing device of claim 1, further comprising:

a compensation circuit configured to select the compensating adjustment from at least two possible compensating adjustments.

32. The mobile computing device of claim 31, wherein the compensation circuit is configured to select the compensating adjustment in response to a predicted motion of the touch-sensitive display surface, the predicted motion at least partially based on the sensed motion of the touch-sensitive display surface.

33. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes an adjustment counteracting the sensed motion of the touch-sensitive display.

34. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes moving the widget or the delineated touch-selectable area.

35. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes moving the widget or the delineated touch-selectable area with an acceleration counteracting an acceleration component of the sensed motion.

36. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes a counteracting positional relationship between the widget and the delineated touch-selectable area.

40. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes resizing the widget.

43. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes resizing the delineated touch-selectable area.

44. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes resizing the widget.

45. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes dynamically moving the delineated touch-selectable area while leaving the widget unchanged.

46. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes moving both the delineated touch-selectable area and the widget relative to the touch-sensitive display surface, but not with respect to each other.

47. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes co-displaying the widget at the positional relationship to the delineated touch-selectable area and another version of the widget at a motion compensated positional relationship to the delineated touch-selectable area.

51. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes displaying the widget using primarily one color and displaying another version of the widget using primarily another color.

53. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the compensating adjustment includes steadying the displayed widget relative to an inertial reference frame of the mobile computing device.

54. The mobile computing device of claim 53, wherein the compensating adjustment includes steadying the displayed widget relative to a chassis carrying the mobile computing device.

57. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the display adjustment circuit is configured to apply a compensating adjustment to both the displayed widget and the delineated touch-selectable area, the compensating adjustment responsive to the sensed motion.

58. The mobile computing device of claim 1, further comprising:

an input circuit configured to receive a signal indicative of a user touch to the delineated touch-selectable area or to the adjusted delineated touch-selectable area; and

an application capable of running on a processor of the mobile computing device and configured to execute an instruction associated with the displayed widget in response to the signal indicative of a user touch.

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59. A method implemented in a mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display surface, the method comprising:

displaying at least a portion of a widget within a delineated touch-selectable area of the touch-sensitive display;

receiving data indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface; and

applying a compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area, the compensating adjustment responsive to the sensed motion.

60. The method of claim 59, wherein the receiving data includes receiving data indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface from a sensor carried by the mobile computing device.

61. The method of claim 59, wherein the receiving data includes receiving data indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface from a sensor carried by a chassis carrying the mobile computing device.

62. The method of claim 59, further comprising:

delineating the touch-selectable area on the touch-sensitive display surface.

63. The method of claim 59, further comprising:

selecting the compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area in response to the sensed motion of the touch-sensitive display surface.

64. The method of claim 59, further comprising:

receiving a signal indicative of a user touch to the delineated touch-selectable area or to the adjusted delineated touch-selectable area; and

executing an instruction associated with the displayed widget in response to the signal indicative of a user touch.

65. A computer program product comprising:

(a) program instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display surface, cause the computing device to perform a process including;

(i) displaying at least a portion of a widget within a delineated touch-selectable area of the touch-sensitive display;

(ii) receiving data indicative of a motion of the touch-sensitive display surface; and

(iii) applying a compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area, the compensating adjustment responsive to the sensed motion; and

(b) computer-readable media bearing the program instructions.

66. The computer program product of claim 65, the process further comprising:

delineating the touch-selectable area on the touch-sensitive display surface.

67. The computer program product of claim 65, the process further comprising:

determining the compensating adjustment to the displayed widget or the delineated touch-selectable area in response to the sensed motion.

68. The computer program product of claim 65, the process further comprising:

receiving a signal indicative of a user touch to the delineated touch-selectable area or to the adjusted delineated touch-selectable area; and

executing an instruction associated with the displayed widget in response to the signal indicative of a user touch.

69. The computer program product of claim 65, wherein the computer-readable media includes a tangible computer-readable media.

70. The computer program product of claim 65, wherein the computer-readable media includes a communication media.

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