CHANGING OF LIST VIEWS ON MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20140129995A1
• Filed: 01/14/2014
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Coddington, Nicole
• Granted Patent: US 9,507,509 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming

Abstract

Various embodiments related to a hand-held mobile computing device are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises a hand-held mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device configured to receive touch input. The hand-held mobile computing device further comprises a processor and memory comprising code executable by the processor to display a scrollable list of items in a first content viewing mode having a first set of content for each of the items in the scrollable list, to detect a dynamic multi-touch gesture over the scrollable list of items, and to change the scrollable list of items to a second content viewing mode responsive to detection of the dynamic multi-touch gesture, wherein the second content viewing mode comprises a second set of content for each item in the scrollable list of items.

Claims

1. A hand-held mobile computing device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device;

a camera configured to acquire an image;

a processor; and

memory comprising code executable by the processor to;

display a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting on the touch-sensitive display;

detect a dynamic multi-touch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display; and

responsive to detection of the dynamic multi-touch gesture input, display a field of view of the camera at a second zoom setting on the touch-sensitive display.

2. The device of claim 1, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input is detected as a change in distance between two touch inputs.

3. The device of claim 1, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a wider angle than the first zoom setting.

4. The device of claim 1, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a narrower angle than the first zoom setting.

5. The device of claim 1, where the code is executable to continuously display a changing field of view based on the change in distance between the two touch inputs.

6. The device of claim 1, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and wherein the code is executable to continuously widen the field of view of the camera as a distance between two touch inputs increases.

7. The device of claim 1, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and wherein the code is executable to continuously narrow the field of view of the camera as a distance between two touch inputs increases.

8. The device of claim 1, where the code is executable by the processor to snap between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.

9. On a hand-held mobile computing device comprising a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device and a camera configured to acquire an image, a method comprising:

displaying a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting on the touch-sensitive display;

detecting a dynamic multi-touch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display; and

responsive to the dynamic multi-touch gesture input, displaying a field of view of the camera at a second zoom setting on the touch-sensitive display.

10. The method of claim 9, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input is detected as a change in distance between two touch inputs.

11. The method of claim 9, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a wider angle than the first zoom setting.

12. The method of claim 9, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and the second zoom setting has a field of view with a narrower angle than the first zoom setting.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising continuously displaying a changing field of view based on the change in distance between two touch inputs.

14. The method of claim 9, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic pinch gesture, and further comprising continuously widening the field of view of the camera as a distance between two touch inputs increases.

15. The method of claim 9, where the first dynamic multi-touch gesture input comprises a dynamic stretch gesture, and further comprising continuously narrowing the field of view of the camera as a distance between two touch inputs increases.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising snapping between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.

17. A hand-held mobile computing device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device;

a camera configured to acquire an image;

a processor; and

memory comprising code executable by the processor to;

display a field of view of the camera at a first zoom setting on the touch-sensitive display;

detect a dynamic multi-touch stretch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display;

responsive to the dynamic multi-touch stretch gesture input, narrow the field of view of the camera displayed on the touch-sensitive display;

detect a dynamic multi-touch pinch gesture input over the touch-sensitive display; and

responsive to the dynamic multi-touch stretch gesture, widen the field of view of the camera displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the instructions are executable to continuously change the field of view of the camera displayed on the touch-sensitive display as a distance between two touch inputs changes.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the instructions are executable to snap between the first zoom setting and the second zoom setting.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the instructions are executable to detect another touch input over the touch-sensitive display, and to acquire an image in response.