User interface

• US 8,650,510 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2012
• Issued: 02/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Neonode Smartphone LLC (Aequitas Technologies, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Neonode, Inc.
• Inventors: Goertz, Magnus
• Primary Examiner(s): PITARO, RYAN F
• Application Number:
  US13/430,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20120192094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 715/716, 715/864
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile handheld computer, cause the processor to present a user interface including a touch sensitive area in which a representation of a function is provided, wherein the function is activated in response to a mufti-step operation including an object touching the touch sensitive area at a location where the representation is provided, and then the object gliding along the touch sensitive area away from the touched location irrespective of how far the object glides, wherein the function, when activated, causes the user interface to display user input controls at respective display locations that are determined prior to performance of the mufti-step operation, and wherein any user gesture that activates a function and begins with an object touching the touch sensitive area at a location where the representation is provided causes the same response.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor of a mobile handheld computer comprising a screen, cause the processor to present a user interface for the mobile handheld computer, the user interface comprising at least one touch sensitive strip along at least one edge of the screen, wherein the user interface is programmed to provide an information transmission pipeline in response to first and second multi-step input gestures, each gesture comprising (i) an object touching the screen within said at least one touch sensitive strip, and then (ii) the object gliding along the screen away from said at least one touch sensitive strip, whereby the user interface is responsive to the first multi-step user input gesture to activate a first graphical user interface (GUI) on the screen for providing information to be transmitted, and is responsive to the second multi-step input gesture to activate a second GUI providing a plurality of options for transmitting the information provided by the first GUI.

2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second GUI comprises a plurality of user interface controls.

3. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein said plurality of user interface controls comprises icons.

4. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein said plurality of user interface controls comprises virtual buttons.

5. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein said plurality of user interface controls comprises a list of mobile handheld computer applications.

6. The computer readable medium of claim 2, wherein the plurality of user interface controls is displayed outside of said at least one touch sensitive strip.

7. The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the plurality of user interface controls is not displayed prior to the first GUI being activated.

8. The computer readable medium of claim 7, wherein at least one of the plurality of user interface controls comprises a control for activating a mobile handheld computer function.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second GUI comprises a keyboard and a keyboard entry field.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the entire screen is touch-sensitive, and wherein an active application, function, service or setting is advanced one step in response to a multi-step operation comprising (i) an object touching the screen outside of said at least one touch sensitive strip, and then (ii) the object gliding along the screen in a first direction away from the touched location.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein an active application, function, service or setting is closed or backed one step in response to a multi-step operation comprising (i) an object touching the screen outside of said at least one touch sensitive strip, and then (ii) the object gliding along the screen in a direction opposite to the first direction and away from the touched location.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein said instructions function as a layer upon an operating system.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface is programmed to provide for only one type of input gesture within the at least one touch sensitive strip, namely, the multi-step input gesture.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein no additional gesture is performed between the first and the second multi-step input gestures.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein each of said at least one touch sensitive strip is less than a thumb'"'"'s width wide within the screen.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the information provided by the first GUI comprises text.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second GUI replaces the first GUI.