Drag/flick gestures in user interface

• US 9,026,923 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Sirpal, Sanjiv, de Paz, Alexander, Reeves, Paul Edward, Ficklin, Jared, Burton, Denise
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker, Jeanette J
• Application Number:
  US13/223,674
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084673A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,342 Days
• Field of Search: 715/761, 715/778, 715/799
• US Class Current: 715/761
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1641 the display being formed by a plurality of foldable display components G06F1/1647 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• 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 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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: 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display

Abstract

The disclosed method and device are directed to navigation, by a dual display communication device, through display objects.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a communication device having at least two screens connected to each other with at least one hinge, wherein each screen includes a touch sensitive display and a gesture capture region, and wherein the gesture capture region is physically separated from the touch sensitive display, receives touch input, but does not display content;

receiving, by at least one gesture capture region, a first gesture;

in response to receiving the first gesture, moving, by processor-executable middleware, a first displayed window on a first touch sensitive display of the communication device to a second touch sensitive display of the communication device;

while the first displayed window is being moved to the second touch sensitive display, receiving, by the at least one gesture capture region, a second gesture, and

determining whether the second gesture takes precedence over the first gesture; and

in response to determining that the second gesture takes precedence over the first gesture, retracting, by the processor-executable middleware, movement of the first displayed window and moving, by the processor-executable middleware, at least a second displayed window to the second touch sensitive display, wherein the first and second displayed windows are at least one of a desktop and a window of an application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first gesture is a drag, and wherein the second gesture is a flick.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second displayed windows are controlled by a common multi-screen application and wherein, in response to the second gesture, both the first and second displayed windows are moved from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first gesture is operable to move only the first and not the second displayed window from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second gestures are received by a common gesture capture region and wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed window.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second displayed windows are windows controlled by a common multi-screen application.

7. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 1.

8. A method, comprising:

providing a communication device having at least two screens connected to each other with at least one hinge, wherein each screen includes a touch sensitive display and a gesture capture region, and wherein the gesture capture region is physically separated from the touch sensitive display, receives touch input, but does not display content;

receiving, by a gesture capture region, a drag gesture;

in response to receiving the drag gesture, moving, by processor-executable middleware, a first window from a first touch sensitive display to a second touch sensitive display;

while the first window is moving from the first to the second touch sensitive display, receiving, by the gesture capture region, a flick gesture and determining whether the flick gesture takes precedence over the drag gesture;

in response to determining that the received flick gesture takes precedence over the drag gesture, retracting, by the processor-executable middleware, movement of the first window and moving, by the processor-executable middleware, a second window from the first to the second touch sensitive display, wherein the first and second displayed windows are at least one of a desktop and a window of an application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the first and second windows are controlled by a common multi-screen application and wherein, in response to the flick gesture, both the first and second windows are moved from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the drag gesture is operable to move only the first and not the second window from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the drag and flick gestures are received by a common gesture capture region and wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed window and wherein the first and second displayed windows are windows controlled by a common multi-screen application.

12. A non-transient computer readable medium comprising processor executable instructions operable to perform the steps of claim 8.

13. A dual display communication device, comprising:

a first screen and a second screen, connected to each other with at least one hinge, each comprising;

a touch sensitive display to display displayed windows, wherein the displayed windows are at least one of a desktop and window of an application;

a gesture capture region to receive a flick gesture or a drag gesture, wherein the gesture capture region is physically separated from the touch sensitive display, receives touch input, but does not display content; and

middleware operable to perform at least one of the following operations;

in response to receiving, by at least one gesture capture region, a first gesture, move a first displayed window on the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display;

while the first displayed window is being moved to the second touch sensitive display, receiving, by the at least one gesture capture region, a second gesture and

determining whether the second gesture takes precedence over the first gesture; and

in response to determining that the second gesture takes precedence over the first gesture, retracting movement of the first displayed window and moving at least a second displayed window to the second touch sensitive display, wherein the first and second displayed windows are at least one of a desktop and window of an application.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second displayed windows are windows, wherein the first gesture is a drag, and wherein the second gesture is a flick.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second displayed windows are controlled by a common multi-screen application and wherein, in response to the second gesture, both the first and second displayed windows are moved from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the first gesture is operable to move only the first and not the second displayed window from the first touch sensitive display to the second touch sensitive display.

17. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second gestures are received by a common gesture capture region and wherein the gesture capture region is unable to display any displayed window.

18. The device of claim 13, wherein the first and second displayed windows are windows controlled by a common multi-screen application.