Operation method of operating system

• US 9,898,184 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2013
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Hao-Ping, Lu, Meng-Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Steinberg, Jeffrey S
• Application Number:
  US13/865,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20140078081A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,769 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-178, 178 1801- 1809, 178 1811
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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

Abstract

An operation method of an operating system, applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touchpad and a screen. The touchpad has a first edge. The electronic device is used for executing the operating system. The screen is used for displaying a display image outputted by the operating system. A cursor is displayed at the display image. The operation method of the operating system comprises: determining whether a touch operation is a sliding gesture sliding from an edge when the touchpad senses the touch operation; determining which edge of the touchpad is sliding from by the sliding gesture if the touch operation is the sliding gesture sliding from the edge; displaying a charm bar in a first area of the display image and displaying the cursor on the charm bar if the sliding gesture slides from the first edge.

Claims

1. An electronic device including an operating system for selectively operating in a first operating mode and a second operating mode, the electronic device comprising:

a screen configured to display a displaying image outputted by the operating system, wherein the displaying image is a first mode image in the first operating mode and is a second mode image in the second operating mode; and

a touchpad comprising a first edge, a second edge opposite to the first edge, a third edge extending between opposing ends of the first and second edges, and a fourth edge opposite to the third edge;

wherein the electronic device is configured to;

in response to detecting a sliding gesture that slides from the first edge of the touchpad, display a charm bar on the displaying image and a cursor on the charm bar;

in response to detecting a sliding gesture that slides from any position of the second edge of the touch pad, switch the first operating mode to the second operating mode when there is no application program running in the second operating mode;

in response to detecting a sliding gesture that slides from the third edge of the touch pad, zoom out a program image corresponding to a program in the first mode image and display a resulting minified program image in the second mode image; and

in response to detecting a sliding gesture that slides from the fourth edge of the touch pad, display an application bar in the display image when the operating system operates in the second operating mode.