Drag motion across seam of displays

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9075558-B2
Application number	US-201213629085-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2012
Priority date	Sep 27, 2011
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

Methods and devices for receiving input and presenting a user interface with two screens and an off screen gesture area. The device may have an off screen gesture area that accepts user input outside the display area. The interface inputs received in the off screen gesture are may have special handling and cause different display changes. Further, the device, having two screens, may receive user interface inputs that cross the seam between the two displays. To provide a display that acts like a single display area, the device can predict motions may cross the seam and then interrelate separate inputs on separate screens. The interrelated inputs can cause display changes as if the inputs were received as a single user interaction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
providing a device having at least a first screen with a first display, a second screen with a second display, and a seam between the first and second screens;
displaying a first desktop on the first display;
opening a first application;
ceasing display of the first desktop on the first display;
displaying a first window of the first application on the first display, wherein the first window is active;
opening a second applica…

Assignees

• Z124

Inventors

• Reeves Paul E
• Visosky John S
• Chen Tong

Classifications

• H04N23/63

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/631

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W72/563

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/451

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W48/18

  Electricity · mapped topic