Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120233545 | DETECTION OF A HELD TOUCH ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY - Example embodiments relate to detection of a held touch on a touch-sensitive display. In some embodiments, a touch held at a given position of a touch-sensitive display is detected. Movement of the touch is then tracked while the touch remains held on the touch-sensitive display. Finally, upon release of the held touch, an action is performed on a user interface object located at a position of the release of the held touch. | 09-13-2012 |
20120271969 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL TOUCH-ENABLED DEVICES - Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to multifunctional touch-enabled devices. A device includes a touch-enabled display. The device further includes an external connection to connect to a graphics bus of a computing device or an input bus of the computing device. The device also includes a selection module to determine a mode of the peripheral device from a plurality of modes. The modes include a display mode in which the device identifies itself to the computing device as a display. The modes also include an input mode in which the peripheral device identifies itself to the computing device as a dedicated input device. | 10-25-2012 |
20120274579 | Number Keypad - Embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for arranging keys of a number keypad based on movement of another key. In various embodiments, a contact may be detected, and a key associated with the contact moved to a second location in accordance with movement of the contact. Based on the second location a second key may be arranged. | 11-01-2012 |
20130286042 | TILE ICON DISPLAY - A system for tile icon display can retrieve a first number of unique identifiers from a first file system directory, retrieving a second number of unique identifiers from a second file system directory, displaying a first number of tile icons in a first portion of a display grid of a touch screen, wherein each of the first number of tile icons is respectively associated with one of the first number of unique identifiers, and displaying a second number of tile icons in a second portion of the display grid of the touch screen, wherein each of the second number of tile icons is respectively associated with one of the second number of unique identifiers. | 10-31-2013 |
20140040820 | RE-SIZING USER INTERFACE OBJECT ON TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY - A resizable user interface object on a touch sensitive display is resized based on detection of first and second contacts at first and second locations on the touch sensitive display. The object is resized based on detection of relative movement of the first and second contacts. | 02-06-2014 |
20140115540 | OBJECT OPENING MENU - To display an object opening menu can include a user selection of an unopened object from a first area within a user interface, a user command to relocate a selected unopened object from the first area to a second area within the user interface, and displaying the object opening menu in response to the user command to relocate the selected unopened object to the second area, wherein the object opening menu includes an icon that is associated with an application capable of opening the selected unopened object. | 04-24-2014 |