Information handling system touch device with visually interactive region
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsMichiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Mark R. Ligameri
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Abstract
A totem object placed on a touchscreen display provides inputs based upon touches made at the touchscreen display, such as with the rotational orientation or linear location of the totem object relative to a user interface presented outside the totem object. A visual access from the touchscreen display through the totem object passes a visual image from the touchscreen display for presentation at the totem object upper surface, such a numerical value of an input made by totem object position on the touchscreen display.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory interfaced with the processor to store the instructions and information;
- a touchscreen display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images and to detect touches at the touchscreen, visual images having a primary content;
- a totem disposed on the touchscreen display, the totem having a perimeter and having a visual access to visual information presented at the touchscreen display within the totem perimeter;
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- a totem user interface manager interfaced with the touchscreen display to present a totem content at the touchscreen, the totem content including a selection from at least a group of:
- operating system status for an operating system executing on the processor;
- notifications for one or more applications executing on the processor;
- the primary content, the primary content further separately presented in a window as the totem content over the primary content and outside the perimeter as a zoomed view of the primary content, the zoomed view having visual images that are presented only underneath and within the perimeter of the totem;
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- application status for an application that generated the primary content.
A method for presenting visual information at a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
- disposing an object on the touchscreen display, the object having a perimeter, a lower surface in contact with the display and a visual access of visual information presented at the touchscreen display within the perimeter;
- presenting a first content at the touchscreen display outside the perimeter;
- and
- presenting a second content at the touchscreen display within the perimeter visible through the visual access
- wherein the second content comprises a selected of:
- operating system status for an information handling system interfaced with the touchscreen display;
- notifications for one or more applications executing on the information handling system;
- the first content selected from visual images presented only underneath and within the perimeter, the first content further separately presented in a window over the first content outside the perimeter as a zoomed view of the first content only underneath and within the perimeter;
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- application status for an application that generated the first content.
An object that interfaces with a touchscreen display, the object comprising:
- a main body having a perimeter configured to accept a grasp by a hand;
- a visual access integrated in the main body to pass visual images presented at the touchscreen from a bottom surface of the main body to an upper surface of the main body for presentation at the upper surface to an end user;
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- a non-transitory memory storing instructions that execute on a processor to cause:
- presentation of a first content at the touchscreen display outside of the perimeter;
- and presentation of a second content at the touchscreen display within the perimeter and
- proximate the visual access so that the second content presents at the main body upper surface;
- wherein the second content comprises a selected of:
- operating system status for an information handling system interfaced with the touchscreen display;
- notifications for one or more applications executing on the information handling system;
- the first content, the first content further separately presented in a window over the first content outside the perimeter as a zoomed view of the first content only underneath and within the perimeter of the main body;
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- application status for an application that generated the first content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.