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US 10,871,894 B2Granted
Apparatus and method of copying and pasting content in a computing device
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYuriy Polyulya, Aleksandra Peteichuk, Olesya Koshkina, Stanislav Kupchanko
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Abstract
A method of copying content in a computing device includes detecting a gesture of an input tool which selects content to be copied that is displayed on a display of the computing device while the input tool operates within a sensing range of a proximity sensor of the computing device, and automatically copying the selected content to a clipboard in response to detecting removal of the input tool from within the sensing range of the proximity sensor.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- based on detecting a gesture of an input tool while the input tool operates within a proximity sensor detection range of a proximity sensor of a computing device, performing a first step of a select and copy operation, the first step of the select and copy operation including selecting content to be copied that is displayed on a touch sensitive display of the computing device, wherein the proximity sensor detects the input tool without physical contact;
- detecting, while the content to be copied is selected based on the detected gesture of the input tool, the input tool moving outside of the proximity sensor detection range, wherein the proximity sensor detection range corresponds to an entire range in which the proximity sensor can detect an object;
- performing a second step of the select and copy operation based on the detecting of the input tool moving outside of the proximity sensor detection range, the second step including copying the selected content to a clipboard of the computing device;
- in response to copying the selected content to the clipboard, and detecting that the input tool subsequently re-enters the proximity sensor detection range, while an interface of an application, to which content copied to the clipboard is to be pasted, is displayed on the touch sensitive display of the computing device, switching a state of the application from a normal state in which a paste gesture of the input tool is disabled to a paste ready state in which the paste gesture of the input tool is enabled;
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- based on detecting the enabled paste gesture of the input tool is at a target location in the application, pasting the content copied from the clipboard to the target location in the application.
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A computing device comprising:
- a proximity sensor;
- a touch sensitive display;
- a memory configured to store instructions;
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- a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
- based on detecting a gesture of an input tool while the input tool operates within a proximity sensor detection range of the proximity sensor, perform a first step of a select and copy operation, the first step of the select and copy operation including selecting content to be copied that is displayed on the touch sensitive display, wherein the proximity sensor detects the input tool without physical contact;
- detect, while the content to be copied is selected based on the detected gesture of the input tool, the input tool moving outside of the proximity sensor detection range, wherein the proximity sensor detection range corresponds to an entire range in which the proximity sensor can detect an object;
- perform a second step of the select and copy operation based on the detecting of the input tool moving outside of the proximity sensor detection range, the second step including copying the selected content to a clipboard of the computing device;
- in response to copying the selected content to the clipboard, and detecting that the input tool subsequently re-enters the proximity sensor detection range, while an interface of an application, to which content copied to the clipboard is to be pasted, is displayed on the touch sensitive display of the computing device, switch to a state of the application from a normal state in which a paste gesture of the input tool is disabled to a paste ready state in which the paste gesture of the input tool is enabled;
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- based on detecting the enabled paste gesture of the input tool is at a target location in the application, paste the content copied from the clipboard to the target location in the application.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.