Control method for displaying icons on a touchscreen
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsCHUN-LIN CHEN, YI-KAI LIN
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Abstract
A control method for displaying icons of a touchscreen is shown. The touchscreen includes an icon control region and an icon display region comprising a plurality of icon display grids. The method includes sensing a touch on the icon control region and determining if a touch distance exceeds a predetermined distance. Each icon in the icon display region may be moved to the next icon display grid according to the move orientation of the finger of the user if the touch distance is less than the predetermined distance. Moving each icon in the icon display region moves two or more icon display grids according to the move orientation of the finger of the user if the distance is greater than the predetermined distance.
Claims8
A control method for displaying icons on a touchscreen, the method comprising:
- displaying an icon control region and a icon display region on the touchscreen, wherein the icon display region comprises a plurality of icon display grids, each display grid displaying a selecting location for displaying a selected icon;
- sensing a touch on the icon control region according to a move orientation of a finger of a user, wherein the move orientation corresponds to a touch distance;
- determining if the touch distance exceeds a predetermined distance;
- moving each icon in the icon display region to a next icon display grid according to the move orientation of the finger of the user upon a condition that the touch distance is less than the predetermined distance;
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- moving each icon in the icon display region to two or more icon display grids according to the move orientation of the finger of the user upon a condition that the touch distance is greater than the predetermined distance.
The control method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the selected icon is set to overlap other icons of the icon display region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.