Touch pull-in gesture
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorWeerapan Wilairat
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Abstract
Embodiments of a touch pull-in gesture are described. In various embodiments, a touch input is detected that starts at an edge of a touch-screen and progresses as an expanding contact region from the edge of the touch-screen toward approximately a center region of the touch-screen while the touch input remains in contact with the touch-screen. The expanding contact region is determined as a touch pull-in gesture to initiate a display of a user interface component.
Claims20
A method implemented by a portable computer device, the method comprising:
- detecting a touch input that starts at an edge of a touch-screen and progresses as an expanding contact region from the edge of the touch-screen toward approximately a center region of the touch-screen while the touch input remains in contact with the touch-screen;
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- determining the expanding contact region as a touch pull-in gesture to initiate a display of a user interface component.
A portable computer device, comprising:
- at least a memory and a processor configured to implement a touch pull-in gesture that gives the appearance of dragging a user interface component onto a touch-screen for display;
- a touch-screen driver configured to detect a touch input that starts at an edge of the touch-screen and progresses as an expanding contact region from the edge of the touch-screen toward approximately a center region of the touch-screen while the touch input remains in contact with the touch-screen;
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- an interface application configured to receive gesture data that corresponds to the touch pull-in gesture from the touch-screen driver and determine the expanding contact region as the touch pull-in gesture to initiate a display of the user interface component.
Computer-readable media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a portable computer device, initiate the portable computer device to:
- detect a touch input that starts at an edge of a touch-screen and progresses as an expanding contact region from the edge of the touch-screen and across the touch-screen while the touch input remains in contact with the touch-screen;
- determine the expanding contact region as a touch pull-in gesture;
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- initiate a display of a user interface component proximate a location of the touch pull-in gesture on the touch-screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.