Detection of a held touch on a touch-sensitive display
OwnerAkihiko Ikeda, James M. Manninventors
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Abstract
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.
Claims15
A computing device for detection of touches, the computing device comprising:
- a touch-sensitive display;
- and
- a processor to:
- detect a touch held at a given position of the touch-sensitive display for a duration of time,
- track movement of the touch while the touch remains held on the touch-sensitive display, and
- activate a user interface object located at a position of a release of the held touch.
A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a computing device including a touch-sensitive display, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:
- instructions for detecting a touch held at a given position of the touch-sensitive display;
- instructions for tracking movement of the touch while the touch is held on the touch-sensitive display;
- instructions for detecting a release of the touch from the touch-sensitive display;
- and
- instructions for activating a user interface object located at a position of the release of the touch.
A method for detection of touches on a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising:
- detecting a touch held for a predetermined duration of time at a given position of a graphical user interface (GUI) outputted on the touch-sensitive display;
- tracking movement of the touch on the touch-sensitive display while the touch remains held;
- detecting a release of the touch from the touch-sensitive display;
- and
- taking an action on a user interface object located in the GUI at a position of the release of the touch, the action corresponding to an action taken in response to a single tap of the user interface object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.