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US 2014/0157201 A1Published application
Touch screen hover input handling
OwnerSami Pekka Ronkaineninventor
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Apparatus has at least one processor and memory having computer-readable code when executed, in a normal mode, to cause display of plural discrete items on a touch screen, and, in response to detecting a user's digit at a location hovering over but not touching the screen while plural discrete items are being displayed, to enter a zoom-pan mode and cause zooming of displayed plural discrete items and to respond to detection of movement of the user's digit to a different hover location over the screen by causing panning of plural discrete items displayed on the screen, and to respond to detection of a touch input by entering a pointing mode to prevent panning of the displayed plural discrete items with movement of location of the touch input within predefined criteria, and to cause movement of a cursor, pointer or marker as location of the touch input changes.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
Apparatus, the apparatus having at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored thereon which when executed controls the at least one processor:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable code, which, when executed by computing apparatus, causes the computing apparatus to perform a method comprising:
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