Gesture-Based Content-Object Zooming
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsMichael J. Patten, Paul Armistead Hoover, Jan-Kristian Markiewicz
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Abstract
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for gesture-based content-object zooming. In some embodiments, the techniques receive a gesture made to a user interface displaying multiple content objects, determine which content object to zoom, determine an appropriate size for the content object based on bounds of the object and the size of the user interface, and zoom the object to the appropriate size.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining, based on a multi-finger zoom-in gesture having momentum, made over a user interface, and received through a gesture-sensitive display, a content object of multiple content objects in the user interface;
- and
- zooming the content object to bounds of the content object effective to substantially fill the user interface with the content object.
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer-readable storage devices having instructions stored thereon that are executable by the one or more processors to perform operations including:
- determining, based on a multi-finger zoom-in gesture having momentum, made over a user interface, and received through a gesture-sensitive display, a content object of multiple content objects in the user interface;
- and
- zooming the content object to bounds of the content object effective to substantially fill the user interface with the content object.
One or more computer-readable storage memories storing instructions thereon that, upon execution by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- determining, based on a multi-finger zoom-in gesture having momentum, made over a user interface, and received through a gesture-sensitive display, a content object of multiple content objects in the user interface;
- and
- zooming the content object to bounds of the content object effective to substantially fill the user interface with the content object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.