Navigating long distances on navigable surfaces
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsJohnny S. Campbell, Safiya Bhojawala, Samuel Radakovitz
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Abstract
Aspects disclosed herein relate to the use of navigational control UI elements to aid in navigating large surfaces on a touchscreen device. The navigational control UI element may be operable to facilitate traversal of the navigable surface along the axis upon which the navigational control UI element is placed. In alternate examples, the navigational control element may be operable to provide functionality to traverse or adjust the navigable surface along both the horizontal vertical axes. In still further aspects, other types of navigational control UI elements may provide the ability to directly jump to a specific position on the navigable surface.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- at least one processing unit;
- and
- at least one memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the system to perform a method, the method comprising:
- displaying, on a touch display, a navigable surface comprising a size indicator indicative of the size of the navigable surface, the size indicator having a first size, wherein the first sized is determined based upon the navigable surface;
- receiving one or more touch inputs on the navigable surface;
- determining, based upon the one or more touch inputs, whether long distance traversal is intended;
- and
- when long distance traversal is intended, displaying a navigational control, wherein the navigational control is operable to control long distance traversal of the navigable surface.
A method comprising:
- displaying, on a touch display, a navigable surface comprising a size indicator indicative of the size of the navigable surface, the size indicator having a first size, wherein the first sized is determined based upon the navigable surface;
- receiving one or more touch inputs on the navigable surface;
- determining, based upon the one or more touch inputs, whether long distance traversal is intended;
- and
- when long distance traversal is intended, displaying a navigational control, wherein the navigational control is operable to control long distance traversal of the navigable surface.
A computer storage medium encoding computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, perform a method comprising:
- displaying, on a touch display, a navigable surface comprising a size indicator indicative of the size of the navigable surface, the size indicator having a first size, wherein the first sized is determined based upon the navigable surface;
- receiving one or more touch inputs on the navigable surface;
- determining, based upon the one or more touch inputs, whether long distance traversal is intended;
- and
- when long distance traversal is intended, displaying a navigational control, wherein the navigational control is operable to control long distance traversal of the navigable surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.