Information Handling System Touch Device with Visually Interactive Region
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsMichiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert, Jace W. Files, John T. Morrison, Mark R. Ligameri
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Abstract
A totem object placed on a touchscreen display provides inputs based upon touches made at the touchscreen display, such as with the rotational orientation or linear location of the totem object relative to a user interface presented outside the totem object. A visual access from the touchscreen display through the totem object passes a visual image from the touchscreen display for presentation at the totem object upper surface, such a numerical value of an input made by totem object position on the touchscreen display.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a processor operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory interfaced with the processor to store the instructions and information;
- a touchscreen display interfaced with the processor and operable to present the information as visual images and to detect touches at the touchscreen;
- a totem disposed on the touchscreen display, the totem having a perimeter and having a visual access to visual information presented at the touchscreen display within the totem perimeter;
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- a totem user interface manager interfaced with the touchscreen display to present a totem user interface at the touchscreen, the user interface including at least some visual information presented within the perimeter and outside the perimeter.
The information handling system of 4 further comprising a touch detection surface integrated in the cover that accepts end user touch inputs made at the visual image as inputs to the processor.
A method for presenting visual information at a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
- disposing an object on the touchscreen display, the object having a perimeter, a lower surface in contact with the display and a visual access of visual information presented at the touchscreen display within the perimeter;
- presenting a first user interface at the touchscreen display outside the perimeter, the first user interface associating an input value with a position of the object;
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- presenting a second user interface at the touchscreen display within the perimeter visible through the visual access.
An object that interfaces with a touchscreen display, the object comprising:
- a main body having a perimeter configured to accept a grasp by a hand;
- a visual access integrated in the main body to pass visual images presented at the touchscreen from a bottom surface of the main body to an upper surface of the main body for presentation at the upper surface to an end user;
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- a non-transitory memory storing instructions that execute on a processor to cause:
- presentation of a first user interface associated with the object at the touchscreen display outside of the perimeter;
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- presentation of a second user interface associated with the object at the touchscreen display within the perimeter and proximate the visual access so that the second user interface presents at the main body upper surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.