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US 6,642,458 B2Granted
Touch screen device and method for co-extensively presenting text characters and rendering ink in a common area of a user interface
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsGerald Thomas Panagrossi III, Steven Nowlan
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Abstract
A touch screen device and method for co-extensively and contrastingly presenting text characters (34) and rendering ink (36) in a common area of a user interface. The text characters (34) and the rendering ink (36) are presented in relative contrast such that co-extensive text characters (34) and rendering ink (36) are independently legible.
Claims15
A method for co-extensively presenting text characters and rendering ink on a display of an electronic device, the display including an input-sensitive surface, the method comprising the steps of:
- presenting text characters in a first state on the display;
- receiving rendering ink at the input-sensitive surface of the display;
- and
- presenting a non-overlapping portion of the text characters in a first state, a non-overlapping portion of the rendering ink in a second state, and an overlapping portion of the text characters and the rendering ink in a third state different from the first and second states.
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A electronic device comprising:
- a display capable of presenting co-extensively text characters and rendering ink;
- an input-sensitive surface adjacent to the display to receive the rendering ink;
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- a computing unit coupled to the display and the input-sensitive surface, the computing unit being effective to command the display to present a non-overlapping portion of the text characters in a first state, a non-overlapping portion of the rendering ink in a second state, and an overlapping portion of the text characters and the rendering ink in a third state different from the first and second states.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.