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US 9,310,886 B2Granted
Transient message display control
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsShirley Mary McKenna, Russell Speight VanBlon
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Abstract
A method includes observing via a camera of a device and a gaze tracking function that a user is looking at a transient message displayed on a display screen of a device, determining a time to remove the transient message from the display screen as a function of the observing, and removing the transient message as a function of the determined time.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- observing via a camera of a device and a gaze tracking function that a user is looking at a transient message displayed on a display screen of a device, wherein the observing comprises detecting a position of the transient message at which the user is looking;
- determining a time to remove the transient message from the display screen as a function of the observing, wherein determining a time to remove the message corresponds to the user looking at an end of the transient message;
- and
- removing the transient message as a function of the determined time, wherein removing the transient message comprises fading the message starting at the determined time, and wherein fading the message comprises:
- determining that a user has looked away from the transient message;
- pausing the fading;
- determining that a user is looking back at the transient message;
- and
- continuing the fading when it is determined that the user is looking back at the transient message.
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A non-transitory machine readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of the machine to perform:
- observing via a camera of a device and a gaze tracking function that a user is looking at a transient message displayed on a display screen of a device, wherein the observing comprises detecting a position of the transient message at which the user is looking;
- determining a time to remove the transient message from the display screen as a function of the observing, wherein determining a time to remove the message corresponds to the user looking at an end of the transient message, and wherein removing the transient message comprises fading the message starting at the determined time;
- and
- removing the transient message as a function of the determined time, and wherein fading the message comprises:
- determining that a user has looked away from the transient message;
- pausing the fading;
- determining that a user is looking back at the transient message;
- and
- continuing the fading when it is determined that the user is looking back at the transient message.
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A device comprising:
- a processor;
- a camera;
- and
- a memory device having a program stored thereon for execution by the processor to:
- observe via a camera of a device and a gaze tracking function that a user is looking at a transient message displayed on a display screen of a device, wherein observing comprises detecting a position of the transient message at which the user is looking;
- determine a time to remove the transient message from the display screen as a function of the observing, wherein the time to remove the message corresponds to the user looking at an end of the transient message;
- and
- remove the transient message as a function of the determined time, wherein the transient message is removed by fading the message starting at the determined time by:
- determining that a user has looked away from the transient message;
- pausing the fading;
- determining that a user is looking back at the transient message;
- and
- continuing the fading when it is determined that the user is looking back at the transient message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.