Method and apparatus for adjusting and moving a user interface for single handed use on an endpoint device
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsCarlos M. Terrero, Roberto A. Irizarry
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Abstract
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for adjusting and moving a user interface for single handed use on an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method determines a thumb span of a hand of a user on a touch screen display of the endpoint device, detects via one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with a single hand, adjusting a size of the user interface to be within dimensions of the thumb span in response to the detecting and moves the user interface in a direction towards the single hand in response to the detecting.
Claims7
A method for adjusting and moving a reduced size user interface for single handed use on an endpoint device, comprising:
- determining, by a processor, a thumb span of a hand of a user on a touch screen display of the endpoint device;
- detecting, by the processor, that a button has been engaged to enable a single hand operation mode;
- detecting, by the processor, via one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with a single hand, wherein the detecting the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand further comprises detecting whether the user is holding the endpoint device with a left hand of the user or a right hand of the user, wherein the one or more sensors comprise a first temperature sensor on a left side of the endpoint device and a second temperature sensor on a right side of the endpoint device to determine the user is holding the endpoint device with the left hand when a first temperature measurement of the first temperature sensor is greater than and a second temperature measurement of the second temperature sensor, or the user is holding the endpoint device with the right hand when the second temperature measurement of the second temperature sensor is greater than the first temperature measurement of the first temperature sensor;
- in response to the detecting, via the one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand, reducing, by the processor, a size of an originally sized user interface to produce the reduced size user interface that is within dimensions of the thumb span of the determined single hand;
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- in response to the producing the reduced size user interface, moving, by the processor, the reduced size user interface in a direction towards the determined single hand that the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand;
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- in response to the moving the reduced size user interface in the direction towards the determined single hand, adding a vertical scroll bar and a horizontal scroll bar in the reduced size user interface while each one of the plurality of objects displayed on the reduced size user interface that maintains the same size as in the originally sized user interface and not reduced in proportion to the reduced size of the plurality of objects.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for adjusting and moving a reduced size user interface for single handed use on an endpoint device, the operations comprising:
- determining a thumb span of a hand of a user on a touch screen display of the endpoint device;
- detecting that a button has been engaged to enable a single hand operation mode;
- detecting via one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with a single hand wherein the detecting the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand further comprises detecting whether the user is holding the endpoint device with a left hand of the user or a right hand of the user, wherein the one or more sensors comprise a first temperature sensor on a left side of the endpoint device and a second temperature sensor on a right side of the endpoint device to determine the user is holding the endpoint device with the left hand when a first temperature measurement of the first temperature sensor is greater than and a second temperature measurement of the second temperature sensor, or the user is holding the endpoint device with the right hand when the second temperature measurement of the second temperature sensor is greater than the first temperature measurement of the first temperature sensor;
- in response to the detecting, via the one or more sensors on the endpoint device that the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand, reducing a size of an originally sized user interface to produce the reduced size user interface that is within dimensions of the thumb span of the determined single hand;
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- in response to the producing the reduced size user interface, moving the reduced size user interface in a direction towards the determined single hand that the user is holding the endpoint device with the single hand;
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- in response to the moving the reduced size user interface in the direction towards the determined single hand, adding a vertical scroll bar and a horizontal scroll bar in the reduced size user interface while each one of the plurality of objects displayed on the reduced size user interface that maintains the same size as in the originally sized user interface and not reduced in proportion to the reduced size of the plurality of objects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.