User interface for touchscreen device

A touch screen, mobile electronic device technology, applied in the input/output process of data processing, instruments, electrical digital data processing, etc. or unintentionally launched applications, wrong selections, etc., to achieve ergonomic results

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-05-20
RES IN MOTION LTD
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Therefore, touchscreens can easily lead to wrong selections and input errors
Furthermore, if the device is carried in the user's pocket and the device is not placed in an appropriate container or covered with a cover, the device is susceptible to receiving undesired input (such as an inadvertently triggered phone call or inadvertent Started application)

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[0030] As an example, details and features of the above-mentioned aspects of the present technology will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[0031] Fig. 1 schematically shows a wireless communication device 100 as an example of a mobile electronic device to which the present technology can be applied. As will be readily appreciated, the present technology may be implemented on any mobile or handheld electronic device with a touch screen, which may include, for example: (with or without wireless communication enabled personal digital assistants or "PDAs", GPS navigation units, palmtop or tablet computers (with or without wireless communication capabilities), MP3 players, portable electronic game consoles, etc.

[0032] The right side of FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating certain key components of the mobile electronic device 100 . It should be clearly understood that the diagram has been intentionally simplified in order to show only certain c...

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A free-flowing user interface for a touchscreen device of a mobile electronic device provides touch-sensitive application icons and a touch-sensitive hotspot having an optional activation radius surrounding the hotspot. A user can launch a selected application by touching the hotspot and then touching and dragging the application icon corresponding to the selected application onto the hotspot or at least partially into the activation radius surrounding the hotspot. Alternatively, an application can be launched by dragging the hotspot and its surrounding activation zone such that the hotspot or activation zone at least partially overlaps the application icon of the application to be launched. The free-flowing interface can be optionally enhanced by displacing icons onscreen, when dragged or when collisions occur between icons, based on at least one of a virtual inertia parameter, a virtual friction parameter and a virtual collision-elasticity parameter to create more realistic onscreen motion for the icons.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to mobile or handheld electronic devices with small-sized liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, and more particularly to handheld devices with touch-sensitive displays or touch screens. Background technique [0002] A variety of different touch screen technologies (e.g., resistive, capacitive, surface acoustic wave, infrared, strain gauge, optical imaging, dispersive signaling, acoustic pulse recognition) can be used to generate A touch-sensitive GUI that simultaneously displays content to the user. These touch screen devices (also referred to as "touch sensitive displays" or "touch screen panels") are becoming increasingly popular for use in consumer electronics such as GPS navigation devices, digital video recorders, and wireless handheld devices. Thus, touch screen devices may be used to replace or merely supplement other more traditional user input devices such as keyboards, keypads, trackballs, thumbwheels,...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/041G06F3/048G06F3/0488
CPCG06F3/0488G06F3/04883G06F3/0481
Inventor 里奥尼德·维梅尼茨萨菲娅·侯赛因奥利弗·NG
Owner RES IN MOTION LTD
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