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A system and method for implementing an efficient and easy to user interface for a touch screen device. A cursor may be placed by a user using simple inputs. The device operates places the cursor coarsely and refines the cursor placement upon further input from the user. Text may be selected using a...

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Main Authors JENNIFIER L. ANDERSON, JENNIFER WOLFE, GERRIT H. HOFMEESTER, JAN-KRISTIAN MARKIEWJEZ, AMISH PATEL, JEFFREY J. WEIR, RYAN DEMOPOULOS, STUART J. STUPLE, ANDREW R. BRAUNINGER, DAVID EARL WASHINGTON, MATTHEW J. KOTLER
Format Patent
LanguageChinese
English
Published 16.01.2013
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:A system and method for implementing an efficient and easy to user interface for a touch screen device. A cursor may be placed by a user using simple inputs. The device operates places the cursor coarsely and refines the cursor placement upon further input from the user. Text may be selected using a gripper associated with the cursor. The user interface allows text selection without occluding the text being selected with the user's finger or the gripper. For selecting text in a multi-line block of text, a dynamic safety zone is implemented to simplify text selection for the user.
Bibliography:Application Number: CN201210335577