Google Inc.

Motorola Corporation

Motorola Mobility LLC

Chad Austin Phipps

Jiri Slaby

Thomas Y Merrell

Louis Jerome Lundell

Mitul R Patel

John C Johnson

Jeffrey R DeVries

Michael Bohan

Rachid M Alameh

Roger William Ady

David B Cranfill

Hoi L Young

Conor P O'Sullivan

Jeremy S Slocum

Minh Quan Phan Huy

Susan L Tuttle

Elisa S Vargas

Yuen-Keen Cheong

Steven M Herbst

Xiaohua Ning

A method (FIG.) and apparatus () for user interface adaptation determines () a handedness of a user who is operating the handheld device, and changes () physical aspects of at least one touch target of a user touch interface of the handheld device to adapt to the handedness of the user when the handedness of the user is different than a current handedness of user touch interface of the handheld device.

Method and apparatus for user interface adaptation

An electronic device () includes a housing (). A touch sensitive surface () can be disposed along the housing. The touch sensitive surface can include a recessed surface feature () on a portion of the touch sensitive surface. A control circuit (), operable with the touch sensitive surface, can detect a predetermined gesture sequence () when a touch actuation along the touch sensitive surface interacts with the recessed surface feature.

Touch sensitive surface with recessed surface feature for an electronic device

A sensor structure () for a device includes both a fingerprint sensor () and one or more touch sensors (). As a user input of the user moving his or her finger across the sensor structure is received, an appropriate auxiliary functionality operation as indicated by the pattern of movement is identified and performed. Additionally, during the same user input the fingerprint sensor senses fingerprint data identifying a fingerprint on the user's finger, and an attempt is made to authenticate the user's fingerprint. Thus, as the user provides a user input by moving his or her finger across the sensor structure, both an attempt is made to authenticate the user's fingerprint based on fingerprint data sensed during the user input and the operation requested by the user input is performed.

Auxiliary functionality control and fingerprint authentication based on a same user input

A method (or) of key press prediction on a touch-based device or an apparatus () can entail registering () a position of a touch press attempt on an icon among a plurality of icons presented on the touch-base device, calculating () a distance from a center of the icon, calculating () a psychomotor probability for each icon in the plurality of icons, calculating () a linguistic probability for each icon in the plurality of icons, calculating () a predictive index for each icon in the plurality of icons based on the psychomotor probability and the linguistic probability, and registering () as a user selected icon, an icon with one among a highest predictive index () or a probability higher than a predetermined absolute value ().

Method and apparatus for psychomotor and psycholinguistic prediction on touch based device

A scrolling user interface comprises proportional scrolling responsive to contact in a proportional zone of a scrolling strip and multi-mode scrolling in response to contact in a multi-mode zone of the scrolling strip. Multi-mode scrolling can include proportional scrolling, continuous scrolling, or stepped scrolling.

User interface and method therefor

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Chad Austin Phipps