Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Sayim Kim

Michael J Kruzeniski

Jonathan David Friedman

Audrey C Louchart

David Henry Wykes

Kathleen W Holmes

Joseph P Marquardt

Hok-Sum Horace Luke

William Hong Vong

Kabir Siddiqui

Matthew Evan Vogel

Avijit Sinha

Olivier Michel Destrebecq

Ronald Di Sandro

Robert Strong

Olivier Destrebecq

Matthew Vogel

Semantic zoom based navigation may be used to navigate content, such as content related to spreadsheets. Different gestures (e.g. pinch/stretch, pan, swipe) may be used while navigating the content. For example, while viewing data from a particular sheet in a workbook a pinch gesture may be received that changes the displayed content to a thumbnail view showing thumbnails that each represent a different sheet within the workbook. A gesture may also be received to change a view of an object. For example, a user may perform a stretch gesture near an object (e.g. a chart, graph, . . . ) that changes the current view to a view showing underlying data for the object. A user may also perform a gesture (e.g. a stretch gesture) on a portion of a displayed object that changes the current view to a view showing the underlying data for a specific portion of the object.

Semantic zoom-based navigation of displayed content

In an implementation, a mobile communications device includes a display device having touchscreen functionality, a keyboard having a plurality of physical keys that include a dedicated key and letter keys arranged according to a QWERTY layout, and one or more modules. The one or more modules are configured to output a user interface on the display device responsive to selection of the dedicated key, the user interface having a plurality of portions that are selectable via the touchscreen functionality to cause input of a respective one of a plurality of emoticons.

Alternative inputs of a mobile communications device

Systems and methods are presented herein for creating and using a multi-function device that allows a user to transform the device into the desired feature-set form which permit access to that feature's functions, without a need for a user to traverse a series of interface menus to get to the desired functionality. In an exemplary embodiment, the device can be transformed into a phone, a media player, and a camera.

Transforming media device

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