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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
Flow Labs, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hendrik Frans Verwoerd Boshoff, Stellenbosch, ZA;
Filippus Lourens Andries Du Plessis, Stellenbosch, ZA;
Willem Morkel Van Der Westhuizen, Stellenbosch, ZA;
Jan Pool, Stellenbosch, ZA;
Johannes Petrus Van Zyl, Stellenbosch, ZA;
Adri Van Der Merwe, Durbanville, ZA;
Flow Labs, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a method for dynamic user control over the layout of a graphical user interface. The method includes the steps of receiving a description of the way in which a control region in the interface is allocated to a plurality of virtual objects, without object overlap, receiving the position of a user point, reallocating a fraction of the control region from at least one object to a different object, based on the user point position, allocating a part of a display region in the interface to at least one of the objects, based on the current allocation of the control region to said object, but with control-display decoupling, and repeating the previous three steps fast enough that the user will perceive the changes as substantially continuous.