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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
Caroline Privault, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, FR;
Fabien Guillot, Grenoble, FR;
Yves Hoppenot, Notre-Dame-de-Mesage, FR;
Christophe Legras, Meylan, FR;
Caroline Privault, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, FR;
Fabien Guillot, Grenoble, FR;
Yves Hoppenot, Notre-Dame-de-Mesage, FR;
Christophe Legras, Meylan, FR;
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of configuring a widget and a tactile user interface which displays the widget are disclosed which enable menu-setting operations with minimal touch gestures and occupation of screen space. The interface includes a touch sensitive display device and memory which stores instructions for displaying the widget and a set of graphic objects together on the display device. The widget has two or more virtual sides, each of the sides being associated with a respective functionality. The widget is flipped, in response to a recognized touch gesture, from a first of the sides to a second of the sides, whereby the functionality of the widget is changed. The graphic objects are associated, in memory, with respective items having attributes. The graphic objects exhibit a response to the widget functionality of a currently displayed one of the sides of the widget based on the attributes of the respective items.