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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Stefan Kuhne, San Jose, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A virtual control is displayed on a touch-responsive display screen. The virtual control visually is displayed as multiple control segments, and layered over an active graphical user interface (GUI). When a contact and subsequent movement is detected on the surface of the display screen at a selected control segment, the selected control segment visually detaches and moves in the direction of the movement. Simultaneously, the GUI is instructed to cycle through a plurality of available program options based on a current position of the selected control segment on the display screen. When the contact is released, the GUI is set to a selected option corresponding to the current position of the selected control segment.