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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Caroline Privault, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, FR;
Jacki O'neill, Grenoble, FR;
Jean-michel Renders, Quaix-en-Chartreuse, FR;
Victor Ciriza, La Tour du Pin, FR;
Yves Hoppenot, Notre Dame de Mesage, FR;
Gregory Bauduin, Echirolles, FR;
Ana Fucs, Meylan, FR;
YE Deng, Meylan, FR;
Grégoire Gerard, Villeurbanne, FR;
Mathieu Knibiehly, Lyons, FR;
Caroline Privault, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, FR;
Jacki O'Neill, Grenoble, FR;
Jean-Michel Renders, Quaix-en-Chartreuse, FR;
Victor Ciriza, La Tour du Pin, FR;
Yves Hoppenot, Notre Dame de Mesage, FR;
Gregory Bauduin, Echirolles, FR;
Ana Fucs, Meylan, FR;
Ye Deng, Meylan, FR;
Grégoire Gerard, Villeurbanne, FR;
Mathieu Knibiehly, Lyons, FR;
XEROX CORPORATION, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented tactile user interface (TUI) and a method of manipulating objects with a virtual magnet are provided. The TUI includes a display comprising a touch-screen. The display is configured for displaying a set of graphic objects, each graphic object representing a respective one of a set of items, such as documents, e.g., text documents or images. A virtual magnet is caused to move on the display, in response to touching on the touch-screen, e.g., by dragging a finger or other implement across. The magnet is associated with a particular function command such that a subset of the graphic objects exhibits a response to the virtual magnet (e.g., is caused to move, relative to the virtual magnet or exhibits another visible response), each graphic object in the subset moving or otherwise responding as a function of an attribute of the underlying item represented by the graphic object.