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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Qnx Software Systems Limited, Kanata, CA;

Inventor:

Danny Thomas Dodge, Ottawa, CA;

Assignee:

2236008 Ontario Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/033 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for on-demand user control may detect a user's intend to interact with a currently undisplayed user control. The user's intent may include, for example, a hand approaching a touch-sensitive screen device. In response to the detected intent, the currently undisplayed user control may be displayed. The choice and location of the displayed user control may be derived from a location associated with the detected intent. The user control may be displayed progressively giving the appearance of morphing, emerging or being extruded from the display screen. The user may interact with the displayed user control using, for example, gestures on the touch-sensitive screen device.


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