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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kandasubramaniam K. Palanisamy, Hillsboro, OR (US);
James W. Edwards, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Thomas J. Pett, Portland, OR (US);
Daria A. Loi, Portland, OR (US);
Jered H. Wikander, Portland, OR (US);
David W. Browning, Beaverton, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present application is directed to dynamic input mode selection. In general, a system may sense a user's finger approaching a surface of a display (e.g., an imminent user touch input) and, depending on at least one trigger condition, may perform at least one output operation. For example, a first trigger condition may cause a display to enlarge at least a portion of a displayed image based on the imminent user touch input, a second trigger condition may cause the display to present a menu corresponding to an object in the enlarged portion, etc. This functionality may be implemented utilizing either an operating system (OS)-aware configuration or an OS-unaware configuration. In an OS-aware configuration, an intent-to-touch (ITT) module may utilize application program interfaces (APIs) in the OS to facilitate display zooming, menu presentation, coordinate translation, etc. In an OS-unaware configuration, the ITT module may facilitate these actions without OS assistance.