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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Hannah Rebecca Lewbel, Campbell, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of methods, systems and storage media associated with modification of non-active bezels on touchscreens of portable computing devices, such as tablet computers are described herein. A tablet computer with a touchscreen may incorporate a bezel that may provide a non-active area where a user may grip or otherwise touch the tablet computer without activation of the touchscreen. The bezel may surround, or otherwise form an edge of, an active area of the touchscreen. The bezel may be a virtual bezel that is displayed on the touchscreen, or may be a mechanical bezel that covers or otherwise limits access to the touchscreen. The tablet computer may modify the size and/or shape of the bezel based after detecting interactions by a user with the device that indicate a desire to change the shape and/or size of the active area of the touchscreen.