On-demand user control

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method for on-demand user control on a system having a display device, the method comprising:
detecting a user's intent to interact with a displayable control not yet shown on the display device by detecting the user's hand in relation to a touch sensitive display; selecting the type of displayable control to be rendered on the touch sensitive display device in response to the detection of the user's hand in relation to the touch sensitive display; displaying, on the touch sensitive display, the selected displayable control at a location on the touch sensitive display in response to detecting the user's intent and the location associated with the detected user's intent, displaying the selected displayable control comprising progressively rendering different portions of the selected displayable control's three dimensional depth in response to the detection of the presence of the user's hand approaching the touch sensitive display of the selected displayable control, a final appearance of the selected displayable control being rendered when a portion of the user's hand is positioned above a portion of the display and at least a portion of the selected displayable control; and receiving an interaction with the selected displayable control from the user; the appearance of the selected displayable control first rendered on the touch sensitive display is being based on the user's detected intent; and the progressively rendering different portions of the selected displayable control's three dimensional depth corresponding to the changing distance between the user's hand and the selected displayable control; and displaying the selected displayable control further comprising animating the touch sensitive display to cause the selected displayable control to appear to be morphed from a background image.