PRESSURE-SENSITIVE LAYERING OF DISPLAYED OBJECTS

摘要

First and second objects are displayed on a pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device. An intersection is detected between the objects. Contact by one or more input mechanisms is detected in a region that corresponds to the first displayed object. Pressure applied by at least one input mechanisms is sensed. The depth of the first displayed object is adjusted as a function of the sensed pressure. The depth of the displayed objects are determined at their detected intersection. The determined depths of the displayed objects are compared. Based on a result of comparing the determined depths, data is stored indicating that one of the displayed objects is overlapping the other. In addition, the displayed objects are displayed such that the overlapping displayed object is displayed closer to a foreground of the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device than the other displayed object.

主权项

1. In a pressure-sensitive touch-screen display, a method for dragging a displayed object relative to another displayed object, the method comprising:
displaying two or more objects on the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display; receiving a user input via one or more user interactions with the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display; sensing a pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display in a display region that corresponds to a first displayed object; adjusting one or more of a shape and a location of the first displayed object based on the sensed pressure while tracking movement of an input mechanism while the input mechanism remains in contact with the first displayed object; based on tracking movement of the input mechanism during the adjusting of the first displayed object, detecting an intersection between the first displayed object and a second displayed object; determining a depth of the first displayed object at the intersection between the first displayed object and the second displayed object as a function of the sensed pressure; determining a depth of the second displayed object at the detected intersection with the first displayed object; comparing the depth of the first displayed object with a depth of the second displayed object at their detected intersections; storing data based on the comparison that indicates that one of the first displayed object and the second displayed object is overlapping the other of the first displayed object and the second displayed object; and displaying based on the stored data the first displayed object and the second displayed object such that overlapping objects are displayed closer to a foreground of the display than the other objects.