Methods of interfacing with multi-input devices and multi-input display systems employing interfacing techniques

摘要

Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-input devices employ various techniques for controlling the window framing of images. Such techniques provide control, including moving, sizing, and orientating, of one or more displayed window frames in which one or more images are displayed.

主权项

1. A method of interfacing with a multi-input display device, comprising the steps of:
displaying on a multi-input display device a graphical window and at least a first portion of an image not displayed in its entirety within the graphical window; accessing data that identifies a position and movement of three or more input elements that are simultaneously in contact with three or more different edges of the displayed graphical window; selecting, based on the accessed data,
a modification implemented when the three or more input elements are simultaneously in contact with the three or more different edges of the displayed graphical window, the modification simultaneously moving each of the three or more edges of the displayed graphical window contacted by the three or more input elements in a respective direction of identified movement of the respective input element normal to an axis of the respective edge while the position of the displayed first portion of the image remains unchanged relative to the display device; manipulating the displayed graphical window in accordance with the selected modification to reveal new content of the image not displayed in its entirety; and based on the manipulation of the displayed graphical window, displaying on the display device at least a second portion of the image not displayed in its entirety within the manipulated graphical window that is different from the first portion, but that includes the newly revealed content, wherein positions on the display device of common portions of the first and second portions of the image not displayed in its entirety are substantially the same.