Apparatus and Method for Gesture Control of a Dual Panel Electronic Device
An electronic device includes a processor, a first touch screen and a second touch screen. The first touch screen displays an object. An object transition module executed by the processor includes executable instructions to map a gesture applied to the object to a set of object movement parameters and then move the object from the first touch screen to the second touch screen in accordance with the object movement parameters.
1 . An electronic device, comprising:
a processor, a first touch screen and a second touch screen, wherein the first touch screen displays an object; and
on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to:
map a gesture applied to the object to a set of object movement parameters, and
move the object from the first touch screen to the second touch screen in accordance with the object movement parameters.
2 . The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the gesture is a single touch gesture.
3 . The electronic device of claim 2 wherein the single touch gesture is a flick gesture characterized by some combination of position, velocity magnitude and velocity direction at the point of release from a contact point.
4 . The electronic device of claim 3 wherein the object transition module applies a physics-based computation to the object movement parameters.
5 . The electronic device of claim 4 wherein the physics-based computation utilizes assigned parameters to additional objects of the first touch screen and the second touch screen.
6 . The electronic device of claim 4 wherein the physics-based computation utilizes assigned parameters to portions of the first touch screen and the second touch screen.
7 . The electronic device of claim 1 wherein the object transition module models a discontinuity between the first touch screen and the second touch screen as a hill that an object must traverse.
8 . An electronic device, comprising:
a processor;
individual touch screens; and
on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to map a gesture to a set of object movement parameters and thereby trigger an exchange of contents between touch screens based on the object movement parameters.
9 . The electronic device of claim 8 wherein the gesture is a pinch gesture across a discontinuity between two touch screens.
10 . An electronic device, comprising:
a processor;
individual touch screens; and
on object transition module executed by the processor, the object transition module including executable instructions to:
identify a first gesture that designates a selected object on a first screen, and
identify a second gesture that moves the content of a second screen beneath the selected object on the first screen.
11 . The electronic device of claim 10 wherein the object transition module receives a third gesture to attach the selected object to the content of the second screen.
12 . The electronic device of claim 11 wherein the object transition module replaces the content of the second screen with content from the page following the content of the second screen.