Sub-display input areas and hidden inputs
Disclosed in some examples are display systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a gesture-based method for specifying a region of a display in which to show shared content. Also disclosed are pairing methods for associating the region of the display with a content source device, methods for sharing content within the region, and methods for providing input from the region back to the content source device.
1. A device for designating an input sub-display area, the device comprising:
one or more hardware processors;
a memory, storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors to perform operations comprising:
identifying a gesture input directed to a display surface of a display, the gesture input defining a geometry of a first sub-display on the display;
responsive to the identifying the gesture input, creating the first sub-display based upon the geometry;
displaying the first sub-display by displaying a border of the first sub-display;
causing content selected by a user of a content source device to be displayed in the first sub-display of the display;
identifying a second gesture input directed to the display surface of the display, the second gesture input defining a geometry of a second sub-display on the display, the second sub-display having a different location from the first sub-display on the display;
responsive to the identifying the second gesture input, linking the second sub-display to the content source device and displaying the second sub-display by displaying a border of the second sub-display, the second sub-display displayed on the display at least partially simultaneous to the display of the first sub-display;
identifying an input directed to the second sub-display; and
causing the input directed to the second sub-display to be sent to the content source device.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein no content is displayed on the second sub-display and wherein the input entered on the second sub-display is not displayed on the second sub-display.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the input entered on the second sub-display is not displayed on the first sub-display.
4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
sending the identified input directed to the second sub-display directed to the second sub-display to the content source device; and
saving the input, by the content source device, separately from the content from the content source device.
5. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
sending the identified input directed to the second sub-display to the content source device; and
saving the input, by the content source device, as supplemental data of the content from the content source device correlated to a particular portion of the content from the content source device.
6. The device of claim 5 , wherein the content from the content source device is a presentation and secondary data are a plurality of notes, each note of the plurality of notes correlated to a particular slide of the presentation.
7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
identifying a second input directed to the first sub-display;
sending the second input to the content source device; and
causing display of the second input on the first sub-display.
8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations of linking the second sub-display to the content source device comprises linking an application executing on the content source device to the second sub-display, and wherein the operations of causing the input directed to the second sub-display to be sent to the content source device comprises causing the input entered on the second sub-display to be sent to the application on the content source device.
9. The device of claim 8 , wherein a second application generates the content displayed on the first sub-display.
10. The device of claim 1 , wherein the input is not displayed on the display.
11. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations of identifying the input directed to the second sub-display comprises:
receiving an input of a touchscreen of the display at coordinates of the display that are within the second sub-display, wherein the input is an input in front of the display, a gesture touching the display, or an input to an onscreen keyboard on the display.
12. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations of linking the second sub-display to the content source device comprises matching a first sub-display identifier from the display with a second sub-display identifier from the content source device.
13. The device of claim 12 , wherein the operations of causing the input directed to the second sub-display to be sent to the content source device comprises:
determining that the input corresponds to the second sub-display;
determining that the content source device is linked to the second sub-display based upon a sub-display information data structure;
determining an address of the content source device from the sub-display information data structure; and
transmitting the input, over a network, to the content source device at the address.
14. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise linking the first sub-display to the content source device by matching a first sub-display identifier from the display with a second sub-display identifier from the content source device.
15. A method of designating an input sub-display area, the method comprising:
using one or more hardware processors:
identifying a gesture input directed to a display surface of a display, the gesture input defining a geometry of a first sub-display on the display;
responsive to the identifying the gesture input, creating the first sub-display based upon the geometry;
displaying the first sub-display by displaying a border of the first sub-display;
causing content selected by a user of a content source device to be displayed in the first sub-display of the display;
identifying a second gesture input directed to the display surface of the display, the second gesture input defining a geometry of a second sub-display on the display, the second sub-display having a different location from the first sub-display on the display;
responsive to the identifying the second gesture input, linking the second sub-display to the content source device and displaying the second sub-display by displaying a border of the second sub-display, the second sub-display displayed on the display at least partially simultaneous to the display of the first sub-display;
identifying an input directed to the second sub-display; and
causing the input directed to the second sub-display to be sent to the content source device.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein no content is displayed on the second sub-display and wherein the input entered on the second sub-display is not displayed on the second sub-display.
17. The method of claim 15 , wherein the input entered on the second sub-display is not displayed on the first sub-display.
18. The method of claim 15 , further comprising:
sending the identified input directed to the second sub-display to the content source device; and
saving the input, by the content source device, separately from the content from the content source device.
19. A device for designating an input sub-display area, the device comprising:
means for identifying a gesture input directed to a display surface of a display, the gesture input defining a geometry of a first sub-display on the display;
means for creating the first sub-display based upon the geometry responsive to the identifying the gesture input;
means for displaying the first sub-display by displaying a border of the first sub-display;
means for causing content selected by a user of a content source device to be displayed in the first sub-display of the display;
means for identifying a second gesture input directed to the display surface of the display, the second gesture input defining a geometry of a second sub-display on the display, the second sub-display having a different location from the first sub-display on the display;
means for linking the second sub-display to the content source device and displaying the second sub-display by displaying a border of the second sub-display, the second sub-display displayed on the display at least partially simultaneous to the display of the first sub-display responsive to identifying the second gesture input;
means for identifying an input directed to the second sub-display; and
means for causing the input directed to the second sub-display to be sent to the content source device.
20. The device of claim 19 , wherein no content is displayed on the second sub-display and wherein the input entered on the second sub-display is not displayed on the second sub-display.