Method and apparatus for text selection
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1. but spatially separated from the touch portion FIG 10 U S Patent Sep 24 2013 Sheet 10 of 11 US 8 543 934 B1 Detect a location of a text selection icon on a 1110 display of an electronic device Detect touch input representing a selection of text 1120 displayed on the display using the text selection icon If the detected location of the text selection icon is 1130 maintained within a zone adjacent an edge of the display the displayed text is selected on a row by row basis If the detected location of the text selection icon 1140 moves outside said zone the displayed text is selected on a letter by letter basis FIG 11 U S Patent Sep 24 2013 Sheet 11 of 11 US 8 543 934 B1 Detect a first touch input representing a selection 1210 of multiple rows of text displayed on a touch sensitive display of the electronic device Determine whether a complete row of text has 1220 been selected from a start point or to an end point of the selected text Display a paragraph selection handle proximal to 1230 said row the paragraph selection handle being responsive to a second touch input to place the electronic device in a paragraph selection mode for the selection of text FIG 12 US 8 543 934 BI 1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT SELECTION The present application is a continuation of application Ser No 13 459 980 filed Apr 30 2012 titled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEXT SELECTION the contents of which i2. 6 2012 Di Cocco et al 6 2012 Kallio et al 2012 0167009 Al 6 2012 Davidson et al 2012 0223959 Al 9 2012 Lengeling 2012 0268388 Al 10 2012 Razzaghi oc 345 173 2012 0306772 Al 12 2012 Tanetal 2012 0311437 Al 12 2012 Weeldreyer et al FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS EP 0880090 A2 11 1998 EP 0880090 A3 11 1998 EP 1847917 A2 10 2007 EP 1847917 A3 10 2007 EP 1850217 A2 10 2007 EP 1909161 Al 4 2008 EP 2077491 Al 7 2009 EP 2109046 Al 10 2009 EP 2128750 A2 12 2009 EP 2146271 A2 1 2010 EP 2184686 Al 5 2010 EP 2256614 Al 12 2010 EP 2282252 Al 2 2011 EP 2293168 A1 3 2011 EP 2320312 A1 5 2011 EP 2336851 A2 6 2011 EP 2402846 A2 1 2012 EP 2420925 A2 2 2012 EP 2431842 A2 3 2012 JP 2011 197782 A 10 2011 JP 2012 68963 A 4 2012 KP KR20120030652 A 3 2012 WO 03 029950 A2 4 2003 WO 03 054681 Al 7 2003 WO 2004 001560 Al 12 2003 WO 2006 100509 A2 9 2006 WO 2007 068505 Al 6 2007 WO 2007 076210 Al 7 2007 WO 2007 134433 Al 11 2007 WO WO2008 057785 A2 5 2008 WO 2009 019546 A2 2 2009 WO 2010 035574 Al 4 2010 WO WO2010 035574 Al 4 2010 WO WO2010 099835 Al 9 2010 WO WO2010 112841 A1 10 2010 WO 2011 073992 A2 6 2011 WO WO2011 073992 A2 6 2011 WO 2011 098925 Al 8 2011 WO WO2011 113057 Al 9 2011 WO 2012 043932 Al 4 2012 OTHER PUBLICATIONS BlackBerry Seeker Freeware Pattern Lock v1 0 7 http www blackberryseeker com applications preview Pattern Lock v 107 aspx Jul 28 2009 Chong et al Exploring the Use of Discrete Gestures for Authentica
3. and that by dragging the touch portion 830 the content selec tion portion 810 will also be moved Referring back to FIG 7C although the part of the selection area 720 that the user touched has moved away because the extended selection handle 777 has been displayed the user will see a connection between where they originally pressed and where the corre sponding selection area 720 has now moved to The extended selection handle 777 may be displayed as an animation showing a transformation of the original selection handle 730 US 8 543 934 BI 11 to the extended selection handle 777 Such an animation may be a neck portion extending out of the original selection handle 730 at the same rate as the underlying content moves up 780 FIG 9A shows an electronic device 100 with a touch sensitive display 118 displaying a first and second paragraph 910 and 911 a selection area 930 and an extended selection handle 777 coupled to the start of the selection area 930 If a user touches 940 the touch portion of the extended selection handle 777 and drags 950 it to a different location the user s finger or other touch object may not obscure the start area of the selection area 930 because the start of the selection area 930 is spatially separated from the touch portion of the extended selection handle 777 Therefore the user may adjust the selection area 930 while still being able to see where the start of the selection area 930 is being moved
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5. Interaction with Direct Touch Surfaces UIST 09 Oct 4 7 2009 Victoria British Columbia Canada 10 pages cited by examiner U S Patent Sep 24 2013 Sheet 1 of 11 US 8 543 934 B1 100 134 Other Short range 132 subsystems communications 146 Operating 108 system Auxiliary V O j 124 ee i processor ieee Controller 116 106 TL 114 104 Communication subsysem Display 11 4 I N 102 11 D to 138 142 source FIG 1 Co U S Patent Sep 24 2013 Sheet 2 of 11 US 8 543 934 B1 FIG 3 US 8 543 934 BI Sheet 3 of 11 Sep 24 2013 U S Patent wissod 91958 awixew ponb pi snului onb ndruuoo nbly COUN OSIP ejipedxe ja se Spare pnb ueidt 13 bry ye winoge ise pi snwionp ou sjejpidno uou 92088000 Juls udaoxe sens jow senb ja s lojoq juejep uunnueseejd sy puejq inb owissiubip oipo olsni ja WAN so wissod 31308 wxew ponb 0 pi snuiw onb ndnuoo enbyy r 13 Bry je unuoqej ise pl Och snwionp ou ejejipidno uou 98092000 JUIS uydeoxe OLf Sel1s ouu Senb je s Jojoq iuejep unnueseeid sy puejq inb OWISSIUBIP oipo ojsni ja ZZ veas 09 CJ8A JY juejep uunnueseeJd shipue q inb OWISSIUBIp oipo ojsni je snulesnooe 18 S09 O19A JV US 8 543 934 BI Sheet 4 of 11 Sep 24 2013 U S Patent onb ndnuioo anbyy ondo Ipueblja siqou enjos uino asodwa OJadi WEN COUNISIP E 04S SIIPUE q in
6. Similarly the end of the selection area 930 may be moved through use of an extended selection handle coupled to the end of the selection area 930 However as the user performs a drag to move the extended selection handle 777 there may be a delay between the receipt of the touch input indicating a drag and the updating of the display to show the new position of the extended selection handle 777 and selection area 930 A result of such a delay may be that the user s finger or other touch object does obscure a part of the selection area 930 or nearby text as the drag is performed In other words the selection area 930 may not be able to move as fast as the drag motion and may become obscured as a result Also as a user s finger changes position on the touch sensitive display 118 the angle the finger makes to the display may change and there may be a difference between location where the touch is registered and the location the user thinks they are touching FIG 9B provides a possible solution to this problem As the extended selection handle is moved the neck portion may extend 977 to increase the distance between the touch portion and the content selection portion In other words to prevent the physical location of the touch object catching up with the coupled part of the selection area 935 the neck portion extends faster than the finger moves This extension may also cater fora changed angle of the user s finger The length of
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8. and away from the edge because of the natural curvature ofa thumb s movement This may lead to text selection by letter rather than by row Similarly in FIG 5B the natural curvature of movement of a user s right thumb may result in a gesture 570 starting at point 560 to deviate from a straight line path and a curve into the text This curvature may be further exaggerated by perform ing the gesture quickly One way to solve the above problem is to incorporate a dedicated row by row selection mode such as is illustrated in FIGS 6A to 6C FIG 6A shows a portion of a display 114 containing text 610 a selection area 620 and a selection handle 630 Inthis example the selection handle 630 has been dragged to the side of the text and in doing so has enabled a row by row selection mode Upon entering this mode mov ing the selection handle 630 up and down 660 results in the same behavior as the letter by letter based row by row implementation This is because moving the selection handle 630 up and down 660 snaps the corresponding end of the selection area 620 to the row closest to the selection handle 630 In this row selection mode there may be a threshold area 640 provided such that when a selection handle 630 is moved outside of this threshold area 640 the selection mode returns to letter by letter selection mode For example moving the selection handle 630 into the text region or letter by letter selection mode region 650 may caus
9. the neck portion may change dynamically depending on factors including the speed of the drag position of the selection area with respect to the edges of the screen the detected angle of the user s finger and the size of the font of the content being selected The neck portion may have a maximum length and it may have a minimum length A flowchart illustrating a method of modifying a selection handle is shown in FIG 10 The method may be carried out by software executed for example by the processor 102 Coding of software for carrying out such a method is within the scope of a person of ordinary skill in the art given the present description The method may contain additional or fewer processes than shown and or described and may be per formed in a different order Computer readable code execut able by at least one processor of the portable electronic device to perform the method may be stored in a computer readable medium which may be a non transitory or tangible storage medium In the method shown in FIG 10 a content selection icon is displayed on a touch sensitive display of an electronic device 1010 A touch input is detected at a location operable to select 0 a 5 40 45 55 60 12 a content selection function associated with the content selec tion icon 1020 On detecting the touch the content selection icon is modified to display a touch portion at a location on the display corresponding to the detecte
10. the display using the text selection icon 1130 If the detected location of the text selection icon is maintained within a zone adjacent an edge of the display the displayed text is selected on a row by row basis 1130 If the detected location of the text selection icon moves outside this zone the displayed text is selected on a letter by letter basis 1140 Selection Handle Selection handles may be used for controlling selection areas on a display Examples of the use of said selection handles have been previously Methods are now described which improve on existing selection handle technology and may be used in any combination with the methods previously described or may be implemented independently FIG 7A shows an electronic device with a touch sensitive screen and displayed on that screen is a first paragraph of text 710 a second paragraph of text 711 and a picture 712 In an example a selection 720 has already been made and a start selection handle 730 and end selection handle 740 are dis 30 35 40 45 65 10 played in connection with the start and end points of the selection 720 This selection 720 may have been made by an earlier touch input FIG 7B shows a user 760 touching the selection handle 730 and in doing so obscuring the selection handle 730 and also letters near to the touch area 750 A problem therefore arises in that the user is unable to see the current location of the selection handle 730 will not b
11. zone adjacent the edge of the display 2 The method according to claim 1 further comprising determining a movement ofthe text selection icon wherein the determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is within or outside the zone adjacent the edge of the display is made throughout the movement 3 An electronic device comprising a touch screen display configured to receive touch input at least one processor configured to detect a location of a text selection icon on the display detect a touch input reflecting a selection of text displayed on the display using the text selection icon determine a zone adjacent an edge of the display wherein a width of the zone is narrower at a starting point in a movement ofthe text selection icon than the width ofthe zone at a later point in the movement and select displayed text in a row selection mode responsive to a determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is within the zone adjacent the edge ofthe display or selecting displayed text in a letter selection mode responsive to a determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is outside the zone adjacent the edge of the display 4 The electronic device according to claim 3 wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine a movement of the text selection icon wherein the determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is within or o
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17. a and is not part of the physical housing or frame ofthe electronic device Typically no pixels ofthe display are in the non display area thus no image can be displayed by the display 112 in the non display area Optionally a secondary display not part of the primary dis play 112 may be disposed under the non display area Touch sensors may be disposed in the non display area which touch sensors may be extended from the touch sensors in the display area or distinct or separate touch sensors from the touch sensors in the display area A touch including a gesture may be associated with the display area the non display area or both areas The touch sensors may extend across substantially the entire non display area or may be disposed in only part of the non display area Example Smartphone Electronic Device Referring now to FIG 2 a front view of an example elec tronic device 100 which is a smartphone 201 is illustrated The smartphone 201 is a mobile phone which offers more advanced computing capability than a basic non smartphone cellular phone For example the smartphone 201 may have the ability to run third party applications which are stored on the smartphone The smartphone 201 may include the components dis cussed above with reference to FIG 1 or a subset of those components The smartphone 201 includes a housing which houses at least some of the components discussed above with reference to FIG 1 The example smartphone 201
18. also includes other input interfaces such as one or more buttons keys or navigational input mechanisms In the example illustrated at least some of these additional input interfaces are disposed for actuation at a front side of the smartphone Example Tablet Electronic Device Referring now to FIG 3 a front view of an example elec tronic device 100 which is a tablet computer 301 is illustrated The tablet computer 301 may include many of the same features and components of the smartphone 201 of FIG 2 However the tablet computer 301 of FIG 3 is generally larger than the smartphone 201 The tablet computer 301 may include the components discussed above with reference to US 8 543 934 BI 5 FIG 1 or a subset of those components The tablet computer 301 includes a housing which houses at least some of the components discussed above with reference to FIG 1 Content Selection The display 112 of an electronic device 100 is primarily used for displaying content Through the use of user input means on the electronic device 100 such as touch sensors 114 the user can select content to perform actions on User interfaces should provide a user with a way of efficiently and intuitively selecting which content they wish to select In the following description text based content type will be used for illustrating improved methods of selecting con tent However it should be clear that the proposed solutions can be implemented with content typ
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20. ble electronic device in accordance with the disclosure FIG 2 is a front view of a smartphone in accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure FIG 3 is a front view of a tablet computer is accordance with example embodiments of the present disclosure FIGS 4A to 4C illustrate an electronic device in accor dance with an embodiment showing the initiation of a para graph selection mode FIGS 5A and 5B illustrate an electronic device in accor dance with an embodiment showing example touch inputs FIGS 6A to 6C illustrate a method of switching between row and letter selection in accordance with the disclosure FIGS 7A to 7C illustrate an electronic device in accor dance with an embodiment showing the movement of content in response to a touch input FIGS 8A to 8C show a selection handle in accordance with the disclosure FIGS 9A and 9B illustrate an electronic device in accor dance with an embodiment showing the extension of a selec tion handle in response to user input FIG 10 is a flowchart illustrating a method of modifying a selection icon in accordance with the disclosure FIG 11 is a flowchart illustrating a method of row by row selection in accordance with the disclosure and 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 2 FIG 12 is a flowchart illustrating a method of paragraph selection in accordance with the disclosure DETAILED DESCRIPTION The following describes an apparatu
21. built in monitors or displays in furniture or appliances and so forth Example Electronic Device A block diagram of an example of an electronic device 100 is shown in FIG 1 The electronic device 100 includes mul tiple components such as a processor 102 that controls the overall operation of the electronic device 100 Communica tion functions including data and voice communications are performed through a communication subsystem 104 Data received by the electronic device 100 is decompressed and decrypted by a decoder 106 The communication subsystem 104 receives messages from and sends messages to a wireless network 150 The wireless network 150 may be any type of wireless network including but not limited to data wireless networks voice wireless networks and networks that support both voice and data communications A power source 142 such as one or more rechargeable batteries or a port to an external power supply powers the electronic device 100 The processor 102 interacts with other components such as a Random Access Memory RAM 108 memory 110 a touch sensitive display 118 one or more actuators 120 one or more force sensors 122 an auxiliary input output I O sub system 124 a data port 126 a speaker 128 a microphone 130 short range communications 132 and other device sub systems 134 The touch sensitive display 118 includes a dis play 112 and touch sensors 114 that are coupled to atleast one controller 116 that is u
22. d of Classification Search 57 ABSTRACT USPC eene nennen 715 781 773 863 864 A method includes displaying a content selection icon on a See application file for complete search history touch sensitive display of an electronic device detecting touch input at a touch location on the display operable to 56 References Cited select a content selection function associated with the content U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 3 872 433 A 3 1975 Holmes et al 4 408 302 A 10 1983 Fessel et al 5 261 009 A 11 1993 Bokser 5 664 127 A 9 1997 Andersonetal 715 776 5 832 528 A 11 1998 Kwatinetz et al 5 963 671 A 10 1999 Comerford et al At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimo qui blanditis praesentium delenit non eliggendi discinco optio Nam libero tempore cum soluta nobis eligendi optio et aut rerum saepe eveniet ut et voluptates repudiandae sint et molestiae Itaque earum rerum hic tenetur a selection icon and modifying the displayed content selection icon to display a touch portion at a location on the display corresponding to said detected touch location and a content selection portion operatively coupled to but spatially sepa rated from the touch portion 4 Claims 11 Drawing Sheets 650 US 8 543 934 BI Page 2 56 References Cited 2009 0247112 Al 10 2009 Lundy et al 2009 0251410 Al 10 2009 Mori et al 2009 0254818 Al 10 2009 Jania et al U S PATENT DOCUMENTS 2009 02
23. d touch location and a content selection portion operatively couple to but spatially separated from the touch portion 1030 The present disclosure may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from its spirit or essential character istics The described embodiments are to be considered in all respects only as illustrative and not restrictive The scope of the disclosure is therefore indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description All changes that come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are to be embraced within their scope The invention claimed is 1 A method for an electronic device comprising detecting a location of a text selection icon on a touch screen display of the electronic device detecting touch input reflecting a selection of text dis played on the display using the text selection icon determining a zone adjacent an edge of the display which comprises determining that a width of the zone is nar rower at a starting point in a movement of the text selec tion icon than the width ofthe zone at a later point in the movement and selecting displayed text in a row selection mode responsive to a determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is within the zone adjacent the edge ofthe display or selecting displayed text in a letter selection mode responsive to a determination that the detected location of the text selection icon is outside the
24. e able to accurately deter mine what is currently selected when adjusting the selection area 720 One proposed solution is illustrated in FIG 7C On per forming a touch interaction with the selection handle 730 the contents of the display may move 780 such that the text in close proximity to the touched selection handle 730 is not obscured by the touch input object 760 In this way the user may be able to view the content just selected Also or instead of this movement 780 an extended selection handle 777 may appear This extended selection handle 777 may provide a graphical link between the point of touch on the touch sensi tive display 118 and the corresponding end of a selection area 720 The touch point may not only be graphically coupled to the end of the selection area 720 by the extended selection handle 777 but may also be operatively coupled to it There fore if the touch point moves for example because the user 760 performs a drag while still touching on the selection handle 777 the corresponding end of the selection area 720 may move as well FIG 8A shows a more detailed view of the extended selec tion handle 777 On this extended selection handle 777 there may be a touch portion 830 also referred to as a handle a neck portion 820 also referred to as a cursor neck and a content selection portion 810 also referred to as a content selection portion The touch portion 830 may be the portion of the
25. e row by row mode to end This is illustrated in FIG 6B which shows the resulting US 8 543 934 BI 9 selection area 621 from such a movement 665 of the selection handle 630 into the text region Continuing to move the selec tion handle 630 within the threshold area may result in row by row selection mode to be maintained as shown in FIG 6C where the selection area 622 has been extended by row The threshold area 640 may vary in width to compensate for the aforementioned curvature of thumb movement By causing the threshold area to increase with area 640 at regions further from the start point of the selection handle 630 it may allow for more horizontal variation in the movement of the selection handle The width of the threshold area 640 at vari ous points along its length may be controlled dynamically such that it varies according to various factors One such factor may be the number of rows already selected since there is a higher chance that the user will continue to remain in row by row selection mode if a large number of rows have already been selected Moreover the width of the threshold area 640 may be increased so as to require a larger more deliberate movement of the selection handle 630 into the text area 650 before letter by letter mode is activated instead of row by row selection The threshold area 640 may increase as more rows are selected Similarly if the selection area 620 is reduced the likelihood of returning t
26. ents e g horizontal and vertical components respectively with respect to one s view of the touch sensitive display 118 For example the x location component may be determined by a signal generated from one touch sensor and the y location component may be determined by a signal generated from another touch sensor A touch may be detected from any suitable input member such as a finger thumb appendage or other objects for example a stylus active or passive pen or other pointer based on the nature of the touch sensitive display 118 Multiple simultaneous touches may be detected One or more gestures may also be detected by the touch sensitive display 118 A gesture such as a swipe also known as a flick is a particular type of touch on a touch sensitive display 118 and may begin at an origin point and continue to an end point for example a concluding end of the gesture A gesture may be identified by attributes of the gesture includ ing the origin point the end point the distance traveled the duration the velocity and the direction for example A ges ture may be long or short in distance and or duration Two points of the gesture may be utilized to determine a direction of the gesture gesture may also include a hover A hover 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 4 may be a touch at a location that is generally unchanged over a period of time or is associated with the same selection item fo
27. es other than text Text is used to illustrate the methods as it is a good example of a content type that would benefit from such methods particu larly because there are a number of ways it can be grouped Textual content may be treated as individual letters or it may be considered as grouping of letters in the form of words or groupings of words in the form of sentences or other group ings such as by row paragraph column and page Given how many different ways there are of grouping text there may also be different ways a user may wish to select it as a user may be more interested in selecting a certain para graph than a certain word Finer tuned selections such as selection by letter allow for greater accuracy of the selection but would take longer to perform for larger selections such as selection by paragraph A user interface may enable a user to perform both fine tuned and larger selections allowing the user intuitively to switch between the different granularities for text selection Paragraph Selection FIGS 4A to 4C illustrate a method of switching between granularities of selection In these examples the method pro vides a way of performing letter by letter selection as well as paragraph selection FIG 4A shows an electronic device 100 with a touch sensitive display 118 the touch sensitive display 118 dis playing four paragraphs of text 405 410 420 and 430 a selected portion of text 450 and selection handles at
28. his expansion is the result of a movement ofthe end selection handle 460 to the end of the row thereby selecting the whole end row ofthe selected portion oftext 451 and thus providing the device 100 with an indication that a paragraph selection mode may be required The paragraph selection handle 470 may be positioned on the same row as the complete row just selected In this example the paragraph selection handle 470 appears on the bottom row as that is the complete row just selected by movement of the end selection handle 460 The paragraph selection handle 470 may also be positioned this way because the most likely direction of fur ther paragraph selection may be downwards if the end selec tion handle 460 has been moved to the end of the row Similarly if the start selection handle 440 is moved to completely select a row as shown in FIG 4C then a para graph selection handle 480 may be displayed on a first row of the newly expanded selected text 452 In FIG 4C paragraph selection handles are displayed both on the top 480 and bot tom 470 ofthe selected text 452 as both start 440 and end 460 handles have been moved to completely select a row If only one of the start 440 or end 460 handles have moved to com pletely select a row then the paragraph selection handle may appear only on the completed row and not the other as shown previously in FIG 4B In addition to or instead of the criteria that a start or end row of a selected por
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31. nput to the processor 102 The pro cessor 102 processes the received signal for output to the display 112 and or to the auxiliary I O subsystem 124 A subscriber may generate data items for example e mail mes sages which may be transmitted over the wireless network 150 through the communication subsystem 104 For voice communications the overall operation of the electronic device 100 is similar The speaker 128 outputs audible infor mation converted from electrical signals and the microphone 130 converts audible information into electrical signals for processing The touch sensitive display 118 may be any suitable touch sensitive display such as a capacitive resistive infrared surface acoustic wave SAW touch sensitive display strain gauge optical imaging dispersive signal technology acous tic pulse recognition and so forth A capacitive touch sensi tive display includes one or more capacitive touch sensors 114 The capacitive touch sensors may comprise any suitable material such as indium tin oxide ITO One or more touches also known as touch contacts or touch events may be detected by the touch sensitive display 118 The processor 102 may determine attributes of the touch including a location of the touch Touch location data may include data for an area of contact or data for a single point of contact such as a point at or near a center of the area of contact The location of a detected touch may include x and y compon
32. o letter by letter mode increases and so the threshold area 640 may decrease as a result Another possible factor may be the speed of the move ment of the selection handle 630 For example if it is moved quickly there is a higher chance of deviation from a straight line and so the width of the threshold area 640 may be increased to compensate for this This method may be applied to column by column selec tion rather than row by row selection depending on the ori entation of the text For example in certain language systems the text may be arranged in vertical lines rather than horizon tal lines A flowchart illustrating a method of performing row by row selection is shown in FIG 11 The method may be carried out by software executed for example by the processor 102 Coding of software for carrying out such a method is within the scope of a person of ordinary skill in the art given the present description The method may contain additional or fewer processes than shown and or described and may be performed in a different order Computer readable code executable by at least one processor of the portable electronic device to perform the method may be stored in a computer readable medium which may be a non transitory or tangible storage medium In the method shown in FIG 11 the location of a text selection icon on a display of an electronic device is detected 1110 Detect touch input representing a selection of text dis played on
33. ortable electronic device to perform the method may be stored in a computer readable medium which may be a non transitory or tangible storage medium In the method shown in FIG 10 a first touch input repre senting a selection of multiple rows of text displayed on a touch sensitive display of an electronic device is detected 1210 A determination is made as to whether a complete row of text has been selected from a start point or to an end point of the selected text 1220 A paragraph selection handle proxi mal to the row is displayed the paragraph selection handle 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 8 being responsive to a second touch input to place the elec tronic device in a paragraph selection mode for the selection of text 1230 Row Selection In the previous section a method for enabling and perform ing paragraph selection was disclosed In addition to or inde pendently of this method a method for enabling row by row selection is provided below In letter by letter selection mode as a selection handle is moved the corresponding part of the selection area selected portion of text snaps to the letter nearest to the selection handle Therefore in letter by letter mode as a selection handle is moved across a row letters are individually added or removed from the selection However as a selection handle is moved up or down to a different row the nearest letter to the selection handle is on a diffe
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35. r a period of time The optional actuator s 120 may be depressed or activated by applying sufficient force to the touch sensitive display 118 to overcome the actuation force of the actuator 120 The actuator s 120 may be actuated by pressing anywhere on the touch sensitive display 118 The actuator s 120 may provide input to the processor 102 when actuated Actuation of the actuator s 120 may result in provision of tactile feedback Optional force sensors 122 may be disposed in conjunction with the touch sensitive display 118 to determine or react to forces applied to the touch sensitive display 118 The force sensor 122 may be disposed in line with a piezo actuator 120 The force sensors 122 may be force sensitive resistors strain gauges piezoelectric or piezoresistive devices pressure sen sors quantum tunneling composites force sensitive switches or other suitable devices The touch sensitive display 118 includes a display area in which information may be displayed and a non display area extending around the periphery of the display area The dis play area generally corresponds to the area ofthe display 112 Information is not displayed in the non display area by the display which non display area is utilized to accommodate for example electronic traces or electrical connections adhe sives or other sealants and or protective coatings around the edges of the display area The non display area may be referred to as an inactive are
36. rent row and so when the selec tion area snaps to that area it snaps to include all the other letters in the row up to the selection handle Therefore mov ing a selection handle to the very right or left of a row and subsequently moving the selection handle up or down results in the entire rows being added or removed from the selection at a time In this way it is possible to perform row by row selection simply by using the mechanics provided by existing letter by letter selection However performing the above type of row by row selec tion has some drawbacks To perform row by row selection in this manner requires that a selection handle moves straight up or down along the side of the text Moving the selection handle into the text and away from the edge may result in individual letters being selected instead of rows Therefore using a letter by letter selection mechanism for row by row selection may be too sensitive to small deviations in the horizontal movement of the selection handle FIGS 5A and 5B illustrate possible sources of deviations FIG 5A shows an electronic device 100 with a touch sensi tive display 118 displaying on the touch sensitive display some text 510 and a selection of the text 520 When a user attempts to perform row by row selection with the thumb 550 of the left hand they may start the gesture at point 530 and begin to drag a selection handle straight down this drag movement 540 begins to curve into the text
37. s for and method of determining a selection of a selection option based on received user input For simplicity and clarity of illustration reference numer als may be repeated among the figures to indicate correspond ing or analogous elements Numerous details are set forth to provide an understanding of the examples described herein The examples may be practiced without these details In other instances well known methods procedures and components are not described in detail to avoid obscuring the examples described The description is not to be considered as limited to the scope of the examples described herein The disclosure generally relates to an electronic device suchas a portable electronic device or non portable electronic device Examples of portable electronic devices include mobile or handheld wireless communication devices such as pagers feature phones cellular smart phones wireless orga nizers personal digital assistants wirelessly enabled note book computers tablet computers mobile internet devices electronic navigation devices and so forth The portable elec tronic device may be a portable electronic device without wireless communication capabilities such as handheld elec tronic games digital photograph albums digital cameras media players e book readers and so forth Examples of non portable electronic devices include desktop computers elec tronic white boards smart boards utilized for collaboration
38. s incorporated herein by reference in its entirety FIELD OF THE TECHNOLOGY Background Electronic devices including portable electronic devices have gained widespread use and may provide a variety of functions including for example telephonic electronic mes saging and other personal information manager PIM appli cation functions Portable electronic devices include for example several types of mobile stations such as simple cellular telephones feature phones smart phones wireless personal digital assistants PDAs tablet computers and lap top computers with wireless 802 11 or Bluetooth capabili ties Portable electronic devices such as PDAs or smart tele phones are generally intended for handheld use and ease of portability Smaller devices are generally desirable for port ability A touch sensitive display also known as a touch screen display is particularly useful on handheld devices which are small and have limited space for user input and output The information displayed on the touch sensitive dis plays such as text may be modified based on the functions and operations being performed Improvements in devices with touch sensitive displays including the selection of content on those devices are desir able BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS Examples of the present proposed approach will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying draw ings in which FIG 1 is a block diagram of a porta
39. selection handle 777 that responds to user input and can be touched and dragged to cause the rest of the selection handle 777 to be moved If a touch input is used to drag the selection handle 777 the touch portion may remain coupled to the location on the display corresponding to the detected touch location such that it always remains under the user s finger as the selection handle 777 is moved The content selection portion 810 may be coupled to a selection area 720 For example as shown in FIG 8B the content selection portion 810 is coupled to a start end of the selection area 720 such that as the selection handle 777 moves as does the start of the selection area 720 This may be represented graphically in a different way such as shown in FIG 8C where the content selection portion 810 is also coupled to the start end of the selection area 720 but is displayed to reach the top left portion of the selection area 720 Functionally there may be no difference between the two selection handles 777 shown in FIGS 8B and 8C The neck portion 820 graphically connects the touch por tion 830 to the content selection portion 810 While the touch portion 830 may be obscured by a user s touch the user may be able to see the neck portion 820 extending from the touch portion 830 under the user s finger to the content selection portion 810 This may indicate to the user that the touch portion 830 and content selection portion 810 are connected
40. the start 440 and end 460 of the selected text 450 The selected portion of text 450 may have been selected in response to a touch input representing a selection of text If the device receives a user input indicating that the end selection handle 460 should be moved for example a touch and drag of the selection handle 460 the end of the text selection 450 may move with it A small movement of the end selection handle 460 to the right may cause the end of the text selection 450 to move onto the next letter snapping to the nearest letter to the moved end selection handle 460 Simi larly small movements of the start selection handle 440 may cause the start of the text selection 450 to snap to the letter nearest to the start selection handle 440 This described modi fication of the text selection 450 by snapping to whatever letter is closest to a selection handle will be referred to as a letter by letter selection If a user wished to select large portions of the text for example the fourth 430 paragraph they may encounter diffi culties with selecting the whole of the fourth paragraph 430 as the end of the paragraph is not displayed on the display 112 due to it being below the visible region of the display 112 in this example Therefore to include the fourth paragraph 430 in the selection the user may have to drag the end selection handle 460 down to the bottom of the display 112 then scroll the screen either by initiating a scrolling ges
41. tilized to interact with the processor 102 Input via a graphical user interface is provided via the touch sensitive display 118 Information such as text char acters symbols images icons and other items that may be displayed or rendered on a electronic device is displayed on the touch sensitive display 118 via the processor 102 The processor 102 may also interact with an accelerometer 136 that may be utilized to detect direction of gravitational forces or gravity induced reaction forces US 8 543 934 BI 3 To identify a subscriber for network access the electronic device 100 may utilize a Subscriber Identity Module or a Removable User Identity Module SIM RUIM card 138 for communication with a network such as the wireless network 150 Alternatively user identification information may be programmed into memory 110 The electronic device 100 includes an operating system 146 and software programs applications or components 148 that are executed by the processor 102 and are typically stored in a persistent updatable store such as the memory 110 Additional applications or programs may be loaded onto the electronic device 100 through the wireless network 150 the auxiliary I O subsystem 124 the data port 126 the short range communications subsystem 132 or any other suitable subsystem 134 A received signal such as a text message an e mail mes sage or web page download is processed by the communica tion subsystem 104 and i
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43. tion of text 450 must be completely selected before paragraph selection handles can be displayed there may be a requirement that the selected portion of text 450 is above a certain size For example there may be a requirement that the selected portion oftext 450 spans at least three rows before the paragraph selection handles can be displayed This may be to avoid the instance where only one or two rows have been selected leading to the possibility of the paragraph selection handles and start or end selection handles being too close together to individually control by touch input Having a minimum row requirement may also be beneficial as that way the device may only display the para graph selection handles once the selected text 450 is larger than a threshold value thereby indicating a higher likelihood that the user may wish to perform paragraph selections The paragraph selection handles themselves may allow the user to select text in a paragraph aware manner For example ifthe paragraph selection handle 470 shown in FIG 4B were dragged down a small amount the selected portion oftext 451 may expand so as to extend to the end of the current para US 8 543 934 BI 7 graph This may be displayed by showing the bottom of the selection area move down to the end of the current paragraph along with the handles 470 and 460 However this may result in the paragraph selection handle 470 moving away from the original location of the user s
44. touch that was dragging the paragraph selection handle 470 Therefore if the user wished to continue with paragraph selection the user would have to reselect the now moved paragraph selection handle This would be especially problematic if the end of the selected paragraph was not visible on the display To address the above problem the method may instead ensure that the paragraph selection handle 470 being moved is always coupled to the location of the touch input moving it Thus as the paragraph selection handle is dragged 470 the underlying content itself moves in the display so that the end of the current paragraph lies under the touch input position In other words the display may automatically scroll to the end of the paragraph being selected In this manner the user will be able to see how the end point of the selection changes because the display scrolls so as to always show the end point Similarly dragging the top paragraph selection handle 480 upwards results in the selection extending to the starts of the paragraphs above the size of the drag determining how many paragraphs above the current one to extend to As long as the user drags the paragraph selection handle 470 the device will remain in paragraph selection mode If a user drags a bottom paragraph selection handle 470 downwards the selection area may expand downwards to the end of the paragraph Further dragging the bottom paragraph selection handle 470 downwards may ca
45. ture or by allow ing the screen to creep up in response to the selection han dle s 460 close proximity to the bottom and once the end of 30 35 40 45 55 6 the fourth paragraph 430 comes into view continue moving the end selection handle 460 to the end of the fourth paragraph 430 This results in a cumbersome time consuming user interaction The method reduces the burden on the user by providing a paragraph selection mode and determining when to make it available It may do so by determining whether the selected portion of text 450 has been modified such that either the first or last row of the selection 450 is a complete row of text If the top or bottom ends of the selected text 450 contains a com plete row then either the end selection handle 460 has been moved to the end ofa row or the start selection handle 440 has been moved to the start of a row or both events have occurred In such an instance as a selection handle has been moved to an outer edge ofa row there may be a possibility that the user intends to start selecting whole paragraphs Therefore in response to detecting a selection handle selecting a complete a row a paragraph selection handle is displayed so that a user can then perform paragraph selection FIG 4B illustrates a paragraph selection handle 470 being displayed in response to a user input In this example the selected text 450 of FIG 4A has been expanded to the selected text 451 T
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47. use the selection area 452 to expand to the end of a lower paragraph such as paragraph 430 Similarly the extent of the drag upwards ofa top paragraph selection handle 480 may determine how many paragraphs up the selection area 452 is extended to Dragging the selection handles in the opposite direction however may result in different behaviour For example dragging a bottom selection handle 470 upwards may cause the selection area 452 to return to what it was prior to being modified by the bottom paragraph selection handle 470 Optionally dragging the bottom selection handle 470 upwards may cause the selection area 452 to contract in discrete amounts such that for each drag upwards the selec tion area 452 contracts so that it covers one less full para graph Once the selection area 452 only covers one whole or paragraph a further movement upward of the bottom selec tion handle 470 upwards may have no effect on the selection area 452 A flowchart illustrating a method of performing paragraph selection is shown in FIG 10 The method may be carried out by software executed for example by the processor 102 Coding of software for carrying out such a method is within the scope of a person of ordinary skill in the art given the present description The method may contain additional or fewer processes than shown and or described and may be performed in a different order Computer readable code executable by at least one processor of the p
48. utside the zone adjacent the edge of the display is made throughout the movement
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