Patent ID: 7750895
Filing Date: 2010-07-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of navigating items on a display on a computing device with a touch sensitive input device comprising: Accepting an input at a first location on the input device; Creating a deadzone around the first location; Establishing a grid of tick lines around the input wherein the grid of tick lines comprises vertical tick lines and horizontal tick lines; If the input moves outside of the deadzone, storing a coordinate location comprising a vertical and horizontal location at which the input leaves the deadzone; Determining an input direction by using a direction from the coordinate location of a previous tick line crossed to the coordinate location of a current tick line crossed; If the input moves a number of tick distances wherein the number of tick distances is greater than zero, rotating the display of items by a factor of the tick distances in the input direction; If the input is removed from the input device,