Patent ID: 8643628
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing; a display mounted in said housing; a plurality of proximity sensors mounted in said housing near the edges of said display and directed outward from said display, for detecting presence of an object in an open space outside said display and near the edges of said display; and a processor mounted in said housing and coupled with said display and with said proximity sensors, for operating the device responsive to user activation of elements of a graphical user interface (GUI), each GUI element being associated with an operation performed by the processor, the GUI comprising a layout of the GUI elements that is larger that said display, each GUI element corresponding to a location within the layout, the layout comprising: wherein said processor pans said layout to move some of said GUI elements into the displayed portion and to move others of said GUI elements into the virtual non-displayed portion, and wherein, responsive to said proximity sensors detecting location of the object in the open space outside of said display, said processor maps a location within the virtual non-displayed portion of said layout to the detected location, and performs the operation associated with the GUI element corresponding to the mapped location.