Patent ID: 8982043
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An electronic reader device, comprising: a housing; a physical control disposed on a surface of the housing and operable to initiate a first function in response to activation of the physical control according to association of the first function and the physical control; a display enclosed by the housing, physically in contact with the surface of the housing and separated from the physical control, and operable to show a virtual control operable to initiate a second function in response to activation of the virtual control; a gesture sensor of the display operable to detect a drag operation of moving the virtual control from an original position to an end position where the drag operation terminated, wherein the end position comprises a position on a border of the display, close to the physical control and in a proximity range of the physical control, the drag operation is separated from the physical control, and the physical control is beyond a touch display area of the gesture sensor; and a processor operable to associate the second function with the physical control to replace the association of the first function and the physical control in response to the drag operation upon a condition that at least a portion of the drag operation is in the proximity range of the physical control, and perform the second function in response to activation of the physical control according to the association of the second function and the physical control.