Patent ID: 8976202
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling an output presented on a visual display of a portable computing device having an orientation, the portable computing device comprising a memory on which is stored visual content comprising at least one of graphics data, photo data and video data, and text content substantially comprising text data, the text content further comprising a visual content indicator associated with at least part of the text data and indicative of the existence of the visual content which is different from the visual content indicator, the method comprising: detecting the orientation of the portable computing device as corresponding to one of a first display mode and a second display mode; in the orientation corresponding to the first display mode, presenting the text content comprising the text data and the visual content indicator associated with the at least part of the text data on the visual display in the first display mode without presenting the visual content presented in the second display mode; in the presence of the visual content indicator, detecting a change of the orientation corresponding to the first display mode to the orientation corresponding to the second display mode; in the orientation corresponding to the second display mode, presenting the visual content in the second display mode on the visual display without presenting the text content presented in the first display mode; and after presenting the visual content, detecting a horizontal swipe on the visual display for navigating between a plurality of visual contents; wherein the change of the orientation from the first display mode to the second display mode triggers the presenting of the visual content corresponding to the visual content indicator; further wherein, in the orientation corresponding to the second display mode in which a given visual content is displayed, detecting the change of the orientation corresponding to the second display mode to the orientation corresponding to the first display mode, for presenting on the visual display, in the first display mode, the text content which corresponds to the given visual content.