Patent ID: 8209628
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for revealing an object displayed on a pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device that is occluded by one or more other objects displayed on the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device, the method being implemented using a computing system and comprising: causing a scene to be displayed on a pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device, the scene including empty space and first and second displayed objects, the second displayed object being layered above the first displayed object and occluding at least a part of the first displayed object; detecting contact with the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device by an input mechanism in a region of the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device that corresponds to empty space; tracking movement of the input mechanism while the input mechanism remains in contact with the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device; based on tracking movement of the input mechanism while the input mechanism remains in contact with the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device, detecting that the input mechanism has moved from contacting the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device in the region that corresponds to empty space to contacting the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device at a position that corresponds to a point along the boundary of the second displayed object; in response to detecting that the input mechanism has moved from contacting the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device in the region that corresponds to empty space to contacting the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device at the position that corresponds to the point along the boundary of the second displayed object; sensing pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device by the input mechanism; comparing the sensed pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive display device by the input mechanism to a threshold pressure value; based on a result of comparing the sensed pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive display device by the input mechanism to the threshold pressure value, determining that the sensed pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive display device by the input mechanism exceeds the threshold pressure value; based on tracking movement of the input mechanism while the input mechanism remains in contact with the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device, detecting that the input mechanism has moved to a new position on the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device; as a consequence of detecting that the input mechanism has moved to the new position on the pressure-sensitive touch-screen display device and determining that the sensed pressure applied to the pressure-sensitive display device by the input mechanism exceeds the threshold pressure value: