Patent ID: 8125457
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving a single click from a user to switch an electronic device between a mouse mode in which clicking a pointer moved on an object displayed on a display of the electronic device selects the object and a touch mode in which touching the object displayed on the display of the electronic device selects the object; enlarging visual objects in an application displayed on the display when the electronic device switches from the mouse mode to the touch mode; and, shrinking the visual objects in the application displayed on the display when the electronic device switches from the touch mode to the mouse mode; wherein the visual objects are shrunk such that the visual objects are still displayed on the display after switching to the mouse mode from the touch mode, and wherein the visual objects that are enlarged when switching from the mouse mode to the touch mode are the visual objects that were displayed on the display prior to switching from the mouse mode to the touch mode.