Patents by Inventor Wayne Christopher Minton

Wayne Christopher Minton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8381118
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a controller circuit that is configured to display selectable indicia on a touch sensitive display device. The controller defines a default size and location of a plurality of selection zones on the display device that are each associated with different ones of the displayed selectable indicia. The controller responds to a touch signal from the display device that identifies a first touch location of a user object by increasing the size of a first one of the selection zones that includes the first touch location. The controller responds to the touch signal identifying that the user object has ceased touching the display device at a second touch location, which is within the enlarged first selection zone but outside the default sized first selection zone, by outputting a first one of the selectable indicia that is associated with the first selection zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Wayne Christopher Minton
  • Publication number: 20110083104
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a controller circuit that is configured to display selectable indicia on a touch sensitive display device. The controller defines a default size and location of a plurality of selection zones on the display device that are each associated with different ones of the displayed selectable indicia. The controller responds to a touch signal from the display device that identifies a first touch location of a user object by increasing the size of a first one of the selection zones that includes the first touch location. The controller responds to the touch signal identifying that the user object has ceased touching the display device at a second touch location, which is within the enlarged first selection zone but outside the default sized first selection zone, by outputting a first one of the selectable indicia that is associated with the first selection zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventor: Wayne Christopher Minton
  • Publication number: 20110080289
    Abstract: A device may include a sensor configured to detect when a user is wearing or holding the device. The device may also include a display and a communication interface. The communication interface may be configured to forward an indication to a media playing device when the user is wearing or holding the device and receive content from the media playing device, where the content is received in response to the indication that the user is wearing or holding the device. The communication interface may also output the content to the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventor: Wayne Christopher Minton
  • Publication number: 20110014952
    Abstract: The user interface for a mobile communication device may be provided based on the current context of a voice session, as recognized by an automated audio recognition engine. In one implementation, the mobile device may transcribe, by an audio recognition engine in the mobile device, audio from a voice session conducted through the mobile device; detect, by the mobile device and based at least on the transcribed audio, changes in context during the voice session that relate to a change in functionality of the user interface of the mobile device; and update, by the mobile device, the user interface in response to the detected change in context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Wayne Christopher MINTON
  • Publication number: 20100079410
    Abstract: A device includes a flexible display, and multiple tactile components provided adjacent to a bottom of the flexible display. The device also includes a movement device configured to move at least one of the multiple tactile components to engage a portion of the bottom of the flexible display to produce a tactile area on the flexible display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventor: Wayne Christopher MINTON