Simultaneous gesture and touch control on a display

Abstract

A method of controlling contents displayed on a display includes processing inputs from different users across multiple application windows of one or more applications displayed on a single display of a user interface, resulting in a multi-user graphical user interface (GUI), the computing environment running an operating system (OS), the computing environment having a multiple input detection system to respond to user inputs from different users simultaneously, the multiple input detection system including a touch screen on the single display that detects touch inputs and a contactless gesture sensor that detects contactless gestures. When a user input is detected by the touch detector, the GUI displays a first input interface to be used with touch. When a user input is detected by the contactless gesture sensor, the GUI displays a second input interface to be used with gestures, the second input interface being different from the first input interface.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A graphical user interface on a display of a computer running software to communicate with live sources and to generate a live window associated with each live source on a canvas when the live source is loaded onto the canvas, the graphical user interface comprising:
 a tray region in the canvas, the tray region to display a representation of a live source in communication with the computer; and   in response to movement of the representation of the live source out of the tray region, the computer is configured to open a live source window on the canvas and render the content of the live source.   
     
     
         2 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the movement includes dragging the representation outside of the tray region. 
     
     
         3 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the movement includes tapping on the representation. 
     
     
         4 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the tray region includes a device region containing the representation of the live source and an application region containing available application icons, wherein, in response to movement of an application icon out of the tray region, the computer is configured to open an application window on the canvas to run the application corresponding to the application icon. 
     
     
         5 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 4 , wherein the tray region further includes a source region containing an image stored on the computer or streamed from the live source, wherein, in response to movement of an image out of the tray region, the computer is configured to open the image on the canvas. 
     
     
         6 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the live source includes a weblink based content url bookmark, a mobile device, a live video source, and a camera feed. 
     
     
         7 . The graphical user interface as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the tray region further includes a source region containing an image stored on the computer or streamed from the live source, wherein, in response to movement of an image out of the tray region, the computer is configured to open the image on the canvas.