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Touch prediction for visual displays

  • US 10,203,796 B2
  • Filed: 06/24/2016
  • Issued: 02/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for tracking touch events relating to a visual display on a first electronic device, the method comprising:

  • identifying a set of environmental parameters, wherein the environmental parameters provide information regarding an environment in which the visual display is used on the first electronic device by a user;

    accessing a plurality of touch event data sets for the visual display, the plurality of touch event data sets corresponding to the environmental parameters and associated with the visual display as used on at least a second electronic device;

    identifying touch patterns from the plurality of touch event data sets;

    monitoring subsequent touch events by the user of the visual display;

    detecting a match between the touch patterns and the subsequent touch events of the user;

    predicting, in response to detecting the match, a possible touch event for the user, wherein the predicting the possible touch event indicates that the user is likely to perform the possible touch event and wherein the user has not previously performed the possible touch event; and

    modifying, in response to the possible touch event, the visual display on the first electronic device for the user, wherein the modifying automatically updates the visual display as if the user had performed the possible touch event on the visual display.

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