State-Based Approach to Gesture Identification
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1. A method for identifying user gestures, comprising the steps of:
- a touch sensor determining contact information that describes locations at which a user contacts a touch sensitive surface corresponding to a display;
said touch sensor providing said contact information to a gesture identification module;
said gesture identification module using state information to identify a user gesture and, responsive thereto, issuing an associated display command to a display control module; and
said display control module updating said display based on display commands received from said gesture identification module.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for identifying user gesture includes a touch sensor for determining contact information that describes locations at which a user contacts a touch sensitive surface corresponding to a display. The touch sensor provides the contact information to a gesture identification module which uses state information to identify a user gesture and, responsive thereto issues an associated display command to a display control module. The display control module updates the display based on display commands received from the gesture identification module.
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1. A method for identifying user gestures, comprising the steps of:
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a touch sensor determining contact information that describes locations at which a user contacts a touch sensitive surface corresponding to a display;
said touch sensor providing said contact information to a gesture identification module;
said gesture identification module using state information to identify a user gesture and, responsive thereto, issuing an associated display command to a display control module; and
said display control module updating said display based on display commands received from said gesture identification module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. An apparatus for identifying user gestures, comprising:
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a touch sensor for determining contact information that describes locations at which a user contacts a touch sensitive surface corresponding to a display;
a gesture identification module for receiving said contact information from said touch sensor; and
a display control module for receiving an associated display command from said gesture identification module, said gesture identification module using state information to identify a user gesture and, responsive thereto, issuing said associated display command to said display control module;
wherein said display control module updates said display based on display commands received from said gesture identification module. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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