MULTIPLE SELECTION ON DEVICES WITH MANY GESTURES

• US 20100050076A1
• Filed: 08/29/2008
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Roth, Volker
• Granted Patent: US 8,924,892 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

Devices, methods and computer readable mediums storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for interacting with targets on a display, particularly in regards to devices utilizing a multi-touch display that are driven by gestures. The use of such devices, methods, and computer readable mediums storing a program allows the user to interact with devices through the use of multi-touch displays.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a display;

a sensing unit sensing a tactile interaction at least on the display;

a detecting unit, detecting at least one gesture corresponding to the tactile interaction;

a processing unit, processing a desired action regarding with the detected gesture; and

at least one activation point dispersed near the edge of the display, the at least one activation point representing a desired action;

wherein the activation point is activated by a gesture from an activation point to another part of the display.

2. A device in claim 1, wherein the activation point is represented by a mark that is displayed on the edge of the display.

3. A device in claim 1, wherein the detecting unit further detects a reserved gesture corresponding to the tactile interaction on the display, the tactile interaction of the reserved gesture further comprising a touch of which a first touch is not at the edge portion of the display.

4. The device in claim 3, wherein the detecting unit further detects the reserved gesture and wherein the reserved gesture further comprising a continuous plural touch on the display;

and wherein the detecting unit further detects a second gesture at the activation point intervening with the plural touch; and

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wherein the processing unit uses a position at end of the second gesture for processing a desired action of the reserved gesture.

5. The device in claim 3, further comprising a display controller, wherein the display controller generates visual feedback to trace a gesture between the activation point representing the desired action and a target on the display.

6. The device in claim 5, further comprising a marker placed on the target by the display controller after the gesture has ended;

wherein the marker is a representation of the desired action.

7. The device in claim 5, wherein the visual feedback comprises displaying a rubber band figure from the activation point to the target on the display;

wherein the rubber band figure stretches and shrinks in reaction to the gesture.

8. The device in claim 7, wherein the visual feedback connects and highlights potential targets as a result of the gesture.

9. A method of interacting with targets on a display, comprising:

displaying at least one activation point on the edge of the display, wherein each of the at least one activation point represents a desired action, wherein the activation point is activated by a gesture from an activation point to another part of the display;

sensing a tactile interaction at least on the display;

detecting at least one gesture corresponding to the tactile interaction; and

processing a desired action regarding with the detected gesture;

10. The method in claim 9, wherein the gesture originates from either outside the display or from the at least one activation point representing a desired action.

11. The method in claim 9, further comprising generating visual feedback to trace the gesture between the at least one activation point representing the desired action and a target on the display.

12. The method in claim 9, further comprising placing a marker on a target on the display;

wherein the marker is a representation of the desired action.

13. The method in claim 9, further comprising highlighting potential targets as a result of the gesture.

14. The method in claim 11, wherein the generating visual feedback further comprises displaying a rubber band figure from the at least one activation point representing a desired action to a target on the display, wherein the rubber band figure stretches and shrinks in reaction to the gesture.

15. The method in claim 9, wherein the detecting further comprises differentiating between a reserved gesture and a gesture activating an activation point.

16. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for interacting with targets on a display, the process comprising:

displaying at least one activation point on the edge of a display, wherein each of the at least one activation point represents a desired action, wherein the activation point is activated by a gesture from an activation point to another part of the display;

sensing a tactile interaction at least on the display;

detecting at least one gesture corresponding to the tactile interaction; and

processing a desired action regarding with the detected gesture;

17. The computer readable medium in claim 16, wherein the detecting further comprises differentiating between a reserved gesture and a gesture activating an activation point.

18. The computer readable medium in claim 16, further comprising generating visual feedback to trace the gesture between the at least one activation representing the desired action and a target on the display.

19. The computer readable medium in claim 16, further comprising placing a marker on a target;

wherein the marker is a representation of the desired action.

20. The computer readable medium in claim 18, further comprising displaying a rubber band figure from the at least one activation point representing a desired action to the target on the display, wherein the rubber band figure stretches and shrinks in reaction to the gesture.

21. The computer readable medium in claim 18, further comprising highlighting potential targets as a result of the gesture.