TOUCH GESTURE INTERFACE APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS

• US 20100083190A1
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Data Services LLC (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Frazier, Kristopher T., Roberts, Brian, Stallings, Heath, Relyea, Donald
• Granted Patent: US 9,250,797 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

In certain embodiments, an object touch is detected on a touch screen display, a touch gesture interface is displayed on the touch screen display in response to the object touch, a touch gesture is detected on the touch screen display, and an action is performed based on the touch gesture. In certain embodiments, the touch gesture includes a directional touch gesture in a direction away from a position of the object touch on a surface of the touch screen display. In certain embodiments, the touch gesture interface includes a plurality of selectable options, and the action includes one of navigating through the selectable options and selecting one of the selectable options.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting an object touch on a touch screen display;

displaying a touch gesture interface on said touch screen display in response to said object touch;

detecting a touch gesture on said touch screen display; and

performing an action based on said touch gesture.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said touch gesture comprises a directional touch gesture in a direction away from a position of said object touch on a surface of said touch screen display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said touch gesture interface includes graphics associated with a plurality of selectable options.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising displaying said graphics associated with said plurality of selectable options about a position of said object touch in one of an arc shape and a circular shape.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said touch gesture comprises a directional touch gesture in a radial direction away from said position of said object touch and toward one of said graphics associated with one of said selectable options.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein said performing of said action includes one of navigating through said selectable options and selecting one of said selectable options.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein said performing of said action includes performing a function associated with one of said selectable options, said function comprising displaying another touch gesture interface on said touch screen display in response to said touch gesture, said another touch gesture interface including graphics associated with a plurality of other selectable options.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said other selectable options comprise a menu sub-layer of one of said selectable options.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein said performing of said action includes performing a function associated with one of said selectable options, said function comprising invoking a batch processing mode associated with said touch gesture interface.

10. The method of claim 3, further comprising selecting at least one of said touch gesture interface and said plurality of selectable options for said displaying based at least in part on a context of said object touch.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting said action based on a context of said touch gesture.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a shortcut to include an association between said touch gesture and said action;

detecting said touch gesture again on said touch screen display; and

invoking said shortcut in response to said touch gesture.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said generating said shortcut is performed in response to one of user input and a detected satisfaction of at least one predefined shortcut condition.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a script based on user input;

associating said script with said touch gesture; and

executing said script in response to said detecting said touch gesture.

15. The method of claim 1, tangibly embodied as computer-executable instructions on at least one computer-readable medium.

16. A method comprising:

detecting an object touching a position on a surface of a touch screen display;

displaying a touch gesture interface including a plurality of selectable options on said touch screen display in response to said object touch;

detecting a directional touch gesture on said surface of said touch screen display, said directional touch gesture beginning at said position of said object touch and moving away from said position in a direction toward one of said selectable options; and

selecting said one of said selectable options based on said touch gesture.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

generating a shortcut to include an association between said directional touch gesture and said one of said selectable options;

detecting said directional touch gesture again on said surface of said touch screen display; and

invoking said shortcut in response to said directional touch gesture.

18. A system comprising:

a touch screen facility configured to

sense an object touching a surface of a touch screen display, and

provide signaling representative of said object touch;

a user interface facility configured to

receive and use said signaling representative of said object touch to detect said object touch, and

provide data representative of a touch gesture interface for display on said touch screen display in response to said object touch;

wherein said touch screen facility is further configured to

display said touch gesture interface on said touch screen display,

sense a touch gesture on said surface of said touch screen display, and

provide signaling representative of said touch gesture to said user interface facility; and

wherein said user interface facility is configured to

use said signaling representative of said touch gesture to detect said touch gesture, and

perform an action based on said touch gesture.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said touch gesture interface includes graphics representative of a plurality of selectable options displayed about a position of said object touch in one of an arc shape and a circular shape.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein said touch gesture comprises a directional touch gesture in a radial direction away from said position of said object touch and toward one of said graphics representative of one of said selectable options.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein said action includes at least one of navigating through said selectable options, selecting one of said selectable options, and performing a function associated with one of said selectable options.