TOUCH PERSONALIZATION FOR A DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20100302212A1
• Filed: 06/02/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ort, Jeffrey, Weber, Karon
• Application Number:
  US12/476,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20100302212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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

A computing device includes a touch display, a collection module, a characterization module, and an adjustment module. The collection module is configured to identify one or more touch attributes of an input tool interacting with the touch display. Each such touch attribute represents an interaction characteristic of the input tool with the display. The characterization module is configured to generate a touch map based on the one or more touch attributes. The adjustment module is configured to set one or more input-receiving parameters of an interface displayed on the touch display based on the touch map.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a touch display;

a collection module configured to identify one or more touch attributes of an input tool interacting with the touch display, each touch attribute representing an interaction characteristic of the input tool with the display;

a characterization module configured to generate a touch map based on the one or more touch attributes; and

an adjustment module configured to set one or more input-receiving parameters of an interface displayed on the touch display based on the touch map.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the input receiving parameters include a hit-target size of an interface element of the interface displayed on the touch display.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the input receiving parameters include a hit-target offset of an interface element of the interface displayed on the touch display.

4. The computing device of claim 1, where the characterization module sets a touch focus of the input tool based on the one or more touch attributes.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the adjustment module is further configured to dynamically update settings of the one or more input-receiving parameters based on continued interactions of the input tool with one or more interface elements of the interface displayed on the touch display.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the interaction characteristic includes a touch area.

7. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the interaction characteristic includes a touch orientation.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the interaction characteristic includes an offset indicator.

9. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the interaction characteristic includes a touch pattern.

10. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the characterization module is further configured to dynamically update the touch map based on continued interactions of the input tool with the touch display.

11. The computing device of claim 1, where the input tool is a user finger.

12. A network-accessible user-profile server coupled with one or more touch display devices via a network, the server comprising:

a touch profile store including one or more touch profiles, each of the one or more touch profiles including information useable by a touch display device to set one or more input-receiving parameters of an interface displayed on the touch display device;

an input module configured to receive a touch-profile indicator from the touch display device;

a selection module configured to select a touch profile from the touch profile store based on the touch-profile indicator; and

an output module configured to send the selected touch profile to the touch display device.

13. The server of claim 12, wherein the touch-profile indicator includes a user-specific identifier.

14. The server of claim 13, wherein the selection module selects a touch profile by matching the user-specific identifier with a user-specific identity associated a touch profile in the touch profile store.

15. The server of claim 12, wherein the touch-profile indicator includes a touch map.

16. The server of claim 15, wherein the selection module selects a touch profile by comparing the touch map with one or more touch profiles included in the touch profile store, determining a match value between the touch map and the one or more touch profiles, and choosing a touch profile based on the match value.

17. A computing system, comprising:

a touch display device;

a collection module configured to identify one or more touch attributes of a user finger interacting with the touch display device, the one or more attributes including a touch-area size and a touch-area orientation;

a characterization module configured to generate a touch map based on the one or more touch attributes;

an adjustment module configured to set one or more input-receiving parameters, including a hit-target area of an interface element displayed on an interface of the touch display device, based on the touch map; and

an update module configured to dynamically update the touch map based on interactions of the user finger with the interface displayed on the touch display device.

18. The computing system of claim 17, wherein the adjustment module is further configured to dynamically update settings of the one or more input-receiving parameters based on continued interactions of the input tool with one or more interface elements of the interface displayed on the touch display.

19. The computing system of claim 17, wherein the characterization module is configured to generate one or more touch maps based on the touch attributes of one or more user fingers and the adjustment module is configured to select a chosen one of the one or more touch maps based on an orientation of the touch display device, and set the input-receiving parameters displayed on the interface of the touch display device in accordance with the chosen one of the one or more touch maps.

20. The computing system of claim 17, wherein the characterization module is configured to generate a left finger touch map based on the touch attributes of a user left finger and a right finger touch map based on the touch attributes of a user right finger, and the adjustment module is configured to set the input-receiving parameters displayed on the left portion of the touch display device in accordance with the left finger touch map, and set the input-receiving parameters displayed on the right portion of the touch display device in accordance with the right finger touch map.