Gesture Shortcuts

• US 20100306714A1
• Filed: 05/29/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Tsunoda, Kudo, Clavin, John, Kipman, Alex, Geisner, Kevin, Perez, Kathryn Stone, Markovic, Relja, Snook, Gregory N., Latta, Stephen
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,559 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• 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

Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for gesture shortcuts. A user'"'"'s movement or body position is captured by a capture device of a system, and is used as input to control the system. For a system-recognized gesture, there may be a full version of the gesture and a shortcut of the gesture. Where the system recognizes that either the full version of the gesture or the shortcut of the gesture has been performed, it sends an indication that the system-recognized gesture was observed to a corresponding application. Where the shortcut comprises a subset of the full version of the gesture, and both the shortcut and the full version of the gesture are recognized as the user performs the full version of the gesture, the system recognizes that only a single performance of the gesture has occurred, and indicates to the application as such.

Claims

1. A method for using a gesture shortcut in a system that takes user gestures as input to an application, comprising:

receiving data captured by a capture device, the data corresponding to a user-performed gesture;

processing the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed a shortcut of a gesture, the shortcut of the gesture corresponding to a full version of the gesture; and

sending the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture to the application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

processing the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed the full version of the gesture; and

sending the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture to the application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the shortcut of the gesture comprises user movement that comprises a subset of user movement that comprises the full version of the gesture.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, and the application recognizes that the user has performed only one user gesture.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, and the application uses an output corresponding to the full version of the gesture to add detail to the gesture.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving user input corresponding to defining the shortcut of the gesture.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the shortcut of the gesture also corresponds to a full version of a second gesture.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a gesture filter and at least one parameter, the full version of the gesture corresponds to the gesture filter and the at least one parameter, and the value of at least one parameter corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture differs from the value of at least one parameter corresponding to the full version of the gesture.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining from the application to process the data with the shortcut of the gesture before processing the data to determine the output corresponding to whether the user performed the shortcut of the gesture.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the operation of processing the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed a shortcut of a gesture is performed only after receiving an indication from a user that such processing is desired.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user performing the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a smaller achievement than the user performing the full version of the gesture.

12. A system for using a gesture shortcut in a system that takes user gestures as input to an application, comprising:

a capture device for generating data corresponding to a user-performed gesture;

a processor that receives the data captured by the capture device, processes the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed a shortcut of a gesture, the shortcut of the gesture corresponding to a full version of the gesture, and

sends the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture to the application.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor also processes the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed the full version of the gesture, and

sends the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture to the application.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the shortcut of the gesture comprises user movement that comprises a subset of user movement that comprises the full version of the gesture.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, and the application recognizes only one user gesture.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, the output corresponding to the full version of the gesture corresponds to a high likelihood that the user triggered the gesture, and the application uses an output corresponding to the full version of the gesture to add detail to the gesture.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the processor also receives user input corresponding to defining the shortcut of the gesture.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a full version of a second gesture.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the user performing the shortcut of the gesture corresponds to a smaller achievement than the user performing the full version of the gesture.

20. A computer-readable storage medium for using a gesture shortcut in a system that takes user gestures as input to an application, comprising computer-readable instructions that when executed on a processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving data captured by a capture device, the data corresponding to a user-performed gesture;

processing the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed a shortcut of a gesture, the shortcut of the gesture corresponding to a full version of the gesture; and

sending the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture to the application.