Biometric Adjustments for Touchscreens

• US 20130120278A1
• Filed: 11/11/2008
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Cantrell, Christian T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,704,775 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• 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

In some embodiments, a touchscreen may display a graphical user interface with one or more input options and may detect which input options are selected by a user by detecting a user'"'"'s contact on the touchscreen. The system may determine a new graphical user interface configuration to increase the size and/or spacing of the input options. In some embodiments, one or more of the input options may be removed to increase the space available to increase the size of the other input options. In some embodiments, the system may maintain a history of input option use to determine which input options to remove. In some embodiments, the new graphical user interface configuration may include smaller (and/or additional) input options (e.g., if the contact areas are detected as consistently within the displayed input options).

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying a graphical user interface with a first graphical user interface configuration;

detecting a contact area corresponding to a user'"'"'s input to at least one input option on the graphical user interface, wherein the user'"'"'s input is received through a touchscreen, wherein said detecting includes detecting a size of the contact area; and

determining a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the size of the detected contact area;

wherein each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations includes the at least one input option, wherein the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration is different in at least one characteristic than the at least one input option of the second graphical user interface;

wherein the at least one input has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, wherein the at least one input is not a dedicated mode change input.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the characteristic is size and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration is a different size than the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the characteristic is spacing and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration includes a different spacing between the at least one input option and a neighboring at least one input option of the second graphical user interface configuration than a spacing between the at least one input option and the neighboring at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first graphical user interface configuration comprises another at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the other at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration includes an input option determined to be used less than an input option that is included in both the first graphical user interface configuration and the second graphical user interface configuration.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes only part of the first graphical user interface configuration and is accessible by selecting a menu option.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is determined while a user is using a first application, and wherein the at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is applied to a graphical user interface configuration applied while a user is using a second application.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising averaging a history of at least two past detected contact areas and wherein determining a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the detected contact area comprises determining the second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on an average of the at least two past detected contact areas.

2. (canceled)

10. An apparatus, comprising:

a touchscreen;

at least one processor coupled to the touchscreen;

a memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores program instructions, wherein the program instructions are executable by the at least one processor to;

display a graphical user interface with a first graphical user interface configuration;

detect a contact area corresponding to a user'"'"'s input to at least one input option on the graphical user interface, wherein said detecting includes detecting a size of the contact area; and

determine a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the size of the detected contact area

wherein each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations includes the at least one input option, wherein the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration is different in at least one characteristic than the at least one input option of the second graphical user interface;

wherein the at least one input has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, wherein the at least one input is not a dedicated mode change input.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the characteristic is size and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration is a different size than the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the characteristic is spacing and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration includes a different spacing between the at least one input option and a neighboring at least one input option of the second graphical user interface configuration than a spacing between the at least one input option and the neighboring at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first graphical user interface configuration comprises another at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the other at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration includes an input option determined to be used less than an input option that is included in both the first graphical user interface configuration and the second graphical user interface configuration.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes only part of the first graphical user interface configuration and is accessible by selecting a menu option.

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is determined while a user is using a first application, and wherein the at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is applied to a graphical user interface configuration applied while a user is using a second application.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the program instructions are further executable to average a history of at least two past detected contact areas and wherein determining a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the detected contact area comprises determining the second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on an average of the at least two past detected contact areas.

11. (canceled)

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions, wherein the program instructions are computer-executable to:

display a graphical user interface with a first graphical user interface configuration;

detect a contact area corresponding to a user'"'"'s input to at least one input option on the graphical user interface, wherein said detecting includes detecting a size of the contact area; and

determine a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the size of the detected contact area;

wherein each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations includes the at least one input option, wherein the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration is different in at least one characteristic than the at least one input option of the second graphical user interface;

wherein the at least one input has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, wherein the at least one input is not a dedicated mode change input.

21. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the characteristic is size and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration is a different size than the at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the characteristic is spacing and wherein the at least one input option for the second graphical user interface configuration includes a different spacing between the at least one input option and a neighboring at least one input option of the second graphical user interface configuration than a spacing between the at least one input option and the neighboring at least one input option of the first graphical user interface configuration.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first graphical user interface configuration comprises another at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration.

24. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the other at least one input option that is not included in the second graphical user interface configuration includes an input option determined to be used less than an input option that is included in both the first graphical user interface configuration and the second graphical user interface configuration.

25. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes only part of the first graphical user interface configuration and is accessible by selecting a menu option.

26. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is determined while a user is using a first application, and wherein the at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is applied to a graphical user interface configuration applied while a user is using a second application.

27. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the program instructions are further executable to average a history of at least two past detected contact areas and wherein determining a second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on the detected contact area comprises determining the second graphical user interface configuration based at least partially on an average of the at least two past detected contact areas.

20. (canceled)