METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A USER'S TOUCH GESTURE
First Claim
1. A method for determining a user'"'"'s touch gesture in a touch sensitive device comprisingan interaction surface and means capable of only analyzing the location of a single touch point of a continuous single-touch event or a continuous multi-touch touch event, on the interaction surface at a time, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) determining a plurality of consecutive touch point coordinates of at least one continuous touch event on the interaction surface during the user'"'"'s touch gesture andb) determining a predetermined single-touch pattern or a multi-touch touch pattern, based on a predetermined relation between the touch point coordinates determined in step a), andc) attributing a predetermined action corresponding to the touch pattern determined during step b).
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device, in particular, a touch sensitive device, and more in particular, a single-touch sensitive device configured to recognize gestures, such as zoom, rotate, flick, using specific characteristics based on a single-touch localization system. The invention also relates to a method for recognizing/identifying gestures, such as zoom, rotate, flick, in a low-end device equipped with such as a single-touch sensitive device which is able to recognize one single point at a time.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for determining a user'"'"'s touch gesture in a touch sensitive device comprising
an interaction surface and means capable of only analyzing the location of a single touch point of a continuous single-touch event or a continuous multi-touch touch event, on the interaction surface at a time, the method comprising the steps of: -
a) determining a plurality of consecutive touch point coordinates of at least one continuous touch event on the interaction surface during the user'"'"'s touch gesture and b) determining a predetermined single-touch pattern or a multi-touch touch pattern, based on a predetermined relation between the touch point coordinates determined in step a), and c) attributing a predetermined action corresponding to the touch pattern determined during step b). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product, comprising one or more non-transitory computer readable media having computer-executable instructions stored therein for use with a touch sensitive device comprising an interaction surface and means capable of only analyzing the location of a single touch point of a continuous single-touch event or a continuous multi-touch touch event on the interaction surface at a time, the computer-executable instructions configured to:
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a) determine a plurality of consecutive touch point coordinates of at least one continuous touch event on the interaction surface during the user'"'"'s touch gesture; b) determine a predetermined single-touch pattern or a multi-touch touch pattern, based on a predetermined relation between the touch point coordinates determined in step a); and c) attribute a predetermined action corresponding to the touch pattern determined during step b).
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18. A touch sensitive device comprising a touch sensitive interaction surface and a means for determining the location of an interaction on the surface, wherein the means can only identify the location of one touch point at a time and a means for analyzing a succession of touch point locations of a continuous touch event on the interaction surface by:
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a) determining a plurality of consecutive touch point coordinates of at least one continuous touch event on the interaction surface during the user'"'"'s touch gesture; b) determining a predetermined single-touch pattern or a multi-touch touch pattern, based on a predetermined relation between the touch point coordinates determined in step a); and c) attributing a predetermined action corresponding to the touch pattern determined during step b). - View Dependent Claims (19)
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