GESTURES COUPLED WITH VOICE AS INPUT METHOD

• US 20140033045A1
• Filed: 07/23/2013
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Global Quality Corp.
• Original Assignee: Global Quality Corp.
• Inventors: Kshirsagar, Sudhir
• Application Number:
  US13/949,223
• Publication Number:
  US 20140033045A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/728
• 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 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

A user interface is provided for one or more users to interact with a computer using gestures coupled with voice to navigate a network that is displayed on the computer screen by the computer application software. The combination of a gesture with a voice command is used improve the reliability of the interpretation of the intent of the user. In addition, the active user who is allowed to control the software is identified through the combined input and the movements of other users are discarded.

Claims

1. A method and system of navigating a network display comprising:

a) user gestures and voice command as user input, b) selecting node(s) and link(s) based on the user input, c) zooming in the network based on the user input, d) panning the network based on user input, and d) performing additional network navigation related tasks based on the user input.