METHOD FOR GENERATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

• US 20140109020A1
• Filed: 10/15/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced Digital Broadcast SA (Advanced Digital Broadcast Holdings SA)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Digital Broadcast SA (Advanced Digital Broadcast Holdings SA)
• Inventors: Wielgosz, Marcin
• Application Number:
  US14/053,610
• Publication Number:
  US 20140109020A1
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method for generating a graphical user interface object, the method comprising the steps of awaiting a user'"'"'s gesture input from a gesture input interface; providing information listing at least one gesture type wherein at least two threshold values of at least one parameter are assigned to the given gesture type; verifying whether the input gesture matches a parameterized gesture type; in case the verification confirms that the input gesture matches a parameterized gesture type, extracting the gesture type and the gesture parameter'"'"'s value from a gesture event notification; identifying an associated action based on the gesture type and parameter; and generating an output signal with a differently configured graphical user interface object content dependent on the gesture type and the gesture parameter.

Claims

1. A method for generating a graphical user interface object, the method comprising the steps of:

awaiting a user'"'"'s gesture input (501) from a gesture input interface (117);

the method being characterized in that it further comprises the steps of;

providing information listing at least one gesture type wherein at least two threshold values of at least one parameter are assigned to the given gesture type;

verifying (502) whether the input gesture matches a parameterized gesture type;

in case the verification (502) confirms that the input gesture matches a parameterized gesture type, extracting (503) the gesture type and the gesture parameter'"'"'s value from a gesture event notification;

identifying (504) an associated action based on the gesture type and parameter; and

generating (505) an output signal with a differently configured graphical user interface object content dependent on the gesture type and the gesture parameter.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that a differently configured graphical user interface object content is a different number of presented options or a different number of presented information icons or a different size of the object.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the at least two threshold values are all related to length or angle or slope.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the graphical user interface object is a television channel banner.

5. A computer program comprising program code means for performing all the steps of the method according to claim 1 when said program is run on a computer.

6. A computer readable non-volatile memory storing computer-executable instructions performing all the steps of the computer-implemented method according to claim 1 when executed on a computer.