GESTURE INPUT OPERATION DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND PORTABLE DEVICE

• US 20140285459A1
• Filed: 06/06/2014
• Published: 09/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: MIURA, Nariaki
• Application Number:
  US14/298,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20140285459A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An operation is facilitated and an increase of processing load is suppressed by the input to the entire touch panel on a screen.

A gesture operation input device for performing the input operation of information on a display screen via a pointing device is provided with a cell setting unit 102A for setting a plurality of cells on the display screen and numbering each of the cells, a gesture route rule storage unit 103A for storing a gesture route rule formed by the numbers of the cells traced in a predefined route on the display screen for a gesture including graphics and signs, an operation route information storage unit 103B for temporarily storing the numbers of designated cells as the route information of input operation when the gesture is drawn on the display screen and a plurality of the cells set on the display screen are designated by the pointing device, and a gesture judgment unit 102B for judging the route information of input operation as the gesture drawn on the display screen when the stored gesture route rule and the stored route information of input operation are compared and accorded.

Claims

1. The gesture operation input device which executes an input operation of information on a display screen via a pointing device, wherein at least two cells to which identification information is attached respectively are set on said display screen, characterized by comprising:

a gesture route rule storage unit which stores a gesture route rule that defines a route of said cell which is traced on said display screen at an input operation by said identification information on each cell for a gesture including graphics and signs;

an operation route information storage unit which temporarily stores said identification information of each designated cell as the route information of input operation when said cell in said display screen is successively selected by said pointing device in accordance with input of the gesture on said display screen; and

a gesture judgment unit which judges that a gesture drawn on said display screen is the gesture defined by said gesture route rule in a case when said gesture route rule and the route information of said input operation are compared and accorded.

2. The gesture operation input device according to claim 1, characterized in that

identification information of the cell which is further caused by input operational fluctuations is added when tracing to said gesture route rule, and

said gesture judgment unit ignores the identification information of input operational fluctuation cells and compares said gesture route rule with the route information of said input operation in a case that the identification information of the cell which is traced by said input operational fluctuation is included in the route information of input operation stored in said operation route information storage unit after the input of the gesture to said display screen.

3. The gesture operation input device according to claim 1, characterized in that said pointing device includes a touch panel or a mouse.

4. The gesture operation input device according to claim 1, further comprising said cell setting unit which sets said display screen to a matrix of cells includes three lines by three columns.

5. The gesture operation input device according to claim 1, characterized in that a gesture route rule stored in said gesture route rule storage unit includes a gesture route rule of circle-sign, crescendo-sign, decrescendo-sign, logical sum-sign, logical product-sign, Z-sign, N-sign, and e-sign.

6. The gesture operation input device according to claim 2, characterized in that a gesture route rule stored in said gesture route rule storage unit is recorded, added, and modified via the internet.

7. A gesture operation input method performing an input operation of information on a display screen via a pointing device, characterized by comprising:

a step which sets at least two cells wherein identification information are respectively assigned thereof on said display screen;

a step which temporarily stores said identification information on each designated cell as a route information of input operation when said cell in said display screen is successively designated by said pointing device in accordance with input of the gesture on said display screen; and

a step which compares the gesture route rule which defines a traced route of said cell on said display screen at the input operation by said identification information on each cell with the route information on said input operation, and judges that the gesture drawn on said display screen is the gesture defined by said gesture route rule when those accord concerning the gesture including the graphic and the sign

8. A gesture operation input program performing an input operation of information on a display screen via a pointing device, characterized by comprising:

a procedure which sets at least two cells wherein identification information are respectively assigned thereof on said display screen;

a procedure which temporarily stores said identification information on each designated cell as a route information of input operation when said cell in said display screen is successively designated by said pointing device in accordance with input of the gesture on said display screen; and

a procedure which compares the gesture route rule which defines a traced route of said cell on said display screen at the input operation by said identification information on each cell with the route information on said input operation, and judges that the gesture drawn on said display screen is the gesture defined by said gesture route rule when those accord concerning the gesture including the graphic and the sign.

9. A portable device which executes an input operation of information on a display screen via a pointing device, wherein at least two cells to which identification information is attached respectively are set on said display screen, characterized by comprising:

a gesture route rule storage unit which stores a gesture route rule that defines a route of said cell which is traced on said display screen at an input operation by said identification information on each cell for a gesture including graphics and signs;

an operation route information storage unit which temporarily stores said identification information of each designated cell as the route information of input operation when said cell in said display screen is successively selected by said pointing device in accordance with input of the gesture on said display screen; and

a gesture judgment unit which judges that a gesture drawn on said display screen is the gesture defined by said gesture route rule in a case when said gesture route rule and the route information of said input operation are compared and accorded.

10. The portable device according to claim 9, characterized in that

at least two dialogue boxes are displayed on said display screen,

specific graphics are assigned to said dialogue boxes respectively,

a graphic is determined that it is drawn when a specific graphic is drawn on said display screen, and

corresponding said dialogue box is recognized that it is selected.

11. The portable device according to claim 9, characterized in that

at least two menu icons are displayed on said display screen,

specific graphics are assigned to said menu icons respectively,

a graphic is determined that it is drawn when a specific graphic is drawn on said display screen, and

corresponding said menu icon is recognized that it is selected.