DAMPENING THUMB MOVEMENT ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE INPUT DEVICE
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of dampening thumb movement on a touch-sensitive input device, comprising:
- detecting one or more movements on the touch-sensitive input device at a given time;
identifying whether each of the one or more movements is a thumb movement, wherein;
the identifying is based on at least one of a number, a location, and a speed of the one or more movements,in a case where the movement is located in dampened region of the touch sensitive input device, the movement is identified as a thumb movement unless the speed of the movement exceeds a speed threshold, andthe dampened region comprises multiple regions of the touch-sensitive input device and each of the multiple regions has a different speed threshold from each other; and
prohibiting control of a pointer by each of the movements identified as a thumb movement.
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Abstract
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system for dampening movement of a thumb on the surface of a touch-sensitive input device is provided. A dampening region may be defined on the surface of the input device, within which movement of a finger detected on the surface of the input device is prohibit from causing movement of a pointer on a screen unless the speed of the detected finger exceeds a speed threshold. In one aspect, the dampening region may be divided into multiple regions where each region may have a different speed threshold. In another aspect, the speed threshold may vary, for example, as a function of location on the surface of the input device or other function.
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23 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of dampening thumb movement on a touch-sensitive input device, comprising:
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detecting one or more movements on the touch-sensitive input device at a given time; identifying whether each of the one or more movements is a thumb movement, wherein; the identifying is based on at least one of a number, a location, and a speed of the one or more movements, in a case where the movement is located in dampened region of the touch sensitive input device, the movement is identified as a thumb movement unless the speed of the movement exceeds a speed threshold, and the dampened region comprises multiple regions of the touch-sensitive input device and each of the multiple regions has a different speed threshold from each other; and prohibiting control of a pointer by each of the movements identified as a thumb movement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 21)
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9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising machine-readable instructions for causing a processor to execute a method of dampening thumb movement on a touch-sensitive input device, the method comprising:
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detecting one or more movements on the touch-sensitive input device at a given time; identifying whether each of the one or more movements is a thumb movement, wherein; the identifying is based on at least two of a number, a location, and a speed of the one or more movements, in a case where the movement is located in dampened region of the touch sensitive input device, the movement is identified as a thumb movement unless the speed of the movement exceeds a speed threshold, and the dampened region comprises multiple regions of the touch-sensitive input device and each of the multiple regions has a different speed threshold from each other; and prohibiting control of a pointer by the each of the movements identified as a thumb movement. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 22)
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17. A system for dampening thumb movement on a touch-sensitive input device, the system comprising:
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the touch-sensitive input device; and a processing unit configured to; detect one or more movements on the touch-sensitive input device at a given time; determine a speed of each of the one or more movements; identify whether each of the one or more movements is located in a dampened region of the touch-sensitive input device; and prohibit control of the pointer by each of the movements identified as located in the dampened region unless the speed of the movement exceeds a speed threshold, wherein the dampened region comprises multiple regions of the touch-sensitive input device and each of the multiple regions has a different speed threshold from each other. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 23)
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