PROCESSING MULTI-TOUCH INPUT TO SELECT DISPLAYED OPTION

• US 20150277698A1
• Filed: 12/16/2014
• Published: 10/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ABBYY Production LLC (ABBYY Software)
• Original Assignee: ABBYY Development LLC
• Inventors: Pakhchanian, Aram Bengurovich
• Application Number:
  US14/571,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20150277698A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/987 with the intervention of an operator

Abstract

Systems and methods for processing multi-touch input to select a displayed option. An example method may comprise: presenting, on a display of a computing device, a plurality of alternative options pertaining to digital content; receiving, via a touch-sensitive input area of the display, a multi-touch gesture comprising one or more touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area; and identifying an option having an ordinal position on the display, relative to positions of other alternative options, that corresponds to a number of touch contacts comprised by the received multi-touch gesture.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, on a display of a computing device, a plurality of alternative options pertaining to digital content;

receiving, via a touch-sensitive input area of the display, a multi-touch gesture comprising one or more touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area; and

identifying an option having an ordinal position on the display, relative to positions of other alternative options, that corresponds to a number of touch contacts comprised by the received multi-touch gesture.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

presenting, on the display, a plurality of graphical representations of multi-touch gestures visually associated with the plurality of alternative options.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital content comprises text, and each of the plurality of alternative options is provided by a substring pertaining to at least part of a character string presented on the display.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

associating, with at least part of the character string, a substring corresponding to the identified option.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the character string represents a morpheme of a natural language.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each substring comprises one or more characters of a pre-defined alphabet.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the multi-touch gesture comprises two or more simultaneous touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area.

8. A computing device comprising:

a memory;

a display; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, to;

present, on a display of a computing device, a plurality of alternative options pertaining to digital content;

receive, via a touch-sensitive input area of the display, a multi-touch gesture comprising one or more touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area; and

identify an option having an ordinal position on the display, relative to positions of other alternative options, that corresponds to a number of touch contacts comprised by the received multi-touch gesture.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor is further to:

present, on the display, a plurality of graphical representations of multi-touch gestures visually associated with the plurality of alternative options.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the content comprises text, and each of the plurality of alternative options is provided by a substring pertaining to at least part of a character string presented on the display.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

associating, with at least part of the character string, a substring corresponding to the identified option.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the touch-sensitive input area comprises at least part of a surface of the display.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

presenting, on a display, a character string;

presenting, on the display, a plurality of substrings pertaining to at least part of the character string;

presenting, on the display, graphical representations of a plurality of multi-touch gestures, each graphical representation being visually associated with a respective substring of the plurality of substrings;

receiving, via a touch-sensitive input area of the display, a multi-touch gesture of the plurality of multi-touch gestures, the multi-touch gesture comprising one or more touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area; and

identifying a substring that is visually associated with a graphical representation of the received multi-touch gesture.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the substring has an ordinal position on the display, relative to positions of other substrings, that corresponds to a number of touch contacts comprised by the multi-touch gesture.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

associating the identified substring with the at least part of the character string.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the multi-touch gesture comprises two or more simultaneous touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area.

17. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

presenting, on a display, a character string;

presenting, on the display, a plurality of substrings pertaining to at least part of the character string;

presenting, on the display, graphical representations of a plurality of multi-touch gestures, each graphical representation being visually associated with a respective substring of the plurality of substrings;

receiving, via a touch-sensitive input area of the display, a multi-touch gesture of the plurality of multi-touch gestures, the multi-touch gesture comprising one or more touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area; and

identifying a substring that is visually associated with a graphical representation of the received multi-touch gesture.

18. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the substring has an ordinal position on the display, relative to positions of other substrings, that corresponds to a number of touch contacts comprised by the multi-touch gesture.

19. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

associating the identified substring with the at least part of the character string.

20. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the character string represents a morpheme of a natural language.

21. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein each substring comprises one or more characters of a pre-defined alphabet.

22. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the multi-touch gesture comprises two or more simultaneous touch contacts with the touch-sensitive input area.

23. The computer-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17, wherein the touch-sensitive input area occupies a predefined portion of the display.