SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE INPUT MANAGEMENT

• US 20170242581A1
• Filed: 04/19/2016
• Published: 08/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2016
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Myscript
• Original Assignee: Myscript
• Inventors: Couelier, Joel, Manceau, Denis
• Application Number:
  US15/132,514
• Publication Number:
  US 20170242581A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for use in recognizing input of multiple input types on a computing device are provided. The computing device is connected to an input device in the form of an input surface. A user is able to provide input by applying pressure to or gesturing above the input surface using either his or her finger or an instrument such as a stylus or pen. The computing device further has an input management system for recognizing the input. The input management system is configured to accept input, with respect to the interface surface, of one or more different types of input, cause recognition of the input as recognized objects regardless of the one or more input types, each recognized object being associated with a corresponding probability of recognition, and return at least one of the recognized objects as the recognized input based on the probabilities.

Claims

1. A system for recognizing input of multiple input types on computing devices, each computing device comprising a processor and at least one non-transitory computer readable medium for recognizing input under control of the processor, the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to:

accept input, with respect to an interface surface of a computing device, of one or more types of a plurality of different types of input;

cause recognition of the input as a plurality of recognized objects regardless of the one or more input types, each recognized object being associated with a corresponding probability of recognition; and

return at least one of the recognized objects as the recognized input based on the probabilities.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the different types of input being accepted with respect to at least one portion of the interface surface.

3. A system according to claim 2, the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium configured to:

cause display on the at least one portion of the interface surface a layout of character keys as a keyboard.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein the different types of input include single-position interactions and multi-position interactions with respect to the interface surface.

5. A system according to claim 4, wherein the single-position interactions correspond to positions of the keys and the multi-position interactions correspond to strokes through positions of a plurality of the keys.

6. A system according to claim 5, wherein a first recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a second recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions disregarding the keys.

7. A system according to claim 6, wherein a third recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a fourth recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions disregarding the keys.

8. A method for recognizing input of multiple input types on computing devices, each computing device comprising a processor and at least one non-transitory computer readable medium for recognizing input under control of the processor, the method comprising:

accepting input, with respect to an interface surface of a computing device, of one or more types of a plurality of different types of input;

causing recognition of the input as a plurality of recognized objects regardless of the one or more input types, each recognized object being associated with a corresponding probability of recognition; and

returning at least one of the recognized objects as the recognized input based on the probabilities.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the different types of input are accepted with respect to at least one portion of the interface surface.

10. A method according to claim 9, comprising causing display on the at least one portion of the interface surface a layout of character keys as a keyboard.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein the different types of input include single-position interactions and multi-position interactions with respect to the interface surface.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein the single-position interactions correspond to positions of the keys and the multi-position interactions correspond to strokes through positions of a plurality of the keys.

13. A method according to claim 12, wherein a first recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a second recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions disregarding the keys.

14. A method according to claim 13, wherein a third recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a fourth recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions disregarding the keys.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for recognizing input of multiple input types on a computing device, the computing device comprising a processor and at least one system non-transitory computer readable medium for recognizing the input under control of the processor, the method comprising:

accepting input, with respect to an interface surface of a computing device, of one or more types of a plurality of different types of input;

causing recognition of the input as a plurality of recognized objects regardless of the one or more input types, each recognized object being associated with a corresponding probability of recognition; and

returning at least one of the recognized objects as the recognized input based on the probabilities.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 15, wherein the different types of input are accepted with respect to at least one portion of the interface surface.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 16, comprising causing display on the at least one portion of the interface surface a layout of character keys as a keyboard.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the different types of input include single-position interactions and multi-position interactions with respect to the interface surface.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 18, wherein the single-position interactions correspond to positions of the keys and the multi-position interactions correspond to strokes through positions of a plurality of the keys.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 19, wherein a first recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a second recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more single-position interactions disregarding the keys.

21. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 20, wherein a third recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions regarding one or more of the keys and a fourth recognized object of the plurality of recognized objects corresponds to recognition of the input as one or more multi-position interactions disregarding the keys.