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Graphical user interface with gesture recognition in a multiapplication environment

  • US 5,252,951 A
  • Filed: 10/21/1991
  • Issued: 10/12/1993
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An advanced user interface, for use with an integrated operating environment and an operating system capable of running a plurality of application programs simultaneously on a computer system, only one of which is active at a given time, the computer system having a central processor, a random access memory, a display and at least one input device which transmits input signals to the advanced user interface in response to actions performed by a user, comprising:

  • interface profiles which contain mappings of input messages representative of the input signals against corresponding commands useable by at least one of the plurality of application programs; and

    ,an environment link module coupled to the interface profiles, the integrated operating environment and the operating system, the environment link module receiving the input messages, determining a first window of a plurality of windows belonging to one of the plurality of application programs in which a key feature of a gesture was made by pointing device, matching the input messages against the corresponding commands contained in the interface profiles according to the application program which owns the first window, and sending the corresponding commands to an appropriate computer module in the random access memory;

    the computer system performing a given action in response to user actions different from those user actions for which the owning application program was originally written without change to the owning application program.

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