Control of an electronic device using a gesture as an input
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1. A method comprising:
- recording with a gesture input device a gesture, wherein the gesture is defined by a moving point having a trajectory broken into partial gestures which are contiguous touch gestures, and where waypoints separate the partial gestures and the trajectory of the moving point is uninterrupted from a starting point to an end point and detecting, within the gesture, each one of a sequence of the partial gestures that form the gesture; and
performing a same first command on detecting each partial gesture, where the gesture input device comprises part of an electronic device that comprises a display, and where the first command is at least one of a command to perform a display scroll up function or scroll down function, and a command to perform a display page back function or page forward function, wherein the method further comprises;
a) detecting a potential waypoint separating partial gestures;
b) testing to confirm that the potential waypoint is a waypoint separating partial gestures;
c) if the test is positive, performing the first command; and
repeating step a), b) and c) until the gesture ends.
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Abstract
A method of controlling an electronic device using a gesture as an input, including recording a gesture and detecting, within the gesture, each one of a sequence of partial gestures that form the gesture; and performing the same first command on detecting each partial gesture.
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29 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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recording with a gesture input device a gesture, wherein the gesture is defined by a moving point having a trajectory broken into partial gestures which are contiguous touch gestures, and where waypoints separate the partial gestures and the trajectory of the moving point is uninterrupted from a starting point to an end point and detecting, within the gesture, each one of a sequence of the partial gestures that form the gesture; and performing a same first command on detecting each partial gesture, where the gesture input device comprises part of an electronic device that comprises a display, and where the first command is at least one of a command to perform a display scroll up function or scroll down function, and a command to perform a display page back function or page forward function, wherein the method further comprises;
a) detecting a potential waypoint separating partial gestures;
b) testing to confirm that the potential waypoint is a waypoint separating partial gestures;
c) if the test is positive, performing the first command; andrepeating step a), b) and c) until the gesture ends. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An apparatus comprising:
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at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to; record with a gesture input device a gesture, wherein the gesture is defined by a moving point having a trajectory broken into partial gestures which are contiguous touch gestures, and where waypoints separate the partial gestures and the trajectory of the moving point is configured to be uninterrupted from a starting point to an end point; detect, within the gesture, each one of a sequence of partial gestures that form the gesture; and perform a same first command in response to each detected partial gesture, where the first command is at least one of a command to perform a scroll up function or scroll down function, and a command to perform a page back function or page forward function, the apparatus comprising a detector configured to detect potential waypoints separating partial gestures and to test whether potential waypoints are waypoints separating partial gestures; and a controller configured, if a test is positive, to perform the first command. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A storage device embodying a computer program comprising program instructions which when loaded into a processor result in performance of operations that comprise:
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detecting each one of a sequence of partial gestures that form a gesture, wherein the gesture is defined by a moving point having a trajectory broken into partial gestures which are contiguous touch gestures, and where waypoints separate the partial gestures and the trajectory of the moving point is configured to be uninterrupted from a starting point to an end point; performing a same first command on detecting each partial gesture, where the first command is at least one of a command to perform a scroll up function or scroll down function, and a command to perform a page back function or page forward function; and a) detecting a potential waypoint separating partial gestures;
b) testing to confirm that the potential waypoint is a waypoint separating partial gestures;
c) if the test is positive, performing the first command; and
repeating step a), b) and c) until the gesture ends.
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