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Touch user interface supporting global and context-specific touch gestures that are responsive to at least one finger angle

  • US 8,894,489 B2
  • Filed: 03/05/2014
  • Issued: 11/25/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A user interface method for use with a touch gesture user interface in a system implementing global or universal gestures and application-specific gestures for the control of software executing on a device comprising a touch user interface and a computational processor, the method comprisingRecognizing at least one posture of a finger in contact with a tactile sensor,Recognizing a touch gesture from a plurality of possible touch gestures by recognizing specific changes between postures, the changes comprising at least one recognized change in the angle of finger contact with the tactile sensor,Assigning a user interface function to the recognized touch gesture,Directing executing software to perform a user interface operation associated with the recognized touch gesture, the user interface operation selected from a plurality of possible from a user interface operations, and the association from plurality of possible associations, the plurality of possible associations comprising at least a global type and a second type, the first type of association being common across applications and the second type of association being an application-specific association that is specific to an application executing on the system, andWherein the executing software is responsive to the recognized touch gesture.

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