Computer-readable storage medium, coordinate processing apparatus, coordinate processing system, and coordinate processing method

• US 9,041,680 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2014
• Issued: 05/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: Ohta, Keizo
• Primary Examiner(s): HALEY, JOSEPH R
• Application Number:
  US14/196,876
• Publication Number:
  US 20140184548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 448 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/347 Sampling; Contour coding; Stroke extraction

Abstract

A following coordinate which follows an input coordinate late is calculated. Then, an inference moving amount is calculated on the basis of a moving amount of an input coordinate, and an inference moving direction is calculated on the basis of a moving direction of the following coordinate. An inference movement vector is set on the basis of the inference moving amount and inference moving direction calculated thus. The following coordinate has low correlation with an actual moving amount of a linger of an operator, and the moving direction of the input coordinate has low correlation with an actual moving direction of the finger of the operator due to fluctuation of the input coordinate. Thus, the inference movement vector which is set as described above more accurately reflects the actual moving amount and moving direction of the finger of the operator.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a coordinate processing program for processing input coordinate data outputted from a coordinate input device as a result of an input performed by a finger or a pen, the coordinate processing program causing a computer to:

calculate, on the basis of a first coordinate series indicated by the input coordinate data, a second coordinate series, where the calculated second coordinate series represents a second input trajectory for the input performed by the finger or the pen that has a shape which is smoother than a first input trajectory of the first coordinate series for the input performed by the finger or the pen;

calculate a moving amount of the finger or the pen on the basis of the first coordinate series;

calculate a moving direction of the finger or the pen on the basis of the second coordinate series; and

perform predetermined processing by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.

2. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the moving amount is calculated on the basis of at least a distance between a latest coordinate of the first coordinate series and a coordinate immediately previous to the latest coordinate.

3. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the moving direction is calculated on the basis of a direction of a straight line connecting a latest coordinate of the second coordinate series to a coordinate immediately previous to the latest coordinate.

4. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein, a following coordinate is calculated, as a coordinate of the second coordinate series, which follows a target coordinate which is set on the basis of the input coordinate data.

5. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 4, a following coordinate is calculated, as a coordinate of the second coordinate series, which follows the target coordinate at a predetermined rate.

6. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 4, wherein the following coordinate is updated at all times such that the following coordinate approaches the target coordinate by a predetermined rate of a distance from the following coordinate to the target coordinate.

7. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 4, wherein the target coordinate is an allowance coordinate which, when being distant from an input coordinate indicated by the input coordinate data by more than a predetermined distance, moves toward the input coordinate so as to be located at a position away from the input coordinate by the predetermined distance.

8. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein coordinate processing program further causes the computer to generate a movement vector indicating a moving amount and a moving direction of a coordinate, by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.

9. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the coordinate processing program further causes the computer to calculate a third coordinate series by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.

10. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the coordinate processing program further causes the computer to complement the input coordinate data by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction, when output of the input coordinate data from the coordinate input device is temporarily interrupted.

11. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined processing is performed in real time in accordance with output of the input coordinate data from the coordinate input device.

12. A coordinate processing apparatus for processing input coordinate data outputted from a coordinate input device as a result of an input performed by a finger or a pen, the coordinate processing apparatus comprising:

a processing system that includes at least one hardware processor coupled to the coordinate input device, the processing system configured to;

a second coordinate series calculator configured to calculate, on the basis of a first coordinate series indicated by the input coordinate data, a second coordinate series, where the calculated second coordinate series represents a second input trajectory for the input performed by the finger or the pen that has a shape which is smoother than a first input trajectory of the first coordinate series for the input performed by the finger or the pen;

calculate a moving amount of the finger or the pen on the basis of the first coordinate series;

calculate a moving direction of the finger or the pen on the basis of the second coordinate series; and

perform predetermined processing by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.

13. A coordinate processing system comprising:

a coordinate input device configured to output coordinate input data that is a result of input performed by a finger or a pen; and

at least one hardware processor coupled to the coordinate input device, the at least one hardware processor configured to;

smooth a first coordinate series indicated by the input coordinate data to obtain a second coordinate series, where the second coordinate series is calculated based on the first coordinate series and represents a second input trajectory for the input performed by the finger or the pen that has a shape which is smoother than a first input trajectory of the first coordinate series for the input performed by the finger or the pen;

calculate a moving amount of the finger or the pen on the basis of the first coordinate series;

calculate a moving direction of the finger or the pen the basis of the second coordinate series; and

perform predetermined processing by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.

14. A coordinate processing method executed by a computer of a coordinate processing system for processing input coordinate data outputted from a coordinate input device as a result of an input performed by a finger or a pen, the coordinate processing method comprising:

calculating, on the basis or a first coordinate series indicated by the input coordinate data, a second coordinate series, where the calculated second coordinate series represents a second input trajectory for the input performed by the finger or the pen that has a shape which is smoother than a first input trajectory of the first coordinate series for the input performed by the finger or the pen;

calculating a moving amount of the finger or the pen on the basis of the first coordinate series;

calculating a moving direction of the finger or the pen on the basis of the second coordinate series; and

performing predetermined processing by using the calculated moving amount and the calculated moving direction.