Input association

• US 9,389,702 B2
• Filed: 10/06/2005
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Pierce, J. Bronwyn, Blythe, Michael M., Anthony, Kenneth L., Blythe, Gregory W., Pinard, Daniel T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US11/244,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20070083820A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,932 Days
• Field of Search: 715/746, 715/718, 715/728, 715/735, 715/761, 715/771, 715/773, 715/778, 715/863, 715/970, 463/37, 463/43
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0381 Multimodal input, i.e. interface arrangements enabling the user to issue commands by simultaneous use of input devices of different nature, e.g. voice plus gesture on digitizer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

A plurality of substantially simultaneous inputs are associated with one or more applications, wherein it is determined if the plurality of inputs includes unacceptable inputs and wherein unacceptable inputs are ignored.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting a display to a first user, the display presented to the first user having a first active graphical user interface at a first region of the display and a second active graphical user interface at a second region of the display;

presenting the display to a second user, the display presented to the second user being identical to the display presented to the first user, the display presented to the second user having the first active graphical user interface at the first region of the display and the second active graphical user interface at the second region of the display, wherein the first active graphical user interface is assigned to a first input style and wherein the second active graphical user interface is assigned to a second input style different than the first input style and wherein the first user and the second user each provide either of the first input style or the second input style to the first graphical user interface;

concurrently receiving, with the first active graphical user interface, a first input from the first user and a second input from the second user;

identifying a style of the first input to determine if the first input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface;

in response to a determination that the first input is the second input style, ignoring the first input;

identifying a style of the second input to determine if the second input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface; and

in response to a determination that the second input is the second input style, ignoring the second input.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to a determination that the first input is the first input style providing the first input to one or more applications associated with the first active graphical user interface.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input style is a style selected from a group comprising a single click, a double click, a gesture, and a drag and wherein the second input style is a style different than the first input style and selected from a group comprising a single click, a double click, a gesture, and a drag.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input and the second input are provided using one or more input devices selected from a group comprising a pointing device, a key-based input device, a touch input, a camera, and an object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a plurality of windows, the plurality windows comprising a first window comprising the first active graphical user interface and a second window comprising the second active graphical user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a plurality of windows and at least one of the plurality of windows is active.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the display comprises a plurality of windows and wherein at least one window is active for each user.

8. A system comprising:

at least one display device to simultaneously present a display that includes a first graphical user interface and a second graphical user interface to a first user and a second user, the display presented to the first user being identical to the display presented to the second user, wherein the first graphical user interface is assigned to a first input style and wherein the second graphical user interface is assigned to a second input style different than the first input style and wherein the first user and the second user may each provide either of the first input style or the second input style to the first graphical user interface; and

a computing device configured to;

concurrently receive, with the first graphical user interface, a first input from the first user and a second input from the second user;

identify a style of the first input to determine if the first input is the first input style assigned to the first graphical user interface;

in response to a determination that the first input is the second input style, ignoring the first input;

identify a style of the second input to determine if the second input is the first input style assigned to the first graphical user interface; and

in response to a determination that the second input is the second input style, ignoring the second input.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the first input style is a style selected from a group comprising a single click, a double click, a gesture, and a drag and wherein the second input style is a style different than the first input style and selected from a group comprising a single click, a double click, a gesture, and a drag a style selected from a group comprising a single click, a double click, a gesture, and a drag.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

the at least two input devices, wherein the at least two input devices are selected from a group comprising a pointing device, a key-based input device, a touch input, a camera, and an object.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the display comprises a plurality of displays.

12. The system as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

an image capture device configured to capture one or more images corresponding to the first input and the second input.

13. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein:

the computing device includes a vision processing device configured to execute instructions to determine occurrence of the first input and the second input the using the one or more images; and

the computing device includes a processing device configured to execute instructions to associate the first input and the second input with the one or more applications.

14. The system as recited in claim 13, wherein:

the processing device includes a configuration to execute instructions to adjust operation of the vision processing device according to a type of the at least two input devices used to provide the first input and the second input.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

stored instructions to assign a first input style to a first graphical user interface and a second input style, different than the first input style, to a second graphical user interface;

stored instructions to simultaneously present a display to a first user and a second user, the display presented to the first user being identical to the display presented to the second user, the display comprising the first graphical user interface and the second graphical user interface;

stored instructions to;

concurrently receive, with the first active graphical user interface, a first input from the first user and a second input from the second user;

identify a style of the first input to determine if the first input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface;

in response to a determination that the first input is the second input style, ignore the first input;

identify a style of the second input to determine if the second input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface; and

in response to a determination that the second input is the second input style, ignore the second input.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, further comprising stored instructions that in response to a determination that the first input is the first input style providing the first input to one or more applications associated with the first active graphical user interface.

17. A method comprising:

presenting a display to a first user, the display presented to the first user having a first active graphical user interface at a first region of the display and a second active graphical user interface at a second region of the display;

presenting the display to a second user, the display presented to the second user being identical to the display presented to the first user, the display presented to the second user having the first active graphical user interface at the first region of the display and the second active graphical user interface at the second region of the display, wherein the first active graphical user interface is assigned to a first input style and wherein the second active graphical user interface is assigned to a second input style different than the first input style and wherein the first user and the second user may each provide either of the first input style or the second input style to the first graphical user interface;

concurrently receiving, with the first active graphical user interface, a first input from the first user and a second input from the second user;

identifying a style of the first input to determine if the first input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface;

in response to a determination that the first input is the second input style, ignoring the first input;

identifying a style of the second input to determine if the second input is the first input style assigned to the first active graphical user interface; and

in response to a determination that the second input is the second input style, ignoring the second input.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising detecting the first input and the second input.