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Gestural annotations

  • US 9,552,345 B2
  • Filed: 02/28/2014
  • Issued: 01/24/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method at a computing device comprising:

  • rendering, by an application that at least one of reads or writes documents, a document at a display device, the application executing on the computing device or at a remote computing entity in communication with the computing device;

    receiving sensor data from one or more sensors monitoring user annotation events associated with the rendered document, whilst also,monitoring state data of the application;

    recognizing one or more gestures by analyzing the received sensor data;

    storing the state data with associated timestamps;

    storing the recognized gestures with associated timestamps; and

    calculating and storing a compressed record of the sensor data on the basis of the recognized gestures, the state data, and the timestamps, wherein the compressed record of the sensor data comprises identifiers of a plurality of views of the document having associated recognized gestures, the plurality of views of the document together forming a storyboard.

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