Biometric adjustments for touchscreens

• US 9,927,960 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Cantrell, Christian T.
• Primary Examiner(s): TAN, ALVIN H
• Application Number:
  US14/207,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195923A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,476 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

In some embodiments, a touchscreen may display a graphical user interface with one or more input options and may detect which input options are selected by a user by detecting a user'"'"'s contact on the touchscreen. The system may determine a new graphical user interface configuration to increase the size and/or spacing of the input options. In some embodiments, one or more of the input options may be removed to increase the space available to increase the size of the other input options. In some embodiments, the system may maintain a history of input option use to determine which input options to remove. In some embodiments, the new graphical user interface configuration may include smaller (and/or additional) input options (e.g., if the contact areas are detected as consistently within the displayed input options).

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

displaying a graphical user interface that has a first graphical user interface configuration;

determining that a user has made a user input mistake on the first graphical user interface configuration based on actions made by the user to correct the user input mistake;

detecting a size of a contact area corresponding to a user input on a touchscreen to select an input option on the graphical user interface;

averaging at least two previously detected contact areas; and

determining a second graphical user interface configuration based at least in part on the size of the detected contact area of the user input, the determined user input mistake, and an average of the at least two previously detected contact areas.

2. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first and second graphical user interface configurations include the input option that is different in at least one characteristic in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, and the input option has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations.

3. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one characteristic is size of the input option, and the input option displayed in the second graphical user interface configuration is a different size than the input option displayed in the first graphical user interface configuration.

4. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one characteristic is spacing between displayed input options, and the spacing between the displayed input options in the second graphical user interface configuration is a different spacing than the spacing between the displayed input options in the first graphical user interface configuration.

5. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first graphical user interface configuration includes at least one additional input option that is not displayed in the second graphical user interface configuration.

6. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 5, wherein the at least one additional input option is determined as being used less than the input option that is included in both the first and second graphical user interface configurations.

7. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes only part of the first graphical user interface configuration and is accessible by selecting a menu option.

8. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is determined during use of a first application, and wherein the at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is applied to another graphical user interface configuration during use of a second application.

9. A device, comprising:

a touchscreen configured to display a graphical user interface that has a first graphical user interface configuration;

at least one processor to execute program instructions that are configured to;

detect a size of a contact area corresponding to a user input on the touchscreen to select an input option on the graphical user interface;

average at least two previously detected contact areas; and

determine a second graphical user interface configuration based at least in part on the size of the detected contact area of the user input, an average of the at least two previously detected contact areas, and a stored history of input options selected by the user, the stored history including corrections to user inputs on the first graphical user interface configuration.

10. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein the first and second graphical user interface configurations include the input option that is different in at least one characteristic in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, and the input option has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations.

11. The device as recited in claim 10, wherein the at least one characteristic is size of the input option, and the input option displayed in the second graphical user interface configuration is a different size than the input option displayed in the first graphical user interface configuration.

12. The device as recited in claim 10, wherein the at least one characteristic is spacing between displayed input options, and the spacing between the displayed input options in the second graphical user interface configuration is a different spacing than the spacing between the displayed input options in the first graphical user interface configuration.

13. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein the first graphical user interface configuration includes at least one additional input option that is not displayed in the second graphical user interface configuration.

14. The device as recited in claim 13, wherein the at least one additional input option is determined as being used less than the input option that is included in both the first and second graphical user interface configurations.

15. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes only part of the first graphical user interface configuration and is accessible by selecting a menu option.

16. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is determinable during use of a first application, and wherein the at least one characteristic of the second graphical user interface configuration is applied to another graphical user interface configuration during use of a second application.

20. The device as recited in claim 9, wherein to said determine the second graphical user interface configuration based at least in part on the size of the detected contact area includes to determine the second graphical user interface configuration based at least in part on the user input on the touchscreen being received too slowly.

17. A computer-readable storage hardware memory device comprising stored program instructions that are computer-executable comprising to:

display a graphical user interface that has a first graphical user interface configuration;

detect a size of a contact area corresponding to a user input on a touchscreen to select an input option on the graphical user interface;

average at least two previously detected contact areas; and

determine a second graphical user interface configuration based at least in part on the size of the detected contact area of the user input, an average of the at least two previously detected contact areas, and a stored history of input options selected by the user, the stored history including corrections to user inputs on the first graphical user interface configuration.

18. The computer-readable storage hardware memory device as recited in claim 17, wherein the first and second graphical user interface configurations include the input option that is different in at least one characteristic in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations, and the input option has the same function in each of the first and second graphical user interface configurations.

19. The computer-readable storage hardware memory device as recited in claim 17, wherein the second graphical user interface configuration includes an adjusted size of at least one input option on the second graphical user interface proportionately to the detected size of the contact area.