Parametric inertia and APIs

• US 10,642,365 B2
• Filed: 09/09/2014
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Huang, Ming, Brun, Nicolas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chanh D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Truong, Nguyen H
• Application Number:
  US14/481,717
• Publication Number:
  US 20160070357A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,065 Days
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Parametric inertia and API techniques are described. In one or more implementations, functionality is exposed via an application programming interface by an operating system of a computing device to one or more applications that is configured to calculate an effect of inertia for movement in a user interface. The calculated effect of inertia for the movement on the user interface is managed by the operating system based on one or more rest points specified using one or more parametric curves by the one or more applications via interaction with the application programming interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

exposing functionality via an application programming interface by an operating system of a computing device to one or more applications that is configured to calculate an effect of inertia for movement in a user interface in a default phase, a position phase, and a range phase based on one or more parameters specified by the one or more applications via the application programming interface;

determining, during the default phase, a proposed inertia rest position by determining, based at least in part on the one or more parameters, two or more rest points that are based on a position or velocity corresponding to a state of a subject movement at an inertia start position;

updating, during the position phase, the proposed inertia rest position output by the default phase by using the two or more rest points to adjust the proposed inertia rest position as evaluated in turn, starting with a first point of the two or more rest points closest to the inertial start position and continuing in a direction of the movement, to generate a range inertia rest position;

updating, during the range phase, the range inertia rest position by forcing the range inertia rest position to coincide with a specific location when falling within a predefined range around the specific location to generate a final location of an inertia rest position; and

managing the calculated effect of inertia for the movement on the user interface by the operating system based on the two or more rest points specified using one or more parametric curves by the one or more applications via interaction with the application programming interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the effect of the inertia corresponds to the inertia rest position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the calculated effect of inertia on the user interface is applied to movement of the user interface as a whole or applied to the subject movement of a subject within the user interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein forcing the range inertia rest position to coincide with the specific location further includes locating a closest rest point of the two or more rest points to the range inertia rest position and setting the range inertia rest position to coincide with the closest rest point.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the two or more rest points comprises determining the two or more rest points as the one or more parameters specified by the one or more applications via the application programming interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the two or more rest points comprises calculating the two or more rest points based on the position or velocity corresponding to the state of the subject movement at the inertia start position.

7. A system comprising:

a display device; and

one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising;

calculating an inertia rest position of an effect of inertia by an operating system of a computing device using a default phase, a position phase, and a range phase based on two or more rest points, wherein the two or more rest point are determined based on one or more parameters specified by an application via an application programming interface of the operating system, wherein the calculating includes determining, during the default phase, a proposed inertia rest position by determining the two or more rest points that are based on a position or velocity corresponding to a state of a subject movement at an inertia start position;

updating, during the position phase, the proposed inertia rest position output by the default phase by using the two or more rest points to adjust the proposed inertia rest position as evaluated in turn, starting with a first point of the two or more rest points closest to the inertial start position and continuing in a direction of the movement, to generate a range inertia rest position;

updating, during the range phase, the range inertia rest position by forcing the range inertia rest position to coincide with a specific location when falling within a predefined range around the specific location to generate a final location of the inertia rest position; and

exposing the calculated inertia rest position by the operating system as applied to a user interface output by the computing device for display by the display device.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein calculating the inertia rest position is based at least in part on an initial velocity of an input and a predefined deceleration.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the calculating of the inertia rest position in the position phase:

is based on a position of the subject movement of a subject at an inertia start and a position rest point;

is based on a distance between the inertia rest position to a position rest point;

is based on the initial velocity of the subject movement of the subject at inertia start, which defines a velocity of the subject between the inertia start and a position of the inertia rest position to a parametric curve;

or

is based on a velocity of the subject when passing a corresponding said rest point.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein updating, during the range phase, includes applying as specified by the application to the two or more rest points to determine the inertia rest position.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the inertia rest position is applied to the subject movement of the user interface as a whole or applied to movement of an object within the user interface.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more modules are configured to determine the two or more rest points as the one or more parameters specified by the one or more applications via the application programming interface.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more modules are configured to calculate the two or more rest point based on the position or velocity corresponding to the state of the subject movement at the inertia start position.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored therein that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

expose an application programming interface by an operating system to one or more applications that is configured to calculate an inertia rest position for movement in a user interface in a default phase, a position phase, and a range phase based on one or more parameters specified by the one or more applications via the application programming interface;

determine, during the default phase, a proposed inertia rest position by determining, based at least in part on the one or more parameters, two or more rest points that are based on a position or velocity corresponding to a state of a subject movement at an inertia start position;

update, during the position phase, the proposed inertia rest position output by the default phase by using the two or more rest points to adjust the proposed inertia rest position as evaluated in turn, starting with a first point of the two or more rest points closest to the inertial start position and continuing in a direction of the movement, to generate a range inertia rest position;

update, during the range phase, the range inertia rest position by forcing the range inertia rest position to coincide with a specific location when falling within a predefined range around the specific location to generate a final location of the inertia rest position; and

manage the calculated effect of inertia for the inertia rest position for the movement on the user interface by the operating system based on the two or more rest points specified by the one or more applications via interaction with the application programming interface.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the inertia rest position is applied to movement of the user interface as a whole or applied to movement of a subject within the user interface.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the effect of the inertia corresponds to the inertia rest position.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the calculated effect of inertia on the user interface is applied to the subject movement of the user interface as a whole or applied to the subject movement of a subject within the user interface.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions that cause the one or more processors to determine the proposed inertia rest position further determine the two or more rest points as the one or more parameters specified by the one or more applications via the application programming interface.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions that cause the one or more processors to determine the proposed inertia rest position further calculate the two or more rest points based on the position or velocity corresponding to the state of the subject movement at the inertia start position.