BLENDING TOUCH DATA STREAMS THAT INCLUDE TOUCH INPUT DATA

• US 20110080344A1
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dedo Interactive, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Dedo Interactive, Inc.
• Inventors: Miller, Mark Frederick, Dura, Daniel Adam
• Application Number:
  US12/893,427
• Publication Number:
  US 20110080344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/163
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A system includes multiple touch input devices. Each of the touch input devices generates a set of touch data. A blending component receives the sets of touch data and generates a corresponding combined set of touch data that is outputted to a touch input application. In one embodiment, at least one of the multiple touch input devices is a multitouch input device that supports multiple simultaneous touch inputs.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

multiple touch input devices, each of the touch input devices generating a set of touch data;

a blending component that receives the sets of touch data from the multiple touch input devices, the component combining the sets of touch data into a single combined set of touch data that is outputted to a touch input application.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said multiple touch input devices is a multitouch input device that supports multiple simultaneous touch inputs.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two of the multiple touch input devices have a different size.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two of the multiple touch input devices have a same shape.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two of the multiple touch input devices have different shapes.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two of the multiple touch input devices have a same orientation.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two of the multiple touch input devices have different orientations.

8. A system comprising:

at least one touch input device;

at least one non-touch user input device;

a component having a first interface and a second interface, the first interface receiving data from both the at least one touch input device and the at least one non-touch user input device, the second interface outputting a single data stream that is indicative of the data from both the at least one touch input device and the at least one non-touch user input device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises a radio frequency identification device.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises a barcode scanner.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises an object recognition component.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises a mouse.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises a keyboard.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises a fiducial marker recognition system.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one non-touch user input device comprises an image recognition system.

16. A method comprising:

receiving a first set of data from a touch input device;

receiving a second set of data from another device;

generating a third set of data that is representative of the first and the second sets of data; and

outputting the third set of data to an application.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the another device is a non-touch device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the another device is another touch input device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the touch input device and the another touch input device have different orientations.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the touch input device and the another touch input device have different shapes.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the touch input device and the another touch input device are both multitouch input devices.