MULTI-TOUCH INTERFACE FOR VISUAL ANALYTICS

• US 20140149947A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Blyumen, Julia
• Granted Patent: US 9,158,766 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3089 Monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors, sensors, probes, agents software debugging using additional hardware using a specific debug interface G06F11/3656; performance evaluation by tracing or monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating adjusting a displayed representation of a visualization. An example method includes employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization; and providing a first user option to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to facilitate affecting an arrangement of data displayed via the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture. In a more specific embodiment, the touch gesture includes a rotation gesture, and the method further includes displaying a visual indication of a change, e.g., a pivot operation, to be applied to a second visualization as a user performs the rotation gesture, and updating the second visualization as a user continues perform the rotation gesture. The first visualization is updated based on the second visualization upon completion of the rotation gesture.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a visualization displayed on a display screen in a computer system, the method comprising:

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization;

accepting a signal from a user input device to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a pivot operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch input includes a rotation gesture.

3. The method of claim 2, further including displaying a visual indication, via a second visualization, of a change to be applied to the first visualization as a user performs the rotation gesture, and updating the second visualization as a user continues to perform the rotation gesture.

4. The method of claim 3, further including implementing a change in the first visualization upon completion of the rotation gesture, where the change in the first visualization corresponds to a change illustrated via the second visualization.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the first visualization includes a table, and wherein the second visualization provides one or more options for changing an arrangement of columns or rows of the first visualization.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the change represents a pivot operation applied to the table upon completion of the rotation gesture.

7. The method of claim 1, further including providing a second user option to apply a second touch input to a second region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a second portion of the first visualization, wherein the second touch input includes a pinch gesture.

8. The method of claim 7, further including implementing a drilling operation on data represented via the first visualization in response to the pinch gesture.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the pinch gesture includes a pinch together gesture.

10. The method of claim 7, further including implementing a logical zoom out of data represented via the first visualization in response to the pinch gesture.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the pinch gesture includes a pinch apart gesture effective to cause a logical zoom in operation being applied to the first visualization.

12. The method of claim 1, further including providing third second user option to apply third second touch input to third region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a third portion of the first visualization, wherein the third touch input includes a includes a first sequence of gestures effective to facilitate implementing a filtering operation to filter data displayed via the first visualization.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the method further includes detecting the first sequence of gestures, which includes a press and drag gesture for causing selection of a portion of the first visualization;

detecting a press and hold gesture applied to a selected portion of the first visualization, resulting in display of a user interface control in response thereto; and

detecting a tap gesture applied to the user interface control after detection of the press and hold gesture, and filtering the first visualization in response to the tap gesture based on the user interface control selected via the tap gesture.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein filtering the first visualization includes removing a portion of the first visualization that was not selected via the press and drag gesture.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the third touch input includes a press and drag gesture applied to a visualization to alter a dimension or measure displayed via the first visualization.

16. The method of claim 15, further including providing a fourth user option to add a dimension to the first visualization by selecting a dimension from a list by pressing on a representation of the dimension and employing a press and drag gesture to move the dimension into a position on the first visualization.

17. The method of claim 16, further including providing a fifth user option to remove a dimension from a visualization by selecting a visual representation of a dimension in or on the first visualization by a press gesture followed by a drag gesture, where the drag gesture terminates at a region of the user interface display screen that is off of the displayed visualization.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch input includes a collection of different touch inputs that are mapped to one or more manipulations applicable to a visualization.

19. An apparatus comprising:

a digital processor coupled to a display and to a processor-readable storage device, wherein the processor-readable storage device includes one or more instructions executable by the digital processor to perform the following acts;

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization;

accepting a signal from a user input device to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a pivot operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.

20. A processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by a digital processor, the processor-readable storage device including one or more instructions for:

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization;

accepting a signal from a user input device to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a pivot operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.

21. A method for adjusting a visualization displayed on a display screen in a computer system, the method comprising:

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization; and

providing a first user option to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a drilling operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the drilling operation includes a drilling out operation.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the multi-touch gesture includes a pinch close gesture.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the portion of the first visualization includes a table column header.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the drilling operation includes a drilling in operation.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the multi-touch gesture includes a pinch open gesture.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the portion of the visualization includes a table column header.

28. An apparatus comprising:

a digital processor coupled to a display and to a processor-readable storage device, wherein the processor-readable storage device includes one or more instructions executable by the digital processor to perform the following acts;

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization; and

providing a first user option to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a drilling operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.

29. A processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by a digital processor, the processor-readable storage device including one or more instructions for:

employing a touch-sensitive display to present a user interface display screen depicting a first visualization; and

providing a first user option to apply touch input to a region of the user interface display screen coinciding with a portion of the first visualization to apply a drilling operation to the first visualization, wherein the touch input includes a multi-touch gesture.