SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOUCH/GESTURE BASED DEVICE CONTROL

• US 20180018064A1
• Filed: 07/15/2016
• Published: 01/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation), Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Su, William
• Granted Patent: US 10,437,427 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00408 Display of information to the user, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A system and method for document processing includes a three-dimensional touch interface, a processor and associated memory. The processor generates thumbnail image data from received electronic document data and document format data corresponding to the electronic document data and the thumbnail image data. The memory stores associatively the electronic document data, the thumbnail image data and the document format data. The touch interface displays a thumbnail image from the thumbnail image data and generates user input data in accordance with application of one of a plurality of detectable pressure levels to the thumbnail image. The processor commences a document processing operation in accordance with the user input data and the document format data.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an input configured to receive electronic document data;

a processor and associated memory,

the processor configured to generate thumbnail image data from received electronic document data,

the processor further configured to generate document format data corresponding to the electronic document data and the thumbnail image data, and

the memory configured to associatively store the electronic document data, the thumbnail image data and the document format data; and

a three-dimensional touch interface configured to display a thumbnail image from the thumbnail image data,

the touch interface further configured generate user input data in accordance with application of one of a plurality of detectable pressure levels to the thumbnail image,

wherein the processor is further configured to commence a document processing operation in accordance with the user input data and the document format data.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the user input data includes data corresponding to a first force level associated with the application of a pressure on a surface of the touch interface indicative of a selected document processing operation.

3. The system of claim 2 further comprising an output configured to communicate the electronic document data to an associated document processing device for performing the selected document processing operation as a print operation.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the user input data includes data corresponding to a second force level associated with the application of pressure on the surface of the touch interface.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein the touch interface is further configured to display an image of the electronic document data in accordance with the second force level.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the user input data includes data corresponding to movement over the surface of the touch interface.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the processor is further configured to commence a second document processing operation in accordance with movement over the surface of the touch interface.

8. A method comprising:

receiving electronic document data into a memory;

generating, via a processor, thumbnail image data from received electronic document data;

generating document format data corresponding to the electronic document data and the thumbnail image data;

storing the electronic document data, the thumbnail image data and the document format data associatively in the memory;

displaying a thumbnail image from the thumbnail image data on a three-dimensional touch interface;

sensing, on the touch interface, one of a plurality of detectable pressure levels applied to the thumbnail image;

generating user input data in accordance with a sensed pressure level; and

commencing a selected document processing operation in accordance with the user input data and the document format data.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the user input data is generated in accordance with a first force level associated with the sensed pressure level.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising communicating the electronic document data to an associated document processing device for performing the selected document processing operation as a print operation.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the user input data is generated in accordance with a second force level associated with the sensed pressure level.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising displaying an image of the electronic document data in accordance with the second force level.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising sensing movement across a surface of the touch interface and wherein the user input data is generated in accordance with the sensed movement across the surface of the touch interface.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising commencing a second document processing operation in accordance with the sensed movement across the surface of the touch interface.

15. A system comprising:

a scanner configured to generate electronic document data from a scanned document;

a controller including processor and associated memory,

the controller configured to generate thumbnail image data from the electronic document data,

the controller configured to generate document format data corresponding to the electronic document data and the thumbnail image data, and

the memory configured to associatively store the electronic document data, the thumbnail image data and the document format data as a three-dimensional touch file;

an output configured to communicate the three-dimensional touch file to an associated user device; and

an input configured to receive selection data corresponding to a pressure application level received from a three-dimensional user interface on the user device,

wherein the controller is further configured to commence a document processing operation in accordance with received selection data.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the document processing operation is commenced as a printout of the electronic documents data when the selection data includes data corresponding to a first pressure level.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the document processing operation is commenced as a facsimile transmission when the selection data includes data corresponding to a second pressure level.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein the document processing operation is commenced when the selection data includes data corresponding a gesture received by the three-dimensional user interface on the user device.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the controller is further configured to generate the document format data as an extensible markup language file.

20. The system of claim 15 wherein the scanner is further configured to generate the thumbnail image comprising a plurality of icons associated with a corresponding plurality of scanned documents.