G06F 2203/04808
Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function
Official title: 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
G06F2203/04808 (Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function) appears on 3,497 US grants and 4,693 published applications in this corpus.
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- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Multiple fingers contact sensing method for emulating mouse buttons and mouse operations on a touch sensor pad2,510US 5,825,352 ALogitech, Inc. · 1998
- Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition2,193US 5,880,411 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1999
- Gestures for touch sensitive input devices2,066US 8,479,122 B2Apple Inc. · 2013
- Intelligent touch display1,903US 6,310,610 B1Nortel Networks Limited · 2001