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US 10,241,570 B2Granted
Pointing support device, pointing support method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsHiroshi Nakayama, Junichi Odagiri, Satoshi Nakashima, Kentaro Murase, Masakiyo Tanaka
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Abstract
A pointing support device detects user's gaze position on a screen, sets the gaze position as an initial position of a pointer, displays a path starting from the initial position on the screen on the basis of path definition information, which defines the path to move the pointer and a movement pattern of the path and moves the pointer along the path.
Claims15
A pointing support device comprising:
- a memory that includes path definition information, which defines a path to move a pointer and a movement pattern of the path;
- and
- a processor that executes a process including:
- detecting a gaze position of a user on a screen;
- outputting a signal, when having received a predetermined instruction from the user;
- setting the gaze position as an initial position of the pointer at the time of acquisition of the signal;
- displaying the path starting from the initial position on the screen first moving the path based on the movement pattern of the path;
- second moving the pointer along the path;
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- determining moved position of the pointer along the path as the final pointer position when having received an instruction from the user
- wherein each time the starting point of the path is switched due to acquisition of the signal, the first moving reduces the speed of moving the path to be lower than a previous moving speed and the second moving reduces the speed of moving the pointer on the path to be lower than a previous moving speed.
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A pointing support method comprising:
- detecting a gaze position of a user on a screen, using a processor;
- outputting a signal, when having received a predetermined instruction from the user, using a processor;
- setting the gaze position as an initial position of the pointer at the time of acquisition of the signal, using the processor;
- displaying a path starting from the initial position on the screen on the basis of path definition information, which defines the path to move the pointer and a movement pattern of the path, using the processor;
- first moving the path based on the movement pattern of the path;
- second moving the pointer along the path, using the processor;
- and
- determining moved position of the pointer along the path as the final pointer position when having received an instruction from the user, using the processor
- wherein each time the starting point of the path is switched due to acquisition of the signal, the first moving reduces the speed of moving the path to be lower than a previous moving speed and the second moving reduces the speed of moving the pointer on the path to be lower than a previous moving speed.
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a pointing support program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:
- detecting a gaze position of a user on a screen;
- outputting a signal, when having received a predetermined instruction from the user;
- setting the gaze position as an initial position of the pointer at the time of acquisition of the signal;
- displaying a path starting from the initial position on the screen on the basis of path definition information, which defines the path to move the pointer and a movement pattern of the path;
- first moving the path based on the movement pattern of the path;
- second moving the pointer along the path;
- and
- determining moved position of the pointer along the path as the final pointer position when having received an instruction from the user
- wherein each time the starting point of the path is switched due to acquisition of the signal, the first moving reduces the speed of moving the path to be lower than a previous moving speed and the second moving reduces the speed of moving the pointer on the path to be lower than a previous moving speed.
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