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US 10,768,785 B2Granted
Pressure sensitive manipulation of medical image data
AssigneeMerge Healthcare Solutions Inc.
InventorEvan K. Fram
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Abstract
Navigating user-interfaces of medical image viewing software using pressure-sensitive displays can increase productivity of the viewer. In certain embodiments, a menu having a number of icons can be provided on a display device such that the icons are arranged around an initial area that is touched by a user's finger or stylus, for example. Due to the icons being arranged around the initial cursor position, any one of the icons from the menu can be chosen with relatively small finger movement and/or changes in pressure applied by the finger.
Claims18
A method of detecting interactions with a pressure sensitive screen of a computing device, the method comprising:
- by one or more computer processors of the computing device:
- displaying a user interface on the pressure sensitive screen of the computing device, the user interface including a representation of one or more medical images;
- obtaining information indicating user input on the pressure sensitive screen of the computing device, the information indicating a location in the user interface of the user input and a pressure value indicating a measure of pressure applied to the pressure sensitive screen;
- in response to determining that the pressure value exceeds a first threshold, presenting a graphical menu comprising a plurality of icons on the pressure sensitive screen, each icon being associated with different functionality to perform on the one or more medical images;
- with the graphical menu displayed, detecting a temporary selection input of a particular icon of the plurality icons;
- subsequent to the temporary selection of the particular icon, detecting that the particular icon has been permanently selected in response to the pressure value being less than a second threshold;
- in response to said permanent selection, initiating execution of a particular functionality associated with the particular icon on the one or more medical images and setting a functionality of a new user input to the particular functionality associated with the particular icon;
- and
- subsequent to said permanent selection of the particular icon, receiving the new user input on the pressure sensitive screen, and applying the particular functionality associated with the particular icon in response to the new user input.
6 more elements
A computer program product storing instructions that when executed by a computing device of one or more processors causes the computing device to perform operations comprising:
- displaying a user interface on a pressure sensitive screen of the computing device, the user interface including a representation of one or more medical images;
- obtaining information indicating user input on the pressure sensitive screen of the computing device, the information indicating a location in the user interface of the user input and a pressure value indicating a measure of pressure applied to the pressure sensitive screen;
- in response to determining that the pressure value exceeds a first threshold, presenting a graphical menu comprising a plurality of icons on the pressure sensitive screen, each icon being associated with different functionality to perform on the one or more medical images;
- with the graphical menu displayed, detecting a temporary selection input of a particular icon of the plurality icons;
- subsequent to the temporary selection of the particular icon, detecting that the particular icon has been permanently selected in response to the pressure value being less than a second threshold;
- in response to said permanent selection, initiating execution of a particular functionality associated with the particular icon on the one or more medical images and setting a functionality of a new user input to the particular functionality associated with the particular icon;
- and
- subsequent to said permanent selection of the particular icon, receiving a new user input on the pressure sensitive screen, and applying the particular functionality associated with the particular icon in response to the user input.
5 more elements
A system comprising one or more processors and a computer program product storing instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- displaying a user interface on a pressure sensitive screen, the user interface including a representation of one or more medical images;
- obtaining information indicating user input on the pressure sensitive screen, the information indicating a location in the user interface of the user input and a pressure value indicating a measure of pressure applied to the pressure sensitive screen;
- in response to determining that the pressure value exceeds a first threshold, presenting a graphical menu comprising a plurality of icons on the pressure sensitive screen, each icon being associated with different functionality to perform on the one or more medical images;
- with the graphical menu displayed, detecting a temporary selection input of a particular icon of the plurality icons;
- subsequent to the temporary selection of the particular icon, detecting that the particular icon has been permanently selected in response to the pressure value being less than a second threshold;
- in response to said permanent selection, initiating execution of a particular functionality associated with the particular icon on the one or more medical images and setting a functionality of a new user input to the particular functionality associated with the particular icon;
- and
- subsequent to said permanent selection of the particular icon, receiving a new user input on the pressure sensitive screen, and applying the particular functionality associated with the particular icon in response to the user input.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.