US 10,871,896 B2Granted

Touchscreen with three-handed gestures system and method

AssigneeBby Solutions, Inc.

InventorJonathan R. Buettner

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Abstract

A user interface verification device and a method of use is presented for recognizing a three-hand gesture on a touchscreen of the device. The gesture is recognized by detecting a plurality of contact points in at least two, disparate touching zones, and simultaneously detecting additional contact points in a third, disparate touching zone. In one embodiment, the device displays content in a review mode that can be reviewed in a normal manner. In the execution mode, the device requires a signature, a touch, or another sign of acceptance involving a touch within the third touching zone. The device can ensure that a customer directly provides consent by requiring that the two, multi-point touching zones are tactilely engaged by both hands of a presenter while in the execution mode.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method for detecting a three-handed gesture by multiple persons on a touchscreen comprising:

a) displaying on the touch screen a fixed number of finger location markers within each of a first touching zone and a second touching zone before recognizing any touches in the first and second touching zones:
b) recognizing a first touch in the first touching zone on the touchscreen, the first touch requiring the fixed number of points of contact with the touchscreen in the first touching zone, wherein the fixed number of points of contact are recognized anywhere within the first touching zone and are not required to occur within the confines of the displayed finger location markers:
c) recognizing a second touch in the second touching zone on the touchscreen, the second touch requiring the fixed number of points of contact with the touchscreen in the second touching zone, wherein the fixed number of points of contact are recognized anywhere within the second touching zone and are not required to occur within the confines of the displayed finger location markers, the second touch being recognized concurrently with the first touch;
d) recognizing a third touch in a third touching zone, the third touch being recognized concurrently with the first and second touches.

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A device comprising:

a) a processor,
b) a touchscreen,
c) memory,
d) operating system programming stored in the memory to identify points of contact on the touchscreen:
e) gesture recognition library programming stored in the memory to recognize a three-handed gesture as may be created by multiple persons, the gesture recognition programming using the operating system programming to recognize concurrent, separate points of contact touches in three separate, non-overlapping touching zones, the three touching zones comprising a first and second holding zone and a consent zone, wherein each holding zone requires at least two points of contact within the holding zone before the touch is recognized:
and
f) application programming that accesses the gesture recognition library programming to identify the three-handed gesture and to utilize the identification of the three-handed gesture as an indication of assent within the application programming;
wherein all three touching zones are located on the touchscreen and the device displays three finger location markers within each holding zone;
and
wherein the separate points of contact touches are recognized anywhere within each holding zone and are not required to occur within the confines of the displayed finger location markers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/371,422Filed 7 Dec 2016
Published: US 2018/0157407 A17 Jun 2018
Granted: 22 Dec 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 3/04886
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…
G06V 40/20
Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data: movements or behaviour, e.g. gesture recognition
G06F 2203/04808
Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/048: several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the…

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US 2018/0157407 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Jun 2018
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