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.
Claims12
A method of using a device having a touchscreen to ensure input from two parties for the purpose of assuring proper consent to a document comprising:
- a) on the device, displaying the document on the touchscreen;
- b) on the device, detecting a plurality of points of contact on the touchscreen at each of two different touch zones located distant from each other on the touchscreen to verify the device is being properly held, wherein neither touch zone is pre-defined to any particular location on the touchscreen but is identified after detecting and analyzing the plurality of points of contact;
- c) on the device, after detecting the plurality of points of contact at the two different touch zones, displaying a mechanism for receiving consent at a third touch zone;
- d) on the device, only while still detecting the plurality of points of contact at the two different touch zones, recognizing consent by detecting an input of consent at the third touch zone;
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- e) recording the consent in a data memory.
A method of detecting a three-handed gesture on a touchscreen comprising:
- a) detecting proper contact at two different touch zones located on the touchscreen, wherein neither of the two different touch zones is pre-defined to any particular location on the touchscreen but is identified after detecting and analyzing the touchscreen contact, wherein proper contact at the two different touch zones is identified by:
- i) detecting a first cluster of three points of contact on the touchscreen that are proximal to each other to form a first touch zone,
- ii) detecting a second cluster of three point of contact on the touch screen that are proximal to each other to form a second touch zone, and
- iii) confirming that the first touch zone is sufficiently far from the second touch zone;
- b) after detecting proper contact at the two different touch zones, displaying an input mechanism at a third touch zone that is separated on the touchscreen from the first and second touch zones;
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- c) on the device, only while still detecting the proper contact at the two different touch zones and while displaying the input mechanism, recognizing contact on the touchscreen at the input mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.