Quick Gesture Input
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsTiruvilwamalai Venkatram Raman, Charles L. Chen
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Abstract
A computer-implemented user interface method for a computing device is disclosed. The method includes associating each of a plurality of telephone keys with a direction of each key relative to a center of a telephone keypad, receiving a contact from a user of the device at a location on a touchscreen display of a computing device and an input at a direction relative to the location of the user contact, and causing a telephone number to be entered on the computing device based on the direction of each key relative to the center of the telephone keypad corresponding to the direction relative to the location of the user contact.
Claims21
A computer-implemented user interface method for a computing device, the method comprising:
- associating each of a plurality of telephone keys with a direction of each key relative to a center of a telephone keypad;
- receiving a contact from a user of the device at a location on a touch input surface of a computing device and an input at a direction relative to the location of the user contact;
- causing a character to be entered on the computing device based on the direction of each key relative to the center of the telephone keypad corresponding to the direction relative to the location of the user contact.
A computer-implemented user interface method, comprising:
- associating each of a plurality of data input keystrokes with a radial direction;
- receiving a user contact at a location on a touch input device and an input at a direction relative to the location of the user contact;
- correlating the direction relative to the location of the user contact to a radial direction for one of the plurality of data input keystrokes;
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- registering a keystroke for a key of a virtual keyboard in the direction relative to the location of the user contact.
A computer-implemented data entry system, comprising:
- a touch input manager to receive and interpret user inputs on a touch input device of a computing device;
- one or more computing applications;
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- a gesture interface to receive registrations from the one or more computing applications, wherein the registrations include an input direction and a corresponding keypress, and to provide data for keypresses to the applications in response to receiving directional inputs on the touch input device.
A computer-implemented data entry system, comprising:
- a touchscreen input manager to receive and interpret user inputs on a touchscreen of a computing device;
- one or more computing applications;
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- means for providing directional user-entered data from the touchscreen to the one or more computing applications.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.