Gesture Detection Zones
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsGlenn A Wong, Mark C. Solomon
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Abstract
A system and method for utilizing a gesture-based user interface. A system includes an operator input device and a processor. The operator input device detects gestures and multiple simultaneous touch points. An input area of the operator input device includes a plurality of gesture detection zones. The processor is coupled to the operator input device. The processor executes a gesture recognition software program that processes inputs from the input device. The gesture recognition program causes the processor to recognize a primary gesture and a simultaneous secondary gesture, and to perform a processing function based, at least in part, on the primary gesture and a gesture detection zone in which the secondary gesture is detected.
Claims15
A system, comprising:
- an operator input device that detects gestures and multiple simultaneous touch points, an input area of the operator input device comprises a plurality of gesture detection zones;
- and
- a processor coupled to the operator input device, the processor executes a gesture recognition software program that processes inputs from the input device;
- wherein the gesture recognition program causes the processor to recognize a primary gesture and a simultaneous secondary gesture and to perform a processing function based, at least in part, on the primary gesture and a gesture detection zone in which the secondary gesture is detected.
A method, comprising:
- detecting a primary gesture with an operator input device coupled to a processor;
- recognizing the primary gesture with the processor;
- detecting a secondary gesture with the operator input device, the second gesture is detected contemporaneously with the primary gesture;
- recognizing the secondary gesture with the processor;
- and
- performing a processing function with the processor based, at least in part, on the primary gesture and the secondary gesture.
A computer readable medium encoded with a computer program, comprising:
- instructions that when executed cause a processor to recognize a primary gesture and a secondary gesture performed concurrently with the primary gesture;
- instructions that when executed cause the processor to divide the detection area of a gesture input device into a plurality of gesture detection zones;
- and
- instructions that when executed cause the processor to select a processing function to perform based, at least in part, on the primary gesture and a gesture detection zone in which the secondary gesture is performed.
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