Brush, Carbon-Copy, and Fill Gestures
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsKenneth P. Hinckley, Koji Yatani
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Abstract
Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e.g., using more than one type of input) and single modal gestures. Additionally, the gesture techniques may be configured to leverage these different input types to increase the amount of gestures that are made available to initiate operations of a computing device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- recognizing a first input as selecting an object displayed by a display device;
- recognizing a second input as a frame drawn outside a boundary of the object, the frame recognized as being drawn while the object is selected;
- and
- identifying a fill gesture from the recognized first and second inputs, the fill gesture effective to use the object for fill in the frame.
A computing device comprising:
- one or more modules implemented at least partially in hardware, the one or more modules configured to perform operations comprising:
- recognizing a first input as selecting an object displayed by a display device;
- recognizing a second input as a frame drawn outside a boundary of the object, the frame recognized as being drawn while the object is selected;
- and
- identifying a fill gesture from the recognized first and second inputs, the fill gesture effective to use the object for fill in the frame.
One or more computer-readable storage media implemented at least in part on hardware and comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method, the method comprising:
- recognizing a first input as selecting an object displayed by the computing device;
- recognizing a second input as a line drawn outside the bounds of the object, the line recognized as being drawn while the object is selected;
- and
- identifying a brush gesture from the recognized first and second inputs by the computing device, the brush gesture effective to cause a display of the line as being drawn as a copy of a corresponding line of the selected object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.