US 2014/0368436 A1 · Classification of User Input

Abstract

Techniques for identifying inadvertent user input, such as inadvertent touch contact or air input, are described. The techniques may include classifying a touch contact or air input as intentional or unintentional based on contextual information related to the touch contact, the air input, or a device via which the touch contact or air input was received. In some examples, the contextual information may indicate how a user is interacting with the device, such as a position of the user's hand, a location of the touch contact on a touch surface, a path of user's touch trajectory, an application with which the user may be interacting, keyboard input history of the user, and so on. When the user input is classified as unintentional, the techniques may refrain from performing an action that is generally triggered by the user input.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a touch device to receive a touch contact;
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the touch device;
memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;
a first classification module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to determine a classification of the touch contact based at least in part on contextual information related to at least one of the touch contact or the system, the classification indicating that the touch contact is intentional or unintentional;
and
a second classification module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to determine whether the classification of the touch contact is accurate based, at least in part, on a history of the touch contact.

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Classification of User Input

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