System and method of using touch interaction based on location of touch on a touch screen
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsPavan Kumar Singh Thakur, Jagadeesh Jinka, Chaithanya Guttikonda, Pawan Kumar
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Abstract
Exemplified herein is a system and method to accept password on a touch-screen HMI (human-machine interface) device. The system and method uses a combination of tactile gestures that are each received at predefined quadrants (or regions) or the touch-screen. The combination of such tactile gestures and quadrant information are used as a shortcut sequence to a user-interface (UI) function call, e.g., change zoom parameter of a presented screen of the display, navigate to a next presented screen, navigate to a previous presented screen.
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A method of receiving a sequence of spatially- and pattern-defined touch inputs, at a graphical user interface, of a touch-screen input device, in an industrial automation system, to trigger an associated user interface command, the method comprising:
- presenting, by a processor, via a touch-screen display, a plurality of transparent widgets, each located at an area spanning a pre-defined quadrant of the presented display, wherein each transparent widget is configurable to be associated with a user-interface (UI) function call;
- upon receipt, via the touch-screen display, of an input at a position corresponding to a transparent widget, determining, by the processor, a user-interface (UI) function call associated with i) a determined touch pattern, among a plurality of stored touch patterns, derived from the input and ii) a transparent widget location, among the pre-defined quadrants, derived from the received position;
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- causing, by the processor, execution of the determined user-interface (UI) function call.
A system that triggers executions of user interface commands, using spatially- and pattern-defined touch inputs received at a touch-screen display associated with the system, the system comprising:
- a touch-screen display;
- a processor operatively coupled to the touch-screen display;
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- a memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- present via the touch-screen display, a plurality of transparent widgets, each located at an area spanning a pre-defined quadrant of the presented display, wherein each transparent widget is associated with a user-interface (UI) function call;
- upon receipt, via the touch-screen display, of an input at a position corresponding to a transparent widget, determine a user-interface (UI) function call associated with i) a determined touch pattern, among a plurality of stored touch patterns, derived from the input and ii) a transparent widget location, among the pre-defined quadrants, derived from the received position;
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- cause execution of the determined user-interface (UI) function call.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium for execution on a computing device having a touch-screen display, to trigger execution of user interface commands, using spatially- and pattern-defined inputs received at the touch-screen display, the computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
- present via the touch-screen display, a plurality of transparent widgets, each located at an area spanning a pre-defined quadrant of the presented display, wherein each transparent widget is associated with a user-interface (UI) function call (e.g., change zoom parameter of a presented screen of the display, navigate to a next presented screen, navigate to a previous presented screen);
- upon receipt, via the touch-screen display, of an input at a position corresponding to a transparent widget, determine a user-interface (UI) function call associated with i) a determined touch pattern, among a plurality of stored touch patterns, derived from the input and ii) a transparent widget location, among the pre-defined quadrants, derived from the received position;
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- cause execution of the determined user-interface (UI) function call.
A method of receiving spatially- and pattern-defined touch inputs, at a graphical user interface, of a touch-screen input device, in an industrial automation system, to trigger an associated user interface command, the method comprising:
- presenting, by a processor, via a touch-screen display, a plurality of widgets for a control application in an industrial automation system, wherein each of the plurality of widgets is associated with a user-interface (UI) function call, wherein the control application maintains a virtual map defining a plurality of pre-defined quadrants over the presented display;
- upon receipt, via the touch-screen display, of an input at a position corresponding to a given pre-defined quadrant, determining, by the processor, a user-interface (UI) function call associated with i) a determined touch pattern, among a plurality of stored touch patterns, derived from the input and ii) a quadrant location associated with the given pre-defined quadrant;
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- causing, by the processor, execution of the determined user-interface (UI) function call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.