US 2018/0004386 A1 · PRE-TOUCH SENSING FOR MOBILE INTERACTION

Abstract

Various technologies described herein pertain to utilizing sensed pre-touch interaction to control a mobile computing device. A pre-touch interaction of a user with the mobile computing device is detected. The pre-touch interaction includes a grip of the user on the mobile computing device and/or a hover of one or more fingers of the user with respect to a touchscreen of the mobile computing device. The finger(s) of the user can be within proximity but not touching the touchscreen as part of the hover. Parameter(s) of the pre-touch interaction of the user with the mobile computing device are identified, and a touch of the user on the touchscreen of the mobile computing device is detected. A computing operation is executed responsive to the touch, where the computing operation is based on the touch and the parameter(s) of the pre-touch interaction of the user with the mobile computing device.

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Dependent claims

A mobile computing device, comprising:

a touchscreen;
at least one processor;
and
memory that comprises computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform acts including:
detecting a pre-touch interaction of a user with the mobile computing device, the pre-touch interaction comprises at least one of:
a grip of the user on the mobile computing device;
or
a hover of one or more fingers of the user with respect to the touchscreen, the one or more fingers of the user being within proximity but not touching the touchscreen as part of the hover;
identifying one or more parameters of the pre-touch interaction of the user with the mobile computing device;
detecting a touch of the user on the touchscreen of the mobile computing device;
and
executing a computing operation responsive to the touch, the computing operation being based on the touch and the one or more parameters of the pre-touch interaction of the user with the mobile computing device.

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A method of controlling execution of a computing operation performed by a mobile computing device, comprising:

detecting a grip of a user on the mobile computing device prior to a touch of the user on a touchscreen of the mobile computing device;
detecting a hover of one or more fingers of the user with respect to the touchscreen prior to the touch of the user on the touchscreen, the one or more fingers of the user being within proximity but not touching the touchscreen as part of the hover;
identifying a grip parameter of the grip of the user on the mobile computing device;
identifying a hover parameter of the hover of the one or more fingers of the user with respect to the touchscreen;
detecting the touch of the user on the touchscreen of the mobile computing device;
and
executing the computing operation responsive to the touch, the computing operation being based on the touch, the grip parameter, and the hover parameter.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Pre-touch sensing for mobile interaction

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