Rapid Display Prototyping and Creation Using Gestures

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving, via one or more processors, one or more gestures forming at least one line or shape in a gesture input region, the one or more gestures being provided by a user;
• via the one or more processors, providing the one or more gestures as one or more inputs to a gesture recognition algorithm to identify, based at least upon the received one or more gestures, a process entity represented by the received one or more gestures, the process entity being identified from among a plurality of process entities having respective template objects associated therewith;
• and
• based upon the identification of the process entity, display, via the one or more processors, in a canvas region of a graphical user interface (GUI) executing at a user device, an instance of a template object corresponding to the identified process entity, the template object being configured to provide a visual representation of operation of the identified process entity in a process plant to thereby form at least a portion of a process display.

A user device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a display;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer memories storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the user device to:
• receive one or more gestures forming at least one line or shape in a gesture input region, the one or more gestures being provided by a user;
• provide the one or more gestures as one or more inputs to a gesture recognition algorithm to identify, based at least upon the received one or more gestures, a process entity represented by the received one or more gestures, the process entity being identified from among a plurality of process entities having respective template objects associated therewith;
• and
• based upon the identification of the process entity, display, in a canvas region of a graphical user interface (GUI) executing via the user device, of an instance of a template object corresponding to the identified process entity, the template object being configured to provide a visual representation of operation of the identified process entity in a process plant to thereby form at least a portion of a process display.