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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsReed L. Townsend, Xiao Tu, Bryan D. Scott, Todd A. Torset, Kenneth W. Sykes, Samir S. Pradhan, Jennifer A. Teed
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The inertia system provides a common platform and application-programming interface (API) for applications to extend the input received from various multi-touch hardware devices to simulate real-world behavior of application objects. To move naturally, application objects should exhibit physical characteristics such as elasticity and deceleration. When a user lifts all contacts from an object, the inertia system provides additional manipulation events to the application so that the application can handle the events as if the user was still moving the object with touch. The inertia system generates the events based on a simulation of the behavior of the objects. If the user moves an object into another object, the inertia system simulates the boundary characteristics of the objects. Thus, the inertia system provides more realistic movement for application objects manipulated using multi-touch hardware and the API provides a consistent feel to manipulations across applications.
A method performed on a computing device comprising a touch sensitive input surface and a display, the method for providing realistic movement on the display of objects manipulated using multi-touch input via the touch sensitive surface, the method comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for controlling a computing device comprised of a display and a touch-sensitive input surface to simulate movement, on the display, of an application object previously moved by multi-touch input via the touch-sensitive input surface, the application object is part of an application executing on the computing device, by a method comprising:
A computer device for handling touch input from multi-touch hardware, the system comprising:
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