Sensor array touchscreen recognizing finger flick gesture and other touch gestures

An apparatus for controlling visual output produced by an application, the apparatus comprising:

• a transparent touchpad having a contiguous region sensing contact from at least a portion of a human hand on a surface of the transparent touchpad, the transparent touch pad comprising a sensor array having a plurality of sensors, each sensor having a unique spatial location and an associated unique address, the transparent touchpad for positioning over a visual display, the sensing comprising generation of sensor measurement values associated with each of the plurality of sensors;
• a plurality of sensor spatial locations having associated sensor measurement values responsive to the sensed contiguous region of contact;
• a value of at least one control parameter for the contiguous region of contact responsive to a measured change in at least one of the associated sensor measurement values, the value obtained by performing a calculation on the associated sensor measurement values and interpreting the results as signifying a touch gesture, wherein the at least one control parameter is associated with the touch gesture;
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• at least one derived control parameter assigned to a specific control signal;
• wherein the touch gesture comprises a finger flick touch gesture recognized from sequential dynamics among postures derived from pressure profiles.

An apparatus comprising:

• a transparent touch sensor array comprising a plurality of transparent sensors positioned over a display associated with the apparatus to form a transparent touch pad, wherein the transparent touch sensor array is capable of sensing contact with one or more fingers on a corresponding contiguous region on the transparent touch pad, wherein each transparent sensor of the plurality of transparent sensors has a corresponding spatial location, associated address, and is configured to provide associated sensor measurement values;
• a plurality of control parameters associated with a set of gestures, each of the set of gestures associated with a measured change to at least one of the associated sensor measurement values, the set of gestures including a finger-flick touch gesture, wherein at least one of the plurality of control parameters is derived from recognizing the finger-flick touch gesture from sequential dynamics among postures derived from pressure profiles;
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• a plurality of control signals associated with the plurality of control parameters;
• and wherein the set of gestures correspond to interactions with displayed visual content of an application operating on the apparatus.