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US 9,754,085 B2Granted
Systems and methods of editing a chemical structure on a touch-screen
AssigneeIntegrated Chemistry Design, Inc.
InventorsJohn D. Clark, Mary Catherine Johnson, Atsuo Kuki
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Abstract
Gestures for creating chemical structure symbols representing rings of carbon atoms on a touch screen device include circular motions that cause a touch screen enabled device to display symbols representing chemical structures or related information in response to the gestures.
Claims18
A device comprising:
- a display;
- a touch screen user interface;
- and
- a processor;
- wherein the device is configured to:
- electronically detect, with the touch screen user interface, at least one fingertip in contact with the touch screen and moving over the surface of the touch screen in an approximately circular motion that traces a substantially closed curve without corners about a point on the touch screen;
- and
- display, on a portion of the display, a polygonal shaped chemical structure symbol representing a polygonal ring of carbon atoms in response to the detecting, the polygonal ring having a pre-selected number of vertices representing a pre-selected number of carbon atoms.
5 more elements
A non-transient computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that cause a touch-screen enabled device comprising a display, a touch screen user interface, and a processor to perform a method comprising the acts of:
- electronically detecting, with the touch screen user interface, at least one fingertip in contact with the touch screen and moving over the surface of the touch screen in an approximately circular motion that traces a substantially closed curve without corners about a point on the touch screen;
- and
- displaying, on the display, a polygonal shaped chemical structure symbol representing a polygonal ring of carbon atoms in response to the detecting, the ring having a pre-selected number of vertices representing a pre-selected number of carbon atoms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.