Dynamic input at a touch-based interface based on pressure
AssigneeX Development LLC
InventorsEric Teller, Claes-Fredrik Mannby, Martin T. King, Kevin Anthony Furr
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems that may enable a touch-based interface to receive dynamic user inputs based on pressure. An exemplary method may involve: (a) detecting a touch interaction including an increase in pressure greater than a first threshold pressure-increase followed by a reduction in pressure greater than a threshold pressure-reduction; and (b) responsive to detecting the touch interaction, initiating an operation based on a region of the touch-based interface that corresponds to the touch interaction, wherein the operation is associated with the touch interaction.
Claims13
A system comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium;
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- program instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor to:
- receive an input signal corresponding to one or more touch interactions on a touch-based interface;
- determine a pressure level of a given touch interaction at a given time;
- detect a first touch interaction comprising a relative reduction in pressure level greater than a first threshold relative reduction;
- responsive to detecting the first touch interaction, initiate a first operation based on a region of the touch-based interface that corresponds to the first touch interaction;
- detect a second touch interaction comprising (i) an initial non-zero pressure level, followed by (ii) a relative increase in pressure level that starts at the initial non-zero pressure level and that is greater than a first threshold relative increase, followed by (iii) a relative reduction in pressure level greater than a second threshold relative reduction;
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- responsive to detecting the second touch interaction, initiate a second operation based on a region of the touch-based interface that corresponds to the second touch interaction.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- detecting on a touch-based interface, a touch interaction comprising (i) an initial non-zero pressure level, followed by (ii) a relative increase in pressure level that starts at the initial non-zero pressure level and that is greater than a threshold relative increase, followed by (iii) a relative reduction in pressure level greater than a first threshold relative reduction;
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- responsive to detecting the touch interaction, initiating an operation that (i) is associated with the touch interaction and (ii) is based on a region of the touch-based interface that corresponds to the touch interaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.