Facilitating analysis of use interface gesture patterns
US10324621B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 2, 2017 |
| Grant date | Jun 18, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 8, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06V10/471
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Facilitating analysis of user interface gesture patterns is described. In example implementations, a computing device acquires data that describes a user interface gesture pattern, such as finger movements on a touchscreen, in terms of pixels of a visual display. A repetitive arrangement of polygons, such as a grid of rectangles, is logically overlaid on the visual display. The computing device transforms the pixel-based data into polygon-based data that represents the gesture pattern in terms of polygons traversed by the gesture pattern. The computing device also converts the polygon-based data into text-based data such that the gesture pattern is represented by textual characters, such as a text string. The text string can include, for instance, a list of polygons traversed by the gesture pattern. The text-based data is forwarded to a service that can efficiently analyze relationships that may exist among multiple gesture patterns across multiple devices or end users.
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