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Touch-based user interface user selection accuracy enhancement

US8692815B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 21, 2010
Grant dateApr 8, 2014
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Expiry dateSep 11, 2032

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0443
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A user interface for an audio/visual device takes measurements of a touch sensor that are indicative of the current position of a tip of a finger of a user against a touch-sensitive surface of the touch sensor on a recurring basis, maintains a predetermined quantity of those measurements in a storage accessible to a processing device implementing at least a portion of the user interface, and employs measurements taken of the touch sensor at a predetermined amount of time into the past in response to an indication of the user having exerted increased pressure against the touch-sensitive surface via the tip to determine the position of that tip at a time relatively shortly before the user began to exert the increase in pressure.

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