Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110007000 | CONTROL OF COMPUTER WINDOW SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS USING HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD USER INTERFACE - A high dimensional touchpad (HDTP) controls a variety of computer windows systems and applications by detecting a user's finger movement in the left-right, forward-backward, roll, pitch, yaw, and downward pressure directions. One or more of the detected finger movements are then used to control specific computer applications including focusing a user's attention to one of several web pages, gesture recognition, magnification control, 3D-polyhedral menu selection, Internet browsers, navigation applications, games, media players, spreadsheets, and controlling the functions of mobile devices. | 01-13-2011 |
20120034978 | High-Dimensional Touchpad Game Controller with Multiple Usage and Networking Modalities - A device comprising a High Dimensional Touch Parameter (HDTP) touch capability that can selectively function, as desired by the user, as one or more of a game controller that connects to a game console via network connections, an independent portable/mobile game device with limited but sufficient capacity of processor/memory, a controller for a game console connected remotely through the internet and or a storage device/media player that can store gaming history, personal information, or media files. In an embodiment the device comprises at least one processor for executing at least one algorithm, the algorithm including at least a game, at least one touch sensor providing real-time tactile information to at least one algorithm, the algorithm implementing at least on HDTP function, and at least one networking element configured to network the device to at least the internet. | 02-09-2012 |
20120194461 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF INTERACTIVE MAP VIEWING VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - High Dimensional Touchpad (HDTP) or other user interface technology implemented in touch screens used on computers, smartphones, or other mobile devices provides advanced touch control of a variety of interactive map applications using one or more of a user's finger position or movement in one or more of the roll angle, pitch angle, yaw angle, and downward pressure directions. Implementations also can be responsive to a user's finger position or movement in the left-right and forward-backward directions. Implementations can also use HDTP or other user interface technology implemented on the back of a mouse. Also, the interactive map imaging application may use a connection over the internet or other network. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194462 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF INTERACTIVE IMMERSIVE IMAGING APPLICATIONS VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - High Dimensional Touchpad (HDTP) or other user interface technology, implemented in touch screens used on computers, smartphones, or other mobile devices provides advanced touch control a variety of interactive immersive imaging applications using one or more of a user's finger position or movement in one or more of the roll angle, pitch angle, yaw angle, and downward pressure directions. Implementations also can be responsive to a user's finger position or movement in the left-right and forward-backward directions. Implementations can also use HDTP or other user interface technology implemented on the back of a mouse. Also, an interactive immersive imaging application can employ a connection over the internet or other network. | 08-02-2012 |
20120317509 | INTERACTIVE WYSIWYG CONTROL OF MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PLOTS AND REPRESENTATIONAL GRAPHICS FOR ANALYSIS AND DATA VISUALIZATION - The invention provides interactive adjustment of plot and data visualization through clicks, rollovers, menus, and other familiar types of rapid user-machine interaction. In an implementation, such interactive adjustments also modify associated software code used to generate the underlying plot or data visualization. In some implementations this feature may be always active. In other embodiments, this feature can be enabled, disabled, overridden, precluded, etc. The invention supports simple mice and their equivalents, advanced mice, gesture-based touch interfaces advanced High-Dimensional Touch Pads and associated touch screens, game controllers, 6D-mice, and extended hyperlink objects. The invention can be implemented in the context of web browsers and spreadsheets, and can be used for Business intelligence, simple plots, and a wide range of data visualization applications. The invention also provides related features to more general programming languages not involved in plots or visualization, allowing programmers on software code and invoke various options via interactive GUIs. | 12-13-2012 |
20130179810 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF INTERNET BROWSER VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - A method for controlling an internet browser executing on a computing device is disclosed. A user interface touch sensor is configured to be responsive to at least one angle of contact with at least one finger. A change in an angle of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor is measured by the touch sensor to produce measured data. Real-time calculations on the measured data are performed to produce a measured-angle value. The measured-angle value is used to control the value of at least one user interface parameter of the internet browser. At least one aspect of the internet browser changes in response to the angle of the position of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor. | 07-11-2013 |
20130181926 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF A FILE BROWSER VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - A method for controlling a file browser executing on a computing device is disclosed. A user interface touch sensor is configured to be responsive to at least one angle of contact with at least one finger. A change in an angle of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor is measured by the touch sensor to produce measured data. Real-time calculations on the measured data are performed to produce a measured-angle value. The measured-angle value is used to control the value of at least one user interface parameter of the file browser. At least one aspect of the file browser changes in response to the angle of the position of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185636 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF A MEDIA PLAYER APPLICATION VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - A method for controlling a media player executing on a computing device is disclosed. A user interface touch sensor is configured to be responsive to at least one angle of contact with at least one finger. A change in an angle of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor is measured by the touch sensor to produce measured data. Real-time calculations on the measured data are performed to produce a measured-angle value. The measured-angle value is used to control the value of at least one user interface parameter of the media player. At least one aspect of the media player changes in response to the angle of the position of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor. | 07-18-2013 |
20130187883 | ADVANCED TOUCH CONTROL OF GRAPHICS DESIGN APPLICATION VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - A method for controlling a graphics design application executing on a computing device is disclosed. A user interface touch sensor is configured to be responsive to at least one angle of contact with at least one finger. A change in an angle of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor is measured by the touch sensor to produce measured data. Real-time calculations on the measured data are performed to produce a measured-angle value. The measured-angle value is used to control the value of at least one user interface parameter of the graphics design application. At least one aspect of the graphics design application changes in response to the angle of the position of the finger with respect to the surface of the touch sensor. | 07-25-2013 |
20130217497 | CONTROL OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM ON A COMPUTING DEVICE VIA FINGER ANGLE USING A HIGH DIMENSIONAL TOUCHPAD (HDTP) TOUCH USER INTERFACE - System and method for using 3D and 6D parameter capture, gesture recognition, and symbol events provided a high dimensional touchpad (HDTP) to control a variety of computer and other applications via spatial metaphors visual user interfaces. | 08-22-2013 |
20140195907 | TOUCH USER INTERFACE SUPPORTING GLOBAL AND CONTEXT-SPECIFIC TOUCH GESTURES THAT ARE RESPONSIVE TO AT LEAST ONE FINGER ANGLE - A user interface method for use with a touch gesture user interface in a system implementing global or universal gestures and application-specific gestures for the control of software executing on a device comprising a touch user interface and a computational processor wherein the touch gestures are responsive to at least one finger angle. In an example implementation, wherein when a gesture with an application-specific association is recognized, the user interface operation is determined by the software application that has a currently active user-interface focus. In an example implementation, a global or universal gesture is used to control the system. In an example implementation, a global or universal gesture is used to control a software application executing on the system. In an example implementation, the user interface operation is context-specific. | 07-10-2014 |