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Data Processing: Presentation Processing Of Document, Operator Interface Processing, And Screen Saver Display Processing > Operator Interface (e.g., Graphical User Interface) > Gesture-based Gesture-basedGesture-based patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.09/27/07 - 20070226657 - Pen-mouse system The present invention is a system that provides a pen based computer user with a graphical user interface tool, a pen-mouse, that looks like and functions like a mouse but that is controlled by a limited input device such as a pen or stylus of the pen based computer. The ... 08/16/07 - 20070192749 - Accessing remote screen content A system and method for facilitating user access to remote content from a current location is presented. The method comprises the following steps. An activation gesture is detected. The activation gesture includes a location. At least one base icon on the display screen located at a distance greater than a ... 07/19/07 - 20070168890 - Position-based multi-stroke marking menus Provided is multi-stroke marking menu techniques that increase menu breath over an eight-item limit of some orientation-based marking menus. Zone and polygon menus can be provided wherein the breadth can be increased by a factor of about two or more while providing quick selection and maintaining selection accuracy. Various geometric ... 06/28/07 - 20070150842 - Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is ... 06/21/07 - 20070143715 - Method of providing information via printed substrate and gesture recognition A method of enabling a user to initiate an action via a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, in a computer ... 06/07/07 - 20070130547 - Method and system for touchless user interface control A sensing unit (110) and method (200) for touchless interfacing using finger signing is provided. The sensing unit can include a sensor element (113) for tracking a touchless finger sign, a pattern recognition engine (114) for tracing a pattern in the touchless finger sign, and a processor (115) for performing ... 05/31/07 - 20070124703 - Command input method using motion recognition device A command input method makes use of a three-dimensional motion recognition device embodied with an inertia system and is particularly directed to extend the total number of inputable commands using initial posture information as well as movement pattern of a motion recognition device. The command input method includes the steps ... 05/31/07 - 20070124702 - Method and apparatus for entering desired operational information to devices with the use of human motions An apparatus is provided to enter operational information to an objective device based on a motion of an operator's hand. In the apparatus, an imaging device acquires image data of the operator's hand and an extracting unit extracts characteristic points of the motion of the hand in a spatial coordinate ... 05/24/07 - 20070118820 - Equipment control apparatus, remote controller, equipment, equipment control method, and equipment control program product An equipment control apparatus readily made smaller in size and less likely to malfunction is configured as follows. The equipment control apparatus includes a video camera, a CPU, and a terminal. The video camera picks up an image. The CPU determines whether a color of a pixel forming the image ... 05/17/07 - 20070113207 - Methods and systems for gesture classification in 3d pointing devices Systems and methods according to the present invention provide the ability for a system to realize when a handheld device is performing a gesture and to execute the associated command. ... 03/22/07 - 20070067745 - Autonomous handheld device having a drawing tool An autonomous handheld device comprises a drawing module having drawing capabilities for electronically editing a drawing and a motion sensing feature for sensing self-motion. The autonomous handheld device is configured to associate the motion sensing feature with the drawing capability thereby to allow sensed motion of the motion sensing feature ... 03/08/07 - 20070055949 - Methods and apparatus for rfid interface control Methods and apparatus for interacting with a computer system using hand gestures, tangible objects that contain a tracking RFID tag, tangible objects that contain no RFID tag, and holographic or virtually displayed objects. This invention allows any real or virtually displayed object to be used as a tool for interaction ... 03/08/07 - 20070055948 - Method and apparatus for processing electronic data tool providing a graphical user interface with underlying intelligence to assist a user in creating mappings between ontologies or between ontologies and database schema. For each individual mapping which a user makes the tool checks that the proposed mapping is consistent with all other proposed mappings made by the user ... 12/21/06 - 20060288314 - Facilitating cursor interaction with display objects A system and method for facilitating location of cursor position and cursor movement in a computer display. A computer system obtains a user manipulation of a cursor and calculates a movement vector. The computer system then displays visual cues related to the movement vector. The visual cues can correspond to ... 12/21/06 - 20060288313 - Bounding box gesture recognition on a touch detecting interactive display The invention provides a method and apparatus for identifying gestures performed by a user to control an interactive display. The gestures are identified based on a bounding box enclosing the points at which a user contacts a touch sensor corresponding with the display surface. The invention thus permits the use ... 11/09/06 - 20060253804 - Three-dimensional-information detecting system and three-dimensional-information inputting device A three-dimensional-information detecting system includes a switching portion that sequentially selects sensor coils of a three-dimensional-information detecting device. Electromagnetic coupling is used to perform signal transmission and reception between the sensor coils and input coils in input elements of a three-dimensional-information inputting device which are mutually perpendicularly provided. A signal ... 11/02/06 - 20060248478 - Sensing input actions Receiving input from a person includes sensing a manual interaction performed by the person, determining a posture of a portion of the person's body, and generating a signal based on the sensed interaction and the determined posture. ... 10/26/06 - 20060242607 - User interface A user interface for a display of an electronic device is described. The user interface includes a background layer for displaying an interface and at least a first animated control element overlaid on the back ground layer. The control element has a plurality of functions associated with it. Each of ... 07/27/06 - 20060168549 - User interfaces and methods for displaying attributes of objects and accessing content A user interface method includes displaying content associated with an object in a first window if the object is selected by performing a first operation using a mouse and without use of a keyboard, and displaying the content in a second window if the object is selected by performing a ... 07/20/06 - 20060161871 - Proximity detector in handheld device Proximity based systems and methods that are implemented on an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes sensing an object spaced away and in close proximity to the electronic device. The method also includes performing an action in the electronic device when an object is sensed. ... 07/20/06 - 20060161870 - Proximity detector in handheld device Proximity based systems and methods that are implemented on an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes sensing an object spaced away and in close proximity to the electronic device. The method also includes performing an action in the electronic device when an object is sensed. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136846 - User interface apparatus using hand gesture recognition and method thereof Provided is a user interface apparatus that can control a telematics terminal safely and comfortably while driving, by recognizing a hand gesture image received through a camera in the telematics terminal as a corresponding control signal, and a method thereof. The interface apparatus using a hand gesture recognition, includes: an ... 05/11/06 - 20060101354 - Gesture inputs for a portable display device An application such as a web browser running on a portable display device is responsive to gestures to a touch-sensitive surface of the portable display device. The gestures are supplied by touching and then sliding on the touch-sensitive surface. Various operations of the application may be controlled based on the ... 04/20/06 - 20060085767 - Delimiters for selection-action pen gesture phrases A pen-based user interface (PBUI) that facilitates input of a delimiter to a scope in a substantially uninterrupted stroke for generating a selection-action gesture phrase. Four delimiter techniques are provided, which include a Multi-stroke delimiter, a button delimiter, timeout delimiter and pigtail delimiter. The Pigtail delimiter uses a small loop ... 04/06/06 - 20060075363 - Information processing system, and program and recording medium implementing functions of the system A user is enabled to easily set processing conditions with simple operations of a pointing device, such as a mouse. When a gesture operation operating a pointer being dragged corresponds to a predetermined operation retained in advance, an information processing device sets processing condition defined in advance correspondingly to the ... 02/09/06 - 20060031786 - Method and apparatus continuing action of user gestures performed upon a touch sensitive interactive display in simulation of inertia A method and apparatus for operating a multi-user interactive display system including a display having a touch-sensitive display surface. A position is detected for each contact site at which the display surface experiences external physical contact. Each contact site's position history is using to compute velocity data for the respective ... 02/02/06 - 20060026537 - A voice controlled cursor The invention is directed to a voice controlled cursor, location pointer, mouse pointer or the like whereby a user's spoken input or inputs indicative of both a direction and a distance are employed to directly move the cursor from its current position towards a target position on a display of ... 02/02/06 - 20060026536 - Gestures for touch sensitive input devices Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multipoint sensing device such as a multipoint touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multipoint sensing device, and identifying at least one multipoint gesture based ... 02/02/06 - 20060026535 - Mode-based graphical user interfaces for touch sensitive input devices A user interface method is disclosed. The method includes detecting a touch and then determining a user interface mode when a touch is detected. The method further includes activating one or more GUI elements based on the user interface mode and in response to the detected touch. ... 11/17/05 - 20050257174 - System and process for controlling electronic components in a ubiquitous computing environment using multimodal integration The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined ... 11/17/05 - 20050257173 - System and process for controlling electronic components in a ubiquitous computing environment using multimodal integration The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech recognition subsystem, gesture recognition subsystem employing a wireless pointing device and pointing analysis subsystem also employing the pointing device, are combined ... 10/13/05 - 20050229117 - Ink gestures A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described embodiments, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-based computing platform and have the edits ... 09/29/05 - 20050216867 - Selective engagement of motion detection A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device ... 09/22/05 - 20050210419 - Gesture control system A control system basing on the use of gestures and functioning especially in mobile terminals. The gesture control system is provided with a general purpose interface (320) with its commands for applications (310) to be controlled. The processing software (330) of the gesture signals includes a training program (331), trained ... 09/22/05 - 20050210418 - Non-uniform gesture precision A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes a ... 09/22/05 - 20050210417 - User definable gestures for motion controlled handheld devices A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes a ... 09/08/05 - 20050198593 - Pen-based interface for a notepad computer A notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool is provided. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task ... 09/08/05 - 20050198592 - Pen-based interface for a notepad computer A notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool is provided. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task ... 09/08/05 - 20050198591 - Lasso select A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connecting one end of the ... 09/08/05 - 20050198590 - Lasso select A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connecting one end of the ... 07/28/05 - 20050166163 - Systems and methods of interfacing with a machine Systems and methods of interfacing with a machine are described. In one aspect, sets of contemporaneous images of an interactive space are acquired from multiple respective fields of view. An input target is detected in the acquired images. Coordinates of the input target detected in the acquired images are computed. ... 06/02/05 - 20050120312 - User interface for stylus-based user input Systems and methods for a user interface for stylus-based user input is described. In one aspect, a user interface is provided that includes an action area. The action area includes at least one helper icon that is selectable to allow a user to specify one or more subsequent stylus-based user ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |