Patent ID: 9285985
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. The method of drawing on a touch screen input of a device, comprising: maintaining recently drawn strokes in a wet state after the strokes are drawn on the touch screen input of the device, wherein the strokes are provided as vector objects; a processor causing strokes in a wet state to transition to a dry state based on at least one of: passage of time, proximity of other recently drawn strokes, and explicit user input directing that at least some wet strokes be transitioned to the dry state; grouping strokes in the dry state for future user manipulation based at least in part on how the strokes transitioned from the wet state to the dry state; a user manually selecting a group of dry ink strokes; the processor splitting the group of dry ink strokes of the graphical drawing into at least two separate portions, wherein each of the portions contains different strokes; manipulating at least one of the at least two of the portions without manipulating other ones of the portions; and regrouping the at least two separate portions based, at least in part, on a previous grouping of the at least two separate portions, wherein the processor determines the portions based on splitting the group of dry ink strokes to facilitate distinguishing between drawing and object manipulations.