Patent ID: 9030433
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a system with a touchscreen, a control unit for the touchscreen, a central-processing unit, and a gesture-identification unit, the method comprising: identifying a position or a movement of one or more physical objects on or near the touchscreen by the control unit; and associating the position or the movement of one or more physical objects with a gesture in a gesture set by a first association unit in the gesture-identification unit, wherein a key combination or a sequence of key combinations for the gesture is transferred by a second association unit to an application, or a function for the gesture is started by the second association unit within an application, or the gesture is transferred by a second association unit to the application, wherein graphic characters are entered through a movement of one or more physical objects on the touch screen, and wherein control characters followed by the graphic characters are entered through multiploid graphic characters.