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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 200780016733', 'Application No. 2009', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 200780016733', 'Application No. 2009', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 96112772', 'Application No. 96112772', 'Application No. 200780016733', 'Application No. 200780016733', 'Application No. 2009', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 2013', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 0701001821', 'Application No. 07776762', 'Application No. 200780016733']

US9996176B2 - Multi-touch uses, gestures, and implementation - Google Patents
US9996176B2
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2017-08-14 Application filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC filed Critical Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC
2017-08-14 Priority to US15/676,633 priority patent/US9996176B2/en
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2018-02-01 Publication of US20180032168A1 publication Critical patent/US20180032168A1/en
2018-06-12 Publication of US9996176B2 publication Critical patent/US9996176B2/en
This application is a continuation of co-pending, commonly owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/746,745, filed Jun. 22, 2015, entitled “MULTI-TOUCH USES, GESTURES, AND IMPLEMENTATION,” which is a continuation of commonly owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/433,643, filed May 12, 2006, entitled “MULTI-TOUCH USES, GESTURES, AND IMPLEMENTATION,” now U.S. Pat. No. 9,063,647, issued Jun. 23, 2015, the entirety of which is herein incorporated by reference.
1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, based on execution by at least one physical processing unit of a computing device, the computing device comprising a touchscreen and the touchscreen comprising an interactive display, configure the at least one physical processing unit to:
based at least on the touchscreen receiving a gesture comprising multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts, process the gesture to identify one or more attributes of individual ones of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts;
based at least on processing the gesture, perform an operation comprising toggling visibility of a touch pointer widget adjacent to or surrounding a pointer element on the interactive display; and
based at least on the touchscreen receiving an input comprising a touchscreen contact (i) within an area represented by the touch pointer widget on the interactive display and (ii) on a control button of the touch pointer widget, perform a selection operation by the pointer element.
4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein identifying the one or more attributes of individual ones of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts includes:
determining a contact pressure associated with at least one of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contact;
comparing the contact pressure with a threshold pressure;
based at least on comparing the contact pressure with the threshold pressure:
toggling a visibility of a soft keyboard widget if the contact pressure is greater than the threshold pressure; and
toggling the visibility of the touch pointer widget if the contact pressure is smaller than the threshold pressure.
a touchscreen having an interactive display; and
11. The computing device of claim 8, wherein identifying the one or more attributes of individual ones of the multiple concurrent touchscreen contacts includes:
in response to comparing the contact pressure with the threshold pressure:
toggling the visibility of the touch pointer widget pressure is smaller than the threshold pressure.
15. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, based on execution by at least one physical processing unit of a computing device, the computing device comprising a touchscreen and the touchscreen comprising an interactive display, configure the at least one physical processing unit to:
receive a first signal indicating a gesture detected by the touchscreen, wherein the gesture includes multiple concurrent contacts;
determine, based at least on the first signal, an amount of pressure applied to the touchscreen by the multiple concurrent contacts of the gesture;
determine whether to perform a first toggling operation or a second toggling operation based at least in part on the amount of pressure applied to the touch screen,
wherein the first toggling operation includes toggling visibility of a touch pointer widget on the interactive display and the second toggling operation includes toggling visibility of a soft keyboard widget on the interactive display.
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