Abstract: A display control unit that controls presence or absence of a display item on a display unit based on a display order of display items determined according to environment information or user information, by using a change in behavior of a user as a trigger is provided, such that an influence of the display item on a view of the user is reduced and the user can comfortably experience an AR superimposition technology.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a computer associated with a transport, a gait of an individual from at least one camera associated with the transport, validating, by the computer, the gait, receiving, by the computer, a gesture of the individual from the at least one camera, validating, by the computer, the gesture, and performing, by the computer, one or more functions based on the validated gait and the validated gesture.

Abstract: A device and method and graphical user interface for positioning a selection and selecting text on a mobile computing device with a touch-sensitive display is described. This includes: displaying a selection having a selection start point and a selection end point within a text content having a text content type; determining the text content type; in response to determining that the text content type is editable text content, displaying the selection within the text content wherein the selection is a zero-length selection; in response to determining that the text content type is read-only text content, displaying the selection within the text content wherein the selection is a one-character-length selection; displaying a control icon; detecting a contact on the touch-sensitive display; and in response to detecting a change in a position of the contact beginning anywhere on the control icon, changing a position of the selection.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for adjusting outputs of an electronic device by using a touch technology. The apparatus for adjusting outputs of the electronic device, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a touch input unit for sensing a touch input of a first figure and at least one second figure; and an output adjustment unit for generating at least one piece of adjustment information for adjusting at least one output of the electronic device according to a relative phase relationship (topology) of the first figure and the at least one second figure, and adjusting the at least one output of the electronic device. The output adjustment unit can generate the at least one piece of adjustment information when the relative phase relationship between the at least one first figure and the at least one second figure is the same even if the touch position and direction on the touch input unit are different.

Abstract: An electronic device including a base member having a touch area defined inside a first closed-shape, the first closed-shape being a first imaginary line, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the touch area and defined outside the first closed-shape, and a touch sensor including a plurality of patterns disposed in the touch area to sense a touch from outside and a driving line disposed in the peripheral area and connected to a pattern disposed adjacent to the first closed-shape. The touch area includes a first area defined inside a second closed-shape being a second imaginary line defined in the touch area, and a second area defined outside the second closed-shape and surrounded by the first closed-shape, and an edge pattern disposed in the second area having an area substantially equal to or greater than approximately one-half of an area of a center pattern disposed in the first area.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for, using a camera, detecting a gesture during a video stream; using a computing device, generating a digital drawing that corresponds to the gesture and storing the digital drawing in a database as a gesture layer; using the computing device, combining the gesture layer with the video stream to generate a gesture visualization; and using the computing device, causing the gesture visualization to be displayed in one or more displays of one or more other computing devices.

Abstract: A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. A portion of the video to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on user movement of the timeline representation.

Abstract: This application provides a touch control method and an apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: (S601) obtaining, by a terminal, a first touch operation entered by a user on a touchscreen; (S602, S603, and S604) and mapping, by the terminal when the first touch operation is performed on a first preset area in a target interface, the first touch operation to a second touch operation, so that a target application responds to the second touch operation, where the target interface is any interface that is presented by the target application and that covers the first preset area, and the target application is running in the foreground.

Abstract: A character input device includes an operation unit that receives a character input performed with a flick input, a slide detector that detects a starting position of the flick input, and a determination unit that adjusts an input determination area for the character input in response to the starting position in accordance with an input error count for the flick input.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present application discloses a method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device of processing split screen display. In the embodiment of the present application, gesture information on a display screen is acquired; when it is determined that the gesture information matches preset gesture information, position change information corresponding to the gesture information is acquired; when it is determined that the position change information matches preset position change information, a display region of the display screen is divided into at least two sub-regions; and a currently displayed first display interface is displayed in a first sub-region of the at least two sub-regions.

Abstract: An electronic device including a base member having a touch area defined inside a first closed-shape, the first closed-shape being a first imaginary line, and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the touch area and defined outside the first closed-shape, and a touch sensor including a plurality of patterns disposed in the touch area to sense a touch from outside and a driving line disposed in the peripheral area and connected to a pattern disposed adjacent to the first closed-shape. The touch area includes a first area defined inside a second closed-shape being a second imaginary line defined in the touch area, and a second area defined outside the second closed-shape and surrounded by the first closed-shape, and an edge pattern disposed in the second area having an area substantially equal to or greater than approximately one-half of an area of a center pattern disposed in the first area.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method, device and equipment for launching an application. The method includes: a mobile terminal presetting one or more initial positions for one or more applications, wherein the one or more initial positions of the one or more applications are located outside the mobile terminal; then determining a target application from the one or more applications according to a current position of the mobile terminal; and then when a moving operation of a user on the mobile terminal is detected, shortening a distance between the mobile terminal and the target application according to the moving operation, then determining a first distance between the mobile terminal and the target application, and furthermore, launching the target application when the first distance is less than a preset threshold.

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to transitioning a computing device between operating modes according to whether the computing device is suitably oriented for received non-audio related gestures. For instance, the user can attach a portable computing device to a docking station of a vehicle and, while in transit, wave their hand near the portable computing device in order to invoke the automated assistant. Such action by the user can be detected by a proximity sensor and/or any other device capable of determining a context of the portable computing device and/or an interest of the user in invoking the automated assistant. In some implementations location, orientation, and/or motion of the portable computing device can be detected and used in combination with an output of the proximity sensor to determine whether to invoke the automated assistant in response to an input gesture from the user.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for gesture-based control of a device in a multi-user environment are described. The methods prioritize users or gestures based on a predetermined priority ruleset. A first-user-in-time ruleset prioritizes gestures based on when in time they were begun by a user in the camera FOV. An action-hierarchy ruleset prioritizes gestures based on the actions they correspond to, and the relative positions of those actions within an action hierarchy. A designated-master-user ruleset prioritizes gestures performed by an explicitly designated master user. Methods for designating a new master user and for providing gesture-control-related user feedback in a multi-user environment are also described.

Abstract: A method and system for, at an electronic device with one or more processors, presenting a media content item on an electronic display. The electronic device detects a user action with a respective portion of the media content item, wherein the user action does not include explicit selection of the respective portion of the media content item. In response to detection of the user action, the electronic device identifying additional content to present based on the content included in the portion of the respective portion of the media content item. The electronic device then simultaneously presents the additional content and the media content item on the electronic display.

Abstract: Provided are an unlocking method and a virtual reality device, including displaying A candidate icons, the A candidate icons including M password icons related to latest operations; in response to an operation of selecting an unlocking icon from the A candidate icons, acquiring the selected unlocking icon; and performing an unlocking operation according to the selected unlocking icon and the M password icons related to the latest operations. According to the unlocking method and apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present invention, by setting password icons related to latest operations, passwords can be updated in real time, so that the passwords are not easy to crack, and it is unnecessary to repeatedly and manually set the passwords.

Abstract: A head-mounted display comprises a display device and an outward-facing depth camera. A storage machine comprises instructions executable by a logic machine to present one or more virtual objects on the display device, to receive information from the depth camera about an environment, and to determine a position of the head-mounted display within the environment. Based on the position of the head-mounted display, a position of a joint of a user's arm is inferred. Based on the information received from the depth camera, a position of a user's hand is determined. A ray is cast from a portion of the user's hand based on the position of the joint of the user's arm and the position of the user's hand. Responsive to the ray intersecting with one or more control points of a virtual object, the user is provided with an indication that the virtual object is being targeted.

Abstract: An information handling system enhanced user interface distinguishes native operating system touch inputs from enhance touch gestures based upon context, such as the number and types of displays interfaced with the information handling system. Enhanced touch gestures include multi-finger touches with symmetrical movement that command start events, move events and end events to interact with content at plural displays through touches at one of the plural displays, such as moving windows, selecting an active window, minimizing windows, maximizing content of one window and restoring minimized content.

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for form operation on a mobile terminal. An exemplary method may include detecting an input hand gesture on a screen, and acquiring a trajectory of the input hand gesture. The method may also include matching the acquired trajectory of the input hand gesture with the hand gestures in correspondence in accordance with the hand-gesture comparison rules. The correspondence between hand gestures, hand-gesture comparison rules, and form operations is preset. The method may further include triggering a corresponding form operation if the matching is successful.

Abstract: Among other things, first signals are received representing manipulation of a physical feature of a physical device by one or more fingers of a hand of a user. Second signals are received representing tissue electrical activity indicative of and occurring prior to the manipulation. The first signals and the second signals are processed to identify the occurrence of the manipulation. A control signal is sent to a game or other application with which the user is interacting. The control signal corresponds to the identified occurrence of the manipulation.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains image data and a recognition result, the image data being data obtained by digitizing a document including plural areas in one document, the recognition result being a result obtained by recognizing the image data, and a control unit that performs control to display an area image corresponding to each of the plural areas in the image data obtained by the obtaining unit and an area recognition result corresponding to each of the plural areas in the recognition result in accordance with a display mode predetermined according to a degree of necessity of a confirming operation corresponding to each of the plural areas.

Abstract: An electronic device and method for operating an electronic device are provided. A user input is received to edit at least one object. A first page and a plurality of thumbnail images are displayed. A drag input is detected on an object. When the drag input is directed toward a first area, the object is displayed in the first area and a representation of a first thumbnail image is changed to correspond to the object displayed in the first area. When the drag input is directed toward a second area, the object is moved to the second page, the representation of the first thumbnail image is changed to correspond to moving the object to the second page, and a representation of a second thumbnail image is changed to correspond to moving the object to the second page.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments describe a system for completing a transaction using an electronic transaction card by receiving, from a user device executing a software application, a selection of a first account function associated with a financial transaction; determining that the account function requires user verification; detecting, via a motion detection component, a motion pattern performed on the electronic transaction card by the user; authenticating an identity of the user, by the electronic transaction card, based on the detected motion pattern; and completing, by the user device, the financial transaction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of providing a user interface (UI) by an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a control UI, receiving a first drag input via the displayed control UI, and, when a direction of the first drag input corresponds to a first direction, displaying a cursor UI at a preset location. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a UI through which an electronic device can easily receive a user input may be provided.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays and allows user interaction with content on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays three-dimensional content using coordinated views on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device shares content while displaying a video conferencing user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the display or keeping private of content on multiple displays. In some embodiments, an electronic device facilitates the display of information from applications using a shared graphical input coordinate space. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents indications of notifications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of items of content that are related to content presented on the one or more electronic devices. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces including a soft keyboard.

Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide capabilities to view and/or interact with the real world to the user of a wearable (or portable) device using a sensor configured to capture motion and/or determining the path of an object based on imaging, acoustic or vibrational waves. Implementations can enable improved user experience, greater safety, greater functionality to users of virtual reality for machine control and/or machine communications applications using wearable (or portable) devices, e.g., head mounted devices (HMDs), wearable goggles, watch computers, smartphones, and so forth, or mobile devices, e.g., autonomous and semi-autonomous robots, factory floor material handling systems, autonomous mass-transit vehicles, automobiles (human or machine driven), and so forth, equipped with suitable sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection.

Abstract: The present invention enables a user to accurately perform operation when the user operates a touch panel of a terminal to control propulsion of a vehicle.

Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to automatically interpreting a gesture of a control object in a three dimensional sensor space by sensing a movement of the control object in the three dimensional sensor space, sensing orientation of the control object, defining a control plane tangential to a surface of the control object and interpreting the gesture based on whether the movement of the control object is more normal to the control plane or more parallel to the control plane.

Abstract: An apparatus including a touch screen is provided. The apparatus includes the touch screen to display a first window for executing a first application and a second window for executing a second application, and a controller to detect whether a display change event for changing a screen display occurs in at least one of the first window and the second window, and to analyze the display change event in order to rotate a display direction of the at least one of the first window and the second window in which the display change event occurs.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium including program instructions, a method of controlling a game, and an information processing device make a game more amusing.

Abstract: An interactive digital map of a geographic area is provided via a user interface of a user device, with the currently visible portion of the interactive digital map visible within a viewport. The viewport is repositioned from an initial position on the digital map to a target position on the digital map along a trajectory in accordance with one or more user commands. For different positions on the trajectory of the viewport, navigation directions to a geographic location near a center of the viewport are automatically retrieved, without receiving commands via the user interface to obtain navigation directions to the geographic location. The navigation directions having a first and second levels of detail are retrieved for a first and second points on the trajectory, respectively, the first level of detail including less information than the second level of detail. The navigation directions are displayed via the user interface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying a trajectory on a touch screen solves many limitations that the stylus and the gesture operation currently subjected to in the operation state of the touch screen. For example, due to the chaotic operation caused by the stylus and the gesture operation, it is difficult to distinguish the actual operation attributes such that the operation is too cumbersome and not straightforward, resulting in the technical problem of low user experience.

Abstract: A portable information terminal includes an imaging unit that captures a storage location image displayed on a display device to acquire information indicating a storage location in a storage device, a display panel including a display screen that displays a data image and a display device image indicating the display device, and a manipulation detection unit that detects, on the display screen, a manipulation of moving the data image toward the display device image. The portable information terminal stores data in the storage location when the manipulation detection unit detects the manipulation.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device, which is configured to inhibit an unintended operation of a user from being erroneously detected when a flick operation is performed on a curved touch panel. An operation content including a direction of a flick performed with a finger on a curved front surface of a touch panel is detected, and a curvature ratio of the front surface corresponding to the detected direction is acquired. Further, a flick threshold value using a curvature ratio as a parameter is determined, and characteristics of the detected operation content are quantified as a flick score. Then, through comparison between the flick threshold value and the flick score, it is judged whether or not a touch operation is the flick operation.

Abstract: In implementations of user interaction determination within a webinar system, a computing device implements a webinar system that exposes interactive elements on user devices during a webinar and monitors device interactions reflecting user interactions with webinar content on the user devices. The webinar system determines amounts of user interaction based on the device interactions, and can output the interactive elements based on the device interactions. The webinar system can receive user responses to the interactive elements, and maintain a pipeline that assigns levels to the users based on the user responses and the interactive elements. Users are determined as sales leads based on the levels for the users in the pipeline.

Abstract: Non-transitory computer-readable media, systems, apparatus, and computer-implemented methods are described herein for facilitation of generation and selective provision of a modular advertising unit over a plurality of communication channels to a plurality of end user computing devices. In various embodiments, the modular advertising unit comprising may include a first graphic configured to be operable by a user with an end user computing device to reveal, in place of at least a portion of the first graphic, a second graphic to the user. In various embodiments, the modular advertising unit may also include instructions configured to cause the end user computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by the end user computing device, to automatically provide a report, to the computing device or another computing device associated with an advertising entity, about operation of the first graphic.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a digital experience system that non-intrusively obtains valuable user feedback by strategically prompting users for feedback during a user's journey of a digital content experience. For example, in one or more embodiments, the digital experience system detects when various discrete touchpoints are triggered throughout a user's journey. In response to detection a triggered touchpoint, the digital experience system can provide the user with a prompt from a template of prompts. In this manner, the digital experience system can receive valuable and meaningful feedback from users without disrupting the user's digital content experience. Indeed, the digital experience system enhances the content experience for the user by providing prompts to the user throughout the user's journey of the content experience.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium including program instructions, a method of controlling a game, and an information processing device make a game more amusing.

Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.

Abstract: An augmented reality device operates in concert with an artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistance system, to generate and display an avatar for user interaction with the AI voice assistance system. The avatar displays animated traits and body language, based on the context and content of the user interaction, to enrich the user's interactive experience with the AI voice assistance system. The body language includes simulating eye-contact with the user.

Abstract: Devices and related methods are disclosed herein that generally involve detecting and interpreting gestures made by a user to generate user input information for use by a digital data processing system. In one embodiment, a device includes first and second sensors that observe a workspace in which user gestures are performed. The device can be set to a keyboard input mode, a number pad input mode, or a mouse input mode based on the positioning of the user's hands. Subsequent gestures made by the user can be interpreted as keyboard inputs, mouse inputs, etc., using observed characteristics of the user's hands and various motion properties of the user's hands. These observed characteristics can also be used to implement a security protocol, for example by identifying authorized users by the anatomical properties of their hands or the behavioral properties exhibited by the user while gesturing.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for executing function on a plurality of items on list are provided, one of methods comprises, receiving a touch gesture in a first direction on a first item on a list, determining the first item to be an execution target of a preset function in response to the touch gesture in the first direction, receiving a touch gesture in a second direction on a second item, adding the second item as an execution target of the preset function in response to the touch gesture in the second direction, receiving a touch gesture in the first direction, which is successive to the touch gesture in the second direction, on the added second item and executing the preset function on the first item and the second item in response to the touch gesture in the first direction on the added second item.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an electronic apparatus for a touch input performed via an edge screen. The method includes: sensing a first touch with respect to a first edge screen and a second touch with respect to a second edge screen; determining a first location on the first edge screen, the first location corresponding to the first touch, and a second location on the second edge screen, the second location corresponding to the second touch; sensing a first gesture having the first location as a start point thereof and a second gesture having the second location as a start point thereof; and performing a pre-set operation of the electronic apparatus, based on a combination of the first gesture and the second gesture.

Abstract: A method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided for a sliding event. The method includes: when a first sliding event is received, it is determined whether a second sliding event is received within a preset time interval, where the first sliding event and the second sliding event refer to two adjacent sliding operations on a sliding cover of an electronic device, which are detected by the electronic device; and when the second sliding event is received within the preset time interval, neither of the first sliding event and the second sliding event is responded, or either of the first sliding event and the second sliding event is responded.

Abstract: A viewpoint control unit 204 detects a user operation on a display surface for displaying a virtual-viewpoint video (S801) and controls at least one of the position and the orientation of a virtual viewpoint concerning generation of the virtual-viewpoint video in accordance with the user operation (S805, S808, S812, S814).

Abstract: There are provided a game program and a game system for achieving a game in which, even when it is difficult to determine the location of an enemy character while searching for the enemy character in a virtual game space, it is not too difficult to find the enemy character. A game program 30a causes a CPU 10 to function as a virtual-space generating unit 40, a character control unit 42, a trace generating unit 43 that generates a trace of a non-player character and locates it in the virtual game space, a point managing unit 45 that manages a trace point obtained when a trace located in the virtual game space is collected, and a guidance executing unit 47 that performs the guidance regarding the non-player character to the user when an accumulated value Vs of the trace points reaches a predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for controlling user interface with an object depicted within the user interface. The systems and methods initiates an augmented reality mode configured to present augmented reality elements within a graphical user interface. A face is detected within a field of view of an image capture component and presented within the graphical user interface. In response to detecting the face, the systems and methods sequentially present a set of augmented reality elements within the graphical user interface. A subset of the augmented reality elements and the face may be depicted contemporaneously. A movement is detected of at least a portion of the face relative to a first augmented reality element and presentation of the first augmented reality element is modified and at least one second augmented reality element is presented.

Abstract: A manufacturing monitoring system is disclosed. The manufacturing monitoring system comprises a manufacturing workspace. Technicians wearing force sensor and/or motion capture marker equipped gloves may work within the manufacturing workspace. Motion capture cameras may ring the manufacturing workspace. Motion data from the cameras and/or force data from the gloves may be sent to a remote workstation where they may be processed and analyzed. The workstation may produce quality assessment and/or training outputs based on the motion and/or force data.

Abstract: A computer system with ultra touch functions comprises a pointing input device with an ultra touch control button and a computer input device application program configured to execute the ordinary input device function when ultra_Mode=“Ordinary”; select specific ultras touch type and set ultra_Mode=“Gesture” when the movement pattern of the type-select operation matches a predefined type pattern; specify a plurality of ultra touch gestures from the operations on the input device button and movement; specify a plurality of ultra touch gesture functions for every ultra touch type wherein each ultra touch gesture function is driven by its respective ultra touch gesture; execute the specific ultra touch gesture function for the selected ultra touch type when detected its respective ultra touch gesture during ultra_Mode=“Gesture”; set ultra_Mode=“Ordinary” whenever detected an ultra touch end operation.

Abstract: A system comprises one or more processors of a machine and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the machine to perform operations. The operations comprise: receiving an image; generating an avatar with a trained neural network based on the image, the trained neural network predicting multiple trait values for the avatar; and sending a message with the generated avatar.