Touch event anticipation in a computing device

Abstract

Systems and methods for anticipation of touch events in a computing device are provided. The computing device may include a multi-touch sensitive display including a sensor configured to sense a position and / or movement of a hand. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be displayed, having a state including a plurality of possible touch inputs. The computing device may further include a touch event prediction module configured to compute one or more anticipated touch inputs based on the sensed hand position and / or movement, and the state of the GUI with the plurality of possible user inputs. The computing device may further include a preprocessing module configured to preprocess data for each anticipated touch input, and upon the detection of an actual touch input received from the user that matches one of the anticipated touch inputs, displaying the preprocessed data for the actual touch input on the GUI.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to computing devices, and more particularly to touch event anticipation in computing devices. Background technique [0002] Touch-sensitive computing devices, such as mobile phones and tablet computers, are becoming more and more portable with the development of smaller processors and storage devices. Additionally, consumers are increasingly demanding software that runs on such devices, including mail, games, photos, movies, and a variety of other applications. In addition, these touch-sensitive computing devices often use gesture-based input, which consumes processing power. To handle these tasks, processors with higher and higher performance and memories are continuously being developed with smaller footprints. [0003] However, software and hardware sometimes do not align with users. As a result, users sometimes experience a time lag during which the touch-sensitive device appears to be "thinking" immediately after t...

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These time lags are frustrating for users because they cannot be sure that the device is functioning properly, that gesture input was received properly or needs to be re-entered, that the device is experiencing a network connection event, etc.

In times of uncertainty, users are often staring at their screens, sluggish for a moment in frustration, unable to continue tasks within the computer environment, or return to interact with the environment around them

This degrades the user experience with touch-sensitive devices, potentially hurting the adoption of these devices, and also negatively affects the social interaction between users and those around them

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