Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

David Abzarian

Todd L Carpenter

Gerardo Diaz Cuellar

Eran Yariv

Harish Kulkarni

Silvano Bonacina

David Steeves

Xiao Tu

Olumuyiwa M Durojaiye

Salahuddin Khan

Fei Su

Amit A Sehgal

Francis Zhou

David Walker Duhon

Connor Lawrence Weins

Michael R Surkan

Salahuddin C J Khan

Mohit Talwar

Aleksandar Uzelac

Gerardo Diaz-Cuellar

Mark Myers

Austin Bradley Hodges

Randall Edward Aull

Firdosh Kersy Bhesania

Jerry K Koh

Moshe Randall Lutz

Emanuel Paleologu

Anthony John Rolls Hodsdon

Miles Cohen

Arvind R Aiyar

Nidhi Sanghai

Karan Mehra

Rajesh M Dighde

Octavian Tony Ureche

Lokesh Srinivas Koppolu

Innokentiy Basmov

Darren Glen Moss

Art Shelest

Peter Hammerquist

Noah Horton

Alex G Snitkovskiy

Mark Vayman

Gregory D Hartrell

Grigory Borisovich Lyakhovitskiy

Hirofumi Yamamoto

Jennifer A Teed

Lawrence Brian Ripsher

Michael Nelte

Mudit Agrawal

Thomas Russo

Uros Batricevic

Eric Christian Brown

Seshagiri Panchapagesan

Rouella J Mendonca

Bernie Schultz

Narasimhan Raghunath

Alan Stephenson

Matthew Kiichi Slemon

Alice Tang

Changsin Lee

Cinthya R Urasaki

Ian M Carbaugh

Pak Kiu Chung

Severan Rault

Robert C Houser

Satheesh S Dabbiru

David J Steeves

Ross W Nichols

Youlian Simidjiyski

Ramachandran Gurumoorthy

Kelli Marie Zielinski

David C Tamasi

Salahuddin Christopher Jules Khan

Alan W Stephenson

Pavel Yurevich

Michael A Nelte

Aleksander Uzelac

Miles M Cohen

Harish S Kulkarni

Methods and apparatuses are provided that address interoperability limitations of current digital pens and touch sensitive devices. In aspects, methods are provided for operating an adaptable digital pen and touch sensitive device to determine the best means for pen state information such as pressure information to be transferred from the pen to the device. A digital pen includes multiple communication interfaces to permit wide compatibility with touch sensitive devices. A communication interface is provided that enables the digital pen to communicate via an active pen protocol with a digitizer of the touch sensitive device while operating in a first mode. Another communication interface is provided as an alternative channel for communicating pen state information to the touch sensitive device while operating in a second mode. Where neither such interface suffices for communicating pen state information to the touch sensitive device, the digital pen may operate in a reflective capacitive mode.

Adaptable digital pen and touch sensitive device

A token or other storage device uses Internet identities to set file access attribute rights. Subsequently, requests to access a file can be controlled by confirming the Internet identity of the requestor by either validating the request with a known public key or retrieving the public key from an Internet identity provider. Files may be stored encrypted and may be re-encrypted with the public key associated with Internet identity making the request.

Trusted internet identity

A computing device includes a digital input system that allows freehand digital inputs to be received (e.g., via movement of a pen, stylus, finger, etc.). The digital input system provides functionality allowing applications to receive digital inputs from a user and control the display of data based on the digital inputs. The digital input system receives digital input from a user and analyzes the digital input to collect input data for the digital input. As the digital input is received, the input data is made available to an application, allowing the application to operate on the input data (e.g., modify the input data and/or generate additional input data) and provide the operated-on input data to the digital input system. The digital input system then proceeds to control the display of data based on the operated-on input data.

Controlling digital input

Digital ink is generated to represent a visual component, such as a letter, number, character, and/or other symbol. The digital ink is generated by obtaining multiple different curves that combine to generate the visual component. These different curves can have various different characteristics (e.g., different thicknesses) to provide the desired visual component. The combined curves are converted into a set of primitives that make up the parts of the combined curves, and the set of primitives are converted into a digital ink format. Data describing the set of primitives in digital ink format can be stored and subsequently used to display the visual component as digital ink.

Digital ink based visual components

In aspects of replay of recorded touch input data, a computing device can store recorded touch input data that has been previously recorded based on multiple instances of user inadvertent contact on touch-enabled devices. A replay test application is implemented to test one or more user devices for inadvertent contact rejection using the recorded touch input data, such as to test a palm rejection algorithm of a user device. The replay test application is implemented to communicate the recorded touch input data to a screen overlay device that generates touch inputs on a touchscreen of the user device to test the palm rejection algorithm of the user device. The replay test application also monitors the user device for an action responsive to a touch input that is not filtered as an inadvertent contact with the touchscreen of the user device.

Replay of recorded touch input data

Features of the present disclosure solve the above-identified problem by implementing techniques to detect the contact or proximity of a stylus to a display screen of a computer device in the absence of pressure information within the constraints of existing pen protocols. To this end, a digitizer associated with the display screen of the computer device may determine when the stylus is touching (or significantly close) the screen when a signal communication between the pen and digitizer exceeds a threshold (e.g., time or voltage).

Mechanism for pen interoperability with pressure sensor design

A computing device includes a digital input system that provides digital input functionality for the computing device. The digital input system receives both a first input and a second input. The first input is typically an input with the user's dominant hand (e.g., using a pen, stylus, finger, etc.), and the second input is typically an input with the user's non-dominant hand. The digital input system determines whether a second input is received simultaneously with the first input, and selects one of multiple behaviors for the first input based on whether the second input is received simultaneously with the first input. Various different behaviors for the first input can be selected from, such as freehand or freeform input, constraining digital input corresponding to the first input to be along an edge of a stencil, and so forth.

Selecting first digital input behavior based on a second input

The techniques described herein are directed to a computing device that receives data from an indirect input device. The data received may indicate or signal that one or more objects are on or within a detection area of the indirect input device. For example, the data may indicate that one or more objects are in contact with a surface of an indirect touch device. The techniques include determining parameters for the one or more objects and analyzing the parameters to determine whether the data is directed to a touch operation or to a mouse operation. To perform the touch operation or the mouse operation, the techniques further describe converting the data received from a first coordinate space of the indirect input device to a second coordinate space of a display screen.

Disambiguation of indirect input

The techniques described herein implement a classification process to evaluate information associated with a tool input (e.g., from an input tool such as a pen or a stylus) and a user touch input (e.g., from a finger or a palm of a hand) to determine whether the user touch input is an intended or an unintended touch input. The information evaluated may be associated with an arrival of the tool input relative to an arrival of the user touch input. The information evaluated may also be associated with a movement of the tool input relative to a movement of the user touch input. In various implementations, the techniques may calculate an evaluation score and compare the evaluation score to a confidence classification threshold. If a confident classification cannot be achieved, the techniques further the classification process as more information associated with the inputs is received.

Classification of touch input as being unintended or intended

A computing device including a capacitive touch screen and a processor configured to receive a capacitive image from the capacitive touch screen, determine that the capacitive image includes an image of a capacitive tag, identify a pattern of capacitive elements of the capacitive tag based on the capacitive image, determine bits of encoded data based on the identified pattern of capacitive elements, and process the encoded data.

Encoding data in capacitive tags

In some examples, input received from an input device, such as a keyboard, is modified by a component associated with an operating system before the input is delivered to an application. For instance, a component associated with the operating system may become registered for modifying input. In some situations, the input is modified based at least in part on metadata associated with the input device. For example, a location of a fingertip on a touch-sensitive display may be used to modify the input before delivery to an application.

Modifying input delivery to applications

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