Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Technology Liecsnsing, LLC

Erik Michael Geidl

Reed L Townsend

Donald D Karlov

Andrew John Fuller

Jeffrey West Pettiross

Gregory H Parks

Leroy B Keely

Shawn R LeProwse

Marieke Watson Iwema

Ian C LeGrow

Adrian James Garside

Xiao Tu

Bryan Douglas Scott

Todd A Torset

Jennifer A Teed

Luis M Huapaya

Samir Shiraz Pradhan

Troy Scott Jones

Shiraz M Somji

Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski

Joshua Clow

Ravi Soin

Robert A Dain

Bob Dain

Grady Leno

Charlton E Lui

David V Winkler

Thomas R Wick

Alexander Gournares

Alexander G Gounares

Ravipal S Soin

James A Pittman

Tu Xiao

Shawn R Leprowse

In accordance with one or more aspects of a dynamic soft keyboard, a user input is received via a soft keyboard having multiple keys. Information describing a current input environment for the soft keyboard is obtained, and a determination is made as to which one or more keys of the multiple keys was intended to be selected by the user input. This determination is made based at least in part on the current input environment.

Dynamic soft keyboard

The manipulation system described herein provides a common platform and application-programming interface (API) for applications to communicate with various multi-touch hardware devices, and facilitates the interpretation of multi-touch input as one or more manipulations. Manipulations map more directly to user intentions than do individual touch inputs and add support for basic transformation of objects using multiple touch contacts. An application can use manipulations to support rotating, resizing, and translating multiple objects at the same time. The manipulation system outputs two-dimensional (2D) affine transforms that contain rotation, scale, and translation information. Thus, using the manipulation system the application author can focus more on building touch-capable applications and let the manipulation system handle the underlying transformations and communication with the multi-touch hardware.

Multi-touch manipulation of application objects

An apparatus and method provide power to perform functions on a computing device. In one example, the apparatus contains multiple processors that may operate at different power levels to consume different amounts of power. Also, any of the multiple processors may perform different functions. For example, one processor may be a low power processor that may control or operate at least one peripheral device to perform a low capacity function. Control may also switch from the low power processor to a high capacity processor. In one example, the high capacity processor controls the low power processor and further controls the at least one peripheral device through the lower power processor.

I/O co-processor coupled hybrid computing device

An apparatus and method is provided for controlling a display device for displaying a user interface associated with an application. A processor for controlling peripheral devices and/or the display may be selected based on characteristics of a requested function to be performed. For example, a processor may be selected with a power characteristic corresponding to a power level needed to perform the requested function. Also, an instantiation of a user interface may be switched based on selection of the processor for controlling peripheral devices. In another example, the transition from one instantiation of the user interface to another instantiation of the user interface may be smooth such that a user may be unaware a change has been made.

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