Tactual Labs Co.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Autodesk, Inc.

Haijun Xia

Daniel John Wigdor

Clifton L Forlines

Ricardo Jorge Jota Costa

Karan Singh

George William Fitzmaurice

Kenneth Paul Hinckley

Tovi Samuel Grossman

Michel Pahud

William Arthur Stewart Buxton

A finger-mounted stylus for performing touch-based input on a touchscreen includes a fingertip case configured to attach to a user fingertip, an extension arm that is coupled to the fingertip case and includes a conductive tip, wherein the extension arm is configured to position the conductive tip away from the fingertip case, and control circuitry configured to apply an electric charge to the conductive tip when the conductive tip is in contact with or proximate to the touchscreen.

Enhancing input on small displays with a finger mounted stylus

The unified system for bimanual interactions provides a lightweight and integrated interface that allows the user to efficiently interact with and manipulate content in the user interface. The system is configured to detect a multi-finger interaction on the touchscreen and to differentiate whether the user intends to pan, zoom or frame a portion of the user interface. Generally, the framing interaction is identified by detection of the user's thumb and forefinger on the touchscreen, which cooperate to define a focus area between vectors extending outwards from the user's thumb and forefinger. Upon a determination that the user intends to interact with or manipulate content within the focus area, the unified system for bimanual interactions provides an indication of the objects that are located within the focus area and contextual menus for interacting with the objects.

Unified system for bimanual interactions

A system and method are disclosed for using a touch sensing system capable of sensing location of a finger or object above a touch surface to inform a touch response system in an electronic device of a predicted future user input event or motion data in advance of an actual touch event. Current user input is sensed via the touch sensing system and data reflecting hover information is created. A model of user interaction with a touch surface is applied to the data representative of the user input to create data reflecting a prediction of a future user input event. In an embodiment, prior to occurrence of the predicted user input event, a predicted location and a predicted time at which the predicted future user input event will occur are provided to a touch response system.

Systems and methods for using hover information to predict touch locations and reduce or eliminate touchdown latency

Unified system for bimanual interactions on flexible representations of content

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Toronto, Canada

Haijun Xia