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Jay Bishop

Mark Gordon Arnold

Andrew Justin Hess

A method using hardware button(s) dispatches gestures for motion-disabled users. It displays a translucent layer, on top of underlying applications, which intercepts user touch events (preventing inadvertent gestures) and modifies (x',y&#x2032;) based on dampened differences of most recent intercepted event coordinates (swabs). The method operates in three modes identified by translucent colors and/or digits (how many button pushes before invocation): mode 1 dispatches short taps at (x&#x2032;,y&#x2032;); mode 2 displays extending arrow while the user swabs (x&#x2032;,y&#x2032;) until the second push, which dispatches scrolling in arrow direction; mode 3 creates an arrow and pivot. Pivot size and color indicate magnification/demagnification. The third push dispatches zooming when pivot and arrow are collinear; otherwise it dispatches rotation. A special case of mode 2 dispatches a long tap. In one embodiment, dispatched gestures are allowed through a momentary hole centered at (x&#x2032;,y&#x2032;) surrounded by four other rectangles in the translucent layer.

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Jay Bishop