Smart Technologies Ulc

Smart Technologies Inc.

Nureva, Inc.

Taco Van Ieperen

Douglas Blair Hill

Keith Correy Wilde

Mark Andrew Fletcher

Viktor Viktorovich Antonyuk

Roberto Sirotich

Doug Hill

Serguei Vdovine

Scott Tallman

Marilyn Williams

Patrick Weinmayr

Shane Edward Bill

Shannon Patricia Goodman

Niel Beckie

Edward Tse

Kathryn Rounding

Erik Benner

Peter Christian Lortz

Jenna Pipchuck

Method and apparatus for implementing gestures across user interface display apparatuses, including detecting and saving, at a first user interface display apparatus, an initial user input; determining whether the initial user input is within a predetermined proximity to a boundary with a second user interface display apparatus; detecting and saving additional user input continuing from the initial user input; when the initial user input is within the predetermined proximity, incorporating additional information from a transition message received within a predetermined time period from the second user interface display apparatus to the saved user input, the predetermined time period corresponding to a message time between the first and second user interface display apparatuses from a of the initial user input; and implementing the saved user input on one or mole of the first and second user interface display apparatuses.

Method and apparatus for using gestures across multiple devices

A method comprises receiving an input event generated when at least one contact is made on an interactive surface at a location corresponding to a graphical object; determining the number of contacts associated with the input event; tracking movement of the at least one contact on the interactive surface; identifying a graphical object manipulation based on the number of contacts, the movement of the at least one contact, and the graphical object type; and performing the graphical object manipulation.

Method for manipulating a graphical object and an interactive input system employing the same

A method of displaying a computer application comprising a plurality of objects within an initially transparent application window comprises creating an animated content window below the application window for each animated content object of the computer application and directing the player responsible for playing the animated content object to draw the animated content directly therein. The objects of the computer application are examined and a clipping mask for each animated content object corresponding generally to the animated content window created therefor is defined. Starting from bottom to top, an object from the list is selected. If the selected object is not an animated content object, the object is drawn within the application window except in areas corresponding to the clipping masks. If the selected object is an animated content object, the clipping mask defined for animated content object is removed, thereby to allow selected objects in the list above the animated content object to be drawn thereover.

Method and graphical interface for embedding animated content into a computer application

A touch system includes a touch panel having a touch surface and a projector for projecting images onto the touch surface. A computer executing an applications program is coupled to the touch panel and the projector. The computer is responsive to contact output generated by the touch panel in response to proximity of a pointer to the touch surface and updates image data conveyed to the projector so that the images presented on the touch surface reflect the pointer activity. The computer executes a gesture responsive ink injection routine to detect when a selected gesture is made with the pointer on the touch surface. The gesture responsive ink injection routine performs recognition to convert ink drawn on the touch surface into a form suitable for the applications program when the selected gesture is recognized and enters the recognized text into the application.

System and method for injecting ink into an application

A touch system comprises a large scale touch surface on which an image is presented and at least two imaging devices looking across the touch surface and having overlapping fields of view. Processing structure communicates with the imaging devices and processes image data acquired by the imaging devices to determine pointer contacts on the touch surface using triangulation. The processing structure further executes at least one application to facilitate user interaction with the touch surface. Methods of interacting with the touch surface are also disclosed.

Large scale touch system and methods for interacting with same

A distributed computer network includes at least two computers. Each of the at least two computers runs an application sharing program to enable an image generated by one computer to be displayed by at least one other computer. At least one of the at least two computers executes an image modifying routine to alter the appearance of an image generated by the one computer prior to display on the at least one other computer. In this manner, a user of the at least one other computer can tell at a glance if an image being presented is an image that has been received from the one computer or is its own desktop graphical user interface.

System, method and graphical user interface for identifying image from remote site during screen sharing

An electronic writeboard for communicating with a computer including applications software and running an active application comprises a touch sensitive panel on which the screen image output of the computer is displayed. The touch sensitive panel is responsive to user contact and generates events. A keyboard window is displayed on the touch sensitive panel and includes a keyboard having a plurality of user selectable keys. A driver receives the events and senses user contact on the touch sensitive panel within the keyboard window and generates messages in response thereto. A controller executing a keyboard application receives the messages. The keyboard application processes the messages to provide data to the active application running on the computer corresponding to keys of the keyboard contacted by the user.

Keyboard for an electronic writeboard and method

A method for erasing writing on an electronic writeboard includes the steps of describing an eraser as a mask and monitoring movement of the eraser over the electronic writeboard. When the mask overlaps with writing on the electronic writeboard, erasing of the writing within the mask is performed. The shape of the mask is adjusted to compensate for the speed at which the eraser is moved over the electronic writeboard.

Method for erasing on an electronic writeboard

A method for editing objects representing writing on an electronic writeboard comprises the steps of: creating an object representing writing on the electronic writeboard; determining if the created object overlies an existing object by at least a threshold amount; and merging the created and existing objects to create a new object if the created object overlies the existing object by at least the threshold amount. An editor for editing objects and an interactive display system are also provided.

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