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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2016
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Stephen H. Lane, Princeton, NJ (US);
Ji Hyun Kong, Philadelphia, PA (US);
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for receiving user input. According to one example method for receiving user input, the method includes identifying gestures from directional movements of a user's fingers on a touch sensor, mapping the gestures to alphanumeric characters, and outputting alphanumeric characters, including defining a set of the gestures as different sequences of at least two of: a contact event, a no contact event, a hold event, a finger movement in a first direction, a finger movement in a second direction.