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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2012
Applicant:
Sharp Laboratories of America (Sla), Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Inventors:
Neil Runde, Brush Prairie, WA (US);
Andrew Ferlitsch, Camas, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for setting a drawing characteristic of a digital marking device. According to a first aspect of the present invention, detection of a touch gesture simultaneous to engagement of a digital marking device with a digital mark surface may effectuate a drawing-context interpretation of the touch gesture. A characteristic of the digital marking device may be set according to the drawing-context interpretation of the touch gesture.