Multi-touch multi-user gestures on a multi-touch display

摘要

A multi-touch, multi-user gesture (MMG) controller aggregates gestures from multiple users of a large multi-touch display to allow the multiple users to perform a coordinated action on the multi-touch display. The MMG controller allows one or more users to initiate a multi-touch, multi-user gesture (MMG) session and determines the users that will participate in the MMG session. The MMG controller then aggregates input gestures from multiple users into a MMG to coordinate the effort of multiple users of a multi-touch, multi-user display or touch screen. Applications on a supported computer can use these MMGs to act upon elements on the display such as cropping or adding elements to a group.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a multi-touch capture mechanism that obtains multi-touch data from a multi-touch display; a multi-touch, multi-user gesture (MMG) controller residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the MMG controller allowing a user to initiate a MMG session where multiple users can participate together in a multi-touch, multi-user gesture (MMG), the MMG controller aggregating gesture input from the multi-touch capture mechanism contributed by multiple users on the multi-touch display to perform an action on elements of the multi-touch display; and wherein the MMG performed by the multiple users is a selection of a group of objects on the multi-touch display, the MMG controller allows a first user to select an image and make a gesture to allow other users to select related objects, the MMG controller allows the other users to select related objects and allows the first user to select an action to add the related objects to the group.