AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF USER INTERFACE DESCRIPTIONS THROUGH SKETCHING

摘要

A desired graphic user interface (GUI) is sketched and then scanned into memory or is sketched using a stylus whose movements are tracked and recorded in memory. Sketched objects such as windows, lists, buttons and frames are recognized automatically and normalized for the GUI to be created. Containment relations among the objects are recorded in a tree hierarchy to which is attached layout information and information from annotations in the sketch. The tree hierarchy is then formatted for generation of the GUI on a target platform.