Emulating Fundamental Forces of Physics on a Virtual, Touchable Object

An approach is provided that receives a gesture from a user with the gesture being directed at a graphical user interface element. The gesture is received by the user at a touch-enabled display screen. Emulated physics properties are retrieved that correspond to the selected graphical user interface...

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Main Authors LIETZKE MATTHEW P, SMITH ADAM MILES, LOCKER HOWARD, SKINNER JEFFREY E, DUDKOWSKI ERIC EDWARD, HUMPHREY TIMOTHY, VANBLON RUSSELL SPEIGHT, STEWART AARON MICHAEL
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.02.2011
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:An approach is provided that receives a gesture from a user with the gesture being directed at a graphical user interface element. The gesture is received by the user at a touch-enabled display screen. Emulated physics properties are retrieved that correspond to the selected graphical user interface element. The system detects a speed and a direction from the received gesture and, based on this information, determines an initial trajectory of the selected graphical user interface element. The initial trajectory is adjusted based on the retrieved emulated physics properties with the movement of the element being rendered on the display screen based upon the adjusted trajectory.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20090512751