Systems and methods for gesture-based modification of text to be inputted

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017038958-A1
Application number	US-201514820060-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 6, 2015
Priority date	Aug 6, 2015
Publication date	Feb 9, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can present a graphical element indicating that text is capable of being provided as input. A gesture performed with respect to the graphical element can be detected. At least one property associated with text to be provided as input can be modified based on the gesture performed with respect to the graphical element.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
presenting, by a computing system, a graphical element indicating that text is capable of being provided as input; detecting, by the computing system, a gesture performed with respect to the graphical element; and modifying, by the computing system, based on the gesture performed with respect to the graphical element, at least one property associated with text to be provided as input.

2 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that at least one of a tap or a click is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating a bold style for the text to be provided as input.

3 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a first swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a first axis is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating an italic style for the text to be provided as input.

4 . The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the first axis corresponds to a horizontal axis, wherein the italic style is activated when the first swiping gesture is performed in a rightward direction, and wherein the italic style is deactivated when the first swiping gesture is performed in a leftward direction.

5 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a second swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a second axis is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes increasing or decreasing at least one of a font size or a header style significance for the text to be provided as input.

6 . The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the second axis corresponds to a vertical axis, wherein the at least one of the font size or the header style significance is increased when the second swiping gesture is performed in an upward direction, and the at least one of the font size or the header style significance is decreased when the second swiping gesture is performed in a downward direction.

7 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a pressing gesture is performed with respect to the graphical element for at least a specified threshold amount of time, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes switching through a set of header styles for the text to be provided as input.

8 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a pressing gesture is performed with respect to the graphical element for at least a specified threshold amount of time, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating an underline style for the text to be provided as input.

9 . The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
modifying, based on the gesture, an appearance of the graphical element via a transitional animation.

10 . The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the appearance of the graphical element is associated with one or more characters presented within an icon, and wherein modifying the appearance of the graphical element includes at least one of switching between a bold style and a non-bold style for the one or more characters, switching between an italic style and a non-italic style for the one or more characters, switching between an underline style and a non-underline style for the one or more characters, switching through font sizes for the one or more characters, or switching through header styles for the one or more characters.

11 . A system comprising:
at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform:
presenting a graphical element indicating that text is capable of being provided as input;
detecting a gesture performed with respect to the graphical element; and
modifying, based on the gesture performed with respect to the graphical element, at least one property associated with text to be provided as input.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that at least one of a tap or a click is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating a bold style for the text to be provided as input.

13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a first swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a first axis is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating an italic style for the text to be provided as input.

14 . The system of claim 11 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a second swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a second axis is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes increasing or decreasing at least one of a font size or a header style significance for the text to be provided as input.

15 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions cause the system to further perform:
modifying, based on the gesture, an appearance of the graphical element via a transitional animation.

16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method comprising:
presenting a graphical element indicating that text is capable of being provided as input; detecting a gesture performed with respect to the graphical element; and modifying, based on the gesture performed with respect to the graphical element, at least one property associated with text to be provided as input.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that at least one of a tap or a click is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating a bold style for the text to be provided as input.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a first swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a first axis is performed with respect to the graphical element, and wherein modifying the at least one property associated with the text to be provided as input includes activating or deactivating an italic style for the text to be provided as input.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , wherein detecting the gesture includes detecting that a second swiping gesture within an allowable deviation of being along a seco

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Walton Robert Benson
• Garza Eugenio Padilla

Classifications

• G06F3/04883 Primary

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F17/214

  Physics · mapped topic