{
  "patent_number": "US 8429565",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Touchscreen Gestures Use Physics to Feel Real",
  "original_title": "Direct manipulation gestures",
  "summary": "Google's patent on making touchscreen gestures feel natural by applying simulated physics, like friction or magnetism, to items on your screen.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a way to make digital items on a touchscreen behave like physical objects. When you perform a multi-finger gesture—like 'scrunching' items together or 'tossing' an object toward a target—the device calculates a physical simulation effect. For example, if you toss a digital photo toward a folder, the system might apply a 'magnetic attraction' effect to snap it into place or a 'friction' effect to slow it down as it reaches the target. It combines the gesture command with these physics-based visual responses to create a unified feedback loop that feels intuitive to the user.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover simple single-touch gestures like basic tapping or scrolling.",
    "Does not cover gestures that lack a simulated physical effect, such as simple menu navigation.",
    "Does not cover hardware-level touch sensing technology itself.",
    "Does not cover non-graphical user interface interactions."
  ],
  "filed": "2010-08-25",
  "granted": "2013-04-23",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Google LLC",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/google-llc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Adam Lesinski",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/adam-lesinski"
    },
    {
      "name": "Patrick Dubroy",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/patrick-dubroy"
    },
    {
      "name": "Anand Agarawala",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/anand-agarawala"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 63,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ai_ml"
  ],
  "abstract": "The present disclosure describes various techniques that may be implemented to execute and/or interpret manipulation gestures performed by a user on a multipoint touch input interface of a computing device. An example method includes receiving a multipoint touch gesture at a multipoint touch input interface of a computing device, wherein the multipoint touch gesture comprises a gesture that is performed with multiple touches on the multipoint touch input interface, and resolving the multipoint touch gesture into a command. The example method further includes determining at least one physical simulation effect to associate with the resolved multipoint touch gesture, and rendering a unified feedback output action in a graphical user interface of the computing device by executing the command, wherein the unified feedback output action includes at least a graphical output action incorporated with the at least one physical simulation effect in the graphical user interface.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8429565/windows-8-charms-bar",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8429565/windows-8-charms-bar/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8429565",
  "relatedPatents": []
}