DIAGONAL SLIDING GESTURE FOR SELECTION AND PERMUTATION Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G06F3/48 G06F3/03 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: tools using gestures of sliding along the diagonal of touch display devices are proposed. Thus, diagonal sliding gestures may be used for the content that is panned or scrolled in one direction to provide additional actions, such as the content selection, the "drag and drop" operation, etc. The diagonal sliding gesture may be performed by dragging an element or an object in the direction different from the scrolling direction. Dragging in said different direction can be correlated with additional actions or functionalities. Wherein one or more thresholds, such as the distance threshold, are used, combined with dragging in said different direction to correlate with additional actions or functionalities.

EFFECT: improving the data input accuracy.

20 cl, 17 dwg