FAST CURSOR LOCATION

Patent №

US 8,990,736

Granted

2015-03-24

Filed 2012

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13345802

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for fast mouse pointer location. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for fast mouse pointer location includes determining a contemporaneous location of a mouse pointer in a GUI of a host computer, dimensioning in memory of the host computer different shapes and arranging the shapes to proximately meet at a point of intersection, overlaying the shapes in the GUI at a position proximate to the contemporaneous location of the mouse pointer, displaying the shapes in the GUI for a brief period of time before hiding the shapes from view in the GUI and repeating the determining, dimensioning, overlaying and displaying for different movements of the mouse pointer in the GUI.

AI classification

AI hardware0.58
Vision0.12
Evolutionary computation0.03
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 274980551

Assignors

FLETCHER, BENJAMIN J.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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