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A touch screen method for recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture for an electronic device including a overlaying a plurality of transparent sensors on top of a visual display associated with the electronic device and where the transparent sensors are configured to be responsive to touch by at leas

A touch screen method for recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture for an electronic device including a overlaying a plurality of transparent sensors on top of a visual display associated with the electronic device and where the transparent sensors are configured to be responsive to touch by at least one user finger and the visual display is for rendering visual information provided by the electronic device is disclosed. Control parameters associated with sensor measurements include parameter derived from recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture.

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1. A computer-implemented method of implementing a touch screen of an electronic device, the method comprising: facilitating communication between a processor and a plurality of transparent sensors overlaid on top of a visual display that is associated with the electronic device to form the touch sc

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A computer-implemented method of implementing a touch screen of an electronic device, the method comprising: facilitating communication between a processor and a plurality of transparent sensors overlaid on top of a visual display that is associated with the electronic device to form the touch screen, each transparent sensor configured to be responsive to touch by at least one user finger, and the visual display for rendering visual information provided by the electronic device;associating control parameters with sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors; andassigning the control parameters to specific control signals to allow user interaction with the electronic device by touching the touch screen, the touching producing the sensor measurements by the plurality of transparent sensors;wherein the control parameters include parameters derived from recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture, the finger-flick touch gesture recognized from a sequence of postures with specific dynamic variations among them, the sequence of postures being recognized from pressure profiles. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising: recognizing a plurality of patterns of touch; andderiving control parameters from the recognized plurality of patterns of touch. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the recognizing the plurality of patterns of touch comprises recognizing the touching of the touch screen by a single finger positionable with at least four degrees of freedom with respect to the touch screen, and recognizing each of the at least four degrees of freedom of the single finger with respect to the touch screen. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the recognizing the at least one gesture comprises recognizing a contact with one finger and tap of an additional finger. 5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the recognizing the at least one gesture comprises recognizing simultaneous movement of two fingers. 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the plurality of patterns of touch comprises recognizing the touching of the touch screen by a single finger positionable with at least five degrees of freedom with respect to the touch screen, and recognizing each of the at least five degrees of freedom of the single finger with respect to the touch screen. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the plurality of patterns of touch comprises recognizing the touching of the touch screen by a single finger positionable with at least six degrees of freedom with respect to the touch screen, and recognizing each of the at least six degrees of freedom of the single finger with respect to the touch screen. 8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising defining at least one contiguous region comprising associated pixel addresses based on values of the sensor measurements that exceed a threshold value. 9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, further comprising classifying the at least one defined contiguous region based on values of the sensor measurements that exceed the threshold value. 10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 wherein the control parameters are derived based on the at least one defined contiguous region. 11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising defining a plurality of contiguous regions comprising associated pixel addresses: and deriving the control parameters for each of the plurality of contiguous regions having sensed measurements with values that exceed a threshold value. 12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising controlling a software application running on the electronic device based on the touching. 13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising controlling an operation of the electronic device based on the touching. 14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising adjusting the operation for at least one particular user hand. 15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the visual display is an LCD display. 16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the sensor measurements comprise spatial location of the user finger from values of the plurality of transparent sensors exceeding a threshold value, andwherein at least one control parameter comprises a rate of variation in spatial location of the finger, the rate of variation derived from the sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors. 17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the sequence of postures is recognized from the pressure profiles using pattern recognition. 18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the pressure profiles comprise pressure profiles of the user's finger on the touch screen. 19. A computer-implemented method of implementing a touch screen of an electronic device, the method comprising: facilitating communication between a processor and a plurality of transparent sensors overlaid on top of a visual display that is associated with the electronic device to form the touch screen, each transparent sensor configured to be responsive to touch by at least one user finger, and the visual display for rendering visual information provided by the electronic device;associating control parameters with sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors, wherein the control parameters include parameters derived from recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture, the finger-flick touch gesture recognized from a sequence of postures with specific dynamic variations among them, the sequence of postures being recognized from pressure profiles. 20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, wherein the sensor measurements comprise spatial location of the user finger from values of the plurality of transparent sensors exceeding a threshold value, and wherein at least one control parameter comprises a rate of variation in spatial location of the finger based on the sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors. 21. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, wherein the sequence of postures is recognized from the pressure profiles using pattern recognition. 22. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, wherein the pressure profiles comprise pressure profiles of the user's finger on the touch screen. 23. A computer-implemented method of implementing a touch screen of an electronic device, the method comprising: facilitating communication between a processor and a plurality of transparent sensors overlaid on top of a visual display that is associated with the electronic device to form the touch screen, each transparent sensor configured to be responsive to touch by at least one user finger, and the visual display for rendering visual information provided by the electronic device;deriving control parameters from sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors;providing one or more dynamically assigned labels for display by the visual display to label one or more areas of the plurality of transparent sensors;assigning the control parameters to specific control signals to allow user interaction with the electronic device by touching the touch screen over the labeled one or more areas of the plurality of transparent sensors indicated by the one or more dynamically assigned labels comprising at least one graphical underlay that is displayed by the visual display, the touching producing the sensor measurements by the plurality of transparent sensors; andwherein the sensor measurements comprise spatial location of the user finger from values of the plurality of transparent sensors exceeding a threshold value,wherein at least one control parameter is derived from recognizing a finger-flick touch gesture, the finger-flick touch gesture recognized from a sequence of postures with specific dynamic variations among them, the sequence of postures being recognized from pressure profiles, andwherein at least one control parameter comprises a rate of variation in spatial location of the finger as moved in the dynamics of the gesture, the rate of variation derived from the sensor measurements sensed by the plurality of transparent sensors. 24. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, wherein the sequence of postures is recognized from the pressure profiles using pattern recognition. 25. The computer-implemented method of claim 23, wherein the pressure profiles comprise pressure profiles of the user's finger on the touch screen.