diff --git a/core/java/android/gesture/Gesture.java b/core/java/android/gesture/Gesture.java
index 945ebb497a484..d71344c3203c8 100755
--- a/core/java/android/gesture/Gesture.java
+++ b/core/java/android/gesture/Gesture.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 /**
  * A gesture is a hand-drawn shape on a touch screen. It can have one or multiple strokes.
  * Each stroke is a sequence of timed points. A user-defined gesture can be recognized by 
- * a GestureLibrary and a built-in alpabet gesture can be recognized by a LetterRecognizer. 
+ * a GestureLibrary and a built-in alphabet gesture can be recognized by a LetterRecognizer. 
  */
 
 public class Gesture implements Parcelable {
diff --git a/core/java/android/gesture/GestureUtilities.java b/core/java/android/gesture/GestureUtilities.java
index b532365ab8f7f..dfe1d0010c5a5 100755
--- a/core/java/android/gesture/GestureUtilities.java
+++ b/core/java/android/gesture/GestureUtilities.java
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ final class GestureUtilities {
             }
         }
     }
+    
+    static float[] spatialSampling(Gesture gesture, int sampleMatrixDimension) {
+        return spatialSampling(gesture, sampleMatrixDimension, false);
+    }
 
     static float[] spatialSampling(Gesture gesture, int sampleMatrixDimension, 
             boolean uniformScaling) {