Measuring method and a measuring device with fingertip zoom

• US 10,168,889 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2015
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Company KG
• Original Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Freidhof, Markus
• Primary Examiner(s): Amadiz, Rodney
• Application Number:
  US14/631,340
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,406 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 1/025 concerning dedicated user interfaces, e.g. GUI, or dedicated keyboards G01R31/31912 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 13/0218 Circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 13/029 Software therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A measuring device serves for the measurement and display of at least one measurement signal. It contains a measuring unit for the measurement of the at least one measurement signal and a display unit. In this context, the display unit comprises a processing unit and a touch-sensitive screen. The processing unit is embodied in order to display the at least one measured measurement signal by means of the touch-sensitive screen and to register and process touches on the touch-sensitive screen. The processing unit is further embodied in order, in the case of a touch of the touch-sensitive screen in a first position, to display the displayed at least one measured measurement signal in at least one first region around the first position magnified with a first magnification.

Claims

1. A measuring method for the measurement and display of at least one measurement signal, the measuring method comprising:

the measurement signal is measured;

by means of a touch-sensitive screen, the at least one measured measurement signal is displayed and touches on the touch-sensitive screen are registered and processed;

in the case of a touch on the touch-sensitive screen at a first position, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed magnified in at least one first region with a first magnification, wherein the first region is configured to be around the first position, wherein in the first region, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed with a greater sharpness than outside the first region, wherein after an end of the touch on the touch-sensitive screen, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed without magnification, and wherein in the case of a displacement of the touch to a second position, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed magnified in at least one second region, the second region configured to be around the second position;

wherein the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed in at least one of a third region or a fourth region and magnified with a second magnification, the third region configured to be around the first region and the fourth region configured to be around the second region and wherein the second magnification is smaller than the first magnification; and

wherein the displayed at least one measuring signal is displayed in the first region with the first magnification and in the third region with a third magnification simultaneously, and wherein the displayed at least one measurement signal is displayed in the second region with the second magnification and the fourth region with a fourth magnification simultaneously.

2. The measuring method according to claim 1,

wherein in the first region, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed magnified based on one of only in a first dimension, only in a second dimension or in two dimensions.

3. The measuring method according to claim 1,

wherein the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is further displayed with a greater at least one of the brightness, the color saturation, or the intensity than outside the first region.

4. The measuring method according to claim 1,

wherein a size of the first region is pre-set or selected by a user.

5. The measuring method according to claim 1, further comprising:

a touch pressure is detected by the touch-sensitive screen; and

the first magnification is set based at least on the detected touch pressure.

6. A measuring device for the measurement and display of at least one measurement signal, comprising:

the display of at least one measurement signal is done by a display unit that comprises a processing unit and a touch-sensitive screen;

the processing unit is embodied in order, by means of the touch-sensitive screen, to display the at least one measured measurement signal and to register and process touches on the touch-sensitive screen;

the processing unit is embodied in order, in the case of a touch on the touch-sensitive screen at a first position, to display the displayed at least one measured measurement signal in at least one first region around the first position magnified with a first magnification, wherein the first region is configured to be around the first position, wherein in the first region, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed with a greater sharpness than outside the first region, wherein after an end of the touch on the touch-sensitive screen, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed without magnification, and wherein in the case of a displacement of the touch to a second position, the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed magnified in at least one second region, the second region configured to be around the second position;

wherein the displayed at least one measured measurement signal is displayed in at least one of a third region or a fourth region and magnified with a second magnification, the third region configured to be around the first region and the fourth region configured to be around the second region and wherein the second magnification is smaller than the first magnification; and

wherein the displayed at least one measuring signal is displayed in the first region with the first magnification and in the third region with a third magnification simultaneously, and wherein the displayed at least one measurement signal is displayed in the second region with the second magnification and the fourth region with a fourth magnification simultaneously.