TOUCH INTERPRETIVE ARCHITECTURE AND TOUCH INTERPRETIVE METHOD BY USING MULTI-FINGERS GESTURE TO TRIGGER APPLICATION PROGRAM

• US 20090184933A1
• Filed: 04/24/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
• Inventors: Wei-Wen, Yang, Chien-Wei, Cheng
• Granted Patent: US 9,128,609 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

This invention is related to a touch interpretive architecture of multi-fingers gesture to trigger an application program and a touch interpretive method thereof used in the same for interpreting a multi-fingers gesture applied to a touch pad and then acquiring some hot-key messages of at least an application program so as to trigger the application program according to the hot-key messages.

Claims

1. A touch interpretive architecture by using multi-fingers gesture to trigger an application program, said touch interpretive architecture comprising:

a control unit communicated with a touch input interface for receiving a trigger signal packet generated when a multi-fingers gesture operation is performed through said touch input interface, and generating a driving control signal in response to said trigger signal packet, wherein said trigger signal packet includes at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message;

a system call unit communicated with said control unit for generating a system call instruction in response to said driving control signal; and

an interpreter unit communicated with said system call unit for retrieving a hot-key message corresponding to said multi-fingers gesture operation message from a hot-key database in response to said system call instruction, and outputting an application program control packet including said hot-key message to a system, so that a software object of an application program is triggered according to said application program control packet to result in a corresponding behavior.

2. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said touch input interface includes a touch pad and a signal interface circuit, and/or said touch input interface further includes a cursor control rod and a key, and said trigger signal packet includes a cursor control message and a key control message.

3. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said control unit includes a driver executed for controlling an instruction set of the touch input interface.

4. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said multi-fingers gesture operation includes a multi-fingers movement operation, a multi-fingers rotation operation, a multi-fingers zoom in/out operation or a multi-fingers tapping operation.

5. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said system call unit includes a system interface and control module having a plurality of system calls.

6. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said interpreter unit comprising:

an interpreting program; and

an interpreting interface and control module served as an interface of said interpreting program.

7. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said hot-key database contains a plurality of hot-key messages corresponding to different hot-key functions of said application program.

8. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said system is an operation system, said control unit and said system call unit belong to a kernel module layer of said operation system, and said interpreter unit and said application program belong to a user module layer of said operation system.

9. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 1 wherein said application program is a plug-in package software of said system.

10. A touch interpretive method by using multi-fingers gesture to trigger an application program, said touch interpretive method comprising steps of:

generating a trigger signal packet from a touch input interface to a control unit when a multi-fingers gesture operation is performed through said touch input interface, wherein said trigger signal packet includes at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message;

generating a driving control signal from said control unit to a system call unit in response to said trigger signal packet;

generating a system call instruction from said system call unit to an interpreter unit in response to said driving control signal;

allowing said interpreter unit to retrieve a hot-key message corresponding to said multi-fingers gesture operation message from a hot-key database in response to said system call instruction; and

outputting an application program control packet including said hot-key message to a system, so that a software object of an application program is triggered according to said application program control packet to result in a corresponding behavior.

11. The touch interpretive method according to claim 10 wherein said touch input interface includes a touch pad and a signal interface circuit, and/or said touch input interface further includes a cursor control rod and a key, and said trigger signal packet includes a cursor control message and a key control message.

12. The touch interpretive architecture according to claim 10 wherein said multi-fingers gesture operation includes a multi-fingers movement operation, a multi-fingers rotation operation, a multi-fingers zoom in/out operation or a multi-fingers tapping operation.

13. The touch interpretive method according to claim 10 wherein said control unit includes a driver executed for controlling an instruction set of the touch input interface, wherein said system call unit includes a system interface and control module having a plurality of system call instructions, wherein said interpreter unit includes an interpreting program;

and an interpreting interface and control module served as an interface of said interpreting program, wherein said hot-key database contains a plurality of hot-key messages corresponding to different hot-key functions of said application program, and wherein said application program is a plug-in package software of said system.

14. The touch interpretive method according to claim 10 wherein said system is an operation system, said control unit and said system call unit belong to a kernel module layer of said operation system, and said interpreter unit and said application program belong to a user module layer of said operation system.

15. A touch interpretive method by using multi-fingers gesture to trigger an application program, said touch interpretive method comprising steps of:

performing a multi-fingers gesture operation and detecting a sequence of at least one multi-fingers gesture through a touch input interface to generate at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message;

generating a trigger signal packet from said touch input interface to a control unit, wherein said trigger signal packet includes said at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message;

generating a driving control signal from said control unit to a system call unit in response to said trigger signal packet;

generating a system call instruction from said system call unit to an interpreter unit in response to said driving control signal;

allowing said interpreter unit to retrieve a hot-key message corresponding to said multi-fingers gesture operation message from a hot-key database in response to said system call instruction; and

outputting an application program control packet including said hot-key message to a system, so that a software object of an application program is triggered according to said application program control packet to result in a corresponding behavior.

16. The touch interpretive method according to claim 15 wherein said touch input interface includes a touch pad and a signal interface circuit.

17. The touch interpretive method according to claim 16 wherein said at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message is an indication of the simultaneous presence of said at least one multi-fingers gesture and wherein the step of detecting a sequence of said at least one multi-fingers gesture further comprises steps of:

scanning a touch sensor of said touch pad to identify a first maxima in a signal corresponding to a first finger gesture, identify a minima following the first maxima and identify a second maxima in a signal corresponding to a second finger gesture following said minima; and

providing said indication of the simultaneous presence of the simultaneous presence of two finger gestures in response to identification of said first and second maxima.

18. The touch interpretive method according to claim 17 wherein further including the step of causing a pointing device click function to occur in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling a drag function to occur in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling a select function in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling an ink function in response to the detection of at least a second maxima.

19. A touch interpretive method by using multi-fingers gesture to trigger an application program, said touch interpretive method comprising steps of:

performing a multi-fingers gesture operation through a touch input interface to generate at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message, wherein said touch input interface includes a touch pad and a signal interface circuit, and wherein said at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message is an indication of the simultaneous presence of at least one multi-fingers gesture and further comprises steps of scanning a touch sensor of said touch pad to identify a first maxima in a signal corresponding to a first finger gesture, identify a minima following the first maxima and identify a second maxima in a signal corresponding to a second finger gesture following said minima; and

providing said indication of the simultaneous presence of the simultaneous presence of two finger gestures in response to identification of said first and second maxima;

generating a trigger signal packet from said touch input interface to a control unit, wherein said trigger signal packet includes said at least one multi-fingers gesture operation message;

generating a driving control signal from said control unit to a system call unit in response to said trigger signal packet;

generating a system call instruction from said system call unit to an interpreter unit in response to said driving control signal;

allowing said interpreter unit to retrieve a hot-key message corresponding to said multi-fingers gesture operation message from a hot-key database in response to said system call instruction; and

outputting an application program control packet including said hot-key message to a system, so that a software object of an application program is triggered according to said application program control packet to result in a corresponding behavior.

20. The touch interpretive method according to claim 19 wherein further including the step of causing a pointing device click function to occur in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling a drag function to occur in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling a select function in response to the detection of at least a second maxima, or further including the step of enabling an ink function in response to the detection of at least a second maxima.