METHOD FOR OPERATION TO A MULTI-TOUCH ENVIRONMENT SCREEN BY USING A TOUCHPAD

• US 20110022990A1
• Filed: 07/20/2010
• Published: 01/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Elan Microelectronics Corporation
• Inventors: TSAI, HSIAO-HUA, TSAI, YU-JEN, WU, DENG-JING, YANG, HSUEH-WEI
• Application Number:
  US12/839,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20110022990A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/856
• 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 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A method for operation to a multi-touch environment screen by using a touchpad defines a movable control window on the screen, calculates an inter-window coordinate set of the object mapped from the touchpad to the control window according to an absolute coordinate set of the object on the touchpad and a resolution ratio between the touchpad and the control window when the touchpad is detected being touched, defines a cursor on the screen representative of the object according to the inter-window coordinate set, and changes a coordinate set of the cursor on the screen representative of the object according to a number of the object on the touchpad and movement thereof. This method allows a user to intuitively operate the screen by using the touchpad.

Claims

1. A method for operation to a multi-touch environment screen by using a touchpad, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) defining a movable control window on the screen;

(b) when the touchpad is detected being touched, calculating an inter-window coordinate set of the detected object mapped from the touchpad to the control window according to an absolute coordinate set of the object on the touchpad and a resolution ratio between the touchpad and the control window;

(c) defining a cursor representative of the object on the screen according to the inter-window coordinate set; and

(d) according to a number and movement of the object on the touchpad, changing a coordinate set of the cursor representative of the object on the screen or the inter-window coordinate set of the cursor representative of the object in the control window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the control window has a variable resolution.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the control window has a maximum resolution equal to that of the screen.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the control window on the screen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (c) comprises the step of locating the cursor representative of the object on a site represented by the inter-window coordinate set.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (c) comprises the step of defining the cursor which has been in the control window as the cursor representative of the object.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of updating the inter-window coordinate set by using the cursor representative of the object.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of adjusting a coordinate set of the control window on the screen by using the coordinate set of the cursor representative of the object on the screen as a basis.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (d) comprises the step of, when the number of the object is equal to one, displaying the cursor representative of the object on the screen, and changing the coordinate set of the cursor representative of the object on the screen according to a relative movement coordinate set of the object on the touchpad.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising the step of controlling the control window to move along with the cursor representative of the object so as to keep the cursor representative of the object staying in the control window.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a relative position between the cursor representative of the object and the control window is consistent.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the step (d) comprises the step of, when the number of the object is greater than one, fixing a coordinate set of the control window on the screen, and changing the inter-window coordinate set of the cursor in the control window representative of the object according to the absolute coordinate set of the object on the touchpad.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying the cursor representative of the object on the screen.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising the step of, when the object leaves the touchpad for a duration in excess of a predetermined value, hiding the cursor representative of the object from the screen.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of, when the object leaves the touchpad for a duration in excess of a predetermined value, deleting all information about the cursor representative of the object, including the inter-window coordinate set.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of, when the object leaves the touchpad for a duration not in excess of a predetermined value, preserving the inter-window coordinate set of the cursor representative of the object.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of, when the object leaves the touchpad for a duration not in excess of a predetermined value, preserving all information about the cursor representative of the object, including the inter-window coordinate set.