ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120182234A1
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Published: 07/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Original Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Inventors: HUANG, Yu-Chen, Wu, Chia-Yi
• Application Number:
  US13/240,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182234A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An electronic device and a control method are provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a touch panel, and a process module. The display panel displays a movable object and an indication object. The movable object is displayed on a first display region of the display panel which corresponds to a first predetermined region of the touch panel, and the indication object is displayed on a second display region of the display panel which corresponds to a second predefined region of the touch panel. When the first predefined region is touched, the processor module detects whether a drag displacement on the touch panel reaches a predefined displacement, so as to determine whether the movable object is dragged to the second predefined region. When the drag displacement is detected as reaching the predefined displacement, the processor module initiates a corresponding function of the indication object.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display panel for displaying a movable object and an indication object;

a touch panel covered on the display panel, wherein the movable object is displayed on a first display region of the display panel which corresponds to a first predetermined region of the touch panel, and the indication object is displayed on a second display region of the display panel which corresponds to a second predefined region of the touch panel;

a processor module for detecting, when the first predefined region is touched, whether a drag displacement on the touch panel reaches a predefined displacement, so as to determine whether the movable object is dragged to the second predefined region, the processor module further for initiating, when the drag displacement is detected as reaching the predefined displacement, a corresponding function of the indication object.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the movable object has a symbol for identifying the corresponding function of the indication object, and the processor module is further for providing a change in appearance of the symbol of the movable object when the corresponding function of the indication object is initiated.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the change in appearance of the symbol comprises a change in at least one of a color, a brightness level, a size, and a clarity level of the symbol.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the processor module is further for changing a display size of the movable object according to the drag displacement.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the indication object has a symbol for identifying the corresponding function of the indication object, and the processor module is further for changing the symbol of the indication object into another symbol for identifying another corresponding function of the indication object.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5, wherein the another corresponding function of the indication object is a sub-function of the identified function of the symbol prior to the switching.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the indication object and the movable object have matched appearances.

8. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the drag displacement is a distance between an initial touch position and a terminal touch position of the touch panel.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined displacement is a distance between the first predetermined region and the second predetermined region.

10. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein when the drag displacement is determined as not reaching the predefined displacement, the processor module returns the movable object to the first predetermined region.

11. A control method for an electronic device, comprising:

displaying a movable object and an indication object on a display panel, the movable object being displayed on a first display region of the display panel which corresponds to a first predetermined region of a touch panel covered on the display panel, the indication object being displayed on a second display region of the display panel which corresponds to a second predefined region of the touch panel;

detecting, when the first predefined region is touched, whether a drag displacement on the touch panel reaches a predefined displacement, so as to determine whether the movable object is dragged to the second predefined region; and

initiating, when the drag displacement is detected as reaching the predefined displacement, a corresponding function of the indication object.

12. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the movable object has a symbol for identifying the corresponding function of the indication object, and the method further comprises:

providing, when the corresponding function of the indication object is initiated, a change in appearance of the symbol of the movable object.

13. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the change in appearance of the symbol comprises a change in at least one of a color, a brightness level, a size, and a clarity level of the symbol

14. The control method according to claim 11, further comprising:

changing a display size of the movable object according to the drag displacement.

15. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the indication object has a symbol for identifying the corresponding function of the indication object, and the method further comprises:

changing the symbol of the indication object into another symbol for identifying another corresponding function of the indication object.

16. The control method according to claim 15, wherein the another corresponding function of the indication object is a sub-function of the identified function of the symbol prior to the switching.

17. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the indication object and the movable object have matched appearances.

18. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the drag displacement is a distance between an initial touch position and a terminal touch position of the touch panel.

19. The control method according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined displacement is a distance between the first predetermined region and the second predetermined region.

20. The control method according to claim 11, further comprising:

returning, when the drag displacement is determined as not reaching the predefined displacement, the movable object to the first predetermined region.