TRACK INPUT DEVICE AND SCROLLING CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20120319947A1
• Filed: 06/14/2012
• Published: 12/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Inventors: NIEN, Chih-Heng
• Application Number:
  US13/517,699
• Publication Number:
  US 20120319947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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

A scrolling control method for a track input device including a sensing area and a controller is disclosed. The scrolling control method includes configuring a scrolling triggering area and a cursor area in the sensing area, receiving a first track signal at the sensing area, determining whether a displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than a triggering threshold value when the first track signal is received by the scrolling triggering area, and entering a scrolling mode and sending a scrolling signal when the displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than the triggering threshold value.

Claims

1. A scrolling control method for a track input device, comprising:

configuring a scrolling triggering area and a cursor area in a sensing area of the track input device;

receiving a first track signal at the sensing area;

determining whether a displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than a triggering threshold value when the first track signal is received by the scrolling triggering area of the sensing area; and

entering a scrolling mode and sending a scrolling signal when the displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than the triggering threshold value.

2. The scrolling control method according to claim 1, wherein the scrolling triggering area comprising a plurality of sub-areas, each sub-area corresponding to a scrolling direction, and the step of determining whether the displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than the triggering threshold value comprising:

determining whether a first component of the displacement quantity corresponding to the scrolling direction is greater than the triggering threshold value according to the sub-area where the first track signal is received.

3. The scrolling control method according to claim 2, wherein the step of entering the scrolling mode and sending the scrolling signal comprising:

entering the scrolling mode and receiving a second track signal at the cursor area; and

sending the scrolling signal according to a second component of a displacement quantity of the second track signal corresponding to the scrolling direction.

4. The scrolling control method according to claim 2, wherein the step of entering the scrolling mode and sending the scrolling signal comprising:

entering the scrolling mode and subtracting the first component with the triggering threshold value to obtain a third component; and

sending the scrolling signal according to the third component.

5. The scrolling control method according to claim 2, after the step of entering the scrolling mode and sending the scrolling signal, the method further comprising:

during a waiting time period, when receiving a third track signal at the cursor area or the sub-area corresponding to the first track signal, maintaining the scrolling mode and sending the scrolling signal according to the third track signal; and

when the sensing area does not receive any track signals during the waiting time period, switching to a cursor mode from the scrolling mode.

6. A track input device, comprising:

a sensing area for receiving a first track signal, the sensing area comprising a scrolling triggering area and a cursor area; and

a controller for determining whether a displacement quantity of the first track signal is greater than a triggering threshold value when the first track signal is received at the scrolling triggering area of the sensing area, and when the displacement quantity is greater than the triggering threshold value, the track input device entering a scrolling mode and the controller sending a scrolling signal.

7. The track input device according to claim 6, wherein the scrolling triggering area comprising a plurality of sub-areas, each sub-area corresponding to a scrolling direction, and the controller determines whether a first component of the displacement quantity corresponding to the scrolling direction is greater than the triggering threshold value according to the sub-area where the first track signal is received.

8. The track input device according to claim 7, wherein after entering the scrolling mode, the controller receiving a second track signal at the cursor area, and sending the scrolling signal according to a second component of a displacement quantity of the second track signal corresponding to the scrolling direction.

9. The track input device according to claim 7, wherein after entering the scrolling mode, the controller subtracting the first component with the triggering threshold value to obtain a third component, and sending the scrolling signal according to the third component.

10. The track input device according to claim 7, wherein during a waiting time period, when receiving a third track signal at the cursor area or the sub-area corresponding to the first track signal, the track input device maintaining the scrolling mode and sending the scrolling signal according to the third track signal, and when the sensing area does not receive any track signals during the waiting time period, track input device switching to a cursor mode from the scrolling mode.