Method And Device For Key-Press Judgment Based On Touch Screen

• US 20130027336A1
• Filed: 09/13/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: LIU, Tingchao
• Granted Patent: US 8,836,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 method and device for key-press judgment based on a touch screen are disclosed. The method involves: detecting a press operation; when the press operation is detected, acquiring position information of current pressed point and extended information corresponding to the position information, until the end of this press operation is detected; judging a pressed key corresponding to this press operation according to the position information and the extended information of pressed points in this operation.

Claims

1. A method for key-press judgment based on touch screen, comprising:

detecting a press operation;

when the pressing operation is detected, acquiring position information of current pressed point and extended information corresponding to the position information, until an end of the press operation is detected;

judging a pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the position information and the extended information of the pressed point in the press operation.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

when it is judged that the press operation corresponds to an effective pressed key, inputting according to the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the extended information comprises at least one of:

a judgment area of a pressed key corresponding to the position information;

time information of the pressed point when pressing the pressed point to generate the position information.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein when the extended information is the judgment area of the pressed key, the judging a pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the position information and the extended information of the pressed point in the press operation comprises:

acquiring a position information of a first pressed point in the press operation;

judging a pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point according to a display area which the position information of the first pressed point belongs to;

acquiring a display area of the pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point, and dynamically acquiring a judgment area of the pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point according to the display area;

acquiring a position information of a second pressed point;

if the position information of the second pressed point is in the judgment area, it is judged that a pressed key corresponding to the second pressed point is the same as the pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point;

otherwise, judging the pressed key corresponding to the second pressed point according to a display area where the position information of the second pressed point belongs to;

cycling in this way, until all pressed points in the press operation have been judged;

judging a corresponding pressed key determined according to position information of the last pressed point as the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the acquiring a judgment area of the pressed key according to the display area of the pressed key comprises:

amplifying the display area of the pressed key to obtain the judgment area of the pressed key.

6. The method according to claim 2, wherein when the time information is the time information of the pressed point, the judging a pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the position information and the extended information of the pressed point in the press operation comprises:

respectively judging a pressed key and pressing time corresponding to each pressed point according to position information and corresponding time information of each of a plurality of pressed points generated in the operation;

for each corresponding pressed key, acquiring a number of pressed points corresponding to the pressed key according to corresponding position information, and acquiring a duration time of a pressing corresponding to the pressed key according to a press time of the corresponding last pressed point and a press time of the corresponding first pressed point in time sequence;

judging the pressed key corresponding to the pressed operation in accordance with preset rules according to the acquired number of pressed points and duration time for each pressed key.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the acquired multiple pressed points correspond to same pressed key, the judging the pressed key corresponding to the pressed operation in accordance with preset rules according to the acquired number of pressed points and duration time for each pressed key comprises:

the corresponding same pressed key is the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein when the acquired multiple pressed points correspond to different pressed keys, the judging the pressed key corresponding to the pressed operation in accordance with preset rules according to the acquired number of pressed points and duration time for each pressed key comprises:

when a number of pressed points corresponding to the last pressed key reaches a point threshold and/or a duration time corresponding to the last pressed key reaches a time threshold, determining that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the last pressed key;

otherwise, judging according to a number of pressed points corresponding to the second last pressed key and a duration time of the pressed points;

which comprises;

when the number of pressed points corresponding to the second last pressed key does not reach a point threshold and the duration time corresponding to the second last pressed key does not reach a time threshold, then it is determined that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the corresponding last pressed key, otherwise, it is determined that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the corresponding second last pressed key.

9. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

according to the corresponding pressed key determined according to the pressed point, displaying a prompting message of the pressed key to the user.

10. The method according to claim 3, wherein when the extended information is judgment area and time information of the pressed key, the judging a pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the position information and the extended information of the pressed point in the press operation includes:

judging a pressed key corresponding to each pressed point according to the position information of the pressed points in the press operation and the judgment area of corresponding pressed key;

judging a pressing time corresponding to each pressed point according to the position information and corresponding time information of the pressed points in the press operation;

acquiring a number of pressed points and a duration time of a pressing corresponding to each pressed key;

judging the pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the number of pressed points and the duration time of the pressing of each judged pressed key.

11. A device for key-press judgment based on touch screen, comprising:

a detection module configured to detect a press operation;

an acquirement module, configured to, when the pressing operation is detected, acquire position information of current pressed point and extended information corresponding to the position information, until an end of the press operation is detected;

a judgment module, configured to judge a pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the position information and the extended information of the pressed point in the press operation.

12. The device according to claim 11, further comprising:

an input module, configured to input according to the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the extended information comprises at least one of:

a judgment area of a pressed key corresponding to the position information;

time information of the pressed point when pressing the pressed point to generate the position information.

14. The device according to claim 12, wherein when the extended information is the judgment area of the pressed key, the acquirement module is configured to:

acquire the position information of the pressed point in the press operation and dynamically acquire the judgment area, the judgment area corresponds to a corresponding pressed key judged by the judgment module according to the position information;

the judgment module is configured to;

judge a pressed key corresponding to a first pressed point according to a display area which position information of the first pressed point in the press operation acquired by the acquirement module belongs to; and

judge according to position information of a second pressed point acquired by the acquirement module and the judgment area which is dynamically acquired according to the pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point, if the position information of the second pressed point is in the judgment area, judge that a pressed key corresponding to the second pressed point is the same as the pressed key corresponding to the first pressed point;

otherwise, re-judge a pressed key corresponding to the second pressed point according to a display area which the position information of the second pressed point belongs to;

cycle in this way, until all pressed points in the press operation have been judged;

judge a corresponding pressed key determined according to a position information of the last pressed point as the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

15. The device according to claim 14, wherein the acquirement module is further configured to:

amplify the display area of the pressed key to obtain the judgment area of the pressed key.

16. The device according to claim 12, wherein when the extended information is time information of the pressed point,

the acquirement module is configured to:

for each corresponding pressed key, acquire a number of pressed points corresponding to the pressed key according to corresponding position information, and acquire a duration time of a pressing corresponding to the pressed key according to a press time of the corresponding last pressed point and a press time of the corresponding first pressed point in time sequence;

the judgment module is configured to;

respectively judge a pressed key and pressing time corresponding to each pressed point according to position information and corresponding time information of each of a plurality of pressed points generated in the operation;

judge the pressed key corresponding to the pressed operation according to preset rules according to the number of pressed points and the duration time for each pressed key acquired by the acquirement module.

17. The device according to claim 16, wherein when the acquired multiple pressed points correspond to a same pressed key, the judgment module is configured to judge that the corresponding same pressed key is the pressed key corresponding to the press operation.

18. The device according to claim 16, wherein when the acquired multiple pressed points correspond to different pressed keys, the judgment module is configured to:

when a number of pressed points corresponding to the last pressed key reaches a point threshold and/or a duration time corresponding to the last pressed key reaches a time threshold, determine that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the last pressed key;

otherwise, judge according to a number of pressed points corresponding to the second last pressed key and duration time of the pressed points;

which is;

when the number of pressed points corresponding to the second last pressed key does not reach a point threshold and the duration time corresponding to the second last pressed key does not reach a time threshold, determine that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the corresponding last pressed key, otherwise, determine that the pressed key corresponding to the press operation is the corresponding second last pressed key.

19. The device according to claim 12, further comprising:

a prompting module, configured to, according to the corresponding pressed key determined according to the pressed point, display a prompting message of the pressed key to the user.

20. The device according to claim 13, wherein when the extended information is judgment area and time information of the pressed key, the judgment module is configured to:

judge a pressed key corresponding to each pressed point according to the position information of the pressed points in the press operation and the judgment area of corresponding pressed key;

judge a pressing time corresponding to each pressed point according to the position information and corresponding time information of the pressed points in the press operation;

acquire a number of pressed points and a duration time of a pressing corresponding to each pressed key;

judge the pressed key corresponding to the press operation according to the number of pressed points and the duration time of the pressing of each judged pressed key.