INTELLIGENT GUI TOUCH CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20130088457A1
• Filed: 11/03/2011
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rich IP Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rich IP Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: Tu, Yen-Hung, Chen, Han-Chang, Chia, Chung-Lin, Pan, Wen-Chieh
• Granted Patent: US 9,164,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041661 using detection at multiple resolutions, e.g. coarse and fine scanning; using detection within a limited area, e.g. object tracking window
• 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

An intelligent GUI touch control method and system, the method includes the steps of: generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein the GUI includes at least one option object, the masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to the at least one option object, the masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of the sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; reading a sensed data array from a touch panel; and performing a weighting operation according to the at least one masking plane and the sensed data array, so as to make each of the at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among the at least one option object according to the at least one weighted value.

Claims

1. An intelligent GUI touch control method, comprising the steps of:

generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein said GUI has at least one option object, said masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to said at least one option object, said masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of said sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient;

reading a sensed data array from a touch panel, wherein said sensed data array has a sensed value distribution over a touch plane, used for conveying touch information of said touch plane; and

performing a weighting operation according to said at least one masking plane and said sensed data array, so as to make each of said at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value, and determine at least one target object among said at least one option object according to said at least one weighted value.

2. The intelligent GUI touch control method as claim 1, wherein said weighting coefficient is a non-uniform function over said sub-blocks.

3. The intelligent GUI touch control method as claim 2, wherein said non-uniform function has a high weighting coefficient region and a low weighting coefficient region, and the average value of said high weighting coefficient region is higher than that of said low weighting coefficient region.

4. The intelligent GUI touch control method as claim 1, wherein said touch panel comprises a touch sensor array of resistive type, capacitive type, surface acoustic wave type, or electromagnetic type.

5. The intelligent GUI touch control method as claim 3, wherein said weighting operation is used for making said sensed data array have higher weighting values in the regions corresponding to said high weighting coefficient region, and lower weighting values in the regions corresponding to said low weighting coefficient region, and thereby provide a touch discrimination effect, or a vector operation function.

6. The intelligent GUI touch control method as claim 1, wherein said weighting operation includes a structure altering procedure for altering the structure of said at least one masking plane and the structure of said sensed data array.

7. An intelligent GUI touch control system, comprising:

a masking plane generation unit, used for generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein said GUI has at least one option object, said masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to said at least one option object, said masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of said sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient; and

a weighting operation and touch determination unit, used for executing a touch processing procedure, including;

reading a sensed data array from a touch panel, wherein said sensed data array, having a sensed value distribution over a touch plane, is used for conveying touch information of said touch plane;

performing a weighting operation according to said sensed data array and said at least one masking plane, so as to make each of said at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value; and

determining at least one target object among said at least one option object according to said at least one weighted value.

8. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 7, wherein said weighting coefficient is a non-uniform function over said sub-blocks.

9. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 8, wherein said non-uniform function has a high weighting coefficient region and a low weighting coefficient region, and the average value of said high weighting coefficient region is higher than that of said low weighting coefficient region.

10. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 7, wherein said touch panel comprises a touch sensor array of resistive type, capacitive type, surface acoustic wave type, or electromagnetic type.

11. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 7, wherein said touch processing procedure further includes a structure altering procedure for altering the structure of said at least one masking plane and the structure of said sensed data array.

12. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 9, wherein said weighting operation is used for making said sensed data array have higher weighting values in the regions corresponding to said high weighting coefficient region, and lower weighting values in the regions corresponding to said low weighting coefficient region, and thereby provide a touch discrimination effect, or a vector operation function.

13. The intelligent GUI touch control system as disclosed in claim 7, further comprising an object function execution unit, used for executing an object function under the control of said weighting operation and touch determination unit.

14. The intelligent GUI touch control system as disclosed in claim 13, wherein said object function includes playing a film, playing music, displaying figures, and connecting to a website.

15. An intelligent GUI touch control system, comprising:

a masking plane generation unit, used for generating at least one masking plane according to a GUI, wherein said GUI has at least one option object, said masking plane has at least one masking block corresponding to said at least one option object, said masking block has a plurality of sub-blocks, and each of said sub-blocks has a weighting coefficient;

a touch panel, used for outputting a sensed data array, wherein said sensed data array, having a sensed value distribution over a touch plane, is used for conveying touch information of said touch plane; and

a weighting operation and touch determination unit, used for executing a touch processing procedure, including;

reading said sensed data array from said touch panel;

performing a weighting operation according to said sensed data array and said at least one masking plane, so as to make each of said at least one option object correspond to at least one weighted value; and

determining at least one target object among said at least one option object according to said at least one weighted value.

16. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 15, wherein said weighting coefficient is a non-uniform function over said sub-blocks.

17. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 16, wherein said non-uniform function has a high weighting coefficient region and a low weighting coefficient region, and the average value of said high weighting coefficient region is higher than that of said low weighting coefficient region.

18. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 15, wherein said touch processing procedure further includes a structure altering procedure for altering the structure of said at least one masking plane and the structure of said sensed data array.

19. The intelligent GUI touch control system as claim 17, wherein said weighting operation is used for making said sensed data array have higher weighting values in the regions corresponding to said high weighting coefficient region, and lower weighting values in the regions corresponding to said low weighting coefficient region, and thereby provide a touch discrimination effect, or a vector operation function.

20. The intelligent GUI touch control system as disclosed in claim 15, further comprising an object function execution unit, used for executing an object function under the control of said weighting operation and touch determination unit.