ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND TOUCH CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130154967A1
• Filed: 11/29/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Hung-Yi, Wang, Jung-Hsing
• Application Number:
  US13/688,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20130154967A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A touch control method is adapted for an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch pad and a control processor. The control processor is electronically connected to the touch pad and has a reference value. First, producing a touch a first pressure at the touch pad, and then generating a click signal when the touch on the touch pad is increased from a first pressure to a second pressure and the increase value of the second pressure is larger than the reference value.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch pad for receiving a touch; and

a control processor electronically connected to the touch pad and having a reference value;

wherein when the touch on the touch pad is increased from a first pressure to a second pressure, if the control processor determines the increase value of the second pressure is larger than the reference value, the control processor generates a click signal.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control processor has a reference time, when duration of the second pressure is longer than the reference time, the control processor generates the click signal.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein when the first pressure is applied on the touch pad, the control processor generates a control signal.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the touch pad includes a first touch zone and a second touch zone, the click signal generated by the touch at the first touch zone is a first signal, the click signal generated by the touch at the second touch zone is a second signal, and the first signal and the second signal are used for executing different functions.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the first touch zone includes a first rectangle and a second rectangle, the second touch zone is a third rectangle, and the second rectangle and the third rectangle are located at a side of the first rectangle.

6. A touch control method, adapted for an electronic device, wherein the electronic device includes a touch pad and a control processor, the touch pad is electronically connected to the control processor, the control processor has a reference value, the touch control method comprising:

producing a touch a first pressure at the touch pad; and

generating a click signal when the touch on the touch pad is increased from a first pressure to a second pressure and the increase value of the second pressure is larger than the reference value.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the touch control method further includes determining that duration of the second pressure is longer than the reference time set at the control processor before generating the click signal.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the control processor generates a control signal when the first pressure is applied at the touch pad.

9. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the touch pad includes a first touch zone and a second touch zone, the click signal generated by the touch at the first touch zone is a first signal, the click signal generated by the touch at the second touch zone is a second signal, and the first signal and the second signal are used for executing different functions.

10. The electronic device according to claim 9, wherein the first touch zone includes a first rectangle and a second rectangle, the second touch zone is a third rectangle, and the second rectangle and the third rectangle are located at a side of the first rectangle.