SIGNAL TRANSMITTING METHOD OF TOUCH INPUT DEVICES

• US 20130293493A1
• Filed: 04/23/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Inventors: SHEN, Tsung-Hsien, CHEN, Jui-Tse
• Application Number:
  US13/868,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20130293493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A signal transmitting method of a touch input device is adapted to the touch input device and a computer device connected with each other. According to an embodiment, the signal transmitting method includes the following steps. A touch signal is obtained by using a touch input device. When the touch signal corresponds to a mouse mode, the touch signal is transmitted to an inbuilt mouse driver of the computer device through a first channel. When the touch signal corresponds to a touchpad mode, the touch signal is transmitted to an inbuilt touchpad driver of the computer device through a second channel different from the first channel. Thus, a single touch input device can be used as a mouse and a touch pad, and provide different input signals to the computer device.

Claims

1. A signal transmitting method of a touch input device, adapted to the touch input device and a computer device connected with each other, comprising:

obtaining a touch signal by using the touch input device;

when the touch signal corresponds to a mouse mode, transmitting the touch signal to an inbuilt mouse driver of the computer device through a first channel; and

when the touch signal corresponds to a touchpad mode, transmitting the touch signal to an inbuilt touchpad driver of the computer device through a second channel different from the first channel.

2. The signal transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the touch input device comprises a track sensing zone, and the touch signal generated by directly touching the track sensing zone at a single touch point and then sliding on the track sensing zone, the touch signal corresponds to the mouse mode.

3. The signal transmitting method according to claim 2, wherein the touch input device further comprises a left button zone and a right button zone, and the touch signal generated by a single-click at a single touch point on the left button zone or the right button zone corresponds to the mouse mode.

4. The signal transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the touch input device comprises a track sensing zone, and the touch signal generated by a single click or a double click on the track sensing zone corresponds to the touchpad mode.

5. The signal transmitting method according to claim 4, wherein the touch input device further comprises a left button zone and a right button zone, and the touch signal generated by continuously pressing the left button zone or the right button zone at a single touch point and by the single click on the track sensing zone simultaneously, corresponds to the touchpad mode.

6. The signal transmitting method according to claim 5, wherein the touch signal generated by continuously pressing the left button zone or the right button zone at the single touch point and by sliding on the track sensing zone simultaneously corresponds to the touchpad mode.

7. The signal transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the touch signal to the inbuilt mouse driver of the computer device through the first channel comprises:

packaging the touch signal into a mouse input packet, a header identification (HID) of the mouse input packet corresponding to the mouse mode; and

transmitting the mouse input packet to the inbuilt mouse driver of the computer device.

8. The signal transmitting method according to claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the touch signal to the inbuilt touchpad driver of the computer device through the second channel comprises:

packaging the touch signal into a touchpad input packet, an HID of the touchpad input packet corresponding to the touchpad mode; and

transmitting the touchpad input packet to the inbuilt touchpad driver of the computer device.

9. A signal transmitting method of a touch input device, adapted to the touch input device and a computer device connected with each other, comprising:

obtaining a touch signal by using the touch input device;

when the touch signal corresponds to a mouse mode, transmitting the touch signal carried by a mouse input packet, to the computer device through a first channel; and

when the touch signal corresponds to a touchpad mode, transmitting the touch signal carried by a touchpad input packet, to the computer device through a second channel different from the first channel.

10. The signal transmitting method according to claim 9, wherein the mouse input packet has a header identification (HID) corresponding to the mouse mode, and the touchpad input packet has a HID corresponding to the touchpad mode.