TOUCH DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140165014A1
• Filed: 12/06/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: SHEN, CHUN-HUNG
• Application Number:
  US14/098,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20140165014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact
• 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 touch device includes a touch display screen, a detection device, and a main control unit. The touch display screen displays an operation interface including at least one shortcut mark and executes a corresponding function when the at least one shortcut mark is operated on. The detection device detects whether the touch device is held by a left hand, a right hand, or both hands of a user in a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation, and outputs detecting signals based on the detection of the detecting device. The main control unit adjusts a display location of the at least one shortcut mark based on the detecting signals.

Claims

1. A touch device, comprising:

a touch display screen displaying an operation interface that comprises at least one shortcut mark, and executing a corresponding function when the at least one shortcut mark is operated on;

a detection device detecting whether the touch device is held by a left hand, a right hand, or both hands of a user in a landscape orientation or a portrait orientation, and outputting detecting signals based on the detection of the detecting device; and

a main control unit connected to the touch display screen and the detection device, and adjusting a display location of the at least one shortcut mark based on the detecting signals.

2. The touch device of claim 1, wherein the main control unit generates holding information based on the detecting signals, and adjusting the display location of the at least one shortcut mark based on the holding information.

3. The touch device of claim 2, further comprising a data storage, wherein the data storage stores corresponding relations between the holding information and display locations of the at least one shortcut mark;

the main control unit determines the display location of the at least one shortcut mark that is to be displayed from the data storage, based on the generated holding information, and adjusts the display location of the at least one shortcut mark based on a determination.

4. The touch device of claim 3, further comprising a substantially cuboid enclosure comprising a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, a fourth side surface, a front surface, and a rear surface;

wherein the first, second, third, and fourth side surfaces are connected to one another end-to-end;

the first side surface faces the third side surface;

the second side surface faces the fourth side surface;

the rear surface faces the front surface;

the touch display screen is received in the front surface.

5. The touch device of claim 4, wherein the detection device comprises a first contact detection unit, a second contact detection unit, a third contact detection unit, and a fourth contact detection unit;

the first, second, third, and fourth contact detection units are respectively located on the first, second, third, and fourth side surfaces;

the first, second, third, and fourth contact detection units detect whether the touch device is held by the left, right, or both hands of the user.

6. The touch device of claim 5, wherein the detection device further comprises an orientation detection unit located between the enclosure and the touch display screen;

the orientation detection unit detects whether the touch device is held in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation.

7. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the portrait orientation by the left hand, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display the shortcut mark at a first area adjacent to the first side surface.

8. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the portrait orientation by the right hand, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display the shortcut mark at a second area adjacent to the third side surface.

9. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the portrait orientation by the left and right hands of the user, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display two shortcut marks, a first shortcut mark is displayed at a third area adjacent to the first side surface and the second side surface, and a second shortcut mark is displayed at a fourth area adjacent to the third side surface and the second side surface.

10. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the landscape orientation by the left hand, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display the shortcut mark at a fifth area adjacent to the fourth side surface.

11. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the landscape orientation by the right hand, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display the shortcut mark at a sixth area adjacent to the second side surface.

12. The touch device of claim 6, wherein when the main control unit determines that the touch device is held in the landscape orientation by the left and right hands of the user, the main control unit controls the touch display screen to display two shortcut marks, a first shortcut mark is displayed at the third area adjacent to the first side surface and the second side surface, and a second shortcut mark is displayed at a seventh area adjacent to the fourth side surface and the first side surface.

13. The touch device of claim 6, wherein the detection device further comprises a fifth contact unit located on the rear surface and detects points of contact on the rear surface.

14. A control method for a touch device, the touch display device comprising an operation interface, the operation interface comprising at least one shortcut mark, the control method comprising:

detecting a number of points of contact of sides of the touch device and determining whether the touch device is held by a left hand, a right hand, or both hands based on the number of points of contact of sides of the touch device detected;

detecting whether the touch device is held in a landscape orientation or a portrait orientation;

generating holding information indicating how the touch device is held; and

adjusting a display location of the at least one shortcut mark based on the holding information.