TOUCH DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY SETTING TOUCH INACTIVE AREA, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20150084877A1
• Filed: 12/02/2013
• Published: 03/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Original Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
• Inventors: WANG, SZU-HSUAN
• Granted Patent: US 9,189,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 for dynamically setting a touch inactive area includes a storage unit, an identification unit, a touchscreen unit and a processing unit. The touchscreen unit presents an operation interface and a plurality of function keys provided thereby, each function key corresponding to a display area and a function. The identification unit generates feature data on the basis of a specific user. The processing unit obtains inactive area setting data by user data stored in the storage unit which corresponding to the feature data to set at least one touch inactive area on the touchscreen unit. However, when a function key corresponding to a display area overlapped with the touch inactive area is touched on the touchscreen unit, a corresponding function will not be activated.

Claims

1. A touch device for dynamically setting an inactive area, comprising:

a storage unit, used for storing a plurality of user data, and each of the user data is corresponding to a setting of the inactive area;

an identification unit, used for generating feature data on the basis of a specific user;

a touchscreen unit, used for presenting an operation interface, and the operation interface provides a plurality of function keys, and each of the function keys is corresponding to a display area and a function; and

a processing unit, used for comparing the feature data with the user data to obtain the setting of the inactive area corresponding to the feature data, so as to set at least one touch inactive areas on the touchscreen unit,

wherein, when one of the display areas corresponding to one of the function keys is in the touch inactive area and the function key is touched on the touchscreen unit, the function corresponding to the function key will not be activated.

2. The touch device according to claim 1, wherein each of the user data is the identification data corresponding to each of the users, and the identification unit is an input interface and the feature data is identity data of the specific user which is inputted through the input interface.

3. The touch device according to claim 1, wherein each of the user data is a profile image corresponding to each of the users, and the identification unit is an image-capturing unit and the feature data is an image of the specific user captured by the image-capturing unit.

4. The touch device according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit, used for setting inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the user data.

5. The touch device according to claim 4, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users is generated when the setting unit determines that a touch area touched by each of the users through the operation interface exceeds a range threshold.

6. The touch device according to claim 5, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users is generated by the setting unit when the touch area touched by each of the users exceeds the range threshold and a touch duration exceeds a time threshold.

7. The touch device according to claim 5, wherein the operation interface is used for being touched by the specific user to generate a corresponding touch position and a corresponding touch area, and when the setting unit determines that the corresponding touch area exceeds the threshold range and the touch duration exceeds the time threshold and determines that the corresponding touch position is inconsistent with the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user, regenerating the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user on the basis of the corresponding touch position and the corresponding touch area.

8. The touch device according to claim 7, wherein the setting unit is further used for, when a difference between the corresponding touch position and the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user satisfies a range offset condition, determining that the corresponding touch position is inconsistent with the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user, and regenerating the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user on the basis of the corresponding touch position and the corresponding touch area.

9. The touch device according to claim 4, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users is generated respectively on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit.

10. The touch device according to claim 9, wherein generation of the inactive area setting data on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit comprises:

recording corresponding touch positions when the number of times that the operation interface is immediately closed after being touched and activated by each of the users within a time range exceeds the number of unwanted touch, and generating the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users on the basis of at least one recorded touch positions.

11. The touch device according to claim 9, wherein generation of the inactive area setting data on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit comprises:

recording a touch position of each of the users when the touch by each of the users of the operation interface within a time range does not fall in a touch area of an function key of the operation interface, and generating the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users on the basis of at least one recorded touch positions.

12. A touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area, is used for a touch device, wherein the touch device comprises a storage unit, an identification unit, a touchscreen unit and a processing unit, the storage unit storing a plurality of user data and each of the user data corresponding to one of inactive area setting data, and the method comprises:

generating feature data by the identification unit on the basis of a specific user;

presenting an operation interface by the touchscreen unit, the operation interface provides a plurality of function keys, and each function key corresponding to a display area and a function; and

comparing the feature data with the user data by the processing unit, to obtain the inactive area setting data corresponding to the feature data, so as to set at least one touch inactive areas on the touchscreen unit, wherein, in the plurality of function keys, when an function key corresponding to a display area overlapped with the touch inactive area touched on the touchscreen unit, a corresponding function will not be activated.

13. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 12, wherein the touch device further comprises a setting unit, and the method further comprises:

setting inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the user data by the setting unit.

14. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 13, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the user data is generated when the setting unit determines that a touch area touched by each user of the operation interface exceeds a range threshold.

15. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 14, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users is generated by the setting unit on the basis that the touch area touched by each of the users exceeds the range threshold and touch duration exceeds a time threshold.

16. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 14, wherein

the operation interface is used for being touched by the specific user to generate a corresponding touch position and a corresponding touch area, and when the setting unit determines that the corresponding touch area exceeds the range threshold and touch duration exceeds a time threshold, and determines that the corresponding touch position is inconsistent with the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user, the method further comprises:

regenerating the inactive area setting data corresponding to the specific user on the basis of the corresponding touch position and the corresponding touch area.

17. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 13, wherein the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users is generated respectively on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit.

18. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 17, wherein generation of the inactive area setting data on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit comprises:

recording corresponding touch positions when the number of the operation interface is immediately closed after being touched and activated by each of the users within a time range exceeds the number of unwanted touch, and generating the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users on the basis of at least one recorded touch positions.

19. The touch display method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area according to claim 17, wherein generation of the inactive area setting data on the basis of a touch position where each of the users touches the touchscreen unit and an execution program state of the processing unit comprises:

recording a touch position of each of the users when the touch area touched by each of the users of the operation interface within a time range does not fall in a touch area of an function key of the operation interface, and generating the inactive area setting data corresponding to each of the users on the basis of at least one recorded touch positions.

20. A non-transitory recording medium, used for storing a computer program, and applied to a touch device, so as to execute a method for dynamically setting a touch inactive area when the computer program is executed by the touch device, wherein the touch device comprises a storage unit, an identification unit, a touchscreen unit and a processing unit, the storage unit storing a plurality of user data and each of user data corresponding to one of inactive area setting data, and the method comprises:

generating feature data by the identification unit on the basis of a specific user;

presenting an operation interface by the touchscreen unit, the operation interface providing a plurality of function keys, and each function key corresponding to a display area and a function; and

comparing the feature data with the user data by the processing unit, to obtain the inactive area setting data corresponding to the feature data, so as to set at least one touch inactive area on the touchscreen unit, wherein, in the plurality of function keys, when an function key corresponding to a display area overlapped with the touch inactive area is touched on the touchscreen unit, a corresponding function will not be activated.