CONFIGURING TOUCHPAD BEHAVIOR THROUGH GESTURES

• US 20150169217A1
• Filed: 12/16/2014
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cirque Corporation (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Cirque Corporation (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Konopka, Joshua
• Application Number:
  US14/572,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169217A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• 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

Abstract

A system and method for configuring pre-programmed features of a touch and proximity sensor by using touch and/or proximity gestures to activate a receiving mode of the touch and proximity sensor, perform a gesture to activate or deactivate a pre-programmed feature, and then terminating the receiving mode to return the touch and proximity sensor to a normal mode of operation.

Claims

1. A method for configuring pre-programmed features of a touch sensor, said method comprised of:

providing a touch sensor having memory for storing a plurality of pre-programmed features;

entering a receiving mode of operation; and

activating or deactivating a pre-programmed feature from the plurality of pre-programmed features stored in the touch sensor by performing a gesture.

2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises the step of terminating the receiving mode of the touch sensor after activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

3. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises:

providing a touch sensor that may also perform proximity sensing; and

including the option of performing touch gestures, proximity gestures, or a combination of touch and proximity gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

4. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises performing single finger or multi-finger gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

5. The method as defined in claim 4 wherein the method further comprises performing single step or multi-step gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

6. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises activating or deactivating a pre-programmed feature of a device that is not the touch sensor.

7. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the method further comprises entering the receiving mode of operation by performing a gesture.

8. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the step of activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature further comprises performing the gesture for the pre-programmed feature that is being activated in order to activate or deactivate the pre-programmed feature.

9. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein the step of activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature further comprises toggling the pre-programmed feature on and off by performing the gesture.

10. A method for configuring pre-programmed features of a touch and proximity sensor, said method comprised of:

providing a touch and proximity sensor having memory for storing a plurality of pre-programmed features;

entering a receiving mode of operation by performing a gesture; and

activating or deactivating a pre-programmed feature from the plurality of pre-programmed features stored in the touch sensor by performing a gesture.

11. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the method further comprises the step of terminating the receiving mode of the touch sensor after activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

12. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the method further comprises performing touch gestures, proximity gestures, or a combination of touch and proximity gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

13. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the method further comprises performing single finger or multi-finger gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

14. The method as defined in claim 13 wherein the method further comprises performing single step or multi-step gestures in order to activate the receiving mode or activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature.

15. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the method further comprises activating or deactivating a pre-programmed feature of a device that is not the touch sensor.

16. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the method further comprises entering the receiving mode of operation by performing a gesture.

17. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the step of activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature further comprises performing the gesture for the pre-programmed feature that is being activated in order to activate or deactivate the pre-programmed feature.

18. The method as defined in claim 10 wherein the step of activating or deactivating the pre-programmed feature further comprises toggling the pre-programmed feature on and off by performing the gesture.