METHOD FOR PROCESSING INPUT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF

• US 20150220171A1
• Filed: 02/04/2015
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: CHO, Young-Chan
• Application Number:
  US14/613,694
• Publication Number:
  US 20150220171A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04102 Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper
• 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 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method for operating of an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting hovering which is input to a touch panel including a curved surface, determining space coordinates corresponding to the hovering, and displaying an image corresponding to the space coordinates on a display.

Claims

1. A method for operating of an electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting hovering which is input to a touch panel comprising a curved surface;

determining space coordinates corresponding to the hovering; and

displaying an image corresponding to the space coordinates on a display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the hovering comprises detecting an inputting means which is located in a designated space area formed based on the touch panel, or a change in a location of the inputting means.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the space coordinates are determined based on at least one coordinate located on a coordinate system set on the touch panel, and a length from a surface of the touch panel to the inputting means.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the space coordinates are determined based on two or more coordinates which have a same corresponding value on at least one coordinate axis in a coordinate system set on the touch panel.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the space coordinates comprises setting a virtual plane having at least one coordinate axis with reference to the space coordinate in a designated space formed by the touch panel.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the determining of the space coordinates comprises, when the inputting means which hovers is moved, determining a location of the moved inputting means according to displacement in a coordinate system set on the plane with reference to the space coordinates.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the image comprises displaying the space coordinates corresponding to an input of the inputting means as a three-dimensional (3D) image or a hologram.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the space coordinates comprises:

transmitting a first signal and a second signal through the touch panel;

receiving a third signal and a fourth signal which are changed from the first signal and the second signal by the inputting means, respectively, through the touch panel; and

comparing the third signal and the fourth signal to determine a gap between the third signal and the fourth signal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the first signal and the second signal which are of different patterns serially.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the first signal at a first angle and transmitting the second signal at a second angle.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a touch panel configured to detect hovering;

a display configured to display space coordinates corresponding to the hovering;

a memory configured to store information on the hovering; and

at least one processor configured to detect the hovering which is input to the touch panel comprising a curved surface, determine the space coordinates corresponding to the hovering, and display an image corresponding to the space coordinates on the display.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to control to detect an inputting means which is located in a designated space area formed based on the touch panel, or a change in a location of the inputting means.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the space coordinates based on at least one coordinate located on a coordinate system set on the touch panel, and a length from a surface of the touch panel to the inputting means.

14. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the space coordinates based on two or more coordinates which have a same corresponding value on at least one coordinate axis in a coordinate system set on the touch panel.

15. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to set a virtual plane having at least one coordinate axis with reference to the space coordinate in a designated space formed by the touch panel.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to, when the inputting means which hovers is moved, determine a location of the moved inputting means according to displacement in a coordinate system set on the plane with reference to the space coordinates.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to display the space coordinates included in the image and corresponding to an input of the inputting means as a three-dimensional (3D) image or a hologram.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the space coordinates by transmitting a first signal and a second signal through the touch panel, receiving a third signal and a fourth signal which are changed from the first signal and the second signal by the inputting means, respectively, through the touch panel, and comparing the third signal and the fourth signal to determine a gap between the third signal and the fourth signal.

19. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to transmit the first signal and the second signal which are of different patterns serially.

20. The electronic device of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to transmit the first signal at a first angle and transmit the second signal at a second angle.