METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUXILIARY INFORMATION AND TOUCH CONTROL DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME

• US 20160004373A1
• Filed: 11/17/2014
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corporation
• Inventors: HUANG, HAN-PEI
• Application Number:
  US14/542,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20160004373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method for providing auxiliary information and touch control display apparatus using the same are provided. The method includes steps as following. An operating signal is received, and whether the operating signal is an auxiliary information request signal is determined. When the operating signal is an auxiliary information request signal, the auxiliary information of an object is presented, wherein the object corresponds to a coordinate of the auxiliary information request signal on the touch-control screen.

Claims

1. A method for providing auxiliary information executed in a touch control display apparatus having a touch-control screen, wherein the method comprises:

receiving an operating signal;

determining whether the operating signal is an auxiliary information request signal; and

when the operating signal is the auxiliary information request signal, a first auxiliary information of a first object is provided, wherein the first object corresponds to a first coordinate of the auxiliary information request signal on the touch-control screen.

2. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining whether the operating signal is the auxiliary information request signal comprises:

determining whether the operating signal only includes a hover signal;

determining the first coordinate of the hover signal generated on the touch-control screen when the operating signal only includes the hover signal;

determining whether the first coordinate of the hover signal generated on the touch-control screen falls within a first display range of the first object on the touch-control screen; and

confirming the hover signal is the auxiliary information request signal when the first coordinate of the hover signal generated on the touch-control screen falls within the first display range of the first object.

3. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 2, wherein the step of determining whether the operating signal is the auxiliary information request signal further comprises:

when the first coordinate falls within the first display range of the first object on the touch-control screen, determining whether a signal intensity of the hover signal generated at the first coordinate on the touch-control screen is larger than a predetermined value;

when the signal intensity of the hover signal generated at the first coordinate on the touch-control screen is larger than the predetermined value, determining whether a duration, for which the signal intensity of the hover signal generated at the first coordinate on the touch-control screen is larger than the predetermined value, is longer than a predetermined time interval; and

when the duration, for which the signal intensity of the hover signal generated at the first coordinate on the touch-control screen is larger than the predetermined value, is longer than the predetermined time interval, confirming the hover signal is the auxiliary information request signal.

4. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 2, when the operating signal includes a touch signal, the touch-control screen does not display the first auxiliary information of the first object.

5. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 1, further comprising:

providing a second auxiliary information of a second object, wherein the second object corresponds to a second coordinate of the auxiliary information request signal on the touch-control screen.

6. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 5, wherein the operating signal is a multi-finger hover signal.

7. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 6, wherein the step of determining whether the operating signal is the auxiliary information request signal comprises:

determining the first coordinate and the second coordinate of the multi-finger hover signal on the touch-control screen;

determining whether the first coordinate and the second coordinate respectively fall within a first display range of the first object and a second display range of the second object on the touch-control screen;

determining whether a first signal intensity of the multi-finger hover signal generated at the first coordinate fell and within the first display range of the first object is larger than a predetermined value, and whether a second signal intensity of the multi-finger hover signal generated at the second coordinate and fell within the second display range of the second object is larger than the predetermined value when the first coordinate correspondingly falls within the first display range of the first object or the second coordinate correspondingly falls within the second display range of the second object on the touch-control screen;

determining whether the first signal intensity generated at the first coordinate larger than the predetermined value has a first duration longer than a predetermined time interval, and whether the second signal intensity generated at the second coordinate larger than the predetermined value has a second duration longer than the predetermined time interval when both of the first signal intensity and the second signal intensity of the multi-finger hover signal respectively generated at the first coordinate and the second coordinate are larger than the predetermined value; and

confirming the multi-finger hover signal is the auxiliary information request signal when both of the first duration and the second duration are larger than the predetermined time interval.

8. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 5, wherein the first auxiliary information and the second auxiliary information are displayed in a same window.

9. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 5, wherein the first auxiliary information and the second auxiliary information are displayed in different windows.

10. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining whether the operating signal is the auxiliary information request signal comprises:

determining whether the operating signal is a multi-finger touch signal;

determining a first coordinate and a second coordinate of the multi-finger touch signal on the touch-control screen when the operating signal is a multi-finger touch signal;

determining whether the first coordinate and the second coordinate fall within a first display range of the first object on the touch-control screen;

determining whether the multi-finger touch signal having the peak intensities respectively generated at the first and second coordinates and larger than a predetermined value has a duration longer than a predetermined time interval when the first coordinate and the second coordinate fall within the first display range of the first object; and

confirming the multi-finger touch signal is auxiliary information request signal when the duration is longer than the predetermined time interval.

11. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 1, wherein the first object is an icon of a toolbar or a system menu, a web page content, a game stronghold or a game attack target.

12. The method for providing auxiliary information according to claim 1, wherein the first auxiliary information is a text, a table, a list, an address of a hyperlink, a static image, an animation or a multimedia message.

13. A touch control display apparatus comprising:

a touch-control screen for displaying at least one object; and

a processing unit electrically connected to the touch-control screen for receiving and processing at least one auxiliary information request signal, wherein the processing unit controls the touch-control screen to display an auxiliary information of the object according to the auxiliary information request signal, and the object corresponds to a coordinate of the auxiliary information request signal on the touch-control screen.

14. The touch control display apparatus according to claim 13, further comprising a hover sensing device for receiving the auxiliary information request signal.

15. The touch control display apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the hover sensing device is an electrostatic sensor, a thermal sensor or a light sensor.

16. The touch control display apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the auxiliary information request signal is a hover signal.