Portable electronic device, method of controlling input operation, and program for controlling input operation

• US 7,545,366 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2005
• Issued: 06/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sato, Makoto, Sugimoto, Kayo
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe; Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shapiro; Leonid
• Application Number:
  US11/133,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20050270276A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-180
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• 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

Disclosed herein is a portable electronic device including an operation surface for inputting an operating action of a user, detecting means for detecting the coordinates of a point of contact of a user'"'"'s finger with said operation surface, a memory for storing information representing a deviation between the coordinates of a point on said operation surface where the user desires the user'"'"'s finger to touch said operation surface and the detected coordinates of the point of contact, and correcting means for correcting said deviation based on the stored information.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

means for detecting coordinates corresponding to a center of an area of user contact with an operation surface, the coordinates being with respect to a transformed coordinate system;

means for storing a function representing a positional relationship between coordinates of a targeted area of contact on the operation surface and the coordinates of the center of an area corresponding to a detected contact on the operation surface; and

means for correcting the positional relationship by using an inverse of the function to transform the coordinates of the center of the area corresponding to the detected contact on the operation surface to the coordinates of the targeted area of contact.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said operation surface is divided into at least a first area and a second area, and

means for detecting includes

means for determining, based on the detected coordinates, which of said first area and said second area receives user contact,

means for setting a first hypothetical area frame disposed outside of and surrounding each of said first and second areas;

and

means for controlling said detecting means to detect user contact with the first area when a change from user contact with the first area to simultaneous user contact with the first area and second area is detected.

3. A method of controlling an inputting action, comprising the steps of:

detecting coordinates, with respect to a transformed coordinate system, corresponding to a center of an area of user contact with an operation surface;

storing a function representing a positional relationship between coordinates of a targeted area of contact on the operation surface and the coordinates of the center of an area corresponding to a detected contact on the operation surface; and

correcting the positional relationship using an inverse of the function to transform the coordinates of the center of the area corresponding to the detected contact on the operation surface to the coordinates of the targeted area of contact on the operation surface.

4. A computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform the method comprising:

detecting coordinates, with respect to a transformed coordinate system, corresponding to a center of an area of user contact with an operation surface;

storing a function representing a positional relationship between coordinates of a targeted area of contact on the operation surface and the coordinates of the center of an area corresponding to a detected contact on the operation surface; and

correcting the positional relationship using an inverse of the function to transform the coordinates of the center of the area corresponding to the detected contact on the operation surface to the coordinates of the targeted area of contact on the operation surface.