Method for resetting configuration on a touchscreen interface

• US 7,825,908 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2006
• Issued: 11/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carrier Corporation (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Carrier Corporation (Carrier Global Corporation)
• Inventors: Garmon, Richard W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck; Alexander S.
• Application Number:
  US11/501,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20080036742A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• Field of Search: 178 1801- 2004, 345173-178
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment

Abstract

Factory settings of a touchscreen interface may be restored by cycling power off and on to initiate system startup while simultaneously touching the touchscreen. If a screen touch is in progress at system startup, the user is prompted to discontinue the screen touch, and then is prompted to touch the screen again before a timer expires in order to restore factory calibration settings. If there is no screen touch upon startup, or if the user does not touch the screen to restore factory settings within the timer period, existing user calibration is loaded, and the application is allowed to run with the user calibration settings.

Claims

1. A method of resetting calibration on a touchscreen interface system having a processor, the processor programmed to perform the method comprising:

upon system startup, using stored factory calibration settings for determination of touch locations on the touchscreen;

determining if a screen touch has occurred during system startup initiation;

prompting a user to interact with the touchscreen to reset calibration to the stored factory calibration settings if a screen touch has occurred during system startup initiation;

selecting stored existing user calibration settings if a screen touch has not occurred during system startup initiation; and

selecting the stored factory calibration settings based upon interaction of the user with the touchscreen in response to the prompting.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising:

initiating system startup by turning power off and then on.

3. The method of claim 2 and further comprising:

waiting for a defined time period during which the user must touch the touchscreen to restore the stored factor calibration settings.

4. The method of claim 3 and further comprising:

displaying a timer value representative of a time period remaining in the defined time period.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein prompting the user to interact comprises:

displaying a message prompting the user to discontinue the screen touch during startup; and

displaying a message prompting the user to again touch the touchscreen to restore the stored factory calibration settings.

6. A method of resetting calibration of a touchscreen interface system having a processor, the processor programmed to perform the method comprising:

cycling power off and on to initiate system startup;

detecting a first screen touch while system startup is being initiated, using stored factory calibration settings;

prompting a user to discontinue the first screen touch;

prompting the user to produce a second screen touch to select the factory calibration settings;

selecting the factory calibration settings for use in determining screen touch locations if the second screen touch is detected; and

selecting stored user calibration settings for use in determining screen touch locations if either the first screen touch or the second screen touch is not detected.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein prompting the user to discontinue the first screen touch comprises displaying a message on a display associated with the touchscreen.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein prompting the user to produce a second screen touch comprises displaying a message and a timer value on the display.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the timer value is representative of time remaining within which to produce the second screen touch in order to select the factory calibration settings.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein detecting the first screen touch is based upon the factory calibration settings.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the first and second screen touches are detected if the user touches anywhere on the touchscreen.