Method of controlling touch panel display device and touch panel display device using the same

• US 8,754,911 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2007
• Issued: 06/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Tae Hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): HARRISON, CHANTE E
• Application Number:
  US12/373,436
• Publication Number:
  US 20100002016A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,707 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/179, 345/169, 345/661, 345/156, 345/660, 345/666, 715/849, 715/837, 715/765, 725/61
• US Class Current: 345/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method of controlling a touch panel display device, and a touch panel display device using the same, facilitate a user selection (touching) of a specific icon to improve the reliability of registering a touch event for the specific icon, thereby enabling smaller icons to be used with greater accuracy. The touch panel display device includes a touch panel exhibiting a plurality of coordinates corresponding to a screen area of the touch panel display device, the screen area including a zoom icon area; a touch panel controller for recognizing coordinates of a touch event, for storing the recognized coordinates in an internally provided memory, and for outputting a coordinates signal corresponding to the touch event by converting a value generated by the touch event into a corresponding coordinates value; a microprocessor for determining whether the coordinates value output from the touch panel controller corresponds to the zoom icon area of the screen area; a touch driver for outputting a zoom function signal corresponding to the coordinates value output from the touch panel controller; and a display for displaying a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area, if the microprocessor determines that the coordinates value output from the touch panel controller corresponds to the zoom icon area of the screen area. A method of controlling the above touch panel display device includes steps of displaying a zoom icon area on at least part of a screen made up of a plurality of coordinates; recognizing coordinates of a touch event, to determine whether the touch event corresponds to the displayed zoom icon area; and displaying, if it is determined that the touch event corresponds to the displayed zoom icon area, a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a touch panel display device, the method comprising:

displaying, on a screen, a zoom icon area with a set of icons arranged in the zoom icon area;

recognizing a first touch event;

performing a double determining processes after the first touch event is recognized, and including a first determining process of determining whether the recognized first touch event is positioned within the zoom icon area, and a second determining process of determining whether or not the recognized first touch event corresponds to a one point-touch if the recognized first touch event is positioned within the zoom icon area;

executing a function of a single icon without magnifying the zoom icon area if the recognized first touch event is positioned out of the zoom icon area;

if the recognized first touch event corresponds to the one point-touch, displaying a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area, wherein the magnified icon area is larger than the zoom icon area and the magnified icon area includes all of the icons arranged within the zoom icon area regardless of a position of the recognized first touch event in the zoom icon area;

recognizing a second touch event;

determining whether the recognized second touch event corresponds to a remainder of the screen; and

returning to the step of displaying the zoom icon area without displaying the magnified icon area if it is determined that the recognized second touch event corresponds to the remainder of the screen while the magnified icon area is displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least a vertical or horizontal location of the magnified icon area is fixed regardless of both an x-axis position and a y-axis position of the zoom icon area.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the recognized first touch event corresponds to two point-touches, displaying a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area, wherein the magnified icon area is larger than the zoom icon area, and the magnified icon area includes only icons between the two point-touches within the zoom icon area.

4. A touch panel display device, comprising:

a touch panel exhibiting a plurality of coordinates corresponding to a window on a screen of the touch panel display device, the window including a zoom icon area with a set of icons arranged in the zoom icon area;

a touch panel controller configured to recognize coordinates of a first touch event and store the recognized coordinates of the first touch event in an internally provided memory, and to output a coordinates signal corresponding to the first touch event by converting a value generated by the first touch event into a corresponding coordinates value;

a microprocessor configured to perform a double determining processes after the first touch event is recognized, and including a first determining process of determining whether the recognized first touch event is positioned within the zoom icon area, and a second determining process of determining whether or not the recognized first touch event corresponds to a one point-touch if the recognized first touch event is positioned within the zoom icon area, and to execute a function of a single icon without magnifying the zoom icon area if the recognized first touch event is positioned out of the zoom icon area; and

a display for displaying a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area, if the recognized first touch event corresponds to the one point-touch,

wherein the magnified icon area is larger than the zoom icon area,

wherein the magnified icon area includes all of the icons arranged within the zoom icon area regardless of a position of the recognized first touch event in the zoom icon area,

wherein the touch panel controller is further configured to recognize a second touch event, and

wherein the microprocessor is further configured to determine whether the recognized second touch event corresponds to a remainder of the screen, and to return to displaying the zoom icon area without displaying the magnified icon area if it is determined that the recognized second touch event corresponds to the remainder of the screen while the magnified icon area is displayed.

5. The touch panel display device of claim 4, wherein at least a vertical or horizontal location of the magnified icon area is fixed regardless of both an x-axis position and a y-axis position of the zoom icon area.

6. The touch panel display device of claim 4, wherein if the recognized first touch event corresponds to two point-touches, the display is further configured to display a magnified icon area corresponding to the zoom icon area, wherein the magnified icon area is larger than the zoom icon area, and the magnified icon area includes only icons between the two point-touches within the zoom icon area.