Method of displaying images via touching and electronic apparatus thereof

• US 9,182,880 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2013
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Getac Technology Company Limited (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Getac Technology Company Limited (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chang, Chin-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahi, Towfiq
• Application Number:
  US13/908,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20140104229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A method of displaying images via touching and an electronic apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. A basic input/output system (BIOS) is loaded to execute an initialization program of the electronic apparatus, where the electronic apparatus has not loaded an operating system. The touch display module is defined to include a human interface device, and the touch display device has a virtual input area, and an input interface is displayed at the virtual input area. A touch event is generated when the touch display device is touched, and a coordinate value is generated according to the touch event. When the coordinate value locates in the input interface, the coordinate value corresponds to a functional code of the human interface device, and a corresponding operation is executed according to the functional code.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a processor, configured for executing an operating system and loading a basic input/output system (BIOS) to execute an initialization program; and

a touch display module, comprising;

a touch display device having a virtual input area, wherein the touch display device generates a touch event when the touch display device is touched; and

a touch input controller coupled to the touch display device and the processor, the touch input controller receiving the touch event and generating a coordinate value according to the touch event,

wherein, when the electronic apparatus has loaded the initialization program and the electronic apparatus has not loaded the operating system, the touch display module is defined to comprise a human interface device comprising a virtual keyboard, and the virtual input area displays an input interface comprising a plurality of functional key icons, wherein each of the functional key icons corresponds to a key of the virtual keyboard;

wherein when the coordinate value is located in the input interface at a position corresponding to one of the plurality of functional key icons, the touch input controller transform the coordinate value into a corresponding functional code of the human interface device, and the processor executes a corresponding operation according to the functional code; and

wherein when the coordinate value is not in the input interface, the touch input controller transmits the coordinate value to the processor.

2. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein after the electronic apparatus loads the operating system, the touch display module is defined to comprise a touch screen.

3. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the electronic apparatus loads the initialization program and has not loaded the operating system, the touch display module is further defined to comprise the human interface device and a touch screen.

4. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the touch display device further comprises a touch region, the touch region is not overlapped with the virtual input area, and when the coordinate value locates in the touch region, the processor executes an operation according to the coordinate value,

wherein the human interface device corresponds to the virtual input area, and the touch screen corresponds to the touch region.

5. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic apparatus loads the initialization program to perform an initialization operation,

wherein after the electronic apparatus completes the initialization operation, the processor executes and loads the operating system.

6. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the coordinate value locates outside of the input interface, the coordinate value does not correspond to any functional code of the human interface device.

7. The electronic apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor executes a functional-key function according to the functional code.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the virtual keyboard is a virtual alpha-numeric keyboard comprising a plurality of alpha-numeric keys.

16. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the virtual keyboard is a virtual numeric keypad comprising a plurality of numeric keys.

8. A method of displaying images via touching, adapted to an electronic apparatus, wherein the electronic apparatus has a touch display module and the touch display module has a touch display device, the method of displaying images via touching comprising:

loading a basic input/output system (BIOS) to perform an initialization operation of the electronic apparatus, when the electronic apparatus has not loaded an operating system;

defining the touch display module to have a human interface device comprising a virtual keyboard, the touch display device having a virtual input area comprising a plurality of functional key icons, wherein each of the functional key icons corresponds to a key of the virtual keyboard;

displaying an input interface on the virtual input area;

generating a touch event when the touch display device is touched;

generating a coordinate value according to the touch event;

when the coordinate value is located in the input interface at a position corresponding to one of the functional key icons, transforming the coordinate value into a corresponding functional code of the human interface device; and

executing a corresponding operation according to the functional code; and

wherein when the coordinate value is not in the input interface, the touch input controller transmits the coordinate value to the processor.

9. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 8, further comprising:

defining the touch display module as a touch screen after the electronic apparatus loads the operating system.

10. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 8, wherein defining the touch display module to have the human interface device comprises:

defining the touch display module to comprise the human interface device and a touch screen when the electronic apparatus has not loaded the operating system.

11. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 10, wherein the touch display device further comprises a touch region, the touch region is not overlapped with the virtual input area, and when the coordinate value locates in the touch region, the processor executes an operation according to the coordinate value,

wherein the human interface device corresponds to the virtual input area, and the touch screen corresponds to the touch region.

12. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 8, wherein executing the initialization program of the electronic device comprises:

controlling the electronic device to load the initialization program to execute an initialization operation.

13. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 8, wherein when the coordinate value locates outside of the input interface, the coordinate value does not correspond to any functional code of the human interface device.

14. The method of displaying images via touching as claimed in claim 8, wherein executing the corresponding operation according to the functional code comprises:

executing a functional key function according to the functional code.

17. The method of displaying images via touching of claim 8, wherein the virtual keyboard is a virtual alpha-numeric keyboard comprising a plurality of alpha-numeric keys.

18. The method of displaying images via touching of claim 8, wherein the virtual keyboard is a virtual numeric keypad comprising a plurality of numeric keys.