Method for processing touch operation and mobile terminal

• US 9,507,473 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2012
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Zhao, Dongxiao
• Primary Examiner(s): OLSON, JASON C
• Application Number:
  US14/381,702
• Publication Number:
  US 20150054778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,653 Days
• Field of Search: 345/174
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for processing a touch operation, and the method includes: a touch action of a user in a first sensing area is acquired by a mobile terminal, wherein the first sensing area is located in an area other than a display area of the mobile terminal; when it is determined by the mobile terminal that the acquired touch action is a valid touch action, a function key corresponding to the valid touch action is determined according to a correspondence between the touch action of the user acquired in the first sensing area and a function key, and a corresponding processing is performed according to a determined function key. The present disclosure further provides a mobile terminal. With the method and device provided in the present disclosure, the problem of the prior art that the thickness and screen size of a mobile terminal are limited due to an occupation of some area by keys of the mobile terminal when the volume of the mobile terminal is fixed.

Claims

1. A method for processing a touch operation, comprising:

acquiring, by a mobile terminal, a touch action of a user in a first sensing area, wherein the first sensing area is located in an area other than a display area of the mobile terminal;

determining, by the mobile terminal, that the acquired touch action is a valid touch action, and determining a function key corresponding to the valid touch action according to a correspondence between the touch action of the user acquired in the first sensing area and the function key, and performing a corresponding processing according to the determined function key;

wherein at least one identification line is arranged in the first sensing area;

when the touch action is a sliding touch, the correspondence is a correspondence between a sliding trail corresponding to the touch action in the first sensing area and a function key;

the step of determining, by the mobile terminal, that the acquired touch action is a valid touch action comprises;

determining, by the mobile terminal, the sliding trail corresponding to the touch action in the first sensing area; and

when a location relation between the sliding trail and an identification line in the first sensing area meets a defined location relation, determining, by the mobile terminal, that the touch action is a valid touch action.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first sensing area is arranged in one or more locations on a frame, a lateral surface and the back side of the mobile terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2, after the mobile terminal determines the corresponding function key, the method further comprises:

displaying, by the mobile terminal, in the display area the function key corresponding to the valid touch action.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the touch action is a sliding touch and spans the first sensing area and a second sensing area located in the display area, the correspondence is a correspondence between a sliding trail corresponding to the touch action in the first sensing area and the second sensing area and a function key;

the step of determining, by the mobile terminal, that the acquired touch action is a valid touch action comprises;

determining, by the mobile terminal, the sliding trail corresponding to the touch action in the first sensing area and the second sensing area; and

when a location relation between the sliding trail and the at least one identification line meets a defined location relation, determining, by the mobile terminal, that the touch action is a valid touch action.

5. The method according to claim 1, after the mobile terminal determines the corresponding function key, the method further comprises:

displaying, by the mobile terminal, in the display area the function key corresponding to the valid touch action.

6. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a first sensing area located in an area other than a display area of the mobile terminal;

wherein at least one identification line is arranged in the first sensing area;

a first sensor configured to acquire a touch action of a user in the first sensing area; and

a processor configured to, when it is determined by the mobile terminal that the acquired touch action is a valid touch action, determine a function key corresponding to the valid touch action according to a correspondence between the touch action of the user acquired by the first sensor in the first sensing area and a function key, and perform a corresponding processing according to a determined function key;

when the touch action is a sliding touch, the processor is configured to;

determine a sliding trail corresponding to the touch action in the first sensing area; and

when a location relation between the sliding trail and an identification line in the first sensing area meets a defined location relation, determine that the touch action is a valid touch action.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the first sensing area is arranged in one or more locations on a frame, a lateral surface and the back side of the mobile terminal.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, further comprising:

a display screen configured to display the function key corresponding to the valid touch action.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, further comprising:

a second sensing area located in the display area of the mobile terminal;

a second sensor configured to acquire a touch action of a user in the second sensing area; and

when the touch action is a sliding touch and spans the first sensing area and the second sensing area,

the processor is further configured to;

determine a sliding trail of an acquired touch action in the first sensing area and the second sensing area; and

when a location relation between the sliding trail and the at least one identification line meets a defined location relation, determine that the touch action is a valid touch action.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the first sensor is one or more of a capacitive sensor, an infrared sensor, an electromagnetic sensor and a pressure sensor;

the second sensor is one or more of a capacitive sensor, an infrared sensor, an electromagnetic sensor and a pressure sensor.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, further comprising:

a display screen configured to display the function key corresponding to the valid touch action.