Terminal, and terminal control apparatus and method

• US 10,082,904 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honor Device Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhou, Jin, Li, Hang, Liu, Bing, Wang, Yifei
• Primary Examiner(s): Sarma, Abhishek
• Application Number:
  US15/447,952
• Publication Number:
  US 20170177155A1
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0227 Cooperation and interconnection of the input arrangement with other functional units of a computer G06F3/023 - G06F3/037 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0393 Accessories for touch pads or touch screens, e.g. mechanical guides added to touch screens for drawing straight lines, hard keys overlaying touch screens or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/02 Constructional features of telephone sets

Abstract

A system comprises a touchscreen, at least one touch control unit, a first controller, and a second controller, where the touch control unit includes a detection electrode, an induction electrode, and a conducting wire that connects the detection electrode and the induction electrode, where the detection electrode is located outside a touch control area of the touchscreen, the induction electrode is located in the touch control area of the touchscreen, and the induction electrode is coupled to at least one capacitance node in the touchscreen, and the first controller is separately connected to the touchscreen and the second controller. A touch control operation performed by a user on the detection electrode disposed outside the touchscreen is identified using an existing capacitance node in the touchscreen, and the terminal is controlled according to the touch control operation.

Claims

1. A terminal, comprising:

a touchscreen;

a detection electrode located outside a touch control area of the touchscreen;

an induction electrode located in the touch control area of the touchscreen;

a conducting wire that connects the detection electrode and the induction electrode;

a first controller; and

a second controller,

wherein the induction electrode is coupled to at least one capacitance node in the touchscreen,

wherein the first controller is separately connected to the touchscreen and the second controller,

wherein the first controller is configured to;

generate a touch control event that is used to indicate a touch control operation when detecting that the detection electrode receives the touch control operation according to a capacitance change parameter of the at least one capacitance node and a capacitance change parameter of a node neighboring to the at least one capacitance node; and

send the touch control event to the second controller, wherein the capacitance change parameters are used to indicate a capacitance change value of a corresponding capacitance node for a time period, and

wherein the second controller is configured to;

receive the touch control event;

obtain a control instruction corresponding to the touch control event; and

control the terminal according to the control instruction.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second controller is further configured to:

query a first correspondence between the touch control event and a function key instruction;

obtain the function key instruction; and

use the function key instruction as the control instruction.

3. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second controller is further configured to:

query an application program according to a second correspondence between the touch control event and the application program; and

obtain an instruction for starting the application program and use the instruction as the control instruction.

4. The terminal according to claim 3, wherein the second controller is further configured to:

query identifiers of application programs on the terminal before querying the application program according to the second correspondence between the touch control event and the application program;

display the queried identifiers of the application programs as an application program identifier list; and

establish the second correspondence according to an operation that is selected by a user from the application program identifier list.

5. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the second controller is further configured to:

query an application user interface that currently runs at an uppermost layer on the terminal;

detect whether the application user interface corresponds to a third correspondence, wherein the third correspondence is a correspondence between the touch control event and a control instruction corresponding to the application user interface; and

obtain the control instruction according to the touch control event and the third correspondence when a detection result is that the application user interface corresponds to the third correspondence.

6. The terminal according to claim 5, wherein the second controller is further configured to:

query identifiers of control instructions corresponding to the application user interface before obtaining the control instruction according to the touch control event and the third correspondence;

display the queried identifiers of the control instructions as a control instruction identifier list; and

establish the third correspondence according to an operation that is selected by a user from the control instruction identifier list.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the detection electrode, induction electrode, and conducting wire are disposed in a screen protector that is attached to an upper surface of the touchscreen.

8. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the detection electrode, induction electrode, and conducting wire are disposed in the touchscreen.

9. A terminal control method, applied to a terminal that comprises a touchscreen, a detection electrode, an induction electrode, and a conducting wire that connects the detection electrode and the induction electrode, wherein the detection electrode is located outside a touch control area of the touchscreen, wherein the induction electrode is located in the touch control area of the touchscreen, wherein the induction electrode is coupled to at least one capacitance node in the touchscreen, and wherein the method comprises:

generating, by the terminal, a touch control event that is used to indicate a touch control operation when detecting that the detection electrode receives the touch control operation according to a capacitance change parameter of the at least one capacitance node and a capacitance change parameter of a node neighboring to the at least one capacitance node, wherein the capacitance change parameters are used to indicate a capacitance change value of a corresponding capacitance node for a time period;

obtaining, by the terminal, a control instruction corresponding to the touch control event; and

controlling, by the terminal, the terminal according to the control instruction.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein obtaining, by the terminal, the control instruction corresponding to the touch control event comprises:

querying, by the terminal, a first correspondence between the touch control event and a function key instruction; and

obtaining, by the terminal, the function key instruction and using the function key instruction as the control instruction.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein obtaining, by the terminal, the control instruction corresponding to the touch control event comprises:

querying, by the terminal, an application program according to a second correspondence between the touch control event and the application program; and

obtaining, by the terminal, an instruction for starting the application program and using the instruction as the control instruction.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein before querying the application program according to the second correspondence between the touch control event and the application program, the method further comprises:

querying, by the terminal, identifiers of application programs on the terminal;

displaying, by the terminal, the queried identifiers of the application programs as an application program identifier list; and

establishing, by the terminal, the second correspondence according to an operation that is selected by a user from the application program identifier list.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein obtaining, by the terminal, the control instruction corresponding to the touch control event comprises:

querying, by the terminal, an application user interface that currently runs at an uppermost layer on the terminal;

detecting, by the terminal, whether the application user interface corresponds to a third correspondence, wherein the third correspondence is a correspondence between the touch control event and a control instruction corresponding to the application user interface; and

obtaining, by the terminal, the control instruction according to the touch control event and the third correspondence when a detection result is that the application user interface corresponds to the third correspondence.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein before obtaining the control instruction according to the touch control event and the third correspondence, the method further comprises:

querying, by the terminal, identifiers of control instructions corresponding to the application user interface;

displaying, by the terminal, the queried identifiers of the control instructions as a control instruction identifier list; and

establishing, by the terminal, the third correspondence according to an operation that is selected by a user from the control instruction identifier list.