Dual function touch screen module for portable device and opeating method therefor

• US 20080273015A1
• Filed: 05/02/2007
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GIGA-BYTE Communications, Inc. (Giga-Byte Technology Co.), Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Original Assignee: GIGA-BYTE Communications, Inc. (Giga-Byte Technology Co.), Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Inventors: Wang, Tzu-Wei, Chang, Chih-Ming, Huang, Jeng-Wen
• Application Number:
  US11/797,302
• Publication Number:
  US 20080273015A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers

Abstract

A dual function operating touch screen module which applies to portable devices and operating method therefor are provided. The dual function operating touch screen module includes a touch screen, a sensor, an instruction executing unit, and a cursor transforming unit. The operating method includes the steps of displaying an image according to a touch signal input from a touch screen; receiving the touch signal to calculate a touch location signal; performing a corresponding operating instruction based on the touch location signal; and triggering and transforming the touch location signal to a cursor track signal which corresponds to the operating instruction, and display the cursor track signal on an output image signal after the output image signal is selectively activated actively or passively.

Claims

1. A dual function operating touch screen module applied to a portable device, including:

a touch screen, which provides an input interface for inputting a touch signal, and displays an image;

a sensor, which receives the touch signal from the touch screen to calculate a touch location signal;

an instruction executing unit, which performs a corresponding operating instruction based on the touch location signal; and

a cursor transforming unit, which triggers and transforms the touch location signal to a cursor track signal which corresponds to the operating instruction, and displays the cursor track signal on an output image signal after the output image signal is selectively activated actively or passively by the cursor transforming unit.

2. The module of claim 1, wherein the output image signal is outputted to an external display device.

3. The module of claim 1, wherein the active activation of the output image signal is through detecting an image signal interface.

4. The module of claim 1, where the passive activation of the output image signal is through a switch.

5. The module of claim 1, wherein the step of displaying the cursor track signal on the output image signal further includes a step of turning off the image of the touch screen.

6. A method of operating a dual function operating touch screen module on a portable device, including:

displaying an image according to a touch signal inputted from a touch screen;

receiving the touch signal to calculate a touch location signal;

performing a corresponding operating instruction based on the touch location signal; and

triggering and transforming the touch location signal to a cursor track signal which corresponds to the operating instruction, and displaying the cursor track signal on an output image signal after the output image signal is selectively activated actively or passively.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the output image signal is outputted to an external display device.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the active activation of the output image signal is through detecting an image signal interface.

9. The method of claim 6, where the passive activation of the output image signal is through a switch.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of displaying the cursor track signal on the output image signal further includes a step of turning off the image of the touch screen.