METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE METHOD

• US 20090160804A1
• Filed: 12/07/2008
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Ou, Tsung-Yuan, Huang, Hsing-Chiang, Chang, Jen-Chih, Wu, Kuo-Chen
• Application Number:
  US12/329,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20090160804A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method for controlling an electronic apparatus, and an apparatus and a computer program using the method are disclosed. The method includes: detecting a moving motion on a touch sensitive module to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the moving motion; and controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal. The step of controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal comprises: controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a first predetermined function when a speed of the moving motion is determined less than a threshold speed according to the sensing signal; and controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function when the moving motion is determined greater than the threshold speed according to the sensing signal.

Claims

1. A control method of an electronic apparatus, comprising:

detecting a moving motion on a touch sensitive module to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the moving motion; and

controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal, comprising;

when a speed of the moving motion is determined less than a threshold speed according to the sensing signal, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a first predetermined function; and

when the speed of the moving motion is determined greater than the threshold speed according to the sensing signal, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a second predetermined function which is different from the first predetermined function.

2. The control method of claim 1, wherein the first predetermined function is a panning function and the second predetermined function is a scrolling function.

3. The control method of claim 2, wherein controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the scrolling function comprises:

controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the scrolling function at a constant or a decreasing scrolling speed.

4. The control method of claim 2, further comprising:

detecting a touch motion on the touch sensitive module to generate a touch signal corresponding to the touch motion; and

when the touch signal is received while the electronic apparatus is executing the scrolling function, controlling the electronic apparatus to stop executing the scrolling function.

5. The control method of claim 2, wherein controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the second predetermined function comprises:

determining a scrolling distance or a scrolling speed of the scrolling function executed by the electronic apparatus according to the speed of the moving motion determined according to the sensing signal.

6. The control method of claim 5, wherein the speed is a speed when the moving motion is terminated.

7. The control method of claim 2, wherein controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal further comprises:

when the moving motion is determined halted according to the sensing signal, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the scrolling function at an increasing scrolling speed.

8. The control method of claim 2, wherein controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal further comprises:

When a speed of a second moving motion is determined greater than the threshold speed according to a second sensing signal corresponding to the second moving motion while the electronic apparatus is executing the scrolling function, increasing a scrolling speed or a scrolling distance of the scrolling function executed by the electronic apparatus.

9. The control method of claim 1, wherein controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal further comprises:

When a speed of a first moving motion is determined greater than the threshold speed according to a first sensing signal corresponding to the first moving motion, and within a specific period of time after the first sensing signal is terminated a speed of a second moving motion is determined greater than the threshold speed according to a second sensing signal corresponding to the second moving motion, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a third predetermined function which is different from the first predetermined function and the second predetermined function.

10. The control method of claim 9, wherein the third predetermined function is a letter-jumping function.

20. A recording medium containing instructions for performing the method of claim 1.

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch sensitive module;

a controller, coupled to the touch sensitive module, for detecting a moving motion on the touch sensitive module to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the moving motion; and

a processing unit, coupled to the controller, for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus according to the sensing signal;

wherein when the processing unit determines that a speed of the moving motion is less than a threshold speed according to the sensing signal, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute a first predetermined function; and

when the processing unit determines that the speed of the moving motion is greater than the threshold speed according to the sensing signal, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute a second predetermined function which is different from the first predetermined function.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first predetermined function is a panning function, and the second predetermined function is a scrolling function.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute the scrolling function to scroll at a constant scrolling speed or a decreasing scrolling speed.

14. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller further detects a touch motion on the touch sensitive module to generate a touch signal corresponding to the touch motion;

and when the processing unit receives the touch signal while the electronic apparatus is executing the scrolling function, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to stop executing the scrolling function.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein the processing unit determines a scrolling distance or a scrolling speed of the scrolling function executed by the electronic apparatus according to the speed of the moving motion determined according to the sensing signal.

16. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein when the processing unit determines that the moving motion is halted according to the sensing signal, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute the scrolling function to scroll at an increasing scrolling speed.

17. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein when the processing unit determines that a speed of a second moving motion is greater than the threshold speed according to a second sensing signal corresponding to the second moving motion while the electronic apparatus is executing the scrolling function, the processing unit increases a scrolling speed or a scrolling distance of the scrolling function executed by the electronic apparatus.

18. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein when the processing unit determines that a speed of a first moving motion is greater than the threshold speed according to a first sensing signal corresponding to the first moving motion, and within a specific period of time after the first sensing signal is terminated, the processing unit determines that a speed of a second moving motion is greater than the threshold speed according to a second sensing signal corresponding to the second moving motion, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute a third predetermined function which is different from the first predetermined function and the second predetermined function.

19. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the touch sensitive module comprises a touch pad, a touch panel, or a touch screen.