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

• US 20090160806A1
• Filed: 12/12/2008
• 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:
  US12/333,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20090160806A1
• 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 recording medium using the method are disclosed. The method includes: detecting a moving motion on a central sensitive module and a peripheral sensitive module surrounding the central sensing module to generate a central sensing signal and a peripheral sensing signal, respectively, corresponding to the moving motion; and controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a predetermined function when the moving motion is determined starting from the central sensing region according to the central sensing signal and the peripheral sensing signal.

Claims

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

detecting a moving motion on a central sensitive module and a peripheral sensitive module to generate a central sensing signal and a peripheral sensing signal corresponding to the moving motion, respectively; and

when the moving motion is determined starting from the central sensitive module according to the central sensing signal and the peripheral sensing signal, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a first predetermined function.

2. The control method of claim 1, wherein the step of controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the first predetermined comprises:

when the moving motion is determined starting from the central sensitive module according to the central sensing signal and the peripheral sensing signal, and a signal intensity of the central sensing signal is determined greater than a predetermined signal intensity, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute the first predetermined function.

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

when a pressing motion on a button element located under the central sensitive module is detected, detecting a signal intensity of a pressing sensing signal generated from the pressing motion on the central sensitive module; and

determining the predetermined signal intensity according to the signal intensity of the pressing sensing signal.

4. The control method of claim 3, wherein the signal intensity corresponds to a touched area on the central sensitive module.

5. The control method of claim 3, wherein the predetermined signal intensity is more than 70% of the signal intensity of the pressing sensing signal.

6. The control method of claim 1, further comprising:

when an angular velocity of the moving motion is determined greater than a predetermined angular velocity according to the peripheral sensing signal while the electronic apparatus is executing the first predetermined function, controlling the electronic apparatus to execute a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function.

7. The control method of claim 6, wherein the first predetermined function is a panning function.

8. The control method of claim 6, wherein the second predetermined function is a wheeling function.

9. The control method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining a direction of the moving motion on the peripheral sensitive module relative to the central sensitive module according to the peripheral sensing signal;

determining a moving direction of the panning function according to the direction of the moving motion.

10. The control method of claim 9, further comprising:

when the change of the direction of the moving motion on the peripheral sensitive module relative to the central sensitive module is determined according to the peripheral sensing signal, determining the moving direction of the panning according to the changed direction of the moving motion.

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

11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch sensitive module, comprising;

a central sensitive module; and

a peripheral sensitive module, surrounding the central sensitive module;

a controller, coupled to the central sensitive module and the peripheral sensitive module, for detecting a moving motion on the central sensitive module and the peripheral sensitive module to generate a central sensing signal and a peripheral sensing signal corresponding to the moving motion, respectively; 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 the moving motion starts from the central sensitive module according to the central sensing signal and the peripheral sensing signal, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute a first predetermined function.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein when the processing unit determines that the moving motion starts from the central sensitive module according to the central sensing signal and the peripheral sensing signal and determines that a signal intensity of the central sensing signal is greater than a predetermined signal intensity, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute the first predetermined function.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein the central sensitive module further comprises a button element located under the central sensitive module and coupled to the controller;

the controller is further for detecting a pressing motion on the button element;

when the controller detects the pressing motion, the controller further detects a signal intensity of a pressing sensing signal generated from the pressing motion on the central sensitive module; and

the processing unit determines the predetermined signal intensity according to the signal intensity of the pressing sensing signal.

14. The electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein the signal intensity corresponds to a touched area on the central sensitive module.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processing unit determines that an angular velocity of the moving motion is greater than a predetermined angular velocity according to the peripheral sensing signal while the electronic apparatus is executing the first predetermined function, the processing unit controls the electronic apparatus to execute a second predetermined function different from the first predetermined function.

16. The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the first predetermined function is a panning function.

17. The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the second predetermined function is a wheeling function.

18. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing unit determines a direction of the moving motion on the peripheral sensitive module relative to the central sensitive module according to the peripheral sensing signal;

the processing unit determines a moving direction of the panning function according to the direction of the moving motion; and

when the processing unit determines that the direction of the moving motion on the peripheral sensitive module relative to the central sensitive module is changed according to the peripheral sensing signal, the processing unit determines the moving direction of the panning according to the changed direction of the moving motion.

19. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the central sensitive module comprises a central touch pad, and the peripheral sensitive module comprises at least a peripheral touch pad.