Method of Tracking Touch Inputs

• US 20100088595A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
• Inventors: Hsu, Yu-Min, Yang, Chia-Feng, Ho, Chen-Hsiang
• Application Number:
  US12/244,780
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088595A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

For a multitouch input configuration, tracking touch inputs includes calculating a first center position corresponding to two touch points along a first axis for a first frame, detecting variation of the first center position from the first frame to a second frame, and determining a gesture type according to the variation of the first center position.

Claims

1. A method of tracking touch inputs, the method comprising:

calculating a first center position corresponding to two touch points along a first axis for a first frame;

detecting variation of the first center position from the first frame to a second frame; and

determining a gesture type according to the variation of the first center position.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the gesture type according to the variation of the first center position comprises determining a rotation when the variation of the first center position is greater than a predetermined rotation threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a second center position corresponding to the two touch points along a second axis for the first frame;

detecting variation of the second center position from the first frame to the second frame; and

determining a rotation direction of the gesture type according to the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second center position.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the rotation of the gesture type according to the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second center position comprises determining the rotation of the gesture type according to polarities of the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second center position.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the rotation of the gesture type according to the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second center position comprises determining clockwise rotation when the variation of the first center position is greater than zero.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein determining the rotation of the gesture type according to the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second center position comprises determining counter-clockwise rotation when the variation of the first center position is less than zero.

7. A method of tracking touch inputs, the method comprising:

calculating a first center position corresponding to two touch points along a first axis for a first frame;

detecting variation of the first center position from the first frame to a second frame;

calculating a second center position corresponding to the two touch points along a second axis for a first frame;

detecting variation of the second center position from the first frame to the second frame; and

determining a zoom gesture type when the variation of the first center position and the variation of the second position are both lower than a predetermined threshold.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the zoom gesture type comprises determining a zoom out gesture when a first distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the first frame along the first axis is greater than a second distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the second frame along the first axis by a predetermined zoom threshold.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the zoom gesture type comprises determining a zoom out gesture when a first distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the first frame along the second axis is greater than a second distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the second frame along the second axis by a predetermined zoom threshold.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the zoom gesture type comprises determining a zoom in gesture when a first distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the first frame along the second axis is less than a second distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the second frame along the second axis by a predetermined zoom threshold.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein determining the zoom gesture type comprises determining a zoom in gesture when a first distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the first frame along the second axis is less than a second distance variation of the two touch points corresponding to the second frame along the second axis by a predetermined zoom threshold.

12. A touch input tracking device comprising:

a receiving module for receiving a first frame and a second frame;

a center point calculation module for calculating a first center point and a second center point of two touch points in the first frame and the second frame, the first center point corresponding to a first axis and the second center point corresponding to a second axis; and

a gesture determination module for determining a gesture type according to variation of the first center point from the first frame to the second frame, and variation of the second center point from the first frame to the second frame.

13. A computer system comprising:

a touch input tracking device comprising;

a receiving module for receiving a first frame and a second frame;

a center point calculation module for calculating a first center point and a second center point of two touch points in the first frame and the second frame, the first center point corresponding to a first axis and the second center point corresponding to a second axis; and

a gesture determination module for determining a gesture type according to variation of the first center point from the first frame to the second frame, and variation of the second center point from the first frame to the second frame;

a communication interface for receiving the gesture type from the gesture determination module;

a display; and

a processor for modifying an image according to the gesture type and driving the display to display the image.