METHOD FOR DETERMINING MOUSE COMMAND ACCORDING TO TRIGGER POINTS

• US 20100271304A1
• Filed: 04/01/2010
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Yang, Chia-Hsin, Chiu, Yang-Po
• Application Number:
  US12/753,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20100271304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/163
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

The invention discloses a method which may determine a reference point when multiple trigger points are triggered on a detecting device by a user'"'"'s finger. Whether the reference point corresponds to a left clicking or a right clicking is determined according to the corresponding position relation between the reference point and the trigger points. Operations of a conventional mouse may be performed by the user merely through a touch panel.

Claims

1. A method for determining a mouse command by detecting trigger points comprising:

detecting at least a trigger point;

determining a reference point according to at least a trigger point;

determining the corresponding position relation between at least a trigger point and the reference point; and

determining a mouse command according to the corresponding position relation between at least a trigger point and the reference point.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of detecting at least a trigger point comprises:

detecting at least an effective touch position; and

defining at least an effective touch position as at least a trigger point.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the reference point according to at least a trigger point comprises:

determining one of at least a trigger point to be the reference point;

wherein at least a trigger point corresponds to at least a trigger point coordinate of a coordinate system defined by system, an origin of the coordinate system corresponds to an up left position, a first coordinate axis of the coordinate system corresponds to the horizontal direction, and a second coordinate axis of the coordinate system corresponds to the vertical direction; and

the distance between the reference point and the first coordinate axis is the shortest among the distances between at least a trigger point and the first coordinate axis.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of determining the mouse command triggered according to the corresponding position relation between at least a trigger point and the reference point comprises:

comparing the distance between the changed trigger point and the second coordinate axis with the distance between the reference point and the second coordinate axis to determine whether the mouse command is triggered by a left clicking or a right clicking.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of comparing the distance between the changed trigger point and the second coordinate axis with the distance between the reference point and the second coordinate axis to determine whether the mouse command is triggered by the left clicking or the right clicking comprises:

determining that the mouse command is triggered by the left clicking when the distance between the changed trigger point and the second coordinate axis is less than the distance between the reference point and the second coordinate axis.

6. The method according 4, wherein the step of comparing the distance between the changed trigger point and the second coordinate axis with the distance between the reference point and the second coordinate axis to determine whether the mouse command is triggered by the left clicking or the right clicking comprises:

determining that the mouse command is triggered by the right clicking when the distance between the changed trigger point and the second coordinate axis is larger than the distance between the reference point and the second coordinate axis.