ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD CAPABLE OF ZOOMING IMAGES

• US 20110141145A1
• Filed: 05/12/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIU, TE-JIA, YANG, DONG-CHAO, LI, HONG-GANG, LIANG, HAI-SEN, CHIANG, CHIH-SAN, CHENG, HUA-DONG
• Application Number:
  US12/779,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20110141145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/661
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device includes a display screen, a processing unit, and a touch panel. The touch panel includes touch sensitive units, and each touch sensitive unit can be identified by an unique coordinate. The processing unit determines whether first two touch sensitive points are touched at the same time, and further determines whether two more touch sensitive points are also touched at the same time within a preset time interval. The processing unit calculates distance between the first two touched points and then a distance between the second two touched points. The processing unit compares the first distance value with the second distance value, and zooms in or zoom out a displayed image according to the result. A related method is also provided.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a display screen;

a touch panel comprises a plurality of touch sensitive points, each touch sensitive points corresponds to unique coordinates on the touch panel;

a signal generating circuit configured for generating signals in response to user touches on the touch panel;

a processing unit comprising;

a touch determining module configured for determining whether two touch sensitive points are simultaneously touched, and further configured for determining whether two more touch sensitive points are simultaneously touched within a preset time interval after determining two touch sensitive points have been simultaneously touched;

a calculating module configured for calculating a first distance between two touch sensitive points being simultaneously touched according to their coordinates, and further configured for calculating a second distance between two more touch sensitive points being simultaneously touched according to their coordinates within the preset time interval;

a comparing module configured for comparing the first distance value and the second distance value, and generating a comparison result;

a zooming module configured for zooming in and zooming out an displayed image on the display screen according to the comparison result generated by the comparing module.

2. The electronic device as recited in claim 1, wherein when the comparing module determines the first distance value is less than the second distance value, the zooming module zooms out the displayed image, and when the comparing module determines the first distance value is greater than the second distance value, the zooming module zooms in the displayed image.

3. The electronic device as recited in claim 1, further comprising a storage wherein when the touch determining module determines there are not two more touch sensitive points being simultaneously touched within the preset time interval, the storage stores the first distance value, and when the touch determining module determines two more touch sensitive points being simultaneously touched within the preset time interval, the storage stores the first distance value and the second distance value.

4. The electronic device as recited in claim 3, wherein the processing unit further comprises an erasing module, when the storage stores the first distance value, the erasing module erases the first distance value once the preset time interval elapses, and when the storage stores the first distance value and the second distance value, the erasing module waits until after executing the zooming function then erases the first distance value and the second distance value.

5. An image zooming method applied in an electronic device, wherein the electronic device comprises a touch panel, and the touch panel comprises a plurality of touch sensitive points beneath, the method comprising:

displaying an image;

determining whether two touch sensitive points are simultaneously touched;

calculating a first distance value between the two touched touch sensitive points according to their coordinates, and storing the first distance value;

determining whether two more touch sensitive points are simultaneously touched within a preset time interval;

calculating a second distance value between the two more touched touch sensitive points according to their coordinates, and storing the second distance value;

comparing the first distance value with the second distance value, and generating a comparison result; and

determining whether to zoom in or zoom out the displayed image according to the comparison result; and

zooming out and in the displayed image according to the comparison result of the first distance value and the second distance value.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

zooming out the displayed image when the first distance value is less than the second distance value;

zooming in the displayed image when the first distance value is larger than the second distance value.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

erasing the first distance value if two touch sensitive points are not simultaneously touched within the preset time interval after the preset time interval elapses.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

erasing the first distance value and the second distance value if two touch sensitive points are simultaneously touched within the preset time interval after zooming in or zooming out the displayed image.