ELETRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110271182A1
• Filed: 04/29/2010
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: FENG, YU-MAO, TSAI, CHIEH-CHIH
• Application Number:
  US12/770,708
• Publication Number:
  US 20110271182A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

The present invention discloses an electronic apparatus and a control method thereof. The electronic apparatus comprises a touch-controlled panel and a control module, and the control method comprises the steps of: touching and dragging at least one icon shown on the touch-controlled panel to a page-indexing row, the page-indexing row comprising a plurality of number indexes, and each number index representing a page; determining whether the icon is dragged to the site of one of the number index shown in the page-indexing row by the control module; focusing the number index when the icon is dragged to the site of one of the number index; determining whether the icon is touched at the site of the focused number index by the control module; moving the icon to a page represented by the focused number index when the icon is not touched at the site of the focused number index.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch-controlled panel displaying a plurality of icons and a page-indexing row, the page-indexing row comprising a plurality of number indexes, and each number index representing a page; and

a control module determining whether one of the icons is dragged to the site of one of the number index shown in the page-indexing row, and focusing the number index when the icon is dragged to the site of one of the number index, and determining whether the icon is touched at the site of the focused number index by the control module, and moving the icon to a page represented by the focused number index when the icon is not touched at the site of the focused number index.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein before determining whether the icon is touched at the site of the focused number index, the control module further determines whether the icon is dragged away from the site of the focused number index, and defocuses the focused number index when the icon is dragged away from the focused number index.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein an application program is executed by the control module when one of the icons is clicked.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile wireless communication apparatus or a personal digital assistant (PDA).

5. An electronic apparatus control method, the electronic apparatus comprising a touch-controlled panel and a control module, and the method comprising:

touching and dragging at least one icon shown on the touch-controlled panel to a page-indexing row, the page-indexing row comprising a plurality of number indexes, and each number index representing a page;

determining whether the icon is dragged to the site of one of the number index shown in the page-indexing row by the control module;

focusing the number index when the icon is dragged to the site of one of the number index;

determining whether the icon is touched at the site of the focused number index by the control module; and

moving the icon to a page represented by the focused number index when the icon is not touched at the site of the focused number index.

6. The electronic apparatus control method of claim 5, wherein before the step of determining whether the icon is touched at the site of the focused number index, the electronic apparatus control method further comprises:

determining whether the icon is dragged away from the site of the focused number index by the control module; and

defocusing the focused number index when the icon is dragged away from the focused number index by the control module.

7. The electronic apparatus control method of claim 6, wherein an application program is executed by the control module when one of the icons is clicked.

8. The electronic apparatus control method of claim 7, wherein the electronic apparatus is a mobile wireless communication apparatus or a personal digital assistant (PDA).