TOUCH-CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND RELATED CONTROL METHOD

• US 20120139873A1
• Filed: 02/09/2012
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Chih-Hung, Chen, Tsan-Yuan, Chin, Tung-Liang
• Application Number:
  US13/370,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139873A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A touch-controlled electronic apparatus includes a touch screen, and the touch screen includes a first area used as touch buttons and a second area used for displaying images. A method for controlling the touch-controlled electronic apparatus includes the steps of: detecting whether the touch screen receives a touch signal; when detecting that the touch screen receives the touch signal, determining whether a touched position of the touch signal is located on the first area to generate a determining result; and determining to trigger a first interrupt request or a second interrupt request according to the determining result.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a touch-controlled electronic apparatus, the touch-controlled electronic apparatus comprising a touch screen having a first area used as touch buttons and a second area used for displaying images, and the first area of the touch screen adopting a first capacitive touch panel and the second area of the touch screen adopting a second capacitive touch panel, the method comprising:

detecting whether the first area of the touch screen receives a touch signal and detecting whether the second area of the touch screen receives the touch signal to generate a detecting result; and

determining to trigger a first interrupt request or a second interrupt request according to the detecting result.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining to trigger the first interrupt request or the second interrupt request according to the detecting result comprises:

when the detecting result indicates that the first area receives the touch signal, triggering the first interrupt request; and

when the detecting result indicates that the second area receives the touch signal, triggering the second interrupt request.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when the first interrupt request is received, performing a first designated application program corresponding to a touched position of the touch signal; and

when the second interrupt request is received, performing a second designated application program corresponding to the touched position of the touch signal.

4. A touch-controlled electronic apparatus, comprising:

a touch screen, comprising;

a first area, used as touch buttons; and

a second area, used for displaying images, wherein the first area of the touch screen adopts a first capacitive touch panel and the second area of the touch screen adopts a second capacitive touch panel;

a driving circuit, coupled to the touch screen; and

a micro-processing unit, coupled to the driving circuit.

5. The touch-controlled electronic apparatus of claim 4, wherein the driving circuit further comprises:

a detecting unit, for detecting whether the first area of the touch screen receives a touch signal and detecting whether the second area of the touch screen receives the touch signal to generate a detecting result; and

a triggering unit, for determining to trigger a first interrupt request or a second interrupt request according to the detecting result of the detecting unit.

6. The touch-controlled electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein the micro-processing unit is coupled to the triggering unit of the driving circuit, for receiving the first interrupt request and the second interrupt request.

7. The touch-controlled electronic apparatus of claim 5, wherein when the detecting result of the detecting unit indicates that the first area receives the touch signal, the triggering unit triggers the first interrupt request;

and when the detecting result of the detecting unit indicates that the second area receives the touch signal, the triggering unit triggers the second interrupt request.

8. The touch-controlled electronic apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

an executing unit, coupled to the micro-processing unit;

wherein when the micro-processing unit receives the first interrupt request, the executing unit performs a first designated application program corresponding to the touched position; and

when the micro-processing unit receives the second interrupt request, the executing unit performs a second designated application program corresponding to the touched position.