METHOD OF EXECUTING FUNCTIONS OF A TERMINAL INCLUDING PEN RECOGNITION PANEL AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE METHOD

• US 20140022193A1
• Filed: 07/17/2013
• Published: 01/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Taeyeon, PARK, Hyunmi, OH, Saegee, LEE, Jaemyoung, JEON, Jinyoung, LEE, Joohoon
• Application Number:
  US13/943,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20140022193A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• 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 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/046 by electromagnetic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Disclosed are a method of executing a function of a terminal and a terminal supporting the method. The method includes identifying a position of a touch pen on the pen recognition panel; and defining a non-effective area and an effective-area for a touch input event of a touch panel aligned with the pen recognition panel based on the position of the touch pen.

Claims

1. A terminal having a pen recognition panel, comprising:

a pen recognition panel for generating a pen input event according to an operation of a touch pen;

a touch panel disposed over the pen recognition panel and detecting a touch input event; and

a controller for identifying the position of the touch pen over the pen recognition panel and defining a non-effective area and an effective-area of the touch panel according to the identified position of the touch pen.

2. The terminal of claim 1, wherein, when the position of the touch pen is changed according to a movement of the touch pen, the controller newly defines the non-effective area and the effective-area based on the changed position of the touch pen.

3. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the non-effective area includes an area where a hand portion holding the touch pen touches the touch panel.

4. The terminal of claim 3, wherein the hand portion comprises a right handed person or a left handed person.

5. The terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller defines at least one of the non-effective area for the right handed person and the non-effective area for the left handed person according to the area where the hand portion holding the touch pen contacts the touch panel, or according to a mode setting of a right handed mode and a left handed mode.

6. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a display panel function/application execution disposed over the pen recognition panel and the touch panel and displaying the non-effective area and the effective-area.

7. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a display panel function/application execution for displaying at least one of a pen input indicator for indicating a metaphor according to an operation state of the touch pen and application of the touch pen;

and a touch input indicator for indicating a metaphor according to an operation state of the touch panel and application of an event generated on the touch panel.

8. The terminal of claim 7, wherein the controller controls the display panel to output the touch input indicator by default, 1 to alternately output the pen input indicator and the touch input indicator, or to output both the pen input indicator and the touch input indicator.

9. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising a storage unit for storing a function table including one or more function commands defining functions of the terminal corresponding to one or more of the pen input event and the touch input event,

wherein the pen input event includes one or more of information on a pen touch state, a pen hover state where the touch pen is spaced apart from the pen recognition panel by a predetermined interval, a motion recognition state, and a button of the touch pen activation state, and

wherein the touch input event includes one or more information on a finger tap state, a finger tap and hold state, a finger tap and move state, and a finger flick state.

10. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller provides a support such that a screen interface of the pen input event is selectively changed according to the touch input event generated on the effective area of the touch panel.

11. A method of executing a function of a terminal including a pen recognition panel, the method comprising:

detecting a position of a touch pen on the pen recognition panel; and

defining a non-effective area and an effective-area of a touch panel, which is disposed over the pen recognition panel, based on the detected position of the touch pen.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

changing the position of the touch pen according to a movement of the touch pen; and

newly defining the non-effective area and the effective area based on the changed position of the touch pen.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the non-effective area includes an area where a hand portion holding the touch pen contacts the touch panel.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the hand portion comprises a right handed person or a left handed person.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein defining the non-effective area and the effective-area comprises at least one of the non-effective area for the right handed person and the non-effective area for the left handed person according to the area where the hand portion holding the touch pen contacts the touch panel, or according to a mode setting of a right handed mode and a left handed mode.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying the non-effective area and the effective-area on a screen, which is disposed over the pen recognition panel and the touch panel.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying at least one of a pen input indicator for indicating a metaphor according to an operation state of the touch pen and application of the touch pen; and

a touch input indicator for indicating a metaphor according to an operation state of the touch panel and application of an event generated on the touch panel.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying comprises one or more of:

outputting the touch input indicator by default and alternately outputting the pen input indicator and the touch input indicator according to touch pen recognition; and

outputting the touch input indictor by default and outputting both the touch input indicator and the pen input indicator according to the touch pen recognition.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

storing a function table including one or more function commands defining functions of the terminal corresponding to one or more of the pen input event and the touch input event,

wherein the pen input event includes one or more of information on a pen touch state, a pen hover state where the touch pen is spaced apart from the pen recognition panel by a predetermined interval, a motion recognition state, and a button of the touch pen activation state, and

wherein the touch input event includes one or more information on a finger tap state, a finger tap and hold state, a finger tap and move state, and a finger flick state.

20. The method of 11, further comprising selectively changing

a screen interface of the pen input event according to the touch input event generated on the effective area of the touch panel.

21. A method of executing a function of a terminal including a pen recognition panel, the method comprising:

when a touch input event is detected from a predetermined area of a touch panel while a touch pen remains within a recognizable range from the pen recognition panel, performing a function corresponding to a pen input event generated by the touch pen and the touch input event detected by the touch panel; and

when the touch input event is detected from the touch panel in a state where the touch pen leaves the recognizable range from the pen recognition panel, performing a function responsive to the touch input event detected by the touch panel and not being responsive to the pen input event.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein performing the function comprises changing a drawing effect input by the touch pen based on the touch input event.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein changing the drawing effect comprises one or more of:

changing the drawing effect according to generation of the touch input event when the drawing effect is provided while the touch pen is within the recognizable range of the pen recognition panel; and

removing the drawing effect according to the generation of the touch input event when the touch pen leaves the recognizable range of the pen recognition panel.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein changing the drawing effect comprises defining a setting of drawing items by the touch pen according to first criteria and a setting of drawing items by the touch input event according to second criteria.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein a menu window for setting the drawing items is output when a particular pen input event by the touch pen is detected from the pen recognition panel and a particular touch input event is detected from an effective area of the touch panel.

26. The method of claim 21, further comprising defining a non-effective area and an effective area of the touch panel based on a position of the touch pen.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein performing the function comprises:

detecting a specific pen input event for designating a predetermined area input by the touch pen in a state where the touch input event is generated from the effective area of the touch panel; and

grouping icons or contents located within the predetermined area designated by the pen input event.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein performing the function comprises:

detecting a specific pen input event for designating a predetermined area input by the touch pen in a state where the touch input event is generated from the effective area of the touch panel; and

automatically switching contents located within the predetermined area designated by the pen input event into a memo screen.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein performing the function comprises:

displaying a drawing effect to be applied to the pen recognition panel by the touch pen; and

changing a drawing effect setting according to the touch input event generated from the effective area of the touch panel.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein displaying the drawing effect comprises:

translucently displaying the drawing effect on the display panel when the touch pen is in a pen hover state; and

displaying the drawing effect with a set color, saturation, and brightness on the display panel when the touch pen is in the pen hover state.