Method for Image Controlling and Portable Electronic Apparatus Using the Same

• US 20150135135A1
• Filed: 01/24/2014
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Chiu, Jhao-Dong
• Application Number:
  US14/162,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20150135135A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/799
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3262 Power saving in digitizer or tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method for image controlling is disclosed. The method is applied in a portable electronic device, wherein the portable electronic device comprises a touch display module. The method comprises: defining a signal input area on the touch display module; detecting input signal on the signal input area; and displaying a first control interface on the touch display module, wherein the displayed ratio of the first control interface varies according to changes in a sliding distance of a track formed by the input signal.

Claims

1. A method for image controlling used for a portable electronic device, wherein the portable electronic device comprises a touch display module, the method comprising:

defining a signal input area on the touch display module;

detecting an input signal on the signal input area; and

displaying a first control interface on the touch display module, wherein the displayed ratio of the first control interface varies according to changes in a sliding distance of a track formed by the input signal.

2. The method for image controlling as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

after the input signal terminates, if the sliding distance is higher than or equal to a threshold distance, replacing the first control interface displayed on the touch display module with a second control interface.

3. The method for image controlling as claimed in claim 2, further comprising:

after the input signal terminates, if the sliding distance is lower than the threshold distance, stopping displaying the first control interface on the touch display module and displaying no image on the touch display module.

4. The method for image controlling as claimed in claim 3, wherein the threshold distance is substantially two-thirds of the length of the signal input area.

5. The method for image controlling as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal input area comprises a plurality of blocks such that when the input signal is located within one specific block of the plurality of blocks, a part of the first control interface corresponding to the specific block on the touch display module is displayed, wherein the displayed ratio of the part varies according to changes in the sliding distance.

6. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch display module; and

a processing module, used for defining a signal input area on the touch display module, detecting an input signal on the signal input area, and displaying a first control interface on the touch display module, wherein the displayed ratio of the first control interface varies according to changes in a sliding distance of a track formed by the input signal.

7. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 6, the processing module further being used such that after the input signal terminates, if the sliding distance is higher than or equal to a threshold distance, the first control interface displayed on the touch display module is replaced with a second control interface.

8. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 7, the processing module further being used such that after the input signal terminates, if the sliding distance is lower than the threshold distance, the displaying of the first control interface on the touch display module is discontinued and no image is displayed on the touch display module.

9. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the threshold distance is substantially two-thirds of the length of the signal input area.

10. The portable electronic device as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processing module is used for further defining the signal input area as comprising a plurality of blocks such that when the input signal is located within one specific block of the plurality of blocks, a part of the first control interface corresponding to the specific block on the touch display module is displayed, wherein the displayed ratio of the part varies according to changes in the sliding distance.