System and method for reducing occurrences of unintended operations in an electronic device
First Claim
1. An electronic device comprising:
- a touch screen assembly including a piezoelectric sensor at least indirectly connected to a touchable lens surface;
a different sensor; and
at least one processing device connected at least indirectly to the piezoelectric sensor and to the different sensor,wherein the at least one processing device is configured to determine whether an actuation of the piezoelectric sensor is invalid based at least in part upon information received by the processing device from the different sensor, andwherein the at least one processing device is configured to cause the electronic device to refrain from performing, or to perform, at least one operation upon making a determination that the actuation is invalid,wherein the at least one processing device is configured to determine whether the actuation is invalid based at least in part upon whether a component of a motion normal to a plane of the touchable lens surface exceeds a predetermined threshold, the motion being experienced by the electronic device and being detected by way of the different sensor.
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Abstract
A method of operating an electronic device, and an electronic device, are disclosed in which occurrences of unintended operations of the electronic device, such as can occur in response to inadvertent actuations of actuators of the electronic device, are reduced. In one example embodiment, the method 500 includes detecting 510 an actuation of a first sensor that is associated with a first touch-sensitive component of the electronic device, and acquiring 512 data from an additional sensor of the electronic device. The method also includes determining 518, based at least in part upon the data, whether the actuation is valid, and either performing 524 or refraining 522 from performing at least one operation based at least in part upon the determining. In at least one additional embodiment, the first sensor is a piezoelectric sensor and the additional sensor is an accelerometer.
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11 Claims
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1. An electronic device comprising:
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a touch screen assembly including a piezoelectric sensor at least indirectly connected to a touchable lens surface; a different sensor; and at least one processing device connected at least indirectly to the piezoelectric sensor and to the different sensor, wherein the at least one processing device is configured to determine whether an actuation of the piezoelectric sensor is invalid based at least in part upon information received by the processing device from the different sensor, and wherein the at least one processing device is configured to cause the electronic device to refrain from performing, or to perform, at least one operation upon making a determination that the actuation is invalid, wherein the at least one processing device is configured to determine whether the actuation is invalid based at least in part upon whether a component of a motion normal to a plane of the touchable lens surface exceeds a predetermined threshold, the motion being experienced by the electronic device and being detected by way of the different sensor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An electronic device comprising:
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a touch screen assembly including a piezoelectric sensor at least indirectly connected to a touchable lens surface; a motion sensor including one or more of an accelerometer, a gyro, an electronic compass, and a velocity sensor; and at least one processing device connected at least indirectly to the piezoelectric sensor and to the motion sensor, wherein the at least one processing device is configured to make a determination of whether an actuation of the piezoelectric sensor is invalid based at least in part upon information received by the processing device from the motion sensor, the information being indicative of whether a component of a motion normal to a plane of the touchable lens surface exceeds a predetermined threshold, and wherein the at least one processing device is configured to cause the electronic device to refrain from performing, or to perform, at least one operation upon the determination. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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