Single point-multi-finger gestures for touch panel

• US 9,134,841 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CBS Interactive Inc. (Paramount Global (f/k/a ViacomCBS Inc.)), VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Original Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Inventors: Hsieh, Kin-Hsing
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Tony N
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hsieh, Kin-Hsing
• Application Number:
  US13/564,433
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113728A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,140 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0414 using force sensing means to determine a position
• 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 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/045 using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact

Abstract

A controlling device applied to a touch panel. The controlling device includes a sampling module, a determining module and a reporting module. The sampling module samples electrical signals of the touch panel, and generates at least one trigger signal corresponding to the at least one touch event when at least one touch event occurs on the touch panel. The determining module determines whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture according to a position of the at least one trigger signal and sampled physical quantity. The reporting module reports the at least one touch event when the determining module determines that the at least one touch event corresponding to the at least one trigger signal is the single-point-multi-finger gesture.

Claims

1. A controlling device applied to a touch panel, comprising:

a sampling module implemented by hardware, sampling electrical signals of the touch panel, and when at least one touch event occurs on the touch panel, generating a trigger signal corresponding to the at least one touch event;

a determining module, determining whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture according to a position of the trigger signal and a number of risings of the trigger signal at the position, wherein the risings of the trigger signal correspond to sampled physical quantity; and

a reporting module, reporting the at least one touch event when the determining module determines that the at least one touch event corresponding to the trigger signal is the single-point-multi-finger gesture,

wherein the trigger signal comprises a first rising at a first time and a second rising at a second time, and the first time and the second time are different, and the first rising and the second rising occur at the same position.

2. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the single-point-multi-finger gesture comprises one or any combination of:

a first single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after a finger contacts a first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger;

a second single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, another finger taps on the finger at least once;

a third single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger, and then the at least one other finger leaves the finger in the first position;

a fourth single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger, and then the finger and the at least one other finger leave the touch panel in the first position; and

a fifth single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger and at least one other finger contact the first position of the touch panel, the at least one other finger leaves the finger in the first position.

3. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the determining module performs a determination according to one or any combination of:

a variation rates of the physical quantity;

an error value of the position; and

a result of determining whether the at least one touch event has been performed by a touch pen.

4. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the determining module further determines whether the at least one touch event corresponding to the trigger signal is a multi-point gesture, wherein the multi-point gesture comprises at least one single-point-multi-finger gesture.

9. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the trigger signal comprises at least one of:

a first trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time and the second rising at the second time;

a second trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and a first falling at a third time;

a third trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, the first falling at the third time, a third rising at a fourth time, and a second falling at a fifth time.

13. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first rising is caused by a first finger at a first position of the touch panel and the second rising is caused by the first finger and a second finger at the first position of the touch panel.

14. The controlling device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first rising is caused by a first number of fingers and the second rising is caused by a second number of fingers, and the first number of fingers is less than the second number of fingers.

5. A method for determining single-point-multi-finger gestures, applied to a touch panel, comprising:

sampling electrical signals of the touch panel, and when at least one touch event occurs on the touch panel, generating a trigger signal corresponding to the at least one touch event;

determining whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture according to a position of the trigger signal and a number of risings of the trigger signal at the position, wherein the risings of the trigger signal correspond to sampled physical quantity; and

reporting the at least one touch event when the at least one touch event corresponding to the trigger signal is determined as the single-point-multi-finger gesture,

wherein the trigger signal comprises a first rising at a first time and a second rising at a second time, and the first time and the second time are different, and the first rising and the second rising occur at the same position.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the single-point-multi-finger gesture comprises one or any combination of:

a first single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after a finger contacts a first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger;

a second single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, another finger taps the finger at least once;

a third single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger, and then the at least one other finger leaves the finger in the first position;

a fourth single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger contacts the first position of the touch panel, at least one other finger presses on the finger, and then the finger and the at least one other finger leave the touch panel in the first position; and

a fifth single-point-multi-finger gesture, wherein after the finger and at least one other finger contact the first position of the touch panel, the at least one other finger leaves the finger in the first position.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture is further determined according to one or any combination of:

a variation rates of the physical quantity;

an error value of the position; and

a result of determining whether the at least one touch event has been performed by a touch pen.

8. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

determining whether the at least one touch event corresponding to the trigger signal is a multi-point gesture, wherein the multi-point gesture comprises at least one single-point-multi-finger gesture.

10. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the trigger signal comprises at least one of:

a first trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time and the second rising at the second time;

a second trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and a first falling at a third time;

a third trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, the first falling at the third time, a third rising at a fourth time, and a second falling at a fifth time.

11. A controlling device applied to a touch panel, comprising:

a sampling module implemented by hardware, sampling electrical signals of the touch panel, and when at least one touch event occurs on the touch panel, generating at least one trigger signal corresponding to the at least one touch event;

a determining module, determining whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture according to a position of the at least one trigger signal and sampled physical quantity; and

a reporting module, reporting the at least one touch event when the determining module determines that the at least one touch event corresponding to the at least one trigger signal is the single-point-multi-finger gesture,

wherein the at least one trigger signal comprises one of;

a first trigger signal, comprising a first rising at a first time and a second rising at a second time;

a second trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and a first falling at a third time;

a third trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, the first falling at the third time, a third rising at a fourth time, and a second falling at a fifth time;

a fourth trigger signal and a fifth trigger signal, wherein the fourth trigger signal comprises the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and the first falling at the third time, and wherein the fifth trigger signal comprises the third rising at the third time and the second falling at the fourth time;

a sixth trigger signal and a seventh trigger signal, wherein the sixth trigger signal comprises the first rising at the first time and the first falling at the second time, and wherein the seventh trigger signal comprises the second rising at the second time and the second falling at the third time; and

an eighth trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time and the first falling at the second time, wherein the eighth trigger signal lowers to a non-zero status at the first falling at the second time.

12. A method for determining single-point-multi-finger gestures, applied to a touch panel, comprising:

sampling electrical signals of the touch panel, and when at least one touch event occurs on the touch panel, generating at least one trigger signal corresponding to the at least one touch event;

determining whether the at least one touch event is a single-point-multi-finger gesture according to a position of the at least one trigger signal and sampled physical quantity; and

reporting the at least one touch event when the at least one touch event corresponding to the at least one trigger signal is determined as the single-point-multi-finger gesture,

wherein the at least one trigger signal comprises one of;

a first trigger signal, comprising a first rising at a first time and a second rising at a second time;

a second trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and a first falling at a third time;

a third trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, the first falling at the third time, a third rising at a fourth time, and a second falling at a fifth time;

a fourth trigger signal and a fifth trigger signal, wherein the fourth trigger signal comprises the first rising at the first time, the second rising at the second time, and the first falling at the third time, and wherein the fifth trigger signal comprises the third rising at the third time and the second falling at the fourth time;

a sixth trigger signal and a seventh trigger signal, wherein the sixth trigger signal comprises the first rising at the first time and the first falling at the second time, and wherein the seventh trigger signal comprises the second rising at the second time and the second falling at the third time; and

an eighth trigger signal, comprising the first rising at the first time and the first

falling at the second time, wherein the eighth trigger signal lowers to a non-zero status at the first falling at the second time.