Method for setting and method for detecting virtual key of touch panel

• US 9,223,498 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2012
• Issued: 12/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Chung, Chao-Hsiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Deaderick, Elliott
• Application Number:
  US13/438,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20130113724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: 345/172, 345/173, 715/762, 715/763, 715/773, 715/863, 178 1801- 1811
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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 method for setting and a method for detecting a virtual key of a touch panel are provided. The method for setting the virtual key of the touch panel includes the following steps. A setting interface is provided. A key function is received via the setting interface by a processor. A key area is received via the setting interface by the processor. The key function and the key area are stored in a register. The register corresponds to the virtual key.

Claims

1. A method for setting a virtual key of a touch panel, comprising:

providing a setting interface;

providing a register when a key selecting button is pressed;

storing a key function in the register when the key function is inputted;

displaying a basic graphic in a graphic region and recording both a shape of the basic graphic to a shape information and a stop position of the basic graphic when the basic graphic is dragged from a graphic selecting region to the graphic region and released; and

saving the shape information and the stop position in the register when a save button in a control region is pressed;

wherein the setting interface comprises a position display region for displaying coordinate data of the stop position.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a coordinate system of the graphic region is directly proportional to that of the touch panel.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the setting interface further comprises a function input region for inputting the key function.