Touch method for palm rejection and electronic device using the same

• US 9,261,992 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Issued: 02/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Original Assignee: Gigabyte Technology Company Limited (Giga-Byte Technology Co.)
• Inventors: Ma, Mou Ming, Liu, Yi Yuan, Kuo, Hsiang Yun
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Long D
• Application Number:
  US14/075,229
• Publication Number:
  US 20140132538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers

Abstract

The present invention discloses a touch method for palm rejection and an electronic device using the same. The electronic device comprises a touch panel and a control unit, wherein the touch panel has a first detection region and includes a first operation mode and second operation mode, and the touch panel correspondingly performs a clicking or sliding motion by detection at the second operation mode. The control unit is electrically connected to the touch panel, when the first detection region detects a motion at the first operation mode, the touch panel generates a detecting signal correspondingly to be transmitted to the control unit, and then the control unit generates a control signal to the touch panel. Thus, the touch panel activates the first operation mode and ceases the second operation mode correspondingly provided that no motion is detected for a first period of time at the second operation mode.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a touch panel having a first detection region and a second detection region, and including a first operation mode and a second operation mode, wherein the first detection region and the second detection region of the touch panel is capable of correspondingly performing a clicking or sliding motion by detection at the second operation mode; and

a control unit electrically connected to the touch panel, wherein the touch panel is preset to operate at the first operation mode, when the first detection region detects a pressed motion lasted for a first period of time at the first operation mode, the touch panel generates a detecting signal correspondingly to be transmitted to the control unit, the control unit determines based on the detecting signal so as to generate a control signal to the touch panel, and the touch panel activates the second operation mode and ceases the first operation mode according to the control signal, wherein the touch panel activates the first operation mode and ceases the second operation mode correspondingly provided that no motion is detected for a second period of time at the second operation mode.

2. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first detection region is distinguished from the second detection region by different lines, colors or materials.

3. The electronic device as claimed in claims 2, further comprising a display unit electrically connected to the control unit and the touch panel, wherein the display unit is used for displaying the touch panel operated at the first or second operation mode.

4. The electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first detection region is distinguished from the second detection region by installed locations on the touch panel.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claims 4, further comprising a display unit electrically connected to the control unit and the touch panel, wherein the display unit is used for displaying the touch panel operated at the first or second operation mode.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claims 1, further comprising a display unit electrically connected to the control unit and the touch panel, wherein the display unit is used for displaying the touch panel operated at the first or second operation mode.

7. A touch method for palm rejection adapted to an electronic device having a touch panel, the touch panel having a first detection region and a second detection region, the method comprising:

presetting the touch panel to operate at a first operation mode;

detecting a pressed motion lasted for a first period of time in the first detection region of the touch panel at the first operation mode, the touch panel generating a detecting signal correspondingly to be transmitted to a control unit of the electronic device;

determining by the control unit whether the motion is an activating command according to the detecting signal, if the motion is the activating command, the control unit generates a control signal to the touch panel correspondingly;

driving the touch panel to activate a second operation mode and cease the first operation mode correspondingly according to the control signal, wherein the first detection region and the second detection region of the touch panel is capable of performing a clicking or sliding motion by detection at the second operation mode correspondingly; and

controlling the touch panel by the control unit to activate the first operation mode and cease the second operation mode correspondingly provided that no motion is detected for a second period of time at the second operation mode, wherein the control unit controls the touch panel not to perform a function corresponding to the detecting signal provided that the control unit determines that the motion is not the activating command.

8. The touch method as claimed in claims 7, further comprising:

displaying the touch panel operated at the first or second operation mode by a display unit.