TWI502469B - Electrronic apparatus and multi-windows manipulating method thereof - Google Patents

Description

Electronic device and multi-window control method

The invention relates to an electronic device and a multi-window manipulation method thereof, in particular to a multi-window manipulation method suitable for a single electronic device.

At present, the Windows 7 operating system supporting multi-touch (Multiple Touch) allows the user to control the window with multiple touches at the same time, and when the window receives signals from multiple touch points, the signal can be used. Make a relative response. However, only the window that takes the Window focus can receive the touch signals and perform corresponding actions. For example, when the user uses two fingers to make two fingers approach or move away from the touch panel on the touch panel, the size of the webpage content (such as text or image) displayed by the web browser is scaled; If another user's finger (or the other user's other finger) continues to click on another window, the two-finger zoom action made by the original user will not be able to correspond to the web browser. control.

In addition, there are similar situations for various input devices such as a keyboard and a mouse. For example, even if a computer is connected to multiple keyboards, when multiple users simultaneously click the keyboard, all the button signals are only transmitted to the current window focus. Windows. It can be seen from the above that Windows 7 is only suitable for multiple users to make multi-touch or keyboard operations on a single window. A user performs multi-touch and key input on multiple windows at the same time. However, today's desktop computer screens are quite large in size, so users will want to work on the same computer in a multi-person mode. For example, when someone edits a file on the computer, another person can browse the web page on the computer; or when a notebook computer is connected to multiple touch screens, different users can touch different touches. The screen operates to control the external screens at the same time.

The current network server system can support multiple people and multiple windows to operate at the same time. However, in addition to the continuous operation of the operating system of the server, each user who wants to access the server to access the data must additionally Prepare a computer and install the operating system, and the access to the data is communicated between the server (server) operating system and the client (client) operating system, which is shared with multiple people using multiple input devices. The goals of the same computer and its operating system are different.

In view of the above problems of the prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device and a multi-window manipulation method thereof, so as to solve the problem that the prior art cannot use multiple input devices to simultaneously share the same computer and its operating system. problem.

According to an object of the present invention, an electronic device includes an input interface, at least one display unit, a first input device, a second input device, and a processing module. Display unit is used to display the screen, input interface The face receives a first input signal generated by the first input device or receives a second input signal generated by the second input device. The processing module generates a first control signal or a second control signal according to the first input signal or the second input signal, and controls the first window of the window focus in the display unit according to the first control signal. Or, according to the second control signal, the second window of the window focus is obtained in the display unit. The first window is located in one of the first manipulation areas of the display unit, and the second window is located in one of the second manipulation areas of the display unit.

The processing module includes a distribution unit, a first area processing unit and a second area processing unit, and the distribution unit transmits the first input signal to the first area processing unit or transmits the second input signal to the second The area processing unit, and the first area processing unit generates the first control signal according to the first input signal, and the second area processing unit generates the second control signal according to the second input signal.

The display unit includes a first display screen and a second display screen, and the first window is located on the first display screen, and the second window is located on the second display screen.

The processing module further determines whether a third window has a window focus in the first manipulation area. When the third window has the window focus in the first manipulation area, the processing module loses the window focus even if the third window is lost. The first window is used to obtain the window focus in the first control area, and the processing module further determines whether the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, when the first control signal is not the first Processing module when the window moves from the first manipulation area to the second manipulation area That is, the first window is manipulated in the first manipulation area.

When the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the processing module further determines whether a fourth window has a window focus in the second control area, and the second control area When the fourth window has obtained the window focus, the processing module loses the window focus even if the fourth window, and the first window obtains the window focus in the second manipulation area, and controls the first window in the second manipulation area.

The present invention further provides a multi-window control method, which is applicable to an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one display unit, an input interface, and a processing module. The multi-window control method includes receiving a first input by using an input interface. The device generates a first input signal, or receives a second input signal generated by a second input device, and transmits the first input signal or the second input signal to the processing module, and then the processing module according to the first Inputting a signal or a second input signal to generate a first control signal or a second control signal, and finally processing the first window of the window focus by the processing module according to the first control signal, or according to the second The control signal controls the display unit to obtain a second window of the window focus; wherein the first window is located in one of the first manipulation regions of the display unit, and the second window is located in one of the second manipulation regions of the display unit.

The processing module includes a distribution unit, a first area processing unit and a second area processing unit, and the distribution unit transmits the first input signal to the first area processing unit or transmits the second input signal to the second a regional processing unit, and the first regional processing unit is based on the first input The input signal generates a first control signal, and the second area processing unit generates a second control signal according to the second input signal.

Wherein, when the display unit comprises a first display screen and a second display screen, the first window is located on the first display screen, and the second window is located on the second display screen.

The control method further includes the following steps of the processing module: first determining whether a third window has a window focus in the first manipulation area, and when the third window has the window focus in the first manipulation area, The third window loses the focus of the window, and then causes the first window to obtain the focus of the window in the first manipulation area, and then determines whether the first manipulation signal moves the first window from the first manipulation area to the second manipulation area, and when the first manipulation When the signal does not move the first window from the first manipulation area to the second manipulation area, the first window is manipulated in the first manipulation area.

Wherein, when the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the control method further includes the following steps in the processing module: first determining whether there is a first control area in the second control area The four windows obtain the window focus. When the fourth window has the window focus in the second manipulation area, the fourth window loses the window focus, and then the first window obtains the window focus in the second manipulation area, and finally the second window. The control area controls the first window.

According to the above, the electronic device and the multi-window manipulation method thereof have the following advantages:

(1) The electronic device and its multi-window control method can control the same computer for multiple work by multiple input devices, thereby improving the electric power The flexibility and convenience of the brain.

(2) The electronic device and the multi-window control method can be formed into different control areas by the drawing sub-display unit, thereby improving multi-touch variability in performing multi-touch.

Please refer to FIGS. 1A and 1B, which are block diagrams showing first and second embodiments of the electronic device of the present invention. As shown, the electronic device 1 of the present invention includes an input interface 10, at least one display unit 11, a first input device 12, a second input device 13, and a processing module 14. The display unit 11 is configured to display a screen. The input interface 10 receives a first input signal 120 generated by the first input device 12 or receives a second input signal 130 generated by the second input device 13. The processing module 14 generates a first control signal 121 or a second control signal 131 according to the first input signal 120 or the second input signal 130, and controls the acquisition window in the display unit 11 according to the first control signal 121. The first window 20 of one of the focus points, or the second window 30 of the window focus is obtained in the display unit 11 according to the first control signal 131. The first window 20 is located in the first manipulation area 2 of one of the display units 11 , and the second window 30 is located in the second manipulation area 3 of one of the display units 11 . The first embodiment and the second embodiment differ only in that, in the first embodiment, the display unit 11 is only a single display device, and the first control region 2 and the second control region 3 are displayed on the same display device. The display unit of the second embodiment includes a first display screen 110 and a second display screen 111, and the first control area 2 and the second control area The fields 3 are displayed on the first display screen 110 and the second display screen 111, respectively.

The processing module 14 includes a distribution unit 140, a first area processing unit 141 and a second area processing unit 142. The distribution unit 140 transmits the first input signal 120 to the first area processing unit 141, or The second input processing unit 141 generates a first control signal 121 according to the first input signal 120, and the second area processing unit 142 generates a second image according to the second input signal 130. Control signal 131.

The content of each control area is the desktop and window seen by a typical personal computer. Each area processing unit transmits the received control signals of touch, mouse and button to each control area and its window, and is responsible for The window of the manipulation area operates. For example, depending on the click of the mouse, it is determined which window has the window focus and the key signal is transmitted to the window having the Window focus. Therefore, each control area has its own Window focus window.

Please refer to FIG. 2 to FIG. 5 , which are schematic diagrams of an embodiment of an electronic device and a multi-window manipulation method thereof according to the present invention. As shown in the figure, in the preferred embodiment, the electronic device 1 can be a desktop computer, the processing module 14 can be a central processing unit (CPU), and the display unit 11 can be a single screen. The first control area 2 and the second control area 3 (each of which includes the first window 20 and the second window 30 respectively) are in different blocks on the same screen, and the first manipulation area 2 and the second manipulation Each of the regions 3 can be a separate working desktop (as shown in Fig. 2, the coordinates of the mouse are limited by the processing units of each region in their corresponding control regions, that is, the corresponding working desktops) or share the same work. The desktop (as shown in Figure 3, the coordinates of the mouse can be in any control area), the left half of the screen shows the first control area 2, and the right half of the screen shows the second control area 3, the area The size can be controlled by the black line in the figure. In other preferred embodiments, the display unit 11 can include a first display screen 110 and a second display screen 111 (in this example, a touch screen), such as a notebook with a dual touch screen. In the computer, the touch screen entity is two displays plus two touch panels, but the present invention sets the two sets of touch screens into an Extend Mode, so the architecture can be regarded as a display and a touch. Control panel. The first window 20 is located on the first display screen 110, and the second window 30 is located on the second display screen 111. Similarly, the first manipulation area 2 and the second manipulation area 3 may each be a separate working desktop (as shown in FIG. 4) or share the same working desktop (as shown in FIG. 5). It is worth mentioning that when sharing the same work desktop, in order to let the user know which mouse pointer corresponds to which mouse, the mouse pointer will have text or graphics 4, 5; and the allocation unit 140 will A control signal 121 and a second control signal 131 are integrated and transmitted to the display card, and the display card controls the display unit 11 to display the corresponding control.

The processing module 14 further determines whether a third window (not shown) in the first control area 2 has obtained the window focus. When the third window has the window focus in the first control area 2, the processing module 14 Even if the third window loses the focus of the window and causes the first window 20 to be in the first manipulation area The window module is obtained in the domain 2, and the processing module 14 further determines whether the first control signal 121 moves the first window 20 from the first control area 2 to the second control area 3. When the first control signal 121 does not open the first window When moving from the first control area 2 to the second control area 3, the processing module 14 controls the first window 20 in the first manipulation area 2. In addition, when the first control signal 121 moves the first window 20 from the first manipulation area 2 to the second manipulation area 3, the processing module 14 further determines whether there is a fourth window in the second manipulation area 3 (not drawn The window focus is obtained. When the fourth window has the window focus in the second control area 3, the processing module 14 loses the window focus even in the fourth window, and causes the first window 20 to obtain the window in the second manipulation area 3. Focusing, and manipulating the first window 20 in the second manipulation area 3.

In some preferred embodiments, the first input device 11 and the second input device 12 can be a keyboard, a mouse, or a touch screen. In the embodiment using the touch screen, since the touch screen has its own coordinate system, each desktop also has its own coordinate system. When the touch screen emits a touch signal, the distribution unit 140 according to the coordinates of the touch point and The position of each desktop area on the screen determines which control area to transmit the touch signal to. And converting the coordinates of the signal to the coordinates of the desktop before transmission, as shown in FIG. 6, which includes the following steps: (S10) determining, by the allocation unit, which control area the touch signal belongs to; (S20) to allocate The unit determines whether the coordinate system of the touch screen is the same as the touch area; (S30) when the coordinate system of the touch screen is the same as the touch area, the touch signal is transmitted to the processing module to generate a corresponding control signal; S21) when the coordinate system of the touch screen is different from the touch area, The touch point coordinates indicated by the touch signal conform to the coordinate system of the touch screen; and (S22) the touch signal transmitted by the converted coordinate system to the processing module generates a corresponding control signal.

In a preferred embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the size of the touch screen is 1200×800, and the origin (0, 0) of the touch screen overlaps with the origin O _{1 of the} first control area 2 on the left side. The origin O ₂ of the second control area 3 on the right is the touch screen (600, 0), and if the touch point is located in the first control area 2 on the left side, the information of the touch point is transmitted to the left side. The first area processing unit 141 of the control area 2, if the touch point is located in the second control area 3 on the right side, the x-axis coordinate of the touch point is first subtracted 600 and then transmitted to the second control area having the right side. The second area processing unit 142 of 3. In another preferred embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, the size of the touch screen is 1280×1600, and the origin (0, 0) of the touch screen overlaps with the origin O _{1 of the} first control area 2 below. The origin O ₂ of the upper second control area 3 is the touch screen (0,800). If the touch point is located below the first control area 2, the touch point information is transmitted to the lower desktop. The first area processing unit 141, if the touch point is located at the upper second control area 3, the y-axis coordinate of the touch point is first subtracted 800 and then transmitted to the second second control area 3 Area processing unit 142. In addition, when a certain area processing unit receives a plurality of touch points at the same time, the area processing unit can form the touch points into a touch gesture (Touch Gesture), such as two-finger zoom, and then transmit the signal to the phase. The corresponding control area (such as each work desktop), and the window of the desktop to obtain the window focus (Window focus) can therefore make corresponding actions, such as zooming in or out.

In addition, since the signal of the mouse is basically a relative coordinate, not an absolute coordinate, the distribution unit 140 directly transmits the signal of the mouse to the corresponding corresponding regional processing unit according to the user's setting and the source of the mouse signal. No coordinate conversion is required. As shown in Fig. 7, when the user moves mouse A (Mouse A), the mouse message is transmitted to the area processing unit of the first user (user 1); when the user moves mouse B (Mouse B) The mouse message is transmitted to the area processing unit of the second user (user 2). When the keyboard is used as the input device, the distribution unit 140 transmits the signal of the button to the opposite area processing unit according to the user's setting and the source of the keyboard button signal. As shown in FIG. 7, when the user clicks on the keyboard D, the button message is transmitted to the area processing unit of the first user (user 1); when the user clicks the keyboard C (keyboard C), the button is pressed. The message is sent to the regional processing unit of the second user (user 2).

The embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed in detail in the above description, but in order to explain the present invention more clearly, the present invention will be further described in the following.

Please refer to FIG. 8 , which is a flowchart of the multi-window manipulation method of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the present invention further provides a multi-window control method, which is applicable to an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one display unit, an input interface, and a processing module. The multi-window manipulation method includes the following steps: S40) receiving, by the input interface, a first input signal generated by a first input device, or receiving a second input signal generated by a second input device, and transmitting the first input signal or the second input signal to the processing mode Group; (S50) to process the module according to the first input signal or a second input signal to generate a first control signal or a second control signal; and (S60) to process the first window of the window focus in the display unit according to the first control signal, or according to the second The control signal controls the display unit to obtain a second window of the window focus. The first window is located in one of the first manipulation areas of the display unit, and the second window is located in one of the second manipulation areas of the display unit.

Please refer to FIG. 9 , which is another flowchart of the multi-window manipulation method of the present invention. The control method of the present invention further includes the following steps in the processing module before the step ( S60 ): (S51) determining the first Whether there is a third window in the manipulation area to obtain the window focus (S52), when the third window has the window focus in the first manipulation area, the third window loses the window focus; (S53) the first window is first Obtaining a window focus in the manipulation area; (S54) determining whether the first manipulation signal moves the first window from the first manipulation region to the second manipulation region; (S55) when the first manipulation signal does not move the first window from the first manipulation When the area moves to the second manipulation area, the first window is manipulated in the first manipulation area.

If it is determined in the step (S51) that the third window has not obtained the window focus, the step (S53) is performed.

If it is determined in the step (S54) that the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the control method of the present invention further includes the following steps in the processing module: (S56) Whether there is a fourth window in the second manipulation area to obtain the window focus; (S57) and when the fourth window has the window focus in the second manipulation area, the fourth window loses the window focus; (S58) makes the first Window in the second operation The window focus is obtained in the control area; and (S59) the first window is manipulated in the second manipulation area.

If it is determined in step (S56) that there is no fourth window to obtain the window focus, the step (S59) is performed.

Through the above steps, the present invention can enable the user to click on a plurality of keyboards, and the key signals of the plurality of keyboards can be respectively sent to the corresponding window having the window focus, and the same when the user makes a plurality of touch gestures ( Touch Gesture can also transmit signals to the corresponding window with window focus, and for each mouse pointer, it can be moved anywhere in the control area. In order to achieve the above functions, the present invention cuts the table into a plurality of control areas, and the cutting method can separate the picture from the two control areas by the black line as shown in the third or fifth figure, and the size of each picture can be dragged by The black line changes. The cut control area is the left half of the black line and the right half of the black line in Figure 3, or the lower half of the black line and the half of the black line as in Figure 5, and each control area can only have one window with window focus at the same time. Therefore, in the case of the third or fifth figure, there are at most two windows with window focus. Since each control area can only have one window with window focus, the user can use the graphical interface provided by the control area setting module (as shown in Figure 10), when the area processing unit receives the keyboard B (Keyboard B) When the button message is sent, the message is sent to the window of the first control area (Region 1) having the window focus, and when the area processing unit receives the button information of the keyboard A (Keyboard A), the message is sent. Send to the second control area (Region 2) the window that has the window focus. So that the control module can set the relative keyboard according to each control area. When the regional processing unit receives the signal of the keyboard, the button signal can be sent to the window corresponding to the window of the corresponding control area according to the setting.

According to the electronic device of the present invention and the multi-window control method, the same computer can be controlled by multiple input devices to perform multi-work, thereby improving the flexibility and convenience of the computer; and the drawing display unit can be different. The control area, in addition to multi-touch, improves the variability of multi-touch.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

1‧‧‧Electronic device

10‧‧‧Input interface

11‧‧‧Display unit

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111‧‧‧Second display screen

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120‧‧‧First input signal

121‧‧‧First control signal

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130‧‧‧Second input signal

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140‧‧‧Distribution unit

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1A is a block diagram of a first embodiment of an electronic device of the present invention; FIG. 1B is a block diagram of an electronic device and a second embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 2 is a diagram of an electronic device of the present invention 1 is a first schematic view of a first embodiment of an electronic device according to the present invention; and FIG. 4 is a first schematic view of a second embodiment of the electronic device of the present invention; The figure is a second embodiment of the second embodiment of the electronic device of the present invention. 6 is a flow chart of the touch screen corresponding to the display unit for processing the touch signal according to the multi-window control method of the present invention; FIG. 7 is a different processing for setting the different input devices for the user of the electronic device of the present invention; The first schematic diagram of the region; the eighth diagram is a flowchart of the multi-window manipulation method of the present invention; the ninth diagram is another flowchart of the multi-window manipulation method of the present invention; and the tenth diagram is the invention The user of the electronic device sets a second schematic diagram of different input devices corresponding to different processing regions.

S40~S60‧‧‧Steps

Claims (6)

A multi-window control method is applicable to an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one display unit, an input interface, and a processing module. The multi-window control method includes: receiving a first input device by using the input interface. Generating a first input signal, or receiving a second input signal generated by a second input device, and transmitting the first input signal or the second input signal to the processing module; The first input signal or the second input signal is configured to generate a first control signal or a second control signal; and the processing module controls the at least one display unit to obtain the window focus according to the first control signal. a first window, or a second window of the at least one display unit that obtains a focus of the window according to the second control signal; wherein the first window is located in a first manipulation area of the at least one display unit, and the first window The second window is located in a second control area of the at least one display unit; the multi-window manipulation method further comprises the following steps in the processing module: If the first control region has a third window focus acquisition window; if the first control region of the third window has focus acquisition window Pointing, causing the third window to lose the window focus; causing the first window to obtain the window focus in the first manipulation area; determining whether the first manipulation signal moves the first window from the first manipulation area to the a second control area; and when the first control signal does not move the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the first control area is controlled according to the first control area a window; when the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the control method further comprises: performing, by the processing module, the following step: determining the second control Whether there is a fourth window in the area to obtain the window focus; and when the fourth window has the window focus in the second control area, the fourth window is lost to the window focus; and the first window is in the second Obtaining a window focus in the manipulation area; and manipulating the first window in the second manipulation area according to the second manipulation signal. The multi-window control method of claim 1, wherein the processing module comprises an allocating unit, a first area processing unit and a second area processing unit, wherein the allocating unit is the first input signal Transmitting to the first area processing unit, or transmitting the second input signal to the second area processing unit, and The first area processing unit generates the first control signal according to the first input signal, and the second area processing unit generates the second control signal according to the second input signal. The method for controlling a multi-window according to claim 1, wherein the at least one display unit comprises a first display screen and a second display screen, and the first window is located on the first display screen, and the first The second window is located on the second display screen. An electronic device comprising: at least one display unit for displaying a picture; an input interface receiving a first input signal generated by a first input device, or receiving a second input generated by a second input device And the processing module is configured to generate a first control signal or a second control signal according to the first input signal or the second input signal, and control the at least one display unit according to the first control signal Obtaining a first window of the window focus, or controlling the second window of the at least one display unit to obtain the window focus according to the second control signal; wherein the first window is located in the first control of the at least one display unit a second window is located in a second control area of the at least one display unit; the processing module further determines whether a third window has a window focus in the first control area, when the first control area is in the first control area When the third window has obtained the window focus, the processing module even The third window loses the focus of the window, and the first window obtains the focus of the window in the first control area, and the processing module further determines whether the first control signal moves the first window from the first manipulation area to The second control area, when the first control signal does not move the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the processing module is configured according to the first control signal to the first control The area controls the first window; when the first control signal moves the first window from the first control area to the second control area, the processing module further determines whether the second control area has a first The four windows obtain the window focus. When the fourth window has the window focus in the second control area, the processing module loses the window focus even if the fourth window is in the second control area. Obtaining a window focus, and controlling the first window in the second manipulation area according to the second manipulation signal. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the processing module comprises a distribution unit, a first area processing unit and a second area processing unit, the distribution unit transmitting the first input signal to the The first area processing unit transmits the second input signal to the second area processing unit, and the first area processing unit generates the first control signal according to the first input signal, and the second area processing unit is Generating the second control signal according to the second input signal. An electronic device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the The first display unit includes a first display screen and a second display screen, and the first window is located on the first display screen, and the second window is located on the second display screen.