TW201610822A - Method of operating a touch control device - Google Patents

Abstract

When a touch control device operates under a first mode, generate input information according to a touch received by a plurality of different touch regions of the touch device under the first mode. The input information generated according to the plurality of touch regions of the touch control device under the first mode are different kinds of input information. Therefore, the users are able to choose the appropriate and intuitive ways for inputting information by using the touch control device without any extra external devices required.

Description

Touch device operation method

The present invention relates to a touch device, and more particularly to a touch device having touch regions with different functions.

With the increasing use of electronic devices, traditional input devices such as keyboards and mice have not been able to fully meet the requirements of users. In addition, in order to reduce the size or thinness of the electronic product, the number or size of the input holes originally used for the external input device may be limited, which makes the electronic device more difficult to design. Although the touch device can provide a more intuitive and diverse human-computer interaction mode, it is a popular input device in today's electronic devices, but in the prior art electronic devices, the touch device is regarded as a single device. The input device generates the required information in the same operation manner according to the touch signal received by the touch device, and cannot utilize various human-computer interaction methods provided by the touch device.

Therefore, how to use a single touch device as a different input device or input message source of the electronic device, so that the user can input information in an appropriate and intuitive manner without externally connecting the device becomes a problem to be solved.

An embodiment of the invention provides a method of operating a touch device. The operation method includes: when the touch device is in the first mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device in the plurality of different touch regions in the first mode. The plurality of touch zones of the touch device in the first mode are driven by a plurality of different drivers to generate different types of input messages.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of operating a touch device. The operation method includes: when the touch device is in the first mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device in the plurality of different touch regions in the first mode; and the touch device is in the first mode Switching to a second mode; and when the touch device is in the second mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch area in the second mode. The number of touch areas in the first mode of the touch device is different from the number of touch areas in the second mode of the touch device and/or the touch area of the touch device in the first mode. The type of input message is different from the type of input message generated by the touch device in the touch mode in the second mode.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of operating a touch device. The operation method includes: when the touch device is in the first mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch area in the first mode; and switching the touch device from the first mode to the second mode And when the touch device is in the second mode, the input message is generated according to the touch action received by the touch device in the plurality of different touch regions in the second mode. The types of input messages generated according to the plurality of touch areas in the second mode are different.

100‧‧‧ touch device

110a, 110b, 110c, 210a, 210b‧‧‧ touch area

A, B, C‧‧‧ touch action

300‧‧‧How to operate

S310, S320, S330‧‧‧ steps

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a touch device operating in a first mode according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the touch device of FIG. 1 operating in the second mode.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the operation method of the touch device of FIG. 1 .

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a touch device 100 operating in a first mode according to an embodiment of the invention. In the first embodiment, the touch device 100 is operated in the first mode, and the touch device 100 can include different touch regions 110a, 110b, and 110c. Each of the touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c can use different methods to interpret the received touch actions to generate an input message. In short, in the embodiment of FIG. 1, the touch device 100 is an input device that can simultaneously provide three different input messages. In an embodiment of the invention, the touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c can be driven by different drivers to generate different types of input messages. The driver program of the present invention is not limited to the firmware program for driving the hardware device, but may also be a software program designed for the touch area of the touch device 100, and its function is to enable the operation of the electronic device. The system facilitates operation of each touch area of the touch device 100 to obtain and interpret input messages corresponding to the touch areas.

In an embodiment of the invention, the touch area 110a can be a handwriting touch area, and when it receives the touch action combination A including at least one touch action, the text or symbol is input according to the touch action combination A. That is, the touch device 100 can use the touch area 110a to record the shape feature of the touch action combination A input by the user as an input message, and compare the text or symbol input by the user.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the touch area 110b can be a touch area of the touch panel, and when the touch action B is received, the cursor on the display screen is moved according to the movement path of the touch action B, that is, touch The control area 110b can convert the relative position of the cursor in the display screen according to the movement path movement of the touch action B. Therefore, the touch area 110b can be used to replace the function of the mouse in the general electronic device.

In an embodiment of the invention, the touch area 110c can be a button touch area, and when the touch action C is received, the button is triggered according to the touch action C. For example, a common notebook computer often has a numeric keypad in a standard keyboard because of its size. To compensate for the inconvenience caused by this lack, the touch area 110c can be designed as a digital button, and when the touch action C When the position of the number key 1 in the touch device is triggered, the number key 1 is triggered and the number 1 is used as an input message.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c can be used as touch areas for other functions, in addition to the handwriting touch area, the touch panel touch area, and the button touch area. For example, the touch area 110b can also be used as a coordinate touch area, and when the touch action B is received, the coordinates of the display screen are selected according to the touch action B. That is, any point on the touch area 100b can correspond to a point of the display screen. Therefore, the coordinates corresponding to the display screen can be selected according to the position of the touch area B received by the touch area 100b, and the input information is used as the input information. In addition, the touch areas 110a, 110b and 110c can also be used to support other touch input methods, such as a touch area or a drawing area for facilitating game operations, etc., depending on the needs of the system.

In addition, in the first mode, the touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c of the touch device 100 can simultaneously generate corresponding input messages according to the touch actions received by each touch area. In this way, the touch device 100 can be used as an input device for providing different input message sources, so that the user can input information in an appropriate and intuitive manner without external devices.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the touch device 100 can switch the touch device 100 from the first mode to the second mode according to a specific switching triggering action, and the switching triggering action can be designed as a trigger hot key or The combination of touch actions, the touch action combination can be, for example, horizontally sliding with a three-finger distance, or other preset touch action combinations.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the touch device 100 operating in the second mode. In the second embodiment, the touch device 100 is operated in the second mode, and the touch device 100 can include touch regions 210a and 210b. In the second mode, the touch areas 210a and 210b of the touch device 100 can have a larger area than the touch areas 110a, 110b or 110c, so that a larger area operation mode can be more convenient, for example, the touch can be touched. The control area 210a is designed to facilitate the touch area of the game operation. At this time, the touch area 210a can support the button and track recognition similar to the video joystick for the user to operate, and the touch area 210b can still be used as the touch area of the touch panel. . In other embodiments of the present invention, the touch areas 210a and 210b can also be the touch panel touch area, the button touch area, the handwriting touch area, the coordinate touch area, or other various touch input methods. One. In addition, the touch device 100 can operate in other modes in addition to the first and second modes, and in other modes, the touch device 100 can have only a single touch area, or other number of touches. Control area. In short, the touch device 100 can operate in a plurality of different modes according to the needs of the user or the system, and the different modes can have different numbers, different input message types or different sizes of touch areas, and the plural of the same mode. The size and shape of the touch areas may be the same or different. For example, in an embodiment of the present invention, when the touch device is operated in the first mode, the touch device can also have only a single touch area, and the input can be generated according to the touch action received by the touch area. message. The touch device can be switched to the second mode. When the touch device is operated in the second mode, the touch device can have a plurality of touch regions, and can be based on a plurality of different touch regions in the second mode. The received touch action generates an input message. Due to the plurality of touch areas according to the second mode The types of input messages generated are different, so the touch device can still function as an input device for generating different input messages.

In addition, the location of the touch areas 110a, 110b, 110c, 210a, and 210b is only for the convenience of the embodiments of the present invention. In other embodiments of the present invention, the touch areas 110a, 110b, 110c, 210a, and 210b are also Other location assignments are possible and are within the scope of the invention.

FIG. 3 illustrates a method 300 of operating the touch device 100 according to an embodiment of the invention. The method 300 includes the following steps: S310: when the touch device 100 is in the first mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device 110 in the first mode of the touch regions 110a, 110b, and 110c; S320: Switching the touch device 100 from the first mode to the second mode; S330: when the touch device 100 is in the second mode, according to the touch regions 210a and 210b of the touch device 100 in the second mode The received touch action generates an input message.

The touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c of the touch device 100 in the first mode can be driven by three distinct drivers to generate different kinds of input messages. For example, 110a can be used as a handwriting touch area, 110b can be used as a touch panel touch area, and 110c can be used as a button touch area, that is, touch areas 110a, 110b, and 110c can be driven by different drivers to generate different types. Input message.

In addition, in step S320, the touch device 100 can be switched from the first mode to the second mode through a specific switching triggering action, for example, by pressing a preset hot key, using a three-finger horizontal sliding distance, or other pre- Set the touch action combination as the trigger trigger action. The number of the touch areas of the touch device 100 in the first mode may be different from the number of the touch areas of the touch device 100 in the second mode. For example, in the second mode, the touch device 100 may only include Two touch areas 210a and 210b. The touch areas 210a and 210b can be designed to support touch areas of different touch input modes according to the needs of the system. In step S330, the corresponding input message can be generated according to the touch action received by the touch areas 210a and 210b of the touch device 100.

In this way, the touch device 100 can be used as an input device that can generate different input messages through the operation method 300 of the touch device 100, and the user can not install other devices. In the case of the setting, the touch device is used to select an appropriate and intuitive way to input information.

In summary, according to the operation method of the touch device according to the embodiment of the present invention, a single touch device can provide different input information sources of the electronic device, so that the user can use the device without external devices. Intuitive input of information, simplifying the design of electronic devices and making electronic devices easier to operate.

The above are only the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all changes and modifications made to the scope of the present invention should be within the scope of the present invention.

300‧‧‧How to operate

S310, S320, S330‧‧‧ steps

Claims (12)

A method for operating a touch device includes: when the touch device is in a first mode, generating an input according to a touch action received by the touch device in the plurality of different touch regions in the first mode a message; wherein the type of the input message generated according to the touch areas in the first mode is different. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch area of the touch device in the first mode comprises a touch panel touch area, a touch area, a hand touch area, and/or a touch Control area. The method of claim 2, wherein when the touch device is in the first mode, the input message is generated according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch region in the first mode. When the touch panel touch area receives a touch action, a cursor is moved according to the movement path of the touch action. The method of claim 2, wherein when the touch device is in the first mode, the input message is generated according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch region in the first mode. When the button touch area receives a touch action, a button is triggered according to the touch action. The method of claim 2, wherein when the touch device is in the first mode, the input message is generated according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch region in the first mode. When the handwriting touch area receives the touch action combination including at least one touch action, a text or a symbol is input according to the touch action combination. The method of claim 2, wherein when the touch device is in the first mode, the input message is generated according to the touch action received by the touch device in the touch region in the first mode. When the coordinate touch area receives a touch action, a seat of the display screen is selected according to the touch action Standard. The method of claim 1, further comprising: switching the touch device from the first mode to a second mode; and when the touch device is in the second mode, according to the touch device The touch action received by the touch area in the second mode generates an input message; wherein the number of touch areas in the first mode and the touch area of the touch device in the second mode are The number of input messages generated by the touch device in the first mode and the type of input message generated by the touch device in the touch region in the second mode Different. The operating method of the touch device includes: when the touch device is in a first mode, generating an input message according to the touch action received by the touch device in the first mode next touch region; The touch device is switched from the first mode to the second mode; and when the touch device is in the second mode, according to the plurality of different touch regions of the touch device in the second mode The received touch action generates an input message; wherein the type of the input message generated according to the touch zones in the second mode is different. The method of claim 7 or 8, wherein switching the touch device from the first mode to the second mode switches the touch device from the first mode to the second mode according to a switching triggering action The switching trigger action is to trigger a hot key or a touch action combination. The method of claim 1 or 8, wherein the plurality of touch zones of the touch device in the same mode simultaneously generate corresponding input messages according to the touch actions received by each touch zone. The method of claim 1 or 8, wherein the touch areas are driven by a plurality of different drivers to generate input messages, and the different drivers are software programs and/or firmware programs. The method of claim 1 or 8, further comprising combining the plurality of touch modules into the touch device.