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US20090160808A1 - Method for controlling electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus using the method - Google Patents

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US20090160808A1
US20090160808A1 US12/334,530 US33453008A US2009160808A1 US 20090160808 A1 US20090160808 A1 US 20090160808A1 US 33453008 A US33453008 A US 33453008A US 2009160808 A1 US2009160808 A1 US 2009160808A1
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  • the application relates to a control method of an electronic apparatus, and more particularly, to a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to one of two touch inputs, and an electronic apparatus adopting the method.
  • an electronic apparatus includes a touch sensitive module, for example a smartphone, a PDA (personal digital assistance), or a PDA phone, on which the user can move his/her finger to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • a touch sensitive module for example a smartphone, a PDA (personal digital assistance), or a PDA phone
  • the user's finger is moving on the touch sensitive module, other parts of the user's body (e.g., the palm, other finger(s) or the other hand) might touch the touch sensitive module accidentally, which leads to misjudgment of the electronic apparatus.
  • the user fails to control the electronic apparatus as expected.
  • the application provides a method for controlling an electronic apparatus by referring to the parameters of two touch inputs to determining to employ which one of the two touch inputs to control the operation of the electronic deice. In this way, the aforementioned issue can be solved.
  • a method of controlling an electronic apparatus includes: when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • a recording medium for recording a computer program includes program codes for executing the following steps: when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed to control an operation of an electronic apparatus.
  • an electronic apparatus includes: a touch sensitive module; a controller coupled to the touch sensitive module for detecting a touch input to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the touch input; and a processing unit coupled to the touch sensitive module.
  • the controller compares a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one exemplary embodiment of an electronic apparatus which employs a control method of the application.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. The method can be summarized as follows:
  • step S 110 Determine whether a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected. If so, go to step S 120 ; otherwise, go back to step S 110 .
  • the application also provides an electronic apparatus which employs the above-mentioned method.
  • the electronic apparatus can be a handheld electronic apparatus (e.g., a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a personal digital assistant).
  • a handheld electronic apparatus e.g., a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a personal digital assistant.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one exemplary embodiment of an electronic apparatus 200 which employs the control method of the application.
  • the electronic apparatus 200 includes a touch sensitive module 210 , a controller 220 , and a processing unit 230 .
  • the controller 220 is coupled to the touch sensitive module 210 , and is implemented for detecting a touch input on the touch sensitive module 210 to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the touch input.
  • the processing unit 230 is coupled to controller 220 . When the controller 220 detects a first touch input and a second touch input on the touch sensitive module 210 , the processing unit 230 then compares a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signal is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus 200 .
  • the first parameter of the first touch input is a starting time point of the first touch input
  • the second parameter of the second touch input is a starting time point of the second touch input.
  • the processing unit 230 checks the time sequence of starting time points of the first and second touch inputs T 1 , T 2 according to first and second sensing signals S 1 , S 2 generated from the first and second touch inputs T 1 , T 2 respectively, in order to determine which one of the first sensing signal S 1 and the second sensing signal S 2 is employed for controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 .
  • the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S 1 and refers to the second sensing signal S 2 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 ; on the other hand, when the starting time point t 2 of the second touch input T 2 is earlier than the starting time point t 1 of the first touch input T 1 , the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S 2 and refers to the first sensing signal S 1 to control the operation of electronic apparatus 200 .
  • the first parameter of the first touch input is a displacement value of the first touch input
  • the second parameter of the second touch input is a displacement value of the second touch input.
  • the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S 1 and refers to the second sensing signal S 2 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 ; on the other hand, when the displacement value D 2 of the second touch input T 2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D later than the displacement value D 1 of the first touch input T 1 , the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S 2 and refers to the first sensing signal S 1 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 .
  • parameters of touch inputs are not limited to starting time points of touch inputs (e.g., t 1 and t 2 ) and displacement values of touch inputs (e.g., D 1 and D 2 ).
  • the processing unit may compare any parameter of touch inputs to select one of the sensing signals generated from the touch inputs to control the operation of the electronic apparatus. This design variation is still within the scope of the application.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. The steps of the control method are briefly summarized as follows:
  • step S 310 Determine whether a first touch input on a touch sensitive module is detected. If so, go to step S 320 ; otherwise, go back to step S 310 ;
  • step S 320 Determine whether a second touch input is detected while the first touch input is not terminated yet. If so, go to step S 330 ; otherwise, go back to step S 310 ;
  • the processing unit ignores the first touch sensing signal generated from the first touch input and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input.
  • the controller 220 detects a touch input T 1 from the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 first to generate a sensing signal S 1 , and then detects another touch input T 2 from the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 later to generate another sensing signal S 2 , the processing unit 230 will ignore the sensing signal S 1 and control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according the sensing signal S 2 .
  • the processing unit 230 further determines a displacement value of a touch input according to the sensing signal.
  • the displacement value corresponds to a moving distance of user's finger on the touch sensitive module 210 .
  • the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute a specific function according to sensing signal S 2 .
  • the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D 2 of the touch input T 2 does not exceed the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S 2 , the processing unit 230 does not control the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function.
  • the specific function can be a panning function.
  • the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D 2 of the touch input T 2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S 2 , the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the panning function to pan a page displayed on a screen of a mobile phone according to the sensing signal S 2 .
  • the specific function can be a scrolling function. Therefore, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D 2 of the touch input T 2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S 2 , the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the scrolling function to scroll a page displayed on a screen of a mobile phone according to the sensing signal S 2 .
  • the processing unit 230 ignores the sensing signal S 1 corresponding to the touch input T 1 and controls the electronic apparatus 200 according to the sensing signal S 2 corresponding to the touch input T 2 .
  • the processing unit 230 does not control the electronic apparatus 230 to execute the specific function according to the sensing signal S 2 within the predetermined period of time t after the controller 220 detects the touch input T 2 , the processing unit 230 will no longer ignore the sensing signal S 1 corresponding to the touch input T 1 and will refer to one of the sensing signals S 1 , S 2 corresponding to the touch inputs T 1 , T 2 respectively to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 beyond the predetermined period of time t.
  • the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D 2 of the touch input T 2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D earlier than the displacement value D 1 of the touch input T 1 , the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S 1 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to the second sensing signal S 2 ; on the other hand, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D 2 of the touch input T 2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D later than the displacement value D 1 of the touch input T 1 , the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S 2 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to the first sensing signal S 1 . In other words, the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first.
  • the processing unit 30 ignores the sensing signal S 1 generated from the touch input T 1 of the finger firstly touching the touch sensitive module 210 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to the sensing signal S 2 generated from the touch input T 2 of the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 later, within the predetermined period of time t after the controller 220 detects the touch input T 2 .
  • the processing unit 230 controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first.
  • the processing unit 230 can directly control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating of a second embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • the control method is briefly summarized as follows:
  • step S 410 Determine whether a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected. If so, go to step S 420 ; otherwise, go back to step S 410 ;
  • step S 420 Determine whether a first displacement value of the first touch input exceeds a predetermined displacement value. If so, go to step S 440 ; otherwise, go to step S 430 ;
  • step S 430 Determine whether a second displacement value of the second touch input exceeds the predetermined displacement value. If so, go to step S 450 ; otherwise, go to step S 420 ;
  • the electronic apparatus comprises a smartphone, a PDA (personal digital assistance), or a PDA phone.
  • the touch sensitive module comprises a touch pad, a touch panel, or a touch screen.
  • the application also provides a recording medium for recording a computer program adopted to execute the aforementioned control method of the electronic apparatus.
  • the computer program is basically composed of multiple program code fragments (e.g., a program code segment of establishing an organization chart, a program code segment of sign-off forms, a program code segment of configuration, and a program code segment of allocation), and after those program code fragments are loaded and executed in an electronic apparatus (e.g., the electronic apparatus 200 ), above-mentioned steps and functions of the aforementioned control method of the electronic apparatus are then accomplished.
  • the application provides a control method of an electronic apparatus, and an electronic apparatus employing the control method, where one of the two touch inputs is employed for controlling the operation of an electronic apparatus based on the sequence or the corresponding displacement values of the touch inputs.
  • one of the two touch inputs is employed for controlling the operation of an electronic apparatus based on the sequence or the corresponding displacement values of the touch inputs.

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Abstract

A method for controlling an electronic apparatus and an electronic apparatus using the method are provided. The method includes: when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input and a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus.

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    CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
  • This non-provisional application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application No. 61/015,671, filed on Dec. 21, 2007 and included herein by reference.
    • BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • 1. Field of the Invention
  • The application relates to a control method of an electronic apparatus, and more particularly, to a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to one of two touch inputs, and an electronic apparatus adopting the method.
  • 2. Description of the Prior Art
  • In the present time, touching is a common method to control electronic apparatuses. Generally, an electronic apparatus includes a touch sensitive module, for example a smartphone, a PDA (personal digital assistance), or a PDA phone, on which the user can move his/her finger to control the operation of the electronic apparatus. However, when the user's finger is moving on the touch sensitive module, other parts of the user's body (e.g., the palm, other finger(s) or the other hand) might touch the touch sensitive module accidentally, which leads to misjudgment of the electronic apparatus. As a result, the user fails to control the electronic apparatus as expected.
    • SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
  • In light of this, the application provides a method for controlling an electronic apparatus by referring to the parameters of two touch inputs to determining to employ which one of the two touch inputs to control the operation of the electronic deice. In this way, the aforementioned issue can be solved.
  • According to a first aspect of the application, a method of controlling an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • According to a second aspect of the application, a recording medium for recording a computer program is disclosed. The computer program includes program codes for executing the following steps: when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed to control an operation of an electronic apparatus.
  • According to a fifth aspect of the application, an electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a touch sensitive module; a controller coupled to the touch sensitive module for detecting a touch input to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the touch input; and a processing unit coupled to the touch sensitive module. The controller compares a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
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  • FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one exemplary embodiment of an electronic apparatus which employs a control method of the application.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a second embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application.
    •  DETAILED DESCRIPTION
  • Please refer to FIG. 1. FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. The method can be summarized as follows:
  • S110: Determine whether a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected. If so, go to step S120; otherwise, go back to step S110.
  • S120: Compare a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus.
  • Additionally, the application also provides an electronic apparatus which employs the above-mentioned method. For example, the electronic apparatus can be a handheld electronic apparatus (e.g., a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a personal digital assistant). However, this is for illustrative purposes only, and is not meant to be a limitation of the application. Please refer to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one exemplary embodiment of an electronic apparatus 200 which employs the control method of the application. As shown in FIG. 2, the electronic apparatus 200 includes a touch sensitive module 210, a controller 220, and a processing unit 230. The controller 220 is coupled to the touch sensitive module 210, and is implemented for detecting a touch input on the touch sensitive module 210 to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the touch input. The processing unit 230 is coupled to controller 220. When the controller 220 detects a first touch input and a second touch input on the touch sensitive module 210, the processing unit 230 then compares a first parameter of the first touch input with a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signal is employed to control an operation of the electronic apparatus 200.
  • For example, in an embodiment of the application, the first parameter of the first touch input is a starting time point of the first touch input, and the second parameter of the second touch input is a starting time point of the second touch input. When the controller 220 detects a first touch input T1 and a second touch input T2 on the touch sensitive module 210, the processing unit 230 checks the time sequence of starting time points of the first and second touch inputs T1, T2 according to first and second sensing signals S1, S2 generated from the first and second touch inputs T1, T2 respectively, in order to determine which one of the first sensing signal S1 and the second sensing signal S2 is employed for controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus 200. In this embodiment, when the starting time point t2 of the second touch input T2 is later than the starting time point t1 of the first touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S1 and refers to the second sensing signal S2 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200; on the other hand, when the starting time point t2 of the second touch input T2 is earlier than the starting time point t1 of the first touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S2 and refers to the first sensing signal S1 to control the operation of electronic apparatus 200.
  • In addition, in another embodiment of the application, the first parameter of the first touch input is a displacement value of the first touch input, and the second parameter of the second touch input is a displacement value of the second touch input. When the controller 220 detects a first touch input T1 and a second touch input T2, the processing unit 230 checks which one of two displacement values D1, D2 of the first and second touch inputs T1, T2, exceeds a predetermined displacement value D first according to the first and second sensing signals S1, S2 generated from the first and second touch inputs T1, T2 respectively, in order to determine which one of the first sensing signal S1 and the second sensing signal S2 is employed to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200. In this embodiment, when the displacement value D2 of the second touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D earlier than the displacement value D1 of the first touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S1 and refers to the second sensing signal S2 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200; on the other hand, when the displacement value D2 of the second touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D later than the displacement value D1 of the first touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S2 and refers to the first sensing signal S1 to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200.
  • Please note that, in the application, parameters of touch inputs (e.g., T1 and T2) are not limited to starting time points of touch inputs (e.g., t1 and t2) and displacement values of touch inputs (e.g., D1 and D2). In practice, the processing unit may compare any parameter of touch inputs to select one of the sensing signals generated from the touch inputs to control the operation of the electronic apparatus. This design variation is still within the scope of the application.
  • The following will further address the above two embodiments of the method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a first embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. The steps of the control method are briefly summarized as follows:
  • S310: Determine whether a first touch input on a touch sensitive module is detected. If so, go to step S320; otherwise, go back to step S310;
  • S320: Determine whether a second touch input is detected while the first touch input is not terminated yet. If so, go to step S330; otherwise, go back to step S310;
  • S330: Ignore a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input, and control the operation of the electronic apparatus according to a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input.
  • Taking the electronic apparatus 200 for example, when the controller 220 detects a first touch input on the touch sensitive module 210 and generates a first sensing signal in response to the first touch input, and then detects a second touch input and generates a second touch sensing signal in response to the second touch input while the first touch input is not terminated yet, the processing unit ignores the first touch sensing signal generated from the first touch input and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input. For example, when a user's finger touches the touch sensitive module 210 one after another, the controller 220 detects a touch input T1 from the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 first to generate a sensing signal S1, and then detects another touch input T2 from the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 later to generate another sensing signal S2, the processing unit 230 will ignore the sensing signal S1 and control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according the sensing signal S2.
  • In addition, the processing unit 230 further determines a displacement value of a touch input according to the sensing signal. The displacement value corresponds to a moving distance of user's finger on the touch sensitive module 210. Only when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 exceeds a predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S2, the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute a specific function according to sensing signal S2. On the other hand, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 does not exceed the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S2, the processing unit 230 does not control the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function. For example, the specific function can be a panning function. Therefore, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S2, the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the panning function to pan a page displayed on a screen of a mobile phone according to the sensing signal S2. In another example, the specific function can be a scrolling function. Therefore, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D according to the sensing signal S2, the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the scrolling function to scroll a page displayed on a screen of a mobile phone according to the sensing signal S2. However, the aforementioned examples are for illustrative purposes only, and are not meant to be limitations of the application. In addition, as those skilled in the art should readily comprehend how to control the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to the sensing signal S2, further description is therefore omitted here for the sake of brevity.
  • In this embodiment, only within a predetermined period of time t (e.g., within 3 seconds) after the controller 220 detects the touch input T2, the processing unit 230 ignores the sensing signal S1 corresponding to the touch input T1 and controls the electronic apparatus 200 according to the sensing signal S2 corresponding to the touch input T2. If the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 does not exceed the predetermined displacement value D, and therefore the processing unit 230 does not control the electronic apparatus 230 to execute the specific function according to the sensing signal S2 within the predetermined period of time t after the controller 220 detects the touch input T2, the processing unit 230 will no longer ignore the sensing signal S1 corresponding to the touch input T1 and will refer to one of the sensing signals S1, S2 corresponding to the touch inputs T1, T2 respectively to control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 beyond the predetermined period of time t. For example, in this embodiment, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D earlier than the displacement value D1 of the touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the first sensing signal S1 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to the second sensing signal S2; on the other hand, when the processing unit 230 determines that the displacement value D2 of the touch input T2 exceeds the predetermined displacement value D later than the displacement value D1 of the touch input T1, the processing unit 230 ignores the second sensing signal S2 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to the first sensing signal S1. In other words, the processing unit 230 controls the electronic apparatus 200 to execute the specific function according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first.
  • It can be seen from the above-mentioned description that when two of user's fingers are both moving on the touch sensitive module 210, the processing unit 30 ignores the sensing signal S1 generated from the touch input T1 of the finger firstly touching the touch sensitive module 210 and controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to the sensing signal S2 generated from the touch input T2 of the finger touching the touch sensitive module 210 later, within the predetermined period of time t after the controller 220 detects the touch input T2. After a predetermined period of time t is expired, the processing unit 230 controls the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first. In another embodiment of the application, when two of the user's fingers are both moving on the touch sensitive module 210 and the controller 220 detects touch inputs T1, T2 respectively, the processing unit 230 can directly control the operation of the electronic apparatus 200 according to a sensing signal generated from the touch input whose displacement value exceeds the predetermined displacement value D first.
  • Please refer to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating of a second embodiment of a method for controlling an electronic apparatus according to the application. The control method is briefly summarized as follows:
  • S410: Determine whether a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected. If so, go to step S420; otherwise, go back to step S410;
  • S420: Determine whether a first displacement value of the first touch input exceeds a predetermined displacement value. If so, go to step S440; otherwise, go to step S430;
  • S430: Determine whether a second displacement value of the second touch input exceeds the predetermined displacement value. If so, go to step S450; otherwise, go to step S420;
  • S440: Ignore a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input, and control an operation of the electronic apparatus according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input;
  • S450: Ignore the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input, and control the operation of the electronic apparatus according to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input.
  • After reading the aforementioned description directed to the method of controlling the electronic apparatus 200, those skilled in the art should readily understand steps of the control method shown in FIG. 4. Therefore, further description is omitted here for the sake of brevity. In addition, if the result is substantially the same, the steps shown in FIG. 4 are not required to be executed in the exact order as demonstrated in FIG. 4.
  • In the above embodiments, the electronic apparatus comprises a smartphone, a PDA (personal digital assistance), or a PDA phone.
  • In the above embodiment, the touch sensitive module comprises a touch pad, a touch panel, or a touch screen.
  • The application also provides a recording medium for recording a computer program adopted to execute the aforementioned control method of the electronic apparatus. The computer program is basically composed of multiple program code fragments (e.g., a program code segment of establishing an organization chart, a program code segment of sign-off forms, a program code segment of configuration, and a program code segment of allocation), and after those program code fragments are loaded and executed in an electronic apparatus (e.g., the electronic apparatus 200), above-mentioned steps and functions of the aforementioned control method of the electronic apparatus are then accomplished.
  • In summary, the application provides a control method of an electronic apparatus, and an electronic apparatus employing the control method, where one of the two touch inputs is employed for controlling the operation of an electronic apparatus based on the sequence or the corresponding displacement values of the touch inputs. In this way, the issue of electronic apparatus misjudgment, resulting from accidental touch inputs from other parts of the user on the touch sensitive module, can be solved.
  • Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.

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1. A method for controlling an electronic apparatus, comprising:
when a first touch input and a second touch input on a touch sensitive module are detected, comparing a first parameter of the first touch input and a second parameter of the second input touch according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter of the first touch input is a first starting time point of the first touch input; the second parameter of the second touch input is a second starting time point of the second touch input; and the step of comparing the first and second parameters according to the first and second sensing signals comprises:
checking a time sequence of the first starting time point and the second starting time point according to the first and second sensing signals.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the steps of checking the time sequence of the first and second starting time points according to the first and second sensing signals to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus comprise:
when the second starting time point is determined later than the first starting time point, ignoring the first sensing signal and referring to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the first starting time point is later than the second starting time point, ignoring the second sensing signal and referring to the first sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of ignoring the first sensing signal and referring to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus comprises:
within a predetermined period of time after the second touch input is detected, ignoring the first sensing signal and referring to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
within the predetermined period of time after the second touch input is detected, referring to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus only when a second displacement value of the second touch input is determined exceeding a predetermined displacement value.
6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
beyond the predetermined period of time after the second touch input is detected, referring to either the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input or the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of referring to either the first sensing signal or the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus comprises:
when a first displacement value of the first touch input is determined exceeding a predetermined displacement value earlier than a second displacement value of the second touch input, referring to the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the second displacement value of the second touch input is determined exceeding the predetermined displacement value earlier than the first displacement value of the first touch input, referring to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first parameter of the first touch input is a first displacement value of the first touch input; the second parameter of the second touch input is a second displacement value of the second touch input; and the step of comparing the first and second parameters according to the first and second sensing signals comprises:
checking which one of the first displacement value and the second displacement value exceeds a predetermined displacement value first according to the first and second sensing signals.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the steps of checking which one of the first and second displacement values exceeds the predetermined displacement value first according to the first and second sensing signals to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus comprise:
when the first displacement value is determined exceeding the predetermined displacement value earlier than the second displacement value, ignoring the second sensing signal and referring to the first sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the second displacement value is determined exceeding the predetermined displacement value earlier than the first displacement value, ignoring the first sensing signal and referring to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
10. A recording medium comprising instructions for performing the method of claim 1.
11. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
a touch sensitive module;
a controller, coupled to the touch sensitive module, for detecting a touch input on the touch sensitive module to generate a sensing signal corresponding to the touch input; and
a processing unit, coupled to the controller;
wherein when the controller detects a first touch input and a second touch input on the touch sensitive module, the processing unit compares a first parameter of the first touch input and a second parameter of the second touch input according to a first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and a second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling an operation of the electronic apparatus.
12. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first parameter is a first starting time point of the first touch input, the second parameter is a second starting time point of the second touch input, and the processing unit checks a time sequence of the first starting time point and the second starting time point according to the first and second sensing signals to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus.
13. The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein:
when the processing unit determines that the second starting time point is later than the first starting time point according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit ignores the first sensing signal and refers to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the processing unit determines that the first starting time point is later than the second starting time point according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit ignores the second sensing signal and refers to the first sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
14. The electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein when the processing unit determines that the second starting time point is later than the first starting time point according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit ignores the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input and refers to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus within a predetermined period of time after the controller detects the second touch input.
15. The electronic apparatus of claim 14, wherein within the predetermined period of time after the controller detects the second touch input, the processing unit refers to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus only when the processing unit determines that a second displacement value of the second touch input exceeds a predetermined displacement value.
16. The electronic apparatus of claim 14, wherein beyond the predetermined period of time the controller detects the second touch input, the processing unit refers to either the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input or the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
17. The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein beyond the predetermined period of time the controller detects the second touch input:
when the processing unit determines that a first displacement value of the first touch input exceeds a predetermined displacement value earlier than a second displacement value of the second touch input according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit refers to the first sensing signal generated from the first touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the processing unit determines that the second displacement value of the second touch input exceeds the predetermined displacement value earlier than the first displacement value of the first touch input according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit refers to the second sensing signal generated from the second touch input to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
18. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first parameter is a first displacement value of the first touch input, the second parameter is a second displacement value of the second touch input, and the processing unit checks which one of the first displacement value and the second displacement value exceeds a predetermined displacement value first according to the first and second sensing signals to determine which one of the first and second sensing signals is employed for controlling the operation of the electronic apparatus.
19. The electronic apparatus of claim 18, wherein:
when the processing unit determines that the first displacement value of the first touch input exceeds the predetermined displacement value earlier than the second displacement value of the second touch input according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit ignores the second sensing signal and refers to the first sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus; and
when the processing unit determines that the second displacement value of the second touch input exceeds the predetermined displacement value earlier than the first displacement value of the first touch input according to the first and second sensing signals, the processing unit ignores the first sensing signal and refers to the second sensing signal to control the operation of the electronic apparatus.
20. The electronic apparatus of claim 11, wherein the touch sensitive module comprises a touch pad, a touch panel, or a touch screen.
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