WO2013051762A1

WO2013051762A1 - Method for controlling a user terminal using a bezel region

Info

Publication number: WO2013051762A1
Application number: PCT/KR2011/009891
Authority: WO
Inventors: 김상태; 김재정; 이호원
Original assignee: 한국과학기술원
Priority date: 2011-10-05
Filing date: 2011-12-20
Publication date: 2013-04-11

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for controlling the driving of a user terminal which includes a touch screen using a bezel region. The method of the present invention includes the steps of calculating a touch in the bezel region around a touch screen and performing a preset manipulation instruction for the user terminal according to the touch in the bezel region. According to the present invention, a different manipulation mode other than a typical touch event mode is created using the bezel region disposed in the surroundings of the touch screen. Accordingly, since the control or the manipulation of an object displayed on the touch screen can be performed by just a dragging gesture to the bezel region, the control of an electronic device including the touch screen becomes simpler and more enriched.

Description

User terminal control method using bezel area

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for controlling a user terminal using a bezel area, and in particular, the control and manipulation of an object (object) displayed on a touch screen can be performed only by a dragging gesture to a specific bezel area. The present invention relates to a method for controlling a user terminal which becomes simpler and richer.

As the types of electronic devices are diversified, various technologies have been proposed that can increase the size of the display screen while miniaturizing the electronic devices. BACKGROUND With the miniaturization of electronic devices, electronic devices that recognize a user's input through a touch input device are increasing. In particular, touch screen panels having an input function on a display screen have been applied to various devices including portable electronic devices.

The touch screen panel can be classified into resistive type, capacitive type, ultrasonic type, infrared type, etc. according to the operation method. The capacitive type can manufacture a thin touch screen panel, and can be durable and multi-touch. It is widely used in various electronic devices.

A capacitive touch screen panel attaches a transparent electrode patterned to a predetermined shape on a transparent substrate, and the transparent electrode is electrically connected to a connection pad disposed on the transparent substrate. The connection pad may be connected to the control module, and a change in capacitance generated in the transparent electrode according to the contact may be transmitted to the control module to determine a contact position and the like. However, by arranging predetermined wires on the transparent substrate to electrically connect the connection pads and the transparent electrodes, the size of the effective display area can be reduced as the bezel area in which the wires are arranged and the image cannot be actually displayed increases. However, the bezel area is also a component of one side of the touch screen-equipped user terminal, and thus a technology for efficiently utilizing the same is required.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a new concept control method for controlling an operation of a user terminal having a touch screen using a bezel area.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a control method of a user terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising the steps of calculating a touch on the bezel area around the touch screen; And performing a predetermined operation command for the user terminal according to the touch on the bezel area.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the bezel area in which the touch is calculated is determined to be an adjacent bezel area from a first position of the touch screen in which the touch is first or last detected, and the touch operation in the bezel area is performed in the touch screen. Operates from a vector of dragging gestures.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the operation command is an operation command for the object in which the touch dragging extended from the touch in the bezel area is ended.

In one embodiment of the invention, the method is each assigned different operating instructions for one or more distinct bezel areas.

Another embodiment of the present invention is a method of controlling a user terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising: calculating a first touch on a first area of a touch screen outside a bezel area around the touch screen; Determining a bezel area adjacent to the location of the first touch to be a first bezel area associated with a first touch; An operation command for a user terminal provided with the touch screen is performed according to the dragging extended from the first touch, wherein the operation command corresponds to the determined first bezel area. To provide.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the operation command is an operation command for an object at a position where the dragging extended from the first touch is terminated, and the bezel area is provided around the touch screen.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the size of the first area is smaller than the size of an object displayed on the touch screen.

The present invention also provides a method of controlling a user terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising: detecting a second touch on the touch screen; Calculating a third touch in a second area outside the touch screen adjacent to the bezel area around the touch screen according to the dragging from the detected second touch; Determining a bezel region adjacent to the third touch position as a second bezel region associated with the second and third touches according to the position of the third touch; And an operation command corresponding to the determined second bezel area is performed.

According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method may further include an operation command corresponding to the second bezel area on the object on which the second touch is detected, and setting one or more divided bezel areas around the touch screen. Each of the bezel areas is assigned a different operation command.

According to the present invention, a bezel area disposed around the touch screen is utilized to generate another operation mode different from the normal touch event mode. Therefore, since the control and manipulation of an object (object) displayed on the touch screen can be performed only by the dragging gesture to a specific bezel area, the control of the user terminal having the touch screen becomes simpler and richer.

1 is a step diagram of a control method of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 to 6 are diagrams illustrating an example of a control method of a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 illustrates a method of touch operation in a bezel area according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

8 to 11 are views for explaining a method for controlling a user terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

12 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying an e-book content on a user terminal and providing a screen for controlling a page.

13A and 13B illustrate an operation of controlling an e-book page search.

In order to fully understand the present invention, the operational advantages of the present invention, and the objects achieved by the practice of the present invention, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings which illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention and the contents described in the accompanying drawings.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In addition, in order to clearly describe the present invention, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and the same reference numerals in the drawings indicate the same members.

Throughout the specification, when a part includes a certain component, this means that it may further include other components, without excluding other components unless otherwise stated. In addition, the terms "... unit", ".. group" described in the specification means a unit for processing at least one function or operation, which may be implemented in hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. .

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention determines a touch and its position in the bezel area, which is a non-touch area formed around the touch screen, and manipulates the user terminal provided with the touch screen according to the determined touch position.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail through examples.

Referring to FIG. 1, first, a touch on a bezel area around the touch screen is calculated (S110). In this case, the bezel area is a region in which a touch is not actually detected according to an electric signal, and according to the present invention, the touch is applied according to a touch signal (first touch) in a specific area (first area) of the touch screen adjacent to the bezel area. The calculated bezel area is determined, and the touch position (first position) of the first touch may be the first or last touch detected on the touch screen. That is, when dragging is performed from the bezel area, the first touch may be a first touch on the touch screen, and when dragging is moved from the touch screen to the bezel area, the first touch is on the touch screen. It may be the last touch detected. Thereafter, a preset operation command for the user terminal is performed according to the touch in the bezel area (S120). In one embodiment of the present invention, the target of the manipulation command may be determined through a touch position where the dragging proceeded from the first touch is ended. Furthermore, the user terminal control method according to the present invention divides the bezel area around the touch screen into one or more, and assigns different operation commands to each bezel area. As a result, various operation commands may be performed according to the type of bezel area in which a touch is detected, and a command according to a touch of a conventional touch screen and a command according to touch-dragging in the bezel area may be differently performed.

Referring to FIG. 2, first, a user terminal according to the present invention includes a touch screen 110, and a bezel area 120 having a predetermined size is formed around the touch screen 110. In addition, the bezel area 120 is divided into unit areas s1, s2, s3, and s4 for determining an operation command.

Referring to FIG. 3, first, a touch in the bezel area 120 proceeds, but a touch in the bezel area 120 is not substantially detected. The present invention provides a touch according to dragging extending from a touch in the bevel area. Determines the advanced bezel area.

That is, referring to FIG. 4, continuous dragging proceeds from the touch of the bezel area, wherein the dragging direction is a touch screen direction. As a result, a touch is detected in an electrical manner on the touch screen, and an initial touch on the touch screen is hereinafter referred to as a first touch. In FIG. 4, the first position t ₁ , which is the outermost point of the touch screen 110, becomes a position where the first touch occurs. Accordingly, the present invention determines the bezel area s1 adjacent to the first position t ₁ as the bezel area where the touch has occurred. In order to distinguish the operation command based on the bezel area from the command based on direct input on the touch screen, the present invention places a specific area for determining the bezel area outside the touch screen. That is, in FIG. 4, region 111 is a region (first region) for determining a touch-bezel region, and a bezel region adjacent to a touch position in the first region is determined as a bezel region for operating a user terminal. . Therefore, in the present invention, the size of the first area is determined to be less than or equal to the object size of the operation command. That is, touch-dragging including touch-dragging and bezel regions that are made only within the touch screen is determined according to whether the first region is touched. If the size of the first region is smaller than the size of an object, a normal touch In the mode, the touch area becomes a region where touch is not actually made. Consequently, the touch line is detected only in the dragging gesture which is continued from the bezel or starts. In this manner, the present invention can more easily distinguish a touch for normal object manipulation from a touch extending from the bezel.

Referring to FIG. 5, dragging is continued from the touch-first touch of the bezel area 120, and the dragging is terminated at a specific object on the touch screen 110 to release the touch. As a result, the object corresponding to the touch-released position becomes the target of the operation command allocated to the determined bezel area. For example, in FIG. 5, dragging proceeds from a bezel area to which a delete command is assigned as an operation command, and an object at the position where the dragging is terminated becomes a target of the delete command. As a result, as shown in FIG. Files are deleted.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, in the case of the bezel touch recognition method according to the touch of a predetermined outer area of the touch screen, the touch itself in the bezel area is determined in advance according to the touch in the touch screen boundary area (the first area). Although it can be built, there is a limit to calculating the exact touch position of the bezel. Accordingly, another embodiment of the present invention provides a method of calculating a bezel area touch according to a dragging method.

7 illustrates a bezel touch recognition method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, first coordinates X ₀ and Y ₀ at time t ₀ are disclosed. In the present invention, the first coordinate is touch coordinates in the touch area (first area) adjacent to the bezel area, whereby it is confirmed that the touch on the touch screen is a touch occurring during dragging extended to the bezel area. Afterwards, at a time t ₁ , the second coordinates X ₁ and Y ₁ are touched. Another embodiment of the present invention uses touch vectors in a bezel area by using a vector leading to a first coordinate-second coordinate. The calculation is as follows.

[Equation]

X _β = X ₀ + k (X ₀ -X ₁ ) / (t ₁ -t ₀ )

Y _β = Y ₀ + k (Y ₀ -Y ₁ ) / (t ₁ -t ₀ )

Where k is a constant

Referring to the above equation and FIG. 7, the present invention calculates the touch coordinate at time t _b based on the vector between the touch coordinate at t ₀ and the touch coordinate at t ₁ . If the touch coordinates X _β and Y _β calculated at time t _b belong to the logical bezel area of the touch screen, the calculated coordinates X _β and Y _β are determined as touch coordinates in the bezel area. However, (X _β , Y _β ) calculated by the above equation may be recognized as a value different from the boundary of the actual bezel according to the characteristics of the actual touch input device. Accordingly, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for reducing the gap between t ₀ , t ₁ , k values and selective calibration of the logical bezel boundary (which may be different from the actual physical boundary coordinates). The accuracy of touch recognition can be increased. For example, when the touch coordinate difference detected for a fixed time due to dragging too fast is large, (X _β , Y _β ) calculated by the above equation may be outside the logical bezel area of the touch screen. In this case, by adjusting k, the calculated (X _β , Y _β ) coordinates can fall within the logical bezel area of the touch screen, and as a result, the touch coordinates in the bezel area are calculated. In the same manner as described above, bezel touch coordinates by dragging extending out of the bezel area from the touch screen may be calculated, all of which are within the scope of the present invention. Alternatively, the optimum bezel touch suitable for each device may be calculated by adjusting the time range or adjusting the size of the logical bezel area together or alone.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the touch of the bezel area is calculated in the same manner for the dragging gesture extending from the outer bezel to the inner touch screen as well as the dragging from the touch screen to the outer bezel direction. Can be used as a variable of user terminal control.

Referring to FIG. 8, the touch screen 110 and the bezel area 120 around the touch screen are illustrated in the same manner as in FIG. 2. The bezel area 120 is divided into a plurality of pieces as described above, and different operation commands are assigned to each bezel area. Thus, the scope of the present invention is not limited to four bezel regions as shown in FIG. 8, and more bezel regions or fewer bezel regions may be set around the touch screen.

Referring to FIG. 9, a second touch t ₂ is detected on the touch screen 110. The second touch is a touch based on an electrical signal in the touch screen.

Referring to FIG. 10, dragging proceeds from the second touch, and referring to FIG. 11, the dragging passes through the first area 111 outside the touch screen and to the bezel area 120. In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 11, a third touch t ₃ is detected in the first region, and a bezel region s2 adjacent thereto is determined as a bezel region for determining an operation command according to the third touch position. Is determined. However, as shown in FIG. 8, the point where the line meets the bezel area based on the line extending from the touch dragging vector on the touch screen is calculated as the bezel touch point, and then the manipulation is performed by the calculated touch. The bezel area for the command can be determined.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the object that is the target of the manipulation command may be the object where the second touch event occurs, and one or more divided bezel areas are set around the touch screen, and each of the bezel areas is different. An operation command is assigned.

12 to 13A and 13B illustrate an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, in which an input area 112 for controlling a page of e-book content is displayed on the first area 111. Shows an example of controlling by the control.

First, an example of displaying an e-book content and providing a screen for controlling a page will be described with reference to FIG. 12.

As shown in the drawing, when a dragging gesture from the right bezel S1 to the left side of the touch screen 110 occurs, an input area 112 is formed on the right side of the touch screen, and the e-book is displayed in the input area 112. The pages were all displayed at regular intervals.

On the contrary, when a dragging gesture to the right occurs in the left bezel S2 touch screen 110, an input area is formed on the left side of the touch screen 110 and all pages of the e-book are displayed at a predetermined interval in the input area. Of course.

A page turning event may be generated according to the dragging direction in the input area 112. For example, when dragging to the left side in the generated input area 112, the pages are converted as if the pages of the book are turned to the left. On the contrary, when the input area is formed on the left side, the effect of turning the page to the right side can be generated by dragging to the right side.

The input area 112 may continue to be displayed on the touch screen 110 even after the dragging gesture ends. As a result, the user can freely search and convert contents of the displayed e-book content according to touch-dragging in the input area. This will be described with reference to FIGS. 13A and 13B.

In the case where the page amount of the e-book is displayed in the input area, when the page is searched with high precision with respect to the displayed e-book, the input area 112 is preferably wide. The input area 112 is preferably narrow. To this end, even after the input area is formed according to the dragging in the bezel area, the touch of the boundary of the input area is again touched again, and the size of the input area 112 is changed according to the dragging from the another touch. It may be.

That is, when dragging to the right immediately after the touch of the boundary of the input area as shown in FIG. 13A, the width of the input area 112 decreases, and conversely, if dragging to the left immediately after touching the boundary of the input area as shown in FIG. 13B, the input area is reduced. The width of the 112 may be increased to change the search environment of the page according to the user's intention.

In the above, the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, which are merely exemplary and will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible. .

Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

The present invention is utilized as software for controlling the content driving operation of a smart device such as a smart phone, a smart pad.

Claims

As a control method of a user terminal having a touch screen, the method

Calculating a touch on a bezel area around the touch screen; And

And performing a predetermined operation command for the user terminal according to the touch on the bezel area.
The method of claim 1,

And a bezel area in which the touch is calculated is determined to be an adjacent bezel area from a first position of a touch screen on which a touch is first or last detected.
The method of claim 1,

And a touch operation in the bezel area is calculated from a vector of a dragging gesture in the touch screen.
The method of claim 1,

And the operation command is an operation command for an object of which touch dragging is extended from a touch in the bezel area.
The method of claim 4, wherein the method

The control method of the user terminal, characterized in that different operation commands are respectively assigned to one or more divided bezel areas.
As a control method of a user terminal having a touch screen, the method

Calculating a first touch on a first area outside the touch screen adjacent to the bezel area around the touch screen;

Determining a bezel area adjacent to the location of the first touch to be a first bezel area associated with a first touch;

An operation command for a user terminal provided with the touch screen is performed according to the dragging extended from the first touch, wherein the operation command corresponds to the determined first bezel area. .
The method of claim 6,

And the operation command is an operation command for an object at a position where the dragging extended from the first touch is terminated.
The method of claim 7, wherein

And a plurality of the bezel areas are provided around the touch screen.
The method of claim 6,

And the size of the first area is smaller than the size of an object displayed on the touch screen.
As a control method of a user terminal having a touch screen, the method

Detecting a second touch on the touch screen;

Calculating a third touch in a second area outside the touch screen adjacent to the bezel area around the touch screen according to the dragging from the detected second touch;

Determining a bezel region adjacent to the third touch position as a second bezel region associated with the second and third touches according to the position of the third touch;

And a control command corresponding to the determined second bezel area is performed.
The method of claim 10, wherein the method is

And a manipulation command corresponding to the second bezel area is performed on the object on which the second touch is detected.
The method of claim 10,

At least one divided bezel area is set around the touch screen, and a different operation command is assigned to each of the bezel areas.