Touch event triggering method and apparatus

Abstract

This application provides a touch event triggering method and apparatus. The method is applied to a touch panel having at least one entity's indicator icon. The method includes the following steps: detecting a user touching the touch panel to generate a touch point, and calculating the coordinates of the touch point; determining whether the coordinates of the touch point are located within a preset event binding area, wherein the preset event binding area is associated with the area occupied by an entity's indicator icon; and when the determination result is positive, triggering a control signal corresponding to the preset event binding area. This application can reduce the dependence of touch input functions on graphical user interfaces and operating systems, meeting the needs of various scenarios for highly flexible touch interaction.

Claims

1. A touch event triggering method applied to a touch panel, the touch panel having at least one entity's indicator icon, the method comprising the following steps: detecting a touch point corresponding to a user's touch operation on the touch panel, and calculating the coordinates of the touch point; determining, based on the coordinates of the touch point, whether the coordinates of the touch point are located within a preset event binding area, wherein the preset event binding area is associated with the area occupied by the indicator icon of one of the at least one entity's indicator icons, wherein the indicator icon of the at least one entity is disposed on an indicator panel of an entity, the indicator panel of the entity being a flexible panel or label having adhesive properties and being attached to the touch panel; and triggering a control signal corresponding to the preset event binding area when the coordinates of the touch point are located within the preset event binding area.

2. The touch event triggering method as described in Request 1 further includes: When the coordinates of the touch point are outside the preset event binding area, no touch behavior is triggered.

3. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein the touch panel is disposed on a display panel.

4. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 3 further includes: When the coordinates of the touch point are outside the preset event binding area, the function or operation corresponding to the touch behavior of the element on the graphical user interface displayed on the display panel is triggered.

5. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein before the step of triggering a control signal corresponding to the preset event binding area, the method further includes: Bind the preset event binding area to the control signal; Alternatively, update the default mapping between the event binding area and the control signal.

6. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein the indicative illustration of the at least one entity includes a transparent illustration.

7. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein the control signal includes a signal conforming to the Universal Serial Bus (USB) Human Interface Device (HID) protocol.

8. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein the control signal includes a signal transmitted from a general-purpose input / output (GPIO) port.

9. The touch event triggering method as described in claim 1, wherein the control signal includes a signal transmitted by a Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter (UART).

10. A touch event triggering device coupled to a touch panel, the touch panel having at least one physical indicator icon, the touch event triggering device comprising: A touch detection module is used to detect the touch points corresponding to the user's touch operation on the touch panel and calculate the coordinates of the touch points; A region comparison module is used to determine whether the coordinates of the touch point are located within a preset event binding region based on the coordinates of the touch point, wherein the preset event binding region is associated with the area occupied by the indicator icon of one of the indicator icons of the at least one entity, wherein the indicator icon of the at least one entity is disposed on the indicator panel of an entity, and the indicator panel of the entity is a flexible panel or label with adhesive properties, and is attached to the touch panel; and a signal triggering module is used to trigger a control signal corresponding to the preset event binding region when the coordinates of the touch point are located within the preset event binding region.

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