Edge Sensor Touch Disable for Gesture Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional portable electronic devices lack effective methods to seamlessly integrate edge sensor inputs for user actions like flipping, squeezing, and sliding into intuitive touch screen interactions, leading to suboptimal user experience and functionality.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating an edge sensor adjacent to the body of the device, electrically coupled to a processor, which enables the disabling of touch functions on the touch display screen based on specific user actions, allowing for enhanced gesture recognition and functionality activation, such as launching apps or adjusting settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If edge sensor is added to detect user actions like flipping, squeezing, and sliding, then gesture recognition capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the edge sensor with the existing touch display screen system by integrating the sensor along the edges of the display. The processor unifiedly manages both touch screen inputs and edge sensor inputs, merging multiple input modalities into a single coordinated system rather than treating them as separate subsystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The edge sensor serves multiple functions: detecting flipping actions, squeezing actions, sliding actions, and various gesture inputs. The same edge sensor hardware enables diverse gesture recognition capabilities including app switching, volume control, and navigation, making a single component perform multiple roles.
2Measurement precision
If touch function is disabled on the touch display screen during edge sensor events, then gesture recognition accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The touch function disabled state is not permanent but dynamic and temporary. The system automatically restores the touch function after a predetermined time period or when a specific condition is met, allowing the interface to adapt its responsiveness based on the detected gesture context rather than maintaining a fixed state.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by disabling the touch function before a complete gesture is executed. This prevents accidental touches during edge gestures and ensures accurate gesture recognition by preparing the system in advance to ignore touch inputs that might interfere with the ongoing edge sensor detection.
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AI summary
A portable electronic device, an operating method for the same, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium are provided. The portable electronic device includes a body, a touch display screen and an edge sensor. The touch display screen is disposed on the body. The edge sensor is disposed adjacent to an edge of the body. The operating method includes the following step. When an event is generated according to a first action sensed by the edge sensor, a touch function of a region of the touch display screen or the whole touch display screen is disabled.