Pressure Sensor Touch Screen Control for Intuitive Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices require users to learn multiple input schemes, including pressure input, which increases the complexity and time needed to master device operations, limiting usability and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a housing featuring a touch screen display, biometric sensor, pressure sensor, and wireless communication circuit, where the processor executes application programs to detect pressure inputs and adjust operations such as pausing, resuming, or restarting signals based on detected pressure levels, providing an intuitive user interface that minimizes learning requirements for pressure input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple input schemes (touch input, pressure input, voice input) are provided to enhance functionality, then the versatility of the electronic device is improved, but the complexity of operation increases and users need to learn more input methods
Solution Approach 1:
The pressure sensor is integrated into the existing touch screen display structure, allowing the same physical interface to serve multiple functions: basic touch operation and pressure-sensitive operations. This multi-functional design enables the device to provide enhanced functionality through pressure input without requiring separate input devices or interfaces, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving versatility
2Adaptability or versatility
If pressure sensor functionality is added to enable pressure-based control, then the versatility of the electronic device is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The pressure sensor is merged with the touch screen display structure, where the pressure sensor and touch screen are positioned adjacent to each other or integrated in the same assembly. This merging approach allows the system to detect both touch and pressure using a unified sensor structure, reducing the need for separate independent components and minimizing the increase in device complexity while still enabling enhanced service capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The existing touch screen infrastructure is made multi-functional by integrating pressure sensing capability, allowing the same physical interface to handle both conventional touch operations and pressure-based operations. This universal design enables the system to provide diverse services without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same hardware structure serves multiple input modalities
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enhances usability by allowing users to perform operations intuitively and efficiently through pressure inputs, reducing the complexity of learning multiple input schemes and improving user experience by enabling quick activation or deactivation of functions based on pressure levels.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure sensor located between the first surface and the second surface and configured to detect a pressure applied by an external object to the touch screen display
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided that includes a touch screen display; a pressure sensor; at least one processor configured to receive a user input for performing a function for a selected period of time after execution of at least one application program, to detect a pressure regarding the touch screen display for the selected period of time using the pressure sensor, and to execute at least one selected from pausing the execution of the function, resuming the same, and restarting the same at least partially on the basis of the detected pressure when a selected pressure level is detected by the pressure sensor for the selected period of time.