Segmented Touch-Control Areas for False-Touch Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices often experience inaccurate control due to false recognition or fixed control strategies, limiting their ability to adapt to changing environments and user needs, leading to incorrect responses to user operations.
Innovation Solution
A control method and apparatus that determine a target operation area and configure a control strategy corresponding to the target event to accurately respond to user operations, using hardware modules like sensors and display modules to distinguish intentional from non-intentional touches and apply appropriate firmware programs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a fixed control strategy is used for the entire operation area, then the device structure is simple, but the control accuracy deteriorates due to false recognition and inability to adapt to different contexts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the operation area into multiple sub-operation areas (first sub-operation area and second sub-operation area) with different control strategies. This segmentation allows the system to apply context-specific control logic to different regions, improving control accuracy by reducing false recognition while maintaining manageable complexity through localized control rules.
Solution Approach 2:
Different control strategies are assigned to different sub-operation areas based on their specific characteristics and usage contexts. The first sub-operation area uses a first control strategy while the second sub-operation area uses a second control strategy, allowing each region to have optimized control properties suited to its function, thereby improving overall control accuracy without requiring complete system redesign.
2Reliability
If the device responds to all touches uniformly, then the response time is fast, but the reliability deteriorates due to false touches and incorrect responses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-configures different control strategies for different sub-operation areas before operation. When a touch event occurs, the system quickly determines which sub-operation area is involved and applies the corresponding pre-established control strategy, avoiding the need for complex real-time analysis while ensuring reliable discrimination between intentional and false touches.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a single control strategy is applied to the whole operation area, then the device complexity is low, but the adaptability deteriorates due to inability to handle different environments and applications
Solution Approach 1:
The operation area is segmented into multiple sub-operation areas, each associated with specific environmental contexts or application scenarios. This allows the system to adapt to different environments and applications by activating the appropriate control strategy for the relevant sub-area, achieving high versatility without requiring a completely reconfigurable system.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system is designed to handle multiple types of operations and environmental contexts through a unified framework that supports multiple control strategies. The same hardware structure serves multiple functions by dynamically applying different control logic to different sub-operation areas, achieving versatility without proportionally increasing physical complexity.
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AI summary
A control method includes, in response to a target event, determining a target operation area, and configuring a control strategy corresponding to the target event for the target operation area to control the electronic device to respond to a target operation acting on the target operation area according to the corresponding control strategy. The target operation area belongs to an operation area formed by a hardware module of an electronic device.