Touch Sensitive Bezel Gesture Control for Inadvertent Input Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Inadvertent touches are often registered on touch screens due to accidental contact or shared use, and existing solutions for controlling multimedia functions through mechanical or touch capacitive buttons become complex as more functions are added, leading to user experience issues.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a touch sensitive bezel portion of a display that allows users to deactivate specific areas and control device functions through gestures, such as tapping or swiping along the bezel, to prevent unintended inputs and simplify operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mechanical or touch capacitive buttons are used to control multimedia functions, then device control capability is improved, but device complexity increases as more functions are added
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display surface and control functions into a single integrated touch-sensitive display. Instead of adding separate mechanical or capacitive buttons for multimedia control, the display itself becomes the control interface, allowing users to interact with multimedia functions directly through touch gestures on the display surface. This consolidation eliminates the need for additional physical components while maintaining full control capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-sensitive display serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays visual information and acts as a control interface for multimedia functions. The same surface that presents content also detects user gestures for playing, pausing, skipping, and adjusting media. This multi-functionality approach allows a single component to replace what would traditionally require separate dedicated buttons for each control function.
2Ease of operation
If touch sensitive surface is activated on the entire display including bezel, then ease of operation is improved, but inadvertent touches increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the touch-sensitive display into distinct functional zones: an active display area for visual output and a bezel area for control gestures. By segmenting the touch surface into these separate regions with different purposes, the system can distinguish between intentional user interactions (gestures in the bezel area) and inadvertent touches (accidental contact with the main display area), allowing selective response based on touch location.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display are assigned different functional qualities: the bezel area is configured to be highly sensitive to gestures for control operations, while the main display area maintains its primary visual function with different touch sensitivity characteristics. This local differentiation allows the system to optimize touch responsiveness where needed while minimizing false activations in other areas.
Data Source
AI summary
An aspect provides a method, including: activating, using a processor, a touch sensitive surface which comprises at least a bezel portion of a display; accepting, using a processor, user input to the bezel portion of the touch sensitive surface; and controlling, using a processor, an information handling device operatively coupled to the touch sensitive surface in response to touch input in the bezel portion of a display. Other aspects are described and claimed.