Wearable Device Touch and Hover Input Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic devices with touch panels lack effective methods for integrating hovering inputs to enhance user interaction, limiting the complexity and precision of control commands that can be executed.
Innovation Solution
The method involves receiving both touch inputs and hovering inputs from different regions of an electronic device using sensors or cameras, determining control commands based on combinations of these inputs, and adjusting commands in response to hovering gestures, allowing for more nuanced device control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If only touch inputs are used for control, then the device structure remains simple, but the complexity and precision of control commands are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines touch inputs and hovering inputs into a unified control system. The processor integrates signals from both touch panels and sensors to generate control commands, merging multiple input modalities to enhance control complexity without requiring separate independent systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch panel and sensor system serve multiple functions: detecting touch inputs, detecting hovering inputs, and generating various types of control commands based on input combinations. This multi-functionality allows a single integrated system to handle diverse control requirements.
2Measurement precision
If hovering inputs are added to enhance user interaction, then control precision improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The processor acts as an intermediary that receives and processes signals from both touch panels and sensors. It interprets hovering inputs detected by sensors and combines them with touch inputs to generate appropriate control commands, mediating between the detection components and the control system.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces purely mechanical touch detection with an integrated system that includes sensor-based hovering detection. Sensors detect changes in the electromagnetic field or other physical phenomena associated with hovering objects, substituting mechanical contact requirements with field-based detection for enhanced precision.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of an electronic device including a touch panel for determining a control command is provided. The method includes the operations of receiving at least one touch input, receiving a hovering input, determining the control command corresponding to a combination of the at least one touch input and the received hovering input, and controlling the electronic device according to the determined control command.