TWI410857B - Touch electronic device and multi-window management method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A touch control electronic apparatus and a multiple windows management method are disclosed. The multiple windows management method comprises the following steps of: displaying two windows on a touch screen; obtaining the displaying regions of the two windows respectively; calculating two touch points according to a multi-touch event and calculating a center point of the two touch points; determining that if the two touch point allocate on the display regions of the two windows respectively, if yes, calculating the track of the two touch points; and providing a window management of the two windows when the two touch points move in the opposite direction and the distance thereof is less than a threshold. Thus, the multiple windows management method may enhance the convenience of operating the two windows.

Description

Touch electronic device and multi-window management method thereof

The present invention relates to a touch-sensitive electronic device and a multi-window management method thereof, and more particularly to a touch-type electronic device that can perform the same action on multiple windows with a single command and a multi-window management method thereof.

In general, when using a computer, users usually open multiple windows on the screen. Among the multiple windows that are open, some windows are related. For example, when a user writes a file in a software-writing software, it searches the related materials on the Internet and the related documents stored in the computer as a reference. Therefore, for the user, sometimes it is desirable to simultaneously minimize these associated windows to the work column at the same time, or to have the associated window simultaneously displayed in the work column to the screen.

When the related and other non-associative windows are simultaneously opened, it is necessary to display the related windows on the screen at the same time, and it is not easy to minimize the window with no relevance to the work column. carry out. The user must check in order which windows are needed and which windows are intended to be minimized into the work column, so it takes a lot of time.

When operating an operating system that generally supports touch functions, the window to be operated can be selected by touch. However, this operating system can only select one window at a time, and cannot select multiple windows at a time. For more than once, I want to choose more For users of Windows, it is quite inconvenient.

In view of the above problems in the prior art, the object of the present invention is to provide a touch-sensitive electronic device and a multi-window management method thereof, which can simultaneously select a plurality of windows and perform window management operations on the selected window.

According to the purpose of the present invention, a touch type electronic device is proposed. The touch electronic device includes a touch screen and a processing module. The touch screen displays a first window and a second window and receives a multi-touch action. The processing module is electrically connected to the touch screen to obtain one of the first display range of the first window and the second display range of the second window, and calculate one of the corresponding touch points and the first touch point Two touch points, and calculating a center point of the first touch point and the second touch point.

The processing module determines whether the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively in the first display range and the second display range, and when the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively in the first display range and In the second display range, the processing module calculates the movement trajectory of the first touch point and the second touch point, and moves the first touch point and the second touch point to the center point, and the first touch When the distance between the point and the second touch point is less than a threshold, the processing unit performs a window management on the first window and the second window.

The window management system is the first window and the second window of the group.

The processing module is based on a command input by a user and a stacking sequence of the first window and the second window to make the first window and the first window The second window is minimized, restored, or closed.

When the first touch point and the second touch point are not in the first display range and the second display range, the processing module generates a multi-touch information according to the multi-touch action to transmit to the touch control An operating system in which an electronic device operates.

In addition, the present invention further provides a multi-window management method, which is applicable to an electronic device, and the electronic device includes a touch screen and a processing module. The multi-window management method first displays a first window and a second window on the touch screen. And the processing module obtains a first display range of one of the first windows and a second display range of the second window. And determining, by the processing module, whether the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively within the first display range and the second display range. When the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively in the first display range and the second display range, the processing module calculates the movement track of the first touch point and the second touch point, when the first touch When the control point and the second touch point move toward the center point, and the distance between the first touch point and the second touch point is less than a threshold value, the processing unit performs a window management on the first window and the second window.

The window management system is the first window and the second window of the group.

The processing module minimizes, restores or closes the first window and the second window according to an instruction input by a user and a stacking sequence of the first window and the second window.

When the first touch point and the second touch point are not in the first display range and the second display range, the processing module generates a multi-touch information according to the multi-touch action to transmit to the touch control Electronic device running One operating system.

As described above, the touch electronic device of the present invention and the multi-window management method thereof may have one or more of the following advantages:

(1) The touch electronic device and the multi-window management method can simultaneously select a plurality of windows by inputting a multi-touch action.

(2) The touch-sensitive electronic device and its multi-window management method can perform window management on the selected window together.

1 and 2A are block diagrams of a first embodiment of the touch-sensitive electronic device of the present invention, and a schematic view of the first embodiment. In FIG. 1 , the touch control electronic device 1 includes a touch screen 11 and a processing module 12 . The processing module 12 is electrically connected to the touch screen 11 .

The touch screen 11 can have a function of displaying a window and receiving a touch action. After the user selects to open two related applications, the processing module 12 displays the first window 111a and the second window 111b corresponding to the opened application on the touch screen 11, as shown in FIG. 1B. The processing module 12 can obtain the display position, height and width of the first window 111a and the second window 111b through the operating system operated by the touch-sensitive electronic device 1 of the present invention, and respectively obtain the first window 111a. The first display range is the second display range of the second window 111b.

In FIG. 2A, when the user applies a multi-touch motion on the touch screen, the touch analysis unit 121 in the processing module 12 calculates the corresponding The Raw Data of the multi-touch action is used to calculate the coordinate positions of the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b, and calculate the first touch point 112a and the second touch together. The center point 113 of the control point 112b. The touch determination unit 122 of the processing module 12 can determine whether the coordinate positions of the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b are respectively located in the first display range and the second display range. When the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b are respectively located in the first display range and the second display range, the processing module 12 starts to continuously detect the first touch point 112a and the second touch. The movement trajectory of point 112b. When the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b move to the new first touch point 112a' and the new second touch point 112b', respectively, as shown in FIG. 2B, and when When the distance between the new first touch point 112a' and the new second touch point 112b' is less than a threshold, the window management unit 124 of the processing module 12 immediately performs window management on the first window 111a and the second window 111b. The "window management" here is preferably to obtain the window code (Handle) of the current display windows 111a, 111b through the window operating system application interface (Windows API) of the operating system, and in the stacking order of the windows 111a, 111b ( Z-Order) as a sequence to record each window code. When the user wants to minimize or close the grouped windows together, the window management unit 124 can use the window codes in the list to minimize or close the windows 111a, 111b in sequence. When the window in the group is minimized to the work column, the window management unit 124 may also restore the windows 111a, 111b in sequence, and display them on the touch screen 11 in the stacking order. In this way, when the user groups the first window 111a and the second window 111b in a multi-touch manner, the first can be easily made. The window 111a performs the same operation as the second window 111b.

In addition, when the user wants to release the group relationship, the content of the list can be deleted directly, or the purpose of releasing the group relationship can be achieved by using a touch gesture. Preferably, the unhooking group touch gesture is to simultaneously touch the first window 111a and the second window 111b with a single finger, and the two fingers are reversely dragged to a preset distance.

When the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b are not respectively located in the first window 111a and the second window 111b, the touch restore unit 123 of the processing module 12 generates a touch according to the multi-touch action. Multi-touch information and transmit this multi-touch information to the operating system. The multi-touch information is preferably a Human Interface Device (HID) report, so that the operating system processes the multi-touch action according to the HID report.

It should be noted that when the movement track of the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b does not move toward the center point 113, or the movement track of the first touch point 112a and the second touch point 112b disappears, Alternatively, when the distance between the new first touch point 112a' and the new second touch point 112b' is greater than the threshold value, the processing module 11 regards the movement trajectory of the above three conditions as the user's false touch. Therefore, the processing module 11 can directly select the touch information of the three conditions to be ignored.

In addition, before the window management unit 124 performs the operations of the group first window 111a and the second window 111b, it may first determine whether the first window 111a and the second window 111b are previously grouped into other groups through the view window code. When any of the first window 111a and the second window 111b has been When belonging to other groups, the window management unit 124 may write the window code of the newly added group into the list of the original group, and then rearrange (Resort) according to the stacking order of the windows. When the first window 111a and the second window 111b do not originally belong to any group, the window management unit 124 can use a brand new window list to record the window code for group action.

In order to make the reader more aware of the operation principle of the touch-sensitive electronic device 1 of the present invention, the following description will be further described with reference to FIG. Please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a structural diagram of processing a multi-touch action of the touch-sensitive electronic device of the present invention. In the figure, the touch analysis unit 121 analyzes the original data of the multi-touch motion received by the touch screen to calculate the position of each touch point. Then, the touch determination unit 122 determines whether each touch point is located on each window. When the touch points do not respectively fall on the respective windows, the touch restore unit 123 generates multi-touch information according to the multi-touch action and transmits the information to the operating system 13. When the touch points are respectively located on the respective windows, the touch determination unit 122 continuously detects the trajectories of the touch points. When the touch points move to the center point respectively, and the relative distance after the touch point moves is less than a threshold, the window management unit 124 obtains the window codes of the windows to group the windows. Thereby, the processing module 12 can intercept the multi-touch information that should be transmitted to the operating system, and selectively transmit to the operating system 13 or be processed by the processing module 12 according to the multi-touch action characteristics.

Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a front view of a second embodiment of the touch control electronic device of the present invention. Compared with the first embodiment, the difference is that a third window 111c is further displayed in the touch screen 11 of the second embodiment, and the rest are the same, and are not described herein. In this In the embodiment, three fingers can be respectively clicked on the first window 111a, the second window 111b and the third window 111c, and then the touch points 112a, 112b, 112c are moved to the center point 113. Thereby, the processing module 12 can be grouped into the three windows. It should be noted that although the present embodiment only takes three windows as an example, the present invention does not limit the number of windows, which can be easily understood by those skilled in the art.

Although the foregoing embodiments have described the reference data display method of the present invention, for the sake of clarity of the reader, the flow chart will be further illustrated below.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is a flowchart of an embodiment of a multi-window management method of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5, the multi-window management method of the present embodiment can be applied to an electronic device having a touch screen, and the touch type electronic device 1 (shown in FIG. 1) of the foregoing embodiment is not limited to the foregoing. The touch electronic device 1 of the embodiment.

As shown in step S10, the first window and the second window are displayed on the touch screen.

Next, as shown in step S20, the first display range of the first window and the second display range of the second window are obtained using the processing module.

Then, as shown in step S30, the first touch point and the second touch point corresponding to the multi-touch action are calculated according to the multi-touch action received by the touch screen, and the first touch point is calculated. The center point of the second touch point.

Then, as shown in step S40, it is determined whether the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively the first display range and the second display range. When the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively in the first display range and the second display range If it is inside, step S50 is performed. When the first touch point and the second touch point are not located in the first display range and the second display range, step S41 is performed.

As shown in step S50, when the first touch point and the second touch point move toward the center point, and the distance between the first touch point and the second touch point is less than the threshold value, the first window and the second window are used. The window performs a window management. Preferably, the window management obtains the window code of the current display window through the window operating system application interface of the operating system, and records the window codes in the order of stacking the windows. And make the same action for each window.

As shown in step S41, multi-touch information is generated according to the multi-touch action to be transmitted to the operating system operated by the touch-enabled electronic device.

The above is intended to be illustrative only and not limiting. Any equivalent modifications or alterations to the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included in the scope of the appended claims.

1‧‧‧Touch electronic device

11‧‧‧Touch screen

111a‧‧‧ first window

111b‧‧‧ second window

111c‧‧‧ third window

112a‧‧‧First touch point

112b‧‧‧second touch point

112c‧‧‧ third touch point

112a’‧‧‧ New first touch point

112b’‧‧‧ New second touch point

113‧‧‧ center point

12‧‧‧Processing module

121‧‧‧Touch Analysis Unit

122‧‧‧Touch judgment unit

123‧‧‧Touch Restore Unit

124‧‧‧Windows Management Unit

13‧‧‧Operating system

S10~S50‧‧‧Steps

1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of a touch-sensitive electronic device of the present invention; FIG. 2A is a front view of FIG. 1; and FIG. 2B is another front view of FIG. 1; The figure is an architectural diagram of the multi-touch action of the touch-sensitive electronic device of the present invention; 4 is a front elevational view showing a second embodiment of the touch-sensitive electronic device of the present invention; and FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the multi-window management method of the present invention.

S10~S50‧‧‧Steps

Claims (10)

A multi-window management method is applicable to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch screen and a processing module. The multi-window management method includes: displaying a first window and a second on the touch screen. Using the processing module to obtain a first display range of the first window and a second display range of the second window; and the processing module is configured according to a multi-touch action received by the touch screen Calculating one of the first touch point and the second touch point corresponding to the multi-touch action, and calculating a center point of the first touch point and the second touch point; Determining whether the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively within the first display range and the second display range; and when the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively at the first The processing module calculates a movement trajectory of the first touch point and the second touch point when the display range and the second display range are performed, and the first touch point and the second touch point The center point moves, and the distance between the first touch point and the second touch point is less than one When the threshold value, the processing module based on the first window and the second window for a window manager. The method for managing a multi-window according to claim 1, wherein the window management system is a group of the first window and the second window. The method for managing a multi-window according to claim 2, wherein the processing module obtains a window code of the first window and a window code of the second window by an operating system run by the electronic device, Group the first window and the second window. The method for managing a multi-window according to claim 2, wherein the processing module is configured according to a command input by a user and a stacking sequence of the first window and the second window. A window and the second window are sequentially minimized, restored, or closed. The processing module of the multi-window method of claim 1, wherein the processing module is when the first touch point and the second touch point are not within the first display range and the second display range A multi-touch information is generated according to the multi-touch action to be transmitted to one of the operating systems in which the electronic device is operated. A touch-sensitive electronic device includes: a touch screen displaying a first window and a second window, and receiving a multi-touch operation; and a processing module electrically connecting the touch screen; Obtaining a first display range of the first window and a second display range of the second window, and calculating one of the first touch point and the second touch point corresponding to the multi-touch action, and calculating a first touch point and a center point of the second touch point; wherein the processing module determines whether the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively in the first display range and the second Display range The processing module calculates the first touch point and the second touch when the first touch point and the second touch point are respectively within the first display range and the second display range a movement track of the point, when the first touch point and the second touch point move toward the center point, and the distance between the first touch point and the second touch point is less than a threshold value, the processing mode The group performs a window management on the first window and the second window. The touch-sensitive electronic device of claim 6, wherein the window management system is a group of the first window and the second window. The touch-sensitive electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processing module obtains a window code of the first window and the second window through an operating system of the touch-type electronic device The window code to group the first window and the second window. The touch-sensitive electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processing module is configured according to a command input by a user and a stacking sequence of the first window and the second window A window and the second window are minimized, restored or closed in sequence. The touch-sensitive electronic device of claim 6, wherein the processing module is when the first touch point and the second touch point are not within the first display range and the second display range A multi-touch information is generated according to the multi-touch action to be transmitted to one of the operating systems operated by the touch-enabled electronic device.