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Operation and control apparatus and control method

AssigneeCorsair Memory, Inc.

InventorMichael Grey

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Abstract

The present invention discloses an operation and control apparatus for operating and controlling a personal computer and a control method therefor. The operation and control apparatus includes a touch unit and a control unit. The touch unit includes a touchpad, configured to sense an external tap behavior. The control unit includes a control module electrically connected to the touchpad and a memory module electrically connected to the control module. The memory module is configured to store at least one initial coordinate. The control module obtains the external tap behavior sensed by the touchpad, to generate a tap coordinate. The control module analyzes a position of the tap coordinate by using the initial coordinate as a basis point, to generate a control instruction for operating and controlling the personal computer.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An operation and control apparatus electrically connected to a personal computer, used for sensing an external tap behavior to operate and control the personal computer, the apparatus comprising:

a touch unit including a touchpad configured to sense the external tap behavior;
and
a control unit including a control module electrically connected to the touchpad, and a memory module electrically connected to the control module;
wherein the operation and control apparatus is configured to perform:
a setting step of selecting a simulated operation and control mode based on a definition from a user;
an initializing step of virtualizing at least one initial coordinate on the operation and control apparatus, wherein the memory module is configured to store the at least one initial coordinate;
a sensing step of sensing, by the touchpad of the operation and control apparatus, the external tap behavior to generate tap information;
obtaining, by the control module, the external tap behavior sensed by the touchpad and recording a position of the tap information to generate a tap coordinate, wherein the at least one initial coordinate is one of the tap coordinate, a central point coordinate, and a central axis coordinate;
a comparison step of analyzing, by the control module, a position of the tap coordinate by using the at least one initial coordinate as a basis point, and generating a control instruction for operating and controlling the personal computer;
and
a control step of operating and controlling the personal computer by using the control instruction.

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Facts

Application: 16/253,731Filed 22 Jan 2019
Priority: CN 2018 1 006412823 Jan 2018
Published: US 2019/0227645 A125 Jul 2019
Granted: 5 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/03547
With detection of two-dimensional [2D] relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D…
G06F 3/0213
Arrangements integrating additional peripherals in a keyboard, e.g. card or barcode reader, optical scanner: arrangements providing an integrated…
G06F 3/038
Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor: control and interface…
G06F
Computing and data processing