Cursor control device and method using the same to launch a swipe menu of an operating system
AssigneeElan Microelectronics Corporation
InventorsChia-Hsiang CHUANG, Pei-Kang CHUNG, Ta-Huang LIU, Chin-Nan WU
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Abstract
A cursor control device has a touch control module for users to perform a swipe gesture. The touch control module generates a control command according to the swipe gesture and transmits the control command to a host computer. The host computer then launches a swipe menu on an edge of a display screen thereof Accordingly, after a host computer with the Win8™ installed therein as the operating system receives the control command, the edge swipe function supported by the Win8™ can be launched.
Claims27
A cursor control device for identifying a swipe gesture comprising:
- a body having:
- a host transmission interface;
- and
- a cursor control module electrically connected to the host transmission interface;
- and
- a touch control module electrically connected to the host transmission interface for operation of a finger gesture, generating a control command after the finger gesture is identified as a swipe gesture, and adapted to output the control command to a host computer for a swipe menu to be displayed on an edge of a display screen of the host computer.
A cursor control device identifying a swipe gesture comprising:
- a body having at least one touch area adapted for users to perform a finger gesture;
- a cursor control module mounted inside the body;
- and
- a touch control module having:
- a detection unit mounted on the body and corresponding to the at least one touch area, detecting the finger gesture, and outputting position data of the finger gesture;
- and
- a control unit electrically connected to the detection unit to receive the position data of the finger gesture from the detection unit to identify the finger gesture as a swipe gesture and output a control command to an operating system to launch a swipe menu according to the identified swipe gesture.
A method of using a cursor control device to launch a swipe menu comprising steps of:
- detecting position data of a finger gesture on the cursor control device through a detection unit;
- identifying the finger gesture as a swipe gesture according to the position data of the finger gesture;
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- generating and outputting a corresponding control command to an operating system according to the swipe gesture for the operating system to display a corresponding swipe menu.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.