Method for Receiving an Input on a Touch-Sensitive Panel
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsSonja RUEMELIN, Christopher ROELLE
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Abstract
A method is provided for receiving an input on a touch-sensitive field, wherein the field is set up to determine the location of a touch of the field by a user's finger, wherein the touch-sensitive field includes a tactile threshold. The threshold is arranged such that at least one area of the touch-sensitive field lies on each side thereof. The method detects a movement of the user's finger on the touch-sensitive field which crosses the threshold, and activates a function in response to the detection.
Claims17
A method for receiving an input on a touch-sensitive panel, the method comprising the acts of:
- providing a field of the touch-sensitive panel configured to determine a location of a touch of the field by a user's indicator, the touch-sensitive field comprising a tactile threshold arranged such that at least one area of the touch-sensitive field lies on each side of the tactile threshold;
- detecting a movement of the user's indicator on the touch-sensitive field, which movement crosses the tactile threshold;
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- activating a function in response to the detecting of the movement crossing the tactile threshold.
A device for receiving an input from a user, the device comprising:
- a touch-sensitive panel having a touch-sensitive field, the field being configured so that a location of a touch by a user's indicator is determinable;
- the touch-sensitive field comprising a tactile threshold;
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- wherein the tactile threshold is arranged such that at least one area of the touch-sensitive field lies on each side of the tactile threshold;
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- an electronic processor coupled with the touch-sensitive panel, the processor executing a program to:
- detect movement of the user's indicator on the touch-sensitive field, which movement crosses the tactile threshold;
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- activate a function in response to the detection of the movement crossing the movement crossing the tactile threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.