Method of changing identified type of touching object
AssigneeElan Microelectronics Corporation
InventorsTuan-Ying Chang, Hsueh-Wei Yang, Pin-Jung Chung
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Abstract
A method of changing the identified type of a touching object is provided. The touching object is on a touch pad. The method includes the following steps: (A) when the type of the touching object is determined as a palm, determining the type of the touching object again; (B) when the type of the touching object is determined as a finger in step (A), informing the operating system that the touching object has left the touch pad when the touching object does not leave the touch pad; and (C) after step (B) is done, informing the operating system that the type of the touching object is a finger.
Claims10
A method of changing an identified type of a touching object located on a touch pad, the method comprising following steps:
- (A) when the type of the touching object is determined as a palm, determining the type of the touching object again;
- (B) when the type of the touching object is determined as a finger in the step (A), informing the operating system that the touching object has left the touch pad when the touching object does not leave the touch pad;
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- (C) after the step (B) is performed, informing the operating system that the type of the touching object is a finger.
A controller, coupled to a touch pad in a computer system with an operating system, comprising:
- a storage medium, storing multiple commands;
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- a processor, arranged to execute the multiple commands to make the controller perform following steps:
- (A) determining the type of the touching object again when the type of a touching object on the touch pad is determined as a palm;
- (B) when the type of the touching object is determined as a finger in the step (A), informing the operating system that the touching object has left the touch pad when touching object does not leave the touch pad;
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- (C) after the step (B) is performed, informing the operating system that the type of the touching object is the finger.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.