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US 9,519,375 B2Granted
Portable device
AssigneeUnify GmbH & Co. KG
InventorThomas Lederer
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Abstract
An improved portable device has at least one touch-sensitive input surface for operator input and at least one sensor for detecting the input on the input surface. There is at least one sensor for monitoring the input surface which is designed to receive large-area and/or nearly simultaneous inputs, and at least one preset special function on the device which is able to be triggered by large-area input and/or nearly simultaneous inputs.
Claims17
A portable device comprising:
- a display device having a touch-sensitive input surface configured to receive operator input;
- at least one sensor configured to detect the operator input provided via contacting of the input surface;
- the at least one sensor configured to monitor the input surface to receive a large area input, the large area input being an input in which at least one third of an entirety of an area of the input surface is contacted;
- the portable device configured to trigger a first function in response to receiving the large area input;
- wherein the at least one sensor is also configured to detect a plurality of nearly simultaneous inputs, the simultaneous inputs comprising a first input from an object making a first contact on the input surface and a second input from the object making a second contact on the input surface within 0.5 seconds of the first contact;
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- wherein the portable device is configured to trigger a deactivation of at least one of (i) the display device and (ii) at least one sensor configured to detect input on the input surface in response to the detection of the nearly simultaneous inputs.
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A method of using a portable device comprising:
- monitoring an input surface of a touch display of the portable device to detect a large area input, the large area input being an input in which at least one third of an entirety of an area of the input surface is contacted;
- triggering a first function of the portable device in response to detecting the large area input, the large area input only being detected when at least one third of the entirety of the area of the input surface is contacted by an object and a pattern of contact of the object contacting the input surface is determined to match a pattern saved in non-transitory memory of the portable device;
- detecting a plurality of nearly simultaneous inputs provided via contacting the input surface, the nearly simultaneous inputs comprising a first input from an object making a first contact on the input surface and a second input from the object making a second contact on the input surface within 0.5 seconds of the first contact;
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- triggering deactivation of at least one of the touch display, and at least one sensor configured to detect input on the input surface of the touch display in response to the detecting of the nearly simultaneous inputs.
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A portable device comprising:
- a display device having a touch-sensitive input surface configured to receive operator input;
- at least one sensor configured to detect the operator input provided via contacting the input surface;
- the at least one sensor configured to detect a plurality of nearly simultaneous inputs, the nearly simultaneous inputs comprising a first input from an object making a first contact on the input surface and a second input from the object making a second contact on the input surface within 0.5 seconds of the first contact;
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- wherein the portable device is configured to trigger a deactivation of at least one of (i) the display device and (ii) the at least one sensor configured to detect the operator input in response to the detecting of the nearly simultaneous inputs.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.