US 12,001,635 B2
Capacitive button interface device and method
Moon Bae Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Kyung In Seo, Incheon (KR)
Assigned to KORTEK CORPORATION, Incheon (KR)
Appl. No. 18/032,207
Filed by KORTEK CORPORATION, Incheon (KR)
PCT Filed Sep. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/013467
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/139127, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 30, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0182864 (KR), filed on Dec. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0367432 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/039 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/044 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0393 (2019.05); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04107 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A capacitive button interface device comprising:
a touch screen;
a capacitive button which is detachably attached to the touch screen;
an input device through which an operation control command is input;
a storage unit which stores a program for registering the capacitive button and setting information; and
a control unit which detects capacitive button information attached to an upper surface of the touch screen, stores or registers the capacitive button information in the storage unit, detects an input from the capacitive button, which has completed registration, and executes an operation corresponding to the capacitive button;
wherein, when a position at which a touch input is received from a user is predesignated according to a program executed by a computing device including the capacitive button interface device:
the capacitive button is attached to a predesignated position; and
the control unit does not register the capacitive button.