US 12,366,928 B2
Input method and controller of touch keyboard
Yu-Han Chen, Hsin-Chu (TW); Tse-Chung Su, Hsin-Chu (TW); Sung-Han Wu, Hsin-Chu (TW); Xiao-Lin Chuang, Hsin-Chu (TW); and Chi-Chieh Liao, Hsin-Chu (TW)
Assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC., Hsin-Chu (TW)
Filed by PIXART IMAGING INC., Hsin-Chu (TW)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,204.
Claims priority of application No. 202210409118.4 (CN), filed on Apr. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333667 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/023 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/023 (2013.01) 12 Claims
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1. An input method for a touch keyboard, comprising:
configuring a detection circuit to detect a touch behavior of one or more touch objects performed on the touch keyboard;
configuring a control circuit to identify the touch behavior and determine whether the touch behavior corresponds to an action that is simultaneously implemented by a keyboard event and a mouse event; and
configuring the control circuit, in response to determining that the touch behavior corresponds to the action implemented by the keyboard event and the mouse event, to output a combination of mouse event data of the mouse event and keyboard event data of the keyboard event,
wherein the mouse event includes one or more of scrolling a mouse wheel, clicking a left mouse button and clicking a right mouse button, the mouse event data includes data of the one or more of scrolling the mouse wheel, clicking the left mouse button and clicking the right mouse button, the keyboard event includes pressing one or more of a plurality of keys of a keyboard, and the keyboard event data includes data of pressing the one or more key of the keyboard.