Adjusting screen sensitivity of a touch screen

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11054925-B2
Application number	US-201916256621-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 24, 2019
Priority date	Jan 24, 2019
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product that facilitate adjusting screen sensitivity of a touch screen are proposed. The computer-implemented method comprises: determining, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processing units, one or more operational areas for an interface of an application running on a touch screen device; and determining, by the device, a screen sensitivity for each of the one or more operational areas respectively.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
determining, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processors, screen sensitivity values for different sections of an application displayed via a touch screen of the device, wherein the application is divided into a plurality of sensitivity units, wherein a sensitivity unit of the plurality of sensitivity units comprises one or more sensors, wherein the plurality of the sensitivity units are associated with respective ones of the screen sensitivity values, and wherein a selected unique variable is assigned to all of the plurality of sensitivity units such that new sensitivity values are updated and assigned to all of the plurality of sensitivity units at a same time and without duplicated operations; and
determining, by the device, a screen sensitivity for at least one of the one or more operational areas respectively, wherein the determination of the one or more operational areas further comprises:
a setting of the screen sensitivity of the one or more operational areas to a default screen sensitivity acquired from other ones of touch screen devices and corresponding social big data associated with the Internet for the other ones of the touch screen devices.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein an operational area of the one or more operational areas is determined based on historical operation data indicative of a scope of an area of the application operated most frequently for a particular operation.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 , wherein the determining the screen sensitivity value for at least one of the one or more operational areas comprises:
determining, by the device, the screen sensitivity value based on at least one of: importance and operation frequency of the operational area.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
updating, by the device, ones of the screen sensitivity values for one or more times launching the application or every defined period, wherein a first screen sensitivity value for a first time launching the application is a first value and a second screen sensitivity value for a second time launching the application is a second value, and wherein the first value is distinct from the second value.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the determining the one or more operational areas further comprising:
recognizing, by the device, one or more control elements on an interface of the application; and
determining, by the device, a corresponding screen scope for at least one of the one or more control elements as the operational area corresponding to the control element.

6. A computer system, comprising:
a memory that stores computer executable components;
a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise:
at least one computer-executable component that:
determines one or more screen sensitivity values for different sections of an application displayed via a touch screen of a device, wherein the application is divided into a plurality of sensitivity units, wherein a sensitivity unit of the plurality of sensitivity units comprises one or more sensors, wherein the plurality of the sensitivity units are associated with respective ones of the screen sensitivity values, and wherein the respective ones of the screen sensitivity values are assigned prior to activation of the application running on the touch screen device, wherein the screen sensitivity values is a product of a default sensitivity value for the touch screen and importance values for respective ones of the different sections of the application; and
determines a screen sensitivity for at least one of the one or more operational areas respectively, wherein the determination of the one or more operational areas further comprises:
a setting of the screen sensitivity of the one or more operational areas to a default screen sensitivity acquired from other ones of touch screen devices and corresponding social big data associated with the Internet for the other ones of the touch screen devices.

7. The computer system of claim 6 , wherein the at least one computer-executable component also:
sets the screen sensitivity of one or more operational areas of the application to the default screen sensitivity in response to execution of the application.

8. The computer system of claim 6 , wherein the determination of the screen sensitivity further comprises:
determination of the screen sensitivity for at least one of the one or more operational areas according to the determined sensitivity value.

9. The computer system of claim 8 , wherein the determination of the sensitivity value for at least one of one or more operational areas of the application displayed via the touch screen further comprises:
determining the sensitivity value based on an operation frequency of the operational area.

10. The computer system of claim 7 , wherein the at least one computer-executable component also:
updates the screen sensitivity for one or more times launching the application or every defined period.

11. The computer system of claim 6 , wherein the determination of one or more operational areas of the application further comprising:
recognition of one or more control elements on an interface of the application; and
determination of a corresponding screen scope for at least one of the one or more control elements as one of the one or more operational areas corresponding to the control element.

12. The computer system of claim 6 , wherein the importance value is a value between 0 and 2 and wherein the default screen sensitivity is greater than 100%.

13. A computer program product that facilitates adjusting screen sensitivity for an application displayed via a touch screen of a touch screen device, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing component to cause one or more processors to:
determine, by the one or more processors, one or more operational areas for an interface of the application displayed via the touch screen device;
determine, by the one or more processors, a screen sensitivity for at least one of the one or more operational areas respectively, wherein the determination of the one or more operational areas further comprises:
a setting of the screen sensitivity of the one or more operational areas to a default screen sensitivity acquired from other ones of touch screen devices and corresponding social big data associated with the Internet for the other ones of the touch screen devices.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the program instructions further cause the one or more processors to:
update, by the one or more processors, the screen sensitivity for one or more times launching the application or every defined period.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the determination of the screen sensitivity further comprises:
determination, by the one or more processors, of a sensitivity value for at least one of the one or more operational areas respectively;
determination, by the one or more processors, of the screen sensitivity for the at least one of the one or more operational areas according to the determined sensitivity value.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , wherein the determination of the sensitivity value for at least one of the one or more operational areas comprises:

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Xu Bin
• Xia Yin
• Fu Lu
• Pan Lei
• Sun xiao lin

Classifications

• G06F3/04886

  by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus · CPC title

• G06F9/3004

  to perform operations on memory · CPC title

• G06F3/04166 Primary

  Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving (Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184) · CPC title

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/0412 Primary

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title