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CN102915137A
CN102915137A CN2011102247132A CN201110224713A CN102915137A CN 102915137 A CN102915137 A CN 102915137A CN 2011102247132 A CN2011102247132 A CN 2011102247132A CN 201110224713 A CN201110224713 A CN 201110224713A CN 102915137 A CN102915137 A CN 102915137A
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A power saving method and a touch display device are used for saving power consumed by the touch display device, wherein the touch display device comprises a sensing area, and the power saving method comprises the following steps: scanning the sensing region within a first processing time to determine whether an indication event occurs in the sensing region; if no indication event occurs in the sensing region within the first processing time, performing the following steps: providing a specific sensing region, wherein the specific sensing region is located in the sensing region; scanning the specific sensing area within a second processing time to judge whether an indicating event occurs in the specific sensing area; and stopping scanning the sensing region if no indication event is determined to occur in the specific sensing region within the second processing time.

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Electricity saving method and touch control display apparatus
Technical field
The invention relates to a kind of electricity saving method and touch control display apparatus; Particularly a kind of scope of sensing region that scans by minimizing is to save electricity saving method and the touch control display apparatus of electric power.
Background technology
Along with the fast development of science and technology and the change of habits and customs, electronic product miscellaneous such as mobile phone, PDA, flat computer etc. appear in our daily life in large quantities, and the electric weight persistence of this series products always is a problem that enjoys user and manufacturer to pay attention to.And in many composition assemblies, the electric power that contact panel consumes has accounted for whole great ratio.Therefore, if wish is saved the electric power that whole electronic installation consumes, setting about from contact panel is full blast.
Prior art such as TaiWan, China new patent are announced M341273 number, provide a kind of can be from the system and method for main sweep contact panel, in a specific embodiment, this system this contact panel of can contact panel does not sense any event in first schedule time after, stopping using, but still need periodically scan afterwards whole contact panel to judge whether scanning result surpasses a critical value.Such practice can't be saved too many electric power.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is desirable to provide a kind of electricity saving method and touch control display apparatus, to solve the problem of prior art.
Fundamental purpose of the present invention provides a kind of electricity saving method, the electric power that consumes in order to save a touch control display apparatus.
Another fundamental purpose of the present invention provides a kind of touch control display apparatus, can save the electric power of consumption.
For reaching above-mentioned purpose, in one embodiment of this invention, electricity saving method of the present invention may further comprise the steps:, betide in the sensing region to have judged whether the indication event at the first processing time interscan sensing region by scan module; Betide in the sensing region without the indication event if scan module was judged within the first processing time, then carry out following steps: provide specific sensing region by module is provided, wherein specific sensing region is positioned at sensing region; , betide in the specific sensing region to have judged whether the indication event at the specific sensing region of the second processing time interscan by scan module; And if scan module judges without the indication event and betide in the specific sensing region, then stop to scan sensing region within the second processing time.
Compared with prior art, advantage of the present invention is:
1. the invention provides a kind of electricity saving method, thereby realize saving the electric power that touch control display apparatus consumes.
2. the invention provides a kind of touch control display apparatus, can save the electric power of consumption.
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Fig. 1 is the system architecture diagram of one embodiment of the invention touch control display apparatus.
Fig. 2 is the flow chart of steps of one embodiment of the invention electricity saving method.
Fig. 3 is one embodiment of the invention sensing region schematic diagram.
Fig. 4 is the specific sensing region schematic diagram of one embodiment of the invention.
Wherein:
1---touch control display apparatus 10---contact panel 11---sensing region 20---sign module
21---specific sensing region 22---default literal 30---scan module 40---processing modules
201,202,203,204,205: step
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For above and other objects of the present invention, feature and advantage can be become apparent, cited below particularlyly go out specific embodiments of the invention, and cooperate accompanying drawing, be described in detail below.
Below please refer to Fig. 1, be the embodiment about the system architecture of touch control display apparatus of the present invention.As shown in Figure 1, in one embodiment of the invention, touch control display apparatus 1 of the present invention comprises contact panel 10, indicates module 20, scan module 30 and processing module 40, and wherein contact panel 10 comprises sensing region 11.Should be noted, in one embodiment of the invention, above-mentioned modules also can be by circuit loop or the configuration of other appropriate format except can be configured to hardware unit, software program, firmware or its combination; And, modules except can independent mode configuring, can also in conjunction with mode configure.
In one embodiment of the invention, touch control display apparatus 1 can be the used Touch Screen of general mobile phone, comprises the parts such as contact panel, control circuit; And contact panel 10 namely is the part of entity panel wherein, but touch control display apparatus of the present invention 1 also can be general flat computer, notebook computer, the employed Touch Screen of desk-top computer not as limit.The scope of sensing region 11 comprises the area of whole contact panel 10, but the present invention is not as limit.
Next please refer to Fig. 2, be the embodiment about the steps flow chart of electricity saving method of the present invention; And please in the lump with reference to figure 1, Fig. 3 and Fig. 4, for about a specific embodiment of the present invention.Should be noted herein, though below take touch control display apparatus shown in Figure 11 as example illustrates electricity saving method of the present invention, electricity saving method of the present invention is not so that be used in touch control display apparatus 1 and be limited.
At first carry out step 201: judge whether just to carry out exceptional cast
At first by processing module 40 judgements, whether touch control display apparatus 1 is carrying out exceptional cast to electricity saving method of the present invention, if there is not exceptional cast, then carry out step 202, otherwise gets back to normal operating condition.
The purpose of this step is, when playing the exceptional casts such as film, music, use e-book when touch control display apparatus 1, the expression user is using touch control display apparatus 1 and contact panel 10, touch control display apparatus 1 is in normal operating condition but not is idle, therefore the step after need not proceeding.If but do not have exceptional cast to occur, and represent touch control display apparatus 1 and contact panel 10 and may be in idlely, judge whether the step of indication event generation after just needing to carry out this moment.In the present embodiment, exceptional cast can be movie event, browsing file event, picture browsing event or web page browsing event, but the present invention is not as limit.
Other should be noted, step 201 and processing module 40 are not steps necessary of the present invention and parts, and electricity saving method of the present invention also can not judge whether the step that exceptional cast occurs by processing module 40, and directly carries out follow-up determining step.And whether have exceptional cast to occur relevant for how to detect, be general known technology, therefore do not give unnecessary details at this.
If be not to carry out exceptional cast, then carry out step 202: within the first processing time, judged whether that the indication event betides in the sensing region
Please refer to Fig. 3, be the specific embodiment about sensing region of the present invention.Comprise contact panel 10 in the touch control display apparatus 1, and the whole display area of contact panel 10 is sensing region 11, whether scan module 30 can by scanning sensing region 11, have the indication event to occur to detect.One highest wisdom is without special setting, and scan module 30 can scan full wafer sensing region 11 continuously, occurs in the sensing region 11 to have judged whether the indication event.If but that contact panel 10 is in is idle, such practice obviously can cause a large amount of unnecessary power consumption, therefore electricity saving method of the present invention is desirable to provide a kind of electricity-saving mechanism, prevents the appearance of this type of situation.
In the present embodiment, if judged before to be not to carry out exceptional cast, then scan module 30 can at the first processing time interscan sensing region 11, betide in the sensing region 11 to have judged whether the indication event.If occur then carry out step 203 without the indication event, otherwise get back to normal operating condition.
The length in the first processing time is 2 minutes in the present embodiment, but the present invention is not as limit.The effect in the first processing time is to provide the time range of a judgement usefulness, if the indication event does not occur in the scope at this moment, judges that then touch control display apparatus 1 and contact panel 10 may be in idle, the step after just can proceeding.The setting in the first processing time can be set in advance by the user, or be set up on their own by touch control display apparatus 1 in addition.In the present embodiment, the indication event is a touch event, but the present invention is not as limit.Should be noted how to detect the generation that has or not touch event, the known technology in the field for this reason is not therefore give unnecessary details at this.
If within the first processing time, judge to betide in the sensing region without the indication event, then carry out step 203: specific sensing region is provided, and indicates its scope
Please refer to Fig. 4, be the specific embodiment about specific sensing region of the present invention.If within the first processing time, not indication event betides in the sensing region 11, then indicates a specific sensing region 21 by indicating the display frame of module 20 at contact panel 10, and wherein specific sensing region 21 is positioned at sensing region 11.
As shown in Figure 4, indicate module 20 and can utilize the scope of the specific sensing region 21 of graphic, but also can utilize word indicating or indicate the scope of specific sensing region 21 in other eye-catching mode.Should be noted, the position that specific sensing region 21 occurs there is no necessarily; May be to be set up on their own by the user, or by touch control display apparatus 1 according to the program of carrying out at present, inspect which block belongs to controllable block in this program, and specific sensing region 21 be set in this controlled block.Further, indicating module 20 can show default picture or literal 22 on sensing region 11 after the first processing time, only have at present specific sensing region 21 can receive the touching input with the prompting user.Should be noted, show that default picture or literal are not the steps necessary of electricity saving method of the present invention.
Then carry out step 204: within the second processing time, judged whether that the indication event betides in the specific sensing region
Please refer to Fig. 4, indicate specific sensing region 21 after, can be then by scan module 30, at the specific sensing region 21 of the second processing time interscan, to have judged whether that the indication event betides in the specific sensing region 21, if nothing then carry out step 205, otherwise get back to normal operating condition.
The length in the second processing time is 8 minutes in the present embodiment, but the present invention is not as limit.The effect in the second processing time is to provide the time range of a judgement usefulness, if at this moment in the scope specific sensing region 21 the indication event does not occur, judge that then touch control display apparatus 1 and contact panel 10 are in really idle, the step after just can proceeding.The setting in the second processing time can be set in advance by the user, or be set up on their own by touch control display apparatus 1 in addition.
In the present embodiment, scan module 30 only scans specific sensing region 21 within the second processing time, and stops scanning being done in the zone beyond the specific sensing region 21, compared to the whole sensing region 11 of scanning, can save the electric power that scanning consumes.If the user wants to get back to normal operating condition, just must touch specific sensing region 21; If touch the zone beyond the specific sensing region 21 then do not have any reaction.Detailed description relevant for the indication event please refer to the narration of step 202.Should be noted how to detect the generation that has or not the indication event, the known technology in the field for this reason is not therefore give unnecessary details at this.
If within the second processing time, betide in the specific sensing region without the indication event, then carry out step 205: stop to scan sensing region
If scan module 30 within the second processing time, does not detect any indication event and betides specific sensing region 21, then can stop the scanning to sensing region 11, enter and stop scanning mode.May continue within the first processing time and the second processing time, whole sensing region 11 all to be scanned compared to general touch control display apparatus, can save a large amount of electric power.
Should be noted, electricity saving method of the present invention is not limited with above-mentioned order of steps herein, as long as can reach purpose of the present invention, but the also change of above-mentioned order of steps.
To sum up institute is old, and no matter the present invention is with regard to purpose, means and effect, all totally different in the feature of prior art.Above-mentioned many embodiment give an example for convenience of explanation, and the interest field that the present invention advocates should be as the criterion so that claims are described certainly, but not only limits to above-described embodiment.

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1.一种省电方法,用以节省一触控显示装置所消耗的电力,其中该触控显示装置包含一感测区域,该省电方法包含以下步骤:1. A power saving method for saving power consumed by a touch display device, wherein the touch display device includes a sensing area, the power saving method comprising the following steps: 通过一扫描模块,在第一处理时间内扫描该感测区域,以判断是否有一指示事件发生于该感测区域中;Scanning the sensing area within a first processing time by a scanning module to determine whether an indication event occurs in the sensing area; 若该扫描模块在该第一处理时间内判断无该指示事件发生于该感测区域中,则进行以下步骤:If the scanning module determines that no indication event occurs in the sensing area within the first processing time, the following steps are performed: 设定特定感测区域,其中该特定感测区域位于该感测区域内;setting a specific sensing area, wherein the specific sensing area is located within the sensing area; 通过该扫描模块,在第二处理时间内扫描该特定感测区域,以判断是否有该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中;Scanning the specific sensing area within a second processing time by the scanning module to determine whether the indication event occurs in the specific sensing area; 若该扫描模块在该第二处理时间内判断无该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中,则停止扫描该感测区域。If the scanning module determines that no indication event occurs in the specific sensing area within the second processing time, it stops scanning the sensing area. 2.如权利要求1所述的省电方法,其特征在于,还包括2. The power saving method according to claim 1, further comprising 若该扫描模块在该第二处理时间内判断有该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中,则进行通过该扫描模块,在该第一处理时间内扫描该感测区域,以判断是否有该指示事件发生于该感测区域中的步骤。If the scanning module determines that the indication event occurs in the specific sensing area within the second processing time, the scanning module scans the sensing area within the first processing time to determine whether there is the indication event. Indicates the step in which the event occurred in the sensing area. 3.如权利要求1或2所述的省电方法,其特征在于,3. The power saving method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: 通过一标示模块,标示该特定感测区域的一范围。A range of the specific sensing area is marked by a marking module. 4.如权利要求1或2所述的省电方法,其特征在于,还包括4. The power saving method according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising 通过一处理模块,判断是否正在进行一例外事件;以及Through a processing module, it is determined whether an exceptional event is in progress; and 若该处理模块判断正在进行该例外事件,则进行通过由该扫描模块,在该第一处理时间内扫描该感测区域,以判断是否有该指示事件发生于该感测区域中的步骤。If the processing module judges that the exceptional event is being carried out, the scanning module scans the sensing area within the first processing time to determine whether the indication event occurs in the sensing area. 5.如权利要求4所述的省电方法,其特征在于,该例外事件为一影片播放事件、文件浏览事件、图片浏览事件或网页浏览事件。5. The power saving method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the exception event is a movie playing event, a file browsing event, a picture browsing event or a web page browsing event. 6.如权利要求1或2所述的省电方法,其特征在于,在该第一处理时间过后,于该感测区域上显示一预设图片或文字。6. The power saving method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein a preset picture or text is displayed on the sensing area after the first processing time elapses. 7.一种触控显示装置,包括7. A touch display device, comprising 一触控面板,包含一感测区域;A touch panel, including a sensing area; 一标示模块,与该触控面板连接,用以标示特定感测区域,其中该特定感测区域位于该感测区域内;以及a marking module, connected to the touch panel, used to mark a specific sensing area, wherein the specific sensing area is located in the sensing area; and 一扫描模块,与该触控面板连接,用以在第一处理时间内扫描该感测区域,以判断是否有一指示事件发生于该感测区域中,若该扫描模块在该第一处理时间内判断无该指示事件发生于该感测区域中,则该扫描模块在第二处理时间内扫描该特定感测区域,以判断是否有该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中,若该扫描模块在该第二处理时间内判断无该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中,则停止扫描该感测区域。A scanning module, connected to the touch panel, used to scan the sensing area within the first processing time to determine whether an indication event occurs in the sensing area, if the scanning module within the first processing time Judging that no indication event occurs in the sensing area, the scanning module scans the specific sensing area within a second processing time to determine whether the indication event occurs in the specific sensing area, if the scanning module If it is determined within the second processing time that no indication event occurs in the specific sensing area, the scanning of the sensing area is stopped. 8.如权利要求7所述的触控显示装置,其特征在于,若该扫描模块在该第二处理时间内判断有该指示事件发生于该特定感测区域中,则再回到检测感测区域是否有输入的步骤。8. The touch display device according to claim 7, wherein if the scanning module determines that the indication event occurs in the specific sensing area within the second processing time, it returns to the detection and sensing Whether the region has an input step. 9.如权利要求7或8所述的触控显示装置,其特征在于,还包括一处理模块,与该触控面板连接,用以判断是否正在进行一例外事件,其中,若该处理模块判断正在进行该例外事件,则该扫描模块在该第一处理时间内扫描该感测区域,以判断是否有该指示事件发生于该感测区域中。9. The touch display device according to claim 7 or 8, further comprising a processing module connected to the touch panel for judging whether an exception event is in progress, wherein if the processing module judges If the exception event is in progress, the scanning module scans the sensing area within the first processing time to determine whether the indication event occurs in the sensing area. 10.如权利要求9项所述的触控显示装置,其特征在于,该例外事件为一影片播放事件、文件浏览事件、图片浏览事件或网页浏览事件。10. The touch display device according to claim 9, wherein the exception event is a movie playing event, a file browsing event, a picture browsing event or a web page browsing event. 11.如权利要求7或8项所述的触控显示装置,其特征在于,该标示模块更可用于在该第一处理时间过后,于该感测区域上显示一预设图片或文字。11. The touch display device according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the marking module is further used to display a preset picture or text on the sensing area after the first processing time has elapsed.
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