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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2008
Yen-chang Chiu, Taipei County, TW;
Yung-lieh Chien, Taoyuan County, TW;
Zhi-long Wu, Taipei County, TW;
Yen-Chang Chiu, Taipei County, TW;
Yung-Lieh Chien, Taoyuan County, TW;
Zhi-Long Wu, Taipei County, TW;
Elan Microelectronics Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Elan Tech Devices Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A touchpad includes a controller connected to a touch sensor. The controller detects the fingers touching on the touch sensor to determine to start up and terminate a scroll bar control function. In the scroll bar control function, the movement of the finger or fingers touching on the touch sensor is detected for scrolling on a window, and the vertical distance and the horizontal distance of the movement are evaluated for determining the scrolling amount of a vertical scroll bar or a horizontal scroll bar of the window.