Patent ID: 9727231
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: B60K,G06F

Claim:
1. A method for providing absolute coordinate and zone mapping between a touchpad and a display screen, comprising: receiving user interface data, wherein the user interface data includes display data that corresponds to at least one user interface object to be presented on the display screen; determining at least one first set of display coordinates that correspond to the at least one user interface object based on the user interface data; presenting the at least one user interface object on the display screen at a location based on the at least one first set of display coordinates, wherein the touchpad and the display screen are separate and apart from one another; determining at least one set of active touchpad coordinates on the touchpad based on the at least one first set of display coordinates; providing at least one touch input zone on the touchpad corresponding to the at least one user interface object presented on the display screen, wherein the at least one touch input zone includes a first area of a surface of the touchpad that corresponds to the at least one set of active touchpad coordinates and a second area of the surface of the touchpad that is outside of the first area, wherein a size of the second area of the surface of the touchpad is determined based on at least one of: a first measured distance that is determined to be shortest from at least one second set of display coordinates that correspond to at least one edge of the at least one user interface object to a plurality of display coordinates at an edge of the display screen, and a second measured distance that is determined to be the shortest from at least one third set of display coordinates that correspond to a center point of the at least one user interface object to the plurality of display coordinates at the edge of the display screen, the second measured distance different from the first measured distance; and determining a user input to the at least one user interface object presented on the display screen based on a touch input on the at least one touch input zone on the touchpad, wherein each touch input zone of the touch input zones on the touchpad correspond to exactly one exclusive user interface object presented on the display screen, and wherein all of the touch input zones occupy an entire area of the touchpad.