Patent ID: 8951119
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: A63F,G06F,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling operation of an input device upon an activation of a sensor field, wherein the input device is implemented as a two-dimensional sensor mat, wherein the two-dimensional sensor mat is divided into a plurality of sensor fields activated by touch, wherein, the input device operates in a multiple-occupancy mode where the plurality of sensor fields each comprise different sensor field occupancies, wherein the plurality sensor fields are activated by a hand or a foot of an operating person, and wherein the different sensor field occupancies of a sensor field are associated with a different number of times the sensor field is touched, the method comprising: determining an activated sensor field occupancy of the sensor field by evaluating a number of times the sensor field is touched by associating the activated sensor field occupancy with the number of times the same sensor field is touched; providing an occupancy signal indicating the determined activated sensor field occupancy; and comparing an output signal, comprising a letter, currently activated by the operating person with an output signal to be expected in a sought-for sequence of output signals, where a non-corresponding output signal is indicated as incorrect; and enabling activation of a following output signal to be next expected in the sought-for sequence of output signals, only if the step of comparing provides a correspondence of the output signal currently activated by the operating person with the given output signal to be expected in the sought-for sequence of output signals.