Patent ID: 8633901
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling a handheld electronic device, comprising: determining using a capacitive touchscreen display a location of a touch input on a touch-sensitive input surface of the capacitive touchscreen display; determining one or more characteristics of a motion signal generated corresponding to a motion of the handheld electronic device by an accelerometer in response to an external force applied to the touch-sensitive input surface of the capacitive touchscreen display which generates the touch input, wherein the one or more characteristics of the motion signal are associated with the external force applied to the touch-sensitive input surface of the capacitive touchscreen display which generates the touch input; comparing the one or more characteristics of the motion signal to predetermined thresholds to determine whether the motion signal corresponds to a normal tap or hard tap; selecting an input from at least two inputs associated with the location of the touch input in accordance with whether the motion signal corresponds to a normal tap or hard tap; and generating the input selected from the at least two inputs associated with the location of the touch input, wherein the generation of the input selected is dependent on the motion signal and touch the input being detected within a predetermined duration of each other.