Method for operating virtual adjusting button

1. A method for operating a virtual adjusting button, suitable for an electronic device having a display unit and an operating unit for adjusting a setting value of the electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a virtual adjusting button on the display unit, wherein the virtual adjusting button is operated by an operating point of the operating unit to adjust the setting value correspondingly;

determining whether the operating point is located on the virtual adjusting button and the virtual adjusting button is selected;

detecting a movement of the operating point when the operating point is located on the virtual adjusting button and the virtual adjusting button is selected;

displaying a dynamic virtual adjusting button corresponding to the virtual adjusting button with the movement of the operating point when detecting that the operating point moves toward a direction away from or close to a reference point of the virtual adjusting button, wherein a displaying size of the dynamic virtual adjusting button is changed in a corresponding relationship corresponding to the virtual adjusting button with a change of a distance between the operating point and the reference point, a precision of the setting value for adjusting is changed by operating the dynamic virtual adjusting button having a changed displaying size via the operating point, and wherein the dynamic virtual adjusting button displays a same range of the setting value as that of the virtual adjusting button in a scaled-up or scaled-down manner, and wherein the dynamic virtual adjusting button and the virtual adjusting button are displayed in a concentric manner with the reference point as a center point.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying size of the dynamic virtual adjusting button is scaled up corresponding to the virtual adjusting button with the increase in the distance between the operating point and the reference point when detecting that the operating point moves toward the direction away from the reference point.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying size of the dynamic virtual adjusting button is scaled down correspondingly with the decrease in the distance between the operating point and the reference point when detecting that the operating point moves toward the direction close to the reference point.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the displaying size of the dynamic virtual adjusting button is not smaller than an original displaying size of the virtual adjusting button when the displaying size of the dynamic virtual adjusting button is scaled down.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the dynamic virtual adjusting button correspondingly changes the displaying size thereof proportionately with the change of the distance between the operating point and the reference point.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the dynamic virtual adjusting button correspondingly changes the displaying size thereof hierarchically with the change of the distance between the operating point and the reference point.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

not displaying the dynamic virtual adjusting button on the display unit when detecting that the operating point releases the dynamic virtual adjusting button.

8. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

hiding the virtual adjusting button when the dynamic virtual adjusting button is displayed.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising:

resuming display of the virtual adjusting button when detecting that the operating point releases selection of the dynamic virtual adjusting button.

10. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:

displaying simultaneously the virtual adjusting button and the dynamic virtual adjusting button on the display unit when the dynamic virtual adjusting button is displayed.

11. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising:

displaying the dynamic virtual adjusting button in a translucent state when the virtual adjusting button and the dynamic virtual adjusting button are displayed simultaneously.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual adjusting button is annular; the dynamic virtual adjusting button adjusts a radius thereof with the change of the distance between the operating point and the center point in a corresponding relationship of the concentric manner having the same center point with the virtual adjusting button, so that the displaying size thereof is scaled up or down with respect to the virtual adjusting button.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the virtual adjusting button and the dynamic virtual adjusting button both comprise respectively:

an operating range, accepting operation of the operating point to move along a pre-determined adjustment direction so as to adjust the setting value; and

a scale indicator, located on or adjacent to the operating range and moving correspondingly with the movement of the operating point in the operating range.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the virtual adjusting button and the dynamic virtual adjusting button both further comprise respectively a scale gauge having multiple scale graduations, wherein the scale gauge is adjacent to the operating range, so that the scale indicator corresponds to one of the scale graduations when the scale indicator moves;

and wherein the number of scale graduations displayed on the scale gauge of the dynamic virtual adjusting button increases or decreases with the size change of the dynamic virtual adjusting button, so as to change the precision of the setting value for adjusting.

15. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the operating unit is a touch panel and the operating point is a touch point generated when the touch panel is touched.

16. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the operating unit is one of a touch pad, a mouse, a trackball and a trackpoint, and the operating point is a cursor generated when operating one of the touch pad, the mouse, the trackball and the trackpoint.