ES1295599U - Portable personal terminal (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Portable personal terminal (1), of the type comprising a casing (2) capable of being held with one hand, a combined tactile and graphical interface (21), and internal operating control electronics; characterized in that it comprises rear sensors (100) and haptic transducers (10) distributed along its rear part and associated with the control electronics and the combined tactile and graphic interface (21) to collect movements of the hand that holds the terminal and produce vibrations located during the operation of the terminal through the combined interface. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

PORTABLE PERSONAL TERMINAL

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention refers to a portable personal terminal, which incorporates improved functionalities.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

At present, portable terminals are known, which allow communications and certain functionalities associated with applications installed in them, functioning in fact as small personal computers.

These terminals comprise a casing suitable to be held with one hand, with a combined tactile and graphical interface, and internal operating control electronics, to present in the combined interface processed information related to communications, with applications loaded in the terminal, etc. ..and to introduce the commands by means of tactile actions carried out on the images presented, being able to include ports, keys, sockets for cards, cameras, speakers and/or audio connection, etc.,

Currently we are used to mobile terminals in general being governed by tapping and swiping on the front screen.

The problem with these terminals is that they tend to get bigger every time, which makes it difficult to handle them with one hand. This drawback is solved with the terminal of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The terminal of the invention has a configuration that allows its functionality to be increased with one hand.

The terminal of the invention is of the type that includes a casing suitable to be held with one hand, and with a combined tactile and graphical interface with which the terminal is governed, including internal operating control electronics to present in the combined interface. processed information related to communications, with applications loaded in the terminal, etc... and to enter commands by means of tactile actions carried out on the images presented, being able to include ports, keys, sockets for cards, cameras, speakers and/or audio connection, etc. , which according to the invention comprises rear sensors and haptic transducers (understood as vibratory, ultrasonic or similar transducers that produce a movement or disturbance sensitive to touch) distributed on the rear of the terminal (inside the casing ideally in its rear part, whether it is waterproof or not) associated with electronics of c ontrol and the combined tactile and graphical interface, to:

1- collect movements of the hand that holds the terminal through the rear sensors, and

2- produce localized vibrations during the actuation of the terminal through the combined interface.

This allows you to program certain gestures on the back of the terminal that make it easier to use with one hand. As examples of these gestures:

-With a slide from right to left on the back cover, the terminal is unlocked.

-Once unlocked, the slides on the back cover help us navigate through the main menu or through the applications.

-Two taps in the corners give shortcuts to predefined applications.

-Within the camera application, with a touch it shoots. Swipe up zooms.

For its part, haptics is the science that studies the sense of touch; In this direction, this feature is introduced, which makes the movements that are made in the touch interface of the device or through the rear sensors or the screen perceptible in the hand that holds the terminal through vibrations or local and directional disturbances in the back of the case via the haptic transducers.

Nowadays, more and more powerful artificial intelligence algorithms are being developed, which means that devices can interact with us and learn our habits (machine learning), in such a way that the terminal software can learn from us what our behavior is. The most common way to hold the terminal, or the gestures that we use the most to control it, thus optimizing as much as possible these functionalities that transducers and sensors offer us.

Another very powerful advantage of this haptic technology is accessibility for blind or visually impaired people. The fact that all the terminals are tactile makes their use more difficult for these people. With this technology, this problem can be solved, since the movements that are carried out on the touch screen of the device with one hand are perceptible in the other hand, with which the user holds it.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figure 1 shows an exterior view of the terminal of the invention.

Figure 2 shows a rear view of the terminal of the invention.

Figure 3 shows an operating block diagram of the terminal of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF A PRACTICAL EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

The terminal (1) of the invention (see fig 1) is of the type that comprises a casing (2) suitable for being held with one hand, a combined tactile and graphic interface (21), and internal control electronics (88). operating system, which performs digital processing (90), treatment by artificial intelligence (91) and by an operating system (92), as seen in Fig. 3, to present processed information related to communications in the combined interface (21). , with applications loaded in the terminal, etc... and to introduce commands by means of tactile actions carried out on the images presented, which may include ports (4), keys (5), sockets (6) for cards, cameras (7), speakers ( 8) and/or audio connection, etc., which according to the invention comprises rear sensors (100) and haptic transducers (10) (vibrating, ultrasonic,...) distributed along the rear of the terminal and associated with the control electronics and interface combin tactile and graphic ada (21) to collect movements of the hand that holds the terminal and produce localized vibrations during the actuation of the terminal through the combined interface (21).

Ideally, the rear sensors (100) and the haptic transducers (10) are located on the inside rear part of the casing (2) (see fig 2), since they are not exposed in this way, which could damage them, and in parallel They are in the closest possible area to the hand that holds the terminal (1).

Having sufficiently described the nature of the invention, as well as the manner of carrying it out in practice, it should be noted that the provisions indicated above and represented in the attached drawings are subject to modifications in detail as long as they do not alter the fundamental principle.

Claims (2)

1. -Portable personal terminal (1), of the type comprising a casing (2) suitable to be held with one hand, a combined tactile and graphical interface (21), and internal operating control electronics; characterized in that it comprises rear sensors (100) and haptic transducers (10) distributed along its rear part and associated with the control electronics and the combined tactile and graphic interface (21) to collect movements of the hand that holds the terminal and produce vibrations located during the operation of the terminal through the combined interface. 2. -Portable personal terminal (1) according to claim 1, wherein the haptic transducers (10) comprise vibratory or ultrasonic transducers. -Portable personal terminal (1) according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the rear sensors (100) and the haptic transducers (10) are arranged on the inside rear part of the casing (2).