JP2009260587A - Portable electronic device for control management device control - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable electronic device for the control of a control management device. <P>SOLUTION: The portable electronic device includes: a chip; firmware formed inside the chip and for supporting the control management device; a decoder connected to the chip and for converting command signals from a portable electronic device protocol to a control management device protocol; an accessory controller connected to the decoder; a portable electronic device output interface connected to the chip and for outputting the command signals to the control management device; and a key pad connected to the chip and simultaneously formed on the portable electronic device. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a portable electronic device, and more particularly to a portable electronic device for controlling a control management apparatus.

  In recent years, home appliances have made rapid progress. The latest products to attract consumers, such as digital cameras with higher pixel count and mobile phones that can listen to MP3 music files, watch MP4 or AVI video files, take pictures, or play 3D games Are being developed one after another by home appliance manufacturers. However, due to the keypad or button of the home appliance, the ease of use for the user is reduced when the small home appliance has more built-in functions. Traditional home appliance keypads or buttons are too small for the user. The user must enter a text message, edit the photo, or select a specific item and continue to press the keyboard to perform a specific function. For this reason, there exists a need for improving the ease of use at the time of using the household appliances by solving the said subject for these devices.

  In view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of conventional home appliances, the present invention discloses a portable electronic product for control management device control.

  In one aspect of the present invention, the portable electronic product for control of the control management apparatus includes at least a chip, firmware formed on the chip for supporting the control management apparatus, and command signals from the portable electronic device protocol. A decoder connected to the chip for converting to a device protocol, an attached controller connected to the decoder, and a chip and a portable electronic product output interface for outputting a command signal to the control management device are included. Portable electronic device output interfaces include Bluetooth standard module, IEEE1394, and A type universal serial bus, B type universal serial bus, mini A type universal serial bus, mini B type universal serial bus or mini AB type universal serial bus Includes a universal serial bus. A portable electronic device includes a mouse. One aspect of the present invention includes a keypad that is coupled to a chip on a portable electronic device and formed on the portable electronic device at the same time. The keypad includes a number of alphanumeric keys for entering text and numeric messages in close proximity.

  An advantage of the present invention is that portable electronic products can be connected to control any kind of control management device in a wired or wireless manner.

  Another advantage of the present invention is that the portable electronic product has a plurality of alphanumeric keys for entering text and numbers in close proximity.

  These and other advantages will become apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiment taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and appended claims.

  The invention may be understood by the following several preferred embodiments and specifications and detailed description of the accompanying drawings. However, it should be appreciated that all of the preferred embodiments of the present invention are for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

  The present invention will be described with respect to preferred embodiments and aspects thereof, which are intended to illustrate the structure and procedure of the present invention for purposes of illustration only and are not intended to limit the claims of the invention. . Therefore, the present invention can be widely adopted in other embodiments than the preferred embodiments in the specification description.

  In one embodiment of the present invention, a portable electronic device for control of a control management device is disclosed by the present invention. In an embodiment of the present invention, the control portable electronic device of the control management apparatus may be a mouse shown in FIG. The portable electronic device 10 includes a keyboard 104 and buttons 105 formed on the main body. Further, certain embodiments of the present invention include a plurality of alphanumeric keys for entering text or numeric messages in close proximity on the keypad 104. As shown in FIG. 2, the portable electronic device 10 includes a chip 101, a sensor 102, a light source 103, a keypad 104, a button 105, a decoder 107, an attached controller 108, and a portable electronic device input interface 109. In some embodiments, the portable electronic device output interface 109 may be a wired or wireless interface including a Bluetooth standard or a module, but not limited to, Universal Serial Bus (USB) and IEEE1394. Universal serial bus (USB) includes A type universal serial bus (USB) B type serial bus (USB), mini A type universal serial bus (USB), mini B type universal serial bus (USB) and mini AB type universal serial bus (USB) is included, but is not limited to these. As shown in FIG. 2, the chip 101 includes firmware 106. The firmware 106 is connected to the portable electronic device 10 through the portable electronic device output interface 109 as shown in FIG. 2, such as a control management device 110 such as a mobile phone, GPS device, personal digital assistant (PDA), or It must be reasonably understood that it can be updated by being downloaded from the Internet supporting digital cameras. In one embodiment, the driver of the portable electronic device 10 sends a user to the control management device 110 such as a mobile phone or digital camera connected to the portable electronic device 10 for reading or decoding command signals from the portable electronic device 10. Can be mounted by or assembled. The command signal of the portable electronic device 10 is controlled from a portable electronic device protocol such as a mouse protocol to a control management device protocol such as a mouse protocol in order to control the control management device 110 connected to the attached controller 108 via the portable electronic device output interface 109. Converted by the decoder 107 to the mobile telephone protocol. Accordingly, the portable electronic device 10 outputs a conversion command signal to the control management apparatus 110, for example, a mobile phone or a digital camera connected to the portable electronic device 10 through the decoder 107, the attached controller 108, and the portable electronic device output interface 109. Thus, the control management device 110 is controlled. In certain embodiments, the adjunct controller 108 of the present invention may be embedded within the portable electronic device 10 or may be located externally. Similarly, the decoder 107 of the present invention may be embedded in the portable electronic device 10 or arranged outside. In one embodiment, the decoder 107 converts the command signal of the portable electronic device 10 into a command signal that can be recognized by the control management device 110. In one embodiment, the attached controller 108 may be a game controller that controls an embedded game in the control management device 110. Thus, according to the present invention, the portable electronic device 10 for controlling the control management apparatus 110 is provided.

  Referring to FIG. 3, the invention is illustrated by an example of the control management device 110, so that the mobile phone will be taken up in the following description. In another example of the control management device 110, for example, a digital camera, a GPS device, and a personal digital assistant (PDA) function on the same principle. The mobile phone 20 of an embodiment of the present invention mainly includes a microprocessor (MPU) 210, a baseband chip 211, a graphics user interface (GUI) 212, a portable electronic device input interface 213, a portable electronic device 214, A memory 215, a keypad 216, an embedding device 231, and a force feedback device 232 are included. Furthermore, the mobile phone 20 includes a digital-to-analog converter 217, an analog-to-digital converter 218, a radio frequency device (RF) 219, and an antenna 220, and any external device through the radio frequency device 219 and the antenna 220 can be baseband. Analog data received by the radio frequency device 219 from the external device through the antenna 220 at the same time as the digital analog converter 217 for converting the digital data signal output from the chip 211 into an analog data signal for transferring the analog data signal is used. An analog-to-digital converter 218 is used that converts the signal into a digital data signal that transfers the digital data signal to the baseband chip 211. The mobile phone 20 also includes a digital-analog converter 221, an analog-digital converter 222, a speaker 223, and a microphone 224, and converts the digital audio signal output from the baseband chip 211 into an analog audio signal output through the speaker 223. At the same time as the analog converter 221 is used, an analog-digital converter 222 that converts an analog audio signal received by the microphone 224 into a digital audio signal that transfers the digital audio signal to the baseband chip 211 is used.

  The mobile phone 20 also includes a digital-to-analog converter 225, a liquid crystal display 226, an analog display 227, and a digital camera 228, which transfer the digital video signal to the microprocessor 210 and simultaneously convert it to an analog video signal. The digital video signal output from the microprocessor 210 is output through the analog display 227, or the digital video signal output from the microprocessor 210 is output directly through the liquid crystal display 226. The mobile phone 20 further includes an operating system 229. In one embodiment, the microprocessor 210 includes an advanced RISC machine (ARM), a digital audio signal, a digital video signal, a digital data signal, or other information may be flash memory, random access memory (RAM), a memory card or Stored in memory 215 including other types of known memory. The portable electronic device input interface 213 includes universal serial bus (USB), for example, A type universal serial bus (USB), B type universal serial bus (USB), mini A type universal serial bus (USB), mini B type Includes Universal Serial Bus (USB), and Mini AB Universal Serial Bus (USB) and IEEE 1394.

  In the mobile phone 20, a portable electronic device 214, such as the special mouse or mini keypad of the present invention, is utilized, and the portable electronic device input cooperates with the keypad 216 and the embedded device 231 intended for the portable electronic device 214. The command is coupled to the microprocessor 210 through an interface 213 and commands are transmitted to the mobile phone 20 such as a graphic user interface (GUI) 212, or a non-graphic user interface, eg, a force feedback device 232 that controls the mobile phone 20 to perform further special functions. Issued to all components. It should be noted that the graphic user interface (GUI) 212 and force feedback device 232 are utilized for purposes of illustration and not limitation. In addition to the operating system (OS) 229, the embedding device 231 includes, for example, a library 230 including device drivers. In certain embodiments, various devices include a portable electronic device 214 and a keypad 216. The graphic user interface (GUI) 212 may be an embedded graphic user interface that provides an interactive interface for special occasions for the embedded device 231. The embedding device 231 is a special purpose computer system that is embedded as part of a computer system and designed to perform one or several dedicated functions. In contrast to a personal computer general purpose computer system, the embedded device 231 typically performs a predefined task with specific requirements. Since the embedding device 231 is dedicated to a specific task, the design engineer can optimize this by reducing product size and cost, or by increasing reliability and performance. The embedding device 231 is generally mass-produced by taking advantage of economies of scale. An embedded graphics user interface must be simple, intuitive and reliable, require fewer resources and at the same time be responsive to adapt it to the finite hardware resources of the embedded device. In addition, because of the special hardware of the embedded device, the embedded graphic user interface must be highly portable and highly cut to adapt itself to various hardware requirements and usage requirements. The all-in-one embedded graphics user interface is small in size and consumes less system resources during operation, hardware independence from higher layers, high portability, high reliability, and some opportunities There are many advantages such as real-time.

  At least two layers of abstraction are used for embedded graphic user interfaces on many hardware platforms. One is a graphic abstraction layer (GAL) based on a graphic display device such as a display card or liquid crystal display 226, and the other is input based on an input device such as a portable electronic device 214 or keyboard 216. It is an abstraction layer (IAL). A variety of hardware that provides a unified graphics programming interface for program developers, while the graphic abstraction layer (GAL) provides complete operation for specific display hardware devices that use the system. The implementation details of the technology are hidden. A control operation is performed on a plurality of various input devices provided with a unified implementation interface by the input abstraction layer (IAL). The design of the graphic abstraction layer (GAL) and the input abstraction layer (IAL) can greatly improve the portability of the embedded graphic user interface as shown in FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram for a graphical user interface (GUI) according to one embodiment of the invention. The graphic user interface basically includes three layers, a bottom layer graphic display device 304 and an input device 305, such as a liquid crystal display 226 or analog display 227, a portable electronic display 214, and a plane such as a keypad 216. It may be a driver for an oriented graphic display. The middle layer graphic abstraction layer (GAL) 302 and the input abstraction layer (IAL) 303 provide the bottom layer hardware abstraction interface, while performing window management, while the top layer application programming interface (API) 301 provides an application programming interface that can coexist with the operating system.

  The bottom layer support library 230 at the core of the embedding device 231 is first activated for the porting of the embedded graphic user interface. Next, the embedded graphic user interface is configured to utilize the bottom layer support library as the graphic generation engine of the embedded graphic user interface to select a graphic abstraction layer (GAL) engine. The embedded graphics user interface input abstraction layer (IAL) 303 ultimately maps the input events of the input device 305 as message events in the application programming interface (API) layer of the embedded graphics user interface. The input abstraction layer (IAL) 303 implicitly handles the input operations of the two devices, the keypad 216 device and the portable electronic device 214. While the keypad 216 device provides various keypad input information upwards, the portable electronic device 214 provides “click, bottom-up, and bottom-down” coordinate messages. When the embedded graphic user interface and the input device drive interface are implemented, the input device function is obtained by selection and simultaneously converted into a message in the message queue. Corresponding to the LCD controller, the part of the driver must be statically coded in the core so that the parameters are transferred to the core and the device is activated when the system is running. After execution, the keypad 216 driver and portable electronic device 214 such as a mouse are utilized as system core modules that are dynamically loaded when in use.

  The Graphic User Interface (GUI) provides a great tool for developers, and at the same time, a variety of language platforms, such as Java language, that port the Java platform network-centric platform ignorance world view to devices limited to memory and processors May be programmed with Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME). The J2ME architecture is based on device families and categories. Categories define specific types of devices, and cellular phones, simple pagers, and organizers are separate categories. The device family consists of a group of categories with similar requirements for memory and processing power. A single cellular phone, simple pager, and simple personal organizer constitute a single family of small footprint devices. J2ME is designed to be modular and scalable to support the kind of flexibility and customizable deployment required by resource-constrained device families. This modularity and scalability is defined by J2ME technology in a complete application runtime model with four software layers built into the device's host operating system.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the J2ME architecture includes a Java virtual machine layer 404, one embodiment of a Java virtual machine that is customized for a specific device host operating system and supports a specific J2ME configuration. It is. The J2ME architecture further includes a configuration layer 403 that defines the minimum combination of Java virtual machine features and Java class libraries available on a particular device category. In this way, one configuration defines Java platform features and library commonality that a developer can assume to be available on all devices belonging to a particular category. This layer is rarely visible to the user, but is very important for profiler implementation. In addition, the J2ME architecture includes a profile layer 402 that defines the minimum set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available on a particular family of devices. A profile is implemented on a specific configuration. Applications are written for a specific profile and can be installed on any device that supports that profile. Any device can support multiple profiles. This is the layer most visible to users and application providers. The J2ME architecture also includes a mobility information profile layer 401, which is a set of Java APIs that address issues such as user interface, persistent storage and networking.

  As described above, in one embodiment, in accordance with the present invention, the mobile phone 20 with portable electronic device 214 is designed for connection with a microprocessor 210 and for portable electronic devices 214 such as a mouse and keypad 216. A mobile telephone 20 with a portable electronic device input interface controlled by the portable electronic device 214 by use of the embedded device 231 is provided. The embedded device 231 of the mobile phone 20 may have a driver that supports the portable electronic device 214 and the keypad 216. The graphic user interface 212 is also designed for a portable electronic device 214 and keypad 216, so the graphic interface 212 of the mobile phone 20 has a cursor, window, scroll bar and pull-down except for items corresponding to the keypad 216. More items such as menus are included, and a portable electronic device 214 is used that controls, clicks and drags. Therefore, the portable electronic device 214 allows the user to use the control management device more flexibly, for example, to listen to the control management device 110, for example, a wireless program and an MP3 or 3GP music file, or an AVI or 3GP video file. , Read a TXT text file, type a short message, enjoy a built-in game, perform a video talk, surf the internet, edit a photo, or modify a note Any component of the graphic user interface 212 such as the mobile phone 20 that performs a special function or the force feedback device 232 of the control management device 110 can be commanded. In other words, the portable electronic device 214 allows the user to use all the functions of the control management apparatus more conveniently and easily.

  The foregoing description is a preferred embodiment of the present invention. While this example is described for purposes of illustration only and not limitation, many changes and modifications may be practiced by a technician without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Must be justified. All modifications and changes are intended to be included within the scope as long as they fall within the scope of the present invention or are equivalent.

1 is a schematic view of a portable electronic device according to the present invention. 1 is a block diagram of a portable electronic device according to the present invention. 1 is a block diagram of a mobile phone with a portable electronic device input interface according to the present invention. FIG. 1 is an architectural composition of a graphic user interface according to the present invention. 1 is a system architecture composition of Java 2 platform, micro version (J2ME) according to the present invention.

Claims (6)

  At least an electronic device including a chip, firmware formed from the chip that supports the control management device, and a portable electronic device output interface coupled to the chip that outputs a command signal to the control management device. A portable electronic device for controlling a control management device, comprising: a decoder connected to the chip for converting a portable electronic device protocol from a portable electronic device protocol to a control management device protocol.   In addition, in a device including a keypad formed on the portable electronic device at the same time that the chip is connected, a plurality of alphanumeric keys for entering text or numeric messages in the immediate vicinity on the keypad. The device of claim 1 included.   The device of claim 1, further comprising an attached controller coupled to the decoder.   In a device in which the portable electronic device output interface includes a Bluetooth standard module, IEEE1394, or universal serial bus, the universal serial bus includes an A type universal serial bus, a B type universal serial bus, a mini A type universal serial bus, and a mini B type. The device according to claim 1, comprising a universal bus or a mini-AB type universal serial bus.   The device of claim 1, wherein the portable electronic device includes a mouse.   The device according to claim 1, wherein the control management device includes a digital camera, a mobile phone, a GPS device, or a personal digital assistant.

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