JP6162160B2 - Information processing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus including a touch panel.

  In recent years, personal computers (PCs) equipped with a touch panel have become widespread. The touch panel is mounted on the surface of a liquid crystal monitor installed in the housing. Glass is often used as the material of the touch panel, and even when the user presses the touch panel, the glass can maintain a flat strength.

  Also, the PC is provided with a microphone and a camera. The microphone and the camera are mounted on the upper or lower part of the display screen of the PC. A microphone of the user is input to the microphone. The camera can recognize the user and take a picture.

Patent Document 1 discloses an information processing apparatus in which a casing is provided with a CCD (Charge Coupled Device) camera on an upper part of a liquid crystal monitor.
The information processing apparatus has a microphone, and the microphone is a device that inputs voice information to the information processing apparatus, and is controlled by a sound chip or the like. It may be configured as one component together with a CCD camera which is a device for inputting image information.

JP 2014-85894 A

  However, in the prior art, since a microphone is installed, there is a problem that glass touch cracks due to opening a microphone hole in the touch panel itself, failure due to breakage, process yield, processing effort, and cost for selecting glass with strength. was there.

  In addition, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, there is no description of where the microphone hole is opened, rather than a mechanism that installs a microphone and a camera on a PC equipped with a touch panel. The problem of preventing failure due to the cracking and breakage of the glass has not been solved.

  The present invention is for solving the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of preventing a touch panel from being damaged by forming a microphone hole and a groove communicating with the microphone in a housing. There is.

  In order to achieve this object, the present invention has the following features.

An information processing apparatus according to the present invention is an information processing apparatus having a display unit housing for storing a display unit for displaying information processing results, and the display unit housing has a touch panel for receiving a touch input of the display unit. A microphone that is fixed to the outer surface and receives voice input is arranged inside the housing, has a groove formed continuously from the touch panel to the microphone , and has a camera near the center of one side of the touch panel, Two grooves are formed along one side of the touch panel with the camera at the center, and are formed in a support portion that is formed in the display unit casing and fixes the touch panel to the outer surface of the display unit. It is characterized by.

  According to the present invention, the touch panel can be prevented from being damaged by forming the microphone hole and the groove leading to the microphone in the housing.

It is the schematic which shows the information processing apparatus which concerns on this embodiment. It is an enlarged view which shows the microphone hole and camera which concern on this embodiment. It is a fragmentary sectional view showing a microphone hole and a slot concerning this embodiment.

  Hereinafter, the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an information processing apparatus 1 according to the present embodiment. The information processing apparatus 1 shown in FIG. 1 is configured as a so-called notebook personal computer. The information processing apparatus 1 includes a main body housing 2 having a keyboard 4 and a display housing 3 having a touch panel 5 that accepts touch input on the outer surface and a liquid crystal monitor 6 that displays information processing results. Has been. The main body housing 2 and the display housing 3 are rotatably coupled by a hinge mechanism.

  FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing the microphone hole 7 and the camera 8 according to the present embodiment. A touch panel 5 is attached to the outer surface of the liquid crystal monitor 6 in the display unit housing 3. Two microphone holes 7 are formed in the upper part of the display unit housing 3 just above the upper end of the touch panel 5. A camera 8 is installed at the center of the upper end portion of the touch panel 5.

  The camera 8 is a type of CCD camera that changes incident light into an electrical signal by photoelectric conversion, and requires electric power for operation. The camera 8 is a so-called in-camera and is a camera that images the same side as the liquid crystal monitor 6 that is a display unit of the information processing apparatus 1. It is arranged at a position suitable for capturing a user's face image facing the liquid crystal monitor 6, and is therefore suitable for providing a videophone function. The camera is not limited to a CCD camera, but may be another type of camera.

FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view showing the microphone hole 7 and the groove 14 according to the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line AA of FIG. The display unit housing 3 is open 90 degrees perpendicular to the plane.
The display unit housing 3 includes a front surface side housing 11 and a back surface side housing 12, and a microphone 13, a liquid crystal monitor 6, and the like between the front surface side housing 11 and the back surface side housing 12. Is stored. The microphone 13 is housed in two places on the left and right with the camera 8 as the center. The microphone 13 can input a user's voice and can perform keyword search by voice.

  The housing 11 on the front side has a slope 21 formed at the tip, and when the main body housing 2 and the display housing 3 are closed, the fingertip can be brought into contact with the slope 21 and easily opened. The housing 11 on the front side is a portion where the microphone hole 7 is formed from the inclined surface 21 at the front end, and a plate-like support portion 22 for fixing the front end of the touch panel 5 is formed on the rear side.

The lower end surface 23 of the support portion 22 is in contact with the upper end surface 24 of the liquid crystal monitor 6. A protrusion 25 is formed on the front surface side of the support portion 22, and the protrusion 25 is in contact with the back surface of the touch panel 5. A gap is formed between the front surface of the support portion 22 and the back surface of the touch panel 5. A microphone 13 is installed on the back side of the support portion 22, and the microphone 13 is connected to an electronic board built in the display unit housing 3. The microphone 13 is disposed closer to the center than the peripheral edge of the touch panel 5.
Note that the protrusions 25 may not be formed on the support portion 22, and the entire surface of the support portion 22 may be in direct contact with the back surface of the touch panel 5.

  The left and right end portions of the touch panel 5 are in contact with the left and right inner side surfaces 26 of the display unit housing 3. The touch panel 5 is installed on the surface side of the liquid crystal monitor 6. The material of the touch panel 5 is glass. In addition, the material of the touch panel 5 may not be glass but may be a resin such as PET resin.

A hole is formed in the center of the upper end of the touch panel 5, and a part of the tip of the camera 8 is embedded in the hole. The camera 8 is connected to an electronic board built in the display unit housing 3.
A part of the tip of the camera 8 may not be embedded in a hole formed in the touch panel 5 but may be installed inside the display unit housing 3 inside the touch panel 5.

  Two microphone holes 7 are formed at a height slightly above the camera 8 at the left and right positions around the camera 8. The microphone hole 7 is formed in a rectangular shape in the case 11 on the surface side just above the boundary between the case 11 on the surface side and the tip of the touch panel 5.

  A plate-like support portion 22 is formed on the back side of the touch panel 5 from the boundary between the front side case 11 and the tip of the touch panel 5. The support unit 22 fixes the touch panel 5 to the outer surface of the liquid crystal monitor 6. Two grooves 14 are formed along one side of the touch panel 5 with the camera 8 as the center from the microphone hole 7 formed in the front case 11 to the front case 11 and the support 22.

  In the groove 14, a horizontal passage 31 is formed in the housing 11 and the support portion 22 on the front surface side. In addition, the groove 14 is formed in the support portion 22 between the touch panel 5 and the microphone 13 in a downward direction from the surface where the support portion 22 abuts.

  Further, the groove 14 has a shape in which a passage 33 is formed in the support portion 22 near the center of the microphone 13 in the horizontal direction from the contact surface of the support portion 22 of the housing 11 and reaches the microphone 13. The width of the groove 14 is equal to or longer than the width of the microphone hole.

  Here, when the groove 14 does not form the passage 32 and is formed in a straight shape in the linear direction, it is necessary to move the microphone 13 upward in order to align the vicinity of the center of the microphone 13 with the groove 14. In this case, the hook member 34 for fixing the housing 11 and the housing 12 is installed upward, and there is a problem that the upper end portions of the housings 11 and 12 become wide.

  In addition, the shape of the groove | channel 14 is not limited to this embodiment, Other shapes may be sufficient if it connects to the microphone from the microphone hole and it is formed in the housing | casing 11 or the support part 22. FIG. A user's voice or the like is input from the microphone hole 7 to the microphone 13 through the groove 14.

  According to this embodiment, breakage of the touch panel can be prevented by forming the microphone hole and the groove leading to the microphone in the housing.

  The above-described embodiment shows an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. is there.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information processing apparatus 2 Main body part housing | casing 3 Display part housing | casing 4 Keyboard 5 Touch panel 6 Liquid crystal monitor 7 Microphone hole 8 Camera 11 Front side housing | casing 12 Back side housing | casing 13 Microphone 14 Groove 22 Support part

Claims (3)

An information processing apparatus having a display unit housing for storing a display unit for displaying information processing results,
The display housing is
A touch panel that accepts touch input is fixed to the outer surface of the display unit,
A microphone that accepts voice input is placed inside the housing,
Having a groove formed continuously from the touch panel to the microphone;
Having a camera near the center of one side of the touch panel;
Two grooves are formed along one side of the touch panel with the camera at the center, and are formed in a support portion that is formed in the display unit casing and fixes the touch panel to the outer surface of the display unit. An information processing apparatus characterized by the above.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein voice input to the microphone is performed through a voice path formed between the groove and the touch panel.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the microphone is disposed closer to the center than the periphery of the touch panel.

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