JPH0830353A - Information processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a miniaturized information processor excellent in operability and portability and with which a pen or finger touch input and a keyboard input can be compositely or selectively performed. CONSTITUTION:A picture display input unit 2 is fitted to a main body unit 1 so as to be turned from the state of being overlapped on the front face of the main body unit 1 to the state of being overlapped on the rear, and a keyboard unit 5 is provided so as to be attached/detached with the front/rear upward to/from the main body unit 1. Then, the picture display unit part 2 is provided with a flexible disk device 8.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus such as a Japanese word processor, and more particularly to a portable information processing apparatus such as a notebook Japanese word processor having an information processing function by touch input with a pen or a finger.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An information processing apparatus having a pen or finger touch input function is composed of a composite unit of a screen display input unit section which is opened at a predetermined angle with respect to a main body unit section equipped with a keyboard input means. It is composed of a single unit with only the screen display input unit that omits the keyboard input means for portability, with a form of data input by tracing the screen with a dedicated pen or finger,
There is a form in which only the input by touching the display screen with a dedicated pen or a finger is limited.

[0003]

However, in the information processing apparatus of the composite unit type, the arm movement frequently occurs due to the keyboard input operation and the pen or finger touch input operation, and the operator's input operation is troublesome. As the strength increases, fatigue of the arm also occurs. Moreover, since the input operation is performed by pressing the display screen opened at a certain angle to the keyboard with a pen or a finger, the screen display input unit must have a stable posture, and the device is inevitably large. Tends to become.

Further, since the single unit type information processing apparatus has a flat form, it can be placed and put on a desk for stable input operation. Remains inferior.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus which can perform a pen or finger touch input and a keyboard input in a composite or selective manner, is excellent in operability, and is small in size and portable. To do.

[0006]

A first invention is an information processing apparatus comprising an input means for inputting data, a processing means for processing the input data, and a display means for displaying a processing result, It is characterized in that the screen display input unit section is attached to the main body unit section so as to be rotatable from a superposed state of the main body unit section to a superposed state of the rear surface.

A second aspect of the invention is characterized in that the information processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the invention is further provided with a keyboard unit which can be attached to and detached from the main body unit in either front or back direction.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in an information processing apparatus having a screen display unit section rotatably attached to a main body unit section having an input means, a flexible disk device is provided in the screen display unit section. It is characterized by

[0009]

[Function] The screen display unit section or the screen display input unit section is rotated with respect to the main body unit section from the superposed state on the front surface to the superposed state on the rear surface, and the keyboard unit is detachable from the main body unit section. And provide a form suitable for various usage conditions.

Further, the flexible disk device provided in the screen display unit portion is positioned so that the flexible disk can be attached / detached in a relationship corresponding to the display screen to improve operability.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

1 to 3 show two states of a small information processing apparatus such as a notebook type Japanese word processor according to the present invention, and FIGS. 1 and 2 mainly show a keyboard as an input means. It is a perspective view and a side view in the 1st use state which uses and uses a touch input means auxiliaryly, and Drawing 3 is a longitudinal section side view in the folded storage state.

At the rear end of the main body unit 1, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, a screen display input unit 2 rotatably attached is erected. Main unit 1
A main body control circuit board (described later) and a keyboard unit 5 are provided in a main body case space formed by the main body lower case 3 and the main body upper case 4. The screen display input unit section 2 includes a display case 6 in which a display input device 7 in which a touch input tablet is superimposed on a liquid crystal panel and a flexible disk device 8 (hereinafter, referred to as FDD) which is a magnetic storage device are incorporated and a liquid crystal cover 9 is provided. It is composed by covering. The disk attachment / detachment opening of the FDD 8 is opened on the side surface of the display device case 6 so that the surface of the flexible disk as a storage medium can be always attached / detached in a state corresponding to the display surface of the display / input device 7 in a plurality of usage patterns.

A signal cable is arranged on one side of the rear end portion so that the screen display input unit portion 2 can be rotatably attached to the main body unit portion 1 from the superposed state on the front surface to the superposed state on the rear surface. A hollow support mechanism 10 is provided, and on the other side, a hinge arm such as an aluminum die-cast product to which a lock hinge (not shown) provided to face both the main body lower case 3 and the display device case 6 is coupled is connected. 11 is provided.

The keyboard unit 5 of the main body unit 1
As shown in FIG. 3, can be detachably attached to the main body case in either the front or back direction, and can be operated by placing it on a desk with it removed, and the bottom surface of the keyboard unit case 12 in the state of being installed inside out. Is configured to be flush with the upper surface of the upper case 4 of the main body. The keyboard unit case 12 is a keyboard 13 that converts an operation input of a key operated by an operator such as a character or a function designation into an electric signal.
And a keyboard control board 16 having a control circuit 14 for controlling the keyboard 13 and a keyboard data transmission unit 15 for wirelessly transmitting keyboard input data by infrared rays.
Built in. The keyboard data transmission unit 15 is exposed on the front side surface of the keyboard case 12 for transmitting an infrared signal. The keyboard case 12 includes a fixing pin 18 attached to the lower case 3 of the main body by a spring 17 and an engaging claw 4a formed on the upper case 4 of the main body.
The spring 1
By moving 7 in the direction of compression, the engagement with the engagement claw 4a is released to make it detachable, and the spring 17 is pushed in so as to be compressed, and then the pushing force is removed to engage with the engagement claw 4a. I move it and fix it.

The main body control circuit board 19 is used for input control processing,
A main control circuit that performs document editing processing, FDD control processing, display control processing, print control processing, and the like, and a first keyboard data receiving unit 20 are provided. The first keyboard data receiving unit 20 is installed at a position facing the infrared ray signal output from the keyboard data transmitting unit 15 of the attached keyboard unit 5 so as to be sensitive to the infrared signal.

The display input device 7 in the screen display input unit section 2 is constructed by mounting a polymer of the liquid crystal panel 22 and the touch input tablet 23 on a display control board 21, and the display control board 21 further includes a polymer. A second keyboard data receiving unit 24 is provided. The second keyboard data receiving unit 24 is located at the free end of the screen display input unit 2 so as to be sensitive to the infrared signal output from the keyboard data transmitting unit 15 placed on the desk, and the liquid crystal cover 9 Exposed from.

Anti-slip rubbers 25 and 26 are provided at the free ends of the main unit 1 and the screen display input unit 2.

The main control circuit mounted on the main control circuit board 19 is, as shown in FIG. 4, a central processing unit (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 27 which is a program storage type calculation unit.
And a program memory 28 that stores a program that is executed to perform a function as an information processing device after power is turned on, an information processing work memory 29 that stores input information processing data, and the like. A print buffer memory 30 for temporarily storing the data of the created print image, a character generator 31 for storing dot data representing characters in a dot matrix as a character code index, and display data for screen display. Display memory 32 to be stored, and the display memory 32
Of the first and second liquid crystal controllers 33, which controls the display for transferring the stored data of the above to the liquid crystal panel 22 at a constant cycle.
The keyboard controller 3 for exchanging data with the control circuit 14 via the keyboard data receiving units 20 and 24 of the keyboard unit 5 and the keyboard data transmitting unit 15 provided on the keyboard control board 16 of the keyboard unit 5.
4, a flexible disk controller (hereinafter referred to as FDC) 35 for controlling the FDD 8, an interface circuit 36, a printer controller 37, and a tablet controller 38, which are connected to the CPU 27 by a bus line 39. .

The interface circuit 36 has a print switch 40 for instructing execution and stop of printing, a power LED indicator 41 for indicating a power state, and a usage mode (specifically, a mode) for changing the display method according to the usage mode. , The interface between the input mode control sensor 42 for detecting the opening angle of the screen display input unit 2 with respect to the main body unit 1 and the CPU 27.

The printer controller 37 controls the printing unit 43 and executes control such as printing of characters and rotation of the paper feed roller.

The input mode control sensor 42 is connected to the interface circuit 36 of the main body control circuit board 19 via a signal cable built in the support mechanism 10. As a specific detection operation, in this embodiment, the angle of the screen display input unit 2 with respect to the main body unit 1 is
An angle that enables discrimination between an angle of 180 degrees or more and less than 360 degrees or another angle (0 degrees or more and less than 180 degrees or 360 degrees), where 0 is the angle in the state of folding and storing as shown in FIG. Output the detection signal.

The tablet controller 38 is connected to the touch input tablet 23 via a signal cable built in the support mechanism 10, and has a control function of inputting a touch position by the input pen 44 or input character data and transmitting the data to the CPU 27. Have.

In the above configuration, when the operator operates the keyboard unit 5 in the first use state as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the electric signal output from the keyboard 13 is the control circuit 14 Is sent to the keyboard data transmission unit 15 via the and transmitted in the form of an infrared signal. This infrared signal is received by the first keyboard data receiving unit 20 provided on the main body control circuit board 19 of the main body unit section 1 and taken into the CPU 27 via the keyboard controller 34 to perform a predetermined process. Is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 22 via the display memory 32 and the liquid crystal controller 33. The angle detection signal of the input mode control sensor 42 in this usage state outputs an angle detection signal within 180 degrees, and the liquid crystal controller 33 controls the erect image display.

When an input operation is performed by touching the display screen of the display input device 7 with the input pen 44, the touch input tablet 23 outputs an electric signal sensitive to the touch position and its movement locus. The tablet controller 38 processes this electric signal and outputs CP as input data.
The liquid crystal panel 2 is transmitted to U27 and processed by the CPU 27.
Display on 2.

FIG. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional side view of the information processing apparatus in the second use state in which only the pen input is used. In this second use state, the keyboard unit 5 is mounted on the main body unit portion 1 in an inverted state, and the screen display input unit portion 2 is rotated so as to overlap the back side surface of the main body unit portion 1 so as to be back-to-back. Is in the form. Then, the main body unit 1 is placed on a desk with the front side facing down, and the display input device 7 of the screen display input unit 2 is operated with the display surface facing upward.

In this embodiment, the input mode control sensor 42
The angle detection signal of is outputting a detection signal of 360 degrees.

In FIG. 6, the keyboard unit 5 is detached from the main body unit 1 and placed in front of the desk to be used for the main input operation, and the main body unit 1 and the screen display unit 2 are bent in a V shape to be placed on the desk. FIG. 11 is a side view of the information processing apparatus in a third usage state in which it is set up in the back and used as a display image observation and auxiliary input means.

This use state is an intermediate state between the first use state and the second use state, and the main body unit 1 is an image display input unit so that the display surface of the display input device 7 has a desired tilt angle. Supports the inverted angle of part 2. For this,
The coupling angle of the screen display input unit section 2 with respect to the main body unit section 1 is freely variable, and the contact end surfaces are prevented from slipping by anti-slip rubbers 25 and 26 in order to stabilize the desk surface.

In this embodiment, the input mode control sensor 42
The angle detection signal of is output from an angle detection signal of 180 degrees or more and less than 360 degrees, and the liquid crystal controller 33 displays an inverted image (an image that is vertically and horizontally inverted so as to be an erect image when viewed from the operator, in other words, , An image rotated 180 degrees about the center of the display surface) is controlled.

In such a state of use, the electric signal output from the keyboard 13 by operating the keyboard unit 5 is given to the keyboard data transmission unit 15 via the control circuit 14 and is transmitted as an infrared signal, as described above. It is sent in the form of. This infrared signal is received by the second keyboard data receiving unit 24 provided on the display control board 21 of the image display input unit section 2,
It is taken in by the CPU 27 via the keyboard controller 34.

The storage state in the folded form as shown in FIG. 3 can be easily obtained by the operation from the use state shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and the display of the display / input device 7 and the input surface and the keyboard. Since none of the units 5 is exposed to the outside, they can be protected from dust and external force. Further, it is possible to easily obtain a mode in which the display and input surface of the display input device 7 is overlapped with the main body unit 1 by rotating the screen display input unit 2 360 degrees from the second use state shown in FIG. Even in this stored state, the display and input surface of the display / input device 7 and the keyboard unit 5 can be protected from dust and external force.

According to the above embodiments, in the clamshell type information processing apparatus, the screen display input unit section 2 having the display input apparatus 7 in which the touch input tablet 23 is combined with the liquid crystal panel 22 is provided in the main body unit section 1. On the other hand, the main body unit 1 can be rotated from the superposed state to the superposed state on the back side, and the keyboard unit 5 can be attached / detached in either of the front and back directions. The main body unit 1 is erected at the rear end of the main body unit 1 so that the main body unit 1 can be used only by a pen input operation.
Formed by overlapping the screen display input unit 2 back to back on the back of the, the keyboard unit 5 is removed and placed on the desk, and the main body unit 1 and the screen display unit 2 are bent in a V shape to stand in the back of the desk. It is possible to obtain an information processing device that can provide a form, and it is highly effective to provide a form with high operability according to the application.

Further, since the FDD 8 is mounted on the screen display input unit section 2 side, the flexible disk to be inserted into the FDD 8 is displayed in such a manner that the operator always faces the pen in each of the pen input use state and the keyboard input use state. The same relationship as the input surface can be provided, and the effect of improving the operability of attaching / detaching the flexible disk to / from the FDD 8 is great.

Moreover, the input mode control sensor 42 for detecting the rotation angle of the screen display input unit section 2 is mounted,
Considering the phenomenon of vertical / horizontal reversal of the display screen due to the rotation of the screen display input unit section 2, by automatically displaying the image vertically / horizontally reversed on the display screen, it is always correct for the operator (correct A display image (which looks upright) can be provided.

In the above embodiments, a wireless transmission type keyboard unit using infrared rays is used, but a similar effect can be obtained by a signal transmission / reception type keyboard unit using a signal cable.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention, the screen display unit portion or the screen display input unit portion can be rotated with respect to the main body unit portion from the front surface overlapping state to the back surface overlapping state, and the keyboard unit is Since it can be attached to and detached from the main unit, it can be provided in a form suitable for various usage conditions. Furthermore, by installing a flexible disk device in the screen display unit part, the operation of attaching and detaching the flexible disk is the same as the display screen. It is possible to perform with a pen or finger touch input and keyboard input in combination or selectively, which is excellent in operability.
Further, there is an effect that it is possible to obtain an information processing device that is small and has excellent portability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a first usage state of an information processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the information processing apparatus in the first use state shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a vertical sectional side view showing a stored state of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a main control circuit in the information processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a vertical side view showing a second usage state of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side view showing a third usage state of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Main unit 2 Screen display input unit 5 Keyboard unit 7 Display input device

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Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an input means for inputting data; a processing means for processing the input data; and a display means for displaying the processing result. An information processing apparatus, wherein a screen display input unit section is attached to the main body unit section so as to be rotatable up to a superposed state on the back surface. 2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display means includes means for displaying images in an upside-down, left-right, and upside-down state. 3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the screen display input unit section includes a display input device in which a liquid crystal panel and a touch input tablet are superimposed. 4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a keyboard unit that can be attached to and detached from the main body unit in either front or back direction. 5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display means includes means for displaying images in a vertically upside down, left and right opposite states. 6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the bottom surface of the keyboard unit case is flush with the main body case when the keyboard unit is mounted inside out. 7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the screen display input unit section includes a display input device in which a liquid crystal panel and a touch input tablet are superimposed. 8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the keyboard unit includes means for communicating with the main body unit by an infrared signal. 9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein among the means for communicating by the infrared signal, the receiving means for receiving the infrared signal is provided in the main body unit section and the screen display input unit section. . 10. An information processing apparatus comprising a screen display unit section rotatably attached to a main body unit section having an input means, wherein the screen display unit section is provided with a flexible disk device. Processing equipment. 11. The screen display unit section according to claim 10, wherein the screen display unit section is rotatably attached to the main body unit section from a superposed state on the front surface to a superposed state on the back surface. Information processing equipment.