JPH09244815A - Information terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operability by providing a key button group for pressing a pressure sensitive display shared tablet surface and a switch for switching a functional operation corresponding to the opening and closing of a lid arranged on a casing. SOLUTION: A switch monitoring part 19 at a CPU 17 judges whether a switch 7 arranged on the casing is pressed into a closed state or released into a opened state and closes or opens a flag in a data area 20C of a memory 20. The CPU 17 successively inspects this data area 20C and when that flag is changed from closing to opening, the CPU changes a program function stored in a data area 20B of the memory 20 such as a portable telephone function, for example, into an electronic notebook function and controls a display 3B for the electronic note-book. On the contrary, when the flag is oppositely changed from opening to closing, the CPU changes the program function stored in a data area 20A such as the electronic notebook function, for example, into the portable telephone set function and controls the display 3B and a communication circuit 18 for the portable telephone set function.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement of an information terminal device in which a communication terminal device such as a portable telephone and a data information terminal device such as an electronic notebook are integrated.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a portable information terminal device such as a portable telephone, an electronic notebook, a remote control device, etc., especially a GUI (Gr.
The information terminal device operated by the apical user interface) is becoming more and more multifunctional, and its operation function is also increasing in order to be equipped with many functions. In the past, push switch buttons with mechanically movable parts were arranged side by side, but many button groups should be arranged to operate many functional operations on the limited casing of the information terminal device. In addition, there is a problem that operation of only these buttons is extremely complicated, and in the current portable data information terminal devices such as electronic notebooks, input means such as tablets and display means such as liquid crystal display are integrated. Tablets that are also used as displays have been used. In particular, in portable information terminal devices having a small casing, the one in which a function button displayed on a tablet that also serves as a display is operated with a fingertip or a pen tip is mainly used.

[0003]

However, when pointing the function button (icon) displayed on the display / combined tablet as described above with a fingertip or a pen tip, the panel surface of the display / combined tablet is pressed. There is a drawback in that it is not possible to know whether or not the user has instructed the predetermined function part reliably because the feeling of being pressed in like a typical switch button is not obtained, and the reaction of operation acceptance becomes unclear.

Further, since the boundaries of icons on such a display / tablet are not felt by a fingertip or the like, it is easy to make a difference in pressing, blind touch cannot be performed, and high-speed input operation is difficult. It becomes impossible to maintain the operability advantage of mobile phones and the like that have many mechanical switch buttons, and improve the operability by adding many functions such as the portable electronic notebook. There was a problem that was not compatible with the case of doing.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its problem is realized by a functional operation suitable for mechanical switch button operation and a pressing operation of a tablet which also serves as a display. The present invention aims to provide an information terminal device having improved operability by combining functions suitable for GUI operation.

[0006]

As shown in FIG. 1, an information terminal device according to the present invention is provided with a pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet 3 provided on a casing 2 and the tablet 2 provided on the casing 2. A key button group 6 having a pressing portion 5 for pressing the pressure-sensitive display / tablet 3 provided on the lid 4.
It comprises a switching means 7 for switching the functional operation in response to opening and closing of the lid 4.

According to the information terminal device of the present invention, the functional operation can be switched according to the opening / closing operation of the lid, and the mechanical operation of the switch button can be transmitted as the data input of the tablet which also serves as the display. It is possible to obtain the hardware which does not require the hardware for generating the signal by pressing the switch button.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, one of the information terminal devices of the present invention will be described.
An embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing the configuration of the present invention. For example, a casing 4, which constitutes a portable electronic notebook, a remote control device, or the like, is provided with a lid 4 to add functions such as a calculator and a portable telephone. 1 shows a portable information terminal device 1.

In FIG. 1, a pressure sensitive display / combined tablet 3 is arranged in a window 9 formed in the upper surface 8 of a casing 2 made of synthetic resin or the like in a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. A hinge portion 10 is formed at one end of the casing 2, hook portions 14L and 14R formed at one end of the lid 4 are fitted to a shaft 11 formed in the hinge portion 10, and the lid 4 rotates with respect to the casing 2. It is designed to be freely pivoted. At the other end of the upper surface 2 of the casing 2, there is formed a recess 11 in which the actuator portion of the switching means 7 such as a switch is movably arranged. When the lid 4 is closed, the recess 11 fits into the recess 11 and the pressing projection is provided. 12 is formed.

A tablet as an input device formed in the window 9 of the casing 2 is, for example, a transparent electrode 3A made of a resistance sheet for X-axis detection, a pressure-sensitive conductive transparent sheet 3B, and a transparent electrode made of a resistance sheet for Y-axis detection. An LCD (liquid crystal display) 3D is provided below the transparent electrode 3C to form the pressure-sensitive display / tablet 3.

On the upper surface of the lid 4, a large number of key groups 6 made up of key buttons 13 which can be mechanically moved in the vertical direction are juxtaposed. A pressing portion 5 for performing a specific function by pressing predetermined X and Y positions of the pressure-sensitive display / tablet tablet 3 is provided on the lower surface of the lower ends of the key buttons 13. Further, a window 15 is provided between the hook portions 14L and 14R forming the hinge portion 10 so that a part of the pressure-sensitive display / tablet tablet 3 can be seen when the lid 4 is closed. Of course, these may be transparent areas.

In the casing 2, for example, various circuits functioning as a portable electronic notebook and various circuits functioning as a portable telephone are incorporated. In this case, the key button 13 of the key group 3 on the lid 4 serves as a ten-key group for the telephone, and the pressure-sensitive display / tablet tablet 3 serves as a data input device for an electronic notebook when the lid 4 is opened and is operated by a pen tip or a fingertip. The input data is displayed on the display device by the input operation.

FIG. 2 shows a system diagram of the above-mentioned information terminal device 1. In FIG. 2, 16 is a pen, 13 is a key button of the key group 3 arranged on the lid 4, and the pressure-sensitive tablet 3 is used.
Various input data, for example, a telephone number or the like is given via the key group 13 when the lid 4 is opened, and when the lid 4 is closed, on the pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet 3 including the display 3D such as A to 3C and LCD. At the tip of the pen tip 16, an instruction operation of an icon or the like on the pressure-sensitive tablets 3A to 3C is performed.

Input data from the tablets 3A to 3C is supplied to a microcomputer (hereinafter referred to as CPU) 17, and various display data from the CPU 17 is supplied to a display 3D.

The output from the CPU 17 is transmitted via a transmission line or an antenna 21 via a transmission circuit 18 in a telephone, a data transmission device or the like.

The open / closed state of the switching means 7 comprising a switch,
That is, the switch monitor 19 always determines whether the lid 4 is closed or opened. Reference numeral 20 denotes a memory such as a ROM or RAM possessed by the CPU 17, and the switch monitoring unit 19 can be configured by software in the CPU 17.

FIG. 3 shows a flow chart of the switch monitoring unit 19 having the above-mentioned configuration. In FIG. 3, the switch monitoring unit 19 of the CPU 17 constantly monitors the open / closed state of the lid 4, and the actuator of the switch 7 slidably disposed in the recess 11 of the upper surface 2 of the casing 2 is pressed by the pressing unit 5 of the lid 4. In the first step S ₁ , it is determined whether the closed state or the opened state is released.

If the switch 7 is closed in the first step S ₁ , the flag is closed (for example, 0) in the data area 20C of the memory 20 as shown in the second step S ₂ . If the switch 7 is opened in the first step S ₁ , it is recorded in the data area 20C of the memory 20 so that the flag is opened (eg, 1) as shown in the third step S ₃ .

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the control of the CPU 17. The CPU 17 sequentially inspects the data area 20C of the memory and switches the function program to be executed when the flag data changes.

That is, in the first step ST ₁ , the memory 20
It is determined whether or not the flag of the data area 20C has changed, and if there is no change, the process proceeds to the fourth step ST ₄ and the functional process corresponding to the flag is performed. First step ST ₁
If there is a change in the flag, the process proceeds to the second step ST ₂ and the CPU register information of the current functional process is stored in the memory 20.

Next third step ST_ThreeOf pre-function processing
Restore the CPU register information to the CPU register
4 steps ST_FourGo to to execute the process, the first step
ST ₁Is returned to.

That is, when the flag of the data area changes from closed to open, the program function stored in the data area 20B of the memory 20; for example, the mobile phone function is changed to the electronic notebook function, and the display 3B is changed to the electronic notebook. If it changes from open to closed, the program function stored in the data area 20A of the memory 20, for example, the electronic notebook function is changed to the mobile phone function, and the display 3B and the communication circuit 18 are carried. It is configured to control the telephone function.

Therefore, the lid 4 is closed and the pressing projection 1
When 2 closes the switch 7, it becomes a mobile phone function as shown in FIG. 5B. Therefore, if a telephone number or the like is pressed by the key button 13 of the key group 6, the pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet 3 through the window 15 formed in the lid 4 is used. The phone number you pressed is displayed on the first part of
It becomes possible to send and receive voices via the handset 22 and the antenna 21 provided at a predetermined position of the casing 2.

On the other hand, when the lid 4 is opened as shown in FIG. 5A, the pressing projection 12 is separated from the actuator of the switch 7 and is in an open state, and the electronic notebook function is provided. By inputting the data information, it is possible to have an electronic notebook function in which the input data is displayed on the display 3D such as an LCD.

That is, in FIG. 5A, the lid is opened to function as a data information terminal device such as an electronic notebook, and as shown in FIG. 5B, the lid 4 is closed to automatically perform communication of a mobile phone, a portable remote control device, or the like. A usable information terminal device can be obtained.

[0026]

According to the information terminal device of the present invention, the function switch is automatically performed in response to opening and closing of the lid, and the key button is mechanically moved on the casing and the pressed state can be perceptually recognized. Since it is not necessary to arrange a large number of key buttons and these key button groups may be arranged on the lid, a suitable one for a portable information terminal device can be obtained.

Furthermore, by mechanically moving and pressing a key of a key group in which the pressed state can be perceptually recognized, the data is transmitted to the information terminal device as data input of the pressure-sensitive display / tablet. According to the information terminal device of the present invention, it is not necessary to generate a special signal generated when the key button is pressed by hardware, and the function operation suitable for the mechanical button operation and the pressing of the display / combined tablet by the GUI or the like are performed. A functional operation suitable for operation can be provided to enhance the operability.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing a configuration of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a system diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart when opening and closing a lid according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a control flowchart of the computer of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a communication terminal device and a data information terminal device applied to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 information terminal device, 2 casing, 3 pressure-sensitive display / tablet tablet, 4 lid, 5 pressing protrusions, 6 key groups, 7 switches, 17 CPU, 19 switch monitoring unit

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet provided on a casing, and a key button group having a pressing portion that is provided on a lid arranged on the casing and presses the surface of the pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet. An information terminal device, comprising: switching means for switching a functional operation according to opening and closing of the lid. 2. The switching means comprises a switch monitoring means for monitoring an open / closed state of a switch which opens / closes in response to opening / closing of the lid, and a function switching means for switching a functional operation depending on a monitoring result of the switch monitoring means. The information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The information terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the lid is formed with a region that does not cover the pressure-sensitive display / combined tablet on the casing. 4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the lid functions as a communication information terminal device when the lid is closed, and functions as a data information terminal device when the lid is opened. Information terminal equipment.