TW201401156A - Touch screen keyboard, editing apparatus thereof, and editing method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A touch screen keyboard, an edit apparatus thereof, and an edit method thereof are disclosed herein. The edit method of touch screen keyboard is used to edit a keyboard arrangement of a touch screen keyboard, in which the touch screen keyboard is a touch screen display device. The method includes three steps. First, a keyboard edit information is received, and a position and a size of at least one key is edited according to the keyboard edit information, where the key is in a user defined keyboard arrangement. Second, the touch screen display device receives a writing signal, and the user defined keyboard arrangement is written into a touch screen display device according to the writing signal. The touch screen display device receives of a personal keyboard selecting signal, and according to the user define keyboard arrangement to display a keyboard arrangement of the touch screen device.

Description

Touch keyboard, editing device and editing method thereof

The invention relates to a touch keyboard, an editing device thereof and an editing method thereof, in particular to a touch keyboard, an editing device thereof and an editing method.

With the development of technology, personal computers have become popular in human society. Most of the work, entertainment, socialization, etc. of people's daily lives depend on computers. Among the current personal computers, the most important and direct input device is the keyboard.

Traditional keyboards have their keyboard format determined at the factory and are not easy to change afterwards. The user often takes a considerable amount of time to adapt to the mechanical keyboard, and if other keyboard formats are used after adapting to a certain keyboard format, the use may be unsatisfactory due to the original habit. Moreover, some users often have special preferences or specific requirements for the keyboard format, so how to enable the keyboard format to be flexibly and freely configured with the user's habits is currently a problem to be solved.

An aspect of the present invention provides a method for editing a touch keyboard for editing a keyboard format of a touch keyboard, wherein the touch keyboard is a touch display device.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for editing a touch keyboard includes three steps. Receive keyboard editing information and edit information based on keyboard editing A location and size of at least one button in a user-defined keyboard format. The touch display device receives the write signal and writes the user defined keyboard format to the touch display device according to the write signal. The touch display device receives a selected personalized keyboard signal and displays the keyboard configuration of the touch keyboard according to the user defined keyboard format.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. When there is a delete setting instruction in the keyboard editing information, the setting of the button is deleted in the user-defined keyboard format according to the deletion setting information.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. When there is a new setting instruction in the keyboard editing information, the setting of another button is added to the user-defined keyboard format according to the newly added setting signal.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. When the keyboard editing information has a size setting command, the size setting command is used to modify the size setting of the button in the user-defined keyboard format.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. When the keyboard editing information has a position setting command, the position setting information is used to modify a position setting of the button on the user-defined keyboard format.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. A preset keyboard format, a blank keyboard format, or another user-defined keyboard format is loaded to define a keyboard format for the user based on the keyboard edit information edit.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps. The user defined keyboard format is stored as a file, and the user defined keyboard format includes at least the position and size of the button.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a touch display device on which a keyboard setting of a touch keyboard can be displayed.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a touch display device includes a memory module, a processing module, and a touch display module. The memory module is configured to store at least one user defined keyboard format. The processing module is configured to receive the write signal and write the user-defined keyboard format to the memory module according to the write signal. The touch display module is configured to receive the personalized keyboard signal and display the touch keyboard configuration according to the user defined keyboard format.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the touch display device further includes an editing module. The editing module is configured to receive keyboard editing information, and edit the position and size of the at least one button in the user-defined keyboard format according to the keyboard editing information.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a touch keyboard editing device for allowing a user to change the keyboard format of the touch keyboard.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the editing device of the touch keyboard includes an editing module and a writing module. The editing module is configured to receive keyboard editing information from the user input interface, and edit the setting of the at least one button in a user-defined keyboard format according to the keyboard editing information. The write module is configured to receive the write signal from the user input interface, and write the user-defined keyboard format to the touch display device according to the write signal, so that the touch display device can be defined according to the user The keyboard format displays a personalized keyboard.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the editing module is configured to edit according to the keyboard editing information, based on the preset keyboard format, the blank keyboard format, and another user-defined keyboard format to generate the user-defined keyboard format.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the editing device further includes a transmission module for receiving a transmission signal from the user input interface, and transmitting the user-defined keyboard format to the external memory medium according to the transmission signal, wherein the writing module The user-defined keyboard format in the external memory medium is written to the touch display device according to the write signal.

Therefore, according to the above embodiment of the present invention, the keyboard format, the button size, the button position, and the button function configuration edited by the user can be stored and stored, and output as a file. This file can be applied to other keyboards with the same function for loading. After another keyboard is loaded into the file, the keyboard format, button size, button position and button function edited by the previous user will be obtained.

In summary, by editing a user-defined keyboard format and writing it to the touch display device, a touch keyboard that can freely edit its keyboard format can be implemented. The keyboard format can be further fine-tuned by deleting, adding, modifying, and modifying the keys in the keyboard format. This allows users to freely edit and use their customary and preferred keyboard formats.

The spirit and scope of the present disclosure will be apparent from the following description of the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure. Modifications do not depart from the spirit and scope of the disclosure.

An aspect of the present invention provides a method for editing a touch keyboard, which can be applied to an editing device of a touch keyboard or a touch keyboard itself. For example, the editing device can be a computer, a mobile phone, or a tablet. An electronic device such as a computer, and the touch keyboard can be a touch display device. The editing method of the touch keyboard can be implemented by using a program, and the program can be stored in an electronic device such as a computer, a mobile phone, a tablet computer or a storage medium of a touch keyboard, and the storage medium is read through a computer or a touch keyboard. To execute the program. The storage medium can be a storage medium such as a memory, a hard disk, a CD, or a network database that can be easily considered by those skilled in the art to have the same function.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operation flow 100 for editing and setting a touch display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The operation flow 100 includes steps 110 to 150.

In step 110, the user selects whether to edit the user-defined keyboard format on the user input interface or the touch-sensitive display device of the editing device. If the user selects yes, the process proceeds to step 120 to edit the user-defined keyboard format. If the user selects No, the process proceeds to step 140 to select a keyboard format.

In step 120, when the user inputs keyboard editing information on the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device, the editing device or the touch display device receives the keyboard editing information, and edits the information according to the keyboard. Edit the position and size of this button in the user-defined keyboard format.

Then, in step 130, when the user inputs the write signal on the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device, the editing device or the touch display device receives the write signal, and according to the write signal, User-defined keyboard format is written into the touch display device to enable the touch display device The touch keyboard configuration can be displayed in a user-defined keyboard format.

Then, in step 140, when the user inputs a personalized keyboard signal on the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device, the editing device or the touch display device receives the selected personalized keyboard signal, and according to Select a personalized keyboard signal to select a different user-defined keyboard format.

Finally, in step 150, the touch display device defines a keyboard configuration according to the selected user-defined keyboard format.

Through the above steps 110-150, the user can freely edit the personalized keyboard on the editing device or the touch display device and write it into the touch display device so that the personalized keyboard can be displayed and applied.

In different embodiments, in the above step 120, the editing device or the touch display device can further load a preset keyboard format set at the factory, a blank keyboard format without content, or based on another previously defined user definition. The keyboard format defines a keyboard format for the user according to the keyboard editing information edited by the user. This allows users to edit different blanks or existing keyboard formats as needed, making editing more flexible.

In other embodiments, when the user deletes a button on the keyboard format through the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device in step 120, the keyboard editing information includes a delete setting instruction, and the editing device or The touch display device deletes the setting of the button in the user-defined keyboard format according to the deletion setting information.

Similarly, in other embodiments, when the user adds a button to the keyboard format through the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device in the above step 120, the keyboard editing information includes a new setting finger. The editing device or the touch display device adds a setting of another button to the user-defined keyboard format according to the newly added setting instruction.

Similarly, in some other embodiments, when the user sets the size of a button on the keyboard format through the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device in the above step 120, the keyboard editing information includes a size setting instruction. The editing device or the touch display device modifies the size setting of the button in the user-defined keyboard format according to the size setting command.

Similarly, in some other embodiments, when the user sets the position of a button on the keyboard format through the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device in the above step 120, the keyboard editing information includes a position setting instruction. The editing device modifies the position setting of the button in the user-defined keyboard format according to the position setting command.

For example, in FIG. 2, a preset keyboard format 10 and an edited user-defined keyboard format 20 are displayed. When the user edits the size of the blank key 30 in the preset keyboard format 10, the user inputs the keyboard. The editing information includes a size setting command for the blank key 30. And the editing device or the touch display device according to the size setting command to modify the size setting of the blank key 30 button in the preset keyboard format 10, and generate a user-defined keyboard format 20.

In order to enable the personalized keyboard format to be used on different touch display devices, the keyboard editing step may include the following steps: storing the user defined keyboard format as a file. In a different embodiment, there may be another transmission step between steps 120, 130. When the user inputs a transmission signal on the user input interface or the touch display device of the editing device, the editing device or the touch display device receives the transmission signal from the user input interface, and transmits the transmission signal according to the user input interface. The transmission number is transmitted to the external memory medium by transmitting the user-defined keyboard format. The external memory media can be a memory medium such as a flash drive or a network cloud device. In step 130, the editing device or the touch display device can write the user-defined keyboard format in the external memory medium to the touch display device according to the write signal. In this way, the personalized keyboard can be carried by the user or transmitted to the cloud device for use on different touch display devices.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a touch display device for implementing a touch keyboard.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a touch display device 300 according to an embodiment of the invention.

The touch display device 300 includes a memory module 310, a processing module 320, and a touch display module 330. In this embodiment, the memory module 310 can be a memory on the touch-sensitive display device, and can be, in particular, a read-only memory to automatically read the keyboard format when the power is turned on. The processing module 320 can be implemented by a microprocessor on the touch display device 300. The touch display module 330 can be implemented by using a microprocessor and a display on the touch display device 300.

Functionally, the memory module 310 is configured to store at least one user-defined keyboard format. When the user inputs the write signal on the user input interface 40 of the editing device 400 or the touch display device 300, the processing module 320 is configured to receive the write signal input by the user, and according to the write signal, The user-defined keyboard format edited by the external editing device 400 or the user-defined keyboard format stored in the external memory medium 50 is written to the memory module 310. The external memory medium 50 can be a memory medium such as a flash drive or a network cloud device. In addition, when the user inputs the user in the editing device 400 When the face 40 is input or the personalized keyboard signal is input on the touch display device 300, the touch display module 330 receives the selected personalized keyboard signal and displays the touch keyboard configuration according to the user defined keyboard format.

Through the above modules, the touch display device 300 can store a user-defined keyboard format edited by other devices, and can display various touch keyboard configurations according to the user's selection.

In addition to passively receiving the user-defined keyboard format edited by other devices, the touch display device 300 can also edit the user-defined keyboard format by itself. Therefore, in this embodiment, the touch display device 300 further includes an editing module 340 for receiving keyboard editing information, and editing the position of the at least one button in the user-defined keyboard format according to the keyboard editing information. With size. Moreover, it is obvious that the user-defined keyboard format edited by the editing module 340 can also be written into the memory module 310 through the processing module 320.

For example, when the user deletes a button on the keyboard format on the touch display device 300, the keyboard editing information includes a delete setting command, and the editing module 340 can define the user according to the delete setting command. The settings for this button are removed from the keyboard format. In other examples, when the user adds a button to the keyboard format on the touch display device 300, the keyboard editing information includes a new setting command, and the editing module 340 can be configured according to the new setting command. To add a new button's settings to the user-defined keyboard format. In other examples, when the user sets the size of a button on the keyboard format on the touch display device 300, the keyboard editing information includes a size setting command, and the editing module 340 sets the command according to the size to be defined by the user. Modify the size of the button in the keyboard format set. In other examples, when the user sets the position of a button on the keyboard format on the touch display device 300, the keyboard editing information includes a delete setting information command, and the editing module 340 sets the command according to the position. The user defines the position setting of the key in the keyboard format.

For example, the user can delete the "Esc" button on the touch-sensitive display device 300, and the keyboard editing information includes a delete setting command for deleting the button, and the editing module 340 can use the delete setting command for the use. Delete the "Esc" key in the defined keyboard format. Then, the user can input the write signal on the touch display device 300, and the processing module 320 receives the write signal, and writes the user-defined keyboard format that has lost the "Esc" key to the memory module according to the write signal. 310. Finally, the user inputs a personalized keyboard signal on the touch-sensitive display device 300 to select a user-defined keyboard format that displays the lost "Esc" key, and the touch display module 320 receives the selected personalized keyboard signal, and This user-defined keyboard format that loses the "Esc" key is based on the user-defined keyboard format.

In addition, in some embodiments of the present invention, the editing module 340 can be used to edit information according to the keyboard, based on a preset keyboard format set at the factory, a blank keyboard format without content, or based on another previously defined user. The keyboard format is defined for editing to produce the user-defined keyboard format. This allows users to edit different blank or existing keyboard formats as needed, making editing more flexible.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a touch keyboard editing device for allowing a user to edit a keyboard format of a touch keyboard.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an editing apparatus 400 for a touch keyboard according to an embodiment of the invention. The touch keyboard editing device 400 includes The editing module 410, the writing module 420, and the transmission module 430 are connected to each other. The touch keyboard editing device 400 can be an electronic device such as a computer, a mobile phone, or a tablet computer.

The editing module 410 of the editing device 400 is configured to receive keyboard editing information input by the user through the user input interface 40, and edit the information according to the keyboard to edit the position and size of the at least one button in the user-defined keyboard format. The function is similar to the editing module 340 of the touch display device 300, and details are not described herein.

The write module 420 is connected to the touch display device 300. When the user inputs the write signal through the user input interface 40, the write module 420 receives the write signal from the user input interface 40, and according to the write The signal is written into the touch display device 300 to enable the touch display device 300 to display the touch keyboard configuration according to the user defined keyboard format.

The transmission module 430 is connected to an external memory medium 50. When the user inputs a transmission signal through the user input interface 40, the transmission module 430 receives the transmission signal from the user input interface 40 and transmits the user-defined keyboard format according to the transmission signal. Go to external memory media 50. The external memory medium 50 can be a flash drive, a network cloud device, or the like. On the other hand, the write module 420 can write the user-defined keyboard format in the external memory medium 50 to the touch display device 400 according to the write signal. In this way, the personalized keyboard can be carried by the user or transmitted to the cloud device for use on different touch display devices. It should be noted that the transmission module 430 is not an essential component and may be omitted in some embodiments.

For example, when the user can change through the user input interface 40 In the "F4" position, the keyboard editing information includes a position setting command for changing the position of the button, and the editing module 410 can set the command according to the position to change the position of the "F4" key in the user-defined keyboard format. Then, the user can input the write signal on the touch display device 300, and the touch display device 300 processing module 320 receives the write signal and changes the user definition of the "F4" key position according to the write signal. The keyboard format is written to the memory module 310. Alternatively, the user can input a write signal on the editing device 400, and the writing module 420 of the editing device 400 receives the write signal and writes the user-defined keyboard format that changes the position of the "F4" key according to the write signal. Touch display device 300. In addition, the user can also input a transmission signal through the user input interface 40. The transmission module 430 receives the transmission signal from the user input interface 40, and transmits a user-defined keyboard format that changes the "F4" position to the outside according to the transmission signal. Memory media 50. In this way, the user-defined keyboard format that changes the "F4" position can be applied to other different touch display devices.

Although the present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention, and the present invention can be modified and retouched without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The scope is subject to the definition of the scope of the patent application attached.

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FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an editing keyboard according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a touch display device according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an editing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention.

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Claims (9)

A touch keyboard editing method for editing a keyboard format of a touch keyboard, wherein the touch keyboard is a touch display device, and the step of the editing method comprises: receiving a keyboard editing information, and according to The keyboard editing information is used to edit a position and a size of at least one button in a user-defined keyboard format; the touch display device receives a write signal, and writes the user-defined keyboard format according to the write signal The touch display device; and the touch display device receives a selected personalized keyboard signal and displays the touch keyboard configuration according to the user defined keyboard format. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps: when the keyboard editing information has a delete setting instruction, the setting information is deleted according to the user to define a keyboard format. Remove the settings for this button. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps: when the keyboard editing information has a new setting instruction, according to the newly added setting signal, the user defines the Add another button's settings to the keyboard format. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps: when the keyboard editing information has a size setting instruction, setting an instruction according to the size to define a keyboard format in the user Modify the size setting of the button. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises the following steps: when the keyboard editing information has a position setting instruction, setting the information according to the position to define the keyboard format in the user Modify a position setting of the button. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises: loading a preset keyboard format, a blank keyboard format or another user-defined keyboard format to edit the edit information according to the keyboard The user defines the keyboard format. The method for editing a touch keyboard according to claim 1, wherein the keyboard editing step comprises: storing the user-defined keyboard format as a file, the user-defined keyboard format including at least the position and size of the button. A touch display device includes: a memory module for storing at least one user-defined keyboard format; a processing module for receiving a write signal and writing the user-defined keyboard format to the memory module according to the write signal; A touch display module is configured to receive a selected personalized keyboard signal and display the touch keyboard configuration according to the user defined keyboard format. The touch display device of claim 8, further comprising: an editing module for receiving a keyboard editing information, and editing the position of the at least one button in a user-defined keyboard format according to the keyboard editing information With size.