TW535097B - Method for inputting polysemous word by a single key and device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for inputting polysemous word by a single key and a device thereof. By designing multiple pads on a single key and cooperating with a mean for detecting and determining electrical signals, the present invention allows the user to, after pressing the required position of a key in accordance with the word instruction indicated on the key surface, use a signal determination program to, in accordance with the electrical signal detection results on the pads, determine the word represented by the detected electrical signal. Thus, the user may quickly input a word of several different meanings by a single key.

Description

535097 V. Description of the invention (1) [Application field of the invention] The present invention relates to a method and device for inputting characters by using keys, especially two methods using a single key, and a single key can be pressed only once. Method and device for accurately typing a specified character among a plurality of characters represented. [Background of the invention] & 2 Γ The rapid development of information technology, the current market is full of a lot of negative α-related white $ produce / 丨 丄 i Λ], such as personal digital assistant (Personal _ two: ¥ jent 'PDA), as well as mobile phones, etc., for these products: Cheng: keyboard turn-on, touch screen, etc., and keyboard input text or symbols 箄 ^ users can perform Chinese and English through the keyboard 26 English characters ^ Mother (everyone's turn. However, due to product size restrictions, it is not possible to individually set keys for preparing a pen or other symbols on a keyboard, so the previous number. Now θ 疋 我 + multiple characters, such as Multiple English letters or runes are used as an example. One of them is &. There are two types of input methods commonly used by J Mu Ke:, · For Jintong ABC round λ, 4 · Because a single > μ betrayal method, when the user enters the key, the key on the fork key will be replaced by ~~, it will prompt that there are multiple mothers of γ μ, so press this key once to enter the next letter, one of the son and daughter, and then Pressing this button once will bring up 'Ran Degasan i' so cycle, one Straight-click until the desired letter appears to set this child-mother wheel as the second one: Rabbit Zhila 1 in the mouth of the cliff. A Shenghui type network λ, j_ each 11 letter method, when the user enters the letter, just press But the letter on the clock, 4 people are hard. Do n’t bother with the inconsistency of the input on the keypad, it will automatically 3

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535097 V. Description of the invention (3) The user likes to spell 11 t e 1 e p h ο n eπ, but the 1 input method cannot do it. [Summary and Purpose of the Invention] The main object of the present invention is to provide a key multi-character input and input device. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for entering ambiguous characters. The technology disclosed in the present invention is mainly tied to the design of multiple electrical connections on a single key = the position of multiple characters on the surface of a key means: ϊ ί, and then through the foregoing multiple electrical contacts = Kang number单一 The contact signal detection is single ::: The early detection of the detected electrical signal = key can quickly take turns into multiple non-right Λ f In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, there are two, Wait for the three πs. After pressing this button at two different positions on both sides & π π + 罝, you can make different electrical contacts with the same shape on the π side. Then, based on these several words ^ using the “signal judgment program” can clarify the detailed technical content of the present invention and [the detailed description of the embodiment te 1 ef ο n eπ, this time can speed up the input speed The method of using a single button to quickly rotate the mechanism and the point, showing that the user presses to generate different situations, using the characters of the table. The left and right sides of a single button with the same meaning are set on the telecommunication signal, or different Telecommunications determines the software Key index is not pressed with no electric signal, then a signal is determined to achieve the purpose of using the element. At least the side of the electrical contact or the left and right of the middle button are generated at the same time. The user wants to type in the embodiment, which is described in conjunction with the diagram. 535097 V. Description of the invention (4) First refer to "Figure 1", which is general An example made by Cilan Tai. From the figure, it can be found that the keyboard of the keyboard is composed of: the entire hardware structure, including a case 10; a key J 1, the entire keyboard usually contains a ^ key 11 may It is made of Shi Xijiao, plastic or rubber φ: on, key 1 1, the bottom of key 11 is provided with a pressing point 11 (); clothing, and in each: circuit board 13, set on the key " Below, on the upper table of the circuit board 13, there are printed circuits. This printed circuit has an electrical contact 14 (pad) directly below each key pressing point 110. Take rubber button U as an example, these many buttons are pressed; when a supporting surface 12 'is normal, button 1.1 can be supported: two: two are placed above the electric point 14 so that the pressing point 110 is not electrically connected ί ί Once the user presses the button 11 'the pressing point 110 will be printed on the & surface of the printed circuit in the non-I: keyboard and button design, can be roughly divided into electrical contact type conductive = Two types of touch. The electrical contact type design sets material = material at the impact point 11 〇. After the key 11 is pressed, the conductive material of the impact point 110 is produced ^, and the exposed electrical contacts on the surface of the circuit board 1 3 丨 4 A short circuit occurs after contact. The “Telecommunication signal” is then converted into character data by software. The contact points 14 of the non-contact key 11 are not designed with conductive materials. Instead, they use elasticity, parts, or micro-touch switches (micr 〇switch) is set to contact 1 4 (P ad).

535097 V. Description of the invention (5) ^^ --------- Designed electrical contacts 14 to generate electrical signals. First, please refer to "Fig. 2", "as shown in the figure" is the structure block diagram of "〃 ,, sming," which is designed by the present invention, and includes: A keyboard 2 for inputting polysemous characters with a single key 0, which contains a key 30 that can input several different word meanings-^, each key 30 can be used to enter "ABC ,, a #, just like the number keys of a mobile phone" 2,1 can be generated Not & field users press the different positions of the button 20 for different signals; one-character definition table 50, printed with the representative characters; and one signal for different buttons of the three buttons Judging the difference between the s1 Ω electric signals, two == according to any of the keys 30 previously entered by the different keys 30 =, find the user through the column element from the sub-table 7 definition table 5Ό. Please refer to the "1st, Cheng diagram, straight package of eight women" "is to implement the method flow of the method of the present invention, the two S have the following steps: 1, j common ^ button, used to have several separately set in different Position of the electrical contact 2. Establishing ~ 1 press ^ different positions ^ to generate different telecommunications signals; the word represented by the number-Yufan definition table, record the different telecommunications for each key 3, mention :; and telecommunications The difference in the number, the roar judgment program, used to detect the different characters of any key. And find out from the character definition table that the telecommunication signal represents the traditional key shown in Figure 1 "in the two embodiments based on the policy of the present invention. Structure as an example

535097 V. Description of the invention (6) Describe the technical means of the present invention. The structure of the keyboard 20 designed in the present invention is as follows: "The fourth figure includes ...". At least one key 30. The entire keyboard usually includes one key 30, which can be made of silicone, plastic or rubber. There are two pressing points 3 1 & 3 1 on the bottom of the key 3 0. The mother-circuit board 32 is arranged below the key 30, and the circuit board ^ 卩 brush circuit m ' This printed circuit 321 has two electrical contacts, 'female' (Pad) 33a, 33b, directly below each of the pressing points 31a, 31b of ^ 30. These two electrical contacts 33a, 33b can When pressed by the points 31a and 31b, the printed circuit 321 generates electric signals. In the first embodiment, 'we counted two #press points 31a, 31b in accordance with the branch of _, and matched the two provided on the circuit board. 32 electrical contacts 3 3a, 3 3b, and the button 30 of this structure can generate three different electrical signals when the button 30 is pressed at different positions. In the structure of the first embodiment, We can print this button 3 0 on the top surface of the button 30 according to the design positions of the two pressing points 31a and 31b. The three characters of the table, such as "A", "B", and "C" are printed on the left, middle, and right of the top surface of the key 30. We will be able to use According to the indication of the characters printed on the surface of the key 30, the user presses the different positions of the key 30, and then determines the character typed by the user. For example, when the user presses the left side of the key 30 The pressing point 3 1 a on the left and the pressing point 3 丨 b on the right will be different at different times, in order not to short the electrical contacts 3 3 a and 3 3 b. telecommunications

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No., which is located on the left + as shown in the electric contact of “5A 彳”]. The waveform of the electric signal generated by a is like the electric signal generated by the electric contact 33b on the right. Bouncing: ". .Because the button is pressed and released at 3 °, the left Ci; = the short of the electrical contacts on the left and right sides of the vibration waveform side = short ^ ^ electronic type "+ Λ1Τ2 (τ1 > Τ2). Even using the mechanism and the reason two sigh meter processing, the time length of τ2 can be closer to zero .., when my user presses the right part of the button 30, the median of the bean: left ...波形 Waveform of the generated electric signal Figure 2 The middle bitmap of 6α is as follows: 6 :: Right: The waveform of the electric signal generated by the electrical contact 33b =: Low: "No. The short-circuit time η of the left electrical contact 33a will be smaller than the short-circuit time T2 (T1 < T2) of the right electrical contact 33b. When the central part of the button 30 is pressed down, the waveform of the electrical signal generated by the electrical signal on the left = 3 a is shown in the “Figure 7α”, and the waveform of the electrical signal generated by the electrical contact 33b on the right The plan is like "No. 7B =". The short-circuit time n of the electrical contact 33a on the left and the short-circuit time T2 of the electrical contact 33b on the right will be closer (T1 = Ding 2). Therefore, according to the difference of this telecommunication signal, we can establish the characters represented by the difference between T1 and 2 in the character definition table 50, and create the character definition table 50 shown in the following table: called 097 V. Description of the invention (8)

When this is used to represent being pressed, the short-circuit time T 1 of the signal and the difference between them can be used to input characters. As a further judgement, a time difference is preset to determine whether the user is a character, which are: a. When I ΤΙ-T2 丨 is not large, which means that the button 30 b, when 丨 丁 1- 丁 2 丨 press Then, the comparison part is pressed further, otherwise if the position is pressed. · According to the above-mentioned over-designed pressing point and relative B ′ C1 key character definition table ^ ^, C two-character key 3 ′ 0 ′ is compared to the left electrical contact 3 3 a in the second judgment formula 4 0 The short-circuit time τ 2 of the side electrical contact 3 3 b is based on the conditions of the character definition table 50, and it is determined to be A, | '" R ",', Γ ', which one of the characters

Method, we can use the thin Q to learn the value of the key e from the mechanism of the key 30, and then use the following methods to determine the position where the key 30 is pressed or lost — < e, it means the short-circuit time Tl , The central part of the messenger message of T2 is pressed; the value > e indicates that the two of the button 3 〇 if it is ΤΙ-T2 > e then # 3 1 The world break J table is not the button 30 but also T2-T1 > e 表表 + θ α 日] The technical content of the right part of the button 30 on the left side, we handle τ μ々 It is not difficult to find the number of electrical contacts that will be able to respond "W 通 535097

The number of characters that can be entered by pressing the key 30 can be in the single-press triangle II: "Figure 8" ^ m goes to call Q1 month ^ There are two clicks and three corresponding powers at the corners of the page. The way of contact (not shown in the figure) is to make the number of characters that can be represented by two keys 30 continuously reaches four. Refer to "Figure 9" after taking the green, which is the third embodiment of the key structure of the present invention. We design a downwardly protruding protrusion 34 on the bottom surface of the key 30b, such as an arc or The spherical protruding portion 34, and a plurality of pressing points 31a, 31b are respectively disposed on both sides symmetrical to the center of the protruding portion 34. The protruding portion 34 is a rigid component without elasticity and cannot be deformed by pressing. When the button 3 〇b is pressed by the user, the protruding portion 34 will stand on the surface of the circuit board 32 and become a fulcrum. The design of the protruding portion 34 can make the pressing point 3 1 a, 3 1 b be pressed. 'When it is down, there is a clear distinction, for example, there will be only one pressing point 3 la or 311 for each press.) The electrical contacts 3 3 a or 3 3 b will be short-circuited. This design can be achieved by hardening The method of physical or software detection is to detect exactly which electrical contact 33a or 33b is short-circuited, and to determine the characters that the user turns in. Conversely, the right-handed dog-out part 3 4 is designed to have elasticity and can be squeezed and deformed (for example, made of rubber or silicone), you can add two electricity = points 3 3 a, 3 3 b are shorted at the same time Select and add a telecommunication signal. [Effect of the invention] The device provided by the present invention can speed up the input speed of entering multiple characters with different meanings by using a single key. ^

535097 Brief Description of Drawings Figure 1 is a structural sectional view of a traditional keyboard. Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the structure of the present invention, showing the composition of a device for inputting ambiguous characters using a single key. Figure 3 is a flowchart of the method of the present invention. Fig. 4 is a structural diagram of the first embodiment of the present invention, showing a sectional structure of a key. Fig. 5A is a waveform diagram of the electrical signal generated by the structure of the first embodiment of the button, showing the waveform of the electrical signal generated by the electrical contact on the left when the left side of the button is pressed. Fig. 5B is a waveform diagram of the electrical signal & generated by the construction of the first embodiment of the button, showing the waveform of the electrical signal generated by the electrical contact on the right when the left side of the button is pressed. Fig. 6A is a waveform diagram of electrical signals generated by the construction of the first type of button embodiment. "The waveform of electrical signals generated by electrical contacts on the left side when the right side of the hidden button is pressed." Fig. 6B is a signal waveform diagram of the electrical signal generated by the first embodiment of the button structure when the waveform charter is pressed without pressing the right side of the button. Fig. 7A is a waveform diagram of the electrical signal generated by the structure of the first embodiment of the button, showing the waveform of the electrical signal generated by the electrical contact on the left when the central part of the button is pressed. Fig. 7B is a waveform diagram of the electric signal generated by the construction of the first embodiment of the button, showing the waveform of the electric signal generated by the electric contact on the right when the central part of the button is pressed.

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Claims (1)

535097 VI. Scope of patent application 1. A method for inputting multi-character characters using a single key, including: a. Provide a key with a plurality of electrical contacts respectively located at different positions for pressing the key when the key is pressed; At different positions, different electrical signals are generated according to the short-circuit conditions of the electrical contact; b. Establish a character definition table to record the characters represented by different electrical signals of the key; and c, provide a signal judgment program , Used to detect the difference between the different signals of the key, and find the character represented by the signal from the character definition table. 2. The method of inputting ambiguous characters with a single key as described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the difference in the different electrical signals is obtained by the short-circuit time difference between the different electrical contacts after pressing different positions of the button. Decide. 3. The method for inputting ambiguous characters with a single key as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the difference between the different electrical signals is determined by detecting the position of the electrical contact that caused a short circuit. 4. The method for inputting ambiguous characters with a single key as described in item 3 of the scope of the patent application, wherein a method is provided in which a fulcrum is set on the key and the electrical contacts are arranged on both sides of the center of the fulcrum so that After the button is pressed, only one of the electrical contacts can be short-circuited under the support of the fulcrum. 5. A device for inputting multi-character characters by using a single key, including: a button, the button has more than one electric contact respectively set at different positions, and the electric contact can be made when different positions of the key are pressed Short circuit, which produces different electrical signals; Page 15 535097 VI. A one-character definition table for the scope of patent application, which records the characters represented by the different electrical signals of the button; and a signal judgment program, which can be based on the differences between the different electrical signals of the button. In the character definition table, find the characters entered by pressing the key at different positions. 6. The device for inputting ambiguous characters using a single key as described in item 5 of the scope of patent application, wherein the electrical contacts of the key are two, which are respectively arranged at the left and right positions of the key. 7. The device for inputting ambiguous characters by using a single key as described in item 6 of the scope of patent application, wherein when the left part of the key is pressed, the short-circuit time of the electrical contact at the left part is longer than the right part Short-circuit time of the electrical contacts. '8. The device for inputting ambiguous characters by using a single key as described in item 6 of the scope of the patent application, wherein when the right part of the key is pressed, the short-circuit time of the electrical contact at the right part is longer than the Short-circuit time of the electrical contact to the left. 9. The device for inputting ambiguous characters using a single key as described in item 6 of the scope of patent application, wherein when the central part of the key is pressed, the short-circuit time of the electrical contact at the left position and the right of the right position The short-circuit time of the electrical contacts is approximately equal. 10. The device for inputting multi-character characters using a single key as described in item 5 of the scope of the patent application, which claims that several different characters are printed on the top surface of the key, which are used to indicate when the key is pressed at different positions. Entered characters. 11.As described in item 5 of the scope of the patent application, using a single key to input ambiguous characters Page 16 535097 6. The scope of application for patents is set. The name table of the name Yuan Yuan records the characters represented by the short-circuit time difference between different electrical contacts. 1 2. As described in item 5 of the patent application scope, a device for injecting polysemous characters with a single key, wherein the signal judgment program is based on the short-circuit time difference between different electrical contacts, and is found from the character definition table. Entered characters. 1 3. The device for inputting ambiguous characters with a single key as described in item 5 of the scope of patent application, wherein the signal judgment program finds from the character definition table by detecting the position of the electrical contact that caused a short circuit. Enter the characters you entered. 14. The device for inputting ambiguous characters by using a single key as described in item 13 of the scope of patent application, wherein the key is provided with a protrusion, and the electrical contacts are provided at both sides of the center of the protrusion symmetrically. After the button is pressed, the protruding portion is used as a fulcrum, and only one of the electrical contacts can be short-circuited under the support of the protruding portion.丄 5. The device for inputting ambiguous characters with a single key as described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, wherein the protruding part of the key cannot be deformed by pressing. 16. The device for inputting ambiguous characters using a single key as described in item 13 of the scope of patent application, wherein the key is provided with a protruding portion 'the electrical contacts are provided at both sides of the center of the protruding portion symmetrically' The protrusion is used as a fulcrum after the key is pressed. 17. The device for inputting ambiguous characters by using an early key as described in item 14 of the scope of patent application, wherein the protruding part of the key is elastically deformable and can be pressed to deform, so that the electrical contact can be short-circuited.