TWI342146B - Portable communication device with dual-orientation keypad - Google Patents

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1342146

TRIDA NUMBER: TW3404PA IX. INSTRUCTIONS: • Technical Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a handheld communication device, and more particularly to a handheld communication device having a two-way keyboard. [Prior Art] Handheld communication devices have developed rapidly, and many of them, for example, personal digital assistant (PDA) mobile phones, smart phones, or mobile phones, have further developed folds or slides from the straight-line design of the past. The design of the body. Various hand-held sliding and rotating pivot designs are available on the market, enabling the handheld communication device to rotate and slide in multiple directions. In response to these different design requirements, the design of other parts in the handheld communication device must also change. Taking a PDA phone as an example, since it has the keyboard input function of telephone communication and mini computer at the same time, two sets of keyboards are arranged on the PDA mobile phone, usually one is a standard telephone keyboard, and the other is a computer standard keyboard Φ (for example QWERTY keyboard). These two sets of keyboards are usually placed on the same board of the smart plastic phone. Sometimes the two sets of keyboards overlap each other, which makes the input inconvenient. Especially when using the phone function, it cannot be dialed like a normal mobile phone keypad, causing the user to inconvenient. In addition, the standard telephone keyboard and the computer standard keyboard are arranged in different ways and the number of rows is different. For example, the phone keypad will be located on the side of the computer's standard keyboard skew or 疋 can not be located in the center of the phone like a normal phone, so that when operating the PDA phone, (4) the person (4) the entire button on the button 1342146

. 1 3 § §: TW3404PA . ' Confused, and affect the input operation. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a handheld communication device including a first component having a display device, a second component disposed under the first component, and a first component configurable along the second component The first direction is slid away from a second direction, the first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and a keyboard is disposed on the second component and includes a plurality of buttons. Wherein, when the first component slides in the first direction of φ, the keys of the sliding portion of the keyboard are presented with an alphabetic keyboard and are arranged in at least three straight rows; and when the first component slides in the second direction, the keyboard slides The button of the open part presents a standard dialing keyboard, and the keys of the standard dialing keyboard having the numbers 2, 5 and 8 are arranged in a row and are located in the center of the portion where the keyboard slides open. In order to make the above description of the present invention more obvious, the following description of the preferred embodiment and the accompanying drawings will be described in detail as follows: 7 1 [Embodiment] Please refer to FIG. A schematic diagram of a button layout of a two-way keyboard of a handheld communication device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Fig. 1, a keyboard 10 is provided. The keyboard 10 includes a plurality of buttons. The first button in the first direction D1 of the keyboard 10 is an arrangement of five straight rows R1 to R5. The buttons on the right side of the keyboard 10 are presented with an alphabetic keyboard. In this embodiment, it is preferably a QWERTY keyboard G including characters A to Z. And at the bottom of the keyboard, the four columns of buttons present a standard dialing keyboard 1342146

- Sanda number: TW3404PA. G2' includes at least characters 0, 1 to 9, and so on. Among them, the buttons with the numbers 2, 5 and 8 in the standard dial keypad G2 are arranged in a row and are located in the center of the keyboard, that is, in the center straight row among the five inline buttons. In a preferred embodiment, the QWERTY keyboard G1 has a straight row of letters Q, W, E, T, Y, and is also located on the most central straight row of the five inline buttons; In the example, the letters 'Q, W, and E are located on the same keys as the numbers 8, 5, and 2, respectively. • As shown in Fig. 1, the keys of the keyboard 10 are arranged in the first direction D1 of the keyboard 10 in five straight rows R1 to R5. The qwerty keyboard (1) includes characters 八~B, since its characters (), 冒, £, 11, 1', 丫 are located on the button of the straight row R3 to R5 in the straight row. Therefore, the keys actually arranged in the QWERTY keyboard G1 are located on the straight rows R3 to R5. In addition, the standard dial pad G2 includes characters 〇, 1 to 9, and the like. 1 to 9 of the standard dial keypad G2, the 〇 button is based on the most central straight row R3 with characters Q, w, E, R, T, Y, etc., set in the most central straight row R3 and its two Straight rows on the sides R2 and R4. As for the bidirectional input function of the keyboard 10, please refer to Figs. 2A to 2B, which are diagrams showing a handheld communication device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. The handheld communication device 1A includes a first component 11A, a second component 12*, and a keyboard 10. The device 11 has a display device 115. The second component 120 is movably disposed under the first component 11 , wherein the first component no is movable along a first direction D1 and a second direction D2 (see FIG. 2B ) that are perpendicular to each other. The keyboard 1 is disposed on the second component 12A. Keyboard 1342146

' * Sanda number: TW3404PA. The button configuration method is as shown in Figure 1, with multiple buttons arranged in the QWERTY keyboard • G1 and standard dial keyboard G2 button layout, because the words 兀Q, W, E respectively On the same button as the characters 8, 5, 2, the buttons arranged by the standard dial keypad G2 will be located on one side of the second component 120. In operation, see FIG. 2A, when the user pushes the first component 11〇 along the first direction D1, in the embodiment, the first direction di is the side direction, after moving, the keyboard 10 is based on the QWERTY keyboard. G1 Arranged • All buttons will be exposed. In this way, the user can operate the QWERTY keyboard G as shown in FIG. 2B. When the first component 110 is along the second direction D2, in the embodiment, the second direction D2 is the lower direction, after moving, the keyboard The number button (character 丨~9, 〇) arranged on the standard dial pad G2 will be exposed. Since the keys of the standard dialing keyboard G2 are symmetrically arranged on the keyboard 1〇 with the most central straight row R3 (see Fig. 1), when the first component 11〇 is slid open by the second direction D2, the standard dialing keyboard G2 will be located. The keyboard 1 〇 φ exposes the center of the portion. In a preferred embodiment, after the first component 11 is slid along the side direction (D1), the display device 115 on the first component 110 displays the image in a landscape display mode; and when the first component 11 〇 After sliding in the lower direction (D2), the display device us on the first component .1 displays the image in a portrait display mode. In the preferred embodiment, the keyboard 10 is a physical keyboard; and the button is a physical button. In another preferred embodiment, the keyboard 1 is a touch 9 1342146

' · Sanda number: TW3404PA - Control screen, and the button is the button displayed on the touch screen.

Since the numbers δ, 5, 2 of the standard dial keypad G2 and the letter alignment of the QWERTY keyboard G1 enable the QWERTY keyboard (1) to match the numeric keys of the part, the operation function of the standard dial keypad G2 can be provided. The keyboard configuration of this embodiment can effectively save the keyboard area compared to the conventional addition of all numeric keys by the QWERTY keyboard extension. In addition, the 'standard dialing keyboard is arranged symmetrically with the qWERTY column of the QWERTY keyboard G1'. When the standard dialing keyboard G2 is operated, it is located at the center of the exposed portion of the keyboard 10, and the user can clearly recognize the respective numeric keys during operation. Location, not easy to cause confusion. The hand-held communication device 1 is, for example, a device having an input keyboard such as a PDA (personal digital assistant) mobile phone or a smart phone. When the handheld communication device 100 is in the standby state, the keyboard 10 can be hidden between the first component 110 and the second component 120. When the communication function of the handheld communication device 100 is required to be used, the user only needs to push the first group Π 0 from the second direction D2 to perform a communication function such as dialing a telephone number. To perform a keyboard input function such as a general notebook computer or a desktop computer, the first component 110 can be pushed away from the first direction D1. The two-way keyboard handheld communication device disclosed in the above embodiment of the present invention is based on a QWERTY keyboard and a standard dial keyboard configuration. After the components of the handheld communication device are slid in two different directions, the standard dialing can be used separately. Keyboard or QWERTY keyboard. The standard dial keypad is set symmetrically with the QWERTY column of the QWERTY keyboard, 1342146

· Sanda number: TW3404PA . ' Provides a user-friendly function. In addition, part of the standard dialing button 'disk' overlaps with part of the QWERTY keyboard, which reduces the area occupied by the keyboard and further reduces the size of the handheld communication device, greatly increasing the convenience for the user to carry. In view of the above, the present invention has been disclosed in a preferred embodiment, and is not intended to limit the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is defined by the scope of the appended claims. 1342146

'Sanda Number: TW3404PA.' [Simple Description of the Drawings] • Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the layout of a two-way keyboard in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 2A-2B are schematic views of a handheld communication device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. [Main component symbol description] 10: Keyboard φ 100 : Handheld communication device 110 : First component 115 : Display device 120 : Second component G1 : QWERTY Keyboard G2 : Standard dial pad D1 : First direction D2 : Second direction • R1 ~R5: straight row 12

Claims (1)

1342146 Modified on September 8th, 1999. £9.%.3⁄4 8曰修主本10, the scope of patent application: '1_ A handheld communication device, comprising: a first component having a display device; - a second component Provided under the first component, the first component is slidable along a first direction of the second component and a second direction, the first direction being substantially perpendicular to the second direction; and a keyboard 'Placing on the second component', the keyboard includes a plurality of buttons, wherein when the first component is slid open in the first direction, the keyboard is slid open _ part of the button is presented with an alphabetic keyboard and is at least three Arranged in a straight line; and when the first component slides in the second direction, the keyboard slides open, the button system presents a fresh (four) touch, and the button with the number 2 5 and 8 in the wheel number keyboard is always Row, and located in the center of the section. 2. The hand-held communication device according to the invention of claim 1, wherein the first direction is a side direction and the second direction is a lower direction. - 3. For the hand-held rail device in the case of the application of the _ _ 2 item, the inside piece slides in the direction of the side (four), and the treasury is: The middle one is the hand-held as stated in item 3 of the application. The communication device, and the second and the: in the lower direction, the button having the number Γ, '5Ε/, τ, γ in the QWERTY keyboard is located in the same button as the standard dialing button 1 2 and 8 Straight. 13 3 1 ^ ^ 2 Knife and number 8, 5, 2 are on the same button. 1342146 f: , . 99 years of the month 8 曰 中 亥 第 第 第 第 Λ Λ Λ Λ Λ Λ Λ The hand-held communication device is the same as the handheld communication device described in the second paragraph of the patent scope of the patent, and the key 2 is now sliding in three directions. In the handheld communication device of the second aspect, after the side of the device is slid, the member on the first component slides along the lower direction, and the first component displays the image in a vertical display mode. The device is not in the system, and the button is a physical button. The hand-held pass-touch screen; and the button is displayed on the touch screen. ===:::: hand (hold _, its assistant, Ρη Λ w digital assistant (Pers_l digital phase PDA) ) or smart phone (s bribe tph〇ne) 12. Handheld as described in the U of the patent application, the handheld communication "set to PDA phone. ... two SIS benefits range mentioned in the first hand of the communication a device whose domain is identified on the second component as shown in Figure 1 - L-shaped region