Electronic note pad

• US 20030179186A1
• Filed: 03/22/2002
• Published: 09/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Chih-Kung, Yu, Shih-Chia, Huang, Kuan Cheng, Sun, Wen-Tsung
• Application Number:
  US10/104,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20030179186A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic note pad, having a liquid crystal display panel, a touch panel, a computer host, an application software package and a wrist slider. The user can input data at any position of the touch-panel, and the input data is directly stored in a storage apparatus in the computer host. The dimension, that is, length by width, of the liquid crystal display panel ranges from about 100 mm×140 mm to about 190 mm×260 mm. Therefore, the liquid crystal display panel is much larger than that in a personal data assistant (PDA). The larger panel allows the user to input data easily, so that the data input inconvenience of the personal data assistant is thus improved.

Claims

1. An electronic note pad, on which a data can be written directly, comprising:

a liquid crystal display panel, with a length by width ranged from about 100 mm×

140 mm to about 190 mm×

260 mm for displaying the data;

a touch panel connected to the liquid crystal display panel, displaying and providing various function options thereon, wherein the data can be written on the touch panel directly;

a computer host connected to the liquid crystal display, further comprising;

a microprocessor to process the data; and

a storage apparatus connected to the microprocessor, to store the data;

an application software package stored in the computer host, to identify the data and to store the data to the computer host; and

a wrist slider connected to the touch panel to slide up and down, so as to prevent a user from mistakenly touching the touch panel, causing data error during identification performed by the application software package.

2. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein a character of the data can be stored in the storage apparatus.

3. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the application software package identifies the data from a top of the touch panel to a bottom of the touch panel.

4. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein a color of the data can be changed to elicit the identification thereof.

5. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein a graph can be drawn thereon directly.

6. The electronic note pad according to claim 5, wherein the graph can be stored in the storage apparatus.

7. The electronic note pad according to claim 5, wherein the graph is identified by the application software package from a top of the touch panel to a bottom of the touch panel.

8. The electronic note pad according to claim 5, wherein a color of the graph can be changed to elicit the identification thereof.

9. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the storage apparatus further comprises a memory card.

10. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the wrist slider can be restored by winding.

11. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the application software package is operated under an operating system of the computer host.

12. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the computer host further comprises a voice recorder to execute voice recording.

13. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the computer host further comprises an infrared transmission apparatus to allow data transmission between the electronic note pad and a computer performed by an infrared signal.

14. The electronic note pad according to claim 13, wherein the data can be downloaded to the electronic note pad from the host.

15. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the electronic note pad can be used as an electronic dictionary.

16. The electronic note pad according to claim 1, wherein the electronic note pad can be used for executing various kinds of conversions.