TOUCH-CONTROL GAME CONTROLLER

• US 20060111180A1
• Filed: 11/25/2004
• Published: 05/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zeroplus Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Zeroplus Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cheng, Chiu-Hao
• Application Number:
  US10/904,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20060111180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/36
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/2145 the surface being also a display device, e.g. touch screens
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/235 using a wireless connection, e.g. infrared or piconet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/24 Constructional details thereof, e.g. game controllers with detachable joystick handles
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/42 by mapping the input signals into game commands, e.g. mapping the displacement of a stylus on a touch screen to the steering angle of a virtual vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/90 Constructional details or arrangements of video game devices not provided for in groups A63F13/20 or A63F13/25, e.g. housing, wiring, connections or cabinets
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1031 using a wireless connection, e.g. Bluetooth, infrared connections
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1043 being characterized by constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1075 using a touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6045 for mapping control signals received from the input arrangement into game commands

Abstract

Disclosed is a touch-control game controller, which includes a housing, a control circuit mounted inside the housing, a plurality of operating buttons mounted on the surface of the housing and respectively connected to the control circuit for operation by the user to provide a respective control signal to the control circuit, a communication interface connectable to a game machine main unit and controllable by the control circuit to transmit each produced control signal to the connected game machine main unit; and a touch-control panel provided at the surface of the housing and electrically connected to the control circuit for touching by the user to provide a corresponding control signal to the control circuit for further transmission by the control circuit through the communication interface to the game machine main unit.

Claims

1. A touch-control game controller for use with a game machine main unit to run a game software, the touch-control game controller comprising a housing, a control circuit mounted inside said housing, a plurality of operating buttons mounted on the surface of said housing and respectively connected to said control circuit for operation by the user to provide a respective control signal to said control circuit, and a communication interface connectable to a game machine main unit and controllable by said control circuit to transmit each produced control signal to the connected game machine main unit;

wherein at least one touch-control panel is provided at the surface of said housing and electrically connected to said control circuit for touching by the user to provide a corresponding control signal to said control circuit for further transmission by said control circuit through said communication interface to the game machine main unit being connected to said communication interface.

2. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said touch-control panel is adapted to produce a signal indicative of the direction and amount of movement of an external object being kept in contact with the respective touch-control panel.

3. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said touch-control panel is capable of producing a signal indicative of the direction and amount of a circular movement of an external object being kept in contact with the respective touch-control panel.

4. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said touch-control panel is a resistive touch panel.

5. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein each said touch-control panel is a capacitive touch panel.

6. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein said operating buttons are on-screen buttons of at least one resistive touch-control panel.

8. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one touch-control panel includes at least one elongated touch-control panel.

7. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim, wherein said operating buttons are on-screen buttons of at least one capacitive touch-control panel.

9. A touch-control game controller for use with a game machine main unit to run a game software, the touch-control game controller comprising a housing, a control circuit mounted inside said housing, a plurality of operating buttons mounted on the surface of said housing and respectively connected to said control circuit for operation by the user to provide a respective control signal to said control circuit, and a wireless transmitter and receiver circuit electrically connected to said control circuit and controllable by said control circuit to transmit each produced control signal to an external game machine main unit wirelessly;

wherein at least one touch-control panel is provided at the surface of said housing and electrically connected to said control circuit for touching by the user to provide a corresponding control signal to said control circuit for further transmission by said control circuit through said wireless transmitter and receiver circuit to an external game machine main unit wirelessly.

10. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein each said touch-control panel is adapted to produce a signal indicative of the direction and amount of movement of an external object being kept in contact with the respective touch-control panel.

11. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein each said touch-control panel is capable of producing a signal indicative of the direction and amount of a circular movement of an external object being kept in contact with the respective touch-control panel.

12. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein each said touch-control panel is a resistive touch panel.

13. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein each said touch-control panel is a capacitive touch panel.

14. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein said operating buttons are on-screen buttons of at least one resistive touch-control panel.

16. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim 9, wherein said at least one touch-control panel includes at least one elongated touch-control panel.

15. The touch-control game controller as claimed in claim, wherein said operating buttons are on-screen buttons of at least one capacitive touch-control panel.