CURSOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20070242052A1
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Wei-Po, Tai, Hsiao-Hua
• Application Number:
  US11/695,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20070242052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface

Abstract

A cursor device having a housing and a touch pad is provided. The housing has a first opening and a second opening. The touch pad is disposed inside the housing. The touch pad has regions exposed by the first opening and the second opening, respectively.

Claims

1. A cursor device, comprising:

a housing having a first opening and a second opening; and

a touch pad disposed inside the housing, wherein the touch pad has a plurality of regions exposed by the first opening and the second opening respectively.

2. The cursor device of claim 1, wherein the regions comprise a cursor-moving region and a first scrolling, and the first opening and the second opening expose the cursor-moving region and the first scrolling region respectively.

3. The cursor device of claim 2, wherein the housing further comprises a third opening and the regions further comprise a second scrolling region such that the third opening exposes the second scrolling region.

4. A cursor device, comprising:

a housing having a first opening and a second opening;

a first touch pad disposed inside the housing and exposed through the first opening; and

a second touch pad disposed inside the housing and exposed through the second opening.

5. The cursor device of claim 4, wherein the first touch pad has a cursor-moving region and the second touch pad has a first scrolling region, and the cursor-moving region and the first scrolling region are exposed through the first opening and the second opening respectively.

6. The cursor device of claim 5, further comprises a third touch pad disposed inside the housing and the housing further comprises a third opening that exposes a second scrolling region in the third touch pad.

7. An electronic device, comprising:

a display screen;

a housing hinged to the display screen, wherein the housing has a first opening and a second opening;

a first touch pad disposed inside the housing, wherein the first touch pad is exposed through the first opening; and

a second touch pad disposed inside the housing, wherein the second touch pad is exposed through the second opening.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the first touch pad has a cursor-moving region and the second touch pad has a first scrolling region, and the cursor-moving region and the first scrolling region are exposed through the first opening and the second opening respectively.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, further comprises a third touch pad disposed inside the housing, and the housing has a third opening that exposes a second scrolling region in the third touch pad.