PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RAPIDLY POSITIONING CURSOR

• US 20090040187A1
• Filed: 05/29/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
• Inventors: HO, Chi-Chung, KO, Po-Kai
• Application Number:
  US12/129,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20090040187A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184

Abstract

A portable device has a first and a second area. The portable device includes a flat display module disposed at the first area and having a display area with a plurality of first coordinate positions, a touch pad module disposed at the second area and having a touch pad with a plurality of second coordinate positions corresponding to the first coordinate positions respectively, and a coordinate transformation module. The flat display module displays a cursor at the first coordinate position of the display area according to a cursor position signal. The touch pad module senses the second coordinate position that an object presses at the touch pad and then generates a touch position signal. The coordinate transformation module transforms the touch position signal to the cursor position signal. According to the cursor position signal, the cursor is displayed at the first coordinate position corresponding to the second coordinate position.

Claims

1. A portable device having a first area and a second area, the portable device comprising:

a flat display module disposed at the first area and having a display area, wherein the display area has a plurality of first coordinate positions, and a cursor is displayed at one of the first coordinate positions of the display area according to a cursor position signal;

a touch pad module disposed at the second area and having a touch pad, wherein the touch pad has a plurality of second coordinate positions, the first coordinate positions are corresponding to the second coordinate positions, respectively, according to the corresponding positions of the display area and the touch pad, and when the touch pad module senses that an object presses one of the second coordinate positions of the touch pad, the touch pad module generates a touch position signal; and

a coordinate transformation module transforming the touch position signal to the cursor position signal, wherein the flat display module displays the cursor at the first coordinate position corresponding to the pressed second coordinate position according to the cursor position signal.

2. The portable device according to claim 1, wherein the touch pad module further has a plurality of sensing elements disposed at the inside of the touch pad to sense that the object presses the touch pad further to generate a plurality of pieces of sensing information.

3. The portable device according to claim 2, wherein the touch position signal is generated according to the sensing information.

4. The portable device according to claim 2, wherein the sensing elements are selected from a group consisting of photoelectric sensing elements, piezoelectric sensing elements and combination thereof.

5. The portable device according to claim 1 further comprising two casings and a pivot unit, wherein the casings are pivotally connected to the pivot unit, and the first area and the second area are located at the casings, respectively.

6. The portable device according to claim 1, wherein the portable device is a notebook computer or a palmtop.

7. A method for rapidly positioning a cursor, wherein the method is applied to a portable device having a touch pad and a display area, the display area has a plurality of first coordinate positions, the touch pad has a plurality of second coordinate positions, and the first coordinate positions are corresponding to the second coordinate positions, respectively, according to the corresponding positions of the display area and the touch pad, the method comprising the steps of:

sensing the second coordinate position that an object presses at the touch pad to generate a touch position signal;

transforming the touch position signal to a cursor position signal; and

displaying the cursor at the first coordinate position corresponding to the second coordinate position according to the cursor position signal.

8. The method for rapidly positioning a cursor according to claim 7, wherein the step of sensing the second coordinate position that the object presses at the touch pad to generate the touch position signal further comprises the step of receiving a plurality of pieces of sensing information to generate the touch position signal.