INPUT PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20090109188A1
• Filed: 10/24/2008
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Kenji, Suzuki, Shoji, Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki, OHSHITA, Kazuhito, Kawano, Toshio
• Application Number:
  US12/257,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20090109188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

An input processing device includes an input member having an input pad and a detecting section that detects a position where an indicator touches the input pad and a processing section that controls a display state on a display screen on the basis of an input signal obtained from the input member, and while an input tool for drawing at least one of character, symbol, and figure is being displayed on the display screen, the processing section displays a limited frame having a predetermined area on the display screen so as to overlap the input tool, and writes movement locus of the indicator touching the input pad within the limited frame and transfers the movement locus to the input tool such that at least one of the character, symbol, and figure is input to the input tool when the indicator touches the input pad.

Claims

1. An input processing device comprising:

an input member having an input pad and a detecting section that detects a position where an indicator touches the input pad; and

a processing module that controls a display state on a display screen on the basis of an input signal obtained from the input member,

wherein while an input tool for drawing at least one of character, symbol, and figure is being displayed on the display screen, the processing module displays a limited frame having a predetermined area on the display screen so as to overlap the input tool, and writes movement locus of the indicator touching the input pad within the limited frame and transfers the movement locus to the input tool such that at least one of the character, symbol, and figure is input to the input tool when the indicator touches the input pad.

2. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein an image of the limited frame is displayed such that an image of the input tool is viewed therethrough.

3. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein an image of the limited frame has a shape similar to the input pad.

4. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein processing for sequentially moving a display position of the limited frame within the input tool displayed on the display screen at predetermined intervals is performed.

5. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein when a predetermined time elapses after the indicator is apart from the input pad, processing for moving a display position of the limited frame within the input tool displayed on the display screen is performed.

6. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the input pad is divided into a writing region used to write at least one of the character, symbol, and figure and an operation region other than the writing region, and

processing for deleting at least one of the character, symbol, and figure transferred into the input tool or inserting at least one of the character, symbol, and figure is performed.

7. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein an operation of writing at least one of the character, symbol, and figure within the limited frame is released when a specific input operation is performed on the input member, and processing for moving the cursor displayed on the display screen without being restricted to the limited frame is performed when the indicator moves on the input pad after the release.

8. The input processing device according to claim 7,

wherein the specific input operation includes an operation of tapping the input pad with the indicator.

9. The input processing device according to claim 7,

wherein the specific input operation is performed by operating a press button provided together with the input pad.

10. The input processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the processing section is executed by software installed in a control unit of a personal computer, and

the input tool is also executed by software installed in the control unit.

11. The input processing device according to claim 10,

wherein the processing module is executed by driver software that gives coordinate information to an operating system in the control unit on the basis of the input signal from the input member and limited frame setting application software that sets the limited frame.