Touch Screen

• US 20100039395A1
• Filed: 03/23/2006
• Published: 02/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Nurmi, Juha H.P., Saarinen, Kaj
• Application Number:
  US12/225,528
• Publication Number:
  US 20100039395A1
• 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 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• 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 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/046 by electromagnetic means

Abstract

The invention relates to a user interface module comprising at least a first information element and a sensor element that is adjusted to sense the location of a touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the first information element. The module also comprises a second information element and said sensor element is adjusted to sense the location of the touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the second information element. The invention also relates to a device comprising a user interface module and a method for sensing control pointing in a device.

Claims

1. A user interface module comprising at least a first information element and a sensor element that is adjusted to sense the location of a touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the first information element,

wherein the module also comprises a second information element and said sensor element is adjusted to sense the location of the touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the second information element.

2. The user interface module according to claim 1, wherein the first information element is a display.

3. The user interface module according to claim 1, wherein the second information element is a keyboard.

4. The user interface module according to claim 1, wherein the first information element comprises a display and a keyboard.

5. The user interface module according to claim 1, wherein the sensor element is an inductive sensor element.

6. The user interface module according to claim 1, wherein the information element has an operation side and a backside and in the module the backside of the first information element is directed against the backside of the second information element.

7. The user interface module according to claim 6, wherein the operation side of the first information element and the operation side of the second information element are substantially parallel.

8. A device comprising at least a user interface module that comprises at least a first means for presenting information and a means for sensing control pointing that is adjusted to sense the location of a touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the first means for presenting information,

wherein the module also comprises a second means for presenting information and said means for sensing control pointing is adjusted to sense the location of the touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the second means for presenting information.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the means for presenting information is a display.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein the second means for presenting information is a keyboard.

11. The device according to claim 8, wherein the means for presenting information comprises a display and a keyboard.

12. The device according to claim 8, wherein the means for sensing control pointing is an inductive sensor element.

13. The device according to claim 8, wherein the means for presenting information has an operation side and a backside and in the module the backside of the first means for presenting information is directed against the backside of the second means for presenting information.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the operation side of the first means for presenting information and the operation side of the second means for presenting information are substantially parallel.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the first information element is a display.

15. A method for sensing control pointing in a device that comprises at least a first information element and a sensor element, which senses the location of a touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the first information element,

wherein the module also comprises a second information element and said sensor element senses the location of the touching means when the touching means is in the vicinity of the second information element.

17. The method according to claim 15, wherein the second information element is a keyboard.

18. The method according to claim 15, wherein the sensor element is an inductive sensor element.

19. The method according to claim 15, wherein the information element has an operation side and a backside and in the module the backside of the first information element is directed against the backside of the second information element.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the operation side of the first information element and the operation side of the second information element are substantially parallel.