COMPUTER INPUT APPARATUS

• US 20100073296A1
• Filed: 07/21/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LIU, XING-CHENG
• Granted Patent: US 8,310,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/021 Arrangements integrating additional peripherals in a keyboard, e.g. card or barcode reader, optical scanner
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/02 Constructional features of telephone sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2473 Telephone terminals interfacing a personal computer, e.g. using an API (Application Programming Interface) details of API H04M7/0021

Abstract

A computer input apparatus includes a keyboard and a mouse. The keyboard includes a housing, a number of input keys, and a telephone module for responding to a call or initiating a call according to a user'"'"'s input. The input keys include standard keyboard keys and standard telephone keys. The mouse includes a main body, a number of buttons mounted on the main body, and a motion detecting unit for detecting motion of the mouse. The main body includes a mouse speaker configured for converting electrical signals into sound and a mouse microphone configured for converting sound into electrical signals. The buttons include a number of standard mouse buttons and an enable telephone button configured for enabling a telephone function of the mouse to answer a call.

Claims

1. A computer input apparatus, comprising:

a keyboard, comprising;

a housing;

a number of input keys arranged on the housing comprising standard keyboard keys and standard telephone keys; and

a telephone module in the housing configured for responding to an incoming call or making an outgoing call according to a user'"'"'s input by operating the input keys; and

a mouse, comprising;

a main body comprising a mouse speaker configured for converting electrical signals into sound and a mouse microphone configured for converting sound into electrical signals.

a plurality of buttons mounted on the main body, comprising a plurality of standard mouse buttons and an enable telephone button configured for enabling a telephone function of the mouse to answer a call; and

a motion detecting unit configured for detecting the motion of the mouse and translating the motion into the motion of a cursor.

2. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the housing comprises a first side surface, a second side surface parallel to the first side surface, and a third side surface connecting to the first side surface and the third surface.

3. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the housing defines a universal serial bus (USB) connector and a telephone connector in the first side surface, a number of microphone sound holes in the second side surface and, a number of speaker sound holes and a rectangular opening in the third side surface.

4. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the housing comprises a volume knob rotatably positioned in the rectangular opening and partially protruding out of the rectangular opening, and the volume knob is electrically connected to the telephone module in the housing.

5. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein the standard telephone keys comprise a switchhook key and an enable phone key, the switchhook key facilitates as a hook to answer or hang up a call, and the enable phone key is configured for changing a subset of the standard keyboard keys.

6. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the enable phone key adopts the numerical keys of the standard keyboard keys into numerical keys of a telephone.

7. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the telephone module comprises a processor unit, a microphone, and a speaker, the processor unit is configured for processing an incoming call or making a call according to a user input, the microphone is positioned in the housing of the keyboard adjacent to the microphone sound holes and configured for converting sound into electrical signals and output the electrical signals to the processor unit, and the speaker is positioned in the housing of the keyboard adjacent to the speaker sound hole and configured for converting electrical signals to sound.

8. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor unit is also configured for processing the incoming signals of a call and input signals from the microphone and the volume knob.

9. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the signal processing of the processor unit comprises wave filtering processing, noise reduction processing, and power amplifying processing.

10. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the standard mouse buttons comprise a left button, a right button, and a scroll wheel between the left button and the right button.

11. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 10, wherein the enable telephone button is mounted in the bottom surface of the main body between the mouse speaker and the mouse microphone.

12. The computer input apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the mouse further comprises a cable for data/signal transmission, the cable comprises a USB plug on the end of the cable away from the main body, and the USB plug is connected to USB connector of the keyboard.