TABLET PC AND FULL-SCREEN KEYBOARD WINDOW DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100088625A1
• Filed: 04/24/2009
• Published: 04/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: CHEN, Feng-Shan
• Application Number:
  US12/429,673
• Publication Number:
  US 20100088625A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A tablet PC includes a processing unit and a display panel. The display panel is controlled by the processing unit and for displaying an application program window and selectively displaying a full-screen keyboard window of which the transparency is higher than the transparency of the application program window.

Claims

1. A tablet PC, comprising:

a processing unit; and

a display panel, controlled by the processing unit, for displaying an application program window and selectively displaying a full-screen keyboard window, wherein the transparency of the full-screen keyboard window is higher than the transparency of the application program window.

2. The tablet PC according to claim 1, wherein when the display panel displays the full-screen keyboard window, the full-screen keyboard window covers the application program window, and the full-screen keyboard window is in a half-transparent mode.

3. The tablet PC according to claim 1, wherein if the tablet PC is coupled to an external display device, then the external display device displays the application program window, the display panel displays the full-screen keyboard window, and the full-screen keyboard window is in a non-transparent mode.

4. The tablet PC according to claim 1, wherein the full-screen keyboard window is controlled by a switch button to be selectively displayed on the display panel.

5. The tablet PC according to claim 1, wherein the display panel is a multi-point touch panel.

6. The tablet PC according to claim 5, wherein when the display panel displays the full-screen keyboard window, the tablet PC determines whether at least one touch point on the display panel falls within the virtual key area of the full-screen keyboard window.

7. The tablet PC according to claim 6, wherein if the at least one touch point falls within the virtual key area of the full-screen keyboard window, then the tablet PC determines whether the at least one touch point belongs to the single virtual key of the full-screen keyboard window.

8. The tablet PC according to claim 7, wherein if the at least one touch point belongs to the single virtual key of the full-screen keyboard window, then the processing unit executes the function of the corresponding single virtual key, otherwise, the processing unit executes the function of the corresponding modifier virtual key.

9. The tablet PC according to claim 8, wherein the single virtual key function comprises a functional key function.

10. A method of displaying a full-screen keyboard window on a tablet PC, wherein the tablet PC comprises a processing unit and a display panel, and the method comprises:

displaying an application program on the display panel; and

selectively displaying a full-screen keyboard window on the display panel, wherein the transparency of the full-screen keyboard window is higher than the transparency of the application program window.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein when the display panel displays the full-screen keyboard window, the full-screen keyboard window covers the application program window, and the full-screen keyboard window is in a half-transparent mode.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:

coupling the tablet PC to an external display device;

displaying the application program window on the external display device; and

displaying the full-screen keyboard window on the display panel, wherein the full-screen keyboard window is in a non-transparent mode.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the full-screen keyboard window is selectively displayed on the display panel by a switch button.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the display panel is a multi-point touch panel.

15. The method according to claim 14, further comprising:

determining whether at least one touch point on the display panel falls within the virtual key area of the full-screen keyboard window when the display panel displays the full-screen keyboard window;

determining whether the at least one touch point belongs to the single virtual key of the full-screen keyboard window if the at least one touch point falls within the virtual key area of the full-screen keyboard window; and

executing the function of the corresponding single virtual key by the processing unit if the at least one touch point belongs to the single virtual key of the full-screen keyboard window, and executing the function of the corresponding modifier virtual key otherwise by the processing unit if the at least one touch point does not belong to the single virtual key of the full-screen keyboard window.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the single virtual key function comprises a functional key function.