Information processing apparatus

• US 20100194688A1
• Filed: 05/12/2009
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jaewoo Shim
• Original Assignee: Jaewoo Shim
• Inventors: Shim, Jaewoo
• Application Number:
  US12/454,103
• Publication Number:
  US 20100194688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/163
• 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 1/169 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

Abstract

An information processing apparatus including a sensing unit that functions as a mouse, the apparatus including a main body with a key input device; a sensing unit installed in one side of the key input device and detecting the user'"'"'s operation to adjust a position of a mouse pointer on a display; and a pad disposed on the upper side of the sensing unit and movable to change the position of the mouse pointer on the display, thereby providing a user with the prompt and easy manipulation of the mouse pointer.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a main body including a key input device;

a sensing unit installed in one side of the key input device and detecting a user'"'"'s operation to adjust a position of a mouse pointer on a display; and

a pad disposed on the upper side of a sensing unit and movable to change the position of the mouse pointer on the display.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the key input device and the main body comprises a position adjustment button that allows the mouse pointer to be positioned on the center of the display when the center portion of the pad is positioned in the upper side of the sensing unit.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the key input device and the main body comprises a click button that is used to designate the position of the mouse pointer.

4. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein at least one of the key input device and the main body comprises a scroll member that is used to change a position in an information document that is being read.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sensing unit is integrally installed in the main body.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the main body comprises a groove portion in the upper side of the sensing unit, the groove portion comprises an entrance portion contact the exterior and an inside portion formed to be greater than the radius of the entrance portion and curved inside the groove portion, and the pad is inserted into the inside portion and is movably installed.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the inside portion comprises a position sensor that allows the mouse pointer to be positioned on the boundary of the display when the pad contacts the exterior circumferential surface of the inside portion.

8. The information processing apparatus of claim 7, wherein a plurality of the position sensors are installed in the exterior circumferential surface of the inside portion so that the mouse pointer is positioned on the boundary of the display corresponding to the position of the position sensor.

9. The information processing apparatus of any one of claims 1 through 8, wherein the sensing unit comprises an optical sensor including a light emitting sensor and a light receiving sensor for detecting the movement of the pad.