TOUCH INPUT APPARATUS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME

• US 20100201642A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Kawanishi, Hiroyoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/679,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20100201642A1
• 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 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• 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 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector

Abstract

The portable electronic device of the present invention comprises a touch input apparatus including a touch panel installed on a surface of a display. The touch panel has a lead part projecting at the end of a detecting section. The detecting section includes a matrix area A where X value detection lines and Y value detection lines are arranged in matrix, and a lead area B where a plurality of lead lines extending from the matrix area A in the same direction as the X value detection lines to reach the lead part are arranged. A first touch input section is formed by the matrix area A of the touch panel, and a second touch input section is formed by the lead area B.

Claims

1. A touch input apparatus comprising a display on a surface of which a touch panel is installed, the touch panel comprising a detecting part on an end part of which a lead part projects, the detecting part including a matrix area A where an X value detection line and a Y value detection line are arranged in matrix, and a lead area B where a plurality of lead lines extending from the matrix area A in the same direction as the X value detection line to reach the lead part are arranged, wherein a first touch input section is formed by the matrix area A of the touch panel, and a second touch input section is formed by the lead area B.

2. The touch input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a cover panel is placed so as to cover the touch panel, on the cover panel, a light-transmitting panel section is formed in an area covering the first touch input section of the touch panel, and one or more key display sections are provided on a line extending in a direction crossing the X value detection line in an area covering the second touch input section.

3. A portable electronic device comprising a display on a surface of which a touch panel is installed, the touch panel comprising a detecting part on an end part of which a lead part projects, the detecting part including a matrix area A where an X value detection line and a Y value detection line are arranged in matrix, and a lead area B where a plurality of lead lines extending from the matrix area A in the same direction as the X value detection line to reach the lead part are arranged, wherein a first touch input section is formed by the matrix area A of the touch panel, and a second touch input section is formed by the lead area B.

4. The portable electronic device according to claim 3, wherein a cover panel is placed so as to cover the touch panel, on the cover panel, a light-transmitting panel section is formed in an area covering the first touch input section of the touch panel, and one or more key display sections are provided on a line extending in a direction crossing the X value detection line in an area covering the second touch input section.

5. The portable electronic device according to claim 3, wherein by a touch operation of the second touch input section of the touch panel, a screen displayed on the display is changed.

7. The portable electronic device according to claim 4, wherein by a touch operation of the second touch input section of the touch panel, a screen displayed on the display is changed.

8. The portable electronic device according to claim 3, wherein an image regarding device operation is displayed on the display, and by a touch operation of the second touch input section of the touch panel, an operation signal regarding the image displayed on the display is generated.

9. The portable electronic device according to claim 4, wherein an image regarding device operation is displayed on the display, and by a touch operation of the second touch input section of the touch panel, an operation signal regarding the image displayed on the display is generated.

6. (canceled)