EQUIPMENT WITH DUAL SCREENS FOR CONTROLLING MULTI-COMPUTERS AND THE OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110225537A1
• Filed: 03/08/2011
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ATEN International Company Limited
• Original Assignee: ATEN International Company Limited
• Inventors: WANG, Wen-hung, KAO, Kuo Feng
• Granted Patent: US 8,627,219 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/778
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/023 Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1498 Resource management, Optimisation arrangements, e.g. configuration, identification, tracking, physical location thermal management H05K7/20836

Abstract

An equipment for controlling a plurality of computers and the operating method thereof are provided. The equipment electrically connects to a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) module and a touch LCD module and a plurality of computer respectively, where the LCD module receives and displays an image of one of the plurality of computers, the touch LCD module displays an imaging inputting interface and at least one of the images corresponding to the plurality of computers, and the imaging inputting interface receives a command to control the specific computer.

Claims

1. A multi-computer management system, comprising:

a plurality of computers, each computer providing an image;

a user interface operation module comprising a display module, and a touch control display module for displaying a simulated input interface which is used to receive a first external instruction; and

a multi-computer management device electrically coupled to the plurality of computers for receiving the image of each computer, the display module, and the touch control display module, the multi-computer management device outputting the image of one of the plurality computers to the display module by a computer switch action, and receiving and transmitting the first external instruction to operate the computer corresponding to the computer switch action.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a rack having a front end and a back end, where the multi-computer management device is mounted at the back end; and

an extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the user interface operation module for moving the user interface operation module in and out of the rack, wherein when the user interface operation module is inside the rack, the display module is flipped close on the touch control display module, whereas when the user interface operation module is moved outside of the rack, the display module is flipped open from the touch control display module in an angle of display.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rack having a front end and a back end, where the multi-computer management device is mounted at the back end, and at least one of the display module and the touch control display module is mounted at the front end, and at least one of the display module and the touch control display module can flip around at the front end.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a rack; and

an extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the user interface operation module and the multi-computer management device for moving the user interface operation module and multi-computer management device in and out of the rack, wherein when the user interface operation module is inside the rack, the display module is flipped close on the touch control display module, whereas when the user interface operation module is moved outside of the rack, the display module is flipped open from the touch control display module in an angle of display.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a rack having a front end and a back end, where the multi-computer management device is mounted at the back end; and

a first extension mechanism and a second extension mechanism arranged in parallel or perpendicular to each other;

the first extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the touch control display module for moving the touch control display module in and out of the rack;

the second extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the display module for moving the display module in and out of the rack; and

wherein the touch control display module and the display module can independently flip around outside of the front end of the rack.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the touch control display module further displays at least one of icon images respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of computers, and one of the icon images displayed on the touch control display module can be selected by a second external instruction, whereby the multi-computer management device outputs the image of the computer corresponding to selected icon image to the display module.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the icon image is the image provided by the corresponding computer, and the multi-computer management device transmits at least one of the images respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of computers to the touch control display module.

8. A multi-computer management device, comprising:

a plurality of computer interfaces electrically coupled to a plurality of computers respectively, each computer generating an image;

a first display interface electrically coupled to a display module;

a second display interface electrically coupled to a touch control display module for displaying a simulated input interface which is used for receiving a first external instruction; and

a control module electrically coupled to the plurality of computer interfaces, the first display interface and the second display interface for switching one of the plurality of computers to output the corresponding image to the display module through the first display interface, and transmitting the first external instruction to operate switched computer through the computer interface coupled to the switched computer.

9. The device of claim 8, further comprising:

a rack having a front end and a back end, where the multi-computer management device is mounted at the back end; and

an extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the display module and the touch control display module for moving the display module and the touch control display module in and out of the rack, wherein when the display module and the touch control display module are inside the rack, the display module is flipped close on the touch control display module, whereas when the display module and the touch control display module are moved outside of the rack, the display module is flipped open from the touch control display module in an angle of display.

10. The device of claim 8, further comprising:

a rack having a front end and a back end, where the multi-computer management device is mounted at the back end; and

a first extension mechanism and a second extension mechanism arranged in parallel or perpendicular to each other;

the first extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the touch control display module for moving the touch control display module in and out of the rack;

the second extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the display module for moving the display module in and out of the rack; and

wherein the touch control display module and the display module can independently flip around outside of the front end of the rack.

11. The device of claim 8, wherein the control module further transmits at least one of the image respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of computers to the touch control display module.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the simulated input interface is also used for receiving a second external instruction to select one of the computer corresponding to the image displayed on the touch control display module, wherein the control module receives the second external instruction through the simulated input interface to execute a computer switch action, thereby switching the computer corresponding to the computer switch action to output the image to the display module.

13. The device of claim 8, wherein the control module further comprises:

a microprocessor;

a first multiplexer, electrically coupled to the microprocessor, the display module, and the plurality of computer interfaces for receiving the images of the plurality computers, the first multiplexer outputting the image of the switched computer to the display module; and

a second multiplexer, electrically coupled to the microprocessor, and the plurality of computer interfaces, the second multiplexer being used to receive a command corresponding to the first external instruction from the microprocessor and transmit the command to control the switched computer.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the control module further comprises:

a third multiplexer, electrically coupled to the microprocessor, the touch control display module, and the plurality of computer interfaces for receiving the images of the plurality computers, the third multiplexer outputting at least one of the image respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of computers to the touch control display module.

15. The device of claim 8, wherein the touch control display module further displays at least one of icon images respectively corresponding to at least one of the plurality of computers, and one of the icon images displayed on the touch control display module can be selected by a second external instruction, whereby the control module outputs the image of the computer corresponding to selected icon image to the display module.

16. The device of claim 8, further comprising:

a rack; and

an extension mechanism mounted on the rack and coupled to the display module and the touch control display module and the multi-computer management device for moving the display module and the touch control display module, and multi-computer management device in and out of the rack, wherein when the display module and the touch control display module are inside the rack, the display module is flipped close on the touch control display module, whereas when the display module and the touch control display module are moved outside of the rack, the display module is flipped open from the touch control display module in an angle of display.

17. A multi-computer management method:

providing a multi-computer management device electrically coupled to a plurality of computers for receiving the plurality of images generated by the plurality of computers respectively;

providing a display module and a touch control display module electrically coupled to the multi-computer management device, wherein the display module receives and displays the image of one of the plurality of computers from the multi-computer management device while the touch control display module receives and displays at least one of the images respectively corresponding to the plurality of computers from the multi-computer management device; and

receiving a first external instruction through the simulated input interface to operate the computer corresponding to the image displayed on the display module through the multi-computer management device.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising a step of receiving a second external instruction through the simulated input interface to execute a computer switching action, causing the display module to display the image of the computer corresponding to the computer switching action.

19. A method of claim 17, further comprising a step of touching one of the images displayed on the touch control display module to execute a computer switching action, causing the display module to display the image of the computer corresponding to the computer switching action.