PORTABLE TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20120071212A1
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Published: 03/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Anzai, Jun, Endo, Tomohiko
• Application Number:
  US13/322,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20120071212A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• 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 1/22 Illumination; Arrangements for improving the visibility of characters on dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A portable terminal apparatus includes a first operation unit and a second operation unit. The first operation unit has an image area for displaying an image and an operation area for displaying operation keys. The second operation unit is configured to synchronously operate with the operation area of the first operation unit

Claims

1. A portable terminal apparatus comprising:

a first operation unit having an image area for displaying an image and an operation area for displaying operation keys; and

a second operation unit configured to synchronously operate with the operation area of the first operation unit so as to disable an input at a part of the second operation unit corresponding to the image area of the first operation unit and to enable an input at a part of the second operation unit corresponding to the operation area of the first operation unit.

3. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second operation unit illuminates a backlight for the part of the second operation unit corresponding to the operation area of the first operation unit and does not illuminate a backlight for the part of the second operation unit corresponding to the image area of the first operation unit.

4. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second operation unit accepts operation of a pointer at the part of the second operation unit corresponding to the image area of the first operation unit.

6. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a synchronous operation control unit configured to compare data received by the first and second operation unit with a status which is currently displayed on the first operation unit, and configured to determine whether the data are enabled or disabled.

7. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the synchronous operation control unit sets a part of the second operation area positionally corresponding to the operation area of the first operation unit as an enabled portion, and sets a part of the second operation unit positionally corresponding to the image area of the first operation unit as a disabled portion.

8. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein when movement of the image area of the first operation unit is detected, the synchronous operation control unit shifts the operation area and switches the enabled portion and the disabled portion such that the disabled portion positionally corresponds to the image area and such that the enabled portion positionally corresponds to the operation area.

9. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein when rotation of the image area of the first operation unit is detected, the synchronous operation control unit rotates the operation area and switches the enabled portion and the disabled portion, so as to correspond to a zenith direction of the image area.

10. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein when a press to the disabled portion of the second operation unit is detected, the synchronous operation control unit switches the disabled portion and the enabled portion and moves the image area and the operation area such that the image area positionally corresponds to the disabled portion and such that the operation area positionally corresponds to the enabled portion.

11. The portable terminal apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the second operation unit comprises a rotary selector, and

wherein when the operation area of the first operation unit positionally corresponds to the rotary selector, the synchronous operation control unit enables operation to the rotary selector.

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