TOUCH INPUT APPARATUS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING SAME

• US 20150026634A1
• Filed: 10/06/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: KAWANISHI, Hiroyoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,864,505 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/778
• 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

A portable electronic device includes 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, which 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, 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.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

a first display area provided on a front surface thereof and separated from other areas of the device, and a second display area provided on the front surface and outside the first display area,

the first display area being configured to display a plurality of first operation-related images arranged in sequence so as to execute a specific function by touch operation,

the second display area being configured to display a plurality of second operation-related images arranged in sequence so as to execute a specific function by touch operation,

the first display area being configured to display a first display having the first operation-related images or a second display having the second operation-related images that are not contained in the first display, and

the first display being switchable to the second display using a scroll operation by touch operation of one of the second operation-related images.

2. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein one of the first operation-related images is rearranged to the top of the sequence by touch operation of one of the second operation-related images.

3. The portable electronic device according to claim 1, wherein some of the first operation-related images and some of the second operation-related images are adjacent to each other by interposing a boundary between the first display area and the second display area.