TOUCH INTERACTION APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME

• US 20150293623A1
• Filed: 08/19/2014
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: LEE, Hee Bum, KIM, Ho Jun, CHOI, Mi Jin, LIM, Hyun Ho
• Application Number:
  US14/462,851
• Publication Number:
  US 20150293623A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• 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

Abstract

A touch interaction apparatus may be capable of providing preset different images by one key according to a degree of touch interaction. The touch interaction apparatus may include: an input unit having a plurality of keys formed in preset touch regions and receiving a user'"'"'s touch interaction in a corresponding touch region of each of the plurality of keys; and a controlling unit outputting one of a plurality of images associated with a corresponding key according to a degree of touch interaction input to a touch region corresponding to a key of the input unit.

Claims

1. A touch interaction apparatus comprising:

an input unit including a plurality of keys in touch regions and receiving a user'"'"'s touch interaction in a touch region corresponding to one of the plurality of keys; and

a controlling unit outputting one of a plurality of images associated with the one of the plurality of keys based on a degree of the touch interaction input to the touch region corresponding to the one of the plurality of keys in the input unit.

2. The touch interaction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of images according to capacitance varied by the degree of touch interaction pressure.

3. The touch interaction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of images according to a pressure varied by the degree of touch interaction pressure.

4. The touch interaction apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of preset images according to the degree of touch interaction input to a corresponding touch region corresponding to one key.

5. The touch interaction apparatus of claim 4, wherein the controlling unit outputs an image from a from a group of images including at least one group of an upper case and lower case character function, a number and symbol function, a soft consonant, hard consonant, and aspirated consonant function, a monophthong and diphthong function, a cursor movement by a space bar and a tab key, cursor movements in up, down, left, and right directions, an function of a plurality of special characters, and an function of a plurality of function keys, according to the degree of touch interaction input to the corresponding touch region corresponding to one key.

6. An electronic device comprising:

a touch interaction apparatus having an input unit including a plurality of keys formed in preset touch regions and receiving a user'"'"'s touch interaction in a corresponding touch region of each of the plurality of keys and a controlling unit outputting one of a plurality of images associated with a corresponding key according to a degree of touch interaction input to a touch region corresponding to a key of the input unit; and

a display unit displaying an image from the touch interaction apparatus.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of images according to capacitance varied by the degree of touch interaction pressure.

8. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of images according to a pressure varied by the degree of touch interaction pressure.

9. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the controlling unit outputs one of the plurality of images according to the degree of touch interaction input to a corresponding touch region corresponding to one key.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the controlling unit outputs an image from a from a group of images including at least one group of an upper case and lower case character function, a number and symbol function, a soft consonant, hard consonant, and aspirated consonant function, a monophthong and diphthong function, a cursor movement by a space bar and a tab key, cursor movements in up, down, left, and right directions, a function of a plurality of special characters, and a function of a plurality of function keys, according to the degree of touch interaction input to the corresponding touch region corresponding to one key.