HANDHELD DEVICE AND INPUT METHOD THEREOF

• US 20150317077A1
• Filed: 05/05/2015
• Published: 11/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jiyonson Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Jiyonson Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: TUN, Yun-Long
• Application Number:
  US14/704,330
• Publication Number:
  US 20150317077A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• 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 handheld device and an input method for the handheld device are provided. The handheld device includes a touch screen and a processor. The touch screen senses a touch to generate a touch signal and displays a user interface with an input zone which defines input scrolling bars and at least one switch scrolling bar. Each input scrolling bar has a primary character-symbol and at least one secondary character-symbol. The processor determines that the touch signal corresponds to a target input scrolling bar of the input scrolling to temporarily change the primary character-symbol and the at least one secondary character-symbol of the target input scrolling bar and generates an input signal, or that the touch signal corresponds to the at least one switch scrolling bar to simultaneously change the primary character-symbols and the at least one secondary character-symbol of the input scrolling bars.

Claims

1. A handheld device, comprising:

a touch screen, being configured to sense a touch to generate a touch signal, and display a user interface, wherein the user interface comprises an input zone, the input zone defines a plurality of input scrolling bars and at least one switch scrolling bar, and each of the input scrolling bars has a primary character-symbol and at least one secondary character-symbol; and

a processor electrically connected to the touch screen, being configured to determine that the touch is a sliding action and the touch signal corresponds to a target input scrolling bar among the input scrolling bars or to the at least one switch scrolling bar of the input zone, wherein when the touch signal corresponds to the target input scrolling bar, the processor changes the primary character-symbol of the target input scrolling bar into another primary character-symbol and changes the at least one secondary character-symbol of the target input scrolling bar into another at least one secondary character-symbol according to a first sliding direction corresponding to the sliding action so as to generate an input signal corresponding to the another primary character-symbol, the processor is further configured to change the another primary character-symbol presented by the target input scrolling bar back into the primary character-symbol after the input signal is generated, the another primary character-symbol corresponds to one of the at least one secondary character-symbol, one of the another at least one secondary character-symbol corresponds to the primary character-symbol, and when the touch signal corresponds to the at least one switch scrolling bar of the input zone, the processor simultaneously changes the primary character-symbol and the at least one secondary character-symbol of each of the input scrolling bars according to a second sliding direction corresponding to the sliding action.

2. The handheld device of claim 1, wherein the primary character-symbol and the at least one secondary character-symbol presented by each of the input scrolling bars is one of a language input character-symbol, a digital symbol, a punctuation symbol, and a facial expression symbol respectively.

3. The handheld device of claim 2, wherein the language input character-symbol is one of an English lower-case character, an English capital character, a Chinese phonetic symbol, and a Japanese phonetic alphabet symbol.

4. The handheld device of claim 1, wherein the input zone further comprises at least one input key and at least one cursor movement scrolling bar.

5. An input method for use in a handheld device, the handheld device comprising a touch screen and a processor, the touch screen being configured to sense a touch to generate a touch signal and display a user interface, the user interface comprising an input zone, the input zone defining a plurality of input scrolling bars and at least one switch scrolling bar, and each of the input scrolling bars having a primary character-symbol and at least one secondary character-symbol, the input method being executed by the processor and comprising the following steps of:

(a) determining that the touch is a sliding action and the touch signal corresponds to a target input scrolling bar among the input scrolling bars or to the at least one switch scrolling bar of the input zone;

(b) when the touch signal corresponds to the target input scrolling bar among the input scrolling bars of the input zone, changing the primary character-symbol of the target input scrolling bar into another primary character-symbol and changing the at least one secondary character-symbol of the target input scrolling bar into another at least one secondary character-symbol according to a first sliding direction corresponding to the sliding action so as to generate an input signal corresponding to the another primary character-symbol, and changing the another primary character-symbol presented by the target input scrolling bar back into the primary character-symbol after the input signal is generated, wherein the another primary character-symbol corresponds to one of the at least one secondary character-symbol, one of the another at least one secondary character-symbol corresponds to the primary character-symbol; and

(c) when the touch signal corresponds to the at least one switch scrolling bar of the input zone, simultaneously changing the primary character-symbol and the at least one secondary character-symbol of each of the input scrolling bars according to a second sliding direction corresponding to the sliding action.

6. The input method of claim 5, wherein the primary character-symbol and the at least one secondary character-symbol presented by each of the input scrolling bars is one of a language input character-symbol, a digital symbol, a punctuation symbol, and a facial expression symbol respectively.

7. The input method of claim 6, wherein the language input character-symbol is one of an English lower-case character, an English capital character, a Chinese phonetic symbol, and a Japanese phonetic alphabet symbol.

8. The input method of claim 5, wherein the input zone further comprises at least one input key and at least one cursor movement scrolling bar.