PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20160147321A1
• Filed: 04/20/2015
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Inventec Technology Company Limited (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation, Inventec Technology Company Limited (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: HUANG, Chun-Yuan, SONG, Lung-Hsun, LIN, Chun-Chi
• Application Number:
  US14/691,199
• Publication Number:
  US 20160147321A1
• 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 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

The present invention provides a portable electronic device having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface. The portable electronic device includes a screen, a cursor control unit, and a control module. The screen is on the first surface. The cursor controlling unit is on the second surface for generating a cursor signal. The control module is electrically connected with the screen and the cursor control unit and controls the screen to display a cursor according to the cursor signal. The cursor signal includes a pressing signal. The control module further determines whether a single click, a double click, or a long click is executed according to the pressing signal, and executes the corresponding procedure accordingly.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the portable electronic device comprising:

a screen on the first surface;

a cursor control unit on the second surface for generating a cursor signal; and

a control module electrically connected with the screen and the cursor control unit, and used for controlling the screen to display a cursor according to the cursor signal.

2. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the cursor control unit is a touch panel or a track point.

3. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the cursor signal comprises a pressing signal comprising a signal starting point and a signal ending point, and the control module determines whether a single click, a double click or a long click is performed on the cursor control unit according to the pressing signal within a first interval, and then executes a corresponding procedure.

4. The portable electronic device of claim 3, wherein the control module determines the single click is performed, if the pressing signal appears only one time within the first interval and a period between the signal starting point and the signal ending point is shorter than the first interval.

5. The portable electronic device of claim 3, wherein the control module determines the double click is performed, if the pressing signals appears a plurality of times within the first interval and a period between the signal starting point of each pressing signal and the signal ending point of each pressing signal is shorter than the first interval.

6. The portable electronic device of claim 3, wherein the control module determines the long click is performed, if the pressing signal appears only one time within the first interval and a period between the signal starting point and the signal ending point is longer than or equal to the first interval.

7. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the control module controls the screen to display a plurality of virtual buttons according to a button-display signal.

8. The portable electronic device of claim 7, wherein the button-display signal is generated by the cursor control unit.

9. The portable electronic device of claim 7, further comprising a shortcut key electrically connected with the control module for generating the button-display signal after being pressed.

10. The portable electronic device of claim 7, wherein the plurality of virtual buttons at least comprise a first virtual button and a second virtual button, and the first virtual button stands for the left mouse button and the second virtual button stands for the right mouse button.