Portable work station and data collection terminal including switchable multi purpose touch screen display
First Claim
1. A portable data collection terminal comprising:
- a housing including a display screen and a keyboard having a plurality of keys disposed in a frontal side of the housing, and a non-volatile memory;
the display screen including graphic data input means disposed coincident with a screen area of the display screen; and
a power management circuit means including means for saving electrical states, including input and output device states, to the non-volatile memory wherein said means includes means for trapping input-output instructions and for shadow writing such trapped input-output instructions to the non-volatile memory during normal operations of the portable data collection terminal;
said power management circuit means further including means for shutting down the portable data collection terminal during periods of inactivity and for reactivating the portable data collection terminal by attempted input through one of the plurality of keys, the power management circuit means being adapted to recognize such first attempted input as a command to resume operation instead of an input of the function normally executed by the respective one of the plurality of keys.
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Abstract
A portable data collection terminal has an elongate housing with a hand grip conforming rear surface. A front surface features a numerical keyboard adjacent a lower end of the housing and an LCD screen adjacent the keyboard toward an upper end of the housing. The display screen is of elongate rectangular shape, its length extending longitudinally of the housing of the data terminal. The active area of the display screen is covered by a touch sensitive overlay screen which is configured in one mode of operation of the data terminal into an alphabetical keyboard. The orientation of the display is switchable between orientations in which the line direction of the displayed data extends across or longitudinally of the data terminal. The keys of the numerical keyboard are identified by indicia disposed on a template. The orientation of the template may be sensed to switch the orientation of the displayed data and touch sensitive key identifiers to correspond to the orientation of the indicia on the template. As a further embodiment an electromagnetic activation by a pen may be used to enter data into a data terminal. Power saving shutdown extends the battery life of the data terminal. A shutdown mode permits resumption of operations by depression of a key.
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1. A portable data collection terminal comprising:
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a housing including a display screen and a keyboard having a plurality of keys disposed in a frontal side of the housing, and a non-volatile memory; the display screen including graphic data input means disposed coincident with a screen area of the display screen; and a power management circuit means including means for saving electrical states, including input and output device states, to the non-volatile memory wherein said means includes means for trapping input-output instructions and for shadow writing such trapped input-output instructions to the non-volatile memory during normal operations of the portable data collection terminal;
said power management circuit means further including means for shutting down the portable data collection terminal during periods of inactivity and for reactivating the portable data collection terminal by attempted input through one of the plurality of keys, the power management circuit means being adapted to recognize such first attempted input as a command to resume operation instead of an input of the function normally executed by the respective one of the plurality of keys. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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