Information processing apparatus and change-over method

• US 20070120822A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Iso, Kageyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/605,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20070120822A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0428 by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421
• 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

To enable change over in a plurality of display patterns of virtual input section such as a virtual key board for increasing usability. An information processing apparatus includes, at user'"'"'s hands, a virtual input section display unit for displaying an input section of the virtual key board or the like (for example, a virtual key board irradiation section), a detection unit for detecting a position where the user performed a touch operation on the input section (a touch operation position detecting sensor), a determination unit for determining the input position of the input section on which the user performs the touch operation on the basis of data detected by the detection unit, (an EC/KBC), and a change-over unit for changing a display pattern of the input section in a plurality of types from the first display pattern to the n-th display pattern (a CPU, a ROM, and a SW).

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

display means for displaying an input section; and

change-over means for changing a display pattern of the input section from a first display pattern to a second display pattern.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the input section includes a key input section; and

the change-over means includes switch means for changing a key layout of the key input section from a first key layout corresponding to a first language to a second key layout corresponding to a second language.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the input section includes a key input section; and

the change-over means includes switch means for changing a key layout of the key input section from a first key layout corresponding to a first key arrangement to a second key layout corresponding to a second key arrangement.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the input section includes a pointer control section.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

detection means for detecting a position where a user performs a touch operation on the input section; and

determination means for determining the position where the user performs the touch operation on the input section on the basis of data detected by the detection means.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the detection means includes a detection section for optically detecting the position where the user performs the touch operation.

7. A change-over method, comprising:

displaying an input section; and

changing a display pattern of the input section from a first display pattern to a second display pattern.

8. The change-over method according to claim 7, wherein:

the input section includes a key input section; and

a key layout of the key input section is changed from a first key layout corresponding to a first language to a second key layout corresponding to a second language.

9. The change-over method according to claim 7, wherein:

the input section includes a key input section; and

a key layout of the key input section is changed from a first key layout corresponding to a first key arrangement to a second key layout corresponding to a second key arrangement.