Method for controlling appearing and disappearing of screen keyboard tables

• US 20090091541A1
• Filed: 10/09/2007
• Published: 04/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chen, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US11/907,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20090091541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• 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 method for controlling appearing and disappearing of screen keyboard tables includes at least the following steps: (1) triggering: present the keyboard tables on a screen when a touch panel is touched by a user'"'"'s finger; (2) depressing the touch panel: user'"'"'s finger depresses each character segment on the touch panel and a corresponding character is input; and (3) entering an ending character: enter an ending character, and the keyboard tables disappear from the screen. Thus the convenience of data entry for users is enhanced and the keyboard tables are concealed as desired to facilitate user review.

Claims

1. A method for controlling appearing and disappearing of screen keyboard tables, comprising at least the steps of:

triggering to present a keyboard table on a screen by touching a user'"'"'s finger on a touch panel;

depressing the touch panel with the user'"'"'s finger on a character segment thereof corresponding to a character which is input; and

entering an ending character to make the keyboard table on the screen to disappear.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the ending character at the step of entering an ending character is to end a sentence.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of depressing the touch panel further includes another step of overtime calculation so that when the touch panel is not being touched by the user'"'"'s finger for a duration which exceeds a set time period the keyboard table on the screen disappears.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of entering an ending character further includes another step of entering an editing position adjustment character such that aside from entering the ending character the editing position adjustment character is allowed to be entered to make the keyboard table on the screen to disappear while the touch panel still maintains character entry function.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyboard table further has a temporary editor to temporarily display input characters and form a character string, and to disappear the keyboard table from the screen when the ending character is entered and move the character string to a desired text to be edited to allow a user to perform overall review.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the character to end a sentence includes keys representing comma, period, question mark, exclamation mark, colon and space.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the adjustment character includes keys representing directions of up, down, left and right, a backspace key, an enter key, a space key and a TAB key.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the touch panel is a touch screen.