HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20130050150A1
• Filed: 07/10/2012
• Published: 02/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Yao-Tsung, Li, Chia-Hsien
• Application Number:
  US13/545,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20130050150A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/176
• 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 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/169 the I/O peripheral being an integrated pointing device, e.g. trackball in the palm rest area, mini-joystick integrated between keyboard keys, touch pads or touch stripes G06F1/1643 takes precedence; constructional details of pointing devices G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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 electronic device includes a casing, a transparent display panel and a transparent touch panel. The transparent display panel is disposed on the casing and has a viewing side and a non-viewing side opposite to the viewing side. The transparent touch panel is disposed on the casing and on the non-viewing side of the transparent display panel. When a user holds the handheld electronic device by a hand, the user can view the hand, which performs touch action on the transparent touch panel, through the transparent display panel and the transparent touch panel.

Claims

1. A handheld electronic device comprising:

a casing;

a transparent display panel disposed on the casing, the transparent display panel having a viewing side and a non-viewing side opposite to the viewing side; and

a transparent touch panel disposed on the casing and on the non-viewing side of the transparent display panel;

wherein when a user holds the handheld electronic device by a hand, the user views the hand, which performs a touch action on the transparent touch panel, through the transparent display panel and the transparent touch panel.

2. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a processing unit disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the transparent display panel and the transparent touch panel.

3. The handheld electronic device of claim 2, wherein when the processing unit determines that the touch action is a contact action, the processing unit controls the transparent display panel to display a contact position corresponding to the contact action;

when the processing unit determines that the touch action is a press action, the processing unit controls the transparent display panel to display an execution result of a command corresponding to the press action.

4. The handheld electronic device of claim 2, further comprising a memory unit disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the processing unit, the memory unit being used for storing N gesture patterns and N commands corresponding to the N gesture patterns, N being a positive integer, wherein when the processing unit determines that the touch action is a press action, the processing unit collects an operation gesture performed by the user on the transparent touch panel after the press action and then determines whether the operation gesture conforms to one of the N gesture patterns, if the operation gesture conforms to one of the N gesture patterns, the processing unit executes one of the N commands correspondingly.

5. A handheld electronic device comprising:

a casing;

a non-transparent display panel disposed on the casing, the non-transparent display panel having a viewing side and a non-viewing side opposite to the viewing side; and

a touch device disposed on the casing and on the non-viewing side of the non-transparent display panel.

6. The handheld electronic device of claim 5, further comprising:

a processing unit disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the non-transparent display panel and the touch device; and

a memory unit disposed in the casing and electrically connected to the processing unit, the memory unit being used for storing a gesture simulating program;

wherein when a user holds the handheld electronic device by a hand, the processing unit executes the gesture simulating program so as to control the non-transparent display panel to display a virtual gesture corresponding to the hand according to a position where the hand touches the touch device.

7. The handheld electronic device of claim 6, wherein when the processing unit determines that a touch action, which the user performs on the touch device, is a contact action, the processing unit controls the non-transparent display panel to display a contact position corresponding to the contact action;

when the processing unit determines that the touch action is a press action, the processing unit controls the non-transparent display panel to display an execution result of a command corresponding to the press action.

8. The handheld electronic device of claim 6, wherein the memory unit further stores N gesture patterns and N commands corresponding to the N gesture patterns, N is a positive integer, when the processing unit determines that a touch action, which the user performs on the touch device, is a press action, the processing unit collects an operation gesture performed by the user on the touch device after the press action and then determines whether the operation gesture conforms to one of the N gesture patterns, if the operation gesture conforms to one of the N gesture patterns, the processing unit executes one of the N commands correspondingly.

9. The handheld electronic device of claim 5, wherein the touch device comprises an upper conductive layer, a lower conductive layer and a spacer disposed between the upper and lower conductive layers.

10. The handheld electronic device of claim 9, wherein the lower conductive layer is a back casing of the casing.

11. The handheld electronic device of claim 10, wherein the spacer is formed on the back casing.