INPUT APPARATUS AND A CONTROL METHOD OF AN INPUT APPARATUS

• US 20130241837A1
• Filed: 11/22/2011
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Oga, Toshiyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/988,359
• Publication Number:
  US 20130241837A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 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

It is an input apparatus of an information processing apparatus having a touch sensor, and has a recognition means which detects that the finger that the touch sensor has detected has touched and recognizes the position information of the finger, and a control means which sets a virtual keyboard based on the position information.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. An input apparatus which is an input apparatus having a touch sensor, comprising:

a recognition unit which detects a touch of the detection object detected by said touch sensor and recognizes a position information of said detection object; and

a control unit which sets a virtual keyboard at the position based on said position information.

12. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

the recognition unit which recognizes the position of said detection object just before the touch ends as said position information; and

the control unit which sets said virtual keyboard in said touch sensor.

13. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

the recognition unit which recognizes the position of the updated touch as said position information while a touch of said detection object continues; and

the control unit which sets said virtual keyboard to said touch sensor.

14. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

a second touch sensor;

the recognition unit which recognizes the position of the updated touch as said position information while a touch of said detection object continues; and

the control unit which sets said virtual keyboard to the second touch sensor.

15. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

the control unit which sets said virtual keyboard with the assumption that said detection object is a predetermined finger.

16. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

the control unit which stores the position relation information on a plurality of fingers for each of users and sets with a format based on said position relation information when said virtual keyboard is set.

17. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

the control unit,

in the case that the touch time of said detection object is recognized to be beyond the predetermined time during the usage of said virtual keyboard and the touch position has made a movement,

moving the position of said virtual keyboard corresponding to a vector of said movement.

18. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

an acceleration sensor;

the recognition unit to recognize the acceleration information which said acceleration sensor has detected; and

the control unit which switches to a mode which sets said virtual keyboard based on said acceleration information.

19. The input apparatus according to claim 11 comprising:

an illuminance sensor;

the recognition unit which recognizes the illuminance information which said illuminance sensor has detected and

the control unit which switches to a mode which sets said virtual keyboard based on said acceleration information.

20. A control method of an input apparatus, which is a control method of an input apparatus of an information processing apparatus having a touch sensor, comprising:

a detection process which detects a touch of the detection object detected by said touch sensor;

a recognition process which recognizes a position information of said detection object; and

a setting process which sets said virtual keyboard based on said position information.