Patent Grant
7446758
At present, Computers have many input methods, in which using a keyboard and a mouse is the most common method. But these methods have some shortcomings.
Firstly, these input methods and devices cannot be good use in movement. Along with the popularization of computers and mobile telephones, more and more people wish to use computers in movement and exchange information by mobile telephones, specially servicemen, policemen and waiters, querying data and inputting data in movement are often needed. But present input methods and devices are not compatible.
Secondly, the present input methods and devices ask the users the special attitude. The users need to sit before a desk equipped with the input device and keep the attitude, which will exhaust users.
The present input methods and devices can make pollution. There are many gaps between keys which can collect much dust and is difficult cleaning.
The present input methods and devices easy to cause false code. Users input data by knocking the present keyboard mechanically, which is easy to cause false operations and low efficiency.
The first goal of this invention is to overcome present shortcomings and to present an input methods and devices easy to be taken and used in movement.
The second goal is to present an input methods and devices ignoring attitudes and environments.
The third goal is to present an input method causing little pollution.
The fourth goal is to present an input methods with high efficiency and very good reliability.
This invention provides a solution to realize the goals of this invention above-mentioned. An input method and device applying to computers and mobile telephones which is called the glove keyboard system in this paper includes three parts: glove part, keys part, circuit board part, and line.
The circuit board part including coding unit 303, detection unit 304, and MPU unit 310, power unit 308, communication unit 309, display unit 306.
The glove part is a function part taking the shape of a glove. It can be made of all kinds of materials innocuous to people. It can be pulled on the user's hands. It is the carrier of the keys.
The keys spread on the glove part. When an effective key-press takes place, the detection unit will get a signal.
The key can be made of metallic film OR slug OR other electric conductor material, the line is conducting wire.
The key can be made of pervious to light material; the line is optical fiber cluster.
If the key is made of pervious to light material, the detection unit including many of optical receiver and many of Optical transmitter, the Optical transmitter send specially signal, if the optical receiver receive the specially signal, it's mean a key-press action has taken.
The detection unit inspecting whether key-press is effective. It transforms the signal denoting key-press to the signal which can be identified by the coding unit and transmits the signal to the coding unit.
The coding unit makes coding and transmits the data to the communicating unit.
The MPU unit watches the work and displays correlative information on the displays unit.
The communicating unit communicates with the computer or the mobile telephone by a wire or wireless or infrared mode.
The displays indicate the work state of this system.
The power unit offer power, if the communicating mode between the communicating part and the computer or the mobile telephone is wire, the function of the subsystem of the power is that the voltage transmitted by wire can be transformed to the voltage supporting the work of the system. If the communicating mode between the communicating part and the computer or the mobile telephone is wireless or infrared, the subsystem of the power includes the batteries and the power transform part whose function is that the voltage over the batteries can be transformed to the voltage supporting the work of the system.
A computer system applying to the glove keyboard system includes more than one child computers with a glove keyboard and a printer and the center control computer. In this system, the child computers communicate with the center computer in wireless mode.
In the system above-mentioned, users input command into the child computers by the glove keyboard. The child computers can print information by the printer.
An input method by the glove keyboard system is presented. Users pull on the glove keyboard and the mutual contacts between the different parts of the hands is regarded as the key-press information.
In the method above-mentioned, the actual mutual contacts can be the mutual contacts between many parts. The contact used in this device is:
Glove unit 302 is the carrier, keys unit 305 distributing on the glove unit 305, communication link 301 links to computer or handset, display unit 306 provide feedback information to user, power supply line 307 supply power from computer or battery.
In the dot line block-diagram, including coding unit 303, detection unit 304, MPU unit 310, power unit 308, communication unit 309.
Detection unit 304 detect the key units unit 305, find the information of key-press, coding unit 303 coding the key-press information, communication unit 309 send the message of key-press to computer, MPU unit 310 manage detection coding communication and display.
There are 22 areas to emplace key, and one for mouse unit.
There are 23 areas to emplace key and the area a, b, c can emplace switch or some led.
All these are the key subsection, table 1 show the detail.
The area 0 and area 21 are specific are, when other area contact with area 0 or area 21, the press key massage is generated.
Table 2 show the detail of the way of key-press
The area 0 can easily touch to the area 1˜20 and the areas 22, 23, 25,26,28,29, so there are 28 signal of key press. The areas 4,10,13,16 can easily touch to area 21, so there are 4 signal of key-press; total number of the signals is 32.
A method of detect a key-press action, comprising:
Step D1: set the key of area 0 or are 21 to send signal, the signal maybe a voltage or modulating signal, this signal can be receive by other key receive by touch.
Step D2: detecting the key (ex the key 0 or key 21), find the key which receiving the signal. Send the key-press put down message to computer.
Step D3: detecting the key which receiving the signal, if can't receive the signal, send the key-press key up message to computer.
Step D4: go to step D2.
When the connection is wireless or infrared, a battery is need.
In
The glove keyboard supply change the array of key one can determining the key array by this way:
While the invention will be described in connection with certain preferred embodiments, there is no intent to limit it to those embodiments. On the contrary, the intent is to cover all alternatives, modifications and equivalents as included within the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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