Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of extended keyboard, simple in structure, with low cost and can't cause large impact to the original demonstration of touch-screen, the present invention also provides a kind of electronic installation of this extended keyboard of application and has the expanded keyboard system of this extended keyboard and electronic installation.
A kind of extended keyboard, comprise some buttons, wherein, extended keyboard also comprises some conductive contacts, each button and the unique corresponding electrical connection of one or more conductive contacts, described some conductive contacts are positioned at the extended keyboard back side and are exposed to this extended keyboard back side, for being positioned over one at extended keyboard while having on the electronic installation of multi-point touch panel, contact with the multi-point touch panel of this electronic installation, thereby, in the time that a button is operated, this operation is conducted to the position that contacts conductive contact that this button connects on multi-point touch panel with the unique conductive contact corresponding and electrical connection of this button.
A kind of electronic installation, comprise a multi-point touch panel, can apply an extended keyboard and carry out expanded keyboard, wherein, described multi-point touch panel for electrically contacting with the conductive contact that is positioned at this extended keyboard back side in the time carrying out expanded keyboard, and described electronic installation also comprises a storage unit and a processing unit.This cell stores has the mapping table of a button and conductive contact.This processing unit is in the time receiving a spread signal, prompting user operates the associated key being electrically connected with all conductive contacts on this extended keyboard, and receive after the touch signal of this associated key generation of operation, determine the position of each touch point according to touch signal, and position, determined touch point and conductive contact are mapped one by one, thereby determine the corresponding relation of position, touch point and conductive contact, and control electronic installation and enter an expanded keyboard pattern; Wherein, under this expanded keyboard pattern, processing unit detects touch signal and determines position, touch point, determine conductive contact corresponding to touch point that produces touch signal according to position, touch point and the corresponding relation of conductive contact, then determine the corresponding button of conductive contact according to button and conductive contact mapping table, and carry out this keypress function.
A kind of expanded keyboard system, comprises an electronic installation and an extended keyboard, and described electronic installation comprises a multi-point touch panel, and described extended keyboard comprises some buttons.Wherein, described extended keyboard also comprises some conductive contacts, each button and the unique corresponding electrical connection of one or more conductive contacts, described some conductive contacts are positioned at the extended keyboard back side and are exposed to this extended keyboard back side, for in the time that extended keyboard is positioned on this electronic installation, contact with the multi-point touch panel of this electronic installation.Described electronic installation also comprises a storage unit and a processing unit.This cell stores has the mapping table of a button and conductive contact.This processing unit is in the time receiving a spread signal, prompting user operates the associated key being electrically connected with all conductive contacts on this extended keyboard, and receive after the touch signal of this associated key generation of operation, determine the position of each touch point according to touch signal, and position, determined touch point and conductive contact are mapped one by one, thereby determine the corresponding relation of position, touch point and conductive contact, and control electronic installation and enter an expanded keyboard pattern.Wherein, under this expanded keyboard pattern, processing unit detects touch signal and determines position, touch point, and according to definite conductive contact corresponding to touch point that produces touch signal of the corresponding relation of position, touch point and conductive contact, then determine the corresponding button of conductive contact according to button and conductive contact mapping table, and carry out this keypress function.
Extended keyboard provided by the invention is applied the electronic installation of this extended keyboard and is had the expanded keyboard system of this extended keyboard and electronic installation, simple in structure, with low cost and can't cause large impact to the original demonstration of touch-screen.
Embodiment
Referring to Fig. 1, is the schematic diagram of expanded keyboard system 1.This expanded keyboard system 1 comprises extended keyboard 100 and electronic installation 200.This electronic installation 200 comprises a multi-point touch panel 201.In the present embodiment, this multi-point touch panel 201 is a condenser type multi-point touch panel.
This extended keyboard 100 comprises some button K and some conductive contact C, each button K and the unique corresponding electrical connection of one or more conductive contact C, described some conductive contact C are positioned at extended keyboard 100 back sides and exposed at the described back side, in the time that extended keyboard 100 is positioned on this electronic installation 200, the multi-point touch panel 201 of described some conductive contact C and this electronic installation 200 electrically contacts.Wherein, described conductive contact C can dimpling for the back side of described extended keyboard 100, and can be the metal material such as copper, iron or ITO(tin indium oxide) material makes, or is that this ITO material of surface coverage of metal material is as the protective seam of conduction.Preferably, in the present embodiment, the width in the region that this extended keyboard 100 contacts with multi-point touch panel 201 is roughly the width of extended keyboard a line button K, and those conductive contacts C is positioned at the below of this extended keyboard top line button K.
Extended keyboard 100 also comprises some fixed parts 10, and as shown in Figure 1, extended keyboard 100 comprises two fixed parts 10, and described extended keyboard 100 is fixed on electronic installation 200 by these two fixed parts 10.Accordingly, the width of this fixed part 10 is roughly equal with the width that extended keyboard 100 contacts this multi-point touch panel 201.In one embodiment, this fixed part 10 can be the warp architecture extending out from extended keyboard 100 sides, coordinates and extended keyboard 100 is fastened on electronic installation 200 with the side of electronic installation 200.In another embodiment, these two fixed parts 10 are sucked type structure, with the multi-point touch panel 201 of electronic installation 200 just to and be adsorbed on the multi-point touch panel 201 of electronic installation 200.In other embodiments, this fixed part 10 can be made up of a magnetic material, with the metal shell adhesive of electronic installation 200, and extended keyboard 100 is fixed on electronic installation 200.Obviously, the number of fixed part is not defined as two, can be any number.For example comprise three, four sucked type structures etc.Obviously,, in the time that fixed part 10 is made for sucked type structure or magnetic material, the width of extended keyboard 100 does not need identical with the width of this electronic installation 200.In other embodiments, also can not need this fixed part 10, and directly extended keyboard 100 is positioned on electronic installation 200.
As shown in Figure 2, these some conductive contact C comprise multiple contacts such as conductive contact C1, C2, only illustrate the part-structure of the extended keyboard 100 that comprises two conductive contact C1, C2 and three button K1~K3 in Fig. 2.Each button K is with one or more unique corresponding in those conductive contacts C and be electrically connected by wire L.For example, as shown in Figure 2, button K1 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1, and button K2 is all electrically connected with conductive contact C1 and C2, and button K3 is only electrically connected with conductive contact C3.
More specifically, as shown in Figure 3, be a button and conductive contact mapping table, illustrate the corresponding relation of button K and conductive contact C.In present embodiment, the number of this conductive contact C is 4, is respectively C1 ~ C4.If this button K comprises button 0~9 and ESC Escape, enter key and space bar.This button 1~4 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1~C4 respectively, and button 5 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1 and C2, and button 6 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1 and C3, and button 7 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1 and C4, etc.
In the time of a certain button K of user's manual manipulation, user electrically contacts by button K and wire L and conductive contact C, and this operation is conducted to the position contacting with this conductive contact C on multi-point touch panel 201.Obviously,, because multi-point touch panel 201 is connected with button K by conductive contact C and wire L, also can be described as the point contacting with conductive contact C on multi-point touch panel 201 and extended on corresponding button K.In the present embodiment, these some button K are conducting block, are directly connected by wire L with conductive contact C1.In present embodiment, the concept of operation push-button K is for touching this button K.
For example,, in the time of user's touch key-press K1, because button K1 is electrically connected with conductive contact C1, and conductive contact C1 contacts with multi-point touch panel 201, and button K1 is conducting block, thereby, be equivalent to user and directly touch the position that this multi-point touch panel 201 contacts with conductive contact C1.And in the time of user's touch key-press K2, be equivalent to user and touch two positions that this multi-point touch panel 201 contacts with conductive contact C1 and conductive contact C2 simultaneously.Thereby, when user operates the different key K on extended keyboard 100, the position of the point being touched on multi-point touch panel 201 and number difference.Electronic installation 200 is at least determined operated button based on button and conductive contact mapping table, and then inputs or carry out the function that this button is corresponding.
Obviously, according to the number of the number of the button of extended keyboard, can correspondingly select the number of conductive contact C, for example, as shown in Figure 3, the permutation and combination of 4 conductive contacts can be distinguished unique corresponding 15 buttons, that is:
=15 buttons.And the permutation and combination of 5 conductive contacts can unique corresponding 31 buttons, that is:
=31 buttons.Thereby, can, according to the number of the required button K of extended keyboard 100, go to select the number of conductive contact C.
In the present embodiment, as shown in Figure 2, this extended keyboard 100 also comprises an insulation course 101, and this insulation course 101 is between these some conductive contact C and those buttons K, and described connection button K and conductive contact wire L run through this insulation course 101.Thereby, button K can only be electrically contacted with corresponding conductive contact C, the button K and this conductive contact C that avoid being positioned on conductive contact C directly electrically contact.Obviously, in other embodiments, this wire L can be the mode such as conductive through hole, conductive strips and substitutes.
Seeing also Fig. 4, is the functional block diagram of electronic installation 200.This electronic installation 200 comprises this multi-point touch panel 201, processing unit 202 and storage unit 203.This storage unit 203 stores this button and conductive contact mapping table.Wherein, this button and conductive contact mapping table can be manufacturer and are pre-stored in storage unit 203 according to the button of extended keyboard 100 and the annexation of conductive contact corresponding with electronic installation 200.Obviously, this button and conductive contact mapping table also can be user and edit and draw and be stored in electronic installation according to the annexation of the button of currently used extended keyboard 100 and conductive contact.
In the present embodiment, the button K being connected with all conductive contact C in this extended keyboard 100 is also an associated key simultaneously simultaneously.In the time that this extended keyboard 100 is fixed on this electronic installation 200, the position that makes to contact on multi-point touch panel 201 these all conductive contact C by pressing this associated key is all touched and produces touch signal.
This processing unit 202 is in the time receiving a spread signal, prompting user operates this associated key, and receive after those touch signals of this associated key generation of operation, determine the position of each touch point, thereby the position, touch point on this multi-point touch panel 201 and those conductive contacts C are mapped one by one, determine the corresponding relation of position, touch point and conductive contact C.Wherein, after this spread signal can be user this extended keyboard 100 is fixed on this electronic installation 200, produce by pressing a specific keys or passing through menu option.
In the present embodiment, those conductive contacts C is a line and is arranged in order, thereby the position, touch point after operative association button on multi-point touch panel 201 is also row to be arranged in order, and processing unit 202 is according to by corresponding with conductive contact C successively those definite positions, touch point.For example, those conductive contacts C is for arraying from left to right, and processing unit 202 is corresponding with those conductive contacts C successively from left to right by those definite positions, touch point.Processing unit 202, determining after the corresponding relation of position, touch point and conductive contact, is also expanded key area according to determined touch point location positioning one, and controls electronic installation 200 and enter an expansion button pattern.
Under this expansion button pattern, in the time that a button K is touched by user, unique corresponding at least one conductive contact connecting of this button conducts to multi-point touch panel 201 by this touch and makes at least one position, touch point on the multi-point touch panel 201 of conductive contact contact produce touch signal, this processing unit 202 receives after this at least one touch signal, determine position, touch point, and according to the corresponding relation of position, determined touch point and conductive contact C, determine the conductive contact C that those are touched by user.This processing unit 202 also determines according to button and conductive contact mapping table the button K that this is operated by user, and determining after the button K of this operation, carries out function corresponding to this button K.
In the present embodiment, this processing unit 202 is this expansion key area by the zone definitions of surrounding all touch points, and preferably, this expansion key area is identical with the region that extended keyboard 100 covers this multi-point touch panel 201.This processing unit 202 is also defined as viewing area by the non-expansion key area on multi-point touch panel 201, originally be presented at the displaying contents on whole multi-point touch panel 201 thereby adjust, and be presented in the non-key-press input region on this multi-point touch panel 201 with suitable size.As previously mentioned, the width in the region contacting with multi-point touch panel 201 due to this extended keyboard 100 is roughly the width of extended keyboard 100 a line keyboards, thereby, the area of the shared multi-point touch panel 201 in this key-press input region is very little, substantially can not affect the demonstration of the displaying contents of electronic installation 200.
Obviously, this extended keyboard 100 can be fixed on arbitrary limit of this electronic installation 200, and this processing unit 202 operates after this associated key prompting user, receives touch signal, and determines that the region of those positions, touch point of encirclement is key-press input region.Obviously, this electronic installation 200 also comprises other elements, such as audio playing unit, back light unit etc., due to the present invention improve irrelevant, therefore do not described.
Referring to Fig. 5, is the structural representation of button K in second embodiment of the invention, and in the present embodiment, this button K comprises conductive layer 301, wall 302 and some conducting strips 303.Wherein, the number of the conductive contact C that the quantity of the conducting strip 303 that described button K comprises is connected with this button K equates, the conductive contact C difference connection one by one that described some conducting strips 303 are connected with this button K.This wall 302 is between conductive layer 301 and conducting strip 303, and as shown in Figure 5 a, in the time that button K is not pressed, this wall 302 is by spaced apart to conductive layer 301 and those conducting strips 303.And as shown in Figure 5 b, in the time that button K is pressed, this conductive layer 301 pushes these walls 302 and contacts with those conducting strips 303, thereby realize the touch of the position on the corresponding multi-point touch panel 201 of conductive contact C that this button K is connected.Wherein, this wall 302 comprises some insulation grids.In this city embodiment, the operated concept of this button K is that button K is pressed down conductive layer 301 is contacted with some conducting strips 303.
Wherein, this electronic installation 200 can be the electronic installations such as mobile phone, panel computer, e-book, digital photo frame, digital camera.
Extended keyboard 100 of the present invention, the electronic installation 200 of applying this extended keyboard 100 and expanded keyboard system 1, the contact area of extended keyboard 100 and electronic installation 200 only accounts for the sub-fraction of electronic installation 200 multi-point touch panels 201, can not affect the demonstration of electronic installation 200.In addition, extended keyboard of the present invention is without keyboard chip etc., and press-key structure is simple and cost is lower.