7939 results about "Key pressing" patented technology

The disclosure describes an overall system/method for text-input using a multimodal interface with a combination of speech recognition and text prediction. Specifically, an “always listening” mode for entering words is combined with a push-to-speak mode for entering symbols and phrases. In addition, these two modes are further combined with keypad based text prediction. Finally, the overall user-interface of the proposed system is designed such that it enhances existing standard text-input methods; thereby minimizing the behavior change for mobile users.

A security network for use in a building with an opening to be monitored for possible intrusion. The network includes an intrusion sensor monitoring the opening; an RFID transponder associated with the sensor; an RFID reader in wireless communication with the transponder; and a portable telephone handset having first keys activating conventional telephone capability and second keys activating interaction with the other security network components. The handset wirelessly communicates with the reader. The reader may take the form of a security cradle for the handset. Alternatively, the reader may take the form of a telephone console. The console has keys enabling a user to dial remote telephone numbers; circuitry adapted to receive wireless communications from the transponder; circuitry in wireless communication with the handset; circuitry in communication with an external network; and a processor executing program code enabling the handset to communicate with the external network via the telephone console.

A method and related apparatus for emergency calling in a touch screen mobile phone having a touch screen lock in an active state responds to a long press on the touch screen surface or a designated key and enables the mobile phone dialer to dial the emergency call number to establish an emergency call. A sequence of operational steps may be provided by instruction message which in response thereto deactivates the touch screen lock while establishing the emergency call.

An audio-feature analyzer automatically detects points of change in audio signals to be processed. A central processing unit (CPU) obtains point-of-change information indicating positions of the points of change in the audio signals, and the point-of-change information is recorded on a data storage device. The CPU identifies point-of-change information in accordance with an instruction input by a user via a key operation unit, and audio data corresponding to the point-of-change information identified is located so that processing such as playback of audio data to be processed can be started therefrom.

An insulin pump for use in conjunction with a mobile communication terminal capable of measuring a blood glucose level, and a network for transmitting control information for the insulin pump are disclosed. The insulin pump includes an external input port, an output port, memory, a key input unit, a control unit, and a motor driver. The external input port receives information on the amounts of insulin to be injected. The output port outputs information on the amounts of insulin injected. The memory stores the information on the amounts of insulin injected. The key input unit inputs the status of a user. The control unit extracts the information on the amounts of insulin to be injected from the memory. The motor drive operates a soft motor to supply insulin.

Multidirectional keys of a reduced keypad are used to disambiguate between multiple symbols associated with a single key. For example, pressing a key identifies a collection of two or more symbols associated with the key and subsequently rocking the key selects one of the two or more symbols as unambiguously identified by the user.

A personal interactive voice response system with a web-based interface allowing the user to specify treatment of incoming calls based on voice or touchtone responses provided by the calling party. A graphical user interface available over a computer network, such as the Internet, allows the user to personalize greetings that callers hear, as well as customizing treatment of callers based on the caller's response. The user may record an initial greeting or other messages, either over the telephone or over the Internet, so that the messages are played to callers in the user's voice. Additionally, the user may enter text, via a PC or wireless device connected to the Internet, that is played back for the caller, based on the caller's response, via text-to-speech conversion using voice extensible markup language technology. Resulting actions, such as call forwarding, distinctive ringing, or remote notification of the incoming call may also be included.

A keypad battery pack, a mobile terminal available for different keypad battery packs, and a method for changing a keypad of a mobile terminal by replacing a battery pack with a different battery pack are provided. The mobile terminal has a keypad formed on a battery pack as well as on a front surface of the mobile terminal, thereby expanding a keypad-placement area to a rear surface of the mobile terminal. As a result, keys of the keypad are arranged on both surfaces of the mobile terminal, and thus a key arrangement space has room for an additional key, thereby enabling easy adding of a key. Further, the keypads of the mobile terminal are arranged on the rear surface and the front surface according to functions of the keypads, thereby providing a keypad structure suitable for a mobile terminal having an additional function. Further, the mobile terminal may selectively mount a plurality of battery packs having different types and arrangements of keypads.

A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This method intuitively changes the mode based on a rotation of the device without requiring a complicated and unnecessary key input, and provides a more convenient and faster user interface.

A capacitive touchpad with physical key function comprises a soft flexible first conductive layer; a second conductive layer; and a soft flexible insulator layer disposed between the first and the second conductive layers. The insulator layer has at least a through hole for the first conductive layer to connect to the second conductive layer while the touchpad is pressed and cause the voltages on the first or the second conductive layers to change and thus to trigger a predetermined key function.

The invention comprises a hand-held device with multiple keys on its face ("face-keys") and with one or more buttons on its side ("side-buttons"). A user types a character (or invokes a function) by pressing one of the face-keys using a finger on the hand that is not holding the device while simultaneously holding in combinations of the side-buttons with fingers on the hand that is holding the device. Pressing a face-key without holding in any of the side-keys produces a given character (or function). Pressing the same face-key while simultaneously holding in a given combination of the side-keys can result in a different character (or function). The invention allows for faster typing of text on cell phone handsets and other hand-held devices.

A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely processing voice commands for controlling a television. A voice command is uttered by a user into a microphone contained in a remote control. The voice command is digitized, modulated, compressed, and wirelessly transmitted to a wireless receiver connected to a set-top box. The voice command is then transmitted to a cable head-end unit for voice and word recognition processing. Once the command function is determined, the function is transmitted back to the set-top box where the set-top box performs the command. The microphone is activated and deactivated by pressing and releasing a push-to-talk (PTT) switch. The PTT activates other functions by being turned, double-clicked and toggled up and down, left and right.

A portable communication apparatus equipped with up/down keys. The portable communication apparatus includes a main housing, a sliding housing adapted to slide to be opened and closed while continuously facing the main housing, a number of keys arranged in a predetermined position on the top surface of the main housing and adapted to be moved up to be exposed and moved down to be hidden, when the sliding housing is opened and closed, respectively, and an elastic body positioned below the keys to provide a force for moving them up.

The invention provides a method, a device and a terminal device for controlling a speech recognition function, can quickly and conveniently start the speech recognition function and is suitable for various touch operation type terminal devices. The method comprises the steps of detecting a touch signal from a touch displayer when the touch displayer is in a locking state; starting the speech recognition function when the touch signal shows that at least one touch point of the touch displayer is touched for at least two times within first preset time and the touch duration time for each time is shorter than or equal to second preset time; or starting the speech recognition function when the touch signal shows that at least one touch point of the touch displayer is touched and the touch duration time is longer than or equal to third preset time or shorter than or equal to fourth preset time. Accordingly, the speech recognition function can be quickly and conveniently started in the locking state through touch operation of the touch displayer of the terminal device, and the method and the device are not suitable for touch operation type terminal devices with no physical keys.

A protective cover or envelope for a keyboard array that prevents entry of contaminants such as water, foodstuffs, chemical compounds, including medical or pharmaceutical compositions in the form of fluids or solids, dust and the like into the interior of the keyboard assembly from the keypad top deck. A membrane of a resilient, substantially transparent, material, such as an elastomeric polyolefin, is used to form a one-piece cover that extends over the keyboard array and preferably at least a portion of the obverse face of the keyboard assembly and acts to drape or enshroud the keyboard assembly on its upper face or deck. Preferably the elastomeric cover is an envelope-like membrane structure of generally uniform thickness and is constructed in a shape that when stretched to receive the keyboard, it covers the top portion of the key array as well as extending at least partially down the side walls of the keyboard and is in proximate contact with the top deck of the keyboard assembly. The “touch” and “feel” of the individual keys is retained with the protective cover in its operative position, including keys of ordinary construction as well as those used with a Braille system of markings on the surfaces of the keys. As a consequence of its elastomeric properties, a single keyboard cover can be used with keyboards having different key patterns, e.g., different models from a single manufacturer or different keyboards from different manufacturers. The attractive economics and broad applicability achievable with the cover of the present invention also permits an individual user to retain a personal keyboard cover for a use with various keyboards.

The invention provides a set top box with a WIFI (Wireless Fidelity) module. The set top box comprises a set top box body, wherein an external USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface, a functional press key, a power supply indication lamp, a signal locking indication lamp and an SD (Secure Digital) card reader socket are arranged on a front panel of the set top box body, wherein heat dissipation holes are arranged in side plates of two ends of the set top box body; an output interface, a user interactive interface and a three-network fused interface are arranged on a rear terminal board of the set top box body; the set top box body is internally provided with a main control circuit; the main control circuit comprises a main chip, a WIFI module, a demodulator, a TS (Transport Stream) demultiplexing device, a multimedia decoder, a multimedia encoder, a flash memory, an inner memory and an input/output control circuit. According to the set top box disclosed by the invention, network transformation cost is saved and a plurality of networks are fused and accessed; meanwhile, a television program is played and Internet is accessed or three-screen interaction is realized; and after an intelligent terminal passes through WIFIAP (Wireless Fidelity Access Point) authentication in real time, the intelligent terminal can be subjected to intelligent interaction with the set top box; and the invention provides a more flexible and humanized operation manner for users.

A touch-sensitive depressible button with multiple depression thresholds is provided. When the button is depressed to a first depression threshold, the touch sensor can be switched from a low-power, non-sensing state to a sensing state. When the button is depressed to a second depression threshold, the touch sensor can sense the touch context and input can be generated based on the depression and the touch context. In this way, the touch-sensitive depressible button with multiple depression thresholds can facilitate timely switching of the touch sensor to a sensing state.

The invention discloses a method used for automatic switching of bluetooth connection devices by a first bluetooth device by triggering a keypress, a device and a system thereof; wherein, a connection device list is arranged in the first bluetooth device and comprises bluetooth addresses and corresponding connection priority of other bluetooth devices which support the connection with the first bluetooth device; when the keypress is triggered for the first time, the first bluetooth device is automatically connected with a second device with the highest connection priority according to the connection device list; when the keypress is triggered for the second time, the first bluetooth device automatically cuts off the connection with a second bluetooth device and then is automatically connected with a third bluetooth device with a second connection priority according to the connection device list.

In case where a key having a detection region (inner frame) in which user's instructions can be accepted is displayed according to a certain operation status of an apparatus, and in case where there is an invalid region in which the user's instruction is not detectable is adjacent to a key display region (outer frame) of the key, the detection region of the key is caused to be larger than the key display region by utilizing the invalid region. Moreover, the detection region is expanded/shrunk according to key arrangement and a number of keys to be displayed. With this, the detection region of the key is expanded/shrunk according to according to the key arrangement on the screen in a display-cum-operation device in which a display device and a coordinate input device are integrated.

The invention discloses a mobile terminal and a design method of an operation and control system thereof, the mobile terminal comprises a machine body and an embedded central processing unit, wherein a back surface touch panel is mounted on the back surface of the machine body, and three-state buttons are respectively mounted in lower middle positions on two sides of the machine body; and the embedded central processing unit is the embedded central processing unit equipped with the operation and control system including finger action semantic recognition, a virtual keyboard and an input method. The design method comprises the steps of designing the shape of the machine body, designing the finger action semantic recognition under the support of an algorithm of the operation and control system and designing the virtual keyboard and the input method in the operation and control system. The invention designs the back surface touch type mobile terminal with natural operation and control concept, thereby realizing the purposes of maximizing the liberation of a front surface touch screen, easily realizing operation and control, in particular to text input by single hand, improving the intelligent operation and control based on full combination of system software algorithm, software and hardware, leading the operation to cater for habitual thinking and natural reaction of a user, and being suitable for long-time use.

An active keyboard for handheld electronic devices which allows the user of the device to support the device and enter text and data while using only one hand. The device has a housing, a display, a processor, a memory, a selection device, and at least four keys. When the handheld device is gripped the keys underlay the tips of the user's fingers and the selection device underlays the user's thumb. The software outputs a grid design to the display showing several columns of values. The user highlights a set of four values using the selection device and those values are assigned to the keys. Pressing a key enters the values assigned to that key into the text area of the display or if the value represents a mode of operation, runs the program controlling that mode.

A user interface method for creating a multimedia message of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed in which menu fields for creating a multimedia message are displayed in one screen, and when inputting content for each menu field is completed, it is automatically switched to a multimedia message-creating screen in which a selecting bar is positioned at the next field. In addition, while a user is using a multimedia function, a current image can be switched to the multimedia message-creating screen according to a user's need. Thus, the number of user's key manipulations can be reduced in creating the multimedia message, thereby enhancing a user's convenience.

A keyboard comprising a plurality of transparent keys. In use, the keyboard is attached to a device such as a mobile device, to overlie a display screen of the device. One or more images displayed on the display screen are made visible to a user through the keys, which may be pressed by a user. User input is determined by identifying a pressed key, and the image or part thereof visible through the key when pressed.

An integrated light guide for use in an electronic device having a plurality of key buttons to allow a user to input signals in the device, the light guide having a plurality of domes used as touch areas of the key buttons and a plurality of light escapement areas disposed at the domes. When coupled to a light source, a portion of the light received by the light guide from the light source escapes from the light escapement areas to illuminate the key buttons. Preferably, each dome has one or more electrically conducting patches provided under the dome such that when a touch area is pushed by the user, these patches are caused to interact with an electronic circuit placed under the light guide for activating a key.

A display device, such as a liquid crystal display, can be integrated into each key of a keyboard, numeric keypad, or other keyed input device. The display device can display a symbol when it is active. For example, a “1” when pressing that key will input a “1” and a “!” when that key input a “!.” In addition to a display device, each key top can include a key cap, generally made of a transparent plastic so that the display can be seen. The key cap can be formed in the shape of a key and will generally be the portion of the input device that a user presses on to input information. A plurality of key caps can be combined to form a keyboard, numeric keypad, or other keyed input device. Throughout the rest of this application the term keyboard will generally be used in place of keyboard, numeric keypad, or other keyed device. In another embodiment a display device can be overlaid with a key cap skin to form a keyed input device, such as a keyboard. The display device can be a touch sensitive screen. Each key on the key cap skin can be pressed to input information displayed on the touch sensitive screen below. The key cap skin provides keys that are tactilely discernible without activating the keys. Individual keys can be located and distinguished from adjacent keys by touch.

A folding-type wireless handset has the usability of a folding-type portable apparatus and functions as an auxiliary portable apparatus of a portable apparatus having large horizontal and vertical dimensions, such as a PDA, using a short-distance communication means. The handset includes a handset body having a number of keys and a short-distance communication means; a handset folder having a display device; and a hinge device for rotatably connecting the handset body and the handset folder to each other. Dialing can be performed using the keys and bidirectional communication with a desired partner can be performed by transmitting and receiving signals between the body of a portable apparatus and the handset body using the short-distance communication means.

The invention discloses an intelligent electronic door lock, which consists of two parts, namely an external lock and an internal lock, and is characterized in that: an electronic key/intelligent card induction zone, a light-emitting diode (LED) lamp and a key zone are sequentially arranged on the external lock from top to bottom; the electronic key/intelligent card induction zone, the LED lamp, the key zone and an emergency external power supply jack are connected with a control device of the internal lock through data lines; the internal lock comprises an internal lock shell and a transmission device, a driving device and a control system which are arranged in the internal lock shell; the transmission device comprises a sliding groove, a limiting groove, a position induction block and abolt which are integrated, and a positioning hole, a shifting rod and an umbrella-shaped tooth which are integrated; the driving device comprises a motor fixed in the internal lock shell and a bevel gear arranged on an output shaft of the motor; and the control system comprises a printed circuit board (PCB), an inductor and set keys.

A touch-sensitive display surface having touch-capacitive and vibration sensors. This surface allows the user to rest their fingers on the keys of an onscreen keyboard and type as they would on a regular keyboard. As the user places their fingers on the touch screen, the system relocates the onscreen keyboard to the location where the fingers are resting. The touch sensors report the signal strength level of each key touched to a processor, but no keystroke is issued by the processor until a corresponding “tap” (i.e., vibration) is detected. When a tap is detected, the processor references the status of the touch capacitance sensors before, during, and/or immediately after the moment in time the tap occurred. The size, position, and orientation of the onscreen keyboard keys are dynamically set as determined by the user initiating a home-row definition event by resting their fingers momentarily on a virtual home-row.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for realizing prearranged operation at a specific area of the electronic equipment. The electronic equipment comprises a touch information collecting module and a display screen, wherein the touch information collecting module is provided with an input area which is divided into a first area and a second area; and the first area is coincident with the display screen; the specific area is the second area. The method comprises the following steps of receiving the touch information of a pointed object at the starting position in the specific area, judging the touch type corresponding to the touch information, and determining and executing the corresponding operation instruction according to the relationship between the prearranged touch type and the operation instruction. In the whole process, a user can only need to carry out gesticulation operation at any position in the specific area of the electronic equipment, so as to start the operation instruction corresponding to the gesticulation. The embodiment of the invention also discloses the electronic equipment and a handset; functional keystrokes does not need to be set in the specific area, as long as the corresponding gesticulation operations are carried out, the function of shortcut keys can be started correspondingly, and the operation flexibility of the user can be improved.

An electronic equipment which includes one or more keys that enable a user to control operation of the electronic equipment; call circuitry that enables the electronic equipment to establish a call with a called/calling device; and key lock circuitry which, upon detecting that the call circuitry has established a call, automatically disables at least one of the one or more keys.