KR20120042799A

KR20120042799A - The bezel of the tablet pc software that is activated

Info

Publication number: KR20120042799A
Application number: KR1020120027514A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김태상
Original assignee: 김태상
Priority date: 2012-03-19
Filing date: 2012-03-19
Publication date: 2012-05-03

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area, and more specifically, to remove the bezel (border) area existing in the tablet PC tempered glass, and to use a wider screen as a pure screen up to the existing bezel area. The bezel is double-removed and configured by software, and the method of activating or deactivating the bezel is detected by a hardware sensor (described above) by a hand holding the tablet PC or by a terminal device. Can be controlled by the OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program, and by turning on the tablet PC that enables or disables the detected bezel among four bezels of up, down, left and right, the size of the actual touch screen and the entire terminal device Can be almost the same, the size of the entire terminal device is reduced while the size of the screen is the same Accordingly, the present invention provides a tablet PC terminal device capable of miniaturization or having the same overall size but minimizing a bezel area capable of maximizing a screen size.
To this end, the tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area includes a thin rectangular case with an open top, a main board and a battery installed inside the rectangular case, and an entire outer top surface of the rectangular case. Characterized by consisting of a touch screen having a screen magnified to. Here, the user's hand holding any one of four bezels of the upper, lower, left, and right sides of the touch screen unit is preferably detected, and at least one of the bezels is activated.

Description

The bezel of the Tablet PC software that is activated}

The present invention relates to a tablet PC type terminal device having a bezel activated by software, and more particularly, by removing or minimizing a bezel (screen border) that occupies the touch screen outside of the tablet PC. In addition to providing a wider screen by enlarging the pure screen, the size of the actual touch screen unit and the entire terminal device can be made almost the same, and the size of the screen can be reduced while reducing the size of the entire terminal device. The present invention relates to a tablet PC type terminal device having the same size, smaller size, or the same overall size, but having a minimum bezel area capable of maximizing a screen size.

The liquid crystal display device is one of the image display devices, and has recently been in the spotlight in the portable tablet PC market.

Here, the tablet PC is a portable liquid crystal display device, and refers to a thin tablet terminal device having a stylus pen or a touch screen function, and a general notebook computer is relatively large in size and expensive in price, whereas a tablet PC is The difference between the two products is that they are inexpensive, small in size and easy to carry.

The conventional tablet PC includes a thin rectangular case with an open top, a main board and a battery installed inside the rectangular case, a touch screen unit formed on an open upper surface of the rectangular case, and the touch screen. The four sides of the sub outside are masked (printed) inside the bezel (border). Thus, the conventional tablet PC has a bezel having a considerable width formed on the screen, that is, the touch screen, there is a limit to expand the screen.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to remove or minimize the bezel (screen border) occupying the outside of the touch screen of the tablet PC to the portion where the existing bezel part is formed purely. Not only can the screen be enlarged so that a wider screen can be used, but the size of the actual touch screen unit and the entire terminal device can be made almost the same. The present invention provides a tablet PC terminal device having a bezel that can be miniaturized or has the same size but has a software-activated bezel capable of maximizing a screen size.

Another object of the present invention is to hold any one of the four sides of the top, bottom, left, and right of the touch screen itself, or activate the bezel of any one of the user's hand through gestures or touch detection, and at the same time the screen is activated according to the set ratio. It refers to a tablet PC terminal device of a new concept which is displayed by being automatically shifted to the other side of the bezel part.

Another object of the present invention is to point to a tablet PC terminal device of a new concept that enables the user to freely activate and deactivate the bezel of the four sides of the touch screen itself by using a finger.

Tablet PC-type terminal device having a software-activated bezel according to the present invention for achieving the above object, a thin rectangular case with an open top, a motherboard and a battery installed inside the rectangular case and And characterized in that it has a touch screen extended to the outside of the entire upper surface of the rectangular case.

Here, the user's hand holding any one of the four sides of the touch screen unit up, down, left, and right, senses the user's hand, and any one bezel is activated. In addition, at least one of the four bezels of the upper, lower, left, and right sides of the touch screen unit may be activated at least one place or more through a user's hand gesture or touch sensing. In addition, the detection of the user's hand is preferably made by using a sensor installed in the device, or by an OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program for controlling the terminal device, the detection sensor is the outer edge of the touch screen and the inner edge of the rectangular case. It is preferably formed along or between the back or side of the case.

When the user makes a gesture or touch inward from one of four bezels up, down, left, and right using the user's hand, at least one bezel is activated and the screen is shifted and displayed according to a set ratio. When a finger or a gesture is touched outward from any one of four bezels up, down, left and right using the finger, the bezel is deactivated and the screen screen is automatically enlarged to full screen.

In addition, when the user holds the bezel of any one of the four bezels up, down, left, and right of the touch screen unit with one hand, when the user makes a gesture or touch inward from at least one of the remaining three bezels by using the opposite hand, the bezel Is preferably activated and shifted according to the set aspect ratio to display the screen.

In addition, when a gesture or a touch is made inward by using a user's finger at four corners of the rectangular touch screen unit, two adjacent bezels of the corresponding corner are activated, and the screen is automatically shifted according to the set aspect ratio. The display is shifted and is deactivated when a gesture or a touch is taken outward by using a user's hand.

In addition, the activated bezel portion is also activated with a function key, it is preferable that the function key can be freely moved along the four bezels, and can also be fixed (Fix) to the location of a particular bezel by the user.

In addition, simultaneously activating the four bezels of the touch screen unit may be performed by simultaneously pushing the index finger, the middle finger, and the index finger together in a predetermined specific area of the touch screen, or in the case of activating the upper and lower bezels simultaneously. In the attached state, it is pushed up simultaneously in the designated specific area of the touch screen part or simultaneously activated the left and right bezels of the touch screen part simultaneously by using the index finger + ring finger and by using a certain blank space between the index finger and the ring finger In the case of pushing up or deactivating four bezels at the same time, the four fingers are simultaneously moved in a specific area of the touch screen by a combination of thumb + index finger + middle finger + index finger + middle finger + middle finger. Swipe out or touch The method of activating or deactivating the bezel of each of the screen units may be performed by using any one finger in a specified specific area of the touch screen unit. The specific function using the number of fingers is to detect the area (width) to be touched and to detect how many fingers the user has touched. Accordingly, a command of the control program can be executed. .

As described above, according to the tablet PC terminal device according to the present invention, since the bezel (screen frame) occupying the outer portion of the touch screen can be removed or minimized, the existing bezel area can be used as a screen. The size of the actual touch screen unit and the entire terminal device can be almost the same, so that the size of the entire terminal device can be reduced while the size of the entire terminal device can be reduced, or the same size can be maintained while maintaining the same size. It can be produced to compose a large screen. When the bezel is removed, the tablet terminal device can be manufactured and used as a terminal device that can have a small size, light weight, and a large screen. The removed bezel is held at any one of the four sides of the touch screen unit up, down, left, and right, or at least one of the four bezels of the touch screen unit is activated by a gesture or a touch of a user's hand. It is automatically shifted and has an excellent effect that is easier to use.

1 is an exploded perspective view of a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the tablet PC terminal device is minimized bezel area according to the present invention.
3 is a front view of a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention.
4A to 4D are bezel operation state diagrams of the touch screen unit of the tablet PC terminal device according to activation and deactivation of the bezel area according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, the most preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily implement the present invention. .

1 is an exploded perspective view of a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention;

2 is a combined perspective view of a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a front view of a tablet PC terminal device having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention.

4A to 4D are diagrams illustrating bezel operation states of the touch screen unit of the tablet PC terminal device according to activation and deactivation of the bezel area according to the present invention.

Here, the tablet PC type terminal device 1 according to the present invention is generally larger than a mobile phone or a smart phone, smaller than a notebook, light and thin, and has a portable and large screen (approximately 7 inches or more). As a terminal and its product, there is a kind such as Apple's iPad or Samsung's Galaxy Tab. In the present invention, the terminal will be collectively referred to as a tablet PC type terminal device, and in the drawings, an iPad type will be shown.

As shown, the tablet PC terminal device 1 having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention is a thin rectangular case 10 having an open top and a main body installed inside the rectangular case 10. The board 20 and the battery 30, the touch screen unit 40 having a screen extended to the outside of the entire upper surface of the rectangular case 10, and the four edges of the touch screen unit 40 ( Bezel) is made of a large sensor to detect the user's hand holding any one of the (50).

The rectangular case 10 forms the body of the tablet PC terminal device 1 having a minimized bezel area according to the present invention, and the touch screen part 40 and the main board 20 made of tempered glass therein. And the battery 30 is installed in sequence.

Here, the main board 20 which becomes the heart of the terminal device together with the battery 30 when the touch screen unit 40 is lifted up when the tablet PC terminal device 1 having the bezel area minimized according to the present invention is disassembled. And so on.

Meanwhile, as described above, the touch screen unit 40 disposed on the top surface of the tablet PC terminal device 1 having a minimized bezel area is an LCD made of tempered glass and the rectangular case. It is a feature of the invention to have the screen extended to the outside of the entire open top of (10).

That is, the touch screen part 40 of the present invention does not have a bezel portion as in the prior art, or minimizes to provide a large screen by enlarging the pure screen to the existing bezel portion, or the overall size of the terminal device as in the prior art Can be manufactured as LCD (LCD) screen (the size of the actual touch screen and the entire terminal device are almost the same). In another aspect, the present invention provides a tablet PC terminal device having the same overall size but minimizing a bezel area capable of maximizing a screen size.

Here, although the touch screen unit 40 shows an example applied to the LCD, it can be a variety of touch screens used in the known OLED, electronic ink display, and the like.

The detection sensor 50 detects the user's hand holding the four edges of the touch screen unit 40, and as described in FIGS. 4A to 4D to be described later, the four sides of the touch screen unit 40 are described. It activates any, some or all of the edges (or bezels) and vice versa. The bezel of the touch screen unit is made according to a control function preset to a controller (not shown) of a device electrically connected to a sensing sensor that activates and deactivates at least one of the touch screen units.

At this time, when any one, some, or all of the bezels of the top, bottom, left, and right of the four touch screen portions are activated, soft keys such as a home key or a back key are also activated on the activated bezel portion. The key can be preset to rotate along the four active bezels or can be fixed to any one of the bezels.

On the other hand, the sensor 50 may be a known tactile sensor that directly detects the touch of the user's hand, a known gyroscope sensor (Gyroscope sensor), gravity sensor (G-Sensor), proximity sensor (Proximity Sensor), etc. In the present invention, by detecting this according to the proximity (gesture) or contact of the user's hand, if any one, part or all of the four edges of the touch screen part 40 can be activated, It is not limited.

In the example shown in FIG. 3, the position of the sensor 50 for detecting the touch of the user's hand may be formed along the outer edge of the touch screen 40 and the inner edge of the rectangular case, but on the opposite side of the user's thumb. It may be formed on the back or side of the rectangular case 10 that the finger is in contact, in the present invention, if the proximity (including a specific gesture) or the touch of the user's hand can be detected, the formation position is not limited.

In addition, instead of the hardware detection by the sensor 50 as described above, the user's specific gesture (action) by the OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program for controlling the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention Alternatively, the bezel of any one, some or all of the four edges may be activated by sensing the touch screen 40 held by the user's hand.

On the other hand, even when the user does not hold the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention by hand, the outer edge of the touch screen 40, that is, the detection sensor 50 in the state that the bezel is not activated Alternatively, at least one bezel may be activated according to a specific gesture (action) through an OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program controlling the terminal device 1 so that the entire touch screen 40 may be enlarged to a full screen. It may be. At this time, the aspect ratio (horizontal: vertical) of the screen is various, for example, 16:10, 16: 9, 4: 3, etc. can be freely set by the user or the control program in the OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program.

The operation of the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention having the configuration as described above will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 4A to 4D.

First, as shown in Figure 4a, it is an example of operating when the user does not hold the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention by hand.

In this case, the four bezels of the top, bottom, left and right are not in an activated state, and the entire touch screen 40 can be enlarged to a full screen and used widely. As shown in FIG. If you use the user's hand to make a gesture (or touch) inward from at least one of the four places (up, down, left, and right), the corresponding bezel is activated to set the aspect ratio of 16:10, 16: 9, or 4: 3. It will be shifted and displayed to fit the device.

Of course, when deactivating any bezel that is active, using the user's hand to take a gesture (or touch) outward in the direction of the arrow shown in FIG. 4A, the bezel is deactivated and the screen screen automatically becomes full screen ( full screen).

Here, the activation and deactivation of the bezel by the gesture (or touch) of the user's hand may be controlled by the OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software that can be controlled by hardware using the sensor 50 or the terminal device. Can be. This can be applied equally to all of Figs. 4b to 4d described below.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 4B, an example of a state in which the user grasps one of the four bezels (left side in the figure) of the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention with one hand directly up, down, left, and right is shown. Indicates.

In this case, the user's hand is held by one bezel (right direction from the arrow) is detected by the sensor 50 (also software instead of the sensor) of the bezel is activated, The touch screen unit 40 except for the bezel portion is shifted according to the set aspect ratio of 16:10, 16: 9, or 4: 3, and the screen is displayed.

Of course, when the bezel is deactivated, when the user releases his hand (left direction from the arrow), the bezel is deactivated and the screen screen is automatically changed to full screen.

Subsequently, as shown in FIG. 4C, the user moves the opposite hand in the state of FIG. 4B, that is, the user directly holds the bezel of one place with one hand of the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention. Gestures (or touches) inward from at least one of the three remaining bezels to enable the device to operate at a set 16:10, 16: 9, or 4: 3 aspect ratio. do.

Of course, when the activated bezel is deactivated, the user's hand may use a gesture (or touch) outward in the direction of the arrow.

In addition, FIG. 4D illustrates a case in which the user does not hold the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention as shown in FIG. 4A, or as shown in FIG. In the state of holding the at least one corner of the user's hand, that is, the thumb and the index finger at at least one corner of the four sides of the touch screen unit 40, the at least one bezel The corners of the two adjacent two bezels are activated to allow the device to operate in the set 16:10, 16: 9, or 4: 3 aspect ratio.

Of course, when the corner of the activated bezel is inactive, the user's thumb and index finger may be used to make a gesture (or touch) outward in the direction of the arrow.

Meanwhile, a method of implementing chess pieces capable of activating and deactivating four bezels of the touch screen unit 40 of the tablet PC terminal device 1 according to the present invention will be described below.

First, when the user's hand is divided into thumb, index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and finger, the index finger + middle finger and finger finger to simultaneously activate the four bezels of the touch screen part 40 of the touch screen part 40 It will be pushed up at the same time in a certain specified area.

Subsequently, when activating the bezels at the top and bottom of the touch screen unit 40 at the same time, it is to be pushed up simultaneously in the specified specific area of the touch screen unit 40 with the detection + stop.

Subsequently, simultaneously activating the left and right bezels of the touch screen unit 40 simultaneously using the index finger and the ring finger, and simultaneously pushing up in a designated specific area of the touch screen unit 40 using a constant space between the index finger and the ring finger.

In addition, when the four bezels of the touch screen unit 40 are simultaneously inactivated, the four fingers may be assigned to the touch screen unit 40 by a combination of thumb + index finger + middle finger + index finger + middle finger + middle finger. Swipe down in a specific area at the same time.

Of course, the method of activating or deactivating the bezel of each of the touch screen units 40 may be performed using any one finger in a specific specific area.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention only to illustrate the present invention, and various changes and modifications can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the gist and scope of the present invention. Of course, this is also within the scope of the present invention.

1: Tablet PC type terminal device with minimized bezel area according to the present invention
10: thin rectangular case 20: motherboard
30: battery
40. 40a, 40b, 40c: touch screen part 50: sensor

Claims

Thin rectangular case with an open top,
A motherboard and a battery installed inside the square case;
The bezel (border) does not exist or has a minimized bezel on four sides of the tempered glass located on the open upper surface of the rectangular case, and the tablet PC type terminal comprises a screen and a touch screen portion extended to the outside of the rectangular case. Device.

The method of claim 1,
Tablet PC type terminal device, characterized in that the bezel is activated by sensing the user's hand holding any one of the four sides of the top, bottom, left and right of the touch screen.

The method of claim 1,
Tablet PC type terminal device, characterized in that the bezel is activated by the user's hand gesture or touch sensing at any one of the four sides of the bezel of the touch screen.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
Tablet PC type terminal device characterized in that the detection of the user's hand is made by using a sensor installed in the device, or by an OS (OPERATING SYSTEM) software program that can drive the device.

The method of claim 4, wherein
The sensor is a tablet PC terminal device, characterized in that formed between the outer edge of the touch screen and the rectangular case, or formed on the back or side of the rectangular case.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
When a user makes a gesture or touch inward from any one of four bezels up, down, left, and right using the user's hand, at least one bezel is activated and shifted to match the set aspect ratio and the screen is displayed. When a gesture or a touch is made outwardly from any one of the four bezels of the touch screen by using the user's hand, the bezel is deactivated and the screen screen is automatically enlarged to the full screen. Tablet PC terminal device.

The method of claim 2,
When the user holds the bezel of any one of the four bezels up, down, left, and right of the touch screen part with one hand, the user moves the gesture or touch inward from at least one of the other three bezels using the opposite hand to activate the bezel. The tablet PC type terminal device, characterized in that the screen is displayed by being shifted (shifted) according to the set aspect ratio.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
When gestures or touches are made inwards using the user's fingers at four corners of the rectangular touch screen unit, two adjacent bezels of the corresponding corners are activated to shift the screen according to the set aspect ratio, and the screen is displayed. Tablet PC type terminal device, characterized in that deactivated by taking a gesture or touch outward using the user's hand.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
The activated bezel portion is also activated with a function key, the tablet PC type terminal, characterized in that not only can be freely moved along the four bezels that are activated, but also can be fixed to a specific bezel location by the user. Device.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
And simultaneously activating the four bezels of the touch screen unit itself by simultaneously pushing the index finger, the middle finger, and the index finger together in a specified specific area of the touch screen unit.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
And simultaneously activating the upper and lower bezels of the touch screen unit, wherein the tablet PC terminal device is pushed up simultaneously in a specified specific area of the touch screen unit while detecting and stopping.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
And simultaneously activating the left and right bezels of the touch screen unit, using the index finger and the ring finger, simultaneously pushing up in a specified specific area of the touch screen unit using a predetermined blank space between the index finger and the ring finger.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
In the case of simultaneously deactivating the four bezels of the touch screen unit, the four fingers are simultaneously swiped out of a specified specific area of the touch screen unit by a combination of thumb + index finger + middle finger and index finger + middle finger + middle finger. Tablet PC terminal device.

The method according to claim 2 or 3,
The method of activating or deactivating the bezel of each touch screen unit is a tablet PC terminal device, characterized in that made of any one finger in a specified specific area of the touch screen unit.