CN101604203A - Handheld electronic product and control method for automatically switching operation modes - Google Patents

Abstract

A hand-held electronic product capable of automatically switching operation modes comprises a control module, a mouse module and an angle detection module, wherein the mouse module is used for operating on a plane to output a mouse signal, and the angle detection module is used for detecting the angle change of the hand-held electronic product and the plane to output a detection signal; the control module is used for switching to a mouse mode when judging that the angle represented by the detection signal is horizontal, otherwise switching to a non-mouse mode, controlling the output of the mouse signal if the angle represented by the detection signal is horizontal, and not outputting the mouse signal if the angle represented by the detection signal is not horizontal.

Description

Handheld electronic product and control method for automatically switching operation modes

technical field

The invention relates to a hand-held electronic product and its control method, in particular to a hand-held electronic product and its control method for automatically switching operation modes.

Background technique

It is known that there are electronic products combining remote control function and mouse function on the market, there are also electronic products combining phone function and mouse function, and smart phones that combine more functions are also very popular at present, but how to switch between different operating modes At present, either hardware keys are used to switch, or software is used to provide options representing different functions on the screen for the user to select.

Take an electronic product that combines a phone function and a mouse function as an example. When a user uses an electronic product in mouse mode, if a phone call comes in, the user must press a button or select an option on the screen to respond. Switching to the phone mode to answer a call, in the process, the user may touch the button by mistake due to flustered hands, or it may take a while to find the option, which is quite inconvenient for the user.

In terms of existing automatic switching technology, for example, the Taiwan Invention No. 94131702 application uses the accelerometer to detect the change of the external force of the electronic device to switch the power mode, but it is impossible to switch the corresponding operation mode according to the specific angle of the electronic product when it is in use. .

Contents of the invention

Because electronic products have specific angles when they are used, for example, when operating a mouse, they only move on a horizontal plane, and when using a mobile phone, the body is usually placed upright (not on a horizontal plane) close to the ear to listen, so the above-mentioned angle differences can be used as electronic products. The basis for judging the automatic switching operation mode.

Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide a hand-held electronic product and a control method that can automatically switch operation modes according to the angle state of the electronic product during use.

Therefore, the handheld electronic product for automatically switching operation modes of the present invention includes a control module, a mouse module for operating on a plane to output a mouse signal, and a mouse module for detecting whether the handheld electronic product is connected to a horizontal plane. The angle detection module outputs a detection signal when the angle changes.

The control module is used to switch to a mouse mode when judging that the angle indicated by the detection signal is horizontal, otherwise switch to a non-mouse mode, if it is the mouse mode, control the output of the mouse signal, and if it is the non-mouse mode, it will not Output this mouse signal.

Preferably, the aforementioned handheld electronic product can be a computer peripheral device used in conjunction with a computer, and the computer peripheral device is used to output the mouse signal in the mouse mode and output the voice signal to the computer in the non-mouse mode .

The control method for automatically switching the operation mode of the handheld electronic product of the present invention includes the following steps: (a) detecting the angle change between the handheld electronic product and the horizontal plane to output a detection signal; and (b) judging the detection signal Switch to a mouse mode when the indicated angle is horizontal, otherwise switch to a non-mouse mode, control output of a mouse signal if in the mouse mode, and not output the mouse signal in the non-mouse mode.

The hand-held electronic product and control method for automatically switching operation modes of the present invention, the switching principle is based on the fact that the hand-held electronic product has different angle changes in different operation modes, so by detecting the angle change between the hand-held electronic product and the horizontal plane Automatically switch between different operation modes, because it is an automatic switch, its effect is that it can save the time for the user to manually switch, and make the user more convenient in use.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a system block diagram, illustrates that the preferred embodiment of the hand-held electronic product of the present invention that automatically switches operation modes is a computer peripheral device;

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating that the computer peripheral device is a mouse that can be operated on a plane;

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating that the computer peripheral device can be used as a remote controller;

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating that the computer peripheral device can be used as a network phone;

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating that another application of the computer peripheral device is used as a mobile phone;

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating that the left button and the right button of the peripheral device of the computer respectively represent a left mouse button and a right mouse button when used as a mouse, and respectively represent an answer button and a hang up button in the talking mode; and

FIG. 7 is a flow chart illustrating the steps of the control method for automatically switching the operation mode of the handheld electronic product of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The foregoing and other technical contents, features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the following detailed description of preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1, in the preferred embodiment of the hand-held electronic product of the present invention that automatically switches operation modes, the hand-held electronic product is a computer peripheral device 1 for use with a computer 2, and the computer peripheral device 1 includes a wireless Transmission module 13 , a control module 10 , an angle detection module 11 , a mouse module 12 , a power supply module 14 , a communication module 15 and a keypad 16 .

Wherein, the wireless transmission module 13 can be a bluetooth interface, which is used as a wireless signal transmission communication interface with the computer 2, and other transmission technologies similar to the wired interface/wireless interface are also available, which are not listed here.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , the mouse module 12 is an optical mouse component operated on a horizontal plane, and has an X-Y coordinate sensing unit 120 , a left button 121 , a right button 122 and a scroll wheel 123 .

In terms of mouse function, the X-Y coordinate sensing unit 120 is an optical coordinate sensing component, which is used to generate an incident light and measure a mouse signal 105 with X-Y coordinates through the reflected light of the incident light on the horizontal operating surface, Controlled by the control module 10 , the mouse signal 105 can be converted into a wireless transmission signal 103 and output to the computer 2 through the wireless transmission module 13 , so that a mouse pointer 21 is correspondingly generated on the screen of the computer 2 .

It should be noted that after the mouse module 12 leaves the horizontal operating surface, the mouse signal 105 output by the X-Y coordinate sensing unit 120 is also invalid due to the inability to obtain effective reflected light. Therefore, the control module 10 can also be based on whether the mouse signal 105 is Valid/invalid to determine whether to enter mouse mode.

1 and 3, when the computer peripheral device 1 is used as a remote control, the keypad 16 can be operated by the user to generate a trigger signal 106 to control the module 10, and when the control module 10 is in the remote control mode, the touch panel 16 A control instruction corresponding to the control signal 106 is encoded into a wireless transmission signal 103 through the wireless transmission module 13 and output to the computer 2 with the Bluetooth transmission function.

The computer 2 can decode the control command after receiving the wireless transmission signal 103, and control the play, pause or fast forward function of an audio-visual playback interface 22 installed on the computer 2 according to the control command.

As shown in Figures 1 and 4, the call module 15 has a voice processing unit 151, a microphone 152 and a speaker 153. When the computer peripheral device 1 is used as an Internet phone, the control module 10 needs to be in the call mode, and the microphone 152 can be used to receive the sound. And the speaker 153 plays the sound, and the voice signal is processed by the voice processing unit 151, and then the wireless transmission module 13 converts it into a wireless transmission signal 103 carrying voice data and outputs it to the computer 2.

The computer 2 can decode the voice data after receiving the wireless transmission signal 103, and provide the voice data to a network telephone interface 23 installed on the computer 2, such as a Skype software interface, so that the user can interface with the Skype software through the computer peripheral device 1 Built-in contacts for communication.

As shown in Figures 1 and 5, another application of the computer peripheral device 1 is to use it as a mobile phone, and the wireless transmission module 13 can be changed into a radio frequency interface 17 suitable for mobile phones and matched with related components as shown in Figure 1 Afterwards, when the control module 10 is in the call mode of the mobile phone, it can output a radio frequency signal carrying voice data to a wireless communication network 3, such as a mobile phone communication network, through the radio frequency interface 17 to communicate with the contact.

Referring to Fig. 6, the left button 121 and the right button 122 of the computer peripheral device 1, when used as a mouse, represent a left mouse button and a right mouse button respectively; key and a hang-up key; when used as a network phone, its keypad 16 can also cooperate with the telephone list of the network telephone interface 23, allowing the user to talk with the contact person on the selection telephone list with the control key of the keypad 16.

Referring to Fig. 1 again, the angle detection module 11 is a magnetic sensor (Magnetic sensor) or a gyroscope, for detecting the angle change between the computer peripheral device 1 and a horizontal plane and outputting a detection signal 101 to the control module 10 , and then the control module 10 can interpret the angle according to the detection signal 101 to determine which operation mode needs to be entered.

Referring to Fig. 7, the flow chart of the control method for automatically switching the operation mode of the handheld electronic product in the present invention is described as follows:

After the computer peripheral device 1 is turned on (step 301), the control module 10 judges the current angle of the computer peripheral device 1 according to the detection signal 101 (step 301). This preferred embodiment is divided into three sections, respectively within the angle of plus or minus five degrees of the horizontal plane (step 302), beyond the angle of plus or minus five degrees of the horizontal plane (step 303), and one hundred and eighty degrees to the horizontal plane Three cases of inversion (step 304).

In the first case, when the control module 10 judges that the horizontal plane is within the angle of plus or minus five degrees (step 302), it will then judge whether the signal generated by the mouse module 12 is valid (step 305)? If valid, enter mouse mode (step 306).

The second situation is that when the control module 10 judges that the angle exceeds plus or minus five degrees of the horizontal plane (step 303), it means that it is currently in the non-mouse mode, and it directly enters the voice communication mode (step 307), and then it will judge whether to switch to the remote control mode (step 308)? This switching action can be manually triggered by the user on the keypad 16 to switch preset buttons or software options. If it is judged that there is a switching action, then enter the remote control mode (step 309), otherwise maintain the voice communication mode (step 307).

The third situation is that the control module 10 judges that it is 180 degrees reversed with the horizontal plane (step 304)? Next, determine whether a predetermined time has passed (step 309)? If it exceeds the predetermined time, it directly enters into a power saving mode (step 310 ), and if it does not exceed the predetermined time, it continues to step 301 .

It should be noted that the setting of the above-mentioned angle value is not limited to the scope disclosed in this preferred embodiment, and the angle range can also be adjusted according to the actual situation, and the hardware or software design can also be used to allow the user to modify the applicable angle , and its adjustable range also belongs to the category covered by the concept of the present invention.

To sum up the above, the hand-held electronic product and control method for automatically switching operation modes of the present invention, the switching principle is based on the different angle changes of the hand-held electronic product in different operation modes, so by detecting the angle between the hand-held electronic product and the horizontal plane The angle changes to automatically switch between different operating modes. Since it is an automatic switch, its effect is to save the user's time for manual switching and make the user more convenient in use.

But the above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, when it cannot limit the scope of the present invention, that is, all simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the patent scope of the present invention and the content of the description of the invention are still the same. It belongs to the scope covered by the patent of the present invention.

Claims (13)

1. A handheld electronic product that automatically switches operation modes, comprising: a mouse module for operating on a plane to output a mouse signal; An angle detection module, used to detect the angle change between the handheld electronic product and a horizontal plane and output a detection signal; and A control module, used to switch to a mouse mode when judging that the angle indicated by the detection signal is horizontal, otherwise switch to a non-mouse mode, if it is the mouse mode, control the mouse signal output, if it is the non-mouse mode then This mouse signal is not output. 2. The handheld electronic product according to claim 1, further comprising a communication module for generating a voice signal, and switching to a communication mode when the control module judges that the non-mouse is the mouse, and if the The call mode controls the voice signal output. 3. The handheld electronic product according to claim 2, wherein the control module enters the talking mode when it determines that the detection signal is at a predetermined angle beyond the horizontal plane. 4. The handheld electronic product according to claim 2, further comprising two buttons, each of which represents a left mouse button and a right mouse button in the mouse mode, and each of which represents a mouse button in the call mode One answer key and one end key. 5. The handheld electronic product according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising a keypad for being triggered to generate a control command, and the control module can also switch to a remote control mode, the The control command is output to the computer. 6. The handheld electronic product according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the angle detection module is a geomagnetic sensor or a gyroscope. 7. The hand-held electronic product according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the control module judges that the hand-held electronic product is reversed at 180 degrees from the horizontal plane and exceeds a predetermined time , so that the handheld electronic product enters a power saving mode. 8. The handheld electronic product according to any one of claims 2 to 4, characterized in that it is a computer peripheral device used in conjunction with a computer, and the computer peripheral device also includes a wireless transmission module, the wireless The transmission module is used for transmitting the mouse signal or the voice signal to the computer. 9. The handheld electronic product according to any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein it is a mobile phone, and the mobile phone also includes a radio frequency interface, and the radio frequency interface is used to transmit the voice signal The communication network for the mobile phone. 10. A control method for automatically switching the operation mode of a handheld electronic product, comprising the following steps: (a) detecting the angle change between the handheld electronic product and the horizontal plane and outputting a detection signal; and (b) switch to a mouse mode when judging that the angle indicated by the detection signal is horizontal, otherwise switch to a non-mouse mode, if it is the mouse mode, then control the output of a mouse signal, if it is the non-mouse mode, then do not output the mouse signal. 11. The control method for automatically switching the operation mode of a handheld electronic product according to claim 10, wherein the step (b) is to switch to a call mode when judging that the angle indicated by the detection signal is not horizontal, and if For the talking mode, a voice signal output is controlled. 12. The control method for automatically switching operation modes of a handheld electronic product according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the handheld electronic product is also triggered to switch to a remote control mode. 13. The control method for automatically switching the operation mode of the handheld electronic product according to claim 10 or 11, further comprising the following steps: (c) After judging that the handheld electronic product is 180 degrees reversed from the horizontal plane for more than a predetermined time, the handheld electronic product enters a power-saving mode.

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