CN103744514A - Foot keyboard - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a foot keyboard, and belongs to the technical field of peripheral devices of computers. The foot keyboard comprises a foot touchpad (1) and two special input shoes, a positioning area is arranged on the foot touchpad, a voice input on-off key and a page turning on-off key are arranged on the foot touchpad. The foot keyboard can meet requirements on accurate foot positioning, rapid character input and easiness in page turning; the foot keyboard is possible for people with upper limb disabilities to use the computers, and can serve as an entertainment device for ordinary people to use.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of pin input type computer hardware equipment, particularly a kind of pin keyboard that can realize the quick input of character.
Background technology
Finger is most important, the most widely used man-machine interaction instrument at present by formula keyboard and mouse input equipment, but it is only only applicable to finger input.Current pin input type computer hardware equipment is little, its modes that adopt the simulating keyboard of foot control cursor processed on display to select corresponding button more, this mode is inputted inconvenience, character input speed is slow, desirable input speed cannot be obtained, daily amusement and even normal requirements of one's work can not be met.Some existing pin is with being provided with multiple character keys above keyboard, but a large amount of characters to input to the amount of exercise that foot brings huge, the muscle of foot, shank and buttocks is easy to produce tired, is unsuitable for large-scale character input.Have, current pin needs actuation of keys to realize with the page-turning function of keyboard again, and in fact people are when surfing the web amusement, and page turning meeting makes user's foot need continuous button frequently, to user, has brought inconvenience.
And existing pin is with keyboard or do not have step locating area and rest region, user needs visual determination frequently to obtain the position of foot on keyboard.Position location and key area are distinguished not obvious, and easily mistake is pressed.And conventional hand input keyboard generally sets up small embossment to realize the location of finger on keyboard on F, J key, need not be visual with this user, just can each key of whole keyboard region be distributed and is clear in the heart.Such location structure is applied to pin with being obviously inappropriate on keyboard, and applicant proves in practice, sees through after shoes, and pin is responsive not to similar protuberance structure, and bulge-structure more easily makes step do not feel like oneself.
Therefore, provide a kind of and there is very fast input speed, can meet touch system demand and the high pin keyboard of user-friendliness, can make to adopt the individuals with disabilities of finger input to put into assertorically daily computer writing work, also embody the love of society to specific group simultaneously; And so a kind of equipment also can be used for ordinary people's amusement and recreation activity, social effect and potential economic benefit are all very great.
Summary of the invention
In order to solve the problems of the technologies described above, the invention provides a kind of pin keyboard that can input fast.
Object of the present invention is achieved through the following technical solutions:
A kind of pin keyboard, it comprises pin Trackpad and two special input footwear;
Wherein, at this pin, with comprising multiple touch-control keypads on Trackpad, the plurality of touch-control keypad at least comprises function key area, alphabetical keypad, numeric keypad, cursor control key district, combines keypad and comprise the symbol keypad of multiple symbolic keys;
The touching of stepping on of described function key area comprises F1-F12 key, tab, ctrl, shift, capslock, backspace, enter, del and alt key;
Described cursor control key district is for controlling the movement of cursor at display;
Described combination keypad comprises at least one key, and user can be by function user-defined multiple keys of other a keypad key in this at least one key, to reach to step on, touches the object that this Macintosh is equal to multiple keys described in touch-control simultaneously;
It is characterized in that, at described pin with being provided with phonetic entry on & off switch and page turning on & off switch on Trackpad; When stepping on tactile page turning on & off switch, external picture pick-up device is opened the eye movement identification to operator, with this, content showing is carried out to page turning; When stepping on, touch during phonetic entry on & off switch, external voice-input device is opened the typing to operator's voice, and by the speech recognition software in computer equipment main frame, the voice messaging of typing is carried out speech recognition and completed the input of character.
Wherein, at described pin with being provided with locating area on Trackpad, described locating area comprises respectively to being applied to left foot positioning area and the right crus of diaphragm positioning area for left and right both feet location and rest, for double-legged location, refer to, on described locating area, be provided with the effigurate location structure of tool, when user steps on to described locating area by these special input footwear, whether the existence of described detent mechanism can make foot sense of touch can perception correctly and exactly to step on and contact this locating area; For both feet, have a rest and refer to that this locating area does not have any key function;
Described pin is stepped on touching with being provided with many rows on Trackpad, and every row steps on touching and as the center of circle, is fan-shaped array take described locating area;
On every special input footwear, be provided with the effective district of multiple contacts and contact one or more in effective district and carry out selectively opened activator switch the plurality of; In the effective district of one or more contacts of special input footwear under state of activation, and if only if the effective district of contact that these special input footwear activate with on Trackpad, step on touching while contacting, this is stepped on touching and is just triggered.
Wherein, described cursor control key district comprises upper and lower, left and right four direction key; Or cursor Trackpad, trace ball or guide pole.
Wherein, the hardness of the described location structure on described locating area and/or roughness are obviously different from other region of described locating area.
The present invention can meet foot location, word input fast and page turning easily accurately simultaneously.Both for the touch system of character provides possibility, also can serve as a kind of amusement and recreation device for ordinary people simultaneously.
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Accompanying drawing 1 is the structural representation block diagram of the pin Trackpad of keyboard for pin of the present invention;
The corresponding relation of Reference numeral and parts in accompanying drawing.100 pin keyboards, Trackpad 1 for pin, voice-input device 2, picture pick-up device 3, locating area 4, left foot positioning area 5, right crus of diaphragm positioning area 6, phonetic entry on & off switch 7, page turning on & off switch 8.
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Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing 1, the present invention is made and being further described, so that superiority of the present invention is better embodied.
As shown in Figure 1, pin comprises Trackpad 1 for pin with keyboard 100, voice-input device 2, picture pick-up device 3 and two special input footwear (not shown)s, at described pin with being provided with locating area 4 on Trackpad 1, described locating area 4 comprises respectively to being applied to for left, right both feet location and left foot positioning area 5 and the right crus of diaphragm positioning area 6 of having a rest, for double-legged location, refer to, on described locating area, be provided with the effigurate location structure of tool, when user steps on to described locating area by these special input footwear, whether the existence of described detent mechanism can make foot sense of touch perception correctly and exactly step on and contact this locating area 4, for both feet, have a rest and refer to that this locating area 4 does not have any key function, described pin is stepped on touching with being provided with many rows on Trackpad 1, on every special input footwear, be provided with the effective district of multiple contacts and contact one or more in effective district and carry out selectively opened activator switch the plurality of, in the effective district of one or more contacts of special input footwear under state of activation, and if only if the effective district of contact that these special input footwear activate with on Trackpad (1), step on touching while contacting, this is stepped on touching and is just triggered.Wherein, within voice-input device (2), picture pick-up device (3) also can be not included in this pin use keyboard, that is, external outside this pin use keyboard (that is, the pin keyboard 100 in accompanying drawing 1 does not comprise picture pick-up device 3 and voice-input device 2).
Describedly for pin, on Trackpad (1), be provided with many rows and step on touching, every row step on touching linearly type arrange (as shown in Figure 1), or every row steps on touching, and to show greatly described locating area be that the center of circle is fan-shaped array.Key type can comprise one or more in digital input key, alphabetical enter key, F1-F12 key, capslock key, alt, shift, tab, ctrl, del, backspace key, major key drive number key, pageup, pagedown key, and even all.The number comprising can be set as required.For example, can be at this pin with multiple touch-control keypads are set on Trackpad, the plurality of touch-control keypad at least comprises function key area, alphabetical keypad, numeric keypad, cursor control key district, combines keypad and comprise the symbol keypad of multiple symbolic keys; The touching of stepping on of described function key area comprises F1-F12 key, tab, ctrl, shift, capslock, backspace, enter, del and alt key.Cursor control key district wherein comprises upper and lower, left and right four direction key; Or cursor Trackpad, trace ball or guide pole.These opertaing devices can be expediently for cursor control.
For user, pin is necessary with having effective locating area on keyboard, only in this way could improve input efficiency largelyr.For this reason,
Wherein, the material of described the above location structure of locating area is obviously different from described pin with other region outside location structure on keyboard in hardness and/or roughness.Further, detent mechanism can also be the form of pit in shape.Certainly, the more preferably combination of pit shape structure and hardness and/or the obvious different materials of roughness.Operator's foot step on by the location structure of this set form, obtain sense of touch, be similar to raised marking on F, the J key in common keyboard to operator's prompting.What deserves to be explained is, for pointing thoughts and feelings and dressing the technological essence of the foot thoughts and feelings that has shoes and the technological means of realization is obviously different, the form that arranges that in practice, common keyboard is set to small embossment is converted to pin with on keyboard and inapplicable, on the one hand bulge-structure is not easy to be identified by pin, though the while for pin identify but be also difficult to judge step on by foot accurate towards whether.So, more preferably (shape of left and right pin location structure and the shape of left and right pin match to be set to the pit form detent mechanism that matches with the heel portion structure of inputting footwear, the shape that causes two kinds of pit is different and can be identified by foot), and the material that this location structure employing surfaceness or hardness are obviously different from peripheral region is made.Like this, when pin moves in detent mechanism region, user steps on and touches comfortable and can accurately realize location.Particularly, only there is a pin to step on to contact this region and also can realize accurate location.This is the location technology that is obviously different from convex type on common computer keyboard, whether the technology of convex type cannot be touched and accurately be known correctly and step on and (for example contact corresponding locating area by stepping on of a pin, a finger is pressed on the F or J key of common keyboard, is without any dividing other in sense of touch).
For, the key on Trackpad 1, the mechanical key that it might not refer to similar common hand input mechanical keyboard, also can refer to any button of touch-control form.
For voice-input device (2), it can be any equipment that comprises microphone; For picture pick-up device (3), it can be anyly can send the equipment of page turning order by image mode perception human body, for example, can be that the common motion of passing through sensing eyeball carrys out perception human body and sends the equipment of page turning order.Preferably, external parts as this pin with keyboard 100, speech ciphering equipment and picture pick-up device communicate with Trackpad 1 and computer equipment by wireless mode and pin, for example, when display device demonstrates the phonetic characters parsing, pin can be controlled selection and the confirmation of the phonetic characters parsing with the button on Trackpad 1; The unlatching of picture pick-up device 3 can be by the page turning on & off switch 8 on this pin use Trackpad 1 with wireless mode control opening and closing.
For pin, with for Trackpad 1, it can be board-like, cushion or blanket formula, and its size can be set according to actual needs.While only needing to meet phonetic entry, can not establish too much enter key, and only set up the most basic button.
Basic version, except comprising phonetic entry on & off switch 7 and page turning on & off switch (8), can also comprise F1-F12, Tab, ctrl, the del of common computer, the keys such as space, backspace, but do not comprise conventional character keys (function of these keys can realize by phonetic entry).
Advanced Edition, except comprising phonetic entry on & off switch (7) and page turning on & off switch (8), also comprise F1-F12, Tab, ctrl, the del of common computer, the key such as space, backspace, can also comprise conventional character keys (certainly, the function of these keys can also realize by phonetic entry simultaneously).
Amusement version can also this pin be set to be similar to the form of DDR with touch pad, by match input speed, to user, obtain amusement sense.
In addition, on conversion input footwear, has the effective district of multiple contacts, this is for example conducive to, according to own physical feature (can only single pin operation) and independently certain effective district of one or more touch-control of activation of hobby for user.Preferably, be provided with four effective districts of touch-control in the bottom of these conversion footwear, effectively the area in district is unsuitable excessive, and less area is conducive to the overall dimension of supervisory keyboard.Preferably, the effective district of the contact of heel portion is best, uses the effective district of this contact, the more difficult fatigue of user.
Although described embodiments of the present invention above in detail, in the situation that not departing from spirit of the present invention or inner characteristic, the present invention can also embody by other form.Therefore, above description is only used to explanation, rather than in order to limit.Protection scope of the present invention should be limited by the above description in claims rather than instructions.Within all equivalence transformations in claim implication all should fall into protection scope of the present invention.
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1. a keyboard for pin (100), it comprises Trackpad for pin (1) and two special input footwear;
Wherein, at this pin, with comprising multiple touch-control keypads on Trackpad, the plurality of touch-control keypad at least comprises function key area, alphabetical keypad, numeric keypad, cursor control key district, combines keypad and comprise the symbol keypad of multiple symbolic keys;
The touching of stepping on of described function key area comprises F1-F12 key, tab, ctrl, shift, capslock, backspace, enter, del and alt key;
Described cursor control key district is for controlling the movement of cursor at display;
Described combination keypad comprises at least one key, and user can be by function user-defined multiple keys of other a keypad key in this at least one key, to reach to step on, touches the object that this Macintosh is equal to multiple keys described in touch-control simultaneously;
It is characterized in that, at described phonetic entry on & off switch (7) and the page turning on & off switch (8) of being provided with on Trackpad (1) for pin; When stepping on tactile page turning on & off switch (8), external picture pick-up device (3) is opened the eye movement identification to operator, with this, content showing is carried out to page turning; When stepping on, touch during phonetic entry on & off switch (7), external voice-input device (2) is opened the typing to operator's voice, and by the speech recognition software in computer equipment main frame, the voice messaging of typing is carried out speech recognition and completed the input of character.
2. keyboard (100) for pin according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, at the described locating area (4) that is provided with on Trackpad (1) for pin, described locating area (4) comprises respectively to being applied to for left, right both feet location and left foot positioning area (5) and the right crus of diaphragm positioning area (6) of having a rest, for double-legged location, refer to, on described locating area, be provided with the effigurate location structure of tool, when user steps on to described locating area by these special input footwear, whether the existence of described detent mechanism can make foot sense of touch perception correctly and exactly step on and contact this locating area (4), for both feet, have a rest and refer to that this locating area (4) does not have any key function,
Describedly for pin, on Trackpad (1), be provided with many rows and step on touching, every row steps on touching and as the center of circle, is fan-shaped array take described locating area;
On every special input footwear, be provided with the effective district of multiple contacts and contact one or more in effective district and carry out selectively opened activator switch the plurality of; In the effective district of one or more contacts of special input footwear under state of activation, and if only if the effective district of contact that these special input footwear activate with on Trackpad (1), step on touching while contacting, this is stepped on touching and is just triggered.
3. keyboard (100) for pin according to claim 2, is characterized in that, described cursor control key district comprises upper and lower, left and right four direction key; Or cursor Trackpad, trace ball or guide pole.
4. keyboard (100) for pin according to claim 2, is characterized in that, the hardness of the described location structure on described locating area and/or roughness are obviously different from other region of described locating area.
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