KR100795191B1 - Keyboard with mouse functions - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a keyboard including a mouse function and to a keyboard including a mouse function capable of moving the position of the mouse pointer only by moving the keyboard including the mouse function up and down and left and right without a separate mouse.

A keyboard including a mouse function according to the present invention can be separated and / or combined into a left hand and a right hand area, each area has a key for text input, and is integrated in the upper part of the upper part of the left and right hand areas. It is formed to have two buttons and a wheel having the function of the left and right buttons of the mouse, the light emitting part and the light receiving sensor for the operation of the mouse is located on the bottom of the keyboard having the function of the mouse, and the combination of the keyboard If it is detected that the separated keyboard is coupled by a sensor for detecting the presence or absence of a keyboard having a mouse function is configured to be charged by the other side.

Mouse, Keyboard, Detachable, Sensor

Description

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1 is a block diagram of a conventional general personal computer (PC).

2 is a block diagram of a conventional laptop keyboard.

3 is a perspective view of a keyboard including a mouse function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a bottom view of a keyboard including a mouse function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a perspective view of a keyboard including mouse functions according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a keyboard including a mouse function, and more particularly, to separate a keyboard into a left hand and a right hand region without having a separate mouse, and to move only one portion of the keyboard of the left and right hand regions from side to side or up and down. In addition, the present invention relates to a keyboard having a mouse function capable of moving a pointer to a desired position in place of a conventional mouse.

1 is a conventional general personal computer, a central processing unit, a main body in which various software, etc. are stored, and a monitor for outputting the data output from the main body on a screen so that a user can visually check the control of the main body. It consists of a keyboard and a mouse which are used as input means, for example, and operating.

When using a conventional computer with such a conventional keyboard and mouse separated, the user operates the keyboard with one hand and the mouse with the other hand to change the position of the pointer on the monitor screen or the keyboard using both hands. The operation of the mouse was stopped and the mouse was forced to operate.

Meanwhile, as another conventional technology, as shown in FIG. 2, a ball mouse is included in the upper right or other predetermined position of the keyboard, or a place for mounting the body of the small ball mouse is provided in the keyboard space. There is also a method for the user to operate the mouse using a finger or the like while the volume is mounted on the keyboard to reduce the volume.

However, the conventional method of using a mouse is not inconvenient when mainly using a mouse such as surfing the Internet or performing a task using only a keyboard such as a document work, but the computer operating system and software are diversified, and the keyboard and the mouse are operated simultaneously. Given that the usage environment is changing in the direction that should be used, in addition to the problem that the user should spend more time than necessary to operate the computer, the keyboard and the mouse independently occupy a certain space on the desk so that the user's office There was the inconvenience of narrowing the space.

And even when the mouse is integrally formed on the keyboard, only the fingers must be used for the operation of the mouse. Therefore, the method of using the mouse is inconvenient, and there is a problem that the work efficiency does not increase. It could not be used on a limited basis.

The present invention relates to a keyboard including a mouse function, an object of the present invention for solving the above problems is to configure the user to separate and / or combine the keyboard consisting of the existing one main body into the left hand and right hand area after the user Inserts the mouse's light-emitting and light-receiving parts into the bottom of the area where the mouse is mainly used, and makes two buttons in front of the separated keyboard to have the same function as the two buttons of the mouse, with a scroll wheel between them. By adding a mouse function to the keyboard.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to equip the keyboard including the mouse function with the existing commercially available wireless mouse function and to combine the keyboard equipped with a wireless mouse to the other keyboard side without the mouse function to charge and use, the disadvantages of the existing wireless mouse This is to solve the problem of periodic battery replacement.

In addition, an object of the present invention can be used by arranging the keyboard to be convenient for the user by separating the keyboard into the left hand and right hand area, and since the keyboard includes a mouse function, it does not take up a lot of space unnecessarily. It is to provide a keyboard to include.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a keyboard that can be separated and combined into a left hand region and a right hand region, and includes two buttons and a scroll wheel having a click button function of a mouse in front of one detachable region. The sensor unit of the mouse is provided on the bottom of one region on which the buttons and the scroll wheel are mounted, and the coupling portion for mechanical and electrical coupling between the two regions of the keyboard is provided on the right side of the left hand region keyboard and the left side of the right hand region keyboard.
The keyboard in the area where the buttons and the scroll wheel are not mounted in the left-hand keyboard and the right-hand keyboard is supplied with wires, and the keyboard in the area where the buttons and the scroll wheel are mounted on the other side has a built-in rechargeable battery. The battery for the optical mouse including the light emitting element and the light receiving sensor is charged with the power supplied by the wired power to the keyboard in the area where the buttons and scroll wheels are not mounted when mechanical and electrical coupling between the two areas of the keyboard. It is achieved by the keyboard which is a sensor part.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

3 is a perspective view of a keyboard including a mouse function according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 illustrates a case where the mouse is operated with the right hand for the purpose of explanation.

The keyboard of FIG. 3 is composed of a right keyboard that includes a mouse function, that is, a mouse function including part and a left keyboard that does not include a mouse function, that is, without mouse function. On the left side, the mouse function-free portion is arranged with the same keys as the general form, and on the right side is provided a coupling portion 4 consisting of a socket or a plug for mechanical and electrical coupling with the mouse function-containing portion.

The mouse function inclusion part on the right side is provided with a function key, a direction key, and a number key. On the left side, a coupling part 5 composed of a socket or a plug for mechanical and electrical coupling with the mouse function non-part is provided.

In addition, since the mouse function-free part is usually powered by a wire, the mouse function-containing part is provided with a rechargeable battery 6 to supply and charge power through the coupling part 5 when the two keyboards are combined. It is supposed to be.

A separate sensor (not shown) may be provided in the coupling unit to detect the coupling of each coupling unit.

As shown in FIG. 3, the configuration of the present invention divides the keyboard into a left keyboard (ie, without a mouse function) and a right keyboard (ie, including a mouse function), and on the front top where a key of a mouse function including part is located. Two buttons 1 and 3 functioning as buttons for a mouse and a wheel 2 performing scroll functions are located.

4 is a bottom view of a keyboard having a mouse function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A sensor unit 7 composed of a light emitting element 8 and a light receiving sensor 9 for the optical mouse operation is attached to the bottom of the mouse function including unit to change the position of the mouse pointer at the same time as the keyboard movement. In the case of a wheel mouse that is not an optical mouse, the sensor unit 7 may be configured as a wheel and a sensor for sensing the motion of the wheel.

The keyboard having the mouse function of the present invention can be used in a detached state and in a combined state, and when used in the detached state, it is preferable to combine and store the two keyboards after use for charging.

5 is a perspective view of a keyboard including mouse functions according to another embodiment of the present invention.

In the keyboard illustrated in FIG. 5, the separated regions of the mouse function-included part and the mouse function-included part are different from those in FIG. 3. Of course, in addition to the example illustrated in FIG. 5, the two keyboards may be separated based on an appropriate area according to the purpose of use.

In the keyboard of FIG. 5, the key functions of the mouse function include the modified right part arrangement of the conventional general computer keyboard keyboard as follows. That is, it is advantageous to reduce the size of the mouse function including part for smooth mouse operation. In this case, the arrangement of the keys may be modified as follows.

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In the above, although the present invention has been described through one embodiment of the present invention, the scope of the present invention is not limited to the described embodiment, and if the technical idea of the present invention is applied, all of them belong to the scope of the present invention. will be.

According to the present invention, a keyboard including a mouse function is used by separating the keyboard into a left hand area and a right hand area, and a keyboard including a mouse function has two buttons and a wheel having a mouse function on an upper side of a top of a keyboard key. According to the configuration of the position, to stop the operation of the keyboard to use the mouse during the operation without changing the inconvenience of using the mouse to move the keyboard and the position of the mouse pointer at the same time can increase the efficiency of the operation.

In addition, when the keyboard is not used separately, the mouse function-containing part may be charged by combining the mouse function-containing part and the mouse function-containing part, thereby solving the problem of periodically replacing the battery when using the conventional wireless mouse.

In addition, since the function of the mouse is included in the keyboard, a separate work space for the mouse is unnecessary, and thus the work space of the user can be widened as a whole.

Claims (7)

A keyboard that can be separated and combined into left and right hand zones. In front of one detachable area, there are two buttons and a scroll wheel with a click button function of a mouse, The sensor unit of the mouse is provided on the bottom of the region where the button and the scroll wheel are mounted. The right side of the left hand region keyboard and the left side of the right hand region keyboard is provided with a coupling for mechanical and electrical coupling between the two areas of the keyboard, The keyboard of the area in which the buttons and the scroll wheel of the left-hand keyboard and the right-hand keyboard are not mounted is supplied with wires, and the rechargeable battery is built in the keyboard of the other button and the scroll wheel. The rechargeable battery is charged by transferring power supplied in a wired manner to a keyboard in an area where buttons and a scroll wheel are not mounted when mechanical and electrical coupling between two keyboard areas is performed. The sensor unit is a keyboard, characterized in that the sensor unit for an optical mouse including a light emitting element and a light receiving sensor. delete delete The method of claim 1, One end of the coupling portion is composed of a plug, the other end of the keyboard characterized in that consisting of a socket. delete delete The method of claim 1, And the two buttons and the scroll wheel are located at the top of the front of the detachable area.

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