TW201539292A - Input control system and method - Google Patents

Abstract

An input control method is applicable to a portable touch device, a host and an input device, comprising the following steps: the portable touch device displaying at least one virtual button and when the virtual button being triggered is detected, outputting a button code to the host; the host receiving the button code outputted by the portable touch device and transmitting a control instruction corresponding to the code to the input device; and the input device transmitting the control instruction corresponding to the code to the host.

Description

Input control system and method

The present invention relates to an input control system and method, and more particularly to an input control system and method for replacing a key function of a mechanical keyboard by a portable touch device.

The standard input device of the computer system includes a mechanical keyboard. The mechanical keyboard is known to have a plurality of physical buttons, and the physical buttons can be triggered by the user to generate different key codes for transmission to the host of the computer system. However, mechanical keyboards have the following disadvantages: the number of buttons is extremely large and the overall size is very large. In addition, all the key layout methods are very standard, fixed after leaving the factory, the buttons can not change the position depending on the situation, can not delete unused buttons, and can not add the buttons you want to use.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an input control system and method for replacing a key function of a mechanical keyboard with a portable touch device in conjunction with an input device.

Therefore, the input control system of the present invention is electrically connected to a host having an application and includes a portable touch device and an input device.

The portable touch device has a processor, a storage unit, a touch display and a communication unit. The processor is electrically connected to the storage unit, the touch display and the communication unit. The touch display provides a majority a virtual button and notifying the processor when each of the virtual buttons is triggered, the storage unit having a button code table corresponding to the plurality of key codes of the virtual buttons for the processor to obtain a corresponding when the virtual buttons are triggered The button code, the communication unit is electrically connected to the host and transmits the button code to the host.

The input device has an input controller, a memory unit and a transmission unit. The input controller is electrically connected to the memory unit and the transmission unit. The transmission unit is electrically connected to the host to receive the button code and notify the input control. The memory unit has a button control script for recording each of the button codes and corresponding control commands for the input controller to obtain a corresponding button according to the button code transmitted by the portable touch device. The control instruction of the code, and the control unit is transmitted through the transmission unit for the application of the host.

Preferably, the control command is a key operation command of the keyboard or a button operation command of the mouse.

Preferably, the input device is a mouse device or a keyboard device.

Preferably, the touch display displays an operation interface, and the operation interface can add or delete the virtual key to update the key code table.

The input control method of the present invention is applied to a portable touch device, a host and an input device, and the method comprises the following steps: (a) The portable touch device displays at least one virtual button, and when the virtual button is triggered, the portable touch device outputs a button code to the host according to the triggered virtual button according to a button code table; (b) After receiving the button code from the portable touch device, the host device transfers the button code to the input device; (c) the input device receives the button code from the host device, and outputs a corresponding control command according to the button code. The host; and (d) the host application takes the control command.

Preferably, the control command of the step (c) is a key action command of the keyboard that has been set or a button action command of the mouse.

The function of the input control system and method of the present invention is that the number of virtual keys can be flexibly expanded, the physical material cost is not increased when the number of virtual keys is expanded, and the keys that are not used can be deleted in the screen, and dynamically added when necessary. Compared with the existing mechanical keyboard, it is more space-saving and suitable for customization.

100, 200‧‧‧ input control system

1‧‧‧Portable touch device

10‧‧‧ processor

101‧‧‧Key code table

11‧‧‧ storage unit

12‧‧‧ touch display

13‧‧‧Communication unit

2‧‧‧Host

20‧‧‧Master controller

21‧‧‧recording unit

211‧‧‧Application

22‧‧‧Communication interface

23‧‧‧Transport interface

3, 3'‧‧‧ input device

30‧‧‧Input controller

31‧‧‧ memory unit

311‧‧‧Key Control Script

32‧‧‧Transmission unit

4‧‧‧Mouse unit

5‧‧‧Key unit

41~43‧‧‧ operation interface

S30~S34‧‧‧Steps

S500~S503‧‧‧Steps

S510~S513‧‧‧Steps

S520~S522‧‧‧Steps

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the embodiments of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a system block diagram illustrating a first preferred embodiment of the input control system of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a The system block diagram illustrates a second preferred embodiment of the input control system of the present invention; FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating the setting mode of the input control method of the present invention; and FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating the input control method of the present invention at the time of setting Operation interface Figure 5 is a flow chart showing a preferred embodiment of the input control method of the present invention.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it should be noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

Referring to FIG. 1 , in the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, the input control system 100 is electrically connected to a host 2 and includes a portable touch device 1 and an input device 3 . The input device 3 is a mouse device. .

The portable touch device 1 is coupled to the host 2, and has a processor 10, a storage unit 11, a touch display 12, and a communication unit 13. The touch display 12 displays at least one virtual button, for convenience of explanation. Take two virtual buttons as an example for explanation.

A key code table 101 is stored in the storage unit 11, and the key code table 101 records the key code of each virtual key. The key code is as shown in Table 1.

The host 2 has a main controller 20, a recording unit 21, a communication interface 22 and a transmission interface 23. The host 2 is a computer host in this embodiment, the main controller 20 is a microprocessor, the recording unit 21 has an application 211, the application 211 is a game software, and the game software can be configured. The control command received by the mouse or the keyboard input generates a corresponding action, and the other embodiment host 2 may be a game control host, as long as it can cooperate with the control command to receive the mouse or keyboard input to generate a corresponding action. The electronic devices are all within the scope of application of the present invention.

The input device 3 is electrically connected to the host 2, and has an input controller 30, a memory unit 31, a transmission unit 32 and a mouse unit 4. The mouse unit 4 can be a machine for outputting a displacement amount representing a computer index. Mouse structure or an optical mouse structure. The transmission unit 32 is configured to be pluggably and electrically connected to the transmission interface 23 of the host 2, whereby the host 2 and the input device 3 can transmit data in both directions. The memory unit 31 has a button control script 311, and the button control script 311 records control commands corresponding to the respective button codes, as shown in Table 2.

The control command is a set input behavior, such as: a keyboard key action or a mouse button action, the keyboard/mouse button action is a single key code corresponding to the physical keyboard, or may correspond to a physical keyboard. A composite code composed of a combination of keys belongs to the scope of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the second embodiment of the present invention, most of the components of the input control system 200 are the same as those of the first embodiment, except that the mouse unit 4 of the input device 3 of FIG. 1 is in the input device of FIG. 3' is The replacement of a keyboard unit 5, i.e., the input device 3' of the input control system 200, is a keyboard device and is also within the scope of the application of the present invention.

The setting method of the input control method of the present invention cooperates with the portable touch device 1, the host 2 and the input device 3 of FIG. 2 to be electrically connected, and is explained as follows.

Referring to FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, the portable touch device 1 displays an operation interface 41 (step S30). When starting to use, the operation interface 41 requires the user to input the required number of buttons (step S31), which is assumed to be used herein. The number of the input demand buttons is two; then, the operation interface 43 of the portable touch device 1 generates a corresponding number of virtual buttons and the assigned button code (step S32), that is, the virtual button #1 and the virtual button #2 are generated. And the corresponding key codes corresponding to the virtual button #1 and the virtual button #2, respectively, the key code can be selected by the user in an option manner. In this example, it is assumed that the user selects "A" and "B", after determining, The virtual key and the corresponding key code are recorded in the key code table 101 of the portable touch device 1, and the input device 3 is notified to update the key control script 311 according to each key code (step S33). In this embodiment, the input device is The button control script 311 of 3 has previously established the correspondence between each button code and the corresponding control command. Therefore, the portable touch device 1 only needs to transmit the set button code to the input device 3 through the host 2, and then the input device 3 Enable control command corresponding to a good key code according to the setting. Then, the operation interface 43 of the portable touch device 1 displays the virtual button that has been set (step S34).

The operation interface 43 has a function of "adding a button" and a "deleting button", so that the user can increase the "add button" Virtual button, or delete the virtual button by "delete button". Therefore, the portable touch device 1 can accept the content of the button code, and the input information of the touch position of each virtual button and the corresponding relationship of each button code, and add or delete the input data. The reduced input data is updated with the key code table 101, and when the setting is completed, the actual operation can be performed.

Referring to FIG. 5, in actual operation, the portable touch device 1 is connected to the host 2 (step S500), and displays a plurality of virtual buttons (step S501) to detect whether a virtual button is triggered (step S502). When it is detected that the virtual button is triggered, the button code corresponding to the virtual button is output according to the button code table 101 (step S503) to the host 2.

At the same time, the host 2 is connected to the portable touch device 1 and the input device 3 (step S510), and the host 2 detects whether the button code is received (step S511). If the button code outputted in step S52 is received, the button is transferred. The code is supplied to the input device 3 (step S512).

At the same time, the input device 3 is connected to the host 2 (step S520), and the input device 3 detects whether the button code is received (step S521). If the button code outputted in step S512 is received, the corresponding button code is output according to the button control script 311. The control command (step S522) is sent to the host 2, and the host 2 receives the control command (step S513). In this way, the host 2 can execute the set input behavior in the application 211 corresponding to the control command, for example, the keystroke of the keyboard. Or the mouse button action allows the user to simulate the input behavior of a mechanical keyboard/mouse button without using a mechanical keyboard.

In summary, the effect of the present invention lies in: an input control system 100, 200 can flexibly expand the number of virtual buttons, increase the number of virtual buttons without increasing the cost of physical materials, and the buttons that can not be used can be deleted in the screen, and dynamically added when needed, compared to the existing mechanical keyboard It is more space-saving and suitable for customization, so it can indeed achieve the object of the present invention.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the patent application scope and patent specification content of the present invention, All remain within the scope of the invention patent.

100‧‧‧Input Control System

1‧‧‧Portable touch device

10‧‧‧ processor

101‧‧‧Key code table

11‧‧‧ storage unit

12‧‧‧ touch display

13‧‧‧Communication unit

2‧‧‧Host

20‧‧‧Master controller

21‧‧‧recording unit

211‧‧‧Application

22‧‧‧Communication interface

23‧‧‧Transport interface

3‧‧‧Input device

30‧‧‧Input controller

31‧‧‧ memory unit

311‧‧‧Key Control Script

32‧‧‧Transmission unit

4‧‧‧Mouse unit

Claims (7)

An input control system is electrically connected to a host having an application, comprising: a portable touch device having a processor, a storage unit, a touch display and a communication unit, the processor is electrically Connecting the storage unit, the touch display and the communication unit, the touch display provides a plurality of virtual keys and notifies the processor when the virtual keys are triggered, the storage unit having a plurality of key codes corresponding to the virtual keys a key code table for the processor to obtain a corresponding key code when the virtual key is triggered, the communication unit is electrically connected to the host and transmits the key code to the host; and an input device has an input control a memory unit and a transmission unit, the input controller is electrically connected to the memory unit and the transmission unit, the transmission unit is electrically connected to the host to receive the button code and notify the input controller, the memory unit has a Recording a button control script for each of the button codes and their corresponding control commands for the input controller to follow the portability Touch device key code transmitted control command should acquire the key code of the key in the control script, and the host of the application for access via the transmission unit transmits the control command. The input control system of claim 1, wherein the control command is a key action command of a keyboard that has been set or a button action command of a mouse. The input control system of claim 2, wherein the input device is a mouse device or a keyboard device. The input control system of claim 3, wherein the touch display An operation interface is displayed, and the operation interface can be used to add or delete the virtual key to update the key code table. The input control system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the control command is a set input action, including a button action representing a keyboard or a button action representing a mouse, each of the buttons The action is a single key code corresponding to the physical keyboard, or a composite code corresponding to a plurality of key combinations of the physical keyboard. An input control method is applied to a portable touch device, a host, and an input device. The method includes the following steps: (a) the portable touch device displays at least one virtual button, and when the virtual button When triggered, the portable touch device outputs a button code to the host according to the triggered virtual button according to a button code table; (b) after the host receives the button code from the portable touch device, Transferring to the input device; (c) after receiving the button code from the host, the input device outputs a corresponding control command to the host according to the button code; and (d) the host application accesses the control command . The input control method according to claim 6, wherein the control command of the step (c) is a key operation command of the keyboard or a button operation command of the mouse.