Input device
AssigneeKyung In Electronics Co., Ltd
InventorBum Seok Kim
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Abstract
Provided is an input device which allows a user to select desired contents more quickly and intuitively in selection of contents. The input device includes: a navigation key manipulated to select one direction among a plurality of directions; a touch unit which is manipulated by a user to input rotation while the user touches the touch unit with a portion of the body; and a control unit which controls movement on a user interface screen of a target device based on one or more direction inputs corresponding to the navigation key and a rotation input on the touch unit, wherein the navigation key and the touch unit are coupled with each other in a stacked structure.
Claims16
An input device comprising:
- a navigation key manipulated to select one direction among a plurality of directions;
- a touch unit which is manipulated by a user to input rotation while the user touches the touch unit with a portion of the user's body;
- and
- a control unit which controls movement on a user interface screen of a target device based on one or more direction inputs corresponding to the navigation key and a rotation input on the touch unit,
- wherein the navigation key and the touch unit are coupled with each other in a stacked structure, and
- a row movement or a column movement of media contents in a matrix structure on the user interface screen is controlled based on the direction selected by the navigation key, independently from the rotation input of the touch unit.
An input device comprising:
- a navigation key manipulated to select one direction among a plurality of directions;
- and
- a touch unit which is manipulated by a user to input rotation while the user touches the touch unit with a portion of the user's body,
- wherein the touch unit comprises:
- a touch PCB assembly which includes a plurality of channels patterned thereon to detect touch and rotation of a portion of the user's body;
- and
- a touch member stacked on an upper portion of the touch PCB assembly, wherein the touch PCB assembly is stored in a storage space of a covered body by a medium of the navigation key, and wherein the touch member is stored in the storage space on the upper portion of the touch PCB assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.