HTC patents STYLUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE

Abstract:
An electronic device including a device body and a stylus is provided. The device body has a capacitive touch panel. The stylus has a handle and a head. The head is magnetic. The capacitive touch panel is controlled by the stylus through magnetism of the head.

Description
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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

[0001]This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application serial no. 96151019, filed Dec. 28, 2007. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of this specification.

BACKGROUND

[0002]1. Field of the Invention

[0003]The present application generally relates to a stylus and an electronic device using the stylus, in particular, to a stylus with a magnetic head and an electronic device using the stylus.

[0004]2. Description of Related Art

[0005]With the rapid development of technology, most manufacturers of electronic devices such as notebook computers, mobile phones, or portable multimedia players start to use touch panels to replace conventional keyboards to serve as input interfaces of a new generation. Particularly, the current touch panels are generally classified into capacitive touch panels and resistive touch panels. Taking iPhone available from Apple Inc. as an example, the iPhone uses a capacitive touch panel as the input interface, and a user can input words or select a certain option on a menu merely through a finger.

[0006]However, in order to cater to the user's operation mode of using a finger, icons displayed on a screen must be configured in an appropriate size to prevent the user from miss touching the icons. Furthermore, a part of the screen is often shielded by finger of the user when the capacitive touch panel is used. Moreover, a conventional stylus has a small head, so that a user can click small icons conveniently, but the conventional stylus is only applicable to resistive touch panels, but not applicable to capacitive touch panels.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0007]Accordingly, the present application is directed to a stylus for operating a capacitive touch panel.

[0008]The present application is also directed to an electronic device, which uses a stylus to operate a capacitive touch panel.

[0009]The present application provides a stylus, which is adapted to control a capacitive touch panel. The stylus has a handle and a head. The head is magnetic.

[0010]The present application provides an electronic device, which includes a device body and a stylus. The device body has a capacitive touch panel. The stylus has a handle and a head. The head is magnetic. The stylus is used for controlling the capacitive touch panel of the body.

[0011]To sum up, the head of the stylus of the present application is magnetic. Therefore, when a relative speed exists between the head and the capacitive touch panel, an inducting current is generated on the capacitive touch panel. Then, the capacitive touch panel calculates a position where the inducting current is generated according to the inducting current. Thus, the stylus can control the capacitive touch panel.