Three memory user programmable buttons

Details Three memory user programmable buttons Three memory user programmable buttons

1998-05-12

2001-04-03

Gordon, Paul P. (Department: 2786)

Data processing: generic control systems or specific application

Generic control system, apparatus or process

Having operator control interface

C700S017000, C700S084000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06212439

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a device for a personal computer, specifically relates to a program selection driving device of a personal computer, and a selecting signal input device therefor, capable of executing and terminating a predetermined program, installed in advance at user's option, simply using a corresponding program selecting button and a remote controller established on an outside of computer.
2. Discussion of Related Art
As personal computers have been distributed widely and rapidly and various works are processed through the personal computer, lots of computer programs have been applied increasingly.
In a common personal computer, executable programs are being stored at a hard disk. A user should search for a directory of a specified program first and then access the directory to execute the corresponding program.
Accordingly, in the conventional computer devices, a user has difficulties in executing a program he or she wants, in case the user lacks understanding of the computer. Besides, even in case of a skilled user, it is a trouble to repeat the operation process whenever the user executes programs.
In due consideration of the above matters, the Korean Patent Application No. 95-727 has proposed a program selection driving device for executing a specified program simply by operating a corresponding button.
FIG. 1
is a block diagram showing a configuration of the program selection driving device described above, in which reference numeral
1
denotes a button panel, established on an outside of computer, having a plurality of program selecting buttons.
In the figure, a button signal processor
2
, for processing button signals inputted from the button panel
1
, includes a button signal detector
2
a
detecting the button signals, data memory
2
b
storing the button signal from the button signal detector
2
a
, an interrupter
2
c
generating predetermined interrupt signals corresponding to the button signals and an input/output port
2
d
inputting and outputting data through the data memory
2
b.
And a main board
3
, executing corresponding programs based on a predetermined input signals inputted from the button signal processor
2
, includes an input/output device
3
a
, connected with the input/output port
2
d
of the button signal processor
2
, for inputting and outputting data through the data memory
3
a
, and a central processing unit (CPU)
3
b
for executing corresponding programs by reading out data from the input/output device
3
a.
According to a program selection driving device in the above configuration, when a user presses down a specified button of the button panel
1
, a predetermined level signal corresponding to the button operation is forwarded to the button signal detector
2
a
of the button signal processor
2
, then a button signal corresponding to the level signal is outputted from the button signal detector
2
a
and stored at the data memory
2
b
. This way, when a button signal is stored at the data memory
2
b
, the interrupter
2
c
detects the button signal and then outputs a predetermined interrupt signal.
Meanwhile, the CPU
3
b
of the main board
3
reads out the button signal from the data memory
3
b
through the input/output device
3
a
and input/output port
2
d
of the button signal processor
2
and executes a corresponding program.
According to the configuration described above, the user can execute a desirous program, installed in advance, simply by operating a specified button.
However, there are some problems in the configuration described above of the program selection driving device as follows;
That is, as various programs are provided with the personal computer for user's end and the programs were set fixedly to corresponding program selecting buttons respectively in the personal computer applying the program selection driving device, a user who lacks understanding of a personal computer can utilize only a few specified programs he or she understands.
Especially, the program selection driving device cannot register a new program to a certain program selecting button or even change a selected program corresponding to a program selecting button at user's option, whereas new versions of computer program are presented generally as time goes by.
Accordingly, the conventional program selection driving device cannot substantially serve the user lacking in understanding of the personal computer, nevertheless it is originally developed for those users.
Furthermore, since the program selection driving device executes selected programs using interrupt signals and the number of available interrupt is limited in a common CPU and this interrupt function is used for the other purposes as well, the conventional program selection driving device for a personal computer limits the number of available program using program selecting buttons to only one or two, which causes some problems in applying it to a personal computer device.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a program selection driving device for a personal computer, which substantially obviates one or more of the problems described above.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a program selection driving device for a personal computer capable of allotting available programs to each corresponding pro gram selecting button at user's option through a simple procedure.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a program selection driving device for a personal computer capable of allotting available programs to each corresponding program selecting button through r emote controller, not through a button operation.
Another object of the invention is to provide a program selection driving device for a personal computer capable of increasing the effective number of program executed selectively by button operation or remote controller.
To accomplish the objects of the invention, a program selection driving device for a personal computer, having a main computer with a hard disk and a main memory, a display means for displaying picture data visually and input means such as a keyboard, a mouse, and so on, comprising: a selecting means having a plurality of program selecting buttons for driving programs; a signal input means for receiving selecting signals from the selecting means and outputting predetermined data corresponding to the selecting signals; a first memory means, which stores an OS program, for storing available programs to be selected by the selecting means; a second memory means for storing a program for program selection driving; a third memory means for storing program information to be selected by the selecting means; and a central processing unit for executing the program stored at the second memory means, for detecting program information stored at the third memory means based on a selecting signal inputted from the signal input means, and for executing a corresponding program, stored at the first memory means according to the detected information, selectively; the selecting buttons are set to correspond with each predetermined program, and the program information stored at the third memory means can be reset to the respective selecting buttons at user's option, in execution of the program stored at the second memory means.
And the program allotment to the selecting buttons are to be executed by a drag and drop function.
In the above configuration according to the present invention, the user can select a desirous program and execute using a plurality of selecting buttons established on an outside of computer and a remote controller, and allot these selected programs to each desirous selecting button by a drag and drop function.
Furthermore, according to the present invention, it is possible to set the number of the program as many as necessary variably since the program selection driving is executed through the registered program information stored at the third memory means.
It is to be understood that both t

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