US 12,267,547 B2
Input device
Bum Seok Kim, Anyang-si (KR)
Assigned to KYUNG IN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 18/255,577
Filed by KYUNG IN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD, Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Nov. 3, 2021, PCT No. PCT/KR2021/095089
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 1, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/186463, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0028002 (KR), filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0421834 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/422 (2011.01); G06F 3/0362 (2013.01)
CPC H04N 21/42216 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0362 (2013.01); H04N 21/42224 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. 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.