Electronic apparatus having a sensing unit to input a user command and a method thereof
View Patent ↗A mobile device includes a housing, a network interface to communicate with an external network, a user interface comprising a panel with a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a touch input, the panel including a first portion and a second portion with a transparent condition and being within the first portion, a sensing unit including two front cameras disposed in the second portion of the panel, and a control unit to control the sensing unit in a photographing mode and a sensing mode to perform a function of the mobile device.
1. A mobile device, comprising:
a housing;
a network interface to communicate with an external network;
a user interface comprising a panel with a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a touch input, the panel comprising a first portion and a second portion in the first portion, the second portion having a transparent condition;
a sensing unit comprising first and second front cameras disposed in the second portion of the panel to sense an object over the panel through corresponding portions of the second portion; and
a control unit to control the sensing unit in a photographing mode and a sensing mode to perform a function of the mobile device.
2. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the object is distanced from the panel.
3. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion and the second portion are parallel to each other within the panel.
4. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the second portion is smaller than the first portion with respect to a display area of the panel.
5. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the second portion is surrounded by the first portion.
6. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first camera and the second cameras comprises a first lens and a second lens respectively, and the first lens and the second lens are not outside the second portion.
7. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion includes light elements, and the second portion does not include the light elements.
8. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion comprises a liquid crystal device.
9. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion comprises a light emitting device.
10. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first portion comprises a first number of light elements, and the second portion comprises a second number of light elements.
11. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the transparent condition further comprises an interference-prevention condition to prevent the sensing unit from being interfered during the photographing mode and the sensing mode.
12. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the transparent condition prevents the first and second front cameras from being interfered during sensing the object in the photographing mode and the sensing mode, respectively.
13. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first front camera photographs the object through the second portion in the photographing mode.
14. The mobile device of claim 13 , wherein the control unit controls the display panel to display the photographed object.
15. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the second front camera senses the object through the second portion in the sensing mode.
16. The mobile device of claim 15 , wherein the control unit controls the display panel to display a symbol representing a status of the object.
17. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first front camera and the second front camera sense the object as a user input in the sensing mode.
18. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the sensing unit is activated to photograph and extract an object image from the photographed image as a user input to perform a second function of the mobile device in the sensing mode.
19. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the sensing unit selectively performs the sensing mode and the photographing mode.
20. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the control unit controls the first and second front cameras to selectively perform the sensing mode and the photographing mode.
21. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the object comprises a plurality of sub-objects, and the control unit performs a second function of the mobile device according to one sensed sub-object with a priority.
22. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the object comprises a user having a plurality of portions, one of which has a higher priority, and the control unit performs a second function of the mobile device according to one sensed portion with the higher priority.
23. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the object comprises a user having a plurality of portions, one of which has a priority, and the control unit performs a second function of the mobile device according to the sensed user and the sensed one portion with the priority.
24. The mobile device of claim 1 , wherein the first front sensing camera comprises a first lens, the second front comprises a second lens, and the first lens and the second lens are disposed in the second portion.
25. The mobile device of claim 24 , wherein the first lens and the second lens have first and second sensing center lines, respectively, which are parallel to a line perpendicular to a display surface of the panel.
26. The mobile device of claim 24 , wherein the first lens has a first center line which is parallel to a line perpendicular to a display surface of the panel, and the second lens has a second center line which is not parallel to the line perpendicular to the display surface of the panel.
27. The mobile device of claim 24 , wherein at least one of the first lens and the second lens has a sensing center line which is not parallel to a line perpendicular to a display surface of the panel.