INFORMATION INPUT METHOD HAVING CONFIDENTIALITY

The present invention provides an information input method having confidentiality. Differing from the conventional password inputting keyboard is commonly a visible entity keyboard or a visible virtual keyboard, a user can utilizes a display boundary of a wearable display to define an operation region on a touch pad of an electronic device through the information input method of the present invention. Then, the wearable display would show a virtual keyboard corresponding to the operation region to the user, and the virtual keyboard showed by the wearable display is only seen by the user. Therefore, even if the user input a set of passwords by performing finger movements on the touch pad, the other person cannot guess the correct password set from the finger movements. Besides, the password set also cannot be recorded after using a surveillance software to monitor the button struck on the touch pad.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to the technology field of input methods, and more particularly to an information input method having confidentiality.

2. Description of the Prior Art

Commonly, personal information such as computer login password and bank account password are protected by way of security encryption mechanisms. After input the authentication password, the computer or the bank account can be used and accessed.

However, the conventional input and display procedures of the authentication password have become security loopholes under some circumstances. For example, users need to key in an ATM card password after inserting an ATM card into the card slot of an ATM. Please refer toFIG. 1, which illustrates a top view of a numeric keypad of the ATM. AsFIG. 1shows, the numeric keypad1′ has ten number buttons, one “OK” button and one “Cancel” button. It can find that, because the positions of the ten number buttons are fixed, a third person may guess the ATM card password from the finger movements of the ATM users.

Moreover, since the computer keyboard has become the commonly-used input device, a surveillance software called “keylogger recorder” is developed to monitor the button struck on the keyboard. The keylogger recorder can record instant messages, e-mail, and any information that users type at any time using their keyboard.

Thus, because the conventional password or personal information input ways obviously lack effective security, the inventor of the present application has made great efforts to make inventive research thereon and eventually provided an information input method having confidentiality.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary objective of the present invention is to provide an information input method having confidentiality. Differing from the conventional password inputting keyboard is commonly a visible entity keyboard or a visible virtual keyboard showing on the display, a user can utilizes a display boundary of a wearable display to define an operation region on a touch pad of an electronic device through the information input method of the present invention. Then, the wearable display would show a virtual keyboard corresponding to the operation region to the user, and the virtual keyboard showed by the wearable display is only seen by the user. Therefore, even if the user input a set of passwords by performing finger movements on the touch pad, the other person cannot guess the correct password set from the finger movements.

Besides, the password set also cannot be recorded after using a surveillance software such as keylogger recorder to monitor the button struck on the touch pad.

Accordingly, in order to achieve the primary objective of the present invention, the inventor of the present invention provides an information input method having confidentiality, comprising steps of:(1) providing a wearable display and an electronic device with a touch module;(2) making the touch module to locate in a display boundary of the wearable display;(3) the wearable display defining an operation region in the display boundary;(4) the wearable display communicating with the electronic device;(5) the electronic device transmitting an encryption signal to the wearable display;(6) the wearable display showing an operating pattern on the operation region; and(7) inputting a specific information to the electronic device through the touch module.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

To more clearly describe an information input method having confidentiality according to the present invention, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings hereinafter.

Please referring toFIG. 2, which illustrates a flow chart of an information input method having confidentiality according to the present invention. Moreover, please refer toFIG. 3, there is shown a schematic first application diagram of the information input method having confidentiality. AsFIG. 2andFIG. 3show, the information input method of the present invention comprises7method steps.

Firstly, the method proceeds to steps (S01) and (S02) for providing a wearable display11and an electronic device12with a touch module121, so as to make the touch module121to locate in a display boundary111of the wearable display11. Next, the method proceeds to step (S03) for using the wearable display11to define an operation region112in the display boundary111. Subsequently, the steps (S04) and (S05) are executed for making the wearable display11communicate with the electronic device12, so as to transmit an encryption signal from the electronic device12to the wearable display11. Therefore, according to the encryption signal, the wearable display11shows an operating pattern13on the operation region112(Step (S06)), such that a user wearing with the wearable display11is able to input a specific information such as a set of password to the electronic device12through the touch module121.

In the present invention, the said wearable display11can be a mask, a glass, an eye protecting glass, or a helmet having a windshield. AsFIG. 3shows, the wearable display11is exemplarily a Google glass. Through the Google glass, the user can see the touch module121in the real word, or see a visual keypad displayed by the Google glass. In addition, because the Google glass has a sensing module14such as camera, the Google glass can also show a real-time video of the touch module121, the electronic device12, or any other things captured by the sensing module14. Briefly, the user can see a real word through the Google glass, or a real-time video of the real world. The most important is that, the sensing module14is primary used for verifying whether the touch module121locates in the display boundary11of the wearable display11or not.

The wearable display11has a controlling and processing module, which can be a central processor directly integrated in the wearable display11, one wearable device such as a smart watch, or one portable device such as smart phone. By the controlling and processing module, the wearable display11is able to communicate with the electronic device12by wired or wireless way. The aforesaid wireless way can be Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared ray, RFID, ZigBee, 3G, and 4G.

With reference toFIG. 3, when the user sees a real word21through the Google glass (i.e., the wearable display11), the glass boundary would be defied as the said display boundary111of the wearable display11. Thus, after making the touch module121locate in the display boundary111through the sensing module14or human eyes, the controlling and processing module of the wearable display11would calculate and produce an operation region112according to the touch module121. Therefore, after an encryption signal is transmitted from the electronic device12to the wearable display11, the controlling and processing module would produce an operation pattern13. Herein, it needs to particularly explain that, the said operation pattern13is a virtual keypad pattern having a plurality of inputting buttons randomly arranged and defined, and the virtual keypad pattern is shown on the glasses of the Google glass (i.e., the wearable display), such that the virtual keypad pattern is only seen by the user.

Referring toFIG. 3again, and please simultaneously refer toFIG. 4A,FIG. 4B, andFIG. 4C, which illustrate different virtual keypad patterns. As shown byFIG. 4A,FIG. 4BandFIG. 4C, the virtual keypad pattern is formed as a button array by the constitution of randomly arranged and defined inputting buttons. In the present invention, the inputting buttons comprises numeric buttons, alphabet buttons, Chinese phonetic alphabet buttons, symbol buttons, and basic operation buttons including OK button, Cancel button, Return button, correction button, and arrow buttons. Moreover, each of the inputting buttons have a corresponding coordinate position on the touch module121of the electronic device12, and all of the coordinate positions being stored in the electronic device12.

AsFIG. 4Ashows, a first virtual button array consists of ten numeric buttons (0-9), two symbol buttons (# ,*), and three NA (Not Available) buttons. Moreover, asFIG. 4Bshows, a second virtual button array consists of ten numeric buttons (0-9), two symbol buttons (# ,*), and three NA (Not Available) buttons. However, the positions of the numeric buttons, the symbol buttons and the NA buttons of the second virtual button array are all different from the positions of the numeric buttons, the symbol buttons and the NA buttons of the first virtual button array. Furthermore, asFIG. 4Cshows, a third virtual button array consists of thirteen numeric buttons (0-9) and two symbol buttons (# ,*), wherein the thirteen numeric buttons particularly include at least two identical inputting buttons, i.e., two numeric “3” buttons, two numeric “5” buttons and two numeric “6” buttons.

In addition, when the user utilize the wearable display11and the touch module121to input a password set into the electronic device12, the user is able to perform a switching gesture on the touch module121; meanwhile, the electronic device12would transmit another one encryption signal to the wearable display, and then the wearable display11would display a second keypad pattern to the user.

Please refer toFIG. 4D, which illustrate the top view of the touch module. AsFIG. 4Dshows, when the user utilize the wearable display11and the touch module121to input a password set into the electronic device12, a third person cannot guess the correct password set from the finger movements of the user because the third person can just see the top view of the touch module121without displaying any keypad patterns. Therefore, even if the user input a set of passwords by performing finger movements on the touch module121, the other person cannot guess the correct password set from the finger movements. Besides, the password set also cannot be recorded after using the surveillance software of keylogger recorder to monitor the button struck on the touch module121.

Please refer toFIG. 5, there is shown a schematic second application diagram of the information input method having confidentiality. AsFIG. 5shows, the said electronic device12is exemplarily a door station having a touch panel. Thus, after making the touch module121(i.e., the touch panel of the door station) locate in the display boundary111of the wearable display11, the wearable display11would produce an operation region according to the touch module121. Therefore, after an encryption signal is transmitted from the door station to the wearable display11, the wearable display11would show a virtual keypad pattern to the user. Therefore, after the user key in a set of passwords into the door station through the virtual keypad pattern, the door station would open the door lock3, such that the user can open the door and then get into the housing.

Please refer toFIG. 5, there is shown a schematic third application diagram of the information input method having confidentiality. AsFIG. 6shows, the said electronic device12is exemplarily a computer host having a touch panel. Thus, after making the touch module121(i.e., the touch panel of the computer host) locate in the display boundary111of the wearable display11, the wearable display11would produce an operation region according to the touch module121. Therefore, after an encryption signal is transmitted from the computer host to the wearable display11, the wearable display11would show a virtual keypad pattern to the user. Therefore, after the user key in a set of passwords into the computer host through the virtual keypad pattern, the computer host can be accessed by the user.

Therefore, through above descriptions, the information input method having confidentiality provided by the present invention has been introduced completely and clearly; in summary, the present invention includes the advantages of:

(1) Differing from the conventional password inputting keyboard is commonly a visible entity keyboard or a visible virtual keyboard, a user can utilizes a display boundary of a wearable display to define an operation region on a touch pad of an electronic device through the information input method of the present invention. Then, the wearable display would show a virtual keyboard corresponding to the operation region to the user, and the virtual keyboard showed by the wearable display is only seen by the user. Therefore, even if the user input a set of passwords by performing finger movements on the touch pad, the other person cannot guess the correct password set from the finger movements. Besides, the password set also cannot be recorded after using a surveillance software such as keylogger recorder to monitor the button struck on the touch pad.

The above description is made on embodiments of the present invention. However, the embodiments are not intended to limit scope of the present invention, and all equivalent implementations or alterations within the spirit of the present invention still fall within the scope of the present invention.