Flexible user input device system

• US 20090189865A1
• Filed: 01/30/2008
• Published: 07/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Mishra, Garima
• Granted Patent: US 9,176,665 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A flexible user input system, comprising a computing system having a display device and a flexible user input device with a touch screen display member, the flexible user input device configured to concurrently display at least two user input interface representations.

Claims

1. A flexible user input system, comprising:

a computing system having a display device and a flexible user input device with a touch screen display member, the flexible user input device configured to concurrently display at least two user input interface representations.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible user input device further comprises an optimization module configured to dynamically apportion the touch screen display member for each user input interface representation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible user input device further comprises an optimization module configured to determine a layout of the user input interface representation on the touch screen display member based on a number of user input interface representations.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible user input device further comprises an ergonomic module configured to ergonomically size each input element for each user input interface representation.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible user input device further comprises an ergonomic module configured to determine if a quantity of user input interface representations to be displayed on the display member exceeds an ergonomic threshold set for the touch screen display member.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the flexible user input device further comprises a format module configured to size each of the user input interface representations based on an amount of space apportioned for each user input interface representation.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two user input interface representations comprises at least two keyboard interface representations.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least two user input interface representations comprises at least one of a keyboard interface representation and a touch pad interface representation.

9. A flexible user input device, comprising:

a touch screen display member configured to receive a user selection of at least two user input interface representations to be concurrently displayed on the touch screen display member, wherein the touch screen display member is configured to automatically determine a layout for selected user input interface representations based on a quantity of the selected user input interface representations.

10. The flexible user input device of claim 9, wherein the selected user input interface representations are automatically sized to prevent exceeding an ergonomic threshold.

11. The flexible user input device of claim 9, wherein the selected user input interface representations are automatically sized based on the number and type of user input interface representations selected.

12. The flexible user input device of claim 9, wherein the selected user input interface representations are equally apportioned on a portion of the touch screen display member.

13. The flexible user input device of claim 9, wherein position of at least one selected user interface representations is dynamically interchangeable with another selected user interface representation.

14. A flexible user input device usage method, comprising:

configuring a touch screen display member for a computing system to concurrently display at least two user input interface representations, the computing system having a display device and flexible user input device comprising the touch screen display member.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising dynamically apportioning the touch screen display member for each user input interface representation.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising configuring a layout for the user input interface representations on the touch screen display member based on a number of user input interface representations.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising ergonomically sizing each input element for each user input interface representation.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising determining if a quantity of user input interface representations to be displayed on the display member exceeds an ergonomic threshold set for the touch screen display member.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising sizing each of the user input interface representations for presentation on the touch screen display member based on an amount of space apportioned for each user input interface representation.

20. The method of claim 14, further comprising concurrently displaying the at least two user input interface representations comprising at least one keyboard interface representation and a touch pad interface representation.