HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20110161809A1
• Filed: 12/30/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gilmour Innovations LLC
• Original Assignee: Gilmour Innovations LLC
• Inventors: Gilmour, Daniel A.
• Application Number:
  US12/649,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20110161809A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1662 Details related to the integrated keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• 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 hand-held electronic device includes, a first side that has a first display that is touch sensitive, a second side that has a second display and is positionally fixed relative to the first side, and a physical keyboard disposed at the second side.

Claims

1. A hand-held electronic device, comprising:

a first side having a first display being touch sensitive;

a second side having a second display and being positionally fixed relative to the first side; and

a physical keyboard disposed at the second side.

2. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein the physical keyboard includes a separate key for each letter of an alphabet.

3. The hand-held electronic device of claim 2, wherein keys of the physical keyboard are distributed in standard QWERTY orientation.

4. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein a character entry area of the first display and a character entry area of the second display remain in sync with one another.

5. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second side faces a direction substantially opposite a direction that the first side faces.

6. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second display is configured to show at least two rows of alphanumeric characters.

7. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein touch sensitivity of the first display is disabled when keys of the physical keyboard are depressed.

8. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein touch sensitivity of the first display is disabled in response to the hand-held electronic device being oriented at selected angles relative to the force of gravity.

9. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein operation of the physical keyboard is disabled in response to the hand-held electronic device being oriented at selected angles relative to the force of gravity.

10. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein disabling of the touch sensitivity of the first display and disabling operation of the physical keyboard are user selectable.

11. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein a virtual keyboard on the first display disappears when the touch sensitivity of the first display is disabled.

12. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of touch sensitivity of the first display and operation of the physical keyboard are disabled at any time.

13. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of a key, a button and a switch are configured to toggle between disabling of the touch sensitivity of the first display and disabling operation of the physical keyboard.

14. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first display and the second display is configured to enter a reduced power consumption mode in response to one of the touch sensitivity of the first display and operation of the physical keyboard being disabled.

15. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein the hand-held electronic device is at least one of a mobile telephone, a video playback device, an audio playback device, a personal digital assistant, a global positioning system device and a computer.

16. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein an automatic reorientation feature of the first display between portrait and landscape is disabled in response to enablement of operation of the physical keyboard.

17. The hand-held electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second display consumes less power than the first display.

18. A hand-held electronic device, comprising:

a body defining a first surface and a second surface, the first surface and the second surface facing in substantially opposing directions;

a touch sensitive display disposed at the first surface; and

a physical keyboard disposed at the second surface.

19. The hand-held electronic device of claim 18, wherein the physical keyboard has a separate key for each letter of the English alphabet and is configured to enter a selected letter of the English alphabet into memory of the hand-held electronic device in response to depression of a key associated with the selected letter.

20. The hand-held electronic device of claim 19, further comprising a second display disposed at the second surface and the selected letter is displayed substantially simultaneously on both the touch sensitive display and the second display when the key associated with the selected letter is depressed.