IMAGE OF A KEYBOARD

• US 20120120016A1
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Campbell, Robert, Wong, Glenn A., Solomon, Mark C., Mittal, Gaurang, Wu, Arthur Chao-Chung
• Granted Patent: US 9,261,913 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/166 related to integrated arrangements for adjusting the position of the main body with respect to the supporting surface, e.g. legs for adjusting the tilt angle
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1692 the I/O peripheral being a secondary touch screen used as control interface, e.g. virtual buttons or sliders
• 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 system or method including a display and sensor to detect touches of the display. The display can display an image of a keyboard. The image of the keyboard can be shaped to the locations of the touches of the display.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a display;

a storage;

a sensor to detect touches of the display;

a controller to access the storage and retrieve an image of a keyboard and to shape the image of the keyboard on the display to locate the image of the keyboard at the locations of touches detected by the sensor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein shape of the image of the keyboard on the display is curved or split.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a sensor to detect the dimensions of the uses hand.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor detects touches of the display at the coordinates of the image of the keyboard and the controller displays text on the display.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a touch display to detect the fingers of a user'"'"'s hand and the controller to display the keyboard image if the user'"'"'s fingers are detected at a home position.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor is an optical sensor.

7. A method, comprising:

detecting an input;

displaying an image of a keyboard on a display in response to the detected input;

detecting touches of the display at the location of the image of the keyboard with a sensor; and

shaping the image of the keyboard according to the locations of the detected touches.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising detecting touches with the touch display.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying text according to touches of the display at the coordinates of the image of the keyboard.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising shaping the image of the keyboard to one of a curved image of the keyboard and a split image of the keyboard.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising adjusting the coordinates of the image of the keyboard on the display.

12. A computer readable medium comprising instructions that if executed cause a computer to:

receive an input;

display an image of a keyboard on a display in response to the detected input;

detect touches of the display at a location of the image of the keyboard with a sensor; and

shape the image of the keyboard according to the locations of the detected touches.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 12 further comprising instructions to transform the keyboard by one of splitting the image of the keyboard or curving the image of the keyboard.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13 further comprising instructions to detect the position of a user'"'"'s hand and to adjust the coordinates of the image of the keyboard based on the position of the user'"'"'s hand.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 12 further comprising instructions to receive keyboard inputs from the sensor and display the text on the display.