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Braille Display Device And Method Of Constructing Same

  • US 20140242555A1
  • Filed: 03/03/2014
  • Published: 08/28/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A refreshable Braille display, the display including a series of individual Braille cells for displaying text, the display comprising:

  • a housing having forward and rearward extents, the housing also having an interior, an upper cover, and a lower tray, the upper cover having apertures for receiving keys and buttons;

    a series of cursor routing buttons 28, each cursor routing button associated with and located proximate to each corresponding Braille cell, the cursor routing buttons operable for at least one of moving a cursor and selecting text;

    a pair of rocker keys 34, each rocker key operable for scrolling up and down through the text being displayed, the display being programmable by a user for varying at least one of a scroll rate and a sensitivity of the rocker keys;

    a pair of push buttons 36, each push button being a toggle control for determining whether the rocker keys scroll through at least one of lines, paragraphs, and pages of text; and

    a pair of panning buttons 48 for panning left or right one display width.

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