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Sliding Magnified Selector for Touch Screen Keyboards

  • US 20150205523A1
  • Filed: 01/16/2015
  • Published: 07/23/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2014
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A virtual graphical keyboard for a touch screen consisting of multiple graphical onscreen keys and including in combination:

  • means for tracking the position of a first digit of a hand of a user as it maintains contact with and slides across a portion of said touch screen away from said virtual graphical keyboard;

    means for graphically enlarging said keys of said virtual graphical keyboard, one at a time and at a fixed distance and fixed angle from said first digit in order to indicate to said user a key ready to be engaged;

    means for graphically highlighting said key ready to be engaged;

    means for engaging said key ready to be engaged when said user taps anywhere on said touch screen with at least one other digit; and

    means for momentarily graphically altering said key ready to be engaged to indicate that engagement has occurred.

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