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Keyboard for inputting to computer means

  • US 5,936,556 A
  • Filed: 07/14/1997
  • Issued: 08/10/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A keyboard comprising a plurality of keys for operation by an operator for use with a first, gojyuon, table of Japanese letters for inputting original Japanese words to computer means in a first mode of operation,said keyboard including a home row of keys, a bottom row of keys closer to the operator than said home row of keys, and a top row of keys further from the operator than said home row of keys,some of said keys comprising gojyuon row keys for use in specifying a row in said first table and others of said keys comprising gojyuon column keys for use in specifying a column in said first table,said gojyuon column keys being located substantially at one of the right half and left half of said keyboard and said gojyuon row keys being located substantially at the other of said right half and left half of said keyboard,said gojyuon row keys being located in said home row of keys and having Japanese gojyuon row notations O, E, U, I and A thereon, andsaid gojyuon column keys being located in said home, bottom and top rows of keys and having Japanese gojyuon column notations KA, SA, TA, NA, HA, MA, GA, ZA, DA, BA, RA, WA, YA and PA thereon.

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