Hand-held input device particularly useful as a keyboard
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1. A hand-held input device, comprising:
- a housing configured for convenient holding by two hands of a user, with an upper surface of the housing facing towards the user and an undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, and with the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface;
and at least one manually operable control member carried by said undersurface of the housing facing away from the user when the housing is held by the user;
said housing being constructed such as to enable the user, when holding the housing by the user'"'"'s two hands with the undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, to view the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface, and to guide them for operating the control member carried by said undersurface.
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Abstract
A hand-held input/control device designed and configured such that, when it is held by a user oriented with its operating surface facing away from the user, the user may view the operation of the manually operable control members deployed on that operating surface.
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1. A hand-held input device, comprising:
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a housing configured for convenient holding by two hands of a user, with an upper surface of the housing facing towards the user and an undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, and with the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface;
and at least one manually operable control member carried by said undersurface of the housing facing away from the user when the housing is held by the user;
said housing being constructed such as to enable the user, when holding the housing by the user'"'"'s two hands with the undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, to view the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface, and to guide them for operating the control member carried by said undersurface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A hand-held input device, comprising:
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a housing configured for convenient holding by two hands of a user, with an upper surface of the housing facing towards the user and an undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, and with the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface;
and at least one manually operable control member carried by said undersurface of the housing facing away from the user when the housing is held by the user;
said housing being constructed with at least a part thereof being light-transmissive such as to enable the user, when holding the housing by the user'"'"'s two hands with the undersurface of the housing facing away from the user, to view the fingers of the user underlying said undersurface and to guide them for operating the control member by said undersurface. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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