Touch-type key input apparatus
First Claim
1. A keypad comprising:
- a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a number or a symbol;
a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of key that include letters; and
wherein the letters are substantially in a standard arrangement with at least one alphabet letter out of order from the standard arrangement.
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Abstract
A touch press key inputting device includes: a plurality of character keys 21˜32 with at least 2 characters displayed on the surface of each key; an input judging means 72 for sensing the character keys touched and the first touched points in the area of the character keys, performing a movement longer than a specified length originally touched, and judging a moving direction in touch press inputting; a character selecting and outputting means 73 for selecting and outputting the characters displayed in the moving direction, corresponding to the moving direction judged by the input judging means, relative to the reference positions of the character keys. Since the characters on the positions are selected and output corresponding to the touch press inputting operations of the characters displayed on the key surfaces of respective character keys 21˜32, the inputting operations can be directly sensed and easily assured, and the inputting operability is improved.
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Citations
106 Claims
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1. A keypad comprising:
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a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a number or a symbol; a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of key that include letters; and wherein the letters are substantially in a standard arrangement with at least one alphabet letter out of order from the standard arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A hand-held device comprising:
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a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a numeral or a symbol; a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of keys that include letters; and wherein the letters are substantially in a standard arrangement with at least one alphabet letter out of order from the standard arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A keypad comprising:
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a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a numeral or a symbol, and the keys are arranged in 4 rows and 3 columns; and a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of keys and one of the symbols is an “
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sign. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A keypad comprising:
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a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a numeral or a symbol; a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of keys and one of the symbols is an “
@”
sign; andwherein the numerals are ordered according to a standard phone keypad layout. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A keypad comprising:
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a number of keys, each of the keys representing at least one character wherein the character may be a letter, a numeral or a symbol; a first subset of the number of keys wherein each key of the first subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a set of a numeral, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the first subset of keys and one of the symbols is an “
@”
sign;wherein the numerals are ordered according to a standard phone keypad layout; and wherein the letters are ordered in standard alphabet order. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82)
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83. A keypad input device comprising:
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a plurality of keys, each key representing a plurality of characters, said plurality of characters comprising at least one letter, at least one number, and at least one symbol; a graphical display that provides, at each key, a visible representation of said at least one letter, said at least one number, and said at least one symbol at positions offset from a center point of each key; and an input judging detector that detects touch motion from said center point toward one of said offset positions of a character, whereby said character is judged to have been chosen by the keypad user. - View Dependent Claims (84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89)
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90. A keyboard piece for a keypad having a plurality of keys arranged in rows and columns, comprising:
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a removable graphical display providing a visible representation for the keypad, said graphical display indicating for each key of the plurality of keys a set of characters including at least one letter, one number, and one symbol; said graphical display having said at least one letter for each key distributed in unequal number among the keys and in substantially a standard arrangement of alphabet letters; said graphical display aligning said letters in rows and columns parallel to the rows and columns of the plurality of keys, respectively, with at least one letter not in alignment in at least one row or with at least one letter not in alignment in at least one column. - View Dependent Claims (91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99)
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100. A device comprising:
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a keypad having a plurality of keys, a set of keys of the plurality of keys representing at least one character wherein at least one of the keys of the set represents a letter character, at least one of the keys of the set represents a number character and at least one of the keys of the set represents a symbol character; a subset of the set of the keys wherein each key of the subset represents and simultaneously displays at least one of a number, a symbol, and a letter, and the letters are not distributed equally across all of the subset of keys and one of the symbols is an “
@”
sign; andwherein the device is a personal digital assistant (PDA) with phone capabilities. - View Dependent Claims (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106)
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Specification