Virtual Keyboard and Onscreen Keyboard

• US 20100289824A1
• Filed: 01/05/2009
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ergowerx International LLC
• Original Assignee: Ergowerx Internationakl LLC
• Inventors: Atzmon, Jack
• Application Number:
  US12/811,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20100289824A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/647
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A device having a display and a display controller. The display controller is configured to vary a layout of a displayed keyboard such that a biomechanical relationship between the device and a user of the device is changed.

Claims

1. A device comprising;

a display; and

a display controller configured to control the display,

wherein the display controller is configured to vary a layout of a displayed keyboard such that a biomechanical relationship between the device and a user of the device is changed without a physical repositioning of the display or physical modification of the device.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the display is a touchscreen display.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein the displayed keyboard layout is varied in at least one of a V-shaped pattern, a convex pattern, and a concave pattern.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the pattern is symmetric about a line of symmetry.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the pattern is asymmetric about a line of symmetry.

6. The device according to claim 3, wherein the pattern is varied in response to at least one of keystrokes, program usage, temperature, and time.

7. The device according to claim 4, wherein the portions of the displayed keyboard separate from each other along the line of symmetry.

8. The device according to claim 4, wherein the displayed keyboard is divided into a plurality of portions and each of the plural portions are repositioned on the display.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein each of the plural displayed portions of the keyboard are moved on the display relative to one another.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein each of the plural displayed portions of the keyboard are moved on the display without considering a position of any other of the plural portions of the displayed keyboard.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the display is a virtual display.

17. The device according to claim 1, wherein the display is a virtual display.

12. A method of displaying a keyboard, comprising:

displaying a keyboard in a first display mode; and

displaying the keyboard in a second display mode,

wherein changing from the first display mode to the second display mode causes a user to vary a biomechanical relationship to use the displayed keyboard, and

wherein the change from the first display mode to the display second mode is based at least in part on one of time used, cumulative keystrokes, and temperature.

13. The device according to claim 12, wherein the keyboard is displayed on a touchscreen display.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the second display mode is V-shaped with respect to the first display mode.

15. The device according to claim 14, wherein the second display mode is V-shaped about a line of symmetry.

16. The device according to claim 13, wherein the second display mode is at least one of concave and convex with respect to the first display mode.

18. The device according to claim 13, wherein the second display mode displays portions of the keyboard moved on the display relative to the first display mode.