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Keyboard arrangement

A technology of keyboards and physical keyboards, which is applied to devices, instruments, and alphabetic character input with multiple keyboard units

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-03-02
RES IN MOTION LTD
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Combining a traditional text entry keyboard (such as a QWERTY-style keyboard) and a traditional telephone keypad on the same mobile communication device often results in undesired ergonomic and / or intuitive user interface compromises

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[0131] Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Figure 10-20 , 28 and 54 contain various views of the mobile communication device 10 with an example keypad 14. Keyboard 14 is a physical keyboard that includes multiple multifunction keys. The keys are multifunctional in that they can be used to enter alphabetic characters, numbers, key tones, symbols and / or functions, or other known inputs. The keyboard is a physical keyboard because it uses active keys rather than a touch-screen keyboard that does not use active keys. In a preferred embodiment, the key is active to activate a switch located beneath the key.

[0132]The example physical keyboard 14 can be used for text entry and telephony entry, and is intended to combine known keyboards such as those used on computers or typewriter keyboards with small keyboards such as those used on touch-tone phones or cell phones. The keyboards are combined into a single arrangement. Because of this combination, the example physical...

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A physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys with a reduced column QWERTY key arrangement overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement for use in both text entry and telephony. Another physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys having an array of alphabetic characters and an overlaid numeric array of numbers. A handheld mobile station has a first user interface having a standard alphabetic key arrangement and a second user interface having a numeric phone key arrangement.

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technical field [0001] The technology relates to a keyboard arrangement of an electronic device. In particular, the technology relates to a keyboard arrangement for a handheld mobile communication device. Background technique [0002] Different standard keyboard arrangements are known. The most widely used English letter key arrangement is the QWERTY arrangement, as in figure 1 and 5 shown. Other types of standard English letter key arrangements include: QWERTZ arrangements such as figure 2 shown; AZERTY layout, such as image 3 shown; and the DVORAK arrangement, such as Figure 4 shown. Alphabetic key arrangements 44 are often found together with numeric key arrangements. exist Figure 1~4 An exemplary number key arrangement is shown in , where the numbers 1-9 and 0 are located above the letter keys. In another known arrangement of numeric keys, numbers share keys with alphabetic characters, such as the top row of a QWERTY keyboard. In addition, in Figure 5 An...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/023G06F1/16H04M1/23H04M1/2745
CPCH04M2250/70G06F1/1626H04M1/23H04M2250/18G06F3/0237G06F1/1664G06F3/0219H04M2001/274541H04M1/27463G06F3/02
Inventor 詹森·T·格里芬
Owner RES IN MOTION LTD