WO2010014030A1 - Variantes de touches et clavier - Google Patents

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WO2010014030A1
WO2010014030A1 PCT/RU2009/000362 RU2009000362W WO2010014030A1 WO 2010014030 A1 WO2010014030 A1 WO 2010014030A1 RU 2009000362 W RU2009000362 W RU 2009000362W WO 2010014030 A1 WO2010014030 A1 WO 2010014030A1
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Dmitry Nikolaevich Nosov
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F3/00—Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for transferring data from processing unit to output unit, e.g. interface arrangements
    • G06F3/01—Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer
    • G06F3/02—Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
    • G06F3/023—Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes
    • G06F3/0238—Programmable keyboards
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/70—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard
    • H01H13/83—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a plurality of operating members associated with different sets of contacts, e.g. keyboard characterised by legends, e.g. Braille, liquid crystal displays, light emitting or optical elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/02—Details
    • H01H13/023—Light-emitting indicators
    • H01H2013/026—Light-emitting indicators with two or more independent lighting elements located inside the push button switch that illuminate separate zones of push buttons
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2219/00—Legends
    • H01H2219/002—Legends replaceable; adaptable
    • H01H2219/01—Liquid crystal
    • H01H2219/012—Liquid crystal programmable
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H2219/00—Legends
    • H01H2219/002—Legends replaceable; adaptable
    • H01H2219/014—LED
    • H01H2219/016—LED programmable

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  • the invention relates to input-output devices, particularly to a desktop computer, laptop computer, «pocket» computer, wired and mobile telephone keyboards and other units equipped with an input-output device.
  • the standard is the IBM PC-XT keyboard with «QWERTY» layout; the same principle is partially carried over to laptop and «pocket» computers.
  • the standard is the twelve-button keyboard.
  • the operating principle of any keyboard comes down to having a built-in controller that tracks the state of pressing and releasing one or more keys, whether that's serial or simultaneous, and transmitting the message about current state of the key to the processor of the device.
  • the closest by the technical essence to the invention is the standard personal computer's keyboard of IBM's PC AT-486 model. It consists of a body with keys and a keyboard controller, where the controller's scanning outputs are connected with the corresponding key inputs, their signaling circuit's outputs are connected with the corresponding controller's inputs, and the controller's outputs designed for the conjunction with the digital device are at the same time the keyboard's outputs.
  • This keyboard has a multitude of modifications; however, there is a set of standard features of the implementation of such keyboard.
  • One of such features is the overall design of the keyboard's areas.
  • the keyboard is functionally divided into several areas. Normally, its upper part carries a row of the so-called functional keys, its right part contains the numeric block, and the center contains the alphabetical block of keys.
  • the alphabetical area of keyboards used in the English-speaking countries contains keys with a single character; a number of such keys may have two characters at the most.
  • the objective of the invention is to mitigate aforementioned problem by means of improvement in functional capabilities of keyboards.
  • This invention relates to an input-output devices and in particular desktop computer, laptop computer, «pocket» computer, wired and mobile telephone keyboards and other units equipped with an input-output device.
  • the technical effect of this invention is the improvement of the functional capabilities and adding the convenience of use to input-output devices when working with applications that allow multiple character sets in multitasking operating systems, as well as adding the convenience to using input-output devices.
  • the technical result is achieved by providing a keyboard with internal partitions and placing sources of luminescence in the formed spaces; making the keys' top surfaces partially transparent for the luminescence and turning on the corresponding group of luminescence depending on the character set being currently active.
  • a digital device's keyboard consists of a controller, data processing device, and keys.
  • a key provided in a way that its internal space is split into sections, not less than two.
  • the sections are formed by a partition impenetrable for the internal luminescence and the key's outer sides.
  • the partition can be made in a rectilinear and/or complex form, e.g., star-like with three or more beams.
  • the partition and the outer sides can be light-proof.
  • Each section of the key's internal space is equipped with a source of light, e.g., light emitting diode (LED).
  • LED light emitting diode
  • the top surface area corresponding with each of such sector's internal space allows indicating a corresponding character on it; for example, when the key's top surface area is made transparent for light and has the shape of a corresponding character.
  • the key is to be made in a way that the frequencies of the sources of light are to be different for each sector of the key, so that the character set visible to user would be different.
  • the keyboard allows adjusting the intensity of the light emitting by the source of light for each character set located in different areas of the top surface of a key.
  • the method of displaying information on the keyboard keys where depending on the character set being currently active in the application currently running in the foreground is the internal source of luminescence, which is enabled when the character belongs to the current character set and disabled when the character belongs to a character set currently not being active.
  • a key comprising a body with a top surface having n+1 areas bearing a character designation, provided that at least n of said areas is at least partially translucent, n is integer equal or greater than 1 ; said body provided with at least n-1 substantially opaque partitions, so as its internal space divided into n sections; at least n of said sections together with at least n of said sources of light is arranged so as to provide independent illumination of at least n of said at least partially translucent areas.
  • the key have substantially opaque rectilinear partition.
  • said opaque partition is made in a shape of a star, having at least two beams.
  • a key comprising a body with a top surface having n+1 areas bearing a character designation and m sources of light and/or k liquid-crystal indicators connected to said controller, provided that z of said areas is at least partially translucent, n is integer equal or greater than 1, m and k are integers, provided that m+k is equal or greater than n, z is integer equal or greater than k, m sources of light and/or k liquid-crystal indicators is arranged so as to provide independent illumination and/or indication of at least n of said areas bearing a character designation.
  • said light sources have different frequencies of light.
  • At least one of said sources of light located on inside of said body.
  • At least one of said source of light is located on the outside of said body.
  • the frequencies of said light sources can be independently adjusted so as to provide different colors of light.
  • the intensity of light of said light sources can be independently adjusted.
  • said liquid-crystal indicator selected from the group, consisting of active matrix liquid-crystal indicator, thin film transistor liquid crystal indicator, dynamic-scattering liquid-crystal indicator, active-matrix liquid-crystal indicator, bacldit liquid crystal indicator, fluorescence-activated indicator, reflective-type liquid-crystal indicator, transmissive liquid-crystal indicator, dark-field liquid-crystal indicator, and light- field liquid-crystal indicator.
  • the invention relates to a keyboard for a digital device, having a controller, comprising at least one aforementioned key.
  • said digital device is a desktop computer or mobile computer selected from the group consisting of portable computer, pocket computer, netbook, and laptop.
  • said digital device is a telephone, selected from the group consisting of stationary telephone, mobile telephone, cellular telephone, and smartphone.
  • said digital device is a digital typewriter.
  • the invention relates to a method of displaying information on a key equipped with at least two light sources on the keyboard containing at least one key, where when the character set is switched, whether it is switched by user directly or by switching the active application in an operating system that allows running multiple applications simultaneously followed by the automatic switching of the active character set, the digital device's processor sends the signal that turns on the light sources corresponding with the top surfaces of the keys that contain the characters of the active character set for the selected language.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates schematic view of keyboard.
  • Fig. 2 illustrates the key in the plan.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates the key provided with the top surface being absent.
  • Fig. 3 a illustrates an optional key provided with the top surface being absent.
  • Fig. 3b illustrates an optional key provided with the top surface being absent.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates sectional view of the key.
  • keyboard 1 comprising body 2 with a set of keys 3 on it
  • the body 2 contains a controller and the keyboard's 1 data processing device (not shown) connected with keys 3.
  • the controller connects the keyboard with the electronic device's processor.
  • the body of the key 3 (Fig.2, Fig.3, Fig. 4) contains a partition 4, which splits the key into two approximately equal parts. Each of those parts has light sources (e.g. LED) 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, etc.
  • Key 3 can be implemented with a partition 4 of a complex star-like form having 3, 4, 5, 6 or more beams, splitting the key's internal space respectively into three, four, five, and six parts (Fig. 3a, displays the four-beam implementation).
  • Fig. 3b shows a two-beam arrangement
  • the keyboard may contain one and more, up to several hundreds of keys.
  • the keyboard with the keys can be stored in the same case with a digital device (e.g., laptop computer, communicator, mobile telephone) or in a separate case (e.g., desktop computer keyboard).
  • Keyboard 1 allows adjusting the frequency or the brightness of source of light (e.g., the brightness of LED).
  • the keyboard allows the smooth or discrete adjustment of sources of light, as well as the light color of LED or other source of light. The adjustment of the visual parameters and the selection of the color are done through devices already known in the art and can be performed for the entire keyboard 1, a group of keys 3 or for each individual key 3.
  • keyboard controller 1 receives a signal on the entry language currently and set as default for the moment. Following that signal, a group of sources of light turns on (e.g., LED or other sources of light 5 or 5 a mounted in the sections of keys, the top surface of which allows the indication; e.g., has transparent or translucent areas 6 or 6a with the shape of characters/letters of the corresponding character set). Assume that it is a group of sources of light that turns on (e.g., LED or other sources of light 5 under areas, which are e.g., transparent, 6). Thus, on the keyboard 1 and each individual key 3 user will clearly see characters of only one character set.
  • a group of sources of light e.g., LED or other sources of light 5 or 5 a mounted in the sections of keys, the top surface of which allows the indication; e.g., has transparent or translucent areas 6 or 6a with the shape of characters/letters of the corresponding character set.
  • sources of light e.g., LED or other sources of light 5 under
  • the keyboard controller 1 When user runs an application, from the electronic device's processor the keyboard controller 1 receives a signal on the character set active for the moment when the application was run. If the character set that was active when the application was started does not match the character set being currently active, the corresponding group of sources of light (e.g., LED or other sources of light 5) turns off, simultaneously turning on another group of sources of light (LED or other sources of light 5a). Thus, when one group of sources of light (LED or other sources of light) switches to another one, on the keyboard 1 and each individual key 3 user will clearly see characters of only one character set, e.g., Cyrillic.
  • the keyboard controller 1 When opening another application and at the same time switching the first open application to the inactive mode, from the electronic device's processor the keyboard controller 1 receives a signal on the character set active for the moment when the other application was run. If the character set that was active when the other application was started does not match the character set being currently active, the corresponding group of sources of light (e.g., LED or other sources of light 5a) turns off, simultaneously turning on another group of sources of light (LED or other sources of light 5). Thus, when one group of sources of light (LED or other sources of light) switches to another one, on the keyboard 1 and each individual key 3 user will clearly see characters of only one character set, e.g., Latin.
  • the corresponding group of sources of light e.g., LED or other sources of light 5a
  • the keyboard controller 1 receives a signal on switching the active character set.
  • the active character set e.g., from Latin to Cyrillic
  • the keyboard controller 1 receives a signal on switching the active character set.
  • the sources of light e.g., the brightness of LED or other source of light
  • the intensity of light emitting by the sources of light e.g., the brightness of LED or other source of light
  • the intensity of light emitting by an active group of sources of light e.g., the brightness of LED or other sources of light
  • the intensity of light emitting by an active group of sources of light changes cyclically; at the same time, the cycles of the change can be different for different keys.
  • Another way to add the convenience to using the keyboard is the capability to work with an electronic device and enter information into it with the complete or almost complete absence of light with no additional lighting devices.
  • the proposed solution is workable, since even when one and/or several sources of light get out of order, the keyboard will not require a repair, at least an urgent one, since its functionality will not suffer.
  • the proposed solution is easy for the implementation from the software standpoint, since about every operating system assumes the keyboard manufacturer to ship an additional driver for the necessary software (in a case with a telephone keyboard, for example, the driver will be a part of the operating system from the beginning, and user will not have to make any additional installations). At the same time, if such driver is not installed on a computer with such keyboard, the keyboard will only fail to implement the backlight functionality; at the same time, the keyboard will function just like all other keyboards do.

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L'invention concerne des dispositifs d'entrée-sortie, et en particulier des claviers d'ordinateur de bureau, d'ordinateur portatif, d'ordinateur de poche, de téléphones fixes et mobiles ainsi que d'autres unités pourvues d'un dispositif d'entrée-sortie. L'invention consiste en une extension des capacités fonctionnelles et confère aux dispositifs d'entrée-sortie un confort d'utilisation accru lorsqu'on travaille avec des applications permettant des ensembles de caractères multiples dans des systèmes d'exploitation multitâches. Pour ce faire, un clavier est équipé de cloisons internes et des sources lumineuses sont placées dans les espaces formés, ce qui rend les surfaces supérieures des touches partiellement transparentes à la luminescence, et le groupe correspondant de luminescence est activé selon l'ensemble de caractères actuellement actif.
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