Ergonomic keyboard position adjustment
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSean J. Lawrence, Krishnakumar Varadarajan, Ayeshwarya Mahajan, Raghavendra Angadimani, Samarth Alva
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Abstract
Examples apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture and methods to adjust a keyboard position are disclosed. An example keyboard position adjustment system includes a keyboard orientation detector to determine a first keyboard position of a keyboard and/or a hand position detector to determine a hand position near the keyboard. The example system also includes an adjuster to move the keyboard to a second keyboard position based on the first keyboard position and/or the hand position.
Claims24
A keyboard position adjustment system comprising:
- a keyboard orientation detector to determine a first keyboard position of a keyboard of an electronic device;
- a wrist sensor to detect a pressure pattern of at least one of a palm or a wrist of a user on at least one of the keyboard or the electronic device;
- a hand position detector to:
- perform a comparison of the pressure pattern to a plurality of pressure patterns correlated with known wrist positions;
- and
- identify a wrist position of the user as matching a known wrist position based on the comparison;
- and
- an adjuster to move the keyboard to a second keyboard position based on the first keyboard position and the wrist position.
A keyboard position adjustment system comprising:
- a wrist sensor to detect a pressure pattern of at least one of a palm or a wrist of a user on at least one of a keyboard or an electronic device;
- a hand position detector to:
- access a plurality of pressure patterns of known wrist positions;
- perform a comparison of the pressure pattern to one or more of the pressure patterns of known wrist positions;
- identify a wrist position of the user as matching a known wrist position based on the comparison;
- and
- determine a hand position on or near the keyboard based on the wrist position;
- and
- an adjuster to move the keyboard from a first keyboard position to a second keyboard position based on the hand position.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to, at least:
- access sensor data gathered from a wrist sensor;
- determine a wrist pressure pattern based on the sensor data;
- perform a comparison of the wrist pressure pattern to a plurality of pressure patterns of known wrist positions;
- determine a wrist position based on the comparison;
- determine a hand position near a keyboard based on the wrist position;
- and
- move the keyboard from a first keyboard position to a second keyboard position based on the hand position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.