Rotatable keyboard
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorPaul Roberto Lalinde
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Abstract
Example implementations relate to a rotatable keyboard. For example, an input control housing of a computing device according to the present disclosure may include a first segment including a first portion of keyboard keys, the first segment connected to a display housing via a first connection. The input control housing may include a second segment, physically separate from the first segment, including a second portion of the keyboard keys, the second segment connected to the display housing via a second connection. The first portion of keyboard keys may be rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees on a face of the first segment, and the second portion of the keyboard may be rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees on a face of the second segment.
Claims15
An input control housing of a computing device comprising:
- a first segment including a first portion of keyboard keys such that the keyboard keys are exposed and facing away from a face of the first segment on which the keyboard keys are mounted, the first segment connected to a display housing via a first connection;
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- a second segment, physically separate from the first segment, including a second portion of the keyboard keys, the second segment connected to the display housing via a second connection,
- wherein the first portion of the keyboard keys is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees relative to and independent of the face of the first segment on which the first portion of the keyboard keys are mounted, wherein the first portion of the keyboard keys are re-mountable to the face of the first segment in a plurality of rotated orientations, wherein in each of the plurality of rotated orientations the keyboard keys remain exposed and facing away from the face of the first segment, and the second portion of the keyboard is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees on a face of the second segment.
A computing system comprising:
- a display housing;
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- an input control housing comprising:
- a first segment including a first portion of keyboard keys, the first segment connected to a first portion of the display housing via a first connection;
- and
- a second segment including a second portion of the keyboard keys, the second segment connected to a second portion of the display housing via a second connection,
- wherein the first segment is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees about the first connection about a first rotational axis, wherein the second segment is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees about the second connection, and wherein the display housing is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees about the first connection point about a second rotational axis perpendicular to the first rotational axis.
An input control housing comprising:
- a first segment including a first portion of keyboard keys, the first segment connected to a first portion of a display housing via a first connection, wherein:
- the first portion of keyboard keys mounted on a face of the first segment such that a surface including an input control is exposed and faces away from the face, removable from the face, rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees relative to and independent of the face, and re-seatable in a rotated orientation on the face wherein the surface including the input control remains exposed and faces away from the face;
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- the first segment is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees about the first connection;
- and
- a second segment, physically separate from the first segment, including a second portion of the keyboard keys, the second segment connected to a second portion of the display housing via a second connection, wherein:
- the second portion of the keyboard keys is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees on a face of the second segment;
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- the second segment is rotatable three hundred and sixty degrees about the second connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.