Keyboard and method of selecting colors of keys of the keyboard
AssigneeCorsair Memory, Inc.
InventorsTae-Kyung Yoo, Min-Ho Choi
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a keyboard comprising light emitting devices, each respectively disposed below a key to lighten the top surface of the key; and a micro controller unit transmitting signals generated by each key to the computer, having switches for controlling the light emitting devices, and controlling switches according to signals transmitted from the computer, and a method of selecting the colors of the keys of the same.
Claims16
A method for lighting a keyboard including a plurality of keys, a plurality of light emitting devices disposed below the plurality of keys, a micro controller unit, and multiple sets of switches for controlling the plurality of light emitting devices, each of the light emitting devices including red, green and blue light emitting diodes, the method comprising:
- receiving key selections and illumination color selections for at least a subset of the plurality of keys from a user, wherein each key and illumination color selection includes receiving a selection of a specific key displayed on a screen and receiving a designation of a color to illuminate the selected specific key;
- transmitting, for each selected specific key, the received illumination color selection for illuminating the selected specific key to the micro controller unit;
- and
- controlling, by the switches via the micro controller unit, current supplied to each of the red, green and blue light emitting diodes of the light emitting devices corresponding to the received key selections to independently lighten a top surface of each corresponding key with the received illumination color selection for the corresponding key.
A keyboard lighting system comprising:
- a plurality of keys;
- a plurality of light emitting devices disposed below the plurality of keys, each of the light emitting devices including red, green and blue light emitting diodes;
- a micro controller unit;
- and
- multiple sets of switches for controlling the plurality of light emitting devices, each set of switches corresponding to a different one of the plurality of keys, and each set including three switches for controlling said red, green and blue light emitting diodes of said corresponding one of the plurality of keys, wherein the micro controller unit is configured to:
- receive key selections and illumination color selections for the plurality of keys from a user, the received selections including at least three different illumination colors corresponding to three different ones of the plurality of keys;
- and
- control, via the switches, current supplied to each of the red, green and blue light emitting diodes of the light emitting devices corresponding to the received key selections to independently lighten a top surface of each corresponding key with the received illumination color selection for the corresponding key.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.