Keyboard having improved alphabet key arrangement
OwnerGail Elizabeth Davisinventor
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Abstract
An arrangement of alphabet keys is provided in a total of three rows. Two of the three rows have a total of nine keys each, and the other row has a total of eight keys. The vowel keys are grouped together in a vowel group having a symmetric shape in which an imaginary line extending vertically divides the vowel group into a left half and right half that is a mirror image of the left half. The vowel group traverses the three rows and at least two columns, and at least a portion of the vowel group is located at a center of the arrangement. The consonant keys are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right on opposite sides of vowel group. A vowel key in the vowel group is centered along the imaginary line to be at a midpoint of the vowel group in a horizontal direction.
Claims24
A keyboard arranged on a tangible medium, the keyboard comprising:
- an arrangement of alphabet keys, wherein the alphabet keys are provided in a total of three rows extending in a horizontal direction, each alphabet key in the three rows representing one letter of the English-language alphabet so that the three rows of alphabet keys include all consonants and all vowels of the English-language alphabet, wherein
- two of the three rows of alphabet keys have a total of nine keys each, and one of the three rows of alphabet keys has a total of eight keys,
- the consonants are represented with consonant keys and vowels are represented by vowel keys,
- the vowel keys are grouped together in a vowel group having a symmetric shape in which the vowel group is vertically divided into a left half and right half that is a mirror image of the left half, the vowel group traversing the three rows and at least two columns, and at least a portion of the vowel group is located at a center of the arrangement,
- the consonant keys are arranged in alphabetical order from left to right on opposite sides of vowel group, such that three columns of the consonant keys are on one of a left side of the vowel group and a right side of the vowel group and four columns of the consonant keys are on the other of the left side and the right side of the vowel group, and
- at least one vowel key in the vowel group is centered to be at a midpoint of the vowel group in the horizontal direction.
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