US 12,608,090 B1Granted

Chorded multilingual human interface controller ChordABC

OwnerGrigori Soulkineinventor

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Abstract

This invention is a chording keyboard, with air mouse and IR TV remote blindly operated by two hands. Leading hand is pressing buttons on the front of the device to enter General chord and another holding hand is pressing buttons on the side of the device to enter Modifier chord where one modifier button—#6 is activating air mouse. Changing Modifier chord allows to switch General chord from input of characters to input of numbers, punctuation, brackets, edit and TV commands, etc. Device operating system allows to manage languages, shortcuts, data strings and etc. by pressing predefined Modifier and General chords pairs. Simplified chording sequence is introduced to associate it order with any alphabetic languages characters order, numbers order, punctuation, brackets, edit commands and etc. It allows to increase input speed, improves convenience and significantly helps to learn and remember associated chords pairs.

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Dependent claims

A chording input device comprising:

a controller;
at least one MEMS sensor;
a first set of chord buttons for a first hand of a user;
a second set of chord buttons for a second hand of a user;
and
at least one last chord button,
wherein the at least one last chord button and a chord button of the second set of chord buttons are activated by the thumb of the second hand of the user,
wherein an input event begins when any of the first set of chord buttons are activated,
wherein the input event ends when all of the first of chord buttons are released or all of a second set of chord buttons are released,
wherein, during the input event, all of the activated chord buttons, from the first set of chord buttons and the second set of chord buttons, are recorded and results in a chord pair,
wherein an item is entered based on the chord pair,
wherein the last second chord button activated by the thumb is for mouse activation, which causes mouse buttons to be associated to some of the first set of chord buttons and some of the second set of chord buttons,
wherein the first set of chord buttons are general chords,
wherein the second set of chord buttons are modifier chords,
wherein, based on the activated second set of chord buttons, the item that is entered includes a character, number, symbol, and a command, and
wherein the chording input device connects to a computer via a cable or wirelessly.

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