Virtual keyboard
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKATSUYA NAKAGAWA
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Abstract
The present invention provides virtual keyboard which can be used at the same number of operations as on a conventional keyboard and can allow a natural input operation at a minimized load. The virtual keyboard comprises a liquid crystal display for displaying thereon a keyboard having special keys and general keys, a transparent pressure-sensitive panel superimposed on the display and a computing portion that, when a special key and a general key on a pressure-sensitive panel are pushed at a time, detects the coordinate of a middle point between the two pushed positions from outputs of the pressure-sensitive panel, calculates a general key position from the special key point and the middle point and outputs a code corresponding to that position.
Claims2
A virtual keyboard comprising a displays for displaying a keyboard, a transparent pressure-sensitive panel disposed on the displays and a processor for receiving information of positions detected and sent in a time sequence from the pressure-sensitive panel when a combination of a general key and a special key in the keyboard is pushed at a time, identifying a position of the pushed general key according to the received position information and outputting a code corresponding to the pushed combination of the special key and the general key.
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