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US 2006/0224523 A1Published application
Dynamic keypad
OwnerRajith Elvitigalainventor
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for providing a dynamic interface, for example, a keypad on a touch screen. When the touch screen displays a keypad, the appearance of the keypad is randomly generated. In an embodiment, consecutive keypads can differ with respect to any combination of the size of the keys, the shape of the keys, the spacing between the keys and the position of the keypad on the screen. Additionally, at least some part of a generated keypad appearance can be determined from a previous user's input.
Claims19
A method of providing a dynamic interface comprising:
- receiving an instruction to display an interface;
- generating an interface appearance, wherein said interface appearance is chosen sufficiently randomly;
- and
- displaying said selected interface appearance.
1 more element
A display device comprising:
- a display module;
- a processing module;
- and
- memory having stored thereon at least one method, said method providing a dynamic interface comprising,
- receiving an instruction to display an interface,
- generating an interface appearance, wherein said interface appearance is chosen sufficiently randomly, and
- displaying said selected interface appearance.
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A manifested keypad comprising:
- a plurality of keys representing a predefined set of characters, wherein an appearance of said keys in said manifested keypad is generated in a sufficiently random manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.