Variably displayable mobile device keyboard
AssigneeYoram BEN-MEIR
InventorIsrael Fermon
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Abstract
A variably displayable mobile device keyboard includes a display for presenting two or more groups of basic images, such that a different keyboard display can be generated by each of these groups of basic images, a filter for filtering one or more groups of basic images so that a single group of basic images will be displayed; and a touch screen transparent to ambient light for selecting a key of the displayed single group of basic images.
Claims21
A variably displayable mobile device keyboard, comprising means for presenting two or more groups of basic images, wherein a different keyboard display can be generated by means of each of said groups of basic images;
- filter means transparent to ambient light for filtering one or more groups of basic images so that a single group of basic images will be displayed;
- and touch screen means transparent to ambient light for selecting a key of said displayed single group of basic images.
A variable image display for presenting alternatively one of a group of two or more basic images, comprising:
- a. a composite image comprising two or more basic images printed in an interlaced or overlay fashion each in its own color ink;
- b. narrow spectral band illuminators for illuminating the composite image, selected such that only one of the basic color images is responsive to each illuminator;
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- c. a switch for toggling between the images by switching on an individual spectral illuminator appropriate to the color image that is selected to be shown, with the illumination working either in transmission or in reflection mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.