Keyboard for a touch screen
OwnerMatthew Fawcett, Neil Teitelbauminventors
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Abstract
A tactile keyboard provides a user of a touch sensitive device having a soft keyboard with a mountable keyboard with distinct keys. The mountable keyboard can be placed directly upon the soft keyboard and facilitates typing. As the hard keys on the mountable keyboard are depressed they simultaneously depress same keys on the soft keyboard which is removably attached to the touch screen device.
Claims19
A tactile cover for a device having a touch sensitive display comprising:
- a substrate sized to cover at least an input alpha and or numeric soft keyboard portion of the touch sensitive display, said substrate having on a surface thereof, discrete separated contact regions each region located and sized to cover a soft key displayed beneath on the touch sensitive display when the tactile cover is placed on the device so as to provide a tactile alpha and or numeric keyboard upon the touch sensitive display.
A method is provided for converting a phone having soft keys to a phone having hard keys comprising:
- placing upon the soft keys of a touch sensitive display a plurality of depressable distinct hard keys sized to contact the soft keys.
A kit for converting a cell phone or PDA or MP3 or video player having a touch sensitive screen, to a screen having hard keys forming a tactile distinction with other keys adjacent thereto comprising;
- a deformable keypad formed of a sheet of material having keys thereon which correspond to soft keys on a device, wherein the keys can be distinguished from other keys by touch, and;
- a label or indicia indicating which device the deformable keypad is to be coupled with.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.