Electronic apparatus
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorMasakazu Hosoda
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes: a keyboard provided with a plurality of keys and a plurality of LEDs arranged around each of the keys; a storage unit configured to store information indicating relationship between the keys and corresponding LEDs; a detecting unit configured to detect a key input at one of the plurality of keys; and an LED controlling unit configured to light at least one of the LEDs corresponding to the one of the keys based on the information when the detecting unit detects the key input.
Claims6
An electronic apparatus including a keyboard, the electronic apparatus comprising:
- a first plurality of keys included in the keyboard;
- a second plurality of LEDs coupled to the keyboard with each of the second plurality of LEDs located between adjacent keys of the first plurality of keys, at a position not overlapping the first plurality of keys, and in parallel to an arrangement of the first plurality of keys;
- a storage unit that stores plural sets of information in which the LEDs are associated with each of the first plurality of keys;
- a detecting unit that detects a key input on the keyboard;
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- an LED controlling unit that, when a key input is detected by the detecting unit, lights LEDs, in a sequential manner, which are associated with the input key in the storage unit, according to the plural sets of information stored in the storage unit.
An electronic apparatus including a keyboard, the electronic apparatus comprising:
- a first plurality of keys included in the keyboard;
- a second plurality of LEDs coupled to the keyboard with each of the second plurality of LEDs located between adjacent keys of the first plurality of keys, at a position not overlapping the first plurality of keys, and in parallel to an arrangement of the first plurality of keys;
- a storage unit that stores first information and second information in which the LEDs are associated with each of the keys;
- a detecting unit that detects a press of a key of the keyboard, and a release of a key;
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- an LED controlling unit that, when a press of a key is detected by the detecting unit, lights LEDs which are associated with the pressed key according to the first information stored in the storage unit, and, when a release of the key is detected by the detecting unit, lights LEDs which are associated with the released key according to the second information stored in the storage unit.
An electronic apparatus including a keyboard, the electronic apparatus comprising:
- a first plurality of keys included in the keyboard;
- a second plurality of LEDs coupled to the keyboard with each of the second plurality of LEDs located between adjacent keys of the first plurality of keys, at a position not overlapping the first plurality of keys, and in parallel to an arrangement of the first plurality of keys;
- a storage unit that stores first information for lighting LEDs, in a sequential manner, which are associated with each of the keys in the storage unit and second information for turning off the lighted LEDs;
- a detecting unit that detects a key input on the keyboard;
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- an LED controlling unit that, when a key input is detected by the detecting unit, controls lighting and turning off of LEDs according to the plural sets of information which is associated with the input key in the storage unit.
The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, further includes an input accepting unit that accepts an input of information through the keyboard for associating the LEDs with each of the keys,
- wherein the storage unit stores information in which the LEDs are associated with each of the keys based on the information which is input through the input accepting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.