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US 2014/0176445 A1Published application
Graphical user interface driven keyboard configuration
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAndrew David Stonefield, Jonathan A. Bowman
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Abstract
A method and apparatus modify at least one characteristic of a physical keyboard based on the modifications to a display of the one or more graphical user interfaces on a display screen.
Claims23
An apparatus comprising:
- a display screen;
- a physical keyboard;
- and
- a controller to generate and transmit control signals to the physical keyboard to modify at least one physical configuration characteristic of the physical keyboard based on modifications to display of the one or more graphical user interfaces on the display screen.
1 more element
An apparatus comprising:
- a non-transient computer-readable medium comprising code to direct a processing unit to:
- modify at least one physical characteristic of a physical keyboard based on a modification to a display of one or more graphical user interfaces on a display screen.
A method comprising:
- modifying display of one or more graphical user interfaces on a display screen;
- and
- modifying at least one physical characteristic of a physical keyboard based on the modification of the display of the one or more graphical user interfaces on the display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.