Information Handling System Multi-Handed Hybrid Interface Devices
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsMark R. Ligameri, Michiel Sebastiaan Emanuel Petrus Knoppert
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Abstract
An information handling system input device coordinates presentation of keyboard augmentation panels proximate a keyboard resting on a horizontally-disposed touchscreen display. The keyboard augmentation panels relate keyboard and other inputs to an application active on the information handling system to enhance end user interactions. A keyboard augmentation module tracks the keyboard position on the touchscreen display to adapt content presentation in the keyboard augmentation panels based upon expected end user inputs. In other embodiments, other physical devices are augmented to have hybrid graphical interfaces that enhance multi-hand end user interactions.
Claims20
An information handling system comprising:
- a processor disposed operable to execute instructions to process information;
- a memory interfaced with the processor, the memory operable to store the information;
- a graphics system interfaced with the processor and memory, the graphics system operable to process the information to generate pixel values for presentation of the information as visual images at a display;
- a display interfaced with the graphics system processor and memory, the display operable to present the information as visual images, the display having a touchscreen operable to detect touch inputs;
- a physical device having mechanical components operable to accept end user movements and to communicate the end user movements as physical touch inputs at the display at a location of the physical device;
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- a keyboard augmentation module interfaced with the display, the keyboard augmentation module operable to detect the physical device movements through the display and, in response to the physical device movements, to present a menu at a location distal the physical device location, the physical device movements manipulating presentation of the menu and selection of menu items.
A method for inputting information to an information handling system interfaced with a touchscreen display, the method comprising:
- placing a first physical device on the touchscreen display, the physical device translating end user movements into touch inputs, the movements performed with the physical device in a stationary position at a first location;
- detecting the physical device with the information handling system communicating through the touchscreen display;
- in response to detecting, presenting a menu responsive to the movements of the physical device, the menu presented in a second location at the touchscreen display, the second location distal the first location;
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- presenting content in the menu, the content comprising selections that manage inputs made by a second physical device through touches to the touchscreen display.
A system for accepting inputs at an information handling system, the system comprising:
- a horizontally-disposed display having a touchscreen surface;
- a physical device resting on the touchscreen surface, the physical device having a stationary base and a moveable upper portion, the physical device operable to translate end user movements at the moveable upper portion into touch inputs at the touchscreen display;
- a graphics system operable to present images at the display;
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- an augmentation module interfaced with the graphics system, the augmentation module interfaced with the touchscreen to determine the physical device upper portion movements and interfaced with the graphics system to present a menu distal the physical device, the menu defining characteristics for inputs of a second physical device to the touchscreen display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.