Selective call radio with contraposed touchpad
AssigneeMotorola, Inc.
InventorsDouglas L. Armstrong, Stephen W. Braun, Bradley M. Wilkinson
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Abstract
A selective call radio (10), including a housing (12), has a display (18) and touchpad (22) of the same size. The display is mounted to a surface on one side of the housing, and the touchpad is mounted to another surface on an opposite side of the housing, directly opposite the display. A screen surface of the display and a touch surface of the touchpad are parallel and have a same number of edges. Sliding of a user's fingertip on the touchpad in a right-to-left direction causes movement of a pointer (26) in a left-to-right direction, and vice versa. Movement on the touchpad causes movement in an identical amount on the display.
Claims9
A selective call radio, comprising:
- a housing having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being approximately parallel to the second surface;
- a display mounted to the housing at the first surface;
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- a touchpad mounted to the housing at the second surface.
A selective call radio housing having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface, comprising:
- a display mounted on the first surface, the display having a substantially flat screen surface;
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- a touchpad mounted on the second surface, the touchpad having a substantially flat touch surface.
A system for controlling a selective call radio, comprising:
- a selective call radio housing;
- a touchpad fixed to the selective call radio housing and electrically coupled to the selective call radio, the touchpad having an axis;
- a display for displaying a pointer of a graphical user interface, the display fixed to the selective call radio housing and electrically coupled to the selective call radio, the display having a corresponding axis;
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- means for interconnecting the display and the touchpad such that a component of touching movement on the touchpad along the axis produces a component of movement of the pointer on the display along the corresponding axis in a reverse direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.