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US 6,724,892 B1Granted
Handset with oblique key for actuation by a user's pivoting thumb movement
AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
InventorsMark Robert Mason, Frank Nuovo, Gregor Daniel Magnusson
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Abstract
A handset is disclosed which comprises a display 3 and a scroll key 9 for scrolling data on the display. The scroll key has two portions which lie on a line oblique to the horizontal. When depressed these portions effect different scrolling actions.
Claims32
A handset comprising:
- a display for displaying data;
- and
- key means for scrolling data on the display;
- the key means having first and second projections which are mutually offset vertically and horizontally;
- wherein:
- depression of a first portion of the key means actuates the first projection to cause a first scrolling action;
- and
- depression of a second portion of the key means actuates the second projection to cause a second scrolling action, wherein the first projection is to the right of the second projection and closer to the top of the handset such that a user holding the handset in a right hand can depress the first and second portions with a thumb of the right hand by merely pivotally moving the thumb in an arc about a socket of the thumb and without significant unnatural extension of the thumb.
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A telephone handset comprising:
- a housing;
- a display connected to the housing;
- and
- a rocker key connected to the housing for displaying data on the display, the key being obliquely positioned on the housing with a top section located closer to a lateral proximate side of the housing than a bottom section of the key such that a user holding the handset in a hand can alternatively depress the top and bottom sections with a thumb of the hand by merely pivotally moving the thumb in an arc about a socket of the thumb and without significant unnatural extension of the thumb.
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A telephone handset comprising
- a display for displaying data;
- and
- key means for scrolling data on the display;
- the key means having first and second projections which are mutually offset vertically and horizontally;
- wherein:
- depression of a first portion of the key means actuates the first projection to cause a first scrolling action;
- and
- depression of a second portion of the key means actuates the second projection to cause a second scrolling action, wherein the first projection is laterally offset relative to the second projection and closer to the top of the handset such that a user holding the handset can depress the first and second portions with a thumb of the hand by merely pivotally moving the thumb in an arc about a socket of the thumb and without significant unnatural extension of the thumb.
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A telephone handset comprising
- a housing;
- a display connected to the housing for displaying data;
- and
- a rocker scroll key for scrolling data on the display, wherein the rocker scroll key comprises first and second projections which are mutually offset vertically and horizontally, wherein the rocker scroll key is coupled to the display and is adapted such that depression of a first portion of the scroll key actuates the first projection to cause a first scrolling action of the data on the display, and depression of a second portion of the scroll key actuates the second projection to cause a second scrolling action, wherein the scroll key is sized, shaped and located on the housing with the first projection laterally offset relative to the second projection and closer to a top of the housing such that a user holding the handset can alternatively depress the first and second portions with a thumb of a same hand by merely pivotally moving the thumb in an arc about a socket of the thumb and without significant unnatural extension of the thumb.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.