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US 7,412,269 B2Granted
Portable electronic device
AssigneeSony EMCS (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
InventorsKap Soung Lee, Ying Cheh Tan
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Abstract
A portable electronic device provided with interface means which include an LCD and function keys (7, 8). The device is provided with a left-hand mode and a right-hand mode to facilitate operation of the interface whether the device is held in the right hand or the left hand. A control means is provided for selectively transferring from one mode to the other mode.
Claims1
A portable electronic device comprising:
- a generally disc shaped disc player having generally centrally located hand strap spaced above an upper surface of the disc shaped player whereby,
- wherein in use, a user's hand passes under the hand strap and grips the periphery of the disc,
- an information display panel located on the hand strap;
- function keys being located on the hand strap and comprising two arrow keys pointing in opposite directions;
- left-hand mode means and right-hand mode means for facilitating viewing the display and operation of the function keys depending whether the device is held in a user's right hand or a user's left hand;
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- control means for transferring from one mode to the other mode,
- wherein when transferring from one mode to the other mode the display information is inverted and the two arrow function keys exchange functions.
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