Touch-type key input apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8928588-B2
Application number	US-80398410-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2010
Priority date	Apr 27, 2001
Publication date	Jan 6, 2015
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015

Abstract

A touch press key inputting device includes: a plurality of character keys 21˜32 with at least 2 characters displayed on the surface of each key; an input judging means 72 for sensing the character keys touched and the first touched points in the area of the character keys, performing a movement longer than a specified length originally touched, and judging a moving direction in touch press inputting; a character selecting and outputting means 73 for selecting and outputting the characters displayed in the moving direction, corresponding to the moving direction judged by the input judging means, relative to the reference positions of the character keys. Since the characters on the positions are selected and output corresponding to the touch press inputting operations of the characters displayed on the key surfaces of respective character keys 21˜32 , the inputting operations can be directly sensed and easily assured, and the inputting operability is improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:
a touch-sensitive screen configured to display an output region and a soft keypad region comprising a plurality of keys that have interpretable moving directions associated therewith, a first key of said plurality of keys displaying a first character that comprises at least one of an alphabetic, numeric, and symbol character;
an input judge that determines when said first key has been activated with a first-type…

Assignees

• Kato Syunji
• Blackberry Ltd

Inventors

• Kato Syunji

Classifications

• G06F3/0236

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04883

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04886 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/018

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/023 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic