Coded data generation or conversion – Bodily actuated code generator – Including keyboard or keypad
Patent
1995-12-22
1997-02-04
Hofsass, Jeffery
Coded data generation or conversion
Bodily actuated code generator
Including keyboard or keypad
341 23, 400489, H03K 1794
Patent
active
056003137
ABSTRACT:
A computer keyboard including a keyboard body that has a top side, a bottom side, and a pair of short peripheral walls with a pair of long peripheral walls therebetween. The top side of the keyboard body has a keyboard mechanism located thereon. A wrist pad is positioned on the top side of the keyboard and is perpendicular one of the long peripheral walls. Included are a plurality of keys that are positioned on the keyboard mechanism and comprised of a space bar, function keys and alphabet keys. A pointing stick is positioned from the space bar and between the alphabet keys of the keyboard mechanism. The pointing stick controls all movement of a cursor on a display screen of a computer. Lastly, a pair of mouse buttons are provided and spaced from the space bar on the keyboard mechanism. The pair of mouse buttons form a right button and a left button that functions in accordance with the pointing stick when the user positions the cursor on an icon.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5438331 (1995-08-01), Gilligan
patent: 5486846 (1996-01-01), Comer et al.
Hill Andrew
Hofsass Jeffery
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