Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Light pen for fluid matrix display panel
Patent
1997-09-30
1999-11-09
Sax, Steven
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Light pen for fluid matrix display panel
345172, G09G 534
Patent
active
059823518
ABSTRACT:
In an electronic device having a keyboard (120) and a display (116), a processing system (106) displays on the display a message entered through the keyboard and selects a supplemental mode, in response to entry of a first predetermined key sequence by a user. The supplemental mode is selected in accordance with the first predetermined key sequence, from at least one of a group of supplemental modes included in the electronic device. The group of supplemental modes comprise an acronym mode (200), a supplemental scrolling keyboard mode (300), a predictive character pairing mode (301), a predictive menuing mode (400), and a bi-directional delete mode (500). The electronic device operates in accordance with the supplemental mode until an occurrence of at least one of (a) the user entering a second predetermined key sequence and (b) the supplemental mode executing to completion.
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Beckwith Mark Allan
Congdon, Jr. Ardsley Pihl
Grandin Keith Thomas
Kilp David Patrick
Lagen Nickolaos Pete
Breeden R. Louis
Motorola Inc.
Sax Steven
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