- Patent Title: Capacitive touch enabled key with a corresponding tactile button
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Application No.: US16777703Application Date: 2020-01-30
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Publication No.: US11561624B2Publication Date: 2023-01-24
- Inventor: Andrew Bell , Jing Kathleen Jen , Younseok Sung
- Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Zilka-Kotab, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F3/02
- IPC: G06F3/02 ; G06F3/044

Abstract:
For mechanical keyboards or other input devices with individual mechanical key buttons, and particularly for compact keyboards used for laptops and other such devices, the size of the up and down arrow keys is usually half the size of most other keys on the keyboard. For example, each letter key on a physical keyboard is typically double the size of each of the up and down arrow keys on that same keyboard. Due to the smaller physical size of the up and down arrow keys, a modified mechanical configuration is used which results in a variation in the tactile feel of the various buttons of the keyboard for a user. The present disclosure discloses a capacitive touch enabled key with a corresponding tactile button to allow the key to represent multiple different inputs while also maintaining a same tactile response as other single input keys of the input device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200249766A1 CAPACITIVE TOUCH ENABLED KEY WITH A CORRESPONDING TACTILE BUTTON Public/Granted day:2020-08-06
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