Determining Input Associated With One-to-Many Key Mappings

摘要

In some examples, a physical keyboard is used with a computing device. For instance, the physical keyboard can be integrated with a bottom bezel area of a tablet computing device. Gesture sensors can also be integrated with the physical keyboard to provide functionality associated with thumb gestures. To illustrate, thumb gestures can be used for spacebar functionality, zooming in and out of an area on a display, or rotating an area on a display. In some instances, touch sensors can also be integrated with one or more keys of the physical keyboard to provide additional input to the computing device for determining keyboard input. In an implementation, touch sensors can be integrated on a top surface of a key or on one or more sides of a key.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a processor; a display; a physical keyboard comprising:
a single row of keys, each key configured to provide a key press input signal in response to being pressed; andone or more gesture sensors, each respective gesture sensor configured to provide a gesture input signal in response to detecting a thumb gesture within a threshold distance of the respective gesture sensor; and a keyboard signal module operable by the processor to:
receive the key press input signal;determine a first keyboard input based at least in part on the key press input signal;receive the gesture input signal; and
determine a second keyboard input based at least in part on the gesture input signal.