Title (en)

ELECTRONIC APPARATUS COMPRISING AN INDIVIDUAL CONTROL KEYBOARD FOR CONTROLLING OTHER APPLIANCES

Title (de)

ELEKTRONISCHE VORRICHTUNG UMFASSEND EINE INDIVIDUELLE STEUERTASTATUR UND ZUR STEUERUNG VON WEITEREN VORRICHTUNGEN

Title (fr)

APPAREIL ELECTRONIQUE COMPRENANT UN CLAVIER DE COMMANDE INDIVIDUEL ET POUR LA COMMANDE D'AUTRES APPAREILS

Publication

EP 1290538 A1 20030312 (FR)

Application

EP 01947507 A 20010615

Priority

• FR 0101889 W 20010615
• FR 0007654 A 20000615

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0196997A1] The invention concerns an electronic apparatus incorporating a circuitry and components such as storage units, microprocessors and the like, at least a software for at least a programme, optionally a display screen, a radiation emitter, a receiver, a microphone, an earphone, a video camera and other functional assemblies, and comprising a control keyboard consisting of keys arranged in lines and columns in the manner of a substantially rectangular table. The invention is characterised in that the keyboard (5) comprises keys which are alphabetical and form five lines (71 to 75), or columns (11 to 15), and at least six columns (61 to 66), or lines (21 to 26), so as to correspond to the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet and, optionally to accentuation and/or punctuation symbols, and each of the keys which form one of the edges of the table has a vowel in the sequence A, E, I, O, U forming each the entry to a series of conventionally arranged consonants starting after said vowel and ending with the next vowel.

IPC 1-7

G06F 3/023

IPC 8 full level

G06F 3/023 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

G06F 3/0219 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0196997A1

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0196997 A1 20011220; AU 6917601 A 20011224; EP 1290538 A1 20030312

DOCDB simple family (application)

FR 0101889 W 20010615; AU 6917601 A 20010615; EP 01947507 A 20010615