A key structure includes, from top to bottom in sequence: at least one key main body, made of light transmissible material; a key frame, adapted to mount the key main body; an elastic supporting portion, allowing the key main bodies to move back and forth vertically; at least one bump, formed on one side of the elastic supporting portion; a detection module, sensing the action of the key main body and allowing the bump to be in touch therewith selectively; and a display screen, configured on one side of the detection module. A user can see the bottom display screen through the key main body directly, and the elastic supporting portion drives the bumps to move downward to touch the detection module after the user presses the key main body down. Whereby, the applicable range of the present invention is increased by changing the contents of the display screen.

A cover for a portable terminal having a fixing part for fixing the portable terminal and a folder rotating at the fixing part to open and close the portable terminal. The cover includes an input unit and/or a display unit, and a charging unit. The input unit inputs data to the portable terminal. The display unit displays data from the portable terminal. The input unit and display unit are constructed in the folder. The charging unit is constructed in at least one of the fixing part and folder, and supplies power to the portable terminal generated using a solar cell.

Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and a method for controlling a reset of a control IC. The electronic device may include a battery, at least one sensor, a control IC operatively connected to the at least one sensor, a reset IC operatively connected to the control IC, and a power supply unit operatively connected to the reset IC, wherein when an operation signal is not received from the control IC for a predetermined time, the reset IC is configured to control a voltage and/or current being applied to the control IC by controlling the power supply unit. Other certain embodiments are possible.

A setting to be applied at a docking station is obtained, either from a memory of the docking station, or from another device connected to a network by first obtaining, from a user device connected to the docking station, an identity of the user device and/or an identity of a user of the user device. Based on the identity of the user and/or the user device, a configuration set, of a plurality of configuration sets, that identifies at least one setting to be applied at the docking station is obtained and a setting to apply at the docking station is determined based at least partly on the configuration set. The docking station may store a set of docking station specific settings which can be used in conjunction with the setting(s) determined from the configuration set.

A measuring device comprises a user input device, which comprises a first number of first user inputs for a user of the measuring device, a shortcut input device, which comprises a second number of shortcut user inputs for the user, and an assignment device, which assigns a respective one of the first user inputs to a respective one of the shortcut user inputs based on a received user command.

A keyboard includes a bottom plate, a circuit board disposed on the bottom plate, and a plurality of keys disposed on a side that is of the circuit board and that is away from the bottom plate. Each key includes a keycap, a rise-and-fall component connecting the keycap to the bottom plate, and an electronic ink screen fastened on a side that is of the keycap and that is away from the rise-and-fall component. A first electric conductor connected to the electronic ink screen is disposed on the keycap, a second electric conductor is disposed on the rise-and-fall component, and a third electric conductor is disposed on the bottom plate. A signal line used to supply power to the electronic ink screen is disposed on the circuit board.

At least one embodiment of the disclosed system is directed to a computer-implemented method for operating a light projection technology keyboard of an Information Handling System. The computer-implemented method may include receiving electronic environmental condition data at a keyboard configuration system, and processing the electronic environmental condition data through a neural network of an adaptive configuration engine. The neural network may output one or more functions and/or visual settings to be used in configuring operation of the light projection technology keyboard. The light projection technology keyboard may be controlled based on the one or more functions and/or visual settings output by the neural network. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating user input are provided. For example, a keyboard display trigger event for a computing device may be identified (e.g., a user interacting with a text input interface). Responsive to identifying the keyboard display trigger event, a virtual keyboard may be displayed through the computing device. The virtual keyboard may comprise virtual keys that are displayed along a periphery/edge of a screen of the computing device, such as side-by-side forming a parallelogram shape. Swipe gestures across the virtual keyboard may be used to transition to other virtual keyboards, such as a letter virtual keyboard, a numeric virtual keyboard, a symbol virtual keyboard, an emoji virtual keyboard, a virtual keyboard in a different language, etc.

A tactile communication tool for transforming a user input command into an audio output signal is provided. The tool presents a user with a housing, a plurality of buttons, a sound processing unit with a speaker, and an overlay set with a plurality of tactually discernable non-Braille characters or tactually discernable non-Braille images embossed upon it. The plurality of tactually discernable non-Braille images characters or tactually discernable non-Braille images can be positioned over the plurality of buttons such that when one of the buttons is pressed by a user, the user input command is processed, and an audio output signal is generated. The tool could also be used for providing input to a computer system. The overlay set could also be a plurality of individual tactile overlay keys.

An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.