Patent ID: 7048456
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: G06F,H01H

Abstract:
1. A keyboard arrangement including several keys for inputting characters by pressing the keys, the keyboard arrangement comprising: at least one key actuable in at least two different ways depending on a pressure distribution thereon; a detector for detecting the pressure distribution on the at least one key, wherein predetermined characters are related to each of the at least one keys, and at least one of the predetermined characters of a pressed key is first selected on the basis of a sectional pressure distribution of the pressed key; and a processor operable to perform a first comparison of a combination of previously inputted characters and the at least one first selected characters to a storage of words of a defined language, and to accept one of the at least one first selected characters as a desired character if the first comparison is successful, wherein the processor is further operable to automatically perform a second comparison of a combination of previously inputted characters and at least one character that is related to the pressed key and not one of the first selected characters and not indicated by said sectional pressure distribution to the storage of words if and only if the first comparison is unsuccessful.