Patent ID: 8384676
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: G06F,G09B,G09F

Abstract:
1. A keyboard device comprising a plurality of character keys having identical shapes, each of the character keys including a finger identifier identifying a kind of a finger with which each of the character keys is to be pressed, the finger identifier for a left hand being mirror symmetrical with respect to the finger identifier for a right hand; wherein corresponding to a QWERTY arrangement, the plurality of character keys are divided into eight areas including: wherein in the first to fourth areas, each of the finger identifiers is arranged at an upper left corner portion of a key top of each of the character keys without being arranged at an upper right corner portion thereof such that the finger identifiers also serve as a hand identifier and such that the character keys can be depressed without concealing any portion of the finger identifiers, and wherein in the fifth to eighth areas, each of the finger identifiers is arranged at an upper right corner portion of a key top of each of the character keys without being arranged at an upper left corner portion thereof such that the finger identifiers also serve as a hand identifier and such that character keys can be depressed without concealing any portion of the finger identifiers.