Patent ID: 6616358
Filing Date: 2003-09-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A changeable keyboard arrangement comprising:a database established in a memory of an electronic device, with a minimum of one or more keyboard layout code-page tables stored in said database to permit select of different keyboard layouts on said electronic device from a keyboard layout set-up menu, a CPU of said electronic device being arranged to read numbers from said key code-page table stored beforehand in said memory; wherein when said keyboard layout is changed and various keys thereof are pressed, said CPU searches for the corresponding numbers in the code-page tables based on first signals issued by contacts of said keys within a unit interval and then executes a relevant processing; and a keyboard including a circuit composed of a plurality of said contacts arrayed in rows, with said contacts each being connected via a conductor to a NAND gate circuit, and an opposite end of said NAND gate circuit being connected to the microprocessor such that the microprocessor scans the contacts for closed or open states and acquires said contacts signals issued by the contacts of said keys.