Patent ID: 8738098

Claim:
A mechanism for providing a swivel hinge in a device, the mechanism comprising: first and second parts arranged to swivel about a single swivel axis, wherein relative turning of the first and second parts about the swivel axis in a first swivel direction reveals a first device user operational area, and relative turning of the first and second parts in a second opposing swivel direction reveals a second device user operational area, and wherein the swivel axis is located at a central position and is perpendicular to the first device user operational area and the second device user operational area, wherein the mechanism is arranged to provide a device closed configuration, and first and second device open configurations, the first device open configuration being provided by relative turning of the first and second parts in the first swivel direction from the device closed configuration, and the second device open configuration being provided by relative turning of the first and second parts in the second opposing swivel direction from the device closed configuration, and wherein both the first and second device user operational areas are hidden in the closed configuration, and the first device user operational area is revealed in the first open configuration, and the second device user operational area is revealed in the second open configuration, wherein the first and second device user operational areas are arranged to provide user input areas, and wherein at least one of clockwise and anticlockwise turning about the swivel axis is arranged to reveal a user key input first device user operational area, and the other of the at least one of clockwise and anticlockwise turning is arranged to reveal a user scribe recognition second device user operational area.