Patent ID: 8760273

Claim:
A haptics enabled keyboard assembly for accepting input from a user, the keyboard comprising: a keyboard base; and one or more haptics-enabled key structures overlying and supported by the keyboard base, each of the haptics-enabled key structures including: an independently depressable hard plastic keycap, a separate raised flexible dome, and separate key output circuitry configured to provide an output signal and being disposed between the raised flexible rubber dome and the keyboard base, the hard plastic keycap being configured to depress the separate raised flexible rubber dome against the separate key output circuitry to cause the key output circuitry to provide an electrical output signal when the hard plastic keycap is depressed, and separate haptics actuation circuitry disposed on or within the keyboard base in a position between the key output circuitry and the keyboard base, the haptics actuation circuitry being configured to independently impart haptics motion to the depressable keycap of the key structure without imparting substantially any haptics motion to any adjacent key structure of the keyboard assembly, wherein the separate haptics actuation circuitry of each haptics-enabled key structure is separate and independent from the haptics actuation circuitry of any other haptics-enabled key structure of the haptics enabled keyboard assembly.