Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Home Control Singapore Pte Ltd

Beng Tee Peh

Ching Guan Tay

Fei Han

Whye Kwong Liang

Andries Jacob Benoit Rambouts

Yuanjing Yuan

A clickable control pad, comprising a top part (), a frame (), and a mechanical structure () for guiding a movement of the top part () with regard to the frame () in a direction perpendicular to the frame ().

Clickable control pad

An information processing system has a display monitor and a user-interface for text entry. The display monitor presents the set of alphanumerical characters in a spatial configuration of three parallel horizontal rows or three parallel vertical columns. The 'left'-button and the 'right' button of the directional buttons of the user-interface control the selection of a group of alphanumerical characters, one of each of the three parallel arrays and positioned in the same column. The &#x201c;up&#x201d;-button and the &#x201c;down&#x201d;-button of the directional buttons and the &#x201c;OK&#x201d;-button, sitting in between, are used to select a specific one of the alphanumerical characters from the selected group.

User-interface for entering alphanumerical characters

Remote control unit

PC RC card storable in PC extension slot

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Singapore, Singapore

Beng Tee Peh