Dell Products Inc.

Gregory J Baluch

Nicholas G DiLoreto

Joseph D Mcdonald

Brandon Joel Brocklesby

Erik Summa

James Damon Trim

Hsu-Feng Lee

John S Pruitt

Simon W Jackson

A portable information handling system includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. The touch locations may be identified with illumination points and unlabeled as to an associated function since the function associated with a touch location is presented at the display. Alternatively, a secondary display presents function key images at the touch function row. The on-screen-display user interface presents different control interfaces when touches include multiple fingers and drag versus non-drag inputs.

Information handling system touch function row with secondary display and coordinated presentation on main display

A portable information handling system includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. The touch locations may be identified with illumination points and unlabeled as to an associated function since the function associated with a touch location is presented at the display. The on-screen-display user interface presents different control interfaces when touches include multiple fingers and drag versus non-drag inputs.

Information handling system capacitive touch function row with on-screen-display user interface

Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to allow an information handling system user to selectively activate and interact with a speech recognition service for system control during application runtime on the same system, and without interrupting the separate application on the same information handling system. The activated speech recognition service may respond to verbal commands to control one or more operating characteristics of the information handling system while the separate application (e.g., such as a computer game) is simultaneously executing without interruption on the same system. A user may be allowed to activate the speech recognition service using one or more different activation modes, e.g., using eye tracking, call word recognition, and/or hardware input/output actuation.

Systems and methods for selectively activating and interacting with a speech recognition service during application runtime without interrupting execution of the application

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Gregory J Baluch