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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2020
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Travis C. North, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Jace W. Files, Round Rock, TX (US);
Yongook Guack, Austin, TX (US);
John Trevor Morrison, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A portable information handling system includes a physical keyboard that extends and retracts from within the system to outside of the system and a display that presents a virtual keyboard that moves synchronously with physical keyboard during retraction and extension. For example, as keys of the physical keyboard become visible or hidden by movement of the physical keyboard, the virtual keyboard slides across the display so that virtual keys are hidden or visible with the virtual keyboard in one example embodiment only showing virtual keys corresponding to hidden physical keys. In another example embodiment, the virtual keyboard accepts key inputs for hidden physical keys, which are disabled from accepting inputs.