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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Touchfire, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Bradley S. Melmon, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven A. Isaac, Seattle, WA (US);
Ralph Levy, Doylestown, PA (US);
Touchfire, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A keyboard overlay for use with a virtual touch screen keyboard, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, a keyboard is overlaid over a plurality of virtual keys that have virtual key centers laterally spaced apart from each other. The keyboard can have a base configured to be coupled to the virtual touch screen keyboard and a plurality of overlay key structures corresponding to the virtual keys. The overlay key centers of the individual overlay key structures have overlay key centers, and at least a subset of the overlay key structures can be arranged such that the overlay key centers of the subset are offset relative to the virtual key centers of the corresponding virtual keys.