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Display and keyboard panel

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Inventors: Negishi, Hidetaka; Aoki, Shigemitsu;
Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX)
Primary Examiner: Moore; David K.
Assistant Examiner: Fatahiyar; M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Hiller; William E., Merrett; N. Rhys, Sharp; Melvin

A display and keyboard panel for an electronic device such as a handheld or desktop calculator, the panel having a keyboard area and an indication area located in the vicinity of the keyboard area. The indication area has a plurality of key sections each having at least two component areas each for indicating a single piece of information. Each of the key sections is typically formed by a touch sensor switch area having at least two adjacent areas corresponding respectively to the aforesaid component areas, each of the adjacent areas of the touch sensor switch area including at least one segment or plural segments of a conductor.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a display and keyboard panel having a keyboard area and an indication area located in the vicinity of the keyboard area, characterized in that the indication area comprises by a plurality of key sections each having at least two component areas each for indication of a single piece of information.
Each of the key sections is typically formed by a touch sensor switch area having at least two adjacent areas corresponding respectively to the aforesaid component areas, each of the adjacent areas of the touch sensor switch area including at least one segment or plural segments of a conductor.
The plural segments of the conductor are preferably connected to a single common conductor line.
A display and keyboard panel according to the present invention may further comprise selector means for selecting one of the key sections and one of the component areas of each of the selected key sections for the display of the piece of information assigned to the selected component area of each of the selected key sections.

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