Claims
- 1. A portable electronic device configured for single hand use, comprising:
a housing having an operating surface and having an upright hand-held operating position; a micro-processor, disposed within the housing; a display, coupled to the micro-processor, positioned on the operating surface; and a keypad, coupled to the micro-processor, positioned on the operating surface above the display with the housing in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 2. The device of claim 1, wherein the display is positioned nearer a lower portion of the operating surface than an upper portion of the operating surface and the keypad is positioned nearer an upper portion of the operating surface than the lower portion of the operating surface with the housing in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 3. The device of claim 1, wherein the housing comprises a back-side operable to be held in the upright hand-held operating position with all four fingers of one hand positioned around the back-side of the housing and with a thumb of the one hand comfortably positioned over the keypad on the operating surface.
- 4. The device of claim 1, wherein the keypad comprises an alpha-numeric key pad arrangement with readable indicia in an upright orientation with the housing held in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 5. The device of claim 1, wherein the keypad comprises function keys with readable indicia in an upright orientation with the housing held in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 6. The device of claim 1, wherein the keypad comprises multiple keys representing numeric digits 0 through 9 with readable indicia of the numeric digits in an upright orientation with the housing held in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 7. The device of claim 1, wherein the keypad comprises multiple keys representing alphabet digits A through Z with readable indicia of the alphabet digits in an upright orientation with the housing held in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 8. The device of claim 1, further comprising memory, disposed in the housing and coupled to the micro-processor, operable to store information therein.
- 9. The device of claim 1, further comprising a battery disposed in the housing operable to provide power to the device.
- 10. A hand-held portable digitizer device comprising:
a housing having an operating surface and having an upright hand-held operating position; processing means, within the housing, for processing information; display means for displaying information responsive to the processing means, the display means positioned nearer a lower portion of the operating surface than an upper portion of the operating surface with the housing disposed in the upright hand-held operating position; and manual data input means for inputting data information using a thumb and finger of a user's hand, said information to be processed by the processing means and displayed on the display means, the data input means being positioned on the operating surface above the display means.
- 11. The device of claim 10, wherein the display means is positioned nearer a lower portion of the operating surface than an upper portion of the operating surface and the data input means is positioned nearer an upper portion of the operating surface than the lower portion of the operating surface with the housing in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 12. The device of claim 10, wherein the housing comprises a back-side operable to be held in the upright hand-held operating position with all four fingers of one hand positioned around the back-side of the housing and with a thumb of the one hand comfortably positioned over the data input means on the operating surface.
- 13. The device of claim 10, wherein the data input means comprises a primary keypad with multiple keys having readable indicia in an upright orientation with the housing held in the upright hand-held operating position.
- 14. The device of claim 13, wherein the multiple keys comprise an alpha-numeric keypad arrangement with the readable indicia.
- 15. The device of claim 13, wherein the multiple keys comprise function keys with the readable indicia.
- 16. The device of claim 13, wherein the multiple keys comprise keys representing numeric digits 0 through 9 with the readable indicia.
- 17. The device of claim 13, wherein the multiple keys comprise keys representing alphabet digits A through Z with the readable indicia.
- 18. The device of claim 10, further comprising means for providing electrical power to the device.
- 19. The device of claim 10, further comprising memory means, within the housing and coupled to the processing means, for storing information including storing the data information from the data input means.
Parent Case Info
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 10/680,563, filed Oct. 7, 2003, which claims benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/416,896, filed Oct. 7, 2002.
Provisional Applications (1)
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60416896 |
Oct 2002 |
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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