NINE SENSOR DATA ENTRY KEYBOARD AND CONTROL MEANS

Fuente: Wipo "Sensorization"
This invention relates to methods of using nine sensors, preferably a centrally located sensor surrounded by eight adjacent sensors, to produce data. This invention also relates to methods of producing data using a multi-tap data entry method using nine sensors, a simultaneous data entry method using more than nine sensors and/or a sequential data entry method using more than nine sensors. This invention produces alphabetic data characters, data characters, a space, numbers, punctuation, symbols, control and functions using nine sensors or more than nine sensors. Activating one of nine sensors produces a number, a first data character of three or four data characters or multiple data characters. Activating one of nine sensors once produces a first data character, twice produces a second data character, thrice produces a third data character, four times produces a fourth data character, five times produces a fifth data character, six times produces a sixth data character, seven times produces a seventh data character, eight times or more produces additional data characters. The present invention relates to a method of using nine sensors for data entry, preferably on a centrally located sensor surrounded by eight adjacent cardinal point direction activated sensors or eight touch sensor cardinal point activated zones, a cell phone menu sensor, a camera menu sensor, an iPod/MP3 menu sensor, etc. for producing alphabetic data, a space, numbers, punctuation, symbols, control, functions and data characters; preferably activated by the left or right thumb. Nine sensors plus at least three additional sensors provide for simultaneous or sequential sensor activations, reducing the frequency of individual, simultaneous or sequential sensor activations. Nine sensors plus six additional sensors provide for simultaneous or sequential sensor activations which require fewer sensor activations than using only three additional sensors.