US 12,223,120 B2
Computer keyboard with telephone keypad, and electronic equipment
Xiaodong Mo, Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 18/547,414
Filed by Xiaodong Mo, Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Feb. 21, 2022, PCT No. PCT/CN2022/000025
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 22, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/174686, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 25, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110195072.6 (CN), filed on Feb. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0126379 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/02 (2006.01); H01H 13/83 (2006.01); G06F 3/023 (2006.01); H04M 1/247 (2021.01)
CPC G06F 3/0219 (2013.01) [H01H 13/83 (2013.01); G06F 3/023 (2013.01); H01H 2219/039 (2013.01); H04M 1/2473 (2013.01); H04M 2242/16 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer keyboard with a telephone keypad, comprising:
a main keyboard in QWERTY layout, wherein
the main keyboard comprises an inner nine-grid numeric key area; and
twelve keys of the telephone keypad comprising 123 456 789 *0 #are mapped to the inner nine-grid numeric key area and its surrounding;
wherein in the main keyboard of the computer keyboard, standard keys are replaced with special keys, such that transition and conversion from oblique arrangement to vertical arrangement is achieved and the inner nine-grid 3*3 numeric key area vertically arranged is obtained, and the telephone keypad is mapped to the inner nine-grid numeric key area vertically arranged, and is superposed and multiplexed with keys of the inner nine-grid numeric key area.