Appeal No. 1998-0874
Application 08/318,513
The disclosed invention pertains to the field of
information entry systems for machines such as copying
machines, facsimile machines and so forth. More specifically,
the invention is directed to apparatus for freely setting an
area of a coordinate input device in response to indication of
size determining points within a continuous range of
variation. The user may freely determine which input
functions will correspond to different areas of the coordinate
input device.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An apparatus for registering an operation key on a
coordinate input surface of a coordinate input device, the
coordinate input surface having a fixed key area and a freely
set key area, comprising:
means for storing a fixed key table which correlates
operation key information representing a function of a
specified operation key with fixed area information
representing a specified area of the fixed key area of the
coordinate input surface, said specified operation key being a
fixed operation key;
means for selecting a registering mode;
means for specifying the operation key;
means for specifying a freely set sub-area of the freely
set key area in response to an indication of one or two size-
determining points on the coordinate input surface within a
continuous range of variation; and
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