US 7,414,616 B2
User-friendly Brahmi-derived Hindi keyboard
Mahesh Jayachandra, 75 7th Cross, Kumara Park West, Bangalore 560 020 (India)
Filed on Jan. 03, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/38,529.
Prior Publication US 2003/0122785 A1, Jul. 03, 2003
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 345—171  [345/168] 35 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A character input system using a keyboard comprising a plurality of keys, at least some of the keys each being assigned at least one Hindi script character, and at least one key being assigned a halant, the key assignments being spatially grouped on the keyboard according to their phonetic characteristics.