Future Apple keyboards have have “adjustable input mechanisms,” according to a newly granted patent.
About the patent
The patent involves keyboards having adjustable input mechanisms. Each of the adjustable input mechanisms of the input device may be automatically adjusted or otherwise tuned based on a user preference.
In the patent filing Apple says that conventional input devices, such as keyboards, are typically static. This means a user can’t adjust the feel and/or “travel” of a key or button. Typically, different users have different typing preferences based on their hand size, gender, typing style and so on.
However, because the feel and/or travel of the translatable input mechanism of the input device is static, the user may have to settle for an input device that does not match his typing, Apple notes. The patent is for a keyboard with one or more buttons that allow a user to customize it to their preferences.
Summary of the patent
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent: “Disclosed herein is an input device having adjustable input mechanisms. The input mechanisms of the input device may be dynamically adjusted based on one or more input characteristics associated with a user. Accordingly, the input device may be customized to fit a user’s input preferences.”
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