Copycat - the keyboard. I remember a person creating short term virtual holographic keyboards and reconfiguring them along progressing with some task, traveling

Copycat - the keyboard. I remember a person creating short term virtual holographic keyboards and reconfiguring them along progressing with some task, traveling in space. The author of it? - I'm not sure yet - could be Orson Scott Card? I guess that boring patent could be about simulating such keyboards on some displays - and there no need for that: you can get same result with state of art (in SF) just closing one eye and adjusting POV. Projection keyboards are available already and can provide feedback like displaying adjusted layout. Is this patent about not allowing to configure them? The case that pressing a key result in displaying set of other options which you can press too it's called a menu in UI and is already mostly being made on pixel arrays (like touchscreens) and you can have different menus with different tools for different tasks.