Coded data generation or conversion – Bodily actuated code generator – Including keyboard or keypad
Patent
1994-03-07
1999-11-09
Swarthout, Brent A.
Coded data generation or conversion
Bodily actuated code generator
Including keyboard or keypad
341 23, 341 21, 345172, 345173, 345163, H03M 1100
Patent
active
059823020
ABSTRACT:
A combination keyboard/mouse is realized using a touch-sensitive member. The touch-sensitive member (or an area of a larger touch-sensitive member) may be approximately the size of a business card (2".times.3.5"). Data obtained from a touch sensor array is software manipulated to achieve a simple, powerful method of user interaction in which the traditional keyboard and mouse disappear, being replaced by a display window (manipulable like other display windows) overlaid by the touch sensor array. The resulting input window allows for realization of a sketch-pad computer having essentially no external moving parts but providing keyboard/mouse interaction (as opposed to pen-only interaction, for example). The window need not obscure underlying text and graphics but need only delineate its extent. The keyboard/mouse may instead be housed in a housing in the same manner as a conventional mouse.
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Mannava Ashok
Swarthout Brent A.
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