Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-29
2010-06-08
Hjerpe, Richard (Department: 2629)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
C345S157000, C345S158000, C345S160000, C345S163000, C345S173000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07733326
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus that can be used as a mouse device and as a pen device. The apparatus has modular configuration. It has four types of units: a sensor unit, a processor unit, a mouse converter unit and a pen attachment unit. The sensor unit may use an optical arrangement for detecting relative motion. The sensor unit and processor unit are used in mouse and pen device configurations. Mouse converter unit is a mouse-shape enclosure useful mainly when apparatus is employed for mouse-input. Pen attachment unit is actively employed when the apparatus is used as a pen device, but it can be made compact to fit into mouse converter unit when the apparatus is used as a mouse device. The pen attachment unit connects the sensor unit with any pen-shaped object, selectively coupling the motion of the object with the sensor unit. When the apparatus is used as a pen-device, the processor unit can be conveniently worn on hand thereby making the device highly portable. As a pen device, the apparatus can be used in pen-input mode to provide real-time input to a host device. It can also be used as a pen computer whereby input is processed and stored offline for future synchronization with the host device.
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Hjerpe Richard
Shapiro Leonid
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