Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Cursor mark position control device
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-08
2001-11-06
Shalwala, Bipin (Department: 2673)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Cursor mark position control device
C345S156000, C345S168000, C345S172000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06313827
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention concerns an automatic computer operation system, and particularly a system which stores in memory, at a mouse, operation information which reproduces computer processes and executes computer operations, automatically.
Up to now, each step of a personal computer (pc) operation has been extremely difficult and puzzling for the inexperienced beginner, so that various guide books and instruction manuals have been prepared, and also in the pc software an explanatory note is included in the form of a HELP request.
However, when the beginner reads these materials, understands and tries to operate the pc according to the operational instructions, he is sure to meet with difficulty in pc basic operations, because of his little or no knowledge of specialized terminology, and also because of his inability to locate the position of the designated object at the display screen.
Therefore, in case of no support or no guidance from an operation expert, the beginner is always compelled to repeat so-called TRY and ERROR requests or to waste his time and labor looking into the explanatory booklet.
A series of pc operations, such as pc start-up and stop operations, a connecting operation to pc telecommunication etc. requires repetition of the same operations each time.
Even the experienced operator finds such repeated operations troublesome and wishes to eliminate them. To the inexperienced operator, these repeated operations have become major reasons for causing resistance to, as well as the allergy against, the pc.
Currently, as a means of simplification of these operations, a command signal is pre-registered as the start-up program by key operation of the keyboard, and this program is automatically run at the time the pc is switched on. The macro-program is also executed by one of these means.
In case these means are executed, however, the number of memorizable programs is very limited, so it becomes very difficult to place into MEMORY and to reproduce a few hundred to several thousand kinds of mouse and keyboard operation processes.
In addition, at the time of pa start-up and pc switch-off, a series of key operations and mouse operations have been required. Unfortunately, there have been no easy or convenient measures designed to eliminate all these operations and to obtain the desired pc screen display or to switch off the pa power supply after a series of required operations, by means of only one designated command key operation.
There are certain measures available which are intended for similar functions to those earlier mentioned, but in these cases, it is necessary to install the designated software, and to re-arrange the basic pc setup, which the inexperienced operator finds extremely difficult.
Currently, various kinds of pc operations are explained at the display screen in the form of HELP on-screen references, but because of difficult terms the beginner meets with difficulties, almost everywhere, in locating the designated position at the display screen.
Even in the case of a macro program, it must only be executed during the operation of the designated software. In addition, the display screen change and development during macro program execution is too fast for the beginner to learn about the interim processes and procedures. In addition, the use of a macro program involves a click operation or operations at some points, and even this poses some difficulties for the pc beginner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention eliminates such problems as above mentioned.
One of the solutions is to pre-store in memory at the mouse the data for a series of mouse and key operation processes as for a designated task, as well as pc operation information, with their associated operation time interval data. With such pre-arrangement done, by switching on the start-up signal after designation of the identification number to determine the intended pc processing job, at a mouse keyboard, an operator or operators inclusive of the beginner can make the entire operation automatic, from reproduction of a series of mouse and keyboard operations pre-stored in the memory-built-in type device in question, as earlier mentioned, according to the pre-memorized time passage, to re-presentation of all the respective pc operations one after another.
In the apparatus of the present invention, a pc operation re-presentation device incorporates a microcomputer designed to control the mouse and the keyboard which are concurrently activated independently of the pc main driving circuitry. That device stores first in the memory of the afore-mentioned microcomputer the pre-arranged mouse operation data, key operation data and operation interval time data, and reproduces from this memory the mouse operation data, key operation data and operation time interval data.
While maintaining the designated operation time interval according to the operation time interval data of the reproduced data, the device generates from the reproduced mouse operation data and key operation data the mouse control signal and key code signal, and outputs these signals out of the output terminal of the microcomputer, and inputs them into the mouse signal lead wire and the keyboard signal lead wire respectively, and resultantly operates and controls the pc automatically.
This invention is characterized as by the following objects or measures for pc operation data production and its input.
One measure is for shifting the mouse cursor in the pc display screen in the up/down and left/right directions, by inputting the mouse driving pulse generated from the device into the afore-mentioned mouse socket by means of operation of a button on the device and connected to the pc mouse socket an exterior adaptor.
Another measure or object is for counting the number of shift pulses at the time of cursor shifting, by means of button operation.
Another measure is for storing cursor operation data in the memory at the mouse and reproducing the mouse cursor operation data, inclusive of the number of shift pulses.
Another measure is for shifting the mouse cursor to the designated position by means of a control button, and storing at this position, by pushing the designated button, the shift distance of the mouse cursor in accordance with the afore-mentioned shift pulse number data in the memory of the device, and at the same time inputting the click signal for each of the mouse right and left switchings generated from the device, into the pc mouse socket and inputting the click signal into the computer.
Another measure is for storing in the memory the mouse operation data inclusive of the instructions as to necessity or lack of necessity of click operation, and the click to click interval time data.
The device in question is also designed to provide to its user the pc operation information consisting of the afore-mentioned mouse operation data, key operation data and the operation time interval data, which are prepared in advance by the pc specialist or the pc-oriented individual.
The pc operation re-presentation device of the invention device is designed to put in a group a series of pc operation data, to give each group its identification number, and to store in the memory of the afore-mentioned microcomputer the pc operation-information in plural groups. Then, at the time of signal reproduction from the pc operation memory, the device re-presents the designated pc operation information, by inputting the user's identification number, to choose one of the plural groups according to the input identification number and reproducing it.
The method for executing the afore-mentioned pc operation information memory/reproduction is further described as follows:
The afore-mentioned mouse operation data and key operation data, and the operation time interval data are to be so configured that the cursor is shifted to a very slight distance, in accordance with one shift pulse, for cursor shift input into the afore-mentioned mouse signal, and the cursor shift distance is put into data as the shift pulse numerical value, an
Eastech Corporation
Haefliger William W.
Lewis David L.
Shalwala Bipin
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