Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device
Reexamination Certificate
1999-03-25
2001-10-23
Shalwala, Bipin (Department: 2673)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
C345S163000, C345S168000, C345S169000, C345S172000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06307534
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This invention concerns improvements in personal computer systems, and specifically automatic mouse operation systems. The improvements are provided to memorize the PC mouse operation processes, to reproduce them, and to operate the PC mouse, automatically.
Up to now, operation of a personal computer (PC) has been extremely difficult and puzzling for the inexperienced beginner. Various guide books and instruction manuals have been prepared, and also in PC software explanatory notes are included in the form of “HELP” displays on the screen.
On the other hand, when the beginner reads these materials, tries to understand them, and tries to operate the PC according to the operational instructions, he or she is sure to meet with difficulties in the PC basic operations, because of little or no background knowledge of specialized terminology and also because of initial inability to locate the position of the correct designated object on the display.
Therefore, in case of no support or no guidence from the operation expert, the beginner is compelled to repeat what is called “trial and error”, or to waste time and labor looking into the explanatory booklet.
A series of PC operations such as PC start-up and stop operations, for connecting to PC telecommunications etc. require repetition of the same or similar operations, each use time.
Even the experienced operator finds such repeated operations troublesome, and wishes to have them eliminated. Especially to the inexperienced operator, these repeated operations have become a major reason for causing resistance as well as enmity against the PC.
Currently, as one means of simplifying these operational jobs, the command signal is pre-registered as part of the start-up program by function key operation of the keyboard, and at the time the PC is switched on, the means for running these programs automatically, or the means for using the Macro program, are put into effect.
However, the so-called Macro function is hardly suitable for general purposes, so that it is difficult to add, subsequently, the Macro function to the software without the Macro function previously installed.
In addition, the production of software with the Macro function installed, at the early production stage, leads to substantial increases in the number of program steps which eventually brings about a substantial increase in the number of production processes, in the development periods, and in development cost.
Accordingly, the use of commercial software for business use with the Macro function installed has been minimal.
For these reasons simplification of the PC operation has not been desirably advanced, so that in order to learn how to operate the PC, it has been necessary to try to read the thick and obtuse instruction manual and to understand its contents and to repeat “Trial and Error” in the PC operation. Even experienced operators have to repeat troublesome operations.
As regards currently used software, with the Macro function installed, which is designed for similar objectives, the operations involved at the time of memorizing the data are complicated, and the processes are not visible to the user at the time of reproducing the PC operation, so that such software is not suitable for use in learning mouse operations required to reach the designated display.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention seeks to eliminate such problems and inconveniences, as earlier mentioned.
In accordance with the invention, PC user knowledgeable in the use of the designated software first operates the PC to pre-store in the memory the PC operation information, employing mouse operation process data for each designated job, and its operation interval time data combined, by use of memory means with a retrieval number, combined.
Because of such pre-arrangement for memory, the beginner, by merely designating the identification number and switching on the start-up signal, is able to re-produce a series of mouse operation data pre-stored in the memory as earlier referenced, in accordance with the pre-memorization and thereby causes the responding PC to represent or display information in accordance with mouse operations, one after another. This makes possible the automatic performance of PC operation tasks.
In accordance with the invention, the mouse operation data representation system incorporates an exterior adapter device for the PC, with a microcomputer installed therein, exclusively for the mouse control, and which operates in parallel to and independently of the PC main driving circuitry. That exterior adaptor device is equipped with a remote control table and facilities for key data transmission and reception.
The mouse operation data representation system is designed to memorize and reproduce the mouse operation data, by connection of the mouse and its exterior adaptor device to the serial port and to the mouse socket, at the PC, employing connecting cables for operation in concert with programs installed in the PC and installed in the microcomputer.
At the time of operating the data memory mode of the afore-mentioned mouse operation representation system, the mouse click code signal is stored in the memory of the program in steps detailed as follows:
By operation of the mouse connected to the afore-mentioned exterior adaptor device, the click signal output from the mouse is coded in the afore-mentioned microcomputer at that device, and the mouse click code signal is inputted into the PC in real time via the signal lead connecting the adapter device to the serial port of the PC.
By operation of the mouse and the data memory/reproduction program installed in the PC, the afore-mentioned mouse click code signal input is identified as the mouse click operation, and the data obtained for the values of X and Y coordinates of the mouse cursor on the display, by means of the coordinates retrieval command of the program, are set as the data for the cursor coordinates position on the display at the time of the click.
Further on, the time interval between a previous click and the next click is computed by the program, and this value is set as the click time interval data. These click time interval data and the afore-mentioned mouse cursor coordinates data are combined in the form of one set, and multiple sets of such data obtained in such manner, as above, are stored in the memory of the program by giving the address number designated by the user.
At the time of reproduction operation mode of the afore-mentioned mouse operation representation system, by the address number designated by the operation of the input means by the user, the afore-mentioned mouse operation data pre-stored in memory are retrieved. And, the PC is operated automatically by the following described input means.
First, after retrieving the afore-mentioned mouse operation data pre-stored in the afore-mentioned memory by the address number designated by the operation of the input means by the user, and detecting the next mouse click position on the display by the program processing bases upon the reproduced mouse cursor coordinates data, the mouse cursor is shifted consecutively from its current position to its designated position, at a speed the human eyes can recognize as is shifting movement.
Second, after the lapse of time corresponding to the click time interval data, by inputting the mouse click code signal from the PC to the afore-mentioned microcomputer by the reproduced mouse operation data, the mouse click signal generated in the microcomputer is input into the mouse socket of the PC via the signal lead.
At the time of memory mode operation of the afore-mentioned mouse operation representation system, by means of the mouse operation, the pulse signal output from the mouse is first coded in the afore-mentioned microcomputer. And then, by generating the mouse operation coding data consisting of X-axis direction and Y-axis direction shift pulse number in connection with their shifting distance to the designated position, and the time interval between one click and the next one, t
Eastech Corporation
Haefliger William W.
Lewis David L.
Shalwala Bipin
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