Computer interface device

Details Computer interface device Computer interface device

1993-11-12

1996-04-02

Marmor, Charles A.

Machine element or mechanism

Control lever and linkage systems

Multiple controlled elements

244236, 244237, 341 20, 345157, G05G 9047

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055030408

ABSTRACT:
A computer interface device includes a gimbal mounted handle having a plurality of input members for effectively communicating navigation and command signals to a computer. This invention provides a user with six degrees of freedom for navigation within a virtual reality world while simultaneously enabling a user to enter a series of commands in order to effectively communicate a user's intentions to a computer to effect a change within a virtual reality world.

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Digital Image Design, Inc. Advertisement excerpted from "Virtual Reality News", vol. 2, Issue 4, p. 21; Sep./Oct. 1993.
Pp. 124-141 excerpted from Pimental & Teixeira, Virtual Reality, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, Inc. (1993).
NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "Handcontrollers for Teleoperation" JPL Publication 85-11, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Mar. 1, 1985, pp. 33-35.

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