Computer system with touchpad support in operating system

Details Computer system with touchpad support in operating system Computer system with touchpad support in operating system

1994-03-18

1997-03-18

Bowler, Alyssa H.

395500, G06F 1500

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056131372

ABSTRACT:
A computer system comprising a central processing unit (CPU) configured to accept coordinate type data from a touchpad or the like. The CPU has an operating system executing thereon with special support for interfacing to the touchpad. The operating system has the following capabilities: (1) mapping out geometric regions of the touchpad and assign the regions to specific region identifiers responsive to application programs and (2) determining the region identifier of a touched region and passing that region identifier to the application program. Support is also provided for changing the units of the commands used to define the regions.

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