Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Touch panel
Patent
1990-11-13
1993-11-09
Weldon, Ulysses
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Touch panel
345179, G09G 302
Patent
active
052606970
ABSTRACT:
A computer system having a digitizing tablet overlaying the display screen. The tablet serves as a user's primary input device. Various features of the system make it possible for the user to run and interact with standard programs designed for keystroke and mouse input and not designed for use with a tablet. In addition to the main processor, on which the user's programs are executed, there is an interface processor. In addition to a standard display buffer, there is an ink plane buffer for interface display data that is combined with the data from the standard display buffer on a pixel-by-pixel basis according to data from a mask plane buffer. The interface processor manages input from the tablet, presents feedback to the user by means of the ink and mask planes, and provides keystroke and mouse data to the main processor as if from a standard keyboard controller. The interface processor presents the user with a collection of simulated devices, including standard devices such as a keyboard and a mouse. A nonstandard simulated device performs character recognition, permitting handwritten characters to be used for program input. During interaction with one of the user's programs, the user can activate and deactivate simulated devices (by removing them from and returning them to a device tray) and can make adjustments in their operation and location on the screen.
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Barrett David M.
Douthart Robert M.
Huntington, II Jonathan T.
Martin Patricia A.
McNally J. Michael
Fatahi-yar M.
Milik Kenneth L.
Wang Laboratories, Inc.
Weldon Ulysses
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