Communications: electrical – Audible indication – Percussion-type sound producer
Patent
1983-09-26
1985-06-18
Groody, James J.
Communications: electrical
Audible indication
Percussion-type sound producer
178 18, 340706, 340724, G08C 900
Patent
active
045243484
ABSTRACT:
A control interface between a physical object, such as a part of the human body, and a machine. Movement of the physical object in a defined field is sensed, and signals corresponding to such movement are received, detected, amplified and produced as an input signal to the machine to move an element of the machine in the same direction as, and in an amount proportional to, movement of the object. In one embodiment the machine is a video game system and the element is a display signal.
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