Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device
Patent
1997-05-30
2000-02-29
Shalwala, Bipin
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
345163, 345167, G09G 302
Patent
active
060315180
ABSTRACT:
The device comfortably supports the hand of the user while the thumb and fingers are associated with keys, a trackball, and a scrolling wheel carried on the device. The overall configuration of the device and the arrangement of these actuators permits the user to operate all of the functions provided by the actuators while the forearm is in a neutral posture zone between pronation and supination of the forearm, and the wrist and fingers are minimally extended and comfortably flexed, respectively.
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Adams Aditha M.
Arbak John Richard
Cruz Edward V.
Kaneko Steven T.
Ledbetter Carl J.
Kovalick Vincent E.
Microsoft Corporation
Shalwala Bipin
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