Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device
Patent
1995-03-13
1998-01-06
Nguyen, Chanh
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
345163, G09G 500
Patent
active
057060266
ABSTRACT:
A digital input device has a thimble worn on a finger and operated as a mouse for displacement encoding or as a pointer for angular encoding, using a base unit. The thimble can also be attached to a stylus to form a tracing pen or joystick handle. A sensor preferably includes a contact roller at an end of the thimble that rotates with movement over a surface. The sensor emits a signal as a function of incremental displacement of the sensor over a surface, in X and Y directions. The sensor couples to the base unit at a universal joint and the base unit has a cup-shaped contact surface for encoding angular displacement around the universal joint, using displacement of the sensor over the cup-shaped surface. The contact roller is mechanically arranged to pass a coding strip having reflective, transmissive or magnetic stripes before a sensing element. The sensor can be pivoted back on the finger to enable typing. When disengaged from the base unit, the sensor can roll on any surface, and with the stylus can be used as a tracing pen. By scaling the displacement of the input device to equal displacement of a cursor or pointer controlled by software, the input device can be used directly on a display screen.
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