Coded data generation or conversion – Bodily actuated code generator – Including keyboard or keypad
Patent
1998-02-09
2000-02-29
Crosland, Donnie L.
Coded data generation or conversion
Bodily actuated code generator
Including keyboard or keypad
341 28, 700 84, 345156, 345168, H03K 1794, G09G 500
Patent
active
060314710
ABSTRACT:
A graphical machine-user interface includes a processor connected to a display screen to generate a screen display of individual items in groups together with the selector indication. The processor and a display screen are used to advantage to provide a rich keyboard function from a very limited set of pushbuttons. For example, five pushbuttons indicating "up", "right", "down", "left", and "middle" are recursively used to reduce a large two-dimensional matrix of item choices presented on the display to some subset, e.g., a top, right, bottom, left, or middle subset. If the reduction results in a choice of one, then that item is selected and output automatically. If the reduction results in a subset with more than one item, then a recursive process is used in which the selection process is repeated until the selected subset is reduced to a single item.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4742473 (1988-05-01), Shugar et al.
patent: 5581593 (1996-12-01), Engelke et al.
Crosland Donnie L.
Schatzel Thomas E.
Trimble Navigation Limited
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