Image display apparatus

Details Image display apparatus Image display apparatus

1986-10-16

1988-07-12

Crosland, Donnie L.

Communications: electrical

Tactual indication

With input means

340710, 340723, 340798, G08B 300, G09G 302

Patent

active

047573023

ABSTRACT:
An image display apparatus that can ease the man-machine interaction when a user searches for a document in an electronic filing system, for example, through the image display apparatus. In a conventional electronic document filing system, it has been difficult to search for a document by inspecting or looking at the original document images shown on an image display screen. The difficulty comes from the lack in a capability of controlling the instantaneous display speed, an appropriate feedback to the user to synchronize the image paging, and a capability of showing the direction of paging. The image display apparatus disclosed here has a tactile feedback mechanism that tells the user the time a new image page is shown and that also tells him/her other status of the apparatus, like how busy it is, in terms of a tactile signal to the user's fingers. The mechanism is installed in a mouse-like pointing device that tells the apparatus the speed of paging. By using this, the user can control the paging speed spontaneously and at the same time he/she can feel the paging through the tactile feedback, in addition to a kind of sound effect.

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"Characteristics of a Transducer for Tactile Displays", G. F. Shannon, Biomedical Engineering, vol. 9, No. 6, 6-1974.

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