Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Cursor mark position control device
Patent
1994-10-11
1996-02-13
Brier, Jeffery
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Cursor mark position control device
273438, G09G 508, A63F 900
Patent
active
054914973
ABSTRACT:
According to the present invention there is provided an input device capable of making input in three-dimensional directions in conformity with the human's operating sense and easy to operate.
The input device is provided with, in addition to first and second switches disposed on a substrate and a third switch disposed on the substrate in a direction in which it can be pushed in the surface direction of the substrate, a fourth switch capable of being pushed axially of a shaft. An actuator used in the device has a slide-contact surface which is part of a predetermined spherical surface, and in the interior of a housing there is provided a slide-contact surface for sliding contact with the slide-contact surface of the actuator. An operating member used in the device has a shape bridging the upper and lower ends of a stick.
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Alps Electric Co. ,Ltd.
Bever Patrick T.
Brier Jeffery
Shoup Guy W.
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