Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device – Cursor mark position control device
Patent
1997-07-31
2000-10-10
Hofsass, Jeffery A.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display peripheral interface input device
Cursor mark position control device
178 1804, 178 1809, 345156, 345175, G09G 508
Patent
active
061306630
ABSTRACT:
Touchless activation of a controlled element, such as a graphic element of a computer display, is provided in any one or more of several dimensions of multi-dimensional coordinate system on the display, in response to the presence of a controlling object, such as a finger, in a predetermined field of free space separate from the element. The field is cyclically optically, angularly scanned in timed relationship with the cyclic generation and counting of timing signals. The scanning causes energy in the field that is reflected from the object to produce triggering signals during each cycle of the scan. The time each triggering signal is received is a function of the angle traversed by the scan from the start of the scan until an object is intercepted. These triggering signals are then used to interrupt the counting of the timing signals, whereby the counted values represent the angles. By triangulation, these angles are then converted into the coordinates of the object, and such coordinates are converted into control signals that are applied to the display to activate the graphic element or other controlled element. The system thus enables 3-D activation of the controlled element.
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Costello Leo F.
Hofsass Jeffery A.
Tweel , Jr. John
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