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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4922444 | Apparatus for determining distance coordinates The apparatus for determining coordinates is used as a pointing device or a mouse device in a personal computer system. The present apparatus comprises plural speed sensors and an operating means such as a CPU. When the speed sensors are moved by an opera... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4917516 | Combination computer keyboard and mouse data entry system A data input device particularly suited for computers includes a housing which also contains a computer mouse. The mouse functions are executed by moving the entire housing member, and the fingers never move away from their constant "home" key positions f... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4913573 | Alpha-numeric keyboard An ergometrically improved computer of typewriter keyboard having the keys arranged and designated so that they are operated using finger movements which substantially mimic those currently employed by a typist using a standard "QWERTY" keyboard. The keyb... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4906843 | Combination mouse, optical scanner and digitizer puck A hand held unit can operate as a mouse to move a cursor on a display, as a hand held optical scanner for entering into a computer characters or graphic information delineated on a work sheet across which the unit is moved, or as a digitizing puck for tra... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4886941 | Circuit for interfacing mouse input device to computer system A computer system mouse-type input device. Movements of a track-ball motion sensor are converted to quadrature signals and are accumulated in a counting circuit. The contents of the counter are pulse-position modulated with waveforms characteristic of a r... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4862165 | Ergonomically-shaped hand controller An ergonomically-shaped hand controller of the type commonly referred to as a "mouse", is specially configured to prevent or reduce hand muscle fatigue despite continuous use over a protracted period of time. A housing for receiving the anterior surface o... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4859995 | Mouse pointer with switchable emulation mode Mouse emulation includes two modes, a host mode in which the pointer behaves as the pointer of the host system and an emulating mode in which the pointer behaves as the pointer of the target system being emulated. The display of the target system appears ... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4852055 | Forming lines in computer aided pattern generating systems Lines of various slopes and positions are generated simply in a computer aided manual drafting system. Such lines may be drawn with a modified puck manually movable over a surface to control the position of a cursor in an electronic computer display, and ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4847604 | Method and apparatus for identifying features of an image on a video display A computer graphic interface allows a user to obtain descriptive information concerning a feature of a displayed image by pointing to the location of the feature. Conversely, the user may enter descriptive textual information, and the locations of respons... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4837489 | Magnetometer-based locator and identifier for ferrous objects having unknown shapes A ferrous object detector and locator includes a magnetometer sensor and a position sensor controlled by a microprocessor. The device accurately locates and identifies an unknown ferrous object and determines the depth and orientation of a buried ferrous ... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4831736 | Carriage for a computer mouse The invention is directed to a carriage for guiding a computer mouse. The bottom surface of the carriage is recessed for insertion of a computer mouse therein. The mouse is removably clamped in the recess to prevent relative movement to the carriage. The ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4816810 | Remote acceptance switch for computer mouse An accessory (40) for a computer mouse (18) includes a multistrand accessory conductor (42) for transmitting location signals and acceptance signals having a first coupling (44) for coupling a first end of the conductor (42) to the coupling (26) of a comp... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4799054 | Mouse operating pad A mouse operating pad to permit high resolution operation of a mouse at a work station. The pad includes a control surface which incorporates a uniform random texture permitting the tracking member to stably rest at any point on the control surface. The c... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4787051 | Inertial mouse system A hand-held inertial mouse provides input data to a computer from which the computer can determine the translational and angular displacement of the mouse. The mouse includes accelerometers for producing output signals of magnitudes proportional to the tr... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4780707 | Analog input device for a computer An improved mouse includes a stylus and a base. Transducers in the stylus detect motion of the mouse relative to a surface. In this way, the stylus can be used as a pen-shape mouse or inserted into the base, which can then be operated as a more convention... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4760386 | Automatic hiding and revealing of a pointer during keyboard activity A pointer controlled by a pointing device, such as a mouse, is temporarily removed from a visual display screen when a first character is being updated on the screen. The pointer is left hidden from the screen until the event causing screen updating has b... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4757302 | Image display apparatus 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 dif... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4757549 | Freehand drawing containing invisible lines A computer based graphic editor has the capability of recognizing as a single graphic object a plurality of unconnected freehand strokes such as a signature. This makes possible editing a document with a signature, for example, without the various parts o... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4755808 | Automatic capture of pointing device actions in a keystroke program In a data processing system including a keyboard a visual display device, and a pointing input device, such as a mouse, pointing input device events, as well as keyboard events, can be directly stored relative to a keystroke program by defining and storin... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4754268 | Wireless mouse apparatus In a computer system comprising a computer having a keyboard, and a display device connected to the computer, an improved position indicator means comprising a mouse having means responsive to movement thereof over a support surface for generating electri... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4720703 | Display method and apparatus employing cursor panning In a graphics display system, a cursor is used to pan a viewport relative to a block of stored information only part of which is selectable to be viewed through the viewport. As long as a cursor remains within the viewport, it can be utilized in a convent... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4712101 | Control mechanism for electronic apparatus An improved controller for use in adjusting certain electrical and other values, such as a pair of electrical signals which can be used to actuate a circuit for performing a specific function, such as moving the cursor of a CRT display of a computer. The ... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4687340 | Electronic timepiece with transducers A timepiece includes a variable color multi-element display for indicating time in digital format and a plurality of transducers associated with respective display elements. The color of each display element may be independently controlled, either in a pl... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4683468 | Method for manipulation of graphic sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic system A method for editing sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic application which allows the operator to apply the edit action to the sub-object without affecting the rest of the object. Vertices of the object that are defined by the adjacent common end p... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4628755 | X-Y position controller having axially-inclined transducer members A mouse (X-Y position controller) having axially-inclined transducer assemblies--preferably almost perpendicular to the surface on which the mouse is operated--for a compact, greatly simplified structure. The drive wheel of such an assembly can then be sm... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4595070 | Cursor control support device A housing for a computer mouse device which supports the mouse above a working surface on a cushion of air or other gaseous fluid including a support device having incorporated therein structure for the distribution of the fluid between the mouse and the ... | 06/17/1986 |
| 4566191 | X-Y Position indicator for a display system An X-Y position indicator control for manual movement over any surface to move a cursor over the display on a cathode ray tube, the indicator control generating signals indicating its position to cause a cursor to be displayed on the tube at the correspon... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4564835 | Field-coupled pointing device A pointing device comprises a mouse tablet having a regular repetitive pattern of field sensitive pixels on the surface thereof, and a mouse including coupling elements movable across the mouse tablet, wherein the coupling elements establish position-depe... | 01/14/1986 |
| 4561183 | Tracing aid for computer graphics A graphic aid device is disclosed which may be used with computers having a mouse-type computer cursor controller. The device provides a specific geometric orientation to the mouse, thereby enabling a tracing member attached onto or near the mouse to be u... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4562347 | Input device featuring both trackball and mouse capability An input apparatus for use with a computer, including a housing having a top aperture and a bottom aperture, a spherical member supported in the housing so that a portion thereof protrudes through the top and bottom apertures, and encoding means for trans... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4550316 | Stylus mouse A mouse comprises a housing for sliding movement on a nonspecific work surface, and a stylus depending from the housing and contacting the work surface. The stylus bends and vibrates during movement, and the direction and distance of movement are derived ... | 10/29/1985 |
| 4514726 | Noise mouse A mouse comprises a cover and a displacement pad which is displaced upon movement of the mouse over a surface. Displacement transducer means, e.g., strain gauges mounted in a parallel arm linkage, are used to ascertain direction of motion. Noise created b... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4022969 | Apparatus for signalling the position of a point on a surface Apparatus for signalling the position of a point on a surface divided into a plurality of identical subsidiary areas includes primary transducer means operable to identify uniquely the subsidiary area in which the point is located, and secondary transduce... | 05/10/1977 |
