Input apparatus

Patent 5453758 Issued on September 26, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 29, 2013. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Sato, Kazuhiro

Assignee

Sony Corporation

Application

No. 098896 filed on 07/29/1993

US Classes:

345/158, Including orientation sensors (e.g., infrared, ultrasonic, remotely controlled)345/156DISPLAY PERIPHERAL INTERFACE INPUT DEVICE

Examiners

Primary: Hjerpe, Richard
Assistant: Saras, Steven

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Kananen; Ronald P.

International Class

G08C 019/06

Foreign Application Priority Data

1992-07-31 JP

Abstract

An input apparatus comprising one or more detectors for detecting a physical displacement of a given movement in space, an information generating device for generating position specifying information based on a detection result outputted from the detectors, and a transmitter for transmitting the position specifying information generated by the information generating device to predetermined equipment as input information. The input apparatus according to the invention outputs as operator information the position specifying information obtained by detecting input apparatus's physical displacement, movement velocity, or acceleration to generate a predetermined command signal corresponding to movements of a human being for example, thereby providing the input apparatus excellent in both operator efficiency and human interface.