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Apparatus for moving a cursor on a screen

Patent 5910798 Issued on June 8, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject November 25, 2017. 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

Assignee

Application

No. 978153 filed on 11/25/1997

US Classes:

345/163, Mouse345/157, Cursor mark position control device345/159, Having variable cursor speed345/160Cursor key

Examiners

Primary: Hjerpe, Richard
Assistant: Tran, Henry N.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

International Class

G09G 005/08

Foreign Application Priority Data

1996-11-27 KR

Abstract

An apparatus for moving a cursor finely on a screen moves the cursor in an application program such as a CAD that requires high accuracy. The apparatus includes a mouse button formed at a predetermined portion of a mouse for selecting data; fine movement buttons formed to predetermined portions around the mouse button for moving a mouse cursor upward, downward, left and right by a preset value; and a fine movement interval regulator formed to a predetermined place of the mouse button for providing a fine movement signal per preset time while a user presses the fine movement button.

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