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  • G06F3/0354—Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
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  • G06F2203/0384—Wireless input, i.e. hardware and software details of wireless interface arrangements for pointing devices
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  • G06F2203/04101—2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup

Definitions

• the invention relates to mechanical construction of pencil input peripheral device for fast and comfortable computer control.
• the peripheral device so called position indicator toastX - Y
• the StanfordMouse informally called the BasMouse
• the computer programs are controlled faster using such mouse than using the keyboard.
• the user holds the mouse in his/her hand and moves it on a pad. Its movement is transferred by special sensors to the cursor movement on the monitor.
• the development of the mouse shape and number of its buttons was very rapid - the mouse with three buttons was introduced even 5 years after the first public introduction of this technical solution.
• the mouse has usually a position sensor placed on the bottom side of the body and two buttons on the upper side, namely a primary button (usually the left one) and a secondary button (usually the right one). The primary button is used most often.
• mice are equipped with a rotary wheel between the buttons allowing easier scroll of the document content and of the web pages. It is even possible to press the rotary wheel on some mouses, it means that it works as a third button. More complicated mouses may have even more other buttons which can be used for some other functions.
• the position sensor, rotary wheel, primary, secondary and other mouse buttons are mutually interconnected according to the well-known electric diagram so that the mouse used to be connected to the computers by various special connectors at the very beginning, later the connectors PS/2, or USB, or COM were established.
• the wireless mouses based on radio, infrared or Bluetooth technology of wireless transfer are used still more and more often.
• a wireless mouse the source of electric current is placed in it, for example at least one pencil battery.
• the body of such device is of longitudinal shape, resolved economically to be handheld by the user from the upper side so that the user can move it by hand along with the computer keyboard on a clean and even surface, e.g. on a mouse pad.
• the mouse movement is transferred to the cursor movement on computer monitor using special sensors.
• Classic mechanical / optical mouse allowing the input of two-dimensional information using the position sensor in form of a ball placed in the bottom mouse part in a rotating manner with resolution of cca. 200 - 2400 dpi is well-known.
• the peripheral device connected to graphic display called TriOptical pen
• the pen is of a pencil-like shape and is connected to the computer by a cable. Furthermore, it is usually equipped with so called acknowledge button.
• a photosensitive element e.g. a phototransistor
• This fact is quite simple from the technical point of view, as the activating impulse occurs at the moment of electronic beam ' s transit through the area of the pen ' s position.
• the computer re-calculates the point position at the moment of activation based on the synchronization and the point coordinates on the computer display are definitely calculated and fixed.
• the pencil input peripheral controller according to utility model SK 5302 is well-known too. It has the position sensor fitted on the longitudinal pencil body along with the rotary wheel of the micro switch placed above it and the secondary micro switch button attached next to it. There is a position sensor placed at the end of the longitudinal pencil body. The micro switch primary button is placed next to the micro switch rotary wheel and the secondary micro switch button in the longitudinal pencil body. As an alternative, the head with the sensor may be fitted on a fixed or swinging basis in the longitudinal pencil body. The position sensor may be fitted in the longitudinal pencil body or head on a sliding basis and its upper position forms the micro switch primary button. The position sensor may be fixed at the end of the longitudinal pencil body and the micro switch primary button is fitted under or above the micro switch rotary wheel in the longitudinal pencil body.
• micro switch rotary wheel is connected to the micro switch middle button on an axially sliding basis and there is a protrusion located above the micro switch rotary wheel or the middle button in the longitudinal pencil body that form at least one additional micro switch button.
• the pencil input peripheral controller consisting of the longitudinal pencil body with position sensor fitted on a fixed basis and with a the vertical cursor shift button with the primary button fitted under it and with the secondary micro switch button being mutually interconnected with the computer on electric basis.
• the invention essence is that the position sensor is placed in the longitudinal pencil body, the tip placed under it and the secondary micro switch button are fitted above the tip on the other side of the longitudinal pencil body. It is helpful if there is a position sensor forming the primary micro switch button at the axes angle a in the range 10 to 80 angle degrees and the tip at the angle ⁇ in the range 0 to 80 angle degrees.
• the device according to the invention represents is a technical improvement which makes the usage faster, less expensive and technically less demanding for its users.
• the technical solution allows of simple graphics programs for drawing in computer outside its graphic display monitor and performance of all other functions and possibilities as the common position indicator couch X-Y", i.e. the contextMouse" does and thus it expands the range of peripheral devices for fast and easy computer control.
• fig. 1 illustrates an implementation example of the pencil input peripheral computer device with the computer inlet cable, functional specimen of which is on the mousepad with the view on the the vertical cursor shift button and the secondary micro switch button fitted in the longitudinal pencil body.
• fig. 2 illustrates an implementation example of the pencil input peripheral computer device set on the mousepad on the fig. 1 with the view on the position sensor and the primary micro switch button placed in the longitudinal pencil body.
• fig. 3 illustrates an implementation example of the pencil input peripheral computer device set positioned on the mousepad on the fig. 1 and 2 with the view of some of its components equipment (without the primary button) before their inserting in the longitudinal pencil body.
• the particular example of the pencil input peripheral computer controller according to the invention displayed in fig. 1 to 3 consists of the longitudinal pencil body 1_, fitted with the position sensor 3, with the tip on a slidable basis 2 under it, forming the primary micro switch button.
• the tip is placed under it and the vertical cursor shift button 4 is fitted above the tip on the other side of the longitudinal pencil body and the secondary micro switch button 5 is placed above the cursor shift button.
• the tip 2, the position sensor 3 the vertical cursor shift button 4, the secondary micro switch button 5 and the alternative additional control buttons, which are not depicted here etc. are mutually interconnected according to the generally known electric diagram for the computer controlling mouse so that it can be connected to the computer in a standard manner, i.e. for example by an inlet cable 6 using various special connectors or PS/2, or USB, or COM connectors, or applying radio, infrared or Bluetooth technology of wireless transfer, etc.
• an electric current source placed in the wireless controller (not displayed) in its longitudinal pencil body, similar as in wireless mouse, i.e. for example at least one micro or mini battery in various standard versions or a pencil battery.
• the position sensor 3 in the controller may consist of a displayed light transmitter and receiver, e.g. infrared (on LED-diode basis), common light source with fotosensitive element for example foto sensor (electrochip), etc., or not displayed ultrasound or radio transmitter and receiver commonly used in the mouse for computer control at present.
• a displayed light transmitter and receiver e.g. infrared (on LED-diode basis), common light source with fotosensitive element for example foto sensor (electrochip), etc., or not displayed ultrasound or radio transmitter and receiver commonly used in the mouse for computer control at present.
• the user holds the longitudinal pencil body 1 in his/her hand under appropriate inclination grasping the longitudinal pencil body1 as if writing with thicker common pencil so that the tip of the primary button can move in various directions on a clean and even surface, e.g. on a table, paper or common mouse pad, etc.
• the tip may be equipped with fixed or removable or inclinable pencil or ballpoint pen refill etc., which allows ordinary writing for, e.g. on the paper.
• the position sensor 3 moves above the writing pad along with the tip 2 and its movement is automatically transferred to the cursor on the computer monitor.
• a three-dimensional computer date input i.e.
• the third coordinate can be set by putting the position sensor in the appopriate distance from the surface of the pad (lifting the device into appopriate height).
• the user controls the computer by fingers, in a standard manner as in case of a mouse by pressing the appropriate micro switch buttons, i.e. the tip 2 as the primary micro switch button, the secondary micro swich button 5, the vertical cursor shift button 4 and possibly the additional button (not displayed) for various tasks such as speed computer control and/or change-over swich, (e.g. of various sensitivity of the position sensor etc.) and/or turn-off switch of the device, e.g. on a button, shifting or revolving basis well-known from several other technical implementations.
• the appropriate micro switch buttons i.e. the tip 2 as the primary micro switch button, the secondary micro swich button 5, the vertical cursor shift button 4 and possibly the additional button (not displayed) for various tasks such as speed computer control and/or change-over swich, (e.g. of various
• the described implementations are not the only possible solutions according to the utility model.
• the pencil input peripheral device according to the invention and technical elements may differ from depicted functional specimen.
• Universal components used with the electric circuit located on a printed circuit board on fig. 3 can be replaced by a small special photo chip.
• the position sensor 3 with any inclination of the axes in the range 10 to 80 angle degrees is fitted in the longitudinal pencil body _.
• the tip 2 can be fitted at any angle ⁇ in the range 0 to 80 angle degrees in the longitudinal pencil body 1_.
• the tip may be made on fixed, sliding or removable basis. The end of it may be rounded, with a ball ending, with a ball or a pencil point attached to it, ballpoint pen refill etc.
• the tip 2 on a slidable basis may be equipped with various common extensions, which are not displayed, with non-axial mechanical converter related to the primary micro switch button.
• the primary button On the tip 2 on a fixed basis the primary button may be placed as the additional button, e.g. next to the vertical cursor shift button 4 or the secondary micro switch button 5.
• One or more additional buttons may be thus positioned above, under or beside the vertical cursor shift button 4 or the secondary micro switch button 5 in the longitudinal pencil body _.
• the pencil input peripheral device according to the invention can be used for all commonly produced computers.

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