Glove virtual keyboard for baseless typing

Abstract

A data glove input device, serving as a virtual keyboard and enabling ten-finger-typing, has two palm bodies with glove fingers. A tilt sensor is mounted on the middle phalanx of each respective glove finger. It is used to detect the falling in one of multiple tilt angle ranges of the phalanx and to select a specific item from items in a particular column. The same tilt sensor for item selecting can also be used to validate a selection by detecting a tilt angle peak pulse. Multiple contact pads and multiple switch buttons are mounted on the lateral sides of glove fingers except the thumbs, and each of them, which is able to be touched by the thumb, is to switch the same signal selected by a tilt angle or a finger to represent another different item. Accordingly, the data glove can be finger tip uncovered and allows baseless virtual typing.

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