Extending the free fingers typing technology and introducing the finger taps language technology

Abstract

The present invention provides the main elements and the essential description of the Extended Free Fingers Typing Technology. The user taps with free fingers on a surface. The hands and fingers are in the pianist position and produce finger-taps organized in groups of simultaneously occurring taps called combinations of concurrent fingers-taps. Successions of groups of one or more concurrent finger-taps are executed. FFTT makes use of a device called FFTT sensing device able to help FFTT system to sense finger-taps and to recognize which fingers produced the taps. Based on appropriate technology FFTT sensing device helps FFTT acquire the data related to the occurrence of each finger-tap event including the location and the time of occurrence. In order for FFTT system to distinguish between two successive combinations of simultaneous finger-taps, the user produces them separated by short time laps. To the detected combinations of concurrent taps are associated codes that are converted to FFTT Commands comprising Keyboard Commands, Linguistic Phonemes or Morphemes, Machine Commands and other commands or functions. FFTT system executes these generated FFTT Commands locally or remotely by sending related information (with wired or wireless connection) to an Information Processing Device for further processing. When FFTT is used to create sign languages it is called Finger Taps Language Technology (FTLT). FTLT system has also the ability to convert series of language primitives to vocal speech. An apparatus that is able to perform FFTT or FTLT tasks is said apparatus with FFTT capabilities and called FFTT apparatus. Such apparatus is commonly designated as apparatus ‘with FFTT inside’.

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