Animal Training Device that Controls Stimulus Using Proportional Pressure-Based Input

A remote training system comprising:

• a hand-held transmitter and a receiver for attachment to an animal to be trained, the transmitter and receiver enabled to communicate wirelessly with each other, the transmitter comprising:
• a housing sized to be held in one hand of a user;
• a pressure-sensitive input device supported by the housing and configured to be actuated by the hand holding the transmitter;
• first circuitry disposed within the housing and coupled to the input device, the first circuitry comprising a pressure sensor that, responsive to pressure applied to the input device, produces an input signal having an amplitude that corresponds to the pressure applied to the input device;
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• a microprocessor disposed within the housing in communication with the first circuitry, the microprocessor configured to, responsive to receiving the input signal via the first circuitry, encode the input signal to produce an encoded stimulus signal and cause the transmitter to transmit the encoded stimulus signal to the receiver;
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• the receiver comprising:
• second circuitry that receives the encoded stimulus signal from the transmitter;
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• stimulus application circuitry in communication with the second circuitry and configured to receive an indication of the amplitude of the input signal and apply to the animal a first non-aversive stimulus at a stimulus intensity that corresponds to the amplitude of the input signal.