Keyboard operated controller
OwnerFrank Dinges, Robert L. Tartaglioinventors
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Abstract
A keyboard operated controller for controlling a plurality of lighting devices has a memory which includes a plurality of addressed multiposition registers wherein the positions store control indicia for the respective lighting devices. A finger-operated keyboard generates addresses which select the registers to control the states of the lighting devices. There is also provided means for loading the control indicia into the registers via another keyboard.
Claims3
A method of controlling a plurality of electrically powered devices comprising the steps of storing, in a set of addressed multiposition registers, control signals for controlling the states of said devices wherein each position of a register is associated with one of said devices, arranging for the selection of one of the registers through the use of a finger-operated keyboard device and by the use of capacitance disturbance therein, selecting one of the addressed multiposition registers by generating an address by means of creating a capacitance disturbance by operating the finger-operated keyboard device, and transmitting to the plurality of said devices the control signals in the multiposition register selected by the finger-operated keyboard device.
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