Measuring device, and method for programming a soft feature key of an electronic device
AssigneeYair Nomberg
InventorDavid Arlinsky
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Abstract
A measuring device having a tape for taking angle and length measurements, tnd capable of providing a user discernible indication of the angular orientation of its tape relative in any given extended measuring state relative to a predetermined orientation, for example, the horizontal. The measuring device preferably is capable of reading out one or more measurements associated with any given extended measuring state, and transmitting them to a remote device. The measuring device preferably has one or more finger depressible soft feature keys each programmable with a user specified function downloaded from a host computer.
Claims31
A measuring device comprising a housing;
- a tape selectively outwardly tractable from said housing from a normally retracted storage state to an extended measuring state;
- a rotatable member being rotated about its axis of rotation by an angular displacement of said tape, in said extended measuring state, relative to said housing;
- and an orientation sensor responsive to said rotation of said rotatable member for providing a user discernible indication of the orientation of said angular displacement of said tape relative to a predetermined orientation.
A measuring device comprising a housing;
- a tape selectively outwardly tractable from said housing from a normally retracted storage state to an extended measuring state;
- measuring means for measuring one or more measurements associated with said extended measuring state and for providing a signal;
- control circuitry which receives said signal and has speech synthesizing capability for reading out at least one measurement associated with said extended measuring state based on said received signal;
- and a rotatable member being rotated about its axis of rotation by an angular orientation of said tape, in said extended measuring state, relative to said housing;
- and an orientation sensor responsive to said rotation of said rotatable member for providing a user discernible indication of said angular orientation of said tape relative to a predetermined orientation.
A measuring device comprising:
- a housing;
- a tape selectively outwardly tractable from said housing from a normally retracted storage state to an extended measuring state;
- measuring means for measuring at least one measurement associated with said extended measuring state;
- and a digitizer integrally formed in said housing for receiving said measurement from said measuring means;
- a rotatable member being rotated about its axis of rotation by an angular displacement of said tape, in said extended measuring state, relative to said housing;
- and an orientation sensor responsive to said rotation of said rotatable member for providing a user discernible indication of said angular orientation of said tape relative to a predetermined orientation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.