Method for providing human input to a computer
OwnerTimothy R. Pryorinventor
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for providing human input to a computer which allows a user to interact with a display connected to the computer. The method includes the steps of placing a first target on a first portion of the user's body, using an electro-optical sensing means, sensing data related to the location of the first target and data related to the location of a second portion of the user's body, the first and second portions of the user's body being movable relative to each other, providing an output of the electro-optical sensing means to the input of the computer, determining the location of the first target and the location of the second portion of the user's body, and varying the output of the computer to the display based upon the determined locations for contemporaneous viewing by the user.
Claims30
A touch interface comprising:
- a touch surface;
- a touch sensor adapted to detect the position of a first touch input on the touch surface;
- and
- a transducer responsive to the touch sensor and adapted to actuate the touch surface proximate the first touch input with a tactile feedback signal in response to the touch input.
A computer implemented method for providing force feedback, the method comprising:
- providing a touch surface;
- detecting a first touch input on the touch surface;
- determining the location of the first touch input on the touch surface;
- and
- actuating the touch surface with a tactile feedback signal proximate the first touch input in response to the determining step.
A computer implemented method for providing tactile feedback in response to input received from a user, the method comprising providing a touch surface;
- determining the position of a first touch input at a first portion of the touch surface;
- and actuating the first portion of the touch surface proximate the first touch input to provide a first tactile force feedback signal to the user in response to the determining step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.