System for impulse input of commands, control arguments and data

A system for human-user control of a networked electronic device comprising:

• an enclosure which encompasses motion sensors, a connected processor provided with advanced firmware, including analysis algorithms adapted to resolve command impulses as well as a delivery means for providing signals into said network, said enclosure having at least one substantially-planar, input surface defined by bounding edges, at least a pair of said edges forming an orthogonal intersection;
• the location of any point on said input surface being designated by an orthogonal coordinate system, the origin of which is fixed adjacent said orthogonal intersection while the x and y basis vectors of which are aligned parallel to one of said bounding edges and the z basis vector extends substantially perpendicular to said input surface;
• said input surface(s) being mathematically mapped into one or more n-sided, closed polygons, each said polygon defined by the length of a side and the x abscissa and y ordinate coordinates of its centroid of area;
• each said polygon representing a particular input character or logic value by which the user enters operational commands for directing said electronic device;
• said motion sensors each positioned, mounted and mechanically linked to said input surface and adapted to provide signals directly reflective of impulse-vector-related displacements thereof;
• said mechanically-linked motion sensors being functionally coordinated into an array sufficiently sensitive for accurately detecting changes in:
• rigid-body displacement, rotation about an axis drawn across, or along a bounding edge of, said input surface and transient, elastic Chladni deflections of said input surface at frequencies below about 10 000 Hz;
• each said polygon being initially pre-configured by user's application of a standardized impulse of mechanical energy indicative of a specific operational input, said impulse being:
• oriented in a predetermined vector direction, (1,1a), (1,1b) and (1,1c), and sustained for a predetermined force*time interval in, for example, N-sec units;
• said processor supported adjacent said array and connected to receive said pre-configuration and operational displacement signals;
• said processor further adapted to store and access parameters resulting from said user-configuration signals as individual records in a configuration database Composite Vibration Profile (CVP);
• said firmware adapted to discriminate technical features of extraneous movements of said surface and to reject invalid operational impulses thereupon consisting essentially of:
• accidental user impacts and body tremors, environmentally-coupled acoustic vibrations, unintended ultrasonic-frequency-wave reflections-dispersions as well as Lamb- and surface-acoustic waves;
• said processor, during post-configuration operation, being especially adapted to utilize said firmware for producing characteristic technical effects consisting essentially of:
• immediate dynamic analysis of accelerations resulting from each operational impulse and the resulting generation of an instantaneous-operational (CVP) parameter;
• said technical effects consisting essentially of:
• (a) filtering-conditioning for removal of noise and interfering signals, (b) threshold testing, (c) vibration profile characterization, (d) input site determination, (e) impulse focus and intensity characterization and (f) comparison of instantaneous (CVP) parameters with said configuration database whereby the polygon with the nearest (CVP) match is reliably identified;
• said firmware including Bayesian logic implementations by which said parameters of selected recent impulses are also weighed before reaching the most-likely-input-polygon solution;
• whereby said processor is adapted to furnish an output signal for delivery to said electronic device reflective of the intent of the user's operational impulse;
• and
• whereby system features are accessed and predetermined device functions are directed and modulated.