公开(公告)号：EP0727730A3

公开(公告)日：1998-11-04

申请号：EP96100537

申请日：1996-01-16

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/023 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06T11/80 ,  G09G5/00 ,  G09G5/08

CPC classification number: G06F3/04842 ,  G06F3/04895

Abstract: Enhanced visibility of icons and other types of menu items is provided by increasing size and or skew or both of one or more icons or menu items in a generally inverse relation to proximity of a cursor image address to particular icons or menu items. Increase of size enhances user recognition of an ordinarily small menu item or icon and simultaneously provides the effect of stabilizing cursor position during selection without affecting linearity of response to a graphic input device. Skew and repeated expansion may be used to attract user attention while repeated expansion simplifies icon manipulation by the user in determining a response to a mandatory input demand from an application.

公开(公告)号：JP2000029623A

公开(公告)日：2000-01-28

申请号：JP14777599

申请日：1999-05-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： KIM WESLEY MAY ,  SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/02

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate direct click operation on the built-in pointing device itself by building a magnetic means, which provides tactile feedback to an operator using a control input device, in a pointing actuator. SOLUTION: An operation lever 52 is wound with a coil 56 and when a joy stick actuator 45 is pressed down, i.e., 'clicked', an electric signal is sent to the coil 56 to produce a magnetic field, which moves a ferromagnetic slug 53 upward through the hole of the operation lever 52 and brings it into contact with a cap 58. At this time, the user feels the force of the ferromagnetic slug 53 abutting against the joy stick actuator 34. The elevated ferromagnetic slug 53 provides audible feedback that the user can hear by a shock of the ferromagnetic slug 53 abutting the lower side of the cap 58 with a force that is large enough to provide feedback which can be detected with a finger tip of the user.

公开(公告)号：JPH10307661A

公开(公告)日：1998-11-17

申请号：JP6694598

申请日：1998-03-17

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH ,  JONATHAN NOBLE BEZZ

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  H03K17/96

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a key switch which feeds back tactile strength and timing that an operator can sense. SOLUTION: A piezoelectric key switch which provides a tactile response includes a bimorph piezoelectric element 10 which has its edge part fixed and a key pad 20 which is fitted to the bimorph piezoelectric element separately from the fixed edge part and the element bends with the key pad pressed, so that a voltage signal is generated between a grounded metal disk 15 and an electrode 17. The voltage signal from the electrode 17 is sent to a wire 18. In response to this voltage signal, a driving circuit provides a driving signal to cause the piezoelectric element to bend, thereby providing the key pad with upward tactile feedback.

公开(公告)号：JPH10207384A

公开(公告)日：1998-08-07

申请号：JP29065597

申请日：1997-10-23

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G02F1/1333 ,  G02F1/1335 ,  G02F1/13357 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G09F9/00

Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To view under the conditions of environmental light and a shadow of a wide range by mechanically dividing an upper part cap to an optical pipe diffusion body/reflective outside part and a translucent multi-color LCD inside part and attaching this outside part to an LCD through suitable folding link and hinge. SOLUTION: The whole surface of the cap 201 forms a reflection surface 203, and contains an artificial light source and a diffusion body 205 in a shape of an optical pipe edge part attached to a periphery of a surface 203. A link mechanism 215 is attached rotatably and parallel movably to the frame 207 of the LCD through the hinge 219 moving along a slider 219 in the frame 207. The cap 201 is in contact with the LCD at a closed position time to cover the rear surface of the LCD 209, and background lights the LCD 209 only by a diffusion light source such as the optical pipe 205, etc. Although the cap 201 parts from the plane of the LCD 209 when it is separated from the frame 207 of the LCD, it is able to be positioned in a plane forming a two surface angle with this plane still.

公开(公告)号：MY117103A

公开(公告)日：2004-05-31

申请号：MYPI9403328

申请日：1994-12-13

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： MARKS RONALD FRANKLIN ,  SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/14

Abstract: A POINTING SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A CURSOR (20) ON A COMPUTER DISPLAY DEVICE (18) INCLUDES A SINGLE CONTROL ACTUATOR (22) THAT ORDINARILY CONTROLS MOVEMENT OF THE CURSOR ON THE DISPLAY DEVICE AND ALSO DETECTS IF AN APPLIED CURSOR FORCE MATCHES A PREDETERMINED TAP SIGNATURE. IF THE APPLIED FORCE SUBSTANTIALLY MATCHES THE PREDETERRNINED TAP SIGNATURE, THEN THE SYSTEM RESPONDS TO THE APPLIED FORCE BY INITIATING ONE OR MORE DISPLAY ACTIONS RATHER THAN BY MOVING THE DISPLAY CURSOR. THE SYSTEM DETECTS TAP SIGNATURE FORCES APPLIED ALONG THE X, Y, AND Z AXES OF THE CONTROL ACTUATOR AND RESPONDS BY RETRIEVING A CURSOR CONTEXT COMPRISING A WINDOW DISPLAY AND CORRESPONDING CURSOR LOCATION FROM A QUEUE AND OPENING THE ASSOCIATED WINDOW. THAT IS, THE SYSTEM CHANGES THE ACTIVE WINDOW FROM AMONG WINDOWS (102-108) OF A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (16), PRESERVING THE CURSOR POSITION WITHIN EACH WINDOW. OTHER TAP SIGNATURE RESPONSES CAN CORRESPOND TO FUNCTIONS INITIATED BY PROGRAMMABLE FUNCTION KEYS OR TO USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS. THE FORCE SIGNATURE NEEDED TO INITIATE THE DISPLAY ACTIONS COMPRISES A SHORT DURATION, LOW LEVEL OF FORCE, SUCH AS A TAP ON THE CURSOR CONTROL ACTUATOR THAT DEFINES A SAWTOOTH-TYPE PULSE HAVING A RAPIDLY RISING LEADING EDGE AND A SLOWER FAILING TRAILING EDGE. OFF-AXIS FORCES, WHICH CANNOT BE DETECTED AS OCCURRING PRIMARILY ALONG ONE OF THE THREE AXES, ARE IGNORED TO PREVENT, INADVERTENT, UNDIRECTED BUMPING OF THE CONTROL ACTUATOR FROM INITIATING UNWANTED ACTION. (FIG. 2)

公开(公告)号：DE69424145D1

公开(公告)日：2000-05-31

申请号：DE69424145

申请日：1994-12-01

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： MARKS RONALD FRANKLIN ,  SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06K11/18

Abstract: A pointing system for controlling a cursor on a computer display device includes a single control actuator that ordinarily controls movement of the cursor on the display device and also detects if an applied cursor force matches a predetermined tap signature. If the applied force substantially matches the predetermined tap signature, then the system responds to the applied force by initiating one or more display actions rather than by moving the display cursor. The system detects tap signature forces applied along the x, y, and z axes of the control actuator and responds by retrieving a cursor context comprising a window display and corresponding cursor location from a queue and opening the associated window. That is, the system changes the active window from among windows of a graphical user interface, preserving the cursor position within each window. Other tap signature responses can correspond to functions initiated by programmable function keys or to user-defined functions. The force signature needed to initiate the display actions comprises a short duration, low level of force, such as a tap on the cursor control actuator that defines a sawtooth-type pulse having a rapidly rising leading edge and a slower falling trailing edge. Off-axis forces, which cannot be detected as occurring primarily along one of the three axes, are ignored to prevent inadvertent, undirected bumping of the control actuator from initiating unwanted action.

公开(公告)号：ES2160654T3

公开(公告)日：2001-11-16

申请号：ES95114208

申请日：1995-09-11

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH ,  SUZUKU MICHIO ,  TAKAHASHI TOMOYUKI ,  UCHIYAMA YOSHIHARU

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  C04B28/14 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/033 ,  H01H13/705

Abstract: An integrated manual control input device is provided for use in a computer system having a graphical user interface. The device comprises a keyboard unit having a plurality of keys, a pointing actuator mounted to the keyboard between preselected ones of the keys for engagement by a user's index finger, at least one click button assembly pivotably mounted to the keyboard unit adjacent the keys and a normally open momentary switch beneath the click button assembly. The click button assembly has a button moveable downwardly by a user's thumb to select an ON state and subsequently releasable to select an OFF state. The button is also moveable downwardly and slidable laterally in a rearward direction to select a locked ON state to facilitate a drag operation.

公开(公告)号：AT203841T

公开(公告)日：2001-08-15

申请号：AT95114208

申请日：1995-09-11

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH ,  SUZUKU MICHIO ,  TAKAHASHI TOMOYUKI ,  UCHIYAMA YOSHIHARU

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  C04B28/14 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/033 ,  H01H13/705

Abstract: An integrated manual control input device is provided for use in a computer system having a graphical user interface. The device comprises a keyboard unit having a plurality of keys, a pointing actuator mounted to the keyboard between preselected ones of the keys for engagement by a user's index finger, at least one click button assembly pivotably mounted to the keyboard unit adjacent the keys and a normally open momentary switch beneath the click button assembly. The click button assembly has a button moveable downwardly by a user's thumb to select an ON state and subsequently releasable to select an OFF state. The button is also moveable downwardly and slidable laterally in a rearward direction to select a locked ON state to facilitate a drag operation.

公开(公告)号：AU679137B2

公开(公告)日：1997-06-19

申请号：AU8180094

申请日：1994-12-30

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： BARBER RONALD JASON ,  FORD DANIEL ALEXANDER ,  SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH

IPC: G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G09G5/08 ,  G06F3/033

Abstract: A pointer system provides multiple display pointers that can be created and identified by a computer user such that each pointer is associated with a particular application and location within an application. A user can recall respective pointers and pointer locations by selecting a pointer identifier. One or more of the pointers can be defined as anchored pointers, which are associated with one or more user actions. The user actions can comprise a variety of functions, including mouse button clicks. In this way, a user can define anchored pointers and carry out a string of user actions by selecting the identifying character of an anchored pointer.

公开(公告)号：CO4370135A1

公开(公告)日：1996-10-07

申请号：CO95032895

申请日：1995-07-25

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： SELKER EDWIN JOSEPH ,  MICHIO SUZUKU ,  TOMOYUKI TAKAHASHI ,  UCHIYAMA YOSHIHARU

IPC: G06F3/02 ,  C04B28/14 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F3/033 ,  H01H13/705

Abstract: 1. UN DISPOSITIVO DE CONTROL DE ENTRADAS MANUAL PARA SER USADO EN UN SISTEMA DE COMPUTADOR QUE TIENE UNA INTERFASE DE USUARIO GRAFICA, COMPRENDE: UNA UNIDAD DE TECLADO QUE TIENE UNA PLURALIDAD DE TECLAS; AL MENOS UN CONJUNTO DE BOTON DE CHASQUIDO MONTADO SOBRE LA UNIDAD DE TECLADO ADYACENTE A LAS TECLAS Y QUE TIENE UN BOTON MOVIBLE HACIA ABAJO POR MEDIO DEL PULGAR DEL USUARIO PARA SELECCIONAR UN ESTADO "ON" Y SUBSECUENTEMENTE LIBERABLE PARA SELECCIONAR UN ESTADO "OFF", Y MOVIBLE HACIA ABAJO Y GENERAL- MENTE LATERALMENTE PARA SELECCIONAR UN ESTADO BLOQUEADO "ON" PARA FACILITAR UNA OPERACION DE ARRASTRE; Y UN INTERRUPTOR MONTADO EN LA UNIDAD DE TECLADO Y ACTUADO POR EL ENGANCHE DEL BOTON CUANDO EL BOTON SE MUEVE HACIA ABAJO. 20. UN METODO PARA LLEVAR A CABO UNA OPERACION DE ARRASTRE EN UN SISTEMA DE COMPUTADOR QUE TIENE UNA INTERFACE DE USUARIO GRAFICA, COMPRENDE LAS ETAPAS DE: CONECTAR UNA UNIDAD DE TECLADO AL SISTEMA DE COM- PUTADOR, LA UNIDAD DE TECLADO TIENE UNA PLURALIDAD DE TECLAS, UNA ACTUADOR DE SENALIZACION MONTADO ENTRE LAS UNAS PRESELECCIONADA DE LAS TECLAS Y AL MENOS UN CONJUNTO DE BOTON DE CHASQUIDO BLOQUEBLE MONTADO A LA UNIDAD DE TECLADO ADYACENTE A LAS TE- CLAS; GENERAR UNA IMAGEN DE UN OBJETO QUE VA A SER ARRASTRADO, EL OBJETO SIENDO SELECCIONADO DES- DE EL GRUPO QUE CONSISTE DE UN ICONO, UNA VENTANA O TEXTO, LA IMAGEN ESTA GENERADA EN UNA PRIMERA LOCALIZACION SOBRE EL DISPOSITIVO DE PANTALLA DEL SISTEMA DE COMPUTADOR; GENERAR UNA IMAGEN DE UN APUNTADOR SOBRE EL DISPO- SITIVO DE PANTALLA; ENGANCHAR EL ACTUADOR DE SENALIZACION CON EL DEDO INDICE DE LA MANO DE UN USUARIO Y APLICAR PRIMERAS FUERZAS MANUALES PARA MOVER EL PUNTERO SOBRE EL OBJETO MOSTRADO EN LA PRIMERA LOCALIZACION; BLOQUEAR EL CONJUNTO DE BOTON DE CHASQUIDO CON EL PULGAR DE LA MANO DEL USUARIO PARA SELECCIONAR EL OBJETO; Y APLICAR SEGUNDAS FUERZAS MANUALES AL ACTUADOR DE SENALIZACION CON EL DEDO INDICE DEL USUARIO PARA MOVER EL OBJETO SELECCIONADO A UNA SEGUNDA LOCALI- ZACION SOBRE EL DISPOSITIVO DE PANTALLA. FIGURA 1