‘STACKING’ Tagged Posts

“Integrated Keyboard and Pointing Device System”

Patent #5124689 (Google Patents) (1992) “A computer system employs an integrated keyboard and pointing device to allow user input of alpha-numeric (typing) information, pointing direction information and pointing event information without moving the users’ hands from the usual typing position on the keyboard.” “One of the keyboard keys, called the pointing key, has sensors coupled to it to acquire pointing direction [ READ MORE ]

“PreSense”

“…Interaction Techniques for Finger Sensing Input Devices” by Jun Rekimoto, Takaaki Ishizawa, Carsten Schwesig, Haruo Oba (UIST 2003) “PreSense is a keypad that is enhanced by touch (or proximity) sensors based on capacitive sensing.” A normal physical button pad with touch sensing on top of each key. Extension of previous “SmartPad” system. Essence of direct [ READ MORE ]

“SmartPad”

“…A Finger-Sensing Keypad for Mobile Interaction” by Jun Rekimoto, Takaaki Ishizawa, Haruo Oba (CHI 2003) “…a new input device for mobile computers that is an enhanced physical keypad by a finger position sensor.” “…combines two input sensors; one is a normal physical keypad, and the other is a finger position sensor based on capacitive sensing.” [ READ MORE ]

“Touch&Type”

“…A Novel Pointing Device for Notebook Computers” by W. Fallot-Burghardt, M. Fjeld, C. Speirs, S. Ziegenspeck, H. Krueger, T. Läubli (NordiCHI 2006) “…combines a conventional keyboard with an extended touch pad whereby the touch pad’s sensitive area is formed by the surface of the keys themselves and thus can be made as large as the [ READ MORE ]

“Layered Touch Panel”

“…The Input Device with Two Touch Panel Layers” by Yujin Tsukada, Takeshi Hoshino (CHI 2002) “…two touch panel layers, so that it is able to distinguish two touch states such as ‘finger on screen’ and ‘finger above screen’.” Adds an invisible infrared field about 20mm above the physical touch screen. Allows for a “rollover effect” [ READ MORE ]

“System with a Touch Screen and a Digitizing Tablet”

“…both integrated in an input device” Patent #5402151 (Google Patents) “…multipurpose data input device formed by a touch screen and a digitizing tablet integrated with one another, which are activatable independently of each other by proper stimuli.” My thoughts: My initial thought was that this patent illustrated my thesis idea of “stacking inputs”, but further understanding [ READ MORE ]

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