Finger articulation controlled information generating system
US5612689A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 5, 1995 |
| Grant date | Mar 18, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 5, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/014
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A plurality of finger articulation units that individually mount on finger and thumb nails and together, by selected up and down movement of the fingers and thumbs (ten fingers), serve as an alternate to a keyboard and/or for any human to machine and/or computer interface. Vertical up and down movements of any single one of the ten fingers and various combinations of the fingers is translated into a range of signals recognizable as alpha-numeric numbers, digital signalling, word and picture forms or other symbol forms a user may choose. The individual finger articulation devices are each attached to the ten fingernails by clips securing a unit to each of the ten fingernails whereby movement of a particular finger, up and down is detected. The device on that finger generates a signal passed via interface control to a computer for interpretation by a program to produce a symbol. One hand can send ten signals and two hands twenty signals that can be combined in almost an infinite combination of signals via customized computer programs.
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