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Input device for a computer

  • US 20040211601A1
  • Filed: 05/20/2004
  • Published: 10/28/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A pointer tool for use together with a computer and a screen connected thereto, and where the pointer tool is disposed externally in relation to this on a surface, e.g. a work table, and comprising a first kind of manually operational means which, together with resident software in a computer to which the pointer is connected via an interface, changes the position of a cursor displayed on the screen, and a number of a second kind of manually operational means for executing different operations with computer resident software, and that the pointer tool is in the shape of a pad and appears as a flattish body with relatively great length/width dimensions relative to the thickness of the body, and where the flattish body has a front end and a rear end, and where the first kind of manually operational means is constituted by a touch-sensitive plate are situated close to the front end of the flattish body wherein at least two of the second kind of manually operational means are situated beside and close to the first kind of manually operational means on the flattish body for enabling simultaneous manual operation of the first kind of the manually operational means and the second kind of manually operational means, respectively.

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