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MULTI-SENSOR USER INPUT DEVICE FOR INTERACTIVE PROGRAMS ON A MACHINE

  • US 20080278446A1
  • Filed: 05/06/2008
  • Published: 11/13/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A user input device for a machine, said machine providing an interactive program and signals for a humanly-perceptible output for said program, said user input device comprising:

  • a) one or more physical structures forming an enclosure adapted to accommodate and substantially laterally surround the body of at least one human user of said machine and from which said user may perceive said output;

    b) a plurality of input elements disposed on said physical structure in three dimensions, wherein at least one of said input elements does not lie on the same horizontal or vertical plane on which others of said input elements lie, relative to the possible locations of said user within said structure and accessible to said user by unseated body movement of said user; and

    c) an interface between said input elements and said machine for providing inputs from said input elements to said interactive program.

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