Pointing input device

• US 20090128485A1
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chang-Hsi Wu
• Original Assignee: Chang-Hsi Wu
• Inventors: Wu, Chang-Hsi
• Application Number:
  US11/898,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20090128485A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors

Abstract

This invention discloses a pointing input device for controlling a cursor position of an image processing device, and the pointing input device comprises an inertia device, a signal processor and a wireless transmitter, wherein the inertia device has a gyroscope and an accelerometer. The input device is reduced to a handheldable size, and it can self detect the posture of a user'"'"'s hand at the time, and achieve the purpose of controlling a cursor by an instinctive pointing behavior, and allows users to operate at an ergonomic operating mode and lowers the manufacturing cost of the input device.

Claims

1. A pointing input device, for controlling a cursor position of an image processing device, and the pointing input device comprising:

an inertia device, having a gyroscope and an accelerometer, for detecting a movement of a user'"'"'s hand while generating an electronic signal;

a signal processor, electrically coupled to the inertia device, for retrieving electronic signal of the inertia device and processing and converting the electronic signal into a cursor position signal; and

a wireless transmitter, electrically coupled to the signal processor, for retrieving the cursor position signal of the signal processor, and transmitting the cursor position signal to the image processing device having a receiving device.

2. The pointing input device as recited in claim 1, wherein the gyroscope is a single-axis or multi-axis gyroscope, and the accelerometer is a single-axis or multi-axis accelerometer.

3. The pointing input device as recited in claim 1, wherein the receiving device is electrically coupled to the image processing device, for receiving the cursor position signal of the pointing input device, and processing and converting the cursor position signal into a control signal of the cursor position, while transmitting the control signal of the cursor position to the image processing device.

4. The pointing input device as recited in claim 1, wherein the image processing device can be a computer, a television, a game player, an overhead projector, or a device capable of displaying a processed image on the display device.

5. The pointing input device as recited in claim 4, wherein the display device is a CRT screen, an LCD screen, a projector screen or a rear projector screen.

6. A pointing input device, for controlling a cursor position of an image processing device, the pointing input device comprising an input device and a receiving device, wherein the input device comprises an inertia device, a signal processor and a wireless transmitter;

and the inertia device comprises a gyroscope and an accelerometer, for detecting a movement of a user'"'"'s hand while generating an electronic signal;

the signal processor is electrically coupled to the inertia device, for retrieving the electronic signal of the inertia device, and converting the electronic signal into a cursor position signal;

the wireless transmitter is electrically coupled to the signal processor, for retrieving the cursor position signal of the signal processor, and transmitting the cursor position signal to the receiving device;

the receiving device is electrically coupled to the image processing device, and the receiving device comprises a wireless receiver and a signal processor; and

the wireless receiver is provided for receiving the cursor position signal transmitted from the input device;

the signal processor is electrically coupled to the wireless receiver, for retrieving and processing the cursor position signal of the wireless receiver, and processing and converting the cursor position signal into a control signal of the cursor position, while transmitting the control signal of the cursor position to the image processing device.

7. The pointing input device as recited in claim 6, wherein the gyroscope is a single-axis or multi-axis gyroscope, and the accelerometer is a single-axis or multi-axis accelerometer.

8. The pointing input device as recited in claim 6, wherein the image processing device can be a computer, a television, a game player, an overhead projector, or a device capable of displaying a processed image on the display device.

9. The pointing input device as recited in claim 6, wherein the receiving device is built in the image processing device or electrically and externally coupled to the image processing device by a connecting device.

10. The pointing input device as recited in claim 8, wherein the display device is a CRT screen, an LCD screen, a projector screen or a rear projector screen.