INPUT DEVICE

• US 20140028558A1
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Nozomu Yasui
• Inventors: YASUI, Nozomu
• Application Number:
  US13/557,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028558A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/163
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning

Abstract

An example of the input device includes a housing, a processor, a first input member, and a second input member. The input device additionally includes a non-transitory storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a first command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the first input member to an actuated position, a second command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the second input member to an actuated position, the second command differing from the first command, and a scroll command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the housing of the input device in a direction, the scroll command differing from the first command and second command, while the first input member and the second input member are in the actuated positions.

Claims

1. A method of scrolling in a user interface of a computer program via an input device having a first input member and a second input member, the method comprising:

configuring the input device to be responsive to actuation of the first input member to generate a first command in the user interface of the computer program;

configuring the input device to be responsive to actuation of the second input member to generate a second command in the user interface of the computer program that is different than the first command; and

configuring the input device to be responsive to actuation of the first input member and the second input member at a substantially same time to generate a scroll command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the input device in a direction while the first input member and the second input member both remain actuated, the scroll command differing from the first command and the second command.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scroll command causes movement in the user interface in one of an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, and a right direction.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the direction of movement of the input device includes one of an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, and a right direction.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the input device includes a mouse.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the first input member and the second input member includes a button.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising reconfiguring the input device to generate a different scroll command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the input device in the direction.

7. An input device for use with a user interface of a computer program, the input device comprising:

a housing;

a processor;

a first input member including an actuated position;

a second input member including an actuated position;

a tracking member responsive to movement of the housing; and

a non-transitory storage medium including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

generate a first command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the first input member to the actuated position;

generate a second command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the second input member to the actuated position, the second command differing from the first command; and

generate a scroll command in the user interface of the computer program upon movement of the first input member to the actuated position, movement of the second input member to the actuated position at a substantially same time, and movement of the housing of the input device in a direction, as detected by the tracking member, the scroll command differing from the first command and the second command.

8. The input device of claim 7, wherein one of the processor and the non-transitory storage medium is in the housing.

9. The input device of claim 7, wherein one of the first input member and the second input member includes a button.

10. The input device of claim 7, wherein the tracking member includes a light-emitting diode.

11. The input device of claim 7, further comprising a computing device.

12. The input device of claim 7, further comprising additional instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to reconfigure the scroll command based on end-user input so that a different scroll command is generated in the user-interface of the computer program upon movement of the housing in the direction.

13. A non-transitory storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

respond to actuation of a first input member of an input device by generating a first command;

respond to actuation of a second input member of the input device by generating a second command that is different than the first command; and

generate a scroll command in a user interface of a computer program upon movement of the input device in a direction while the first input member and the second input member are both actuated at a substantially same time, the scroll command differing from the first command and the second command.

14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, in one of a mouse and a computing device.

15. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, further comprising moving in the user interface of the computer program in one of an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, and a right direction.

16. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, wherein the direction of movement of the input device includes one of an up direction, a down direction, a left direction, and a right direction.

17. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, in one of a mouse and a computing device.

18. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 13, wherein a direction of movement generated by the scroll command is configured by an end-user.