System for speed adaptive positioning of a cursor responsive to a predetermined time interval after an initial application of force within a user interface

• US 7,193,610 B2
• Filed: 08/27/1996
• Issued: 03/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Sombroek, Renate M., Gerlings, Jan D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Brier; Jeffery A.
• Application Number:
  US08/704,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20030080970A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,857 Days
• Field of Search: 345/159, 273/438, 463 36- 39
• US Class Current: 345/159
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0338 with detection of limited linear or angular displacement of an operating part of the device from a neutral position, e.g. isotonic or isometric joysticks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry

Abstract

A data processing system having a display; a cursor control connected to the display for displacement of a cursor represented on the display; and a user-interface coupled to the cursor control for user-manipulation of the cursor via the cursor control. The cursor control is operative to displace the cursor at a relatively low speed relative to the display during a predetermined time interval upon activation of the user-interface and to displace the cursor at a relatively high speed after the predetermined time interval has elapsed. The speeds may be at fixed respective values, v1 and v2. Alternatively, v1 and v2 may be the upper bounds of speed ranges, the cursor speed being continuously variable through the user-interface.

Claims

1. A data processing system, comprising:

a display;

a cursor controller connected to said display for displacement of a cursor represented on said display; and

a user-interface coupled to said cursor controller, said user-interface operable to sense a user-desired manipulation of the cursor based on a time period of an application of force on said user-interface by a user,

wherein a displacement speed of the cursor as represented by said display is dependent upon the time period of the application of force on said user-interface by the user,

wherein, upon an initial application of force on said user-interface by the user, the actual displacement speed of the cursor is variable within a first speed range, and

wherein, upon a predetermined time interval after the initial application of force on said user-interface by the user, the actual displacement speed of the cursor is variable within a second speed range.

2. The data processing system of claim 1,

wherein, during the time period of the application of force on said user-interface by the user, at least one timing signal indicative of a sensing of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor is generated;

wherein the actual displacement speed of the cursor is within the first speed range when a total generation of timing signals is less than a pre-specified number; and

wherein the actual displacement speed of the cursor is within the second speed range when the total generation of timing signals is equal to or greater than the pre-specified number.

3. The data processing system of claim 2, wherein the at least one timing signal includes at least one vertical timing signal indicative of a vertical speed component of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor.

4. The data processing system of claim 2, wherein the at least one timing signal includes at least one horizontal signal indicative of a horizontal speed component of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor.

5. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein, during the activation of said user-interface, said user-interface includes:

means for generating at least one timing signal indicative of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor; and

means for counting a total generation of timing signals.

6. The data processing system of claim 5,

wherein the actual displacement speed of the cursor is within the first speed range when the total generation of timing signals is less than a pre-specified number;

and

wherein the actual displacement speed of the cursor is within the second speed range when the total generation of timing signals is equal to or greater than the pre-specified number.

7. A data processing system, comprising:

a display;

a cursor controller connected to said display for displacement of a cursor represented on said display; and

a user-interface coupled to said cursor controller, said user-interface operable to sense a user-desired manipulation of the cursor based on a time period of an application of force on said user-interface by a user,

wherein, during the time period of the application of force on said user-interface by the user,

at least one timing signal indicative of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor as sensed by said user-interface is generated,

an actual displacement speed of the cursor as represented by said display is variable within a first speed range when a total generation of timing signals is less than a pre-specified number, and

the actual displacement speed of the cursor is variable within a second speed range when the total generation of timing signals is equal to or greater than the pre-specified number.

8. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the pre-specified number defines a predetermined time interval during the activation of said user-interface.

9. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the at least one timing signal includes at least one vertical timing signal indicative of a vertical speed component of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor.

10. The data processing system of claim 7, wherein the at least one timing signal includes at least one horizontal signal indicative of a horizontal speed component of the user-desired manipulation of the cursor.