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Transforming a tactually selected user input into an audio output

  • US 8,527,275 B2
  • Filed: 07/17/2009
  • Issued: 09/03/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented process for transforming a user input into an audio output comprising:

  • receiving a digital input signal from a contextual input device, the contextual input device comprising a plurality of tactually discernable keys disposed in a spatial relationship which proportionally replicates a spatial relationship among a plurality of items associated with a known physical object;

    determining whether the digital input signal represents a selection of an item from among the plurality of items or an attribute pertaining to an item among the plurality of items;

    transforming the digital input signal into an analog audio signal;

    outputting the analog audio signal with an electro-acoustic transducerwherein the known physical object is a periodic table of the elements, the plurality of items are the elements contained in the periodic table of the elements, and the attribute pertaining to an item among the plurality of items is a property pertaining to an element in the periodic table of elements.

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