A pointing apparatus includes a direction determination circuit for determining a moving direction of a cursor in accordance with cursor current position information and cursor moving information input from a mouth, and a cursor jump circuit for recognizing the presence/absence of an icon to be designated by the cursor near a position along the moving direction determined by the direction determination circuit, and for jumping the cursor to the position of the icon.

Disclosed is a pointing compound for use in making repairs particularly to road surfaces. In accordance with the invention, the pointing compound comprises a mixture of mildly air blown bitumen, at least 25% by weight of polyolefin material selected from polyethylene, polypropylene and copolymers thereof and 10 to 40% by weight of a high boiling aromatic mineral oil. The amorphous polyolefin material preferably has a molecular weight ranging from 25,000 to 30,000 and a viscosity at 170.degree. C...

A machine for producing points on the pilot end of a rotary fastener, the machine comprising a rotating dial for supporting an array of blank fasteners above a pair of dies. The blank fasteners are sequentially fed between the dies for pointing thereof. The dial is notched on its periphery to hold the blanks therein. The fasteners are held in coaxial alignment with the pinch point of the dies, by a notched biased centering plate, permitting accurate pointing of the fastener along the axis thereo...

A positioning apparatus capable of making a position of a pointer on a screen stand out and be prominent at appropriate timing for the user when the user uses a pointing device, such as a mouse. A color of an image within a first region on a screen and a color of an image within a second region, a size of which differs from the size of the first region, are alternately displayed by inverting the image data of the image within the region around a mouse cursor, during the simultaneous depression o...

A method and a system in a computing environment which are capable of accurately pointing to any desired position in displayed images of various shapes. Pointing to a desired position on a displayed image is performed by using position correction information (position information of a hot spot) and an associated image as a template. A hot spot is an arbitrary point specified in advance in a template image, and a hot spot position in the template image is used as correction information of a point...

A pointing device includes a casing in which a track ball is rotatably received and physically engaging two substantially perpendicular rotatable axles and a biasing structure forcibly biasing the track ball toward the axles. The biasing structure includes a frame rotatably supported inside the casing by pivots and a retainer mounted to the frame. The retainer includes a plurality of pawls spaced along a circumference to form a space for rotatably receiving and retaining a sphere. A biasing elem...

A pointing device including a base section, an operating section shiftably supported on the base section, a magnet carried on one of the base section and the operating section, and a magneto-electro transducer carried on the other of the base section and the operating section at a location close to the magnet. The operating section includes a first part securely holding one of the magnet and the magneto-electro transducer and supported on the base section shiftably in a desired horizontal direct...

A pointing device is provided which facilitates the assembly, achieves downsizing and has a long life. Magnetic sensors 21 are placed symmetrically two by two along an X axis and Y axis on a printed circuit board 24. A switch 28 is placed on a silicone resin 23 side surface of the printed circuit board 24 to provide a switch function achieved by depressing a magnet cover 25 toward the magnet 22. The pointing device, a device for outputting coordinate values of an input point, can not only output...

Apparatus for use in pointing wire or rod comprising a die holder having a generally wedge shaped upwardly opening die receiving recess containing a pair of split wedge shaped wire forming dies. The dies move in sliding engagement with walls of the die holder toward each other and into working engagement with a wire positioned therebetween when pulling force is applied to the wire in an axial direction and relative to the die holder whereby to reduce the cross sectional area of an elongated port...

In the pointing device of the present invention, a sensor is connected via an amplifier section to a microcomputer. Further, a reference voltage generator is connected to the microcomputer and the amplifier section. With this construction, the microcomputer modifies a coefficient, used when calculating a reference voltage for determining a cursor speed, in response to the size of a force applied to the sensor by an operator.