Various embodiments of the present invention comprise a signal generator for sending an electrical signal from an expandable, flexible layer of material, the signal generator comprising an upper layer of flexible, resilient material and a lower layer of flexible, resilient material which between them define a cavity for enclosing an expandable material such as a cellular foam or gas, whereupon localized distortion of one of the layers of flexible material, effects a signal generation within the ...

A wireless cursor control device for use with a computer system includes a main body, a wireless signal receiver, a storing portion and a supporting member. The main body generates a wireless signal to control a cursor of the computer system. The wireless signal receiver is swappable to be electrically connected to the computer system for receiving the wireless signal. The storing portion is disposed in the main body for accommodating the wireless signal receiver. The storing portion includes a ...

A housing for a computer mouse device which supports the mouse above a working surface on a cushion of air or other gaseous fluid including a support device having incorporated therein structure for the distribution of the fluid between the mouse and the working surface so as to enable support of the mouse device above the working surface.

A personal computer having an interactive all points addressable display terminal (44) and a cursor positioning device (52) and provided with apparatus for facilitating the generation of a graphics display using cursor characters selected from a table of cursor characters is capable of clearly demarking the currently selected cursor character from characters previously fixed at various points on the all points addressable display. This is accomplished by exclusive ORing the selected cursor chara...

The privacy product--used with an information system which has a data processor (71) signal connected (72) to a display device (81) and has an input device (51, 51A) signal connected (52, 52A) to the data processor with the input device being manipulated (21) by a person to control cursor motions--comprises a computer readable signal bearing medium (11) signal connected (14) to the data processor with the medium having a chaff component (12) which causes the data processor to cause the display d...

A method and apparatus for a novel cursor control system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention is a method of manipulating a cursor on a tv screen utilizing a wireless remote control. The method includes detecting a location on the screen pointed to by the remote control. The method also includes Transmitting the location to a set-top box.

A method and apparatus for instantaneously and discontinuously moving the cursor in a computer system to any one of a plurality of user-selected screen positions is disclosed. In many known computer systems, a cursor control device known as a mouse is used to move and manipulate the position of the display's cursor. In a first preferred embodiment of the present invention, X- and Y-axis position sensing means are incorporated into the mouse's known electronics. A program correlates a plurality o...

A cursor-aiming system for use with a screen having a movable cursor is provided with means for generating a field and means for changing the position of the cursor on the screen in response to the movement of an operator's finger in the field. In one embodiment there is provided a plurality of monostatic sonars and in another embodiment there is provided a plurality of bistatic sonars. The sonars are mounted for the transmission and reception of acoustic signals through apertures located in a s...

A system for using the page buffer memory which stores the pixel map to generate the cursor in a CRT display. An unused portion of the memory is used to store a duplicate copy of the band in which the cursor is currently located, and the cursor is written into its appropriate location in this duplicate band, thus destroying the underlying image in the duplicate, but not in the original. The display is then generated by cycling through the page buffer except that the duplicate band containing the...

The capsule has a capsule body provided for closing one end of a container. The capsule body includes a top wall formed with a port and from which is formed a slide for a drawer covered by a top of an envelope fixedly connected to the capsule body and formed with an incision for a control knob. The control knob controls the drawer and is associated with a cursor closing the incision.