Patent ID: 6239784
Filing Date: 2001-05-29
Classification: G06F,G09B

Abstract:
A manually operable exo-skeletal human/computer interface device for a computer system comprising a wrist encircling means and a palm encircling means and a torsionally and laterally deformable member flexibly connecting said wrist and palm encircling means, with said wrist encircling means being adapted in use to be proximate to and generally relatively fixed around the associated wrist of one hand of a user, with said palm encircling means being adapted in use to be proximate to and relatively fixed around the palm of said hand, with said palm encircling means having an overhand member overlying the back of said hand, further comprising at least one elongate generally resilient rib member extending at a fixed end thereof from said overhand member so as to be generally coextensive with at least one finger of said hand in order to function in the form of an exoskeleton thereto, adjacent a free end of said rib member at least one annular ring formation which is adapted in use to receive and engage at least one finger of the said hand, said palm encircling means and said ring formation being mutually spaced along the rib member and at least one position sensor of the computer system fixed relative to at least one of the said members.