Patent ID: 9058091
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input device comprising: a first contact sensor to sense a first contact occurring along a planar coordinate axis among three-dimensional (3D) spatial coordinate axes and to generate first contact information; a second contact sensor to sense a second contact occurring along a vertical coordinate axis among the 3D spatial coordinate axes and to generate second contact information; and an input signal generator, implemented in at least one processing device, configured to analyze contact information including at least one of the first contact information and the second contact information, and to generate an input signal to control a predetermined display device along six degrees of freedom of movement in a virtual three-dimensional space based on the analyzed contact information, wherein the analyzing of only contact information corresponding to the first contact sensor includes determining three degrees of freedom from among the six degrees of freedom, wherein the analyzing of contact information corresponding to the second contact sensor includes determining a plurality of degrees of freedom which include at least all remaining degrees of freedom of the six degrees of freedom, wherein the first contact sensor and the second contact sensor are located on different surfaces, and wherein the three degrees of freedom comprise two translational degrees of freedom and one rotational degree of freedom.