Patent ID: 7106299
Filing Date: 2006-09-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input control system comprising an input pad having a coordinate input portion for inputting coordinate data and four push-type switches, each of said switches is independent of said input pad and capable of having an ON state and an OFF state, wherein a finger or a pen is slid across the input pad to input information for moving a pointer appearing on a screen of a display unit in an X-axis or Y-axis direction, and is tapped on said input pad to input information in a Z-axis direction or to perform a selection operation for selecting an icon pointed to by said pointer, the display unit being provided in the input control system or in a computer connected to the input control system, wherein the four switches each comprises a default operation, said default operation being at least one operation selected from a left-click operation of a mouse, a right-click operation of a mouse, a scroll-up operation, and a scroll-down operation, respectively, when each of said four switches is switched to an ON state, wherein the default operation for each of said four switches is changeable to a different operation by setting commands generated in a switch input section driver, wherein changing of the default operation for each of said four switches is performed by a switching operation that is displayed on the screen of the display unit, said switching operation being specifically adapted to permit the setting or modification of the operation of each of said four switches, wherein input data from the input pad and data from each of said four switches is formatted to a common format data by the input controller, wherein the common format data includes X coordinate and Y coordinate positional information of the input pad, and ON or OFF information of each switch, wherein the common format data is output as a single data item to the input driver and, wherein the input driver can set or change the operation implemented in response to a pressing of each switch and processes the operation information of the input pad and the switch input section.