Patent ID: 6967596
Filing Date: 2005-11-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A keystroke communication device simulating a keyboard and adapted to be attached to a user's fingers having finger metacarpal, proximal and distal joints and proximal, intermediate and distal segments, a thumb having thumb metacarpal, proximal and distal joints and metacarpal, proximal and distal segments, and a metacarpus of the user's hand and to the user's forearm to track the user's wrist and finger movement as keystrokes but without a keyboard, comprising, a forearm member attached to the user's forearm, a metacarpal member positioned at the metacarpus of the user's hand and adapted to move in concert with movement of the metacarpus relative to the forearm member as the user's wrist moves in yaw between discrete left, right, and central yaw positions, a plurality of finger and thumb members adapted to be positioned respectively at the user's fingers and thumb of a user's hand and adapted to move in concert with movement of the user's respective fingers and thumb, a dichotomous finger switch associated with each of the finger and thumb members with active and inactive positions connected to each of the finger members and activated by downward movement of a downward-moving finger member being one of the plurality of finger and thumb members, the finger switch also connected to a computer processor such that upon downward movement of the downward-moving finger member, identification the downward-moving finger member and the position of the wrist in yaw is received by a computer processor with which the device communicates as a unique data entry.