Patent ID: 8022933

Claim:
A TV remote control system, comprising: a portable hand-held housing; a wireless transmitter supported by the housing; a processor supported by the housing and providing signals for wireless transmission by the transmitter; a touch surface on the housing and exposed to a user's touch; a pressure sensor array supported on the housing below the touch surface and providing input signals to the processor in response to pressure from a person's finger on the touch surface; a haptic membrane assembly between the touch surface and pressure sensor array and being selectively moved by the processor at least partially in response to finger pressure on the touch surface; and a display presenting an image of a remote control key array based on signals from the processor responsive to finger pressure on the pad, wherein the processor determines a vector of finger motion using signals from the array, the vector having a direction and a magnitude, a cursor on a display being caused to move in the direction of the vector at a speed that is proportional to the magnitude of the vector.