Patent ID: RE41520

Claim:
A method for moving effecting movements of a displayed displayable object on an interactive a computer graphic display having vertical and horizontal Cartesian coordinate axes in response to one of pitch and yaw rotations of an input device, the method comprising : the steps of: detecting the pitch or yaw rotation of the device; sensing an inertial response to provide pitch or yaw rotation of the input device to produce a signal indicative of proportional to the at least one of the pitch and yaw rotations of the input device; and in response to the signal indicating the detected pitch or yaw movement of the input device, moving the displayed displayable object a distance in a plane defined by the vertical and horizontal axes on the computer graphic display , the displayed object being moved in substantially continuous proportionality to the signal and translationally along one of the vertical and horizontal axes in substantially a single direction for each direction in which the input device is rotated.