Virtual button interface

Patent · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1999

OSTI ID:872102

Jones, Jake S ^[1]

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1. Albuquerque, NM

An apparatus and method of issuing commands to a computer by a user interfacing with a virtual reality environment. To issue a command, the user directs gaze at a virtual button within the virtual reality environment, causing a perceptible change in the virtual button, which then sends a command corresponding to the virtual button to the computer, optionally after a confirming action is performed by the user, such as depressing a thumb switch.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 5859642
• OSTI ID: 872102
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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button
interface
apparatus
method
issuing
commands
computer
user
interfacing
reality
environment
issue
command
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gaze
causing
perceptible
change
sends
corresponding
optionally
confirming
action
performed
depressing
thumb
switch
virtual reality
virtual button
reality environment
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