Virtual button interface
Abstract
An apparatus and method of issuing commands to a computer by a user interfacing with a virtual reality environment are disclosed. 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. 4 figs.
- Inventors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 321304
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5,859,642/A/
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-723,944
- Assignee:
- Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 12 Jan 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, LAW, MISCELLANEOUS; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS; DESIGN; COMPUTERS; COMMUNICATIONS
Citation Formats
Jones, J S. Virtual button interface. United States: N. p., 1999.
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Jones, J S. Virtual button interface. United States.
Jones, J S. 1999.
"Virtual button interface". United States.
@article{osti_321304,
title = {Virtual button interface},
author = {Jones, J S},
abstractNote = {An apparatus and method of issuing commands to a computer by a user interfacing with a virtual reality environment are disclosed. 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. 4 figs.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/321304},
journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 1999}
}
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