Appeal No. 96-3563
Application No. 08/249,079
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a multimode and multifunction communication
system between an operator and a processor. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.
1. A system for communication between an operator and at least one processor,
using:
a plurality of display elements managed by said processor and laid out
according to a predetermined geometrical disposition, a variable being
displayed on each of these display elements,
a communication instrument separate from said display elements
comprising a touch-sensitive surface coupled to said processor so as to set
up communication with the latter in order to ensure management of said
display elements,
validating means coupled to said processor for enabling said operator to validate
selecting actions, and
said processor comprising:
means for managing said sensitive surface according to a first operating mode using a
virtual division of said sensitive surface into a plurality of virtual areas, and means
for adjusting the respective shapes and dispositions with respect to each other of
said areas so as to correspond isomorphically with said geometrical disposition of
said display elements,
means for detecting a selecting operation of one of said areas corresponding to a
display element, this selecting operation being performed by the operator by
acting directly on any point of said area of said sensitive surface and by
validating this action by acting on said validating means,
means for cyclically detecting the position of an object such as the operator's finger
on said sensitive surface,
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