Xerox Corporation

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Lee L Bain

Kenneth H Fischbeck

Allen T Wright

Demetris E Paraskevopoulos

Improved cursor-positioning apparatus is disclosed for use with a mouse-type cursor controller and a host computer display system to enable the mouse's operating area to remain relatively small, yet enabling normal-feeling mouse operation to provide both high-precision cursor pointing and very efficient coarse positioning of the cursor to any zone of a relatively larger display area. The disclosed apparatus provides an ideally limited operative-area for the attached mouse, comprising structure for defining a boundary limiting the range of X-Y movement of the mouse when it is operated within such contained operative-area. The apparatus also comprises elements that sense orthogonal forces that result when the travel of the mouse is limited by such structural boundaries, elements for synthesizing appropriate cursor-movement signals upon activation by the sense of such forces during mouse/boundary contact and elements for selectively coupling either such synthesized signals or normal mouse-generated signals to the host computer system.

Cursor position controller for use with mouse and display systems

A circuit for use in an ink jet printer in which the carriage motion either approximates a sinusoidal vibratory pattern, or which has any variable velocity pattern that reliably repeats from cycle to cycle. It is further assumed that the printer will print in both directions of the carriage, and that the flight time of the ink drop from jet to paper is constant. A counter starts at a value corresponding to the flight time of the ink drop, and then measures the time of the carriage over a predetermined distance. The difference is the required delay. A second delay counter uses this value to produce a time delay prior to ejecting the ink drop. Since, in an actual ink jet printer, several drops will be in transit at the same time, the circuit is provided with a plurality of phases or channels which operate concurrently.

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Reduction of pulsed droplet array crosstalk

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Arlington, TX, United States of America

Lee L Bain