Mutoh Industries Ltd.

Tatsuyoshi Ikuta

Tetsuya Iwanaga

Hiroyuki Furuichi

Ryuji Arai

Toru Eshita

Kaoru Niimi

Ichiki Kaga

Shuzo Matsumoto

Under a transparent board-like digitizer, a screen of the same size as that of the digitizer is positioned. Scenes of a display device is shown on the screen. A co-ordinates standard of the digitizer is set to be identical with that of the screen. Consequently, the point indicated on the digitizer of a first cursor device is shown at a position corresponding to that of the point indicated by means of the cursor. In a circle drawing mode of the digitizer, when the operator places the cursor device on the digitizer and co-ordinates data are inputted to a computer, a plot circle corresponding to the co-ordinates data is displayed on the screen. When the operator makes the plot circle by means of the cursor device, the computer selects a radial input system. On the other hand, when the operator uses the cursor device and selects the exterior of the plot circle, a transient point input system is selected. In an operation of the radial input system, the operator uses a key board or a command menu displayed on the screen in order to carry out an input operation. When the operator inputs a radial r to the computer, a circle with its radial r and its center corresponding to the center of the plot circle is drawn or displayed on the screen. In the transient point input system of the input device, when the operator hits any point on the digitizer by means of the cursor device, a circle having its center corresponding to the center of the plot circle and having its line passing on the point the cursor device hits is drawn.

Input device for CAD

Below a transparent board-like digitizer, a screen of the same size as that of the digitizer is placed. Scenes of a display device is displayed on the screen. A co-ordinates standard of the digitizer is set to be identical with that of the screen. Thereby, the point indicated on the digitizer of a first cursor device is shown at a position corresponding to that of the point indicated by means of the cursor. The screen displays a right-angle scale lines controlled by a second cursor device on the digitizer. The right-angle scale lines can carry out parallel movements and rotations on the screen. In a drafting mode of the digitizer, the operator hits each points shown on the digitizer through the first cursor device on the basis of, or with reference to the right-angle scale lines in order to draw patterns on the screen. The center of the right-angle scale lines is moved to, or into, an area of the original pattern on the screen. The area intended to enlarged, by using the second cursor device in order to make the control apparatus to of an enlargedly displaying or indication mode. Thus, an enlarge indication area is formed on the screen using the center of the right-angle scale lines as a standard. In the area, an enlarged pattern or picture is displayed overlapping on the original one with the original width of the lines and the enlarged length of the lines of the original pattern. Accordingly, the operator can use the first cursor device to draw patterns in the enlarged indication area.

Input device for cad

A transparent board-like digitizer is placed near a display screen. Images of the same size as that of the digitizer images entered on the digitizer are displayed on the screen. A co-ordinates standard of the digitizer is set to be identical with that of the screen. Thereby, the point indicated on the digitizer of a first cursor device is shown at a position corresponding to that of the point indicated by the cursor. The screen displays right-angle scale lines controlled by a second cursor device on the digitizer. The right-angle scale lines can carry out parallel movements and rotations on the screen. When a straight line drawing is carried out, an operator indicates two points on the digitizer by means of the first and the second cursor devices and inputs the data of such two points, whereby a straight line connecting these two points, dimension supplemental lines in parallel with the right-angle scaling lines, dimension lines extending between the two points, and a dimension figure, respectively, are displayed on the screen.

In a reader in which a tablet and a cursor device are connected electrically to the reader and an indicated position of the cursor device on the tablet is converted to a coordinate signal to be outputted, the improved reader in which two cursor devices are connected to the reader, and the first cursor device is retained by one hand, and the second cursor device is retained by the other hand, and the two cursor devices are manipulated by both hands of the operator so as to shift them on the tablet whereby the reader outputs the coordinate signal for the drawing of a graphic, and setting the command to a CPU on the basis of the indication of each cursor device.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuyoshi Ikuta