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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michel Poivet, Illkirch, FR;
Assignee:
Laboratoire Europeen de Recherches Electroniques Avancees, Courbevoie, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345157 ; 345161 ; 345163 ;
Abstract
A home computer system having a single input-output which is modified by a identifying circuit to identify a joystick or a mouse the identifying circuit utilizes potentiometers from the joystick which are connected to monostable circuits. The computer automatically recognizes that a joystick is present due to the triggering of the monostable circuits and the reading of the outputs from those monostable circuits.