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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2000
Mark Snyder, Glendale, AZ (US);
John Woltkamp, Fountain Hills, AZ (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes systems and methods which overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by providing improved control of cursor commands directed by a user (such as a pilot). Various embodiments of the invention include such user interface cursor control enhancements as caging, snapping, hysteresis, combinations of 'relative' and 'absolute' cursor data, integration of discrete button movement with continuous cursor movement, and different gain algorithms. The invention may be implemented in a cockpit display, a flight simulator, a graphical flight planning application, or in any other application having a graphical user interface.