THUMB MOUNTABLE CURSOR CONTROL AND INPUT DEVICE

摘要

A hand wearable, cursor control and input system for a computer or other electronic device. The cursor control and input system includes a thumb mouse device (10) having a sheath or sleeve (18) for receiving one finger of a person's hand therein. Located on the sheath (18) is a touchpad sensor (20) that is oriented to be contact by a finger on the same hand of the user and that is configured to translate motion and position of a user's finger drawn across the touchpad sensor to a relative position of a cursor or pointer on a display screen of the computer or other electronic device. The surface of the touchpad sensor (20) is delineated into two separate tap regions (36, 38) that respectively and correspondingly function as left and right buttons of a conventional computer mouse.