Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Anthony J. Natoli
  • Patent number: 6600480
    Abstract: A system and method implement a virtual reality (VR) keyboard generated in a display device viewable to a user, with the VR keyboard simulating a physical keyboard with keys and simulating the depression of a physical key on the physical keyboard indicating a key input. The system and method address numerous difficulties of physical and/or hardware-based input devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Inventor: Anthony James Francis Natoli
  • Patent number: 6388657
    Abstract: A system and method implement a virtual reality (VR) keyboard. The VR keyboard system and method receive a VR glove position, generate a corresponding key code from the VR glove position using a predetermined mapping, and send the key code to an application program as a key input corresponding to a keyboard and/or keypad entrap of data and/or a command. The system and method also generate a display representing the key input based in on the VR glove position. The display of the key input may include, but is to limited to, a displayed depressed key in a VR headset of a VR representation of a VR keyboard indicating the key input. The system and method implementing a virtual reality keyboard addresses and solves numerous difficulties of physical and/or hardware-based input devices and provides many diverse advantages in use and applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Inventor: Anthony James Francis Natoli