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INPUT DEVICES
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Keyboard
Mouse
Trackball
Touchpad
Joy stick
Scanner
Touch screens
 Light Pen
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OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

BCR (Bar Code Reader)
VRC
Micro phones
Sound cards
Digital cameras
Chemical detector
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Keyboard is an essential input devices

The traditional QWERTY First six letters on
top row
Most keyboards with computers systems have
a certain number of keys
 Standard typewriter keys
 Function keys
 Special purpose keys
 Cursor movement keys
 Numeric keys
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Function keys
 Twelve function keys (F1 to F12) across the top
 Used to issue commands

 Also called programmable keys

Special purpose keys

ctrl (control) , del(delete) , Ins(insert) , Alt(alternate) ,
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Cursor-movement keys
 Used to move the cursor around the screen
 Cursor is the symbol on the screen that shows where

the next character that is input will be positioned

 Cursor movement keys typically include four

directional arrow keys

 Which move the cursor one space at a time in either

up , down , left , right direction

 Other keys named Home , End , PgUp (page up) ,

PgDn (page down) move the cursor over longer

distance quickly
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Numeric keys
 Used to enter numbers for of mathematical

manipulation
 As we type data in , We can check on the screen or

paper print out

 QWERTY key boards works on 8 bit code which

accommodates 256 characters

 Kanji alphabets for example 50,000 character

Japanese keyboard work on 16 bit code accommodate

all characters
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Mouse
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A mouse is a hand held input device connected to a

computer by a small cable
Doug Englebart developed the mouse as an alternative
to the keyboard in 1960,s
It has a ball on its underside , is rolled on a flat surface
It produces electrical pulses when rolled on a surface
Moving the mouse allows you to reposition the pointer
Mouse has three buttons
Left most is commonly used
Often used to click on an icon Clicking invokes the
command
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TRACK BALL
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Track ball is like an upside down mouse

It has a ball on top and we can roll the ball
directly with hands
The popularity of track ball surged with the
advent of laptop computers
Often built in on portable computers
Also be used as a separate input device
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Many laptop computers use a touchpad in

front of the key board
We move our finger on the pad to move the
cursor on the screen
When we want to click , we can tap the pad
or use the buttons in front of the pad
Which work like mouse buttons
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The mouse is not a practical for people using

a portable computer in a small space
Some notebook computers provide a mouse
substitute called a track point
A button that protrudes from the middle of
keyboard
With a track point , you imitate mouse
movements by pushing the button from side
to side
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A joystik is an input device that enables us to

move cursor , word , line , page , obect and
pictures from one point to another on display
screen
Joystick uses a lever to control the position
of the cursor
It internally translates the lever postion and
speed with which the joy stick is moved into
digital signals
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That are sent to the computer to control the

cursor movement
It performs the same function as of arrow
keys in the keyboard
It is fast and gives us direction movement , as
compared to four
I t is mostly used in video games
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Scanners are also input devices.

Work very much like a photocopier
But scanner digitize the information into a computer not
onto the other piece of paper process called imaging.
Scanner converts a drawing , picture or any other
document into computer recognizable form by shining a
light on the image and sensing the intensity of the
reflection at each point of image.
Scanner take an electronic picture of the printed page ,
break each image into thousands of light and dark dots
That can be stored in the computer then software in the
computer tells it how to interpret the dot patterns
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Scanner consist of two components

 Data capturing subsystem
 Image processing subsystem
 Data capturing subsystem
 It illuminates the document so the image can
be recorded.
 Image processing subsystem
 It uses sophisticated software to convert the
optical image into digital form and store the
data in a file.
 Scanner come in both handheld and
desktop models.
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 Touch screen
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The touch screen registers input when a

finger or other object comes in contact with
screen
Two touch screen techniques
Infrared beams and ultrasonic acoustic waves
Infrared beams crisscross the surface of the
screen , and when light beam is broken , that
location is recorded
Ultrasonic acoustic waves pass over the
surface of the screen
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When the wave signals are interrupted by

some contact with screen
That location is recorded
Because the acoustic waves bend with the
curved surface of the screen
They are closer to screen thus giving more
precision when locating the point to contact
Less expensive
Found in many applications
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The light pen looks like an ordinary pen, but

it it’s tip is light sensitive detector
The light pen uses a light-sensitive
photoelectric cell to signal screen position to
the computer
Touched to video display screen at the
desired location and switch on the pen is
pushed to close the photoelectric circuit ,
thereby indicating the X-Y screen coordinates
to the computer, graphic engineers,
illustrators and drafting engineer
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Device that uitilizes light beams to read

alphanumeric characters of both hand written
or typed text
OCR systems include an optical
scanner for reading text
Expensive and used for large-volume
processing applications
Scanning of utility bills of customers, credit
cards of different companies
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Data coded in the form of light and dark lines

or bars are known as bar codes
Barcode reader is an electronic device for
reading printed barcodes
Consists of a light source, a lens and a light
sensor translating optical impulses into
electrical ones.
barcode readers contain decoder circuitry
analyzing the barcode's image data provided
by the sensor and sending the barcode's
content to the scanner's output port.
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Alternatively referred to as speech

recognition, voice recognition is a computer
software program or hardware device with the
ability to decode the human voice.
 Voice recognition is commonly used to operate
a device, perform commands, or write without
having to use a keyboard, mouse, or press any
buttons.
Today, this is done on a computer
with automatic speech recognition (ASR)
software programs.
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Many ASR programs require the user to

"train" the ASR program to recognize their
voice so that it can more accurately convert
the speech to text.
For example, you could say "open Internet"
and the computer would open the Internet
browser
 ASR programs are used in many industries,
including Healthcare, Military (e.g. F-16
fighter jets), Telecommunications, and
personal computing (i.e. hands-free
computing).
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Used for input of voice in place of mouse or

keyboard
Special software is used to convert voice into
text or to activate menu options
Requires fast processing and a lot of memory
and will become more common as technology
improves
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Computers with sound cards can accept

sound input from a micro phone
Designed to record and play back sound files
Sound files contain digitized sound formats
Formats specify how sounds should be
digitally represented , some types reduces
size of file
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Take an image on digital camera, a digitized

image goes directly to cd r or other memory
Light received through the lens is converted
to digital signals by sensors, rather than
stored by chemical change on a film or
normal camera
Resulted photograph can be stored on
computer and used like a clipart
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Computer input devices are used to detect

explosives
In airports some customers are called to step
into special booth , where air jets remove
chemicals adhering to a persons clothes and
hands
Air is sucked through a chemical sensor that
identify many types of explosives
Computer screen display result of the test
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