Input

Devices
 WHAT IS AN INPUT DEVICE?

An input device is a device that accepts data and

instructions from the user or from another computer.
Two types of
INPUT DEVICES
 TWO TYPES OF INPUT DEVICE

KEYBOARD ENTRY DIRECT ENTRY

Data is entered to the A form of an input

computer through a device that does not
keyboard require data to be
entered through a
keyboard
KEYBOARD ENTRY
Keyboard
-the first input device developed
for the pc

-data is transferred to the PC

through a universal serial
bus(USB) cable connected to the
front or back USB port of the
system unit.
FOUR TYPES OF
DIRECT ENTRY
1. POINTING DEVICE -used to move the pointer(cursor) on screen

MOUSE TOUCH
SCREEN
Most
common A display
pointing scree that is
device used
sensitive to
in PC
the touch of
a finger or a
stylus
 POINTING DEVICE

LIGHT DIGITIZER
PEN TABLET
A light
A graphics
sensitive
drawing tablet
stylus that is
used for
connected
sketching new
to a video
images or
terminal and
tracing old
is used to
ones
draw
pictures
 Digital
3. DIGITAL CAMERAS
camera
these takes images and save
them in electronic format, which
a computer can then process.

webcam
 Image
2. SCANNING DEVICE scanner
A device that can read
illustrations printed on paper
or other means that translates Barcode
the information into a form
that a computer can use scanner

Finger
scanner
4.VOICE INPUT DEVICE
These are audio input devices
and are also known as speech or
voice recognition.

Microphones
 QUESTIONS:
1.What are the two types of input devices? 4.give at least two types of direct entry
-KEYBOARD ENTRY & DIRECT ENTRY devices.
2.What is the most common pointing -POINTING DEVICE, DIGITAL CAMERAS,
device? SCANNING DEVICE, VOICE INPUT
-MOUSE
DEVICES
3.A _ is a light sensitive stylus.
5.Give the definition of input devices(in
-LIGHT PEN
your own words).