Input Devices

Lecture 6
 Topic & Structure of the lesson
 What is input ?
 The keyboard
 Mouse
 Pointing devices
 Video input
 Scanners and Reading devices
 Terminals
 Biometric devices
 Input devices for physically challenged users

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 Learning Outcomes
•At the end of this lecture, YOU should be able to:

 Define input
 List characteristics of a keyboard
 Describe different mouse types and how they work
 Summarize how pointing devices work
 Describe uses of PC video cameras, Web cams, and video
conferencing
 Discuss various scanners and reading devices and how they
work
 Explain the types of terminals
 Summarize the various biometric devices
 Identify alternative input devices for physically challenged users
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 Key Terms you must be able to use
If you have mastered this topic, you should be able to
use the following terms correctly in your assignments
and exams:
 Input  Joystick
 Keyboard  Light pen
 Pointing devices  Touch screen
 Mouse  Stylus
 Trackball  Web cam
 Touchpad  Turnaround document
 Pointing stick  Smart card

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 Peripheral Devices
• What is peripheral ?
Storage devi
 Devices that
connects to a
system unit and
is controlled by
the Central
Processing Unit
(CPU) in the
computer

Input device

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Output device
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 What Is Input?
 Data or instructions entered into memory of
computer
 Input device is any hardware component that
allows users to enter data and instructions

What are the two types of input?

o Data o Instructions
Unprocessed  Programs
text, numbers,
 Commands
images,
audio, and  User
video responses

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 The Keyboard
• How is the keyboard divided?

 Typing area

 Numeric keypad

 Function keys,
special keys that
issue commands

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 The Keyboard

Cordless keyboard Ergonomic keyboard

 Battery-  Designed to reduce

powered the chance of wrist
and hand injuries
 Radio
waves or  for safety and
infrared comfortability
light waves

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 Pointing Devices
• What is a mouse?
 Pointing device that fits under palm of hand
 Pointing device controls movement of pointer

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 Types of mouse

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 Other Pointing Devices
• What is a trackball?
 Stationary
pointing device
with a ball on its
top or side
 To move pointer,
rotate ball with
thumb, fingers,
or palm of hand

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 Other Pointing Devices
•What are a touchpad and a
pointing stick?
 Touchpad is small, flat,
rectangular pointing device
sensitive to pressure and
motion
 Pointing stick is pointing
device shaped like pencil
eraser positioned between
keys on keyboard

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 Other Pointing Devices

• What is a light pen?

 Handheld input device

that can detect light
 Press light pen against
screen surface and
then press button on
pen

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 Other Pointing Devices
• What is a touch screen?
 Touch areas of screen
with finger
 Often used with kiosks

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 Pen input: digital pen and stylus
• What is a digital pen? What is a stylus?
 Looks like a ballpoint pen,  A small metal or
larger than stylus but uses plastic device, looks
pressure to write text and like pen but uses
draw lines (pressure pressure to write.
sensitive) or tiny built-in
digital camera
 Used with graphics tablets,
flat electronic boards

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 Controllers for Gaming and
Media Players
• What are the types of game controllers?

 Joystick
 Wheel
 Gamepad
 Light gun
 Dance pad
 Motion-sensing
game controller

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 Voice Input
• What is voice input?
 The process of entering input by speaking into a
microphone
 Voice recognition/speech recognition is the
computer’s capability of distinguishing spoken
words
What is audio input?
 The process of entering any sound into the
computer such as speech, music and sound
effects.
 Devices: microphones, tape/CD/DVD players,
radio which plug in a port on the sound card.
 MIDI devices: piano and keyboard
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 Input for PDAs, Smart Phones, and
Tablet PCs

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 Digital Cameras
• What is a digital camera?
 Allows you to take
digital pictures
 Images viewable
immediately on
camera
 Download to
computer
 Post pictures
to Web

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 Digital Cameras
• What is resolution?
 Sharpness and clarity of image
 The higher the resolution, the better the image
quality, but the more expensive the camera
 Pixel (picture element)
is single point in
electronic image
 Greater the number of
pixels, the better the
image quality

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 Video Input
• What is video input?
 Process of entering full-motion
images into computer
 Video capture card is
adapter card that
converts analog video
signal into digital signal
that computer can use
 Digital video (DV)
camera records video
as digital signals

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 Video Input
• What is a PC video camera and a Web cam?
 PC video camera is used
to capture video and still
images, and to make video
telephone calls on Internet
 Also called PC camera

 Web cam — c

video camera
c

whose output
displays on a
Web page
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 Video Input
• What is video conferencing?
 Two or more geographically separated
people who use network or Internet to
transmit audio and video data
 Whiteboard is another
window on screen that can
display notes and
drawings simultaneously
on all participants’ screens

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
Flatbed

• What is a scanner?
 Light-sensing device that
reads printed text and Pen or
graphics Handheld

 Used for image

processing, converting
Sheet-fed
paper documents into
electronic images

Drum

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
• Reading devices:
1.Optical Readers : - OCR, OMR and Bar code
Reader
2.RFID readers
3.Magnetic Stripe Card Reader
4.MICR Reader
5.Data Collection Device

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
What is an optical reader?
 Device that uses light source to read characters, marks,
and codes and then converts them into digital data
 OCR, OMR
 BAR code reader, use laser beams

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
Optical character recognition (OCR)
o A technology involves reading typewritten, computer-
printed or hand-printed characters from ordinary
documents and translate it into a form a computer can
process (OCR font), used in turnaround document.
o OCR devices:
1. small optical 2. sophisticated
scanner – software –
determine the compare the
shape by shapes and
detecting compare with
patterns of predefined
light and dark shapes.
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 Scanners and Reading Devices
•What is a turnaround
document?
 Document that you
return to the
company that sent it
 Portion you return
has information
printed in OCR
characters

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 Optical mark recognition (OMR)

o reads hand-drawn pencil marks, such as small circles

 OMR device scan the answer key

sheet to record correct answer based
on the pattern of light.

 Scan the remain documents and

matches their patterns of light against
the answer key sheet.

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
• What is a bar code reader?
 Uses laser beams to read bar codes by using
light pattern that pass through the bar code
lines.

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 Scanners and Reading Devices
• What is a bar code?
 Identification code that consists of a set of
vertical lines and spaces of different widths
 Universal Product
Code (UPC)

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 Scanners and Reading Devices

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 Scanners and Reading Devices

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 Terminals

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 Biometric Input
• What is biometrics?
 Authenticates person’s
identity by verifying
personal characteristic
 Fingerprint scanner
captures curves and
indentations of fingerprint
 Hand geometry system
measures shape and size of
person’s hand

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 Biometric Input
• What are examples of biometric technology?

 Voice verification system compares live

speech with stored voice pattern
 Signature verification system recognizes

 shape of signature
Iris recognition system reads
patterns in blood vessels in
back of eye
 Biometric data is sometimes
stored on smart card, which
stores personal data on
microprocessor embedded in
card
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 Input Devices for Physically Challenged
Users
•What input devices are available for
those with physical limitations?

 Keyguard allows users to rest

hands on keyboard without
accidentally pressing keys

 Head-mounted pointer
controls pointer on screen
 New developments include
gesture recognition and
computerized implant
devices
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 Summary of Main Teaching
Points
 What is input ?
 The keyboard
 Pointing devices
 Other Pointing devices
 Digital cameras
 Video input
 Scanners and Reading devices
 Terminals
 Biometric input
 Input devices for physically challenged users

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