Rapid prototyping and machine vision for reconfigurable interfaces

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9195886
APP PUB NO 20090184809A1
SERIAL NO

12351332

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A system and method including software to aid in generation of panels and control instruments rapidly generates a station that can support a variety of control interfaces. Rapid-Prototyped Panels, or RP-Panels, replicate existing systems (for simulation, training, gaming, etc.) or from new designs (for human factors testing, as functional product, etc.). The controls have tactile and visual characteristics similar or identical to their functional component counterparts such as buttons, knobs, switches, pedals, joysticks, steering wheels, and touch panels but are modular and use alternative data transfer modes (potentiometers, fiber optics, RFID, machine vision, etc.) to track and analyze the response of the controls. The response is then transmitted to the host programs. With this method a user can design and fabricate a reconfigurable interface to interact with virtual environments for various applications such as simulation, training, virtual instrumentation, gaming, human factors testing, etc.

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JOLLY SEVEN SERIES 70 OF ALLIED SECURITY TRUST I100 OVERLOOK CENTER 2ND FLOOR PRINCETON NJ 08540

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Christiana, Amanda Ann Arbor, US 21 300
Haanpaa, Douglas Dexter, US 36 2045
Jacobus, Charles J Ann Arbor, US 107 12837
Wagner, Christopher R Simi Valley, US 3 18

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