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Lecture 6 Input Device

The document discusses various computer input devices. The keyboard is the most common input device and uses integrated circuits to determine key codes. Other common input devices include the mouse, which controls cursor position, and scanners, which can convert drawings into computer-readable codes. Reading devices like optical character recognition can interpret typed, printed, or handwritten characters and convert them into a form computers can understand.

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Lecture 6 Input Device

The document discusses various computer input devices. The keyboard is the most common input device and uses integrated circuits to determine key codes. Other common input devices include the mouse, which controls cursor position, and scanners, which can convert drawings into computer-readable codes. Reading devices like optical character recognition can interpret typed, printed, or handwritten characters and convert them into a form computers can understand.

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Lecture 6 : Input devices

 Keyboard
 The most common of all the input devices.
 Has generally 104 keys and called QWERTY keyboard.
 Keyboard uses IC’s (Integrated circuit) to perform essential functions as:
 Determining the code of depressed key and send to CPU
 Switching between shifted and non- shifted keys
 Repeating a key code etc
 Keyboard 2
 The present arrangement was chosen to slow down the speed of fast typist.
 August Dvorak designed the present keyboard layout.
 The middle row of alphabetic keys is known as home row.
 70 percent of typing is done in home row.

 Reading Device
 A character reader can convert printed or typed characters into a form
acceptable by computers.
 Some basic type of character readers are:
 Magnetic – ink reader
 Optical mark reader
 Optical character reader
 Hand written character reader
 Smart cards
 Magnetic - Ink Character Reader
 Magnetic – ink character reader (MICR) reads data prerecorded on checks
and deposit slips with special ferrite- impregnated ink.
 The magnetized character can be read and interpreted by MICR.
 Advantages are:
 Human involvement is minimal, so error is small
 It is fast, automatic, and reliable.
 Optical Mark Reader
 Optical Mark reader (OMR) optically reads marks on printed forms.
 Optical mark forms are expensive, but helps the whole reading process.
 Most popular use of OMR is for scoring examinations.
 Optical Character Reader

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 OCR devices can convert data from source documents to a machine recognizable
form.
 An OCR device can reliably read and interpret script and handwriting.
 Error may occur while reading characters, but modern OCR software are less
error prone.

 Handwritten Character Reader


 Earlier OCR’s were not able to detect handwriting because of dissimilarity.
 But today many sophisticated and versatile OCR can detect and read hand written
characters.
 Smart Cards
 A smart card is small in size.
 To use it, the card is inserted into a special card – reading terminal and then a
password is entered.
 Cards have microchips to store permanent record which are updated with
each use.
Ex : credit card, ATM card etc.
 Mouse
 The most common pointing device.
 A mouse is a hand movable device that controls the position of the cursor on the
screen.
 It has a box with buttons on top and roller on the bottom.
 Mouse is placed on a flat surface and the balls movement causes the cursor to
move.
 Other Pointing Devices
 Light Pen – uses light to detect and select the position in the screen.
 Digitizer Pad – is a graph pad with a pointer. It is like a light pen on a display
screen. Useful in drawing charts, graphs.
 Joysticks and Trackball – are mainly used in gaming.
 Touch screen – touch on the screen can be detected and positioned. Popular
technique uses infrared light beams to detect location.
 Scanners
 Scanners allow to convert a drawing into code that can be displayed by the PC.
 Scanners are also used with the OCR.
 Three basic type of scanner are:

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 Sheet – fed scanner.
 Flatbed scanner
 Hand – held scanner
 Scanners (2)
 Sheet – fed scanner: mechanical rollers move the paper past the scan head.
 Flatbed scanner: the page is stationary behind a glass window while head moves
past the page. Similar to photocopy machine.
 Hand – held scanner: rely on the human hand to move the scan head.
 Scanners :
 The flatbed scanners requires a series of mirrors in scanning. But it can scan
oversized or thick documents like books.
 Sheet – fed scanner captures image more accurately. But it is limited to
scanning single, ordinary sized sheets.
 Hand – held scanners falls in between. They can scan pages in books, but
often the scanning head is not wider as the other two.
 Bar Code Reader
 A bar code reader is a device for scanning or reading bar code.
 Bar code is a printed code consisting parallel bars with different width and
spacing.
 Mainly used in products and prices.
 Advantage: can be produced and read by simple equipment.

 Digital Camera
 Uses light sensitive electronic technique instead of films.
 Captures and stores images digitally in RAM, hard disk and in other storage
media.
 Other Input Devices
 Punched card.
 Key – to – tape and key – to – disk systems.
 Voice input device.
 Touch – tone device.

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