Input devices allow users to interact with and control computers by sending data and information. Common input devices include mice, keyboards, joysticks, trackballs, scanners, microphones, digitizers, magnetic ink card readers, optical character readers, bar code readers, and optical mark readers. These devices enable input of text, graphics, audio, and other types of digital data into computers for processing.
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Input Devices
Input devices allow users to interact with and control computers by sending data and information. Common input devices include mice, keyboards, joysticks, trackballs, scanners, microphones, digitizers, magnetic ink card readers, optical character readers, bar code readers, and optical mark readers. These devices enable input of text, graphics, audio, and other types of digital data into computers for processing.
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INPUT DEVICES
WHAT IS INPUT DEVICES?
An input device is a hardware device that sends data to a computer,
allowing you to interact with and control it.
It enables the user to send data, information, or control signals to a
computer. The Central Processing Unit (CPU) of a computer receives the input and processes it to produce the output. EXAMPLES OF INPUT DEVICES MOUSE Mouse is the most popular pointing device. It is a very famous cursor-control device having a small palm size box with a round ball at its base It has two buttons called the left and the right button Advantages Easy to use Not very expensive Moves the cursor faster than the arrow keys of the keyboard. JOYSTICK Joystick is also a pointing device. It is a stick having a spherical ball at its both lower and upper ends. The lower spherical ball moves in a socket. The joystick can be moved in all four directions. The function of the joystick is similar to that of a mouse. It is mainly used in Computer Aided Designing (CAD) and playing computer games. TRACK BALL Track ball is an input device that is mostly used in notebook or laptop computer, instead of a mouse. This is a ball which is half inserted and by moving fingers on the ball, the pointer can be moved. Since the whole device is not moved, a track ball requires less space than a mouse. Comes in various shapes like a ball, a button, or a square. SCANNER Scanner is an input device It is used when some information is available on paper and it is to be transferred to the hard disk of the computer for further manipulation. Scanner captures images from the source which are then converted into a digital form that can be stored on the disk. MICROPHONE
Microphone is an input device
to input sound that is then stored in a digital form. It is used for various applications such as adding sound to a multimedia presentation or for mixing music. DIGITIZER Digitizer is an input device which converts analog information into digital form. Digitizer can convert a signal from the television or camera into a series of numbers that could be stored in a computer. Digitizer is also known as Tablet or Graphics Tablet as it converts graphics and pictorial data into binary inputs. MAGNETIC INK CARD READER (MICR) MICR input device is generally used in banks as there are large number of cheques to be processed every day. The bank's code number and cheque number are printed on the cheques with a special type of ink that contains particles of magnetic material that are machine readable. This reading process is called Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR). OPTICAL CHARACTER READER (OCR) OCR is an input device used to read a printed text. OCR scans the text optically, character by character, converts them into a machine readable code, and stores the text on the system memory. BAR CODE READERS Bar Code Reader is a device used for reading bar coded data. Bar coded data is generally used in labelling goods, numbering the books, etc. It may be a handheld scanner or may be embedded in a stationary scanner. Bar Code Reader scans a bar code image, converts it into an alphanumeric value, which is then fed to the computer that the bar code reader is connected to. OPTICAL MARK READER (OMR)
OMR is a special type of optical
scanner used to recognize the type of mark made by pen or pencil. It is used where one out of a few alternatives is to be selected and marked. It is specially used for checking the answer sheets of examinations having multiple choice questions.