Input Devices

Types of Input Devices

What is an input device?
• Any hardware component used to enter data,
programs, commands, and user responses
into a computer
video input
voice input keyboard

pointing
scanners
device
and reading
devices

digital
camera
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Input devices are of three types

• Keyboard

• Pointing Devices

• Source Data Entry Devices

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1. The Keyboard
How is the keyboard divided?

• Numeric keypad
• Function keys
• Alphanumeric Keys
• Special Purpose keys
• Cursor Movement
keys

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Types of Keyboard
1. What is a QWERTY keyboard?

Standard keyboard
First six keys are Q,W,E,R,T,Y
Contains 100 keys

Keys

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2. What is a Enhanced keyboard?

Contains Additional keys with Function Keys,

Alphanumeric Keys

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What is a Portable keyboard?
folded
• Full-sized keyboard
keyboard
can be
easily
attach and
remove
from a
handheld
unfolded
keyboard
computer
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4. What is an Cordless or Wireless keyboard?

• Require no wire or cable
• Transmit data using wireless technology

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What is an ergonomic keyboard?
• Designed to minimize strain on hands
and wrists
 Ergonomics
incorporates
comfort,
efficiency, and
safety into
design of items
in workplace

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2. Pointing Devices

• An input device used to control the movement of

pointer on the screen is called Pointing Device.
• Shapes of Pointer on GUI OS
Mouse pointer

I-beam block arrow pointing hand

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1. Mouse
What is a mouse?
• Pointing device
that fits under
palm of hand
• Controls
movement of
pointer, also
called mouse
pointer, on
screen
• Consists on
two button
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Types of Mouse mousepad
mouse pad

1. Mechanical mouse
• Rubber or mouse
mouse wheel
wheel
buttons
buttons button
button
metal ball is on
its underside
• Cursor
movement
depends on
the movement
of ball
• Use mouse pad ball
ball

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Types of Mouse
2. Optical mouse
back wheel
wheel
back
button button
button
button
• Senses light to
detect mouse’s forward
forward
button
movement button

• More
expensive than
mechanical
mouse optical
optical
sensor
• Connect using sensor

a cable or
wireless
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2. Wireless or Cordless Mouse

• Not require a
wire to work
• Transmit data
using wireless
technology like
radio waves

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2. Track Ball
• Stationary pointing
device with a ball
on its top
• To move pointer,
rotate ball with
thumb, fingers, or
palm of hand
• Used an
alternative to
mouse Trackball
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3. Touch Pad or Track Pad

 Small, flat,
rectangular
pointing
device
 sensitive to
pressure and
motion
 Usually has
two buttons touchpad
near it
 Mostly used in
Laptop
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4. Pointing Stick

• shaped like
pencil eraser
positioned
between keys
on keyboard
• Pressure
sensitive device
• Used in
notebook
computers
pointing stick

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5. Graphics Tablet or Digitizer

 Consists of a flat pad on

which user draws with a
stylus or pen
special pen called stylus Graphics Tablet
 Stylus looks like a
ballpoint pen, but uses
pressure to write text and
draw lines
 Used with graphics
tablets and handheld
computers
 Used by designers etc

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6. Touch Screen

 Touch areas of screen with

finger
 Often used in supermarkets
 Use sensors to detect touch
of finger
 Screen covered with plastic
touch
layer screen

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7. Light Pen

• Handheld input device that contains light

source or
can detect
Press light light
pen against
screen
surface and
then press
button on pen
 Used by
light pen
engineers etc

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8. Joystick

• Joystick is vertical lever joystick

mounted on a base
• Perform similar
function to a mouse or
trackball
• Used for playing
Stick
computer games
Base

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9. Gaming Wheel

• Wheel is steering-wheel
type input device wheel

• Pedal simulates car brakes

and accelerator
pedal

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10. Pen Based System

• Used to enter
handwriting
• User writes and
symbols on the
screen
• This system uses
handwriting
recognition software

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3. Source Data Entry Devices

Direct Input:
“Data goes directly to the computer from
the source”

Source Data Entry Devices:

“The devices used for direct input is
called Source Data Entry Devices.”
Device that captures data directly from
source document
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3. Source Data Entry Devices

Most commonly used Source Data Entry Devices are as

follows
1.Scanning and Reading Devices
1. Scanner
2. Bar Code Reader
3. Mark and Character Recognition Devices
i. Magnetic–Ink Character Recognition Reader(MICR)
ii. Optical Mark Recognition(OMR)
iii. Optical Character Recognition(OCR)
iv. Magnetic Strip
v. Smart Cards

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2. Audio/ Video Devices

1. Audio Input Devices

2. Video Input
1. Digital Cameras(For image and video)
2. Webcam

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3. Source Data Entry Devices
Scanners and Reading Devices
What is a scanners?
• Device that captures data directly
from source document
– Source document is original form of
data

OCR

flatbed scanner
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3. Source Data Entry Devices Scanners and Reading Devices

1. Scanner
Scanner is device
that uses light to read
data from source
document and convert
into a form that can be
processed by computer

It input data into

computer into electronic
form like digital image

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3. Source Data Entry Devices Scanners and Reading Devices
1. Scanners:
How does a flatbed scanner work?
1: Place document
face down
2: Bright light scans
document
3: Image reflected Step 1
into mirrors
4: Light converted to Step 2
analog electrical and Step 3
then to digital signal
5: Digital information
sent to computer
6: Print or save
document

Step 4 Step 6
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3. Source Data Entry Devices Scanners and Reading Devices
1. Scanners:
What are various types of scanners?

Pen or
handheld

Flatbed

Sheet-fed
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3. Source Data Entry Devices Scanners and Reading Devices
1. Scanners: Flatbed

What are
various types Pen or Handheld

of scanners?

Sheet-fed

Drum

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What is an optical reader?

• Device that uses light source to read characters,
marks, and codes and then converts them into
digital data.

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Types optical reader?

Mark and Character
Recognition Devices Smart Card
Bar code
scanner or
Magnetic Stripe Reader
Card
Optical character
recognition (OCR) Optical m
ark
recognitio
n (OM R)

n e t ic In k C h ar acter
Mag
Recognition
(MICR)

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2. What is a bar code reader?

• Identification code that consists of a set of vertical
lines and spaces of different widths
• Universal Product Code (UPC)

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2. What is a bar code?

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2. What is a bar code?

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2. What is a bar code scanner?

• Uses laser beams to
read bar codes

bar code scanners

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3. Source Data Entry Devices Optical Reading Devices

1. What is an OCR font?

• OCR stands for Optical Character

Recognition
• OCR device determines characters’ shapes
by detecting patterns of light and dark
• OCR software converts shapes into
characters the computer can understand
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2. OMR stands for Optical Mark Recognition

• Reads hand-drawn
pencil marks, such as
small circles or
rectangles
• It is often used in
multiple choice test
such as SAT and
GRE.
• The OMR reads the
answer sheet and
evaluates it.

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3. What is a magnetic ink character

recognition reader (MICR)?
• Can read text printed with magnetized ink
• Banking industry almost exclusively uses MICR
for check processing

check bank account check

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4. Magnetic Strip Card

• Magnetic Strip card has a
magnetically encoded data on
its back.
• The magnetic strips are used
in many cards such as
personal identity cards.
• The magnetic strip can store
the personal details of the card
owner.
• It can be used to access
secure information such as
bank account details etc.

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5. Smart Cards:
• Smart card is similar to credit
card or ATM card.
• It contain thin microprocessor
and memory chip.
• The card is inserted into a
specialized card reader.
• The card reader can read and
update its contends.
• Mobile SIM card and ATM card
are two examples of smart
cards.

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What is wireless input?

• Handheld computer or device used to collect data wirelessly
at the location where transaction or event takes place
• Data transferred later to desktop computer through docking
station

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1. Audio Input Devices
How does voice recognition work?
Step 1: Dictate
You’re
right! Step 2: Convert analog to digital

Natural Language Step 3: Check database for match

Engine your, you’re
Matches
…Your write right, write
…You’re right
…Your right
Step 4: Most likely match selected

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1. Audio Input Devices

Analog Sound Signals

Digital Audio Output
[electrical signals] (ex.
11100011) to
computer

Analog Signals are Digitized

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1. Audio Input Devices

The process of entering

data by in the form of
sound is called voice
input.

Voice entered into

computer by using
microphone

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2. Video Input Devices
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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What is video input?

• Process of entering full-motion recording into computer
• Also called video capture digitalvideo
digital video
camera
camera
 Video capture card is
expansion card that
converts analog video
signal into digital signal
that computer
understands

analogvideo
analog video
camera
camera

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2. Video Input Devices

1 What is a PC video camera?

• Digital video camera that allows home user to
record, edit, and capture video and still images, PC video
and to make video telephone calls on Internet camera
• Also called PC camera

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2. What is a Web cam?

• Video camera whose output displays on a Web
page
• Also called a cam
 Streaming cam
shows moving
images by
sending continual
stream of
pictures

Web cam
video output

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3. What is videoconferencing?
• Two or more geographically separated people who
use network on the 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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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
 Eye Recognition System

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