Thursday 6 October 2016

Chapter 6

                                                                  Chapter 6

-Input is something entered into a machine or other system, the act of entering data or other information, or input can also describe giving one's help, advice or thoughts. An example of input is the text you type into your computer.
-The instructions can be entered into the computers in form of programs, commands ,and users responses.
-An input device is a peripheral used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system such as a computer or information appliance.
-Keyboard is a panel of keys that operate a computer or typewriter ,and then most of them have between 101 and 105 keys etc...there is two types of keyboard : wireless and wired
-The phone's keyboard is adapted according the type of the phone.
-the insertion point is the point where the next characters typed from the keyboard will appear on the display screen.
-ergonomic keyboard is a computer keyboard designed with ergonomic considerations to minimize muscle strain and a host of related problems.
- Mouse: use to move a cursor on a computer screen and have two type (wireless an wired).
-A trackball is a pointing device consisting of a ball held by a socket containing sensors to detect a rotation of the ball about two axes like an upside-down mouse with an exposed protruding ball.
-A touch pad is a device for pointing on a computer display screen. It is an alternative to the mouse.
-Pointing stick: a movable stub embedded in a laptop keyboard that is manipulated to move the screen cursor.
-A touch screen is a touch-sensitive display device.
-For video game use a game controller .
-A digital camera  is a camera that records and stores digital images.
- voice input is a device in which speech is used to input data or system commands directly into a system.
-voice recognition is the ability of a machine or program to identify words and phrases in spoken language and convert them to a machine-readable format.
-Audio input is the process of entering any sound into the computer.
- is a video camera that feeds or streams its image in real time to or through a computer to computer network.
-video conference is a conference in which participants in different locations are able to communicate with each other in sound and vision.
-Optical character recognition involves reading characters from ordinary documents.
-A turnaround document is a document that has been output from a computer, some extra information added to it, and then returned to become an input document.
-(OMR) is a method of entering data into a computer system. Optical Mark Readers reads pencil or pen marks made in pre-defined positions on paper forms as responses to questions or tick list prompts.
-A barcode reader is an electronic device that can read and output printed barcodes to a computer.
-RFID (radio frequency identification) is a technology that incorporates the use of electromagnetic or electrostatic coupling in the radio frequency (RF) portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to uniquely identify an object, animal, or person.
-A magnetic card reader is a device used to read magnetic stripe cards, such as credit cards.
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