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The Optical Mouse, and an Architectural Methodology for Smart Digital Sensors

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A mouse is a pointing device used with interactive display-oriented computer systems, which tracks the movement of a user’s hand as the user pushes the mouse about on a pad (usually on the work surface next to the user’s keyboard). Mice have recently become available in the office products market as a part of the Xerox “Star,” the 8010 Professional Workstation [Business 1981, Seybold 1981–1, and Seybold 1981-2].

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Lyon, R.F. (1981). The Optical Mouse, and an Architectural Methodology for Smart Digital Sensors. In: Kung, H.T., Sproull, B., Steele, G. (eds) VLSI Systems and Computations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68402-9_1

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