PURPOSE: To provide an information inputting device which can be used in an ordinary sense without any sense of incompatibility.
CONSTITUTION: A glove position and direction sensor part 1 and a glove shape sensor part 4 are attached to a glove shape inputting device. A glove position, glove direction, and glove shape are inputted to an instruction information preparing part 5. The instruction information preparing part 5 checks the glove shape, and when the glove shape is a pointing shape, and a device is present within a prescribed distance from an object, the instruction information preparing part 5 selects the data of the glove position corresponding to the position of the device at that time as the object. Thus, a desired operation is instructed to the selected data according to the shape or position of the glove.
MACHIDA HATSUO
KOMATA TOMOJI
ICHIKAWA IZUMI
MUNAKATA HIROHIDE