| US 7,554,524 B2 | ||
| Data acquisition system | ||
| Leslie D. Music, Federal Way, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Advanced Management Systems, Inc., Federal Way, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 01, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/344,608. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/649944, filed on Feb. 03, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0173801 A1, Aug. 03, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G09G 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 345—156 [703/1; 715/771; 715/778] | 17 Claims |
| 1. A data acquisition system that employs an input device to obtain data from a user, the data acquisition system comprising:
a digital protractor operative to generate and forward event data to a computer when contacted by a user;
a physical connection system that communicatively links the digital protractor to the computer; and
a computer suitable to execute programs, wherein the programs are stored in a memory of the computer, including:
an operating system that manages access to event data received from the digital protractor;
an underground drainage application including a user interface with a plurality of controls configured to accept input utilizing
a graphical input device; and
an event handling routine operative to map the controls of the underground drainage application to a corresponding surface
area of the digital protractor and process event data received from the digital protractor including:
receive a user-generated event from the digital protractor; and
identify and call an appropriate event handler of the underground drainage application based on the mapping of controls from
the underground drainage application to the corresponding surface area of the digital protractor.
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