Computer Fundamentals Chapter 09 io devices

Computer Fundamentals: Pradeep K. Sinha & Priti Sinha

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Learning Objectives

In this chapter you will learn about:

§ Input/Output (I/O) devices
§ Commonly used input devices
§ Commonly used output devices
§ Other concepts related to I/O devices

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I/O Devices

§ Provide means of communication between a computer
and outer world
§ Also known as peripheral devices because they
surround the CPU and memory of a computer system
§ Input devices are used to enter data from the outside
world into primary storage
§ Output devices supply results of processing from
primary storage to users



Role of I/O Devices

Input Results of
data CPU processing
Input Output
from and in human
Devices Devices
external Memory acceptable
world form

Input data coded Processed data
in internal form in internal form



Commonly Used Input Devices

§ Keyboard devices
§ Point-and-draw devices
§ Data scanning devices
§ Digitizer
§ Electronic cards based devices
§ Speech recognition devices
§ Vision based devices



Keyboard Devices

§ Allow data entry into a computer system by pressing a
set of keys (labeled buttons) neatly mounted on a
keyboard connected to a computer system
§ 101-keys QWERTY keyboard is most popular


The Layout of Keys on a
QWERTY Keyboard

Print Screen Scroll Screen Pause
Esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 Num Lock Caps Lock Scroll Lock

! @ # 3 $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + Page Up Num Lock
~
- ← Backspace Insert Home / * -
` 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 =

← Q W E R T Y U I O P { } |
Delete
Page Down 7 8 9
→ ↑
Tab [ ] End Pg Up
Home

+

A S : 4 6
Caps Lock D F G H J K L “ ← Enter 5
; ← →
‘

< > ? ? 1 2 3
Z X C V B N M Shift ↑
Shift , . / / End ↓ Pg Dn
Enter
0 .
Ctrl Alt Alt Ctrl ← ↓ → Ins
Del



Point-and-Draw Devices

§ Used to rapidly point to and select a graphic icon or
menu item from multiple options displayed on the
Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a screen
§ Used to create graphic elements on the screen such as
lines, curves, and freehand shapes
§ Some commonly used point-and-draw devices are
mouse, track ball, joy stick, light pen, and touch screen



Mouse

Commonly used in personal computers and workstations



Trackball

Click buttons

Ball to be
rolled with
fingers

Commonly used in laptop (notebook) computers



Joystick

Click button

Stick

Light
Ball
indicator Socket

Commonly used for video games, flight simulators,
training simulators, and for controlling industrial robots



Electronic Pen

§ Pen-based point-and-draw device
§ Used to directly point with it on the screen to select
menu items or icons or directly draw graphics on the
screen
§ Can write with it on a special pad for direct input of
written information to a system
§ Pressure on tip of a side button is used to cause same
action as right-button-click of a mouse



Touch Screen

§ Most simple, intuitive, and easiest to learn of all input
devices
§ Enables users to choose from available options by simply
touching with their finger the desired icon or menu item
displayed on the screen
§ Most preferred human-computer interface used in
information kiosks (unattended interactive information
systems such as automatic teller machine or ATM)



Data Scanning Devices

§ Input devices that enable direct data entry into a computer
system from source documents
§ Eliminate the need to key in text data into the computer
§ Due to reduced human effort in data entry, they improve
data accuracy and also increase the timeliness of the
information processed
§ Demand high quality of input documents
§ Some data scanning devices are also capable of recognizing
marks or characters
§ Form design and ink specification usually becomes more
critical for accuracy



Image Scanner

§ Input device that translates paper documents into an
electronic format for storage in a computer
§ Electronic format of a scanned image is its bit map
representation
§ Stored image can be altered or manipulated with an
image-processing software



Two Common Types of Image Scanners

A flat-bed scanner A hand-held scanner


Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) Device

§ Scanner equipped with a character recognition software
(called OCR software) that converts the bit map images
of characters to equivalent ASCII codes
§ Enables word processing of input text and also requires
less storage for storing the document as text rather than
an image
§ OCR software is extremely complex because it is difficult
to make a computer recognize an unlimited number of
typefaces and fonts
§ Two standard OCR fonts are OCR-A (American standard)
and OCR-B (European standard)



Optical Mark Reader (OMR)

§ Scanner capable of recognizing a pre-specified type of
mark by pencil or pen
§ Very useful for grading tests with objective type
questions, or for any input data that is of a choice or
selection nature
§ Technique used for recognition of marks involves focusing
a light on the page being scanned and detecting the
reflected light pattern from the marks



Sample Use of OMR
For each question, four options are given out of which only one is
correct. Choose the correct option and mark your choice against
the corresponding question number in the given answer sheet by
darkening the corresponding circle with a lead pencil.

1. The binary equivalent of decimal 4 is:
a) 101
b) 111
c) 001
d) 100
Indicates direction in which the
2. The full form of CPU is: sheet should be fed to the OMR
a) Cursor Positioning Unit
b) Central Power Unit 1.
c) Central Processing Unit a b c d
d) None of the above 2.
a b c d
3. Which is the largest unit of storage among the following:
a) Terabyte 3.
b) Kilobyte a b c d
c) Megabyte
d) Gigabyte (b) Pre-printed answer sheet

(a) Question sheet
A sample use of OMR for grading tests with objective type questions



Bar-code Reader

§ Scanner used for reading (decoding) bar-coded
data
§ Bar codes represent alphanumeric data by a
combination of adjacent vertical lines (bars) by
varying their width and the spacing between them
§ Scanner uses laser-beam to stroke across pattern
of bar code. Different patterns of bars reflect the
beam in different ways sensed by a light-sensitive
detector
§ Universal Product Code (UPC) is the most widely
known bar coding system



An Example of UPC Bar Code

Product category character
0 – grocery products
3 – drugs and health related 0
products, etc.

21000 67520

Manufacturer/supplier
identification number Specific product code
number



Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition (MICR)

§ MICR is used by banking industry for faster processing
of large volume of cheques
§ Bank’s identification code (name, branch, etc.), account
number and cheque number are pre-printed (encoded)
using characters from a special character set on all
cheques
§ Special ink is used that contains magnetizable particles
of iron oxide
§ MICR reader-sorter reads data on cheques and sorts
them for distribution to other banks or for further
processing



MICR Character Set (E13B Font)

§ It consists of numerals 0 to 9 and four special characters
§ MICR is not adopted by other industries because it supports only
14 symbols



Digitizer

§ Input device used for converting (digitizing) pictures,
maps and drawings into digital form for storage in
computers
§ Commonly used in the area of Computer Aided
Design (CAD) by architects and engineers to design
cars, buildings medical devices, robots, mechanical
parts, etc.
§ Used in the area of Geographical Information System
(GIS) for digitizing maps available in paper form



A Digitizer
Digitizing tablet
Stylus in the form
of cross-hair cursor

Table top



Electronic-card Reader

§ Electronic cards are small plastic cards having encoded
data appropriate for the application for which they are
used
§ Electronic-card reader (normally connected to a
computer) is used to read data encoded on an
electronic card and transfer it to the computer for
further processing
§ Used together as a means of direct data entry into a
computer system
§ Used by banks for use in automatic teller machines
(ATMs) and by organizations for controlling access of
employees to physically secured areas



Speech Recognition Devices

§ Input device that allows a person to input data to a
computer system by speaking to it
§ Today’s speech recognition systems are limited to
accepting few words within a relatively small
domain and can be used to enter only limited kinds
and quantities of data



Types of Speech Recognition Systems
(Continued from previous slide..)

§ Single word recognition systems can recognize only a
single spoken words, such as YES, NO, MOVE, STOP, at
a time. Speaker-independent systems are mostly of
this type
§ Continuous speech recognition systems can recognize
spoken sentences, such as MOVE TO THE NEXT
BLOCK. Such systems are normally speaker-
dependent



Uses of Speech Recognition Systems

§ For inputting data to a computer system by a person in
situations where his/her hands are busy, or his/her eyes
must be fixed on a measuring instrument or some other
object
§ For data input by dictation of long text or passage for
later editing and review
§ For authentication of a user by a computer system based
on voice input
§ For limited use of computers by individuals with physical
disabilities



Vision-Input Systems

§ Allow computer to accept input just by seeing an object.
§ Input data is normally an object’s shape and features in
the form of an image
§ Mainly used today in factories for designing industrial
robots that are used for quality-control and assembly
processes



Commonly Used Output Devices

§ Monitors
§ Printers
§ Plotters
§ Screen image projector
§ Voice response systems



Types of Output

§ Soft-copy output
§ Not produced on a paper or some material that can be touched
and carried for being shown to others
§ Temporary in nature and vanish after use
§ Examples are output displayed on a terminal screen or spoken out
by a voice response system
§ Hard-copy output
§ Produced on a paper or some material that can be touched and
carried for being shown to others
§ Permanent in nature and can be kept in paper files or can be
looked at a later time when the person is not using the computer
§ Examples are output produced by printers or plotters on paper



Monitors

§ Monitors are the most popular output devices used for
producing soft-copy output
§ Display the output on a television like screen
§ Monitor associated with a keyboard is called a video
display terminal (VDT). It is the most popular I/O
device



Monitors

Monitor

Keyboard

A video display terminal consists of a monitor and a keyboard



Types of Monitors

§ Cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors look like a television
and are normally used with non-portable computer
systems
§ Flat-panel monitors are thinner and lighter and are
commonly used with portable computer systems like
notebook computers. Now they are also used with non-
portable desktop computer systems because they
occupy less table space.



Printers

Most common output devices for producing hard-copy
output



Dot-Matrix Printers

§ Character printers that form characters and all kinds of
images as a pattern of dots
§ Print many special characters, different sizes of print and
graphics such as charts and graphs
§ Impact printers can be used for generating multiple copies
by using carbon paper or its equivalent
§ Slow, with speeds usually ranging between 30 to 600
characters per second
§ Cheap in both initial cost and cost of operation



Formation of Characters as a pattern of dots

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
PQRSTUVWXYZ
0123456789-.,
&/$*#%@=(+)



A Dot Matrix Printer



Inkjet Printers

§ Character printers that form characters and all kinds of
images by spraying small drops of ink on to the paper
§ Print head contains up to 64 tiny nozzles that can be
selectively heated up in a few micro seconds by an
integrated circuit register
§ To print a character, the printer selectively heats the
appropriate set of nozzles as the print head moves
horizontally
§ Can print many special characters, different sizes of print,
and graphics such as charts and graphs

(Continued on next slide)



Inkjet Printers

§ Non-impact printers. Hence, they cannot produce
multiple copies of a document in a single printing
§ Can be both monochrome and color
§ Slower than dot-matrix printers with speeds usually
ranging between 40 to 300 characters per second
§ More expensive than a dot-matrix printer



An Inkjet Printers



Drum Printers

§ Line printers that print one line at a time
§ Have a solid cylindrical drum with characters embossed
on its surface in the form of circular bands
§ Set of hammers mounted in front of the drum in such a
manner that an inked ribbon and paper can be placed
between the hammers and the drum
§ Can only print a pre-defined set of characters in a pre-
defined style that is embossed on the drum
§ Impact printers and usually monochrome
§ Typical speeds are in the range of 300 to 2000 lines per
minute



Printing Mechanism of a Drum Printer

Hammers (one for each band)
Paper
Ribbon

WW W WWWWWWWWWWW
V V V V V V V V V V VV V V
Solid U U U U U U U U U U U U U U

cylindrical T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
drum with R R R R R R R R R R R R R R
embossed QQ Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
characters P P P P P P P P P P P P P P
O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
N N N N N N N N N N NN N N

Total number of bands is equal to the maximum
number of characters (print positions) on a line



Chain/Band Printers

§ Line printers that print one line at a time
§ Consist of a metallic chain/band on which all
characters of the character set supported by the
printer are embossed
§ Also have a set of hammers mounted in front of
the chain/band in such a manner that an inked
ribbon and paper can be placed between the
hammers and the chain/band



Chain/Band Printers

§ Can only print pre-defined sets of characters that
are embossed on the chain/band used with the
printer
§ Cannot print any shape of characters, different
sizes of print, and graphics such as charts and
graphs
§ Are impact printers and can be used for generating
multiple copies by using carbon paper or its
equivalent
§ Are usually monochrome
§ Typical speeds are in the range of 400 to 3000
lines per minute



Laser Printers

§ Page printers that print one page at a time
§ Consist of a laser beam source, a multi-sided mirror, a
photoconductive drum and toner (tiny particles of oppositely
charged ink)
§ To print a page, the laser beam is focused on the electro
statically charged drum by the spinning multi-sided mirror
§ Toner sticks to the drum in the places the laser beam has
charged the drum’s surface.
§ Toner is then permanently fused on the paper with heat and
pressure to generate the printer output
§ Laser printers produce very high quality output having
resolutions in the range of 600 to 1200 dpi




Laser Printers

§ Can print many special characters, different sizes of
print, and graphics such as charts and graphs
§ Are non-impact printers
§ Most laser printers are monochrome, but color laser
printers are also available
§ Low speed laser printers can print 4 to 12 pages per
minute. Very high-speed laser printers can print 500
to 1000 pages per minute
§ More expensive than other printers



A Laser Printers



Plotters

§ Plotters are an ideal output device for architects,
engineers, city planners, and others who need to
routinely generate high-precision, hard-copy graphic
output of widely varying sizes
§ Two commonly used types of plotters are:
– Drum plotter, in which the paper on which the
design has to be made is placed over a drum that
can rotate in both clockwise and anti-clockwise
directions
– Flatbed plotter, in which the paper on which the
design has to be made is spread and fixed over a
rectangular flatbed table



A Drum Plotter

Paper

Design drawn
on the paper



A Flatbed Plotter

Design
drawn on
the paper

Paper



Screen Image Projector

§ An output device that can be directly plugged to a
computer system for projecting information from a
computer on to a large screen
§ Useful for making presentations to a group of people
with direct use of a computer
§ Full-fledged multimedia presentation with audio,
video, image, and animation can be prepared and
made using this facility



Voice Response Systems

§ Voice response system enables a computer to talk to
a user
§ Has an audio-response device that produces audio
output
§ Such systems are of two types:
§ Voice reproduction systems
§ Speech synthesizers




Voice Reproduction Systems

§ Produce audio output by selecting an appropriate
audio output from a set of pre-recorded audio
responses
§ Applications include audio help for guiding how
to operate a system, automatic answering
machines, video games, etc.



Speech Synthesizers

§ Converts text information into spoken sentences
§ Used for applications such as:
§ Reading out text information to blind persons
§ Allowing those persons who cannot speak to
communicate effectively
§ Translating an entered text into spoken words in
a selected language



Key Words/Phrases

§ Bard code reader § Information Kiosk
§ Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) § Inkjet printer
§ Chain/Band printer § Input/Output device
§ Data scanning device § Joystick
§ Digitizer § Keyboard device
§ Digitizing tablet § Laser printer
§ Dot-Matrix printer § Magnetic-Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
§ Drum plotter § Monitor
§ Drum printer § Mouse
§ Electronic card reader § Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
§ Electronic Pen § Optical Mark Reader (OMR)
§ Flatbed plotter § Peripheral device
§ Flatbed Scanner § Phonemes
§ Graphical User Interface § Plotter
§ Hand-held scanner § Point-and-draw device
§ Hard-copy output § Printer
§ Image Scanner § QWERTY keyboard
§ Screen Image Projector




Key Words/Phrases

§ Soft-copy output
§ Speech synthesizer
§ Stylus
§ Touch Screen
§ Trackball
§ Universal Product Code (UPC)
§ Video Display Terminal (VDT)
§ Vision-input system
§ Voice recognition device
§ Voice reproduction system
§ Voice response system


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