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Abstract

There is described a method of providing indication of low battery status of a battery-powered pointing device designed for detecting motion and outputting motion reports representative of the detected motion, the method comprising the steps of detecting low battery status of the pointing device and affecting output of the motion reports, upon detection of the low battery status, by adding determined and/or pseudo-random components of motion to the motion reports. There is also described a method of providing indication of low battery status of a battery-powered pointing device designed for detecting motion and outputting motion reports representative of the detected motion, the pointing device controlling motion of a cursor element on a computer screen, this method comprising the steps of detecting low battery status of the pointing device and affecting motion of the cursor element on the computer screen, upon detection of the low battery status, by adding determined and/or pseudo-random components of motion to the motion of the cursor element. There is also described a method of providing indication of the low battery status consisting of affecting the graphical representation of the cursor element upon detection of the low battery status. Also described are a pointing device and software applications implementing these methods.

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