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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8105241 | Combining to a singularity plural-anatomical-site, heart-functionality measurements Combining, to a singularity, from a plurality of anatomical sites, and over a plurality of heart cycles a collection of selected heart-functionality parameter measurements, such as EMAT, LVST, PADT, and AAFT measurements, including (a) collecting ECG and heart-sound... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7431766 | Crystal-structure-processed devices, methods and systems for making Processing and systems to create, and resulting products related to, very small-dimension singular, or monolithically arrayed, mechanical devices. Processing is laser-performed in relation to a selected material whose internal crystalline structure becomes appropria... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7366126 | Modified-beacon, bandwidth-access control in wireless network communication system Apparatus and a method employable in a wireless communication network for managing, among plural communication stations in a group of such stations, bandwidth-sharing of available, unused bandwidth. Implementation and practice of the invention involve (a) establishi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7067430 | Method of making relaxed silicon-germanium on insulator via layer transfer with stress reduction A method of forming a silicon-germanium layer on an insulator includes depositing a layer of silicon-germanium on a silicon substrate to form a silicon/silicon-germanium portion; implanting hydrogen ions into the silicon substrate between about 500 Å to 1 μm belo... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6941523 | Printer driver with automatic inquiry of user preference A user interface for controlling peripheral devices including a peripheral option display for presenting peripheral options to a user immediately following selection of the peripheral device. ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6910226 | Cap with opening in front Headwear such as a cap includes a crown defining an opening for receiving the head of a wearer, a brim joined to the crown defining the front thereof, and an unoccluded aperture in the crown adjacent the brim for allowing an accumulation of hair to extend therethrou... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6859450 | Method for coordinated collision avoidance in multi-transceiver frequency hopping wireless device An improved method for preventing collisions in a multi-transceiver access point for use with frequency hopping RF transceivers includes determining the next channel frequencies to be used by each transceiver in the access point; and permitting only one transceiver ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6848143 | Scavenging metallic debris from buried metal pipelines A metal-debris magnetic scavenging tool useable inside a buried, horizontal metallic pipeline through an access opening which has been cut into the upper wall portion of the pipeline overhead where the resulting debris has collected. A raiseable/lowerable and rotata... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6850731 | Split-stream re-uniting of print-document pages Split-stream re-uniting of document pages where such pages have followed divided flow paths toward a collator. Control over proper, successive-page feeding from divided feed sources to the collator is provided by PDL-carried page-feed instructions which are “embed... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6845176 | System and method for on-line computation and storage of scene histograms in an image acquisition appliance A video image processing system includes an image sensor for sensing an image and generating an image signal therefor; and a histogram computation mechanism for generating, on-line, a histogram from said image signal. A method of analyzing a video image inclu... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839331 | Method to dynamically change all MIB parameters of a wireless data network A method of changing paramenters in an 802.11 WLAN includes determining a performance metric for the WLAN; monitoring the performance of the WLAN with a monitor management entity; generating a terminate and reconvene message when the performance of the WLAN drops be... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6827403 | Gear-lock adjustable seat structure A seat structure with latching-unlatching mechanism for enabling smoothly operating releaseable locking and unlocking actions between a seat-base and an inclinable seat-back hinged to the seat-base in the seat structure. Two interengageable arcs of gear teeth formin... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6812375 | Pressure-evenizing low-rebound wound dressing A topographically self-stabilizing, dynamic pressure-evenizing, pressure-applying, anatomical dressing which includes a pressure-applying, acceleration-rate-sensitive, temperature and pressure responsive, cushioning layer which responds during a bandaging situation,... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6800062 | Comprehensive vertigo management A comprehensive vertigo management system and methodology is provided which employs a spatial maneuvering device, preferably under computer control, to orient a subject selectively differently in space, thus to create vestibular activity which is directly related to... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6793218 | Fast inkjet printer having multiple output trays An output mechanism for use with an inkjet printer for printing a multi-page document, including plural paper-receiving output trays; a controller for determining the total number of pages, the number of copies of each page to be printed, and the paper-receiving tra... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6789844 | Seat structure with anti-spring spanner element A shock-load G-force minimizing seat structure which responds principally in non-springy compression, rather than in spring-loading bending, to vertically directed shock loads. The seat structure features an anti-springy frame structure which supports a thin and ver... | 09/14/2004 |
| D495728 | Mobile rear projection system with fabric enclosure | 09/07/2004 |
| 6778852 | Color-coded ECG A method and system for presenting time-based, comparative, patient-specific ECG data in various presentation formats, wherein color-coding is employed as a visual device to communicate vividly different, selected “changed” characteristics in that patient's curr... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6728533 | Clock for mobile phones In a mobile phone having a clock display therein, wherein the mobile phone is in wireless communication with a base station located in a time zone having a current local time (CLT), and wherein the base station transmits a control signal having carried therein at le... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6712275 | UPC identification device A UPC identification device for affixation to a product includes a label-bearing portion having a side bearing UPC information; and a tail portion fixed to said label-bearing portion and extending outwardly therefrom for attaching the identification device to a prod... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711766 | Multi-purpose, articulated, segmented field panel kit and fabrication process A plural-panel articulated (segmented) foldable/unfoldable (in a zigzag fashion) structure which can be unfolded and deployed in the form of a rectangular mat, and which can be folded to form plural other shapes, including a fully-folded shape which takes the form o... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6704346 | Method and apparatus to provide improved microwave interference robustness in RF communications devices A RF communications system and method having improved RF interference characteristics for use with at least a pair of RF transceivers which communicate using a packet transfer protocol, in a frequency hopping scheme, wherein the packets may be of various ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6697109 | Method and system for field sequential color image capture A method of field sequential color image capture includes optically capturing a scene; filtering the scene through an active color filter to product first color components, thereby modifying the spectral transmission of the scene as a function of time; de... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6697169 | Enhanced error diffusion using a correlated chromatic noise pattern A method for reproducing a continuous-tone image in a reduced medium includes a comparison step, a diffusing step, and determining a threshold value for the comparison step from a matrix of threshold values, wherein the matrix has a spatial-chromatic corr... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6690422 | Method and system for field sequential color image capture using color filter array A method of field sequential color image capture includes: optically capturing a scene frame-by-frame; filtering the scene through an active color shutter to produce a first color component set having plural first color components therein; detecting the s... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6671889 | Multi-layer, personnel-protective helmet shell with spray-fabricated inner and outer structural layers A multilayer helmet shell wherein inner and outer, structural, load-bearing semi-rigid layers, each formed from an affinity-bonded agglomeration of mechanically interactive, spray-deposited particles, jacket a viscoelastic, acceleration-rate-sensitive, mi... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6650438 | Construction of a color transform to reduce effects of scanner metamerism A method of transforming scanned RGB values into a colorimetric color space includes identifying multiple input media types to be scanned; assigning a weighting factor to each input media type; dividing input color space into segments; assigning a weighti... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6643522 | Method and apparatus providing simultaneous dual mode operations for radios in the shared spectrum A dual mode RF radio includes a first transceiver operating under a first transmitter/receiver protocol, and having a first receiver portion and a first transmitter portion therein; and a second transceiver operating under a second transmitter/receiver pr... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6631410 | Multimedia wired/wireless content synchronization system and method A system for synchronizing a multimedia content stream signal, emanating from at least one multimedia source, for play through a plurality of output devices, wherein the output devices are connected to the multimedia source by wired connections and wirele... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6618743 | Method and system for providing discrete user cells in a UNIX-based environment A system of multiple work areas for operating within a computer system, wherein the computer system includes a CPU, a memory module and a disc storage facility, includes plural autonomous resource units (ARUs), for running user processes, wherein each ARU... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6609454 | Piston with seal A method of forming a floating piston includes fabricating a piston cup, wherein the piston cup includes a top, a sidewall void of any seal-gripping irregularities, and an open end, and forming an elastomer seal over the sidewall of the piston cup. A floa... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6556825 | Method and apparatus for automatic adaptation of communications systems to regional spectrum variations A method of configuring an RF transceiver to receive a geographic-region specific message within a RF signal from a communications network, includes detecting the geographic-region specific message in a first RF transceiver operating in a first RF frequen... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6496122 | Image display and remote control system capable of displaying two distinct images An image display system capable of displaying two distinct images at the same time. One image is shown on an image display device such as a television or computer monitor which is coupled to the image display system. The other image is shown on a remote c... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6447683 | Pathogen destruction process for biosolids A method of treating a waste stream comprising feeding a waste stream into a reactor constructed and arranged for a fast start and maintained in a thermophilic temperature regime of between about 50° C. and 62° C. for a HRT of less than or equal to 48 h... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6446042 | Method and apparatus for encoding speech in a communications network A speech encoding system for use with a digital cellular communication device and a receiving station, includes a mechanism for determining whether a voice communications packet needs to be treated as a data communications packet; a voice recognition mech... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442660 | Dynamic system relocation based on availability of system memory In a computer system having an embedded application, a method of dynamic system relocation, including creating a ROM version of an embedded application which is executable from ROM; creating a RAM version of the embedded application which is executable fr... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6429952 | Browser interface to scanner A system for interfacing a browser and a scanner includes a computer terminal having a browser loaded thereon; a communications network connected to the computer terminal; a HTTP server connected to the communications network; and a scanning device connec... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6404900 | Method for robust human face tracking in presence of multiple persons A method for robust human face tracking in the presence of multiple facial images includes taking a frame from a color video sequence as a current input image; filtering the current input image to form a filtered image; estimating the locations and sizes ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6356672 | Method and apparatus for reducing the color registration artifact of image capture devices A method for color registration in a image capturing device includes arranging multiple rows and multiple columns of pixel capturing elements in a sensor array; capturing a luminance component of the image and generating a luminance output signal therefro... | 03/12/2002 |
| 5956458 | System and method for determining representative frames of video captured by a video camera A system and method of determining representative frames of a video sequence to form a visual table of contents for a video tape is disclosed. A representative frame is identified on the occurrence of an event, such as the beginning of a recording sequenc... | 09/21/1999 |
