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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120007805 | TOUCH SCREEN CAPABLE OF DISPLAYING A POINTER A touch screen including a display unit on which a pointer is displayed and a touch-sensing unit mounted on the display unit to generate a display position signal of the pointer when brought into contact with a separate contact medium. The display unit changes the displ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20100315339 | INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND HANDHELD APPARATUS An input apparatus, a control apparatus, a control system including those apparatuses, and a control method therefor with which a user can feel a linearity between a movement of the input apparatus and that of a pointer and an accurate pointing operation is possible are... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100295785 | INTERACTIVE SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF An integrative image system includes an image display, a first input device, a second input device and a host. When at least one key of the first input device is pressed, the first input device sends a control signal to the host to enable the host to compare a character... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100265175 | CONTROL APPARATUS, INPUT APPARATUS, CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND HANDHELD APPARATUS [Object] To provide a control apparatus, an input apparatus, a control system, a control method, and a handheld apparatus that are capable of preventing a deviation between a display position of a pointer and a relative position of the input apparatus when the input app... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100177042 | Method for aiding control of cursor movement through a trackpad A method for aiding control of cursor movement through a trackpad includes a step of detecting finger touch conditions on the trackpad to control operation modes for cursor movement on a screen. The finger touch conditions are set at least in a first condition and a sec... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100177041 | Method of controlling cursor with multiple and variable speeds through a trackpad A method of controlling cursor with multiple and variable speeds through a trackpad aims to be used on a system that controls a cursor on a screen through a trackpad by transforming user's finger position movement vector to a screen cursor position movement vector. Depe... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100088652 | MOUSE MOVEMENT USING MULTIPLE THRESHOLDS UTILIZING LINEAR EXPONENTIAL ACCELERATION AND SUB-PIXEL PRECISION Moving a pointer in a graphical user interface environment is provided. An input comprising an initial delta value determined by a device driver is received from the device driver. The initial delta value is located in a data structure. A new delta value associated with... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100007605 | POINTING DEVICE A pointing device includes an operation body that operates a cursor moving on a display screen, a detection unit that detects an operating force applied to the operation body, a cursor control unit that generates cursor movement data according to the operating force, a ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090040180 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A VARIABLE SPEED INPUT APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHOD An improved handheld electronic device and method provide an input apparatus having a number of input members, at least a portion of the input members being movable among an unactuated position, a first actuated position, and a second actuated position in order to provi... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20090015556 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTING WITH AN APPLICATION Disclosed is a system by which a user of a device may input data. The system provides a method for users to become familiar with standardized entry of data and interacting with a user interface. By restricting the keys used in the system to those universally found on ty... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20080278445 | FREE-SPACE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ABSOLUTE POINTER WITH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE According to one embodiment, a system includes a handheld device having a pixelated sensor, an optical filter for passing a predetermined frequency band of radiation to the sensor and a transmitter, an electronic equipment having a display, and at least two spaced-apart... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080111790 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING AND AN INERTIAL POINT DEVICE USING THE SAME A method of signal processing for a sensitive signal generated from a pointing device, which comprises the steps of acquiring an accelerating signal; forming a filtering signal by a first filtering process to filter the accelerating signal; and processing a second filte... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070176900 | Controlling cursor speed from a pointing device A method for controlling cursor speed from a pointing device is performed by first subdividing a displayed image with a user-controllable into a number of areas. The cursor location is defined by cursor location information, for example the X-Y position of the cursor on... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20060087494 | Input device A disclosed input device has an input section to detect acceleration applied to the device body and output a detection signal corresponding to the detected acceleration. The device includes a power generating section to generate electric power in accordance with the acc... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20050243063 | Method and device for displaying programmable-duration time intervals The invention relates to a method and device for displaying programmable-duration time intervals. The inventive method can be used to display programmable-duration time intervals throughout at least one time scale of a given length, using a cursor which moves from one e... | 11/03/2005 |
