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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110187680 | Device to aid in texting on a cell phone The invention represents a device which is used on one or more fingers when texting on a cell phone having small or tiny keys. The device consists of a U-shaped rings having its ends back bent to act as pressure points when the U-shaped ring is placed on a finger. The d... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188184 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS HAVING A STYLUS WITH A CORD RETRACTOR CONNECTED THERETO AND AN ASSEMBLY OF A CORD RETRACTOR AND A STYLUS An electronic apparatus includes a machine body, a stylus, and a cord retractor. The machine body includes a housing and an electronic component module mounted in the housing. The cord retractor includes an inner axle mounted in one of the stylus and the housing, a spoo... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181524 | Copy and Staple Gestures Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181555 | STYLUS A stylus comprises a housing, a stylus body and a retaining structure. The housing has a receptacle defined therethrough. The retaining structure is configured to provide a mechanism for the stylus body to latch in the receptacle of the housing. The retaining structure ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181554 | STYLUS A stylus comprises a housing, a stylus body and a sliding enabling member. The slide enabling member slideably coupling the stylus body to the housing so the stylus body can slide relative to the housing from a retracted configuration to an extending configuration. The ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110185318 | EDGE GESTURES Techniques involving gestures and other functionality are described. In one or more implementations, the techniques describe gestures that are usable to provide inputs to a computing device. A variety of different gestures are contemplated, including bimodal gestures (e... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110175854 | ELECTROMAGNETIC POINTER An electromagnetic pointer is disclosed. The electromagnetic pointer comprises a pen holder assembly, a circuit board, a metal rod, a ferrite core with coils and a trigger device. The diameter of the pen holder assembly is less than 6 mm. The circuit board comprises a r... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110175855 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus is provided that includes a user interface unit which displays a content, a storage unit which stores a scribble pattern, and a control unit which, if a scribble is inputted according to the stored scribble pattern, sets a content area corresponding ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110169785 | OPTICALLY IMAGING PEN FOR CAPTURING CONTINUOUS NIB FORCE DATA IN RESPONSE TO CONTROL DATA An optically imaging pen for sensing a position relative to a surface. The pen includes a nib for interacting with a surface; a force sensor coupled to the nib, an image sensor and a processor. The pen is configured for imaging data portions on the surface; determining ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169784 | STYLUS RETAINING MECHANISM FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A stylus retaining mechanism for portable electronic device includes a main body, a latching portion, and an elastic member. The main body defines an opening and a receiving chamber communicating with the opening. The latching portion is positioned at one side of the re... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110169775 | STYLUS AND TOUCH INPUT SYSTEM A touch input system including a stylus and a display device is provided. The stylus includes a battery module, a touch portion, a transducer module and a RF transmitting module. When a contact pressure is acted on the touch portion, the touch portion is electrically co... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110164000 | COMMUNICATING STYLUS A stylus for writing on any type of surface, such as a piece of paper or a whiteboard and subsequently displaying the written images or text on a display of a digital computing device. The stylus may likewise be moved in three-dimensional space and corresponding images ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110164001 | MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PEN AND METHOD FOR USING MULTI-FUNCTIONAL PEN A multi-functional pen apparatus and a method for using the multi-functional pen are provided. The method includes switching an operation mode of the multi-functional pen to a pen mode according to a predetermined key input; receiving pen data in the switched pen mode; ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110157101 | ELECTRONIC WHITEBOARD SYSTEM An electronic whiteboard system includes a projector, at least two image capture devices, an electronic whiteboard, a light pen and a processor. The light pen includes at least two light emitting members respectively emitting different wavelengths of light. The at two i... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157032 | Writing Apparatus with Electronic Soft Pen Brush A writing apparatus with electronic soft brush pen is disclosed herein. The writing apparatus includes an electronic soft pen brush, an all point addressable (APA) touch panel, a scanning circuit and a controlling circuit. The electronic soft pen brush is configured to ... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110157100 | STYLUS FIXING ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME An electronic device includes a main body, a stylus and a stylus fixing assembly fixed on the main body for seating the stylus. The stylus fixing assembly includes a cover, a fixing element fixed on the cover, a guide element, a rotation element, a clasping element rota... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148824 | OPTICAL PEN An optical pen having an extending tip is disclosed. The tip is located on the optical pen so as not to obstruct input light to the optical pen. The tip also provides tactile feedback to a user upon the tip contacting a viewing surface.... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141067 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC PEN An information processing system includes an electronic pen, a position detection unit configured to detect the position of a pen tip of the electronic pen and to acquire positional information indicating the position of the pen tip of the electronic pen, a modification... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110134084 | TOUCH PANEL INPUT STYLUS A touch panel input stylus comprises a casing, a lens, a shading member, and a light emitting element. The lens, the shading member, and the light emitting element are received in the casing. The shading member defines a stepped through aperture. The stepped through ape... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110129168 | PEN-SHAPED SENSING DEVICE FOR SENSING SURFACE REGIONS A pen-shaped sensing device is provided for sensing coded data disposed which is substantially invisible to the average unaided human eye on a surface. The device has a region identity sensor configured to sense, when the sensing device is positioned or moved relative t... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110128249 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE AND CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL A capacitive touch display device includes a stylus, a display panel, and a capacitive touch unit. The stylus touches the display panel by clicking to input a touch signal and contacts the capacitive touch unit at a contact area. The capacitive touch unit is disposed on... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110122087 | TOUCH SCREEN SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME A touch screen system includes a touch screen panel which includes driving lines, sensing lines crossing the driving lines, and sensing cells formed at crossing regions of the driving lines and the sensing lines; a driving circuit for sequentially applying driving signa... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110115753 | COIL, POSITION INDICATOR, POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, AND COIL WINDING METHOD A position indicator for use in a pen tablet device includes a coil for emitting a position indicating signal. The coil includes: a first conductive wire wound from a distal end portion thereof to a proximal end portion thereof in a predetermined rotational direction; a... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110115751 | HAND-HELD INPUT DEVICE, SYSTEM COMPRISING THE INPUT DEVICE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME The present invention relates to a hand-held input device for performing an input in an electronic device, a system comprising the input device and the electronic device and a method for controlling the same, which are particularly useful for performing an input operati... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110115752 | TOUCH STYLUS A touch stylus includes a first sleeve, a second sleeve, a stylus body, a first slide rod, and a second slide rod. The first sleeve defines a first assembling hole and the second sleeve defines a second assembling hole. The second sleeve is slidably received in the firs... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110109595 | Handwriting Regions Keyed to a Data Receptor Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, an article of manufacture includes a writing surface having at least two regions that accept handwriting. Each region of the at least two re... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110102379 | ELECTRONIC STYLUS WITH FORCE SENSING ARRANGEMENT An electronic stylus including: an elongate body; a nib extending from one end of the elongate body; a load bearing member mounted to the elongate body for receiving an input force caused by contact on the nib, the load bearing member having a first protrusion with a ro... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102349 | Touch Sensitive Device An apparatus including a touch sensitive screen having a face adapted to receive a user's hand-writing via a hand-held stylus. The screen includes means exciting the screen to vibrate so as to transmit the vibration to the stylus to simulate the sensation of a writing i... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096040 | DRAWING CONTROL DEVICE, LASER-LIGHT EMITTING SYSTEM, DRAWING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A drawing control device includes: a fill-stroke generating unit that generates a fill stroke that includes a plurality of strokes that fill a drawing area; a shape-stroke generating unit that generates a shape stroke which is a stroke of a shape to be formed on the dra... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096041 | METHOD OF INTERACTING WITH PRINTED SUBSTRATE A method of interacting with a printed substrate. The method includes the steps of: interacting with the printed substrate using an optically imaging pen having a nib; imaging a tag on the substrate to provide image data; identifying target elements in the image data an... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096044 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL PEN ASSEMBLY A receiving unit for receiving an acoustic signal from a digital pen, comprises: a housing; at least two ultrasound receivers, for receiving ultrasound signals from the digital pen, the ultrasound receivers comprising electret microphones, the electret microphones being... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096039 | TOUCH STYLUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE A touch stylus includes a stylus tube, a stylus holder, and a retracting mechanism. The stylus tube includes a tip integrally formed on one end thereof. The stylus holder is retractably coupled to the stylus tube by the retracting mechanism so the stylus holder can be e... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096042 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL PEN ASSEMBLY A digital pen comprising a skeleton and a removable skin: the skeleton holding together in fixed relationship: an electric circuit; an acoustic transmitter, detached from said electric circuit, and configured to transmit acoustic signals; and a resilient holder, configu... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096043 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL PEN ASSEMBLY A receiving unit for receiving an acoustic signal from a digital pen, comprises: at least two ultrasound receivers, for receiving ultrasound signals from the digital pen; an electric circuit connected to said ultrasound receivers, and configured to extract ultrasound si... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090182 | DIGITAL SIGNATURE COLLECTION AND AUTHENTICATION A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signature s... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090181 | SYSTEM WITH A STYLUS FOR OPERATING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND A STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ORIENTING A STYLUS A system for operating an electronic device includes a storage device, a stylus having a projection, and a structure on an interior side of the storage device on which a projection slides such that when the stylus is inserted into the storage device, the stylus rotates ... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090180 | STYLUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE UTILIZING THE SAME A stylus is used in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a navigation key. The stylus includes a barrel, a tip portion; and a connecting assembly. The tip portion can be detachably attached to an end of the barrel. The connecting assembly includes a main... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090178 | Detecting method for pen-like optical input device with multiple optical components and optical input device thereof A detecting method for a pen-like optical input device with multiple optical components includes the following steps. At least two optical components for emitting light rays respectively are first enabled. The optical components are disposed within a pen-like body of th... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090179 | Specific wavelength selecting method for optical input device and optical input device thereof A specific wavelength selecting method for an optical input device includes the following steps. A light source for respectively emitting at least two light rays in different wavelength regions is first enabled. Next, the two light rays are projected to a working surfac... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110084846 | Electromagnetic Whiteboard Pen An electromagnetic whiteboard pen is disclosed, and particular an electromagnetic whiteboard pen capable of inking and digital inputting simultaneously is disclosed. The electromagnetic whiteboard pen has a marker for writing with ink and a coil for emitting electromagn... | 04/14/2011 |
