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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110128258 | Mouse Pen A mouse pen includes a pen pipe having a touch device with a touch board module and an up-down event module, and the controlling circuit mainly controls a circuit board with a micro processor as well as connects to the battery module, the touch device, and a detective d... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110069041 | Machine-differentiatable identifiers having a commonly accepted meaning Embodiments include an article of manufacture, apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, system is provided that includes at least two machine-differentiatable identifiers, each identifier of the at least two machine-differentiat... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20090277470 | Artificial nail decorating system utilizing computer technology A portable digital and electronic nail color and design kit for quickly and easily applying various images to artificial nails that are affixed to natural human nails, and then changing the appearance of the artificial nails, includes a compact case with color, design, ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090115747 | Digital notebook This invention relates to a digital notebook which comprises a pen, a USB storage unit and paper. The pen is provided with a wireless transmission module. The USB storage unit is provided with a wireless reception module, a processing module and a data storage module, a... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090040195 | Visual System Method and apparatus (16) for projecting infrared or near infrared or low intensity visible light from a pen, pointer or other guiding object in the form of a coded pattern image, detectable by a camera and recognition system but invisible, or hardly visible to t... | 02/12/2009 |
| 20080291179 | Light Pen Input System and Method, Particularly for Use with Large Area Non-Crt Displays The invention relates to a light pen input system with a light pen which is adapted to generate at least one scanning light line sweep for scanning a surface such as for example a display screen. The time from starting a scan until a light sensing element placed at a kn... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080225019 | Electronic ink pen structure with an immediate charging function An electronic ink pen structure with an immediate charging function includes a casing, a refill, a light-emitting element, a double-layered capacitor, two conductive pieces, and a repositioning module. The refill is movably disposed in the casing, and has a pen nib on a... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080036739 | Integrated Wireless Pointing Device, Terminal Equipment with the Same, and Pointing Method Using Wireless Pointing Device A wireless pointing device, a terminal equipment with the same, and a pointing method using the wireless pointing device are disclosed. A disclosed wireless pointing device includes a lighting means, an image acquisition area, an image formation means, a light receiving... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20070146322 | Method of providing information via a printed substrate and two-mode sensing device A method of enabling a user to initiate an action via a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data, said coded data being indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate, sa... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20050201621 | Strokes localization by m-array decoding and fast image matching Systems and methods that determine a path of a pen tip as the pen tip is moved across a document are described. The document is watermarked with a maze pattern from which encoded position information is determined. A sequence of images is captured by a camera that is lo... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050111736 | Ink gestures A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is provided. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. According to certain aspects, users may edit text or handwritten ink using a pen in a pen-bas... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050110781 | Light emitting stylus and user input device using same The present invention provides a user input device that includes and array of light detectors and a light emitting stylus configured to emit a beam of light detectable by the light detectors. The light beam is wide enough at the plane of the detectors so that at least t... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050093821 | Force reflecting haptic interface A multi-function force reflecting haptic interface including various sub-assemblies is disclosed. The sub-assemblies include multiple function user interfaces, a user interface docking station for setting the interface to a home position, temperature monitoring and cont... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050088418 | Pen-based computer interface system A pen-based computer is operative to produce a drawn image upon a touch-sensitive display screen. A stylus or pen is utilized in combination with the pen-based computer or touch input to the display screen. An interface system implemented using software additions to the... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050088427 | Transferring pen information between unmanaged and managed code A system and process for transferring pen data between unmanaged and managed code is described. The system uses shared memory between an unmanaged component and a managed application to store information relating to ink information. A pointer is transferred to the manag... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050083301 | Projector, electronic whiteboard system using projector and method of acquiring indicated point An electronic whiteboard system has light emitting elements mounted on ultrasonic wave receivers of a signal processor, and an imager device for imaging the light emitting elements and a projection test pattern of a projector to acquire a positional relationship between... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050083249 | Multi-trail spot click-event detection method A multi-trail spot click-event detection method is disclosed, which uses a camera to capture a plurality of consecutive images from a display screen. The camera is connected to a host and sends the consecutive images to the host for determining if a click-event occurs. ... | 04/21/2005 |