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...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131453 | GUI CONTROL IMPROVEMENT USING A CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN A system includes a processing device, a touch screen display, a memory coupled to the processing device and a graphical user interface (GUI) control module, executed from the processor and the memory. The GUI control module identifies a control element displayed on the... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131455 | METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIATING HAPTIC FEELINGS BY A SELECT MENU OF A ROTARY SWITCH The present invention relates to a method for differentiating haptic feelings by a selection menu of a rotary switch, in which haptic feelings of the switch or rotary switch can be differentiated by each menu when scrolling the rotary switch in order to setup or select ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131454 | Activating an advertisement by performing gestures on the advertisement An advertisement shown on a device with a touch-sensitive display may be activated via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The advertisement is activated if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for activating the advertisement. The... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110447 | CONTROL OF VIRTUAL OBJECT USING DEVICE TOUCH INTERFACE FUNCTIONALITY A virtual object can be controlled using one or more touch interfaces. A location for a first touch input can be determined on a first touch interface. A location for a second touch input can be determined on a second touch interface. A three-dimensional segment can be ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084467 | HAPTICALLY ENHANCED INTERACTIVITY WITH INTERACTIVE CONTENT Interactive content may be presented to a user that is manipulating a peripheral. One or more state parameters that are related to the position of the peripheral may be determined. The peripheral may be identified from a plurality of possible peripherals. The interactiv... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072840 | DISTANCE FILTERING GESTURE TOUCHSCREEN A system may include a display to present a visualization comprising a plurality of graphical indicators, each of the graphical indicators associated with a respective one of a plurality of entities of interest, a touch-sensitive input surface to receive a touch input a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120070085 | MOBILE TERMINAL, ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING DATA USING THE SAME Provided are a mobile terminal, an electronic system, and a method of transmitting and receiving data using the same for effectively transmitting and receiving data between the mobile terminal and external electronic devices.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050184 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING DRIVING OF TOUCH PANEL Disclosed herein is a method of controlling driving of a touch panel. Input means inputs a first touch to a touch surface, and whether the first touch is a line touch is determined. If the first touch is a line touch, the touch surface is divided into first and second s... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054588 | OUTPUTTING MEDIA CONTENT A computing device processes media content. A portion of a sensory area on the computing device is detected as being covered by an object. The media content is output by the computing device based at least in part on the portion of the sensory area that has been detecte... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036433 | Three Dimensional User Interface Effects on a Display by Using Properties of Motion The techniques disclosed herein use a compass, MEMS accelerometer, GPS module, and MEMS gyrometer to infer a frame of reference for a hand-held device. This can provide a true Frenet frame, i.e., X- and Y-vectors for the display, and also a Z-vector that points perpendi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036434 | Configurable Pie Menu Systems, methods, and other implementations for a configurable pie menu are described herein. A pie menu has sectors of which at least one sector is both associated with a currently assigned menu item and at least one configuration menu. The operation of the pie menu is... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036435 | Apparatuses and Methods for Rearranging Menu Items An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit detects a drag event on a touch screen to indicate a first position to which a menu item is moved, and determines whether the first position corresponds to a page indicator other... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030567 | SYSTEM WITH CONTEXTUAL DASHBOARD AND DROPBOARD FEATURES A user may select content that has been displayed. The selected content may be provided to multiple applications as input in response to detection of a user command such as a touch gesture. The applications may be widgets that are displayed in respective application reg... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030566 | SYSTEM WITH TOUCH-BASED SELECTION OF DATA ITEMS Computing equipment may display data items in a list on a touch screen display. The computing equipment may use the touch screen display to detect touch gestures. A user may select a data item using a touch gesture such as a tap gesture. In response, the computing equip... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030570 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Copying Formatting Attributes An electronic device simultaneously displays on a touch-sensitive display a first user interface object and a second user interface object. The second user interface object has formatting attributes, one or more of which are distinct from corresponding formatting attrib... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030569 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Reordering the Front-to-Back Positions of Objects At a multifunction device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, a plurality of objects are displayed on the display. The plurality of objects have a first layer order. A first contact is detected at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030568 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Copying User Interface Objects Between Content Regions An electronic device displays a user interface object in a first content region on a touch-sensitive display. The device detects a first finger input on the user interface object. While detecting the first finger input, the device detects a second finger input on the to... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023401 | EXTENDED KEYBOARD USER INTERFACE The subject matter of this document can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes displaying, on a user interface of a computing device, a base portion of a keyboard. The method further includes receiving, on the user interface, a user input that inc... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017147 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTING WITH PROJECTED USER INTERFACE Aspect methods and systems enable interaction with projected user interface through user input gestures performed on a mobile device. The mobile device may project the user interface image on an external surface, such as from a pico projector, and detect user input gest... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013543 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND NAVIGATION DEVICE AND METHOD A method includes detecting a touch at a location on a touch-sensitive display, receiving an input by a navigation device, and performing a function associated with at least one of the touch and the input in response to elapsing of a time period between detecting the to... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011437 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for User Interface Screen Navigation A method of navigating between user interface screens, including displaying a third user interface screen in a plurality of user interface screens that also includes a first and a second predefined user interface screen, the third user interface screen being other than ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011438 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal includes: a housing including a front side, a rear side and a plurality of lateral sides; a touchscreen located on the front side of the housing, configured to display at least one touch-ex... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011436 | Devices and Methods of a User Interface for a Small Display Screen Disclosed are devices and methods of user interfaces of devices. Such a device includes a display and has at least two keys configured for tactile awareness adjacent thereto. Such keys also can be configured to receive input signals of two types. Two types of input sign... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004033 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPLICATING A USER INTERFACE AT A DISPLAY The present invention relates to the placement of a reference replication of a device input apparatus at a display to confirm to a user the desired input. In the gaming field the present invention includes the generation of a semi-transparent image of the gaming machine... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005578 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR EDITING WORKSPACE DATA OBJECTS Disclosed herein are methods and devices for associating a first workspace data object with a first workspace service and for determining characteristics of the association of the first workspace data object with the first workspace service. The methods and devices desc... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005577 | Building Mashups on Touch Screen Mobile Devices Systems and methods of constructing mashups may involve receiving a mashup creation input via a touch screen of a mobile device. A mashup can be built based on the mashup creation input, wherein the mashup is presented to a user via the touch screen. In one example, the... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320940 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF SWITCHING WORKING MODES An electronic device includes a touch screen, a user interface module, a detecting module and a process module. The user interface module is configured to create a user interface on the touch screen. A number of hidden active areas are defined in the user interface. A d... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320939 | Electronic Device for Providing a Visual Representation of a Resizable Widget Associated with a Contacts Database There is disclosed an electronic device and method for providing a visual representation of a contact widget. The electronic device includes a display and an input component. A display provides a first representation of the contact widget including a first quantity of t... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320395 | Optimization of Multi-channel Commerce Content provided by a decision engine system is described. Content, stored in a server system, is provided to a plurality of display units at a plurality of touch point devices. One or more features are determined to optimize the content provided to the plurality of dis... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320924 | HANDWRITTEN PAPER-BASED INPUT DIGITAL RECORD MANAGEMENT A handwritten paper-based input digital record management system and method to facilitate record management by directly accepting handwritten pen-based data input on ordinary paper forms. A user places a paper form on the digitizing surface of a digital computing device... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310026 | EASY WORD SELECTION AND SELECTION AHEAD OF FINGER The described embodiments allow for the selection of content in a touch screen display. The method includes detecting a single tap on a word of text in a text editing field in a touch screen, and responsive to the single tap selecting the word of text in whole. In anoth... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314374 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMMUNICATION DATA TRANSMISSION AND COMMUNICATION LIST DISPLAY THEREIN A mobile terminal including at least a first identity module and a second identity module; a wireless communication unit configured to transceive communication data; a touchscreen configured to receive a touch input on a predetermined touch area for selecting one of the... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304557 | Indirect User Interaction with Desktop using Touch-Sensitive Control Surface Described herein are techniques that offer a class of user-interaction styles for indirect user interaction with a two-dimensional virtual space (“desktop”) using touch-sensitive control surface of a user-input device (such as a mobile phone). Some described techniq... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307778 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SWITCHING APPLICATION PROGRAMS THEREOF The present invention discloses a mobile electronic apparatus and a method of switching application programs thereof, the method is applied for the mobile electronic apparatus which has a screen, a storing unit and a processing unit, and the method comprises the followi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302491 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A method includes displaying a selectable feature on a display of an electronic device, detecting a touch on a touch-sensitive input device, wherein the touch is associated with the selectable feature, and displaying a preview of information from an application associat... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291946 | TOUCHPAD INTERACTION Techniques utilizing a rear-facing touch panel are described for implementing user interfaces in a handheld device.... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288998 | Deposit For Non-Account Holders Systems and methods for depositing monetary funds into an account are described. A first request from a first individual to deposit monetary funds into an account associated with an entity may be received. The first individual is not an account owner of the account. Mon... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289408 | MENU PATH TRACKING AND DISPLAY OF PATH STEPS A wireless handset and method that allows selection and display of steps from a path of commands is described. More particularly, the wireless handset comprises a processor, a display, a first directory, a first-level subdirectory, and a navigation tracking list. The pr... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285638 | Computing Device Notes Computing device note techniques are described. In implementations, an input is recognized as selecting at least one object displayed in a user interface by a display device of a computing device. Responsive to the recognition, an indication is displayed on the display ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288995 | Deposit For Entity Associated Non-Account Holders Systems and methods for permitting a credit card payment are described. An individual associated with a credit card account of an entity may be identified. A request to permit the individual associated with the credit card account of the entity to deposit a credit card ... | 11/24/2011 |
