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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8089008 | Position indicator When a start pulse is supplied, a time-constant circuit (1) is charged to a voltage Vcc, and charge in a variable capacitor (C) is discharged through a resistor (R1). Upon the voltage (a) of the variable capacitor (C) reaching a preset reference voltag... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7897885 | Digitizer pen capable of utilizing solar power A digitizer pen includes a solar cell for converting solar power into electrical energy, an energy storing circuit connected electrically to the solar cell for storing electrical energy therefrom, a magnetic field generating circuit for receiving electrical energy f... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7796382 | Stylus ejecting mechanism for portable electronic device A stylus ejecting mechanism includes a housing, a control mechanism, a driving mechanism and a stylus. The housing defines a cavity and forming a latching portion. The control mechanism includes a button, the button forms a projection, the button engaging with the l... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7439961 | Apparatus and method for driving touch panel device A driving apparatus of a touch panel includes a touch panel for generating a coordinate signal according to a position of a contact point, at least two interface integrated circuits connected to the touch panel, a computer system driving the touch panel and connecte... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7427984 | Point erasing A system and method for erasing ink is described. Using an erasing contour, the system determines closest points which come close to or contacts the erasing contour when it encounters an ink stroke. Portions of an ink stroke may then be erased when the erasing conto... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7394460 | Apparatus and method for hand motion tracking and handwriting recognition Apparatus and method for handwriting recognition including a hand-held device including at least one accelerometer providing an acceleration indicating output, computation circuitry receiving the acceleration indicating output and providing a velocity indicating out... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7385595 | Electronic pen and method for recording of handwritten information An electronic pen for recording of handwritten or hand-drawn information has a control unit and a memory. The control unit registers pen movements across at least one base, stores a plurality of digital pen strokes in the memory as a function of said movements, and ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379056 | System and method for taking over a document A document taking-over system includes a terminal device provided with an electronic pen which gets information written by hand on a document prepared to be able to specify a kind thereof together with kind information of the document as electronic data and for tran... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7362563 | System for housing writing instruments of different sizes in a portable computer A system that includes an electronic device (such as a portable computer), a writing instrument, and a receptacle located on the device for removably receiving the writing instrument. The receptacle includes an opening on the device and a channel in communication wi... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352899 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting with personalized fonts There are provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of particular indi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349001 | Electronic device An electronic device. The electronic device comprises a housing, an abutment and an indexing device. The housing comprises an engaging portion and an outer surface, and the abutment disposed on the housing comprises a clamping portion accessible through the housing ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343053 | Transform table for ink sizing and compression Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data struct... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343042 | Method and system for identifying a paper form using a digital pen The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to trace a form serial number that is utilized to identify a form template that is used to process inp... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339497 | Information transmitting device In an information transmitting device, a variable capacitor which is charged to have a predetermined voltage discharges through a predetermined resistor. Until the voltage becomes lower than a predetermined threshold voltage, the number of AC signals having a predet... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336262 | Coordinate-capturing apparatus A coordinate-capturing apparatus suitable for inputting handwritten characters or diagrams to a computer or a printer is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitter mounted on an input pen for transmitting ultrasonic waves, two ultrasonic receivers f... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336266 | Haptic pads for use with user-interface devices Embodiments of the invention relate to haptic devices for use with a variety of computer/video interface devices. Such haptic devices can work in conjunction with and thereby provide “haptic augmentations” to otherwise conventional user-interface devices, includ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333326 | Handheld computer A handheld computer having a housing with a midframe construction is described. The housing includes a front shell and a back shell coupled to a midframe. The handheld computer also includes two accessory slots for a stylus or other devices on the left and right sid... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327884 | Realistic machine-generated handwriting There have thus been provided new and improved methods and systems for producing machine-generated handwriting having realistic human appearance. In various embodiments, the handwriting may include characteristics of particular classes and/or characteristics of part... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323670 | Laser operation for survey instruments The performance of a laser scanner is optimized in the field by automatically determining appropriate laser parameters for the scan location. A laser control system uses information such as the environmental temperature to select an appropriate range of start points... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319460 | Electronic device with retractable stylus An electronic device with retractable stylus. The electronic device comprises a main body and a stylus. The stylus comprises a resilient member disposed therein and a latching mechanism for engaging the main body. To connect the stylus and the main body, the resilie... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319458 | Electronic device with functions comparable to joystick and tablet A multifunction electronic device with function comparable to joystick and tablet, comprising: an electromagnetic signal emitting unit, having an electromagnetic signal emitter arranged at the bottom thereof; a supporting frame, for fixing and supporting the electro... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315651 | Image recording apparatus and image data selection method An image recording apparatus includes means for recording image data in a recording medium; means for obtaining information for determining a data amount reduction remaining force of image data recorded in the recording medium; means for selecting image data determi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310082 | Computer display having display direction control A display has a display part displaying an image signal, an image signal processor providing the image signal to the display part, a pen sensor sensing at least two locations on a main body of the pen positioned on the display part and generating a first pen sensor ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304638 | Computer touch screen adapted to facilitate selection of features at edge of screen In one embodiment of the invention, a hot spot is normally centered in an area of contact between a user's finger and a touch screen to position the hot spot on an icon or other feature thereby selecting a program or function corresponding to the icon or feature. Wh... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293697 | Method for managing information The invention relates to a method of transferring data from a drawing device, which while utilizing a position-coding pattern, printed on a physical page, digitally records handwritten information, to an application in a computer system. The drawing device transfers... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283127 | Stylus input device utilizing a permanent magnet A stylus that operates utilizing magnetic fields, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed within a passive stylus that is detectable by a plurality of magnetic sensors that remove the magnetic field of the stylus from the earth's relative magnetic field to thereby ob... | 10/16/2007 |
| RE39881 | Surface position location system and method An electrographic sensor unit and method for determining the position of a user selected position thereon. The electrographic sensor unit includes a layer of a conductive material having an electrical resistivity and a surface, at least three spaced apart contact po... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280575 | Eye safety logic with compensation for transient conditions An eye safety detection circuit for use in a laser transmitter. The eye safety detection circuit shuts the laser down if the laser is emitting excessive optical energy to the point of being unsafe to a user. The eye safety detection circuit includes a laser current ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276713 | Method for fabricating a metal-insulator-metal capacitor A method for correcting angle zero position of an ion implantation equipment. The method includes loading a semiconductor wafer into the ion implantation equipment, implanting ions into the wafer with varying angle, measuring thermal wave and sheet resistance value ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263225 | Information management system with authenticity check A product comprising at least one authentication writing area is provided. The product is adapted to receive handwritten authentication information from a user and is provided with a position-coding pattern. The pattern codes coordinates for a plurality of points on... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256750 | E-plane omni-directional antenna E-plane omni-directional antenna is described. In an embodiment, a transmission signal connection system includes a center conductive rod to communicate a radio frequency transmission signal, and includes one or more outer conductive rods that each provide a grounde... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256773 | Detection of a dwell gesture by examining parameters associated with pen motion Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are used to determine whether specific electronic pen gestures with respect to pen-based computing systems should be processed as “press-and-hold” gestures (e.g., to activate right mouse button click actions). Such m... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7245293 | Display unit with touch panel and information processing method A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239306 | Electronic pen An electronic pen has a body, a cap and an actuation device. The actuation device comprises a sensor arrangement for sensing presence or absence of the cap on the body. The actuation device is operable to activate the electronic pen in response to removal of the cap... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224348 | Writing stylus A stylus for an electrographic position location apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the stylus includes a writing element that is retractable. The stylus may have a proximal end and a distal end. A conductive annular structure may be at the proximal end of t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7223238 | Method and device for marking skin during an ultrasound examination A method and device for marking a patient's skin during an ultrasound examination to denote a feature of interest. The device comprises a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is adapted for attachment of the device to an ultrasound transducer. The s... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222098 | Method and system for online payments using sensor with identifier Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to online payments via interface surfaces printed with information and coded data. The coded data, encoded visibly or invisibly, may be queried by an appropriate sensing device. The sensing device communicates with a co... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221360 | Computer stylus and computer adapted to be used therewith A stylus for a computer and a computer adapted to be used with the stylus. The computer comprises a housing (3) that carries a screen (4) and control means (6) adapted to be manipulated by a user to generate movements of a mobile object on the s... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216224 | Method and system for user registration using processing sensor A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the form including coded data indicative of an identity of the form and ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212685 | Method for processing image data of optical mouse Disclosed herein is a method for processing image data of an optical mouse. In the method for processing image data of an optical mouse, direction and size values of motion vectors which are image data consecutively inputted from an image pixel array are filtered wi... | 05/01/2007 |
