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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5784051 | Digital power management system A digital power management system for an analog-to-digital converter operates to cause the sample rate of the analog-to-digital converter to function at an original desired frequency so long as changing input signals are present. Whenever activity at the ... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5731806 | Interrupt based positioning system for joysticks and method therefor An interrupt based positioning system for a joystick. A potentiometer is coupled to the joystick for supplying a voltage signal representative of a current position of the joystick. An analog-to-digital converter changes the voltage signal to a digital vo... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5701140 | Method and apparatus for providing a cursor control interface with force feedback A method and apparatus for use with a computer for providing commands to a computer through tracked manual gestures and for providing feedback to the user through forces applied to the interface. A user manipulatable object is coupled to a mechanical link... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5696538 | Apparatus for detecting input-pen's inclination, and pen input apparatus equipped with it A pen input apparatus of the present invention is provided with an apparatus for detecting an inclination of an input pen. The apparatus for detecting an inclination of an input pen is composed of a hemispherical container, a conductive movable body, and ... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5673067 | Information processing apparatus and method An information processor includes a coordinate analyzer which analyzes input coordinate information, and a marking device which marks a desired coordinate. A memory stores marking coordinate information analyzed by the coordinate analyzer, and includes a ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5648781 | Method and apparatus for remotely controlling electrical appliances using a trackball and display A remote control method and apparatus thereof performs the remote control of electrical appliances using control menus corresponding to functions of the electrical appliances, which are displayed on a television screen and selected by using a trackball in... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5632680 | Method and apparatus for controlling a computer game A computer game controller system and method has a pulse position modulated (PPM) input device for encoding status information in a pulse position control signal and a bimodal interface having a first and second interface circuits, each for coupling an in... | 05/27/1997 |
| 5570107 | Circuitry and method for high visibility cursor generation in a graphics display A graphics subsystem, including a video digital-to-analog converter, is disclosed. A high speed oscillator generates a pixel clock signal at the frequency at which pixels are to be displayed. Included in the video DAC is a frequency divider which presents... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5559533 | Virtual memory hardware cusor and method A hardware cursor is implemented on a typical video display controller, and uses an unused portion of video RAM as cursor memory to store the cursor information. Since the cursor memory may be located at any unused location of video RAM, it is a virtual h... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5497176 | Method of transferring detailed data by tablet driver When a tablet driver is used, an application program is capable of utilizing detailed data transmitted from a tablet. The application program issues a request that the tablet driver transfer detailed data only when it requires the detailed data, this tran... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5493315 | Video display control An apparatus for displaying video information includes a video display screen, a screen buffer, a frame buffer, and a video image data assembly module. The module assembles data from linked lists of screen objects, segment objects and field objects which ... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5421590 | Multiple linked game controllers Linked game controllers coupled to a single input port of a computer game are configured such that all controllers may be active at the same time. One controller is coupled to an input port on the computer game which has both a parallel-bit interface and ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5376949 | Display system with graphics cursor A display system has cursor definition memory for storing data defining a graphics cursor, and a cache for the temporary storage of a portion of the graphics cursor for display on a display device, the cache being such that its data rate is sufficient to ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5345252 | High speed cursor generation apparatus A cursor generator for use in a computer system having a high pixel clock rate. The cursor generator includes a first memory which stores a line of the cursor for display on the display device and a second memory which stores the entire cursor. The data f... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5297254 | Input device for CAD A transparent board-like digitizer is placed near a display screen. Images of the same size as that of the digitizer images entered on the digitizer are displayed on the screen. A co-ordinates standard of the digitizer is set to be identical with that of ... | 03/22/1994 |
| 4987527 | Perspective display device for displaying and manipulating 2-D or 3-D cursor, 3-D object and associated mark position A manual operating system for manually operating a pattern displayed on a screen of a graphics display device, which is included in the manual operating system so as to display generated patterns comprises perspective projection means for displaying the c... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4987551 | Apparatus for creating a cursor pattern by strips related to individual scan lines An architecture for generating a hardware cursor in the context of a bit mapped video display system operable from a frame buffer with non-displayed but addressable memory space. A segment of the non-displayed memory is loaded with cursor outline and patt... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4977520 | Method to facilitate a reply to electronic meeting invitation in an interactive multi-terminal system employing electronic calendars An electronic calendaring method for use in a data processing system which includes a plurality of interactive terminals which are interconnected to permit an end user at each terminal to interchange information with each other and to maintain an electron... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4977518 | Video graphics system equipped with a graphics cursor Video graphics system which, by means of a graphics cursor, permits the identification of encoded surfaces of images represented on a screen. In order to do this, there are added to the parameters of the encoded surface, for each surface, an identifier wh... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4949279 | Image processing device A device and a process systematically combine various independent image processings into composite processings. The device uses an image processing device that independently sets the scanning method of scanning points P, a decision reference as to whether... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4875033 | Graphics input apparatus The graphics input apparatus enables an operator to input a two or three-dimensional schematic figure into a computer simply by hand-writing a two-dimensioanl figure in a picture plane of a display device such as a cathode ray tube. The graphics input app... | 10/17/1989 |
| 4808980 | Electronic light pointer for a projection monitor A cursor positioning device for a computer system having a projection display monitor including a screen. A light pointer in the form of an elongated housing is positioned with its tip at a selected location on the screen. A light sensor detects the raste... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4797665 | X-Y position input device A position input device for a computer system, commonly referred to as a "mouse", has a resilient cushion attached to the bottom of its casing and a high-durability, low-friction slide sheet attached to the bottom of the cushion resulting in a device whic... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4668947 | Method and apparatus for generating cursors for a raster graphic display Method and apparatus for generating cursors for display by a color raster graphic system. The cursors displayed can assume any one of a plurality of forms. Each cursor has predetermined boundaries and includes all pixel positions of the raster within its ... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4559532 | X-Y Position input device for display system An X-Y input device comprises a rotatable ball, a first driven roller held in contact with the rotatable ball and rotatable in response to rotation of the rotatable ball, a second driven roller held in contact with the rotatable ball and rotatable in resp... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4323891 | Cursor display control system for a raster scan type display system In a raster scan type display system in which a display screen is divided into a plurality of sections, and the display information is supplied to stations by using a mirror reflection, a cursor address for one of the divided sections or screens is output... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4228430 | CRT Display apparatus with changeable cursor indicia Disclosed is a raster scanning type CRT display apparatus having a microprogrammed processor for primarily controlling the input and output of data to and from an external information source. This CRT display apparatus comprises a plurality of cursor cont... | 10/14/1980 |
| 4201983 | Addressing circuitry for a vertical scan dot matrix display apparatus An addressing circuitry for a dot matrix vertical scan plasma display includes a character row counter and a character column counter, a random access memory, a dot pattern generator, a parallel to series shift register, and a driver for the display. The ... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4190834 | Circuit and method for producing a full-screen cross-hair cursor on a raster-scan type display A circuit and method for receiving and sequentially decrementing the x and y coordinates of a desired cursor location so as to produce in a raster-scan display system a cross-hair cursor the component parts of which extend the full height and width of the... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4127851 | Device for displaying characters A device for displaying a number of lines of characters which are separated from each other by spacing lines on a television tube, comprising a circulating store for one line of characters which is connected to the output of a buffer store for the informa... | 11/28/1978 |
| 4119953 | Timesharing programmable display system Electronic display system in which a single memory is timeshared by a plurality of display units each including a cathode ray tube (CRT) television monitor capable of displaying a frame of characters in the form of one or more lines as well as a central p... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4101879 | Cursor movement control device for screen-segmented display apparatuses A cursor movement control a screen-segmented display apparatus in which the cursor is moved line by line within one divided section. The apparatus comprises a horizontal cursor register for storing the horizontal position of the cursor on display, a verti... | 07/18/1978 |
| 3974497 | Display device The present invention relates to display devices used as terminal devices for an electronic computer or the like, and more particularly to digital displays in a specific display region on a display device having character display functions. In digital dis... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3967266 | Display apparatus having improved cursor enhancement A non-interlaced raster-type display includes interface circuitry for displaying character patterns indicative of data signals manipulated by a processor under the control of a manually-operable keyboard. The displayed character patterns are enhanced by h... | 06/29/1976 |
