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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7205976 | Computer input device containing a pointing mechanism and non-volatile solid state storage means A computer pointing device (65) has a coupling device (1) for coupling to a computer serial bus. A primary control device (60) is coupled to the coupling device (1). A computer pointing mechanism (62) is coupled to the primary cont... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205980 | Quiet mouse A computer pointing device includes an interface for communicating to a computer in response to a user input. The pointing device includes an inaudible moveable input that is activated by the user. The pointing device includes a resilient member with at least one el... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205981 | Method and apparatus for providing resistive haptic feedback using a vacuum source A method and apparatus is described for applying haptic feedback using a vacuum source. A housing includes a cavity. The cavity can be positioned near a moveable member such that the cavity of the housing and the moveable member define a volume. The volume has an as... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205977 | Input device including a wheel assembly for scrolling an image in multiple directions A computer input device having a housing and a finger-engagable scrolling device. A portion of the scrolling device is endlessly rotatable about a first axis to preferably cause vertical scrolling of an image on a display. The scrolling device is pivotally movable r... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202851 | Haptic interface for palpation simulation A palpation simulator comprises an interface for interfacing a user with a computer running a palpation simulation. The computer generates a graphical environment comprising a cursor and a graphical representation of at least a portion of a living body. In one versi... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7202799 | Remote controller A remote controller accesses via a connection control data from an appliance to be controlled. The remote controller includes a connection interface, a control unit, an input keypad and a remote signal output unit. When a user intends to remotely operate the applian... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203383 | Handwritten character recording and recognition device The invention is an electronic recording and computing device that resides within or on a pen shaped object for the purpose of recording and processing handwritten text or graphics. The device includes a marking implement that may be a pencil, ink pen, non-marking t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203526 | Wireless user input device providing host link indication A wireless interface device services communications between a wirelessly enabled host and at least one user input device. The wireless interface device includes a wireless interface unit, a processing unit, an input/output unit, and may include a power management un... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203384 | Implement for optically inferring information from a planar jotting surface The present invention relates to a jotting implement that infers hand-jotted information from a jotting surface. The hand-jotted information is any information marked on the jotting surface as a result of writing, jotting, drawing, sketching or in any other manner o... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200765 | Docking station for a wireless mouse with control of a computer A docking station for a wireless mouse includes an output for communicating with a computer and a mouse detector for detecting when the mouse is docked in the docking station. The docking station is configured to transmit a signal to the computer to automatically de... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199787 | Apparatus with touch screen and method for displaying information through external display device connected thereto There is provided an apparatus with a touch screen including a touch pad. The apparatus includes a connecter for connecting the apparatus to an external display device; a sensor for generating a sensing signal upon detecting connection between the apparatus and the ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199792 | Tray mounted cursor control input device for integration with computer keyboard A pointing device for use with a keyboard functions like a computer mouse. It incorporates a plurality of configurable function keys. The pointing device is composed of a rolling surface capable of rotation and translation that may activate a switch when it is depre... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200744 | Apparatus and method for controlling device operation in computer Disclosed is an apparatus and method for controlling driving of an auxiliary device in a computer. The computer would include an operating system (OS) having at least one of a keyboard controller driver and a system BIOS that controls the enabled/disabled status of ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199783 | Wake-up detection method and apparatus embodying the same An input apparatus is disclosed having a hand-sensing system, a wake-up detector, and a microcontroller. After a period of inactivity, the apparatus is placed into a sleep mode to conserve power. During the sleep mode, an electrical property that the hand-sensing sy... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196690 | Input device off table switch According to one aspect of the invention, a movable cursor control device is provided for controlling a cursor on a display screen of a digital processing system. One exemplary cursor control device comprises a housing, an electromagnetic emitting device coupled to ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7196806 | Data processing system for converting content relative to a space used as an advertising medium into a printable object A method, system and computer program product in a data processing system for printing a disjoint web object and content of a web page is provided. Responsive to presenting the web page by the browser, an embedded tag is presented as the disjoint web object. The dis... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197718 | Interactive virtual area browser for selecting and rescaling graphical representations of displayed data A computer implemented graphical user interface and data processing method is provided that facilitates manipulation of objects on a display by directly manipulating a graphic representation of an active area of data. The user can select an active region of a larger... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193612 | Scrolling apparatus providing multi-directional movement of an image The invention is a scrolling apparatus may be incorporated into an input device, such as a pointing device or a keyboard, for example, and operatively connected to a host computer to scroll an image along multiple axes relative to a display screen. The scrolling app... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193857 | Sub rack based vertical housing for computer systems A structure for vertically housing multiple computer systems is disclosed. The structure includes a bottom support member and a top support member substantially parallel to the bottom support member. The top support member is attached to the bottom support member by... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193611 | Computer cursor pointing device with electric stimulator A computer cursor pointing device with an electric stimulator is disclosed, including a casing, a first electrode which is mounted at the top surface of the casing, a second electrode which is also mounted at the top surface of the casing and is close to and insulat... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187412 | Pointing device for digital camera display A process and apparatus is described to improve a digital camera user interface and increase ease of use and functionality of a digital camera by quickly, accurately and robustly permitting cursor control and designation in a digital camera display. A digital camera... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187361 | Wireless portable input device and receiver of the same A wireless portable input device and a receiver of the same is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, the receiver of the input device can be detached from the motherboard and stored within a receiving chamber of the input device when not in us... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187185 | Area-change sensing through capacitive techniques An area-change sensing through capacitive techniques is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first conductive surface is substantially parallel to a second conductive surface. The first conductive surface may be moveable relative to the second conductive surface in a dir... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187358 | Input device including a wheel assembly for scrolling an image in multiple directions A computer input device having a housing and a finger-engagable scrolling device. A portion of the scrolling device is endlessly rotatable about a first axis to preferably cause vertical scrolling of an image on a display. The scrolling device is pivotally movable r... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187362 | Hot-key mouse for the same A hot-key mouse is to position several hot keys on both sides of a scroll wheel of the mouse, excepting remaining original design of the left and the right mouse buttons, the hot keys are positioned adjacent to the scroll wheel and between the left and the right mou... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184022 | Position determination and motion tracking Systems and methods for position determination and motion tracking for use in a processor based system. Embodiments may incorporate a redirector that moves in at least one direction about a fixed point, an object operable to reflect a search beam as a location beam,... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185274 | Computer user interface architecture wherein users interact with both content and user interface by activating links A user interface architecture wherein user content and user interface are composed of documents with links. Links have properties that indicate how links should be displayed. Link display may depend upon characteristics of the linked-to frame. Commands are implement... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184032 | Tactile overlays for screens An overlay for use with a display screen, comprising at least one first tactilely readable area, wherein the display screen includes a first feature thereon, wherein the tactilely readable area includes information in a tactilely readable format, and wherein the inf... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184064 | Touch-screen image scrolling system and method Electronic image displays, of lists that extend beyond the vertical display dimension of the display screen, are displaced in the vertical direction by touching the screen with a finger and then moving the finger in the desired direction on the screen. In a natural ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181502 | System and method for locating on electronic documents items referenced in a physical document The present invention generally relates to interactive hypermedia systems for locating electronic documents referenced on physical documents. More particularly, the present invention discloses a method and system for creating hyperlinks from one or more items, e.g. ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180503 | Inductive power source for peripheral devices A system for providing power to a computer peripheral device during the normal operation of the device is disclosed. A base is provided that includes a winding of a coil. The winding is driven to make a constantly changing magnetic field. The peripheral device also ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180431 | Apparatus and method for an accelerated thumbwheel on a communications device An accelerated roller apparatus on a handheld electronic communications device that handles urgency conditions. The device includes a manipulable mechanism that is capable of generating a manipulation-related signal. Changes in the signal occur whenever motion is im... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180500 | User definable gestures for motion controlled handheld devices A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the d... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180502 | Handheld device with preferred motion selection A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to t... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180501 | Gesture based navigation of a handheld user interface A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate a current image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176893 | Forward tracking arc based first person pistol grip game control A manually moveable FPS control unit for moving a cursor on a console display screen, which unit has a forward end housing an optical sensor adapted for selective positioning in front of an axis of rotation at a rearward location. Rotation about the rearward axis cr... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176442 | Optical navigation device with optical navigation quality detector An optical navigation system, e.g. optical mouse, determines optical navigation quality by examining some or all of the photosensors of a frame or monitoring intermediate or final results of the motion estimation system. The optical navigation quality is then used t... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176887 | Environmental modeling for motion controlled handheld devices A motion controlled handheld device includes a user interface comprising a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate a current image and a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify compon... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176888 | Selective engagement of motion detection A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176886 | Spatial signatures A handheld device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and a memory maintaining a spatial signature comprising a particular movement of the device with respect to a reference position. The device also inc... | 02/13/2007 |
