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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7168867 | Universal pen with image sensor A pen with a sensor is capable of marking a visible path on a surface, and effecting a change in an attribute of the visual path. The change is derived to a color or image sensed by the sensor. ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170009 | Method of interfacing a remote wand to electronics control chassis A method is provided for interfacing a remote wand to its electronics control chassis by means of a coiled cable. The wand may consist of a sensor such as a light-sensitive detector, and the control electronics provide amplification and processing of the received li... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170017 | Coordinate detecting method and system for touch panel The invention relates to a coordinate detecting method for a touch panel. Firstly, a plurality of X-axis and Y-axis I/O ports are converted to a plurality of X-axis and Y-axis scanning wires respectively by orthogonal method. Polling signals are transmitted to X-axi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170501 | Coordinate inputting apparatus A coordinate inputting apparatus capable of being used in combination with a device generating noise, comprises an input section for inputting coordinates, a detecting section for detecting the input coordinates, and a control section for controlling the entire coor... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170503 | Layer editing method and apparatus in a pen computing system An editing apparatus and an editing method in a pen computing system using a whole display screen as an input window. Edited information written or drawn by a user on a transparent layer, which is displayed over original text, is stored as a picture or translated in... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167898 | Collaboration method, system, program and record medium An electronic mail having thereon an URL of a conference host peer machine for automatically taking part in a conference by clicking once is sent to a plurality of conferee peer machines. A conferee peer machine at a shortest time location is searched through commun... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167585 | Interfacing with ink The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one ma... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167586 | Method and system for remote form completion The present application describes systems and methods for composing documents using a digital pointing instrument. In further configurations, a user utilizes a pen to partially fill in a form and provide destination data whereby a forms processor adds additionally r... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167165 | Temporary lines for writing A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in neatly and accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool, such as a stylus or pen, close to a display and... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167166 | Method and system for processing observation charts The invention concerns a method and system for digitally processing information to be written on an observation form, said form being preprinted with at least one blank chart having at least one line and several columns, each column corresponding to a determined pri... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167164 | Recording and communication of handwritten information A hand-held user unit (1), which can be part of a network-based information management system, allows for the writing down and recording of handwritten information. The user unit (1) has a memory for storing the recorded information. The memory compris... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164392 | Material presentation device A material presentation device connecting at least two material presentation devices to each other, comprises a first selecting device for selecting one image as a main image from plural images composed of an image output by another material presentation device, a c... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164782 | System and method for time-space multiplexing in finger-imaging applications An apparatus for imaging a fingerprint operates in a selected mode to provide a finger recognition and/or a finger navigation application. Multiple light sources are capable of being sequentially selected for illumination of corresponding partitions of a finger inte... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164793 | Pen-based handwritten character recognition and storage system The present invention is directed to an improved system and method in which a pen-sized and shaped device detects, recognizes and stores handwriting as it is written by the device. The invention employs both an active feedback network and a character recognition met... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165217 | Electronic book display device and its display method An electronic book display device capable of attaching the mark to the optional element by just conducting the simple operation like actual books. Since the display control means 28 is provided for determining the type of mark to emphasize the specifying element acc... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162442 | Method and system for submitting bids using coded forms Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to submitting auction bids 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 w... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162088 | Notetaking method incorporating coded data sensor A method of enabling handwritten note taking and retrieval, the method including the steps of: providing a user with at least one form printable on a surface, the form containing information relating to a notebook activity and including coded data indicative of an i... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162269 | Method and system for telephone control using coded marks The invention concerns methods and systems for enabling telephones to be controlled through computer systems. Employing the invention involves the use of one or more control interfaces which are capable of being used to interact with a computer system or network, ea... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161586 | Method of operating an optical motion sensing device and optical motion sensing device implementing this method There is described a method of operating an optical motion sensing device comprising a light source and a photodetector device, the method comprising the steps of a) illuminating a surface portion with radiation by means of the light source, b) detecting radiation r... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7159996 | Backlight system with exchangeable light sources and liquid crystal display using the same A backlight system (10) includes a light source (30) having a light emitting portion (31) and a wire (32); and a bracket (20) having a plurality of fastener (24) which holds the light emitting portion thereby mounting the li... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161639 | Coordinate input device including a substrate having thinner central portion A liquid crystal display device contains a coordinate input device on the front side of a liquid crystal display unit. The coordinate input device is of a resistive contact type and includes a first light-transmitting substrate, and a second light-transmitting subst... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161585 | Displacement data post-processing and reporting in an optical pointing device There is described a method of post-processing and reporting detected displacement in an optical pointing device as well as a sensing device for an optical pointing device implementing this method. Displacement is detected and a first count representative of a magni... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158117 | Coordinate input apparatus and control method thereof, coordinate input pointing tool, and program The position coordinates of a coordinate input pen are calculated. The position coordinates are changed on the basis of, of the calculated position coordinates, predetermined coordinates related to the distance between the coordinate input surface and the coordinate... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158121 | Enhanced touch-screen display system An enhanced touch-screen display system is disclosed for generating pixel coordinate estimates corresponding to a location on a display screen touched by a user. The system is an analog resistive touch-screen display system having a processor and associated software... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158124 | Touch panel including external connection terminal placed within outline of touch panel body provided with handle portion External connection terminals are placed within an outline of a touch panel body by being concentrated in an area neighboring an edge of a touch panel body on one of an upper surface and an under surface thereof. When the external connection terminals are concentrat... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156289 | Methods and systems for object identification and interaction A method of facilitating an interaction between a user and a product item, the product item having an identity and the method including a number of steps. The first step involves providing the user with an interface surface associated with the product item and conta... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158659 | System and method for multiplexing illumination in combined finger recognition and finger navigation module An apparatus for imaging a fingerprint operates in a selected mode to provide a finger recognition and/or a finger navigation application. At least one light source illuminates at least one partition of a finger interface upon which a user places a finger (or thumb)... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158123 | Secondary touch contextual sub-menu navigation for touch screen interface A touch sensitive user interface of the type having a display screen for displaying images representative of menus and selectable list objects, for example; control logic responsive to the touch sensitive user interface for determining the contact position of a firs... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158675 | Interfacing with ink The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one ma... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158678 | Text input method for personal digital assistants and the like A handheld device 100 with a graphical user interface for entering handwritten text 102. The handheld device includes word and character input areas 104, 106 within a designated input area 108. Icons 110, 112, 114, 116 and 118 | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154056 | Method and arrangement in a digital communication system A user of a digital pen in an information management system is allowed to have a number of aliases when communicating in the system. The system includes a plurality of products, which are provided with a position code, a plurality of digital pens capable of reading ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154452 | Electronic paper, electronic paperfile and electronic pen The invention has an object to provide the electronic paper file, which an electronic paper can be attached to or detached from by providing a connecting terminal including the physical or electrical connecting function to both the electronic paper and the main unit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154544 | Digital camera including a zoom button and/or a touch tablet useable for performing a zoom operation An information processing device includes a shooting lens assembly, a photoelectric conversion element, a memory, a display screen, a zoom designation device and an image size changing device (e.g., a controller). The photoelectric conversion element receives light ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155038 | Handwriting identification system, writing implement for identifying handwriting and method for identifying handwriting A processing terminal 10 includes a writing implement (ball point pen) 30. The writing implement 30 is provided with a tilt change detecting mechanism for detecting a change in a tilt with respect to a writing implement main body of a lead and a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154483 | Touch panel device A touch panel device includes a screen that has a plurality of display areas in a first layer, and a plurality of touch areas in a second layer. The second layer lies over the first layer. One touch area is superposed over one display area. The touch area is general... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154484 | Recording medium, computer and method for selecting computer display items A recording medium, computer and method for displaying a selectable item on a computer display screen. The recording medium has a processing program that sequentially displays a selectable item from a sequence of items at a rate depending on the output from a contro... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154481 | Touch sensor A touch sensing method and a touch sensing device are described for sensing a location of a touch. When the touch sensing device is touched, a first conductive layer disposed on a supporting layer is deflected toward a second conductive layer. The touch location is ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154486 | Stylus-accommodating structure for wireless communication apparatus A stylus-accommodating structure for a wireless communication apparatus includes a printed-circuit board (3), a receiving block (31) and a planar antenna (33). The receiving block further includes an outer surface (300) and a tunnel (3... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154511 | Fast rendering of ink A system and process for quickly rendering ink is described. Rendered ink information is placed into a transparency map of an image. The image is combined with foreground and background information to produce a final image. Using this process, the painting of ink us... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154471 | Color arrangement for a cursor Control arrangement for a cursor (140) on a screen or a display for a computer (130), comprising a hand unit (10) with two sensing elements (20, 30) adapted to be applied on two of the fingers of the user, suitably along the thumb and for... | 12/26/2006 |
