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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7348968 | Wireless force feedback input device A wireless force feedback device includes a housing, a central processing unit (CPU) disposed in the housing, a wireless communication receiver disposed in the housing and communicatively coupled to the CPU, wherein the wireless communication receiver is configured ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348969 | Passive light stylus and user input device using same The present disclosure provides a passive light stylus that produces a defined intensity profile detectable by a user input device when at least a portion of a tip of the stylus is proximate an input surface of the user input device. In some embodiments, the stylus ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7348964 | Single-piece top surface display layer and integrated front cover for an electronic device A single-piece top surface display and integrated front cover for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the cover comprises a thin, flexible, transparent layer coupled with a supporting structure. The flexible layer is supported above a display screen which is co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348970 | Display system and method of using same An optically addressable display includes a plurality of receptor and emitter pairs where each pair is for receiving optical display information and for generating light indicative of the display information. Each individual receptor and emitter pair is coupled elec... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345677 | Method for locating an impact on a surface and device therefor Apparatus and methods for locating an impact point on a surface of an object. The object is provided with an acoustic sensor that senses the impact from the acoustic waves that are generated when the object is subjected to the impact. The location of the impact on t... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7345681 | Pen data capture and injection A tool that allows a user, such as a software developer, to create test data that can consistently be employed to simulate the operation of a hardware pen or stylus. Raw pen data, such as position coordinates, pen angle and pen properties, is captured. This data is ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7341352 | Apparatus, method and program for detecting a pointer region, apparatus, method and program for associating images, content-distributing server, and content-distributing method An image-associating apparatus comprising a pointer-region detecting section 114, an image-associating section 109, and a pointer-region associating section 115. The section 14 that detects an optical pointer region indicating a prescribe... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7342575 | Electronic writing systems and methods Electronic writing systems and methods are described. In one aspect, an electronic writing system includes an elongated housing, an inertial sensor, an optical sensor, and a tracking module. The elongated housing has an optical input. The inertial sensor is attached... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342572 | System and method for transforming an ordinary computer monitor into a touch screen A system and method for turning a regular computer monitor screen into a touch screen using an ordinary camera. It includes an image-screen mapping procedure to correct for the non-flatness of the computer screen. It also includes a segmentation method to distinguis... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342350 | Handheld device having ultrasonic transducer for axial transmission of acoustic signals A handheld stylus having an elongated housing, a writing and drawing implement disposed within the housing and including a tip extending through an opening at an end of the housing where ultrasonic waves radiate therefrom and are used for determining a position of t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342573 | Electrostrictive polymer as a combined haptic-seal actuator This invention describes a method for a haptic (tactile) feedback to a user of an electronic device having a touch display (screen) by utilizing an electrostrictive polymer as a combined haptic-seal actuator attached to the touch screen. In addition, the combined se... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339580 | Method and apparatus for integrating manual input Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, compliant, and flexible multi-touch surface. The surface consists of compressible cushion dielectric, el... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339577 | Input device capable of button input and coordinate input on the same operating surface An input device including a main device composed of a coordinate input device, an operating surface having input portions displayed thereon, and a switch device having switches connected in parallel, and a control device which selects one of a first mode in which an... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339574 | Haptic mouse interface system for providing force and tactile feedbacks to user's fingers and arm A haptic mouse interface system includes a mouse, a first force feedback unit for providing a first force feedback in a first direction of a virtual object to the user's hand and arm, a second force feedback unit for providing a second force feedback in second and t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336267 | Attribute selection surface for use with a pen An attribute selection surface for use with a pen is provided. The pen has an electronically controllable marking device and a sensor. The surface comprises a substrate having information disposed thereon, the information comprising human-readable attribute informat... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337400 | Tactile user interface with application-specific tactile behavior A computer system includes a computer processor, an operating system operative in connection with the computer processor, and a display responsive to the operating system. The system also has a pointing device that includes a position sensor and a tactile actuator. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7336828 | Multiple handwriting recognition engine selection A system and method for switching between handwriting recognizers is described. A user may select between various recognizers to associate received handwritten ink with the recognizers. Accordingly, a user is able to write in a first language, switch and write in a ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336260 | Method and apparatus for providing tactile sensations Products and processes for providing tactile sensations to input devices or electronic devices are provided. Input devices include mechanical input devices (such as, for example, mechanical switches) and non-mechanical input devices (such as, for example, touchpads)... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333086 | Dual mode computer mouse A dual mode computer mouse including a first mouse body and a second mouse body is disclosed. The first mouse body includes a first sensor, a first button and at least a second button. A second sensor is disposed either in the first or the second mouse body. The sec... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333135 | Method, apparatus, and system for remotely annotating a target A system, method and apparatus for remotely annotating an object. An embodiment of the present invention includes a video camera projector that captures video images of a local object and projects annotations made by a user at a remote location onto said local objec... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7331530 | Method of obtaining at least a portion of a document A method of providing a copy of at least a portion of a document (2) comprising providing the document (2) with at least one document identifying indicia identifying at least a portion of the document, comprising the following steps, providing an indic... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333947 | Network-based system A system for information management consists of a product, for instance a notepad sheet, which has a writing surface (3) with a position code (5), which codes a plurality of positions on the surface, and a device, which is adapted to record the informa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333658 | Data verification using text messaging A method for computerized processing of paper forms includes receiving an electronic image of a paper form containing text information from a client having a telephone. The text information is extracted from the form using an optical character recognition (OCR) proc... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328845 | Method for producing indicators and processing apparatus and system utilizing the indicators The present invention discloses a method for producing graphical indicators and interactive systems for utilizing the graphical indicators. On the surface of an object, visually negligible graphical indicators are provided. The graphical indicators and main informat... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330605 | Decoding and error correction in 2-D arrays A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is unique for every sub window of a given size. The image of the sub window m... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330590 | Pen out-of-proximity handwriting-recognition trigger In a computer system that accepts handwritten input, a digitizer tracks the location of a user's pen while the pen is not in contact with the digitizer's writing surface. The digitizer maps the pen's three-dimensional location into a two-dimensional location on the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327349 | Advanced navigation techniques for portable devices The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be pe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322524 | Graphic design software using an interface surface A computer system configured for operating graphic design software to enable a user to perform graphic design activity using an interface surface. The interface surface contains information relating to the graphic design software. The interface surface includes code... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321692 | Method, device and computer program product for processing information in a memory A method, computer readable medium and device are provided for freeing memory in a device with limited memory, in which a plurality of pen strokes have been recorded, in electronic form in the memory in association with a page address of one of a plurality of logica... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321689 | Serial storage of ink and its properties Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data stru... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319454 | Two-button mouse input using a stylus A system and method for emulating the functional behavior of a two-button mouse-type computer input device is described. A predetermined input generated by digitizing pen and a digitizing writing surface is received, and a user interface having a plurality of soft b... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319789 | Serial storage of ink and its properties Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data stru... | 01/15/2008 |
