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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7286113 | Method and system for user registration 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 ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7281664 | Method and system for hierarchical management of a plurality of regions of an encoded surface used by a pen computer A method for hierarchical management of a plurality of regions of an encoded surface. The method includes recognizing unique encoded information on a portion of the surface in response to a pen computer touching down on the portion. A unique location of the portion ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278224 | Portable electronic device A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a casing, a display unit, a roller, an encoder and a controller. The casing has a casing surface. The display unit is disposed on the casing surface. The roller is rotatably disposed o... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7279646 | Digital signature collection and authentication A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signatu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278017 | Method and device for secure wireless transmission of information A method for secure transmission of information from a digital pen to a receiving device is provided. The method includes obtaining, in the digital pen, a message in the form of a plurality of position indications recorded from a position code on a substrate; sendin... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277723 | Method for inputting and permuting original scripts to external mobile phone and the device for performing the same An external device of a mobile phone for inputting and permuting original script comprises a handwriting sensing device for sensing handwriting script and generating script coordinates or displacement data; a transmission interface for transmitting the script coordi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277089 | Highlevel active pen matrix The present invention relates to a system, method and medium for receiving and acting upon user input. In one embodiment, the user may only have access to a limited input device, like a stylus. Using the present invention, a user is provided with intuitive responses... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277088 | Keyboard system with automatic correction A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274480 | Portable communicator This communicator makes it possible for the user to do telephone, facsimile, and data communication at any location. On a pen input device, a space eye 2, a telephone control system, a facsimile control system, and a data transmission system are mounted. All ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274808 | Imaging system and apparatus for combining finger recognition and finger navigation An imaging system for imaging a fingerprint operates in at least two different modes to provide both finger recognition and finger navigation applications. A light source illuminates a swipe interface having an elongated sensing area upon which a user swipes a finge... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274353 | Capacitive touchpad integrated with key and handwriting functions A capacitive touchpad integrated with key and handwriting functions is provided for operation in key, handwriting and mouse modes. Several regions are defined on the panel of the touchpad and have several patterns printed thereon for the operation modes thereby. In ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7273174 | Optical pen having a light path coaxial with its pen tip An optical pen comprising a shaft, a pen tip, a light source and an optical sensor. The shaft extends a predetermined length along an axial direction. The pen tip is arranged at one end of the shaft and situated in the same axial direction. The light source produces... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274357 | Touch pad module including separate touch pad and control circuit units A touch pad module includes a touch pad unit for generating contact signals in response to operation thereof, a control circuit unit separate from the touch pad unit, and an electrical coupling unit having a first end coupled to the touch pad unit and a second end c... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272259 | Systems and methods for capturing handwritten information using handwriting analysis Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a writing profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. A method may include providing a document to a computer system. In an embodiment, the method may further include assessing whe... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270277 | Data encoding mark for placement in a compact area and an object carrying the data encoding mark The encoding mark uses a series of shapes as a guide, each of shape capable of being encoded with a finite number, including zero, of distinctive markings. The encoding of a predetermined identifier is performed by placing a predetermined number of distinctive marki... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268772 | Information processing apparatus operating in touch panel mode and pointing device mode An information processing apparatus comprises a display device and a touch panel disposed in front of the display device. The apparatus further comprises: a unit for switching between a touch panel mode of operation and a pointing device mode of operation in accorda... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268771 | Panel display screen with touch control function A flat panel display screen includes a flat panel display screen main unit and a touch control induction layer. The touch control induction layer is placed behind the flat panel display screen, wherein the touch control induction layer is constituted by an electroma... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268774 | Tracking motion of a writing instrument Motion of a writing instrument is tracked from sensors located in the vicinity. The signals generated from the sensors are processed and used in a wide variety of ways. ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267930 | Techniques for manufacturing a waveguide with a three-dimensional lens Optical transmission structures include a waveguide and an optical lens wherein the optical lens has a sufficiently large thickness to allow the formation of a curved front lens surface that collimates transmitted light rays so that they travel within a plane that i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7267273 | Packing system A packing system is provided comprising a first object and a sensing device. The first object comprises an interface surface having a plurality of tags printed thereon, with each tag containing coded data identifying the object. The sensing device is configured to r... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7269531 | Hybrid sensing techniques for position determination The invention provides for a method and apparatus for improving error-correction in non-contact optical position sensing. The primary application is in page-based data input contexts such as form-filling and paper-based web interfaces and GUIs. The invention utilise... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265303 | Electromagnetic digitizer sensor array An electromagnetic digitizer arrangement that may include a comb-like pattern of sensing traces that form various sensing loops depending upon the configurations of various switches is described. The comb arrangement of traces may be fabricated using only a single l... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266236 | Accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer The present invention provides a method and apparatus for accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer. In one embodiment, handwritten symbols are translated into machine readable characters using special purpose hardware. In one embodim... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266778 | Freezable projection display A display system and method are provided. The system typically includes a display configured to control visible light, as well as to sense an optical signal projected thereon, the display being adapted to freeze a projected image by storing the optical signal associ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265750 | Haptic feedback stylus and other devices A force feedback interface and method including an actuator in a non-primary axis or degree of freedom. The force feedback interface device is connected to a host computer that implements a host application program or graphical environment. The interface device incl... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265747 | Optically based operating device for a household appliance An operating element can be used to operate or control a household appliance, for example a cook top heating element. A seven-segment display is arranged beneath a cover in the region of a contact surface. A light source and a light receiver are arranged inside resp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265748 | Method and device for detecting touch pad input A method and system for determining the location of an object touching a touch pad. A light source is used to provide a light beam and a plurality of reflecting surfaces are disposed along an edge of the touch pad to partially reflect the light beam in order to prov... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263508 | Method and system for online purchasing using sensor with identifier Methods and systems are disclosed which relate to online purchasing 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 ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263224 | Strokes localization by m-array decoding and fast image matching Systems and methods that determine a path of a pen tip as the pen tip is moved across a document are described. The document is watermarked with a maze pattern from which encoded position information is determined. A sequence of images is captured by a camera that i... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262785 | Ink editing architecture A system and process for capturing and rendering ink is described. An ink canvas object may contain none, one, or more objects or elements and may specify the z-order of the objects or elements. The ink canvas object may host a variety of objects or elements and, th... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262764 | Universal computing device for surface applications A universal input device for use with a surface, such as a whiteboard, is provided. The universal input device can be used to control various computing devices as well as capture handwritten electronic ink and have the electronic ink be associated with new or stored... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7262906 | Means for transporting a microscope A microscope includes a microscope arm having an interior and an exterior surface. The interior surface has at least one recessed portion disposed therein extending from the interior surface of the microscope arm to an inner recess surface of the microscope arm. The... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7259753 | Classifying, anchoring, and transforming ink Methods for classifying, anchoring, and transforming ink are disclosed. Ink drawings and ink annotations are captured and stored with additional information that allows the various described methods to associate the ink with one or more displayed elements. During re... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259754 | Pen sensor coordinate narrowing method and apparatus When a user indicates a point on a display screen of a computer using a pen sensor, first the display screen is divided into a plurality of areas and the areas are displayed by mutually different colors or brightnesses. The plurality of colors or brightnesses displa... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257255 | Capturing hand motion A portable electronic device, a digital camera associated with the portable electronic device, and software configured to run on the portable electronic device and to derive handwriting and control information from hand motion of a writing instrument in the vicinity... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257256 | Method and system for recognizing date A method and system for recognizing date. An embodiment of a method for recognizing a date includes receiving a set of coordinates from a capture device, the set of coordinates indicating where on a paper form a set of marks was made without the use of a graphical u... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257278 | Image sensor for capturing and filtering image data An integrated image sensor for acquiring and processing electrical signals representative of an object comprising a photosite array configured to convert light into the electrical signals, an A/D converter configured to convert the electrical signals into digital da... | 08/14/2007 |
