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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7348999 | Alignment method and apparatus An alignment aiding method and apparatus enables an orienting and positioning of a data carrying 2-dimensional graphical symbol within a field of view of an imaging device. The desired orientation and position is indicated by a graphical alignment indicator. The gra... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339700 | Profile adjustment method, apparatus, and program The invention makes it possible to perform a quantitative evaluation not influenced by experience and sensitivity of a user, upon adjustment of a profile. The adjustment of first conversion data, for converting device independent data included in a profile describin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324121 | Adaptive manipulators A method of repositioning a manipulator in relation to a viewport is provided in a system for interacting with a three-dimensional object configured with a manipulator. The object and the manipulator are drawn in the viewport and the position of the manipulator is c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310550 | Electrocardiograph and display method for electrocardiograph A portable electrocardiograph having a display function and method is disclosed. In measuring an electrocardiographic waveform, an electrocardiograph (1) is held in position by a grip including a negative electrode (14) while simultaneously pressing a ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310440 | Replacement sensor model for optimal image exploitation A replacement sensor model for optimally exploiting imaging data obtained by an image sensor. The replacement sensor model includes a ground-to-image function such as a polynomial for converting three-dimensional ground point data to two-dimensional image (pixel) da... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7256801 | Elastic presentation space A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7167187 | System and method for georeferencing digital raster maps using a georeferencing function A method, computer-readable medium and apparatus for georeferencing a raster map. A first map is displayed in one area of a display, wherein the first map is a digital raster map. A second map is displayed in a second area of the display, wherein the second map is a... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7120570 | Methods and apparatus for design of dot matrix visual displays A design tool for choosing and modifying features of a dot matrix display. The design tool allows a user to design and save a character set and then to enter and view text to be displayed using the character set. The user is able to modify features of the display an... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7086028 | Simplified generation of design change information on a drawing in a computer aided design (CAD) environment The invention includes computer instructions that operate to receive an indication of a modification of a design, the design being displayed as part of a drawing within a computer aided design (CAD) environment. Responsive to the received indication, the computer in... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6993362 | Portable communication apparatus having a hierarchical menu system and a dynamic menu A portable communication apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, has a display, a user-controlled input device, a memory, a controller, and a hierarchical menu system stored in the memory. The menu system has a plurality of menus, including top-level menus, sub-level... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6990649 | Method to configure and quote component arrays A program adaptable for designing, configuring and quoting in real time a large array of components and interconnects such as a network of connectors and conductors. The program receives information from a user regarding the general layout and parameters of operatio... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6982731 | Method and system for remotely providing user-defined cutting files for CNC robotic tools A method and apparatus for interactive generation and provision of custom cutting files for CNC robotic tools. A generic model for a particular product that a user wishes to make with a CNC tool is provided on a server remote from a client, with corresponding repres... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6943792 | Three-dimensional data generating device A method of generating three-dimensional data includes the steps of inputting multiple images having a first resolution from different viewpoints of an object; storing the input multiple images; performing a resolution conversion of each of the input multiple images... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6907569 | “Show me” user interface command with scroll tracking Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for displaying a document on a display device. Methods include receiving a user input selecting a location in a document displayed in a display pane and requesting a show-me operation, and, in response to t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900819 | Systems and methods for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of th... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6868192 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium To provide an image processing apparatus in which even in case of a laterally-wide or vertically-long image, the user can easily and certainly recognize the image by its thumbnail display, there is disclosed an image processing apparatus constructed in such a manner... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6867816 | Method and device to display an index of teletext pages A teletext program includes several teletext pages, with each teletext page being broadcast in the form of a set of data packets. A method for displaying a teletext program index on a television receiver screen includes receiving a teletext page which includes the s... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6850259 | Systems and methods for providing original document orientation, tone reproduction curves and task specific user instructions based on displayed portions of a graphical user interface Features, such as finely controlling toner response curves and properly orienting documents, provided by imaging capturing devices are accessed through a complicated graphical user interface that includes a number of tabs and large number of dropdown boxes, pop-up b... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6822650 | Formatting object for modifying the visual attributes of visual objects to reflect data values A formatting object according to the present invention conveys information to the reader of a document (such as a table or chart) by associating visual attributes (such as color, fill type, border width, line width, line style, font size, marker size and marker type... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6768497 | Elastic presentation space A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6768495 | Preprocessing method applied to textures of arbitrarily shaped objects The invention relates to a method of preprocessing data that correspond to arbitrarily shaped objects and comprise for each object a texture part and an object mask, said method comprising, for each object plane associated to an object, the steps of: (1) part... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6754391 | Systems and methods for rendering image-based data Systems and methods for rendering image-based data are disclosed. A representative system includes a data interface that receives a remotely-generated data stream; a data manager coupled to the data interface, the data manager configured to translate the remotely-ge... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6734855 | Image editing system and method, image processing system and method, and recording media therefor Three-dimensional image processing has two processes. In a first process, a three-dimensional space including only a horizon appears on a display screen. By drawing a stroke line in the space, a wall having the stroke line as the base line is set as a canvas. A pict... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6697091 | Systems, methods and graphical user interfaces for indicating a desired original document orientation for image capture devices Because an original document is often incorrectly loaded into an image capture device, the resulting captured image is often upside down, rotated 90°, or cut off. This occurs even though image capture devices have markings that indicate how the original ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6631501 | Method and system for automatic type and replace of characters in a sequence of characters A method and system for checking the validity of a sequence of input characters according to the syntactical rules of a selected language is provided. If an input character may not be appended to the previously input sequence according to the rules of the... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6567101 | System and method utilizing motion input for manipulating a display of data The present invention relates to a system and method for manipulating a display of data by utilizing motion input. In an exemplary embodiment, a digital information appliance suitable for utilization of motion input and for display of data includes a dete... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6567546 | Data medium handling apparatus medium handling method A data medium handling apparatus and a data medium handling method suitable for use for handling of documents, for example, in a financial organ. The data medium handling apparatus (30) for recognizing, based on an image (19) read from a data medium on wh... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6545720 | Method for the display of teletext headers In a method for the display of teletext headers on a television receiver screen during a search for a teletext page, the teletext service uses a first group of characters comprising fixed characters and locations to receive variable characters and a secon... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6144765 | Figure processing method Disclosed is a technique for setting a body frame for a pattern and collectively deleting an area located outside the body frame. Consecutive codes can be assigned to scanned patterns.... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5991769 | System for facilitating home construction and sales A system for facilitating the information transfer and processing associated with home construction and home sales. Various discrete software modules are disclosed each handling a specific task associated with home construction and sales. Also, a system f... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5949407 | Remote control system A versatile remote control system including a three-button remote controller is adapted to control multiple devices. The remote control system display operation pictures in one area of a display screen such that the operation pictures do not obstruct a vi... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5442735 | Method and apparatus for interactively manipulating models A method and a data processing system including a display device, an entry apparatus for enabling a user to enter data representing lines or surfaces of a model, such model data being stored in a storage device, and a retrieval apparatus for retrieving mo... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5422989 | User interface mechanism for interactively manipulating displayed registered images obtained from multiple sensors having diverse image collection geometries A screen-to-registration surface interface translates coordinate system parameters associated with screen-base image manipulation software to latitude and longitude parameters of a co-registration surface-based coordinate system. By invoking a data file l... | 06/06/1995 |
