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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116599 | Radiation image signal output control method and apparatus A radiation image signal output control method in which distance information that indicates a distance between a radiation image detection cassette and a receiving unit is obtained by a distance information obtaining means, and wireless signals are controlled by an ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8103134 | Method and a handheld device for capturing motion A method for creating an image that depicts the motion of a moving object. The method comprises: a) identifying a motion of a moving object in a plurality of initial images depicting a scene, b) capturing a plurality of reference images of the moving object, c) crop... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094975 | System and method for factory work logging Provided is an information processing system which has a plurality of tags, a tag reader, a digital-pen, and a server. The plurality of tags each hold a tag identifier. The tag reader reads the tag identifier held in each of the plurality of tags. The digital-pen re... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8081849 | Portable scanning and memory device A handheld optical scanner and/or memory device for capturing images of text from a rendered document is described. The handheld device may include a data storage component, a scanning component configured to capture text from rendered documents, a power storage com... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8031982 | Pen-shaped sensing device for sensing surface regions A pen-shaped sensing device is provided for sensing coded data disposed which is substantially invisible to the average unaided human eye on a surface. The device has a region identity sensor configured to sense, when the sensing device is positioned or moved relati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019184 | Pen system for recording handwritten information A pen system for recording a track of handwritten information created by a handheld electronic pen. The pen system includes the handheld electronic pen and a second memory unit located in an external data storage device. The electronic pen has an image sensor for op... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7991247 | Sensing device A sensing device is disclosed. The sensing device interacts with a surface having coded data thereon. The coded data is made up from tags. Each tag encodes a unique identity of the surface, and the location of that tag on the surface. The sensing device has an optic... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7974500 | Optoelectronic force sensor A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a load bearing member movably mounted for receiving an input force to be sensed, the loa... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7941010 | System for generating interface surface A system for generating an interface surface is provided having a code generator for generating machine-readable coded data and a printer for printing the generated coded data onto a surface to generate an interface surface. The coded data is generated to be arrange... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7920762 | Method of sensing coded data on a surface A method of sensing coded data on a surface is disclosed. Images of the coded data on the surface are captured using a sensor of a sensing device. The coded data is formed from tags, with each tag encoding a unique identity of a region of the surface and the positio... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916978 | Sensing device for sensing a position within a region A sensing device for sensing a region provided on or in a surface having at least one region. The at least one region having printed therein or thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the at least one region, and visible information at least some of the info... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7903905 | Pen-shaped scanning device having a region identity sensor Provided is a pen-shaped scanning device for scanning a surface having coded data disposed thereon which is substantially invisible to the average unaided human eye. The device is configured to determine at least two dimensions of a rotational orientation of the sen... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7860349 | Pen system for recording handwritten information A pen system for recording a track of handwritten information. The system includes a handheld pen device having an image sensor, a processor and a first memory unit. The pen device generates digital ink by interacting with a coded surface and transmits the digital i... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7817878 | Imaging apparatus having plurality of operating states There is described an imaging apparatus having an image sensor, and a plurality of operating states. Operation of the imaging apparatus can be differentiated between the operating states. In one operating state, the imaging apparatus can capture a frame of image dat... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809214 | Device and a method for identifying movement patterns A device for converting digital images taken along a predefined movement pattern into a control signal. The device comprises an image input device having a connection to a image sensor. The image input device is adapted to receive the digital images captured during ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7760969 | Method of providing information via context searching from a printed substrate A method of providing information to a user via a printed substrate, said substrate comprising user information and coded data indicative of a region identity associated with the substrate and of a plurality of locations on the substrate, said method comprising the ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756364 | Digital pen and paper system A digital pen and paper system comprising a digital pen adapted to acquire disposition data representing a position and orientation of the pen relative to a portion of a carrier using a position-determining pattern on the carrier, the pen comprising a display operab... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738744 | Recording and communication of handwritten information A pen system for recording a track of handwritten information created by the pen device is provided. The pen system comprises: a handheld pen device for recording the information in a digital format; and a memory for storing the recorded information. The memory incl... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7720317 | Handheld image-tracking device within rectangle-shaped two-dimensional sensing array Because the back-and-forth movement by hand is slower and more strenuous than the leftward-and-rightward swinging, a handheld image-tracking device, which can be applied to an optical mouse or a handheld scanner, uses a rectangle-shaped sensing array to save area of... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715662 | Method of generating interface surface having rotationally symmetric coded data A method of generating an interface surface is provided in which machine-readable coded data is generated to be arranged in accordance with a layout having n-fold rotational symmetry about a center of rotation, where n is at least two, the layout including n identic... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7668406 | Digital image acquisition system capable of compensating for changes in relative object velocity An imaging device comprising a plurality of linear imaging arrays and image formation optics that provide field of views corresponding to the plurality of linear image arrays. At least one illumination module produces planar light illumination that substantially ove... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7660489 | Sensing device having an image sensor and a movement sensor A sensing device for sensing coded data on a surface, generating indicating data, and transmitting the indicating data to a computer system is provided. The coded data is indicative of at least a region identity of the surface, whilst the indicating data comprises d... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7660490 | Sensing device A sensing device for sensing region identity data and generating movement data when the sensing device is moved relative to a region of a surface, the region identity data being indicative of an identity of the region, the movement data being indicative of the movem... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7657128 | Optical force sensor A force sensor particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor has a housing for a load bearing member for receiving an input force to be sensed and associ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646941 | Data capture apparatus with handwritten data receiving component A data capturing module combined with a portable data terminal of the hand-held type to record handwritten data. Using a digitized pad, the module can provide for direct input of handwritten data into the system, or a peripheral digital scanner can be employed to pr... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7593604 | Sensing device having an image sensor for sensing and capturing images of coded data A sensing device for sensing coded data on a surface, generating indicating data using the coded data, and transmitting the indicating data to a computer system is provided. The coded data is indicative of an identity of a region of the surface and of a plurality of... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7593605 | Data capture from rendered documents using handheld device A portable device having scanning, imaging or other data-capture capability is described. In some cases, the portable device can indicate to the user when enough information has been captured to uniquely identify a source document. In some cases, the portable device... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7590311 | Sensing device for sensing a position within a region A sensing device for sensing a region provided on or in a surface having at least one region. The at least one region having printed therein or thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the at least one region, and visible information at least some of the info... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7577317 | Recording and communication of handwritten information A hand-held user unit, which can be part of a network-based information management system, allows for the writing down and recording of handwritten information. The user unit has a memory for storing the recorded information. The memory comprises a first memory part... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7542629 | Active sensing device configured to capture and decode infrared (IR) position tags from a page The invention relates to an active sensing device configured to capture and decode infrared (IR) position tags from a page. The sensing device includes a force sensor photodiode configured to sense when a portion of the device is in contact with the page, and an ima... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7463794 | Optical imaging pen having an orthogonal accelerometer The invention provides for an optical imaging pen configured to capture and decode infrared (IR) position tags from a page. The pen includes a force sensor photodiode configured to sense when a nib of the pen is in contact with the page, and an LED configured to pro... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7441183 | Method computer program product and device for arranging coordinate areas relative to each other The invention relates to a method, a computer program product and a device for arranging a first and a second coordinate area relative to each other, which first and second coordinate areas are coded on a first and a second surface by a position-coding pattern. The ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437023 | Methods, systems and computer program products for data gathering in a digital and hard copy document environment A system for easily determining viewership of articles or ads in printed publications and using the determined viewership to determine author compensation, ad rates, or other historical or demographic related information is described. The system receives scan inform... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433499 | Method and apparatus for capturing and authenticating biometric information from a writing instrument This present invention includes a method for capturing and transmitting data captured from a writing instrument in a secure manner. More specifically, the biometric information collected from the pen is coupled with at least one additional data point for encryption.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424154 | Boxed and lined input panel A method and apparatus for receiving strokes of electronic ink in more than one language is provided. An input device is used to enter at least one stroke of electronic ink into a processing device. The processing device stores a language indication associated with ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418160 | Method and device for processing of information Device for processing of information, which device comprises a processor and, connected to the processor, a reading unit for electronic reading of information on a surface, which is provided with a position code which codes a plurality of positions on the surface. T... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418117 | Liquid crystal display device performing both image display mode and fingerprint recognition mode Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device of novel construction, in which a fingerprint recognition device is integrally formed with the liquid crystal display device, thereby minimizing the increase in the price and size of a final product. The liquid crystal di... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7397468 | Method and system for creating a document having metadata The present application describes systems and methods for creating a document having metadata using a pointing device such as a digital pen. In one configuration, a digital pen captures pen stroke data and processes that data to determine metadata that the pen then ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7372980 | Information terminal apparatus with collation function According to this invention, a fingerprint sensor is mounted for fingerprint collation, and a movable protection unit which coverts the fingerprint sensor is arranged. In fingerprint authentication, the protection unit moves to expose the fingerprint sensor. Along w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370114 | Software downloading using a television broadcast channel A software distribution architecture having a television broadcast system as its infrastructure. Software from a software repository (1600) is mixed into a television broadcast system and transmitted into one or more selected channels at prescribed dates and ... | 05/06/2008 |
