Did You Know...
...that one person who claimed to be the inventor of the television is Russian emigre Vladimir Zworykin? In 1929 David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, asked Zworykin what it would take to develop TV for commercial use. He said: a year and a half and $100,000. In reality, it took 20 years and $50 million! Before his death in 1982 at the age of 92, Zworykin said of his invention: "The technique is wonderful. It is beyond my expectations. But the programs! I would never let my children even come close to this thing."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5490243 | Data processing system for multi-platform print control and electronic data fill A data processing system utilizes the controlled output of complex forms in one of several different output devices without separate re-engineering of the form specification file. The system iteratively qualifies the form objects in the form file, modifyi... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5444841 | Graphical user interface control for replicating data fields in forms Disclosure is made of a menu-driven computer interface system employing a graphical user interface for the entry of text data in a data store. The system receives user inputs for controlling the graphical user interface, which interface provides a documen... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5438664 | Method and apparatus for producing slips of variable length and having user-defined word names and associated word data thereon A slip producing apparatus and method for producing a slip having a variable number of word names and respectively corresponding word data, wherein a plurality of slip types and a variable arbitrary number of word names corresponding to each slip type are... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5438657 | Document processing apparatus for extracting a format from one document and using the extracted format to automatically edit another document Document data stored in a document storage area are extracted line by line to analyze the structure of the document data. The document layout information is extracted from the analysis result. The extracted layout information is stored, as learning data, ... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5379372 | Apparatus and method for designing a form structure using column and row rules A method and an apparatus for designing generalized tables. The method and the apparatus are described by a collection of processes for performing operations such as creating a generalized table, deleting a generalized table, drawing a rule, stretching or... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5367619 | Electronic data entry system employing an expert system to facilitate generation of electronic data forms with complex interrelationships between fields and subforms An rulebase software system is incorporated into a form data entry system for a digital computer to assure that only complete, consistent and valid data entries are made in accordance with the expert system rulebase. The rulebase is in a simple tabular fo... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5333252 | Interface for arranging order of fields A method and apparatus of corresponding the order of fields from a first data set to the order of fields in a second data set is provided by displaying the fields from a first record in the first data set on a display. Then, a first field name from the se... | 07/26/1994 |
| 5317646 | Automated method for creating templates in a forms recognition and processing system A forms recognition system having a method which assists an operator in creating an electronic template. The automated method would allow an operator to view an electronic bitmap of a master or blank form on a graphical display, the master form having bou... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5299305 | Method for generating forms and for processing and transferring data among the forms A method of generating a plurality of forms that are related with one another, and more particularly a man-machine interface at a stage of generating forms, is able to define or correct form-relation definitions at a stage of inputting data in the forms f... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5235654 | Advanced data capture architecture data processing system and method for scanned images of document forms An advanced data capture architecture is disclosed which enables the free-definition and re-definition of the format of document forms without requiring any reprogramming of the data processors which capture and use the data on the completed forms. The ar... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5231579 | Method and system for displaying and processing image of form document Method and system for dispensing a document form including input/output fields into which a character train or a numerical value data train is written on a screen such that the operator can easily correct it on the screen or by a format such that data can... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5230062 | Data processing apparatus and method for defining size and type of data field A data processing apparatus in which field data in card type data can be defined by designating a field type and a display area with a cursor key by a simple operation such as that of a word processor. When the field data is repetitively defined, a repeti... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5222211 | Form generating method and apparatus A process of controlling the course of a program in form processing by data processing systems for data contents of a form (80, 81, 82) built of fields to be processed. The pictorial illustration (display of the form (80, 81, 82), the reading and fading i... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5208906 | Method and apparatus for representing bordered areas of a generic form with records An apparatus and method for incorporating a topological two-dimensional partitioning procedure for dynamically creating, revising, storing, displaying and printing generic forms. The generic form contains a plurality of bordered areas. Each of the bordere... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5148520 | Determining the locations of the contents of bordered areas of a generic form An apparatus and method for incorporating a topological two-dimensional partitioning procedure for dynamically creating, revising, storing, displaying and printing generic forms. The generic form contains a plurality of bordered areas. Each of the bordere... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5144693 | Method and apparatus for generic form generation An apparatus and method for incorporating a topological two-dimensional partitioning procedure for dynamically creating, revising, storing, displaying and printing generic forms. The generic form comprises a plurality of bordered areas. Each of the border... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5140139 | Preparing mark/read documents with markable boxes and locating the boxes from the document scan data A "mark read" document is prepared with a pattern of boxes within which marks may selectively be entered, together with printed characters for instructions or other informational purposes. The characters and boxes both are formed on the sheet with printin... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5091868 | Method and apparatus for forms generation A method and apparatus for forms generation is disclosed including a central workstation on which a form layout is designed with forms generation software, is used to generate an object code output program which corresponds to the form layout. The object ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5058035 | Apparatus which records data on the basis of stored format information In the disclosed recording apparatus, the printing condition of a format, for example of a business form, can be suitably modified by an instruction from a host computer. The modified format is then stored in a non-volatile memory, so that it need not be ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5025396 | Method and apparatus for merging a digitized image with an alphanumeric character string The method merges an alphanumeric data stream with a digitized image file. It comprises the steps of inputting a digitized image file in a first input terminal and storing the digitized image file on a first storage medium. The method then inputs an alpha... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5008810 | System for displaying different subsets of screen views, entering different amount of information, and determining correctness of input dependent upon current user input An input software system is used to provide input to a process simulation software device. The input software system includes an expert system which guides the user step by step through required and optional input to successfully create a flow sheet model... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4807123 | Programmable system for inputting & Processing data using visually perceptible data entry frames A small-sized office computer includes a cathode ray tube displaying a plurality of desired ruled line frames and desired characters or other information on the display during execution of business processes. The screen information is stored on a recordin... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4677585 | Method for obtaining common mode information and common field attribute information for a plurality of card images In a method for obtaining common mode information and common field attribute information for a plurality of card images belonging to a "box" in a data processing system, fixed information and field indicating information are written into a mode image buff... | 06/30/1987 |
