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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4755809 | Method for controlling windows displayed in a card image data processing system A method for controlling a plurality of windows for displaying card images wherein the card images are arranged lengthwise on a display unit. In the case where there is a window above an active window, there is a cursor displayed in the active window, the... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4754267 | Fast point/line correlations in graphic entities Graphics display system having a moving cursor, such as a cursor, for selecting a displayed entity with the capability of determining which one of several lower level entities in the vicinity of the cursor is to be selected. The correlation of a cursor wi... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4754205 | Oscilloscope having auxiliary display of a labelled cursor An instrument for providing a principal display representing the variation of a first quantity as a function of a second quantity, comprises a display screen. A visually distinct dot is generated on the display screen and is deflected along one of two ort... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4751504 | Cursor interface for waveform displays A cursor interface for a waveform display provides for movement of a waveform relative to a first cursor. When the first cursor overlies a desired point on the waveform, the cursor is locked to the waveform by transforming the cursor coordinates from disp... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4745405 | Object movement feedback A method of, and system for, accurately manipulating objects on a screen to obtain a desired layout. Objects are called or built and then manipulated in terms of rotation and/or displacement. Accurate manipulation is facilitated by displaying a readout of... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4739314 | Specifying measurements on a page by pointing An easy-to-use technique for specifying measurements of a document to be printed uses a pointing method, such as a cursor which is moved around a display screen by means of a pointing device having a select button. The pointing cursor is moved to each des... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4714920 | Method for representing three dimensional structures A process for representing on a picture screen of a numerical control system a simulated workpiece. The workpiece is represented in several viewing planes with shaded surfaces. The viewing planes and the associated shadings are hierarchically ordered, whi... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4691199 | Cursor position controller The present system includes an optical reflective sensor, which is hand held and moved over a color density scaled grid, such as a gray scale grid, to produce analog signals which, when processed, become the basis for the direction of movement of a screen... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4689669 | Color graphics data processing apparatus Apparatus for processing color graphics data converts an analog video information signal to a digital signal and stores one frame of the digital video signal corresponding to a desired still picture for display on a video monitor/receiver upon being read ... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4688181 | Image transformations on an interactive raster scan or matrix display An interactive raster-scanned display device has a microprocessor (1) and random access memory (3) which operate to issue instructions to a drawing engine (7) to cause it to load and erase image pel representation in an image buffer (9) in order to contro... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4680728 | User-friendly technique and apparatus for entering alphanumeric data through a numeric keyboard A process and apparatus for entering a predetermined number of characters use an entry terminal having a display and a keyboard having a predetermined number of character entry keys presented in a first array (ten key numeric keyboard) and a predetermined... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4672575 | Schematic building cursor character A personal computer having an interactive all points addressable display thermal (44) and a cursor positioning device (52) is provided with apparatus for facilitating the generation of a graphics display. At least one table of selectable cursor characters... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4627015 | Text placement on graphics screen A personal computer having an interactive all points addressable display terminal (44) and a cursor positioning device (52) is provided with a keyboard (28) for inputting alphanumeric character strings not exceeding a predetermined maximum length. Once th... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4625202 | Apparatus and method for generating multiple cursors in a raster scan display system An apparatus and a method for generating cursors in a multi-dimensional graphics display system uses line definition signals, each of which is representative of where along the horizontal display dimension one or more scan lines intersect a cursor to be p... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4624587 | Electronic typewriter with removable display cursor An electronic typewriter provided with a display unit giving visual display of data in a number of positions of characters shorter in length than one line of characters printed on a sheet of paper which includes a cursor for indicating the next following ... | 11/25/1986 |
| 4586035 | Display terminal with a cursor responsive virtual distributed menu An interactive display terminal of the multiple overlapping window type is provided. Each of the windows is smaller in dimension than the overall display screen. One or more of the windows have an associated virtual distributed menu which is made up of a ... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4574277 | Selective page disable for a video display A video display system utilizes three banks of memory for producing an 8-color or an 8-level gray scale display. A separate memory plane, or random access memory (RAM) array, for each of the "primary" video colors, i.e., red, green and blue, is used in a ... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4559642 | Phased-array sound pickup apparatus A phased-array sound pickup apparatus has an array of directional microphones having individual directivity patterns equally oriented in a given direction. The directivity patterns of the microphones combine into the main lobe of the array. A plurality of... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4555772 | Current cursor symbol demarkation A personal computer having an interactive all points addressable display terminal (44) and a cursor positioning device (52) and provided with apparatus for facilitating the generation of a graphics display using cursor characters selected from a table of ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4543571 | Opto-mechanical cursor positioning device A hand-held "Mouse" contains an optical system for detecting the number of patterns crossed by its movement across a periodic optical pattern. The optical system is limited to detecting the distance traveled by the mouse across the pattern, a mechanical d... | 09/24/1985 |
| 4467322 | Digital shade control for color CRT background and cursors A color cathode ray tube is provided in a color monitor of a video display terminal. The red, green and blue color video input lines are connected to novel control circuits which permit the selection of several different shades of colors for the backgroun... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4464652 | Cursor control device for use with display systems A cursor control device having particular application to a computer display system is disclosed. The cursor control includes a unitary frame, having a domed portion substantially surrounding and retaining a ball which is free to rotate. X-Y position indic... | 08/07/1984 |
| 4445194 | Multidirectional cursor motion Operator keystrokes are processed in a text processor system to move a cursor on a display screen in either a vertical or horizontal direction or both without limitation as to the location of text. Keystroke data is processed under the control of programs... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4417239 | Interactive combination display There is disclosed a technique for displaying scrollable operating and scale lines simultaneously with an active miniature full page representation. Displayed on the operating line along with active characters is a cursor character. Displayed in the minia... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4370645 | Ghost cursor in display all codes mode A ghost cursor indicates the relative horizontal position on a display screen associated with a printed document rendition of the displayed text and control codes. In a normal, or hidden codes, mode of operation the ghost cursor, placed on an escapement s... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4365242 | Driving technique for matrix liquid crystal display panel for displaying characters and a cursor A new driving technique is disclosed for a liquid crystal display panel for displaying at least two rows of characters and a cursor line while scanning scanning lines of the panel, which technique can decrease the number of scanning lines and increases th... | 12/21/1982 |
| 4354184 | Display system for localizing regions in a mixed text & picture display A system for localizing a region of a display incorporates a plurality of resettable counters for defining the position and extent of a cursor in two dimensions. Data is set into the counters periodically at the beginning of each frame, or at the beginnin... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4354185 | Display system for localizing regions in a mixed text and picture display A system for localizing a region of a display incorporates a plurality of resettable counters for defining the position and extent of a cursor in two dimensions, such cursor comprising at least two non-parallel lines defining an open frame. Data is set in... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4310839 | Interactive display system with touch data entry An interactive tabular display system having thin membrane switches positioned on the display surface around the periphery. The switches are categorized as select or function depending on the particular application software program in use. Touching one of... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4259725 | Cursor generator for use in computerized tomography and other image display systems A composite video signal waveform is fed through a video mixer and to a video monitor for displaying a raster scanned image on its screen. Signals are also fed through the mixer for causing a cursor having distinctive light intensity to be overlayed on th... | 03/31/1981 |
| 4201983 | Addressing circuitry for a vertical scan dot matrix display apparatus An addressing circuitry for a dot matrix vertical scan plasma display includes a character row counter and a character column counter, a random access memory, a dot pattern generator, a parallel to series shift register, and a driver for the display. The ... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4190834 | Circuit and method for producing a full-screen cross-hair cursor on a raster-scan type display A circuit and method for receiving and sequentially decrementing the x and y coordinates of a desired cursor location so as to produce in a raster-scan display system a cross-hair cursor the component parts of which extend the full height and width of the... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4190835 | Editing display system with dual cursors An editing display system using a CRT display, with variable margin and tabulation facilities. Dual cursors are provided on the display: the first indicating the row and column in the display selected by the user, the second "shadow" cursor appearing in t... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4148014 | System with joystick to control velocity vector of a display cursor A joystick control, which is moveable in the X and Y directions, generates X- and Y-coded signals indicative of the co-ordinate position of the joystick. The joystick has a normally central position; movement of the joystick to a non-central position indi... | 04/03/1979 |
| 4011546 | Display apparatus In display apparatus wherein a picture image corresponding to an information train given by an electronic computer is written in a storage tube by a random scanning system and then the picture image is repeatedly read out of the storage tube by a raster s... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3979718 | Method of driving a plasma display panel A plasma display panel driving method and system in which a specified one of the panel cells is discharged at all times and electrons produced by the discharge serve as initial electrons for the other display cells, thereby to increase the writing respons... | 09/07/1976 |
