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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5164713 | Cursor position controller for use with mouse and display systems Improved cursor-positioning apparatus is disclosed for use with a mouse-type cursor controller and a host computer display system to enable the mouse's operating area to remain relatively small, yet enabling normal-feeling mouse operation to provide both ... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5123087 | Geometric inference engine A computer-aided drafting system and methods for automatically locating geometric points for a user. A method includes defining a type of geometric point which includes a point type of interest to the user, setting a hit radius, displaying an object, disp... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5046001 | Method for accessing selected windows in a multi-tasking system A method for selectively accessing a particular one of a plurality of computer applications which are simultaneously active and displayed in a plurality of overlapping viewports or windows in a multi-tasking system. User inputs to the system are monitored... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4959643 | Display unit having an improved editing input capability A display unit includes a display area for displaying first and second data groups, a control circuit for dividing the display area into at least two portions when the first data group is displayed in the display area, a circuit for controlling a cursor t... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4742473 | Finite element modeling system A Finite Element Analysis system having intelligent, interactive user interface features allows engineers without specialized knowledge in mathematical modeling to easily and interactively solve diverse problems. The system includes a digitizer tablet hav... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4725829 | Automatic highlighting in a raster graphics display system In an interactive graphics display system in which pels in a frame buffer are mapped to the display screen of a raster display device, a method of automatically highlighting and de-highlighting graphic segments as a cursor is moved across the display scre... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4698625 | Graphic highlight adjacent a pointing cursor A technique is disclosed which facilitates the selection by a user of a graphic object on a display screen. Selection is by means of a pointing cursor which is moved about the display screen by means of a pointing device having a select button. When the p... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4683468 | Method for manipulation of graphic sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic system A method for editing sub-objects in an interactive draw graphic application which allows the operator to apply the edit action to the sub-object without affecting the rest of the object. Vertices of the object that are defined by the adjacent common end p... | 07/28/1987 |
| 4677258 | Information producing apparatus Information producing apparatus for producing position and direction information of chip-like electric parts for use in the chip mount system. This apparatus comprises: a tablet digitizer; X and Y axis position memories to store the X and Y axis position ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4661810 | Method for interactive rotation of displayed graphic objects A method is described for editing a graphic object being displayed by an interactive draw graphic system. The method is directed to a rotate edit action on a graphic object that can be selected from a group of individual objects that are being concurrentl... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4566000 | Image display apparatus and method having virtual cursor Image display equipment has a memory element for storing a selected combinatorial function of a cursor pattern and image field existing at an addressed cursor position, and has a controllable selector for displaying, at the cursor field, either the image ... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4118695 | Data processing system Character data is entered into a cathode ray tube display device from a keyboard or from a tape reader or the like selected by a key on the keyboard. The data is stored in a main memory inside the display device and simultaneously displayed on the cathode... | 10/03/1978 |
| 3974493 | Cursor find system for the display of a word processing system In a keyboard entry word processing system, text is stored in a recirculating refresh memory along with a carriage return code at the end of each line. The text is displayed on a CRT screen. A cursor symbol, also displayed on the screen, may be moved by k... | 08/10/1976 |
