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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6147678 | Video hand image-three-dimensional computer interface with multiple degrees of freedom A video gesture-based three-dimensional computer interface system that uses images of hand gestures to control a computer and that tracks motion of the user's hand or a portion thereof in a three-dimensional coordinate system with ten degrees of freedom. ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6141463 | Method and system for estimating jointed-figure configurations To estimate the configuration of a figure in a captured image, a silhouette image of the figure is scanned to create a signed distance image. This image identifies the distance of each pixel in the image to the closest edge of the silhouette, and indicate... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6094197 | Graphical keyboard A system and method for a graphical keyboard that benefits from the expressive power and intuitive ease of use associated with pen strokes and gestures, yet does not require complex character-recognition software. The graphical keyboard responds different... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6091408 | Method for presenting information units on multiple presentation units A system for organizing and presenting information includes one or more computers connected in a network with a touch screen controlling the display of images on one or more other displays. In a courtroom setting, the touch screen is located at a podium w... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6088481 | Handwritten character input device allowing input of handwritten characters to arbitrary application program Based on handwriting coordinate data input by a pen at an arbitrary position on a screen, a handwriting display portion displays a handwriting at the writing position. A recognition portion recognizes a written character or an editing symbol. A handwritin... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6072494 | Method and apparatus for real-time gesture recognition A system and method are disclosed for providing a gesture recognition system for recognizing gestures made by a moving subject within an image and performing an operation based on the semantic meaning of the gesture. A subject, such as a human being, ente... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6067073 | Electronic graphic system An electronic graphic system comprises an image store for storing data defining an image, a brush store for storing data defining a drawing implement and a stylus and touch tablet for inputting position data and other data. A spatial filter is arranged to... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6057844 | Drag operation gesture controller A method and system for refining the function performed by a drag operation during the drag operation. After a drag operation begins, a "Drag Toolbar" appears with controls that change the current function of the drag operation when the cursor is moved ov... | 05/02/2000 |
| 5867150 | Graphic indexing system A method and apparatus for selecting and indexing stored information for subsequent retrieval. The indexing system of the present invention indexes pages by storing a reference to a graphic segment of the displayed original page (instead of a copy of the ... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5861886 | Method and apparatus for grouping graphic objects on a computer based system having a graphical user interface A system for creating and manipulating groups of graphic objects using enclosures. A persistent graphic object, such as a closed loop is drawn around a set of graphic objects as an enclosure. When the enclosure is selected the enclosure and the set of gra... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5859642 | Virtual button interface An apparatus and method of issuing commands to a computer by a user interfacing with a virtual reality environment. To issue a command, the user directs gaze at a virtual button within the virtual reality environment, causing a perceptible change in the v... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5838326 | System for moving document objects in a 3-D workspace A three dimensional document workspace for interacting with large numbers of document objects. A document object may be a document or a document collection. The document workspace is divided hierarchically in terms of interaction rates. A focus space is w... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5821930 | Method and system for generating a working window in a computer system A method and system for generating a working window on a video monitor in a computer system is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining if a user has performed a first predetermined input stroke along at least a portion of a display screen.... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5809267 | Apparatus and method for executing multiple-concatenated command gestures in a gesture based input system A graphical editing system is provided which allows a user to draw number of commonly used gestures called primitive command gestures together in essentially one stroke. The primitive gestures are chosen to represent gestural syntax, analogous to a textua... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5805167 | Popup menus with directional gestures A method and apparatus for using directional gestures in popup menus to enter data into and control a computer system. A popup menu contains a number of items represented by images or labels positioned on a regular grid around a popup position. When an op... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5801704 | Three-dimensional input device with displayed legend and shape-changing cursor In an image processing apparatus for performing image processing of a processed object by displaying the processed object and an operating cursor on an image display device, and by operating the operating cursor according to three-dimensional actions of t... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5802388 | System and method for correction and confirmation dialog for hand printed character input to a data processing system A data processing system corrects handprinted character input represented as a sequence of points described by a writing path of a pointing device. The system receives a writing path signal from a pointing device in the data processing system, describing ... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5796406 | Gesture-based input information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus obtains a distance that an input pen is moved in terms of the number of dots covered on a display screen, and from that number, judges whether a pen stroke is a gesture entry or a pointing entry. When the input pen is m... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5745110 | Method and apparatus for arranging and displaying task schedule information in a calendar view format Method and apparatus for quickly arranging task schedule information in a calendar view format using internal caches and configurable, moveable task bars. The internal caches dramatically improve display, layout and access time to task information. The co... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5745116 | Intuitive gesture-based graphical user interface A user performs a manual selection or a gesture selection of a screen object (210, 220, 230) on a screen (150) of an electronic device (100) using a pointing device (190). After a manual selection, such as a single tap, the electronic device (100) automat... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5652849 | Apparatus and method for remote control using a visual information stream Systems and methods for controlling devices remotely by embedding command information within video signals. The command information includes gestures or icons which are imbedded into the video signal and enable the user to interpret the command informatio... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5636297 | Method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment A method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment are provided. In a preferred embodiment, a user draws a graphic object on an electronic tablet of a computer system. The graphic object compris... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5600777 | Method and system for spatial accessing of time-based information A method and system for permitting a user to spatially access and playback time-based information having a plurality of segments. Each of the plurality of segments are mapped to a corresponding one of a plurality of mapped spatial coordinates. A user inte... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5596698 | Method and apparatus for recognizing handwritten inputs in a computerized teaching system A pen-based teaching system recognizes handwritten input. The system comprises a display simulating a sheet of paper, and a stylus simulating a pen. The system uses handwriting recognition to interact with the student, so that the student enters input int... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5596697 | Method for routing items within a computer system A method and apparatus are provided for routing information with a pointer-based computer such as a pen-based computer. The routing actions may be faxing, printing, mailing (electronically), and beaming (by infrared light). The routed information may be d... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5592608 | Interactively producing indices into image and gesture-based data using unrecognized graphical objects A user-interactive method for use in a processor-controlled machine provides a user with the capability to establish associations among image segments in a data structure that indicate visually-displayed but otherwise not recognized or interpreted informa... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5592607 | Interactive method and system for producing address-correlated information using user-specified address zones An interactive method and system to support and facilitate note-taking tasks in a variety of settings, primarily, though not exclusively, in real time. In one embodiment, the system user uses a stylus device and display to enter notes in the form of handw... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5583946 | Method and apparatus for recognizing gestures on a computer system A method and apparatus for recognizing a gesture input on a display screen of a computer system. A method of recognizing an ellipse gesture comprises the steps of receiving a stroke input by a user onto a computer screen, smoothing the stroke by reducing ... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5572651 | Table-based user interface for retrieving and manipulating indices between data structures A user-interactive method for use in a processor controlled machine provides a user with the capability to retrieve and manipulate associations previously established among image segments in a single or in multiple data structures, where the image segment... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5570113 | Computer based pen system and method for automatically cancelling unwanted gestures and preventing anomalous signals as inputs to such system A method and system for a pen-based computer system allow a user to automatically cancel a gesture in progress under several different conditions and terminate the operation of the system in a gesture recognition motion. In a first condition, a gesture ca... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5568604 | Method and system for generating a working window in a computer system A method and system for generating a working window on a video monitor in a computer system is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining if a user has performed a first predetermined input stroke along at least a portion of the touch-sensiti... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5564005 | Interactive system for producing, storing and retrieving information correlated with a recording of an event An interactive processor-controlled system for entering and storing user information about an event that is being concurrently recorded in real time correlates the user information to user-requested addresses, such as time values stored with the recorded ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5564112 | System and method for generating place holders to temporarily suspend execution of a selected command A graphical editing system is provided which creates a "place-holder" that holds or suspends a complex gesture or complex menu selection before committing to the command. Such a place-holder acts as a virtual stylus, i.e. as if the user was actually holdi... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5555363 | Resetting the case of text on a computer display A method and apparatus for setting the case of text in a pen-aware computer system is described. In general, the case of one or more letters of a designated text object can be changed with a convenient and simple input gesture. The case resetting gesture ... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5548705 | Wiping metaphor as a user interface for operating on graphical objects on an interactive graphical display A computer-controlled graphics display system using object-based representations of the displayed objects, and cooperating with a user-operated motion-sensitive input device. A powerful user interface technique called "wiping" is described. This allows se... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5523775 | Method for selecting objects on a computer display A method for selecting objects displayed on a screen of a pen-based computer system characterized by the steps of: (a) determining that a selection gesture has been made on the screen of the pen-based computer by a stylus; (b) detecting a path made by the... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5502803 | Information processing apparatus having a gesture editing function When a line is drawn on a screen with a coordinate input pen in a specific shape, the shape of the line drawing is collated with a reference stroke stored in a gesture table. As a result, an edit instruction corresponding to the shape of the line drawing ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5500935 | Apparatus and method for translating graphic objects and commands with direct touch input in a touch based input system A system which allows a user to implement pop-up menus and gestural marks when the input location is restricted, such as in a corner region of a display, is disclosed. In such a situation, the system translates its position from one location where space i... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499330 | Document display system for organizing and displaying documents as screen objects organized along strand paths A system for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device is disclosed. The system displays documents either in a completely free-form, user controlled configuration or as strands, such that documents in a strand follow a strand path. The ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5471578 | Apparatus and method for altering enclosure selections in a gesture based input system A graphical editing system which allows a user to modify a selection gesture without having to redraw the entire gesture. The system defines a selection with an enclosure that is treated as a graphical object that can be contorted in a style consistent wi... | 11/28/1995 |
