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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7436393 | Touch panel for display device A touch panel for a display device integrates functionality provided by resistive-type and EM-type touch panels. The touch panel is integrated with the display device and includes a resisitve-type touch panel arranged above the display device and an EM-type touch pa... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422990 | Thermal/acoustic insulation product based on mineral wool A thermal and/or acoustic insulation product, and an apparatus and the process for manufacturing the product. The product is based on mineral wool of the glass wool or rock wool type. The product has at least part of its external surface uncovered. The product is su... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400319 | Tablet apparatus A pair of piezoelectric substrates, the length of which is shorter than the length of one side in the longitudinal direction of the operation panel or the supporting board, is respectively fixed to one side from the diagonal position along the longitudinal direction... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7385593 | Generating and validating pixel coordinates of a touch screen display An enhanced touch-screen display system is disclosed for generating pixel coordinate estimates corresponding to a location on a display screen touched by a user. The system is an analog resistive touch-screen display system having a processor and associated software... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7368921 | Printed capacitive sensor The invention relates to a flexible, resilient capacitive sensor suitable for large-scale manufacturing. The sensor includes a dielectric, an electrically conductive detector and trace layer on the first side of the dielectric layer comprising a detector and trace, ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369122 | Touch panel spacer dots and methods of making The present invention provides touch panels and touch panel substrates that include spacer dots comprising a nanocomposite material. The present invention also provides methods of ink jet printing spacer dots for touch panel applications. The spacer dots and methods... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369162 | Image sensing apparatus An Image sensing apparatus employing a multi-chip system and having a super-parallel circuit structure capable of performing processes such as image processing in real time. A first chip of a first of a first stage has first pixel circuits each having an optical sen... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365031 | Conductive pressure sensitive textile A fabric including within its construction a first elongated electrical conductor crossed by a second elongated electrical conductor, the conductors being normally biased apart at a crossover point of said fibres with an air gap between them, whereby application of ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358964 | Electromagnetic inductive system with multi-induction loop layout and battery less pointer device and its method for locating the coordinate A multi-induction loop layout of an electromagnetic inductive system is disclosed. The multi-induction loop layout of the invention comprises a plurality of inductive loops, one terminal of each inductive loop connecting to a loop switch, and the other terminal conn... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348966 | Digital resistive-type touch panel A digital resistive-type touch panel includes first and second transparent substrates opposing each other; a plurality of first transparent electrodes extending along a surface of the first transparent substrate; a plurality of second transparent electrodes extendin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345676 | Text entry for electronic device An electronic device has a touch sensitive surface (14) for entering text. The text is stored in memory (20) in a vector graphics format, preferably without carrying out character recognition. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339577 | Input device capable of button input and coordinate input on the same operating surface An input device including a main device composed of a coordinate input device, an operating surface having input portions displayed thereon, and a switch device having switches connected in parallel, and a control device which selects one of a first mode in which an... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336266 | Haptic pads for use with user-interface devices Embodiments of the invention relate to haptic devices for use with a variety of computer/video interface devices. Such haptic devices can work in conjunction with and thereby provide “haptic augmentations” to otherwise conventional user-interface devices, includ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328203 | System and method for executing complex if-then clauses Complex nested if-then statement on data objects in a digital computer are organized as a plurality of logical case statements; for each case statement, a set of binary condition arrays is provided and for each data object a condition set. Case statements are execut... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327352 | Linearized conductive surface Electrode pattern disposed on a conductive surface is disclosed. The electrode pattern includes a plurality of conductive segments. The conductive segments are located along the edges of two or more concentric parallel polygons. Each edge of each polygon has one or ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324093 | Flexible screen display with touch sensor in a portable computer A user interface for a portable electronic device comprising a flexible display panel and a flexible touch sensor. The flexible touch sensor is operable to register a position where contact is made with a surface of the flexible display panel, such that the position... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312409 | Touch pad and position detecting circuit and method thereof A touch pad and a position detecting circuit and method thereof are provided. The touch pad uses a waveform generator to generate an input signal; the input signal is capable of gradually moving a position of a zero voltage on the sensing pad in a predetermined dire... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310089 | Annular potentiometric touch sensor The present invention determines angular position using a potentiometric touch sensor. The sensor has an annular pattern of resistive material on a bottom substrate top surface. Conductive drive lines radially traverse the resistive material so as to make electrical... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307626 | Capacitive touch sensor A method for determining the location of a touch made to a capacitive touchscreen in which the touchscreen includes a plurality of electrodes distributed around a touch sensitive area of the touchscreen, and a control circuit connected to the plurality of electrodes... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307625 | Touch panel, and input device and electronic apparatus each equipped with the touch panel A touch panel includes: a first layer and a second layer that are arranged to face each other, with a predetermined gap being formed between the first layer and the second layer; a first resistance film that is formed on a surface of the first layer, the surface fac... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7307622 | Coordinate detection device with improved operability and method of detecting coordinates A coordinate detection device is provided, which device includes an input unit which has a surface thereof to which a coordinate value is input by an input means, a calculation unit which calculates a difference between previous and current coordinate values input b... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301525 | Coordinate positioning device and method thereof A coordinate positioning device and the method thereof for detecting the coordinate of a contact point even in an environment of periodic noises. Firstly, obtain a first and a second sampling values of the contact point at a first and a second time points, respectiv... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301351 | Printed capacitive sensor The invention relates to a flexible, resilient capacitive sensor suitable for large-scale manufacturing. The sensor comprises a dielectric, an electrically conductive detector and trace layer on the first side of the dielectric layer comprising a detector and trace,... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298366 | Touch panel and electronic equipment using the same A touch panel and an electronic device using the touch panel have satisfactory, reliable operability. The touch panel is used for an operating section of the electronic device. In this touch panel, upper and lower substrates 21 and 22 have upper and lo... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289111 | Resistive touch pad with multiple regions of sensitivity A touch pad for a data processing system includes a first film and an electrically conductive first thin film above the first film, a plurality of electrically non-conductive spacer dots above the first thin film, a second electrically conductive thin film above the... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283127 | Stylus input device utilizing a permanent magnet A stylus that operates utilizing magnetic fields, wherein a permanent magnet is disposed within a passive stylus that is detectable by a plurality of magnetic sensors that remove the magnetic field of the stylus from the earth's relative magnetic field to thereby ob... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284209 | Managing position and size for a desktop component In a graphical desktop environment displaying desktop components, a control is provided to track the position of a pointer on a screen, and when the pointer enters relevant regions with respect to a desktop component, a thin or thick border in displayed around the d... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7279646 | Digital signature collection and authentication A digital signature collection and authentication system includes an ink pen having an ultrasonic transmitter that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receivers. A computer triangulates the location of the pen versus time to generate the signatu... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277817 | Position sensing device A position sensing device having an insulating board, a first conductive sensing element, a second conductive sensing element, an oscillator, conductive material, a differential amplifier, and a processor. The first and second spaced conductive sensing elements are ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276917 | Printed capacitive sensor The invention relates to a flexible, resilient capacitive sensor suitable for large-scale manufacturing. The sensor includes a dielectric, an electrically conductive detector and trace layer on the first side of the dielectric layer including a detector and trace, a... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7256771 | Apparatus for operating a medical appliance An apparatus for operating a medical appliance, such as a moving operating table, has a touchscreen on which a user interface is displayed. The user interface has a number of first buttons. A control unit initiates first actions of the medical appliance when the fir... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253366 | Exit alarm for a hospital bed triggered by individual load cell weight readings exceeding a predetermined threshold A system for monitoring a patient on a hospital bed includes load cells and a controller for detecting patient movement on, exit from, and impending exit from the hospital bed, including movement across or outside a virtual boundary or region located on the bed. The... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250939 | Display motion multiplier Navigating on a display includes tracking coordinate information of an input tool on a display and moving a visible portion of a page of information on the display a distance equal to a change in the coordinate information of the input tool multiplied by a multiplie... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248251 | Wireless display systems and stylii A wireless coordinate input system for a display system includes a stylus that transmits ultrasonic energy to a plurality of ultrasonic receiving stations in a projection plane. In an embodiment, the stylus may include one ultrasonic transmitter used for determinati... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245293 | Display unit with touch panel and information processing method A display unit with a touch panel to move a touch-driven member such as a functional button to a desired position through a touch operation. By touching a draggable icon displayed on a screen with a finger, the icon is changed in color to indicate that the user can ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236160 | Apparatus and method for driving a touch panel having a variable resistor for maintaining a desired voltage difference between electrodes An apparatus and a method of driving a touch panel that increases an analog-digital converting range includes a first resistive layer having first and second electrodes formed facing each other along opposing edges of the first resistive layer in a first direction, ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233263 | Analog actuation allocation structure with many actuators A system and method for allocation of actuators is provided. Electrodes having several voltages are assigned to actuators within correlation regions of the actuators. By varying the voltages, a desired actuation profile for the actuators may be achieved. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231293 | Method and assembly for determining a route The present invention provides a method and assembly which determines a route using a computer system, a map and a user operated sensing device. The map shows a geographic area and includes coded data that is indicative of the map and reference points on the map. Th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227538 | Touch sensor with linearized response A pattern for linearizing an electric field and a touch sensor incorporating same are disclosed. The touch sensor includes an electrically resistive film that covers a touch sensitive area. The touch sensor further includes two or more substantially parallel polygon... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218314 | Coordinate input device A coordinate input device includes a coordinate input element. The coordinate input element includes a transparent coordinate detector and a controller having a control circuit which drives and controls the coordinate detector and which corrects electrostatic capaci... | 05/15/2007 |