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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188968 | Methods for interfacing with a program using a light input device An input device for interfacing with a computing device is provided. The input device includes a body configured to be held within a human hand. The input device includes a light emitting diode (LED) affixed to the body and a power supply for the LED. A mode change ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188969 | Dual pointer management method using cooperating input sources and efficient dynamic coordinate remapping The pointer management technology establishes a protocol and method for dual pointer management in both absolute input mode and relative input mode. The method defines a set of properties/constraints for contextual dynamic remapping between input sensor coordinates ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184094 | Physically realistic computer simulation of medical procedures An apparatus for interfacing the movement of a shaft with a computer includes a support, a gimbal mechanism having two degrees of freedom, and three electromechanical transducers. When a shaft is engaged with the gimbal mechanism, it can move with three degrees of f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184092 | Simulation of writing on game consoles through the use of motion-sensing technology A method and system of utilizing a game console with motion sensing technology is provided. The present invention, in various implementations, provides for a method for generating one or more symbols in response to one or more gestures using an input device of a gam... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184093 | Mobile terminal device A device and method for selecting one option from a plurality of options is disclosed. A sequential selection of one option from the plurality of options proceeds when a detecting unit detects an operation associated with movement. A selecting unit sequentially sele... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184095 | Control device A control device includes a housing, a control module having a movable member mounted in the housing and movable by the user and having a magnet located on each of the two distal ends thereof, and a circuit module that includes a microprocessor, a rotation sensor mo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179367 | Electronic appliance having a display and a detector for generating a detection signal An electronic appliance includes detectors that are assigned to detection zones defined on a display. The detection zones correspond to push buttons that are arranged in an operation menu displayed on the display. Each of the detectors includes a temporal difference... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179366 | Systems and methods for using a movable object to control a computer A system and method for controlling operation of a computer based on movements and/or position of a movable object. The system includes a sensing apparatus configured to obtain positional data based on movements of a sensed object. Engine software may process the po... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174497 | Handheld vision based absolute pointing system A method is described that involves identifying one or more images of respective one or more fixed markers. Each marker is positioned on or proximate to a display. The images appear on a pixilated sensor within a handheld device. The method also involves determining... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174495 | Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a contact detection section for detecting contact from a user, a vibration output section for outputting an acoustic vibration that can be sensed by the user as a sound and a haptic vibration for... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174496 | Mobile communication terminal with touch screen and information inputing method using the same A mobile terminal communication method, which includes activating a touch screen of the mobile terminal, entering into an inactive touch screen mode preventing information from being entered on the touch screen of the mobile terminal while a function is executed on ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169401 | Haptic interface Simulated textures whose parameters are held with object model data in a data store are modified in accordance with data held in data store which data defines a Gamma correction factor previously determined for each identified user. The gamma correction factor is de... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169402 | Vibrotactile haptic feedback devices Vibrotactile haptic feedback devices are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, a device includes: a mass, an actuator configured to vibrate the mass, and a coupling disposed between the actuator and the mass or between the mass and a housing, the coupling havin... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164890 | Sliding and tilting mechanism and portable electronic device using the same A portable electronic device is disclosed including a first part, a second part, and a sliding and tilting mechanism. The sliding and tilting mechanism includes a lower board fixed to the second part, an upper board fixed to the first part, an intermediate board pos... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164889 | Sliding and tilting mechanism and portable electronic device using the same A portable electronic device is disclosed including a first part, a second part, and a sliding and tilting mechanism. The sliding and tilting mechanism includes a lower board fixed to the second part, an upper board fixed to the first part, an intermediate board pos... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159455 | Methods and apparatus for processing combinations of kinematical inputs Methods and apparatus for processing combinations of force and velocity data generated over a given period of time. In one embodiment, an input device comprising one or more force sensors and one or more motion sensors is manipulated relative to a surface. A receivi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159456 | Mobile communication device capable of providing candidate phone number list and method of controlling operation of the mobile communication device A mobile communication device capable of providing a candidate phone number list and a method of controlling an operation of the mobile communication device is provided. The method includes displaying a phone number input window and a display window on the touch scr... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154512 | Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in resistive interface devices Products and processes for providing haptic feedback in a user interface are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment of an apparatus comprises a first element comprising a first surface, a second element comprising a second surface, and an actuator configured vary a for... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154510 | Method for constituting identification code utilized in a wireless human input device and wireless human input system thereof A method for constituting identification code utilized in a wireless human input device includes the following steps. Step A is to save a predetermined identification code in a non-electrical memory of a wireless human receiving device. Step B is that the wireless h... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154511 | Computerized interactor systems and methods for providing same A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149209 | Computer interface system A user interface system includes a data receiving device and a portable data device having a memory. The portable data device may include a wireless interface configured to transmit data stored in the memory. A user may interface with the data receiving device by ph... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149210 | Pointing device and method A system and method for identifying a pointing organ or a pointing device in a field of imaging of a 3-D imaging system and for calculating a line of pointing relative to this organ or device are disclosed. The method and system may be used to enable a user to commu... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149211 | Deformable sensor system A deformable sensor system that can be used for pressure-distribution sensors. The deformable sensor system makes it possible to obtain a pressure distribution with a much higher accuracy, while reducing the number of electrodes. The system utilizes a deformable sen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149212 | Bracelet with information display and inputting capability A bracelet with information display and inputting capability comprises twelve segments hinged together to allow the bracelet to be folded around the wrist of a user. An information processing unit receives inputted information from an inputting device, for example, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144119 | Method and apparatus for coupling a display to an information handling system A display coupling apparatus includes a first circuit board having a display connector end. A first cable coupling pad is located on the first circuit board. At least one trace on the first circuit board extends from the display connector end to the first cable coup... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144118 | Motion-based tracking In one implementation, a first captured image is accessed. The first captured image includes (1) a first display produced at a first point in time, and (2) a user interacting with the first display and not part of the first display. A second captured image is access... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144120 | Method and system for button press and hold feedback The present invention provides a method and system for providing a user with feedback as to the status of the command they have initiated by depressing a button, series of buttons or sequence of buttons on a human interface device (“HID”) for a time period beyon... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144122 | Human interface input acceleration system A method and system for transmitting data to and from a hand-held host device are disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with a host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bidirectional data link between the accessory device and the ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144121 | Method and apparatus for controlling electronic appliance An apparatus for controlling an electronic appliance having a display is provided. A plurality of control buttons are displayed on the display. An operator in front of the display is photographed with a video camera and is displayed on the display. The operator hold... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139026 | System and method for adjusting presentation of text and images on an electronic device according to an orientation of the device The invention relates to a system, method and device for controlling the display of elements n a screen on an electronic device, according to an orientation of the device. In the system, a graphics management system for elements displayed in a screen on a display on... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139025 | Cursor positioning via voice recognition A cursor positioning system for a computer display system includes a coarse positioning subsystem and a fine positioning subsystem. The coarse positioning subsystem provides a coarse positioning signal to a cursor control and rendering subsystem of a computer displa... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139027 | Storage medium storing input processing program and input processing apparatus A game system includes a game apparatus and a controller. For example, whether an operation of waving the controller has been performed is determined based on at least one of a pointed position on a display screen by the controller and acceleration. A wind object is... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130193 | System and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness A system and method for eyes-free interaction with a computing device through environmental awareness. A smart computing device includes non-environmental impact settings that indicate what type of user impact will be recognized as an input. The smart computing devi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125441 | Discriminating among activation of multiple buttons An apparatus and method of discrimination among activation of multiple capacitive sensor buttons in close proximity to each other is described. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125442 | System and method for manipulation of sound data using haptic feedback In an embodiment, a device which comprises means for generating an audio signal based on sound data, the audio signal configured to produce sound from an audio producing device; means for generating a haptic command based on the sound data, the haptic command config... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125443 | Stretch objects There is disclosed an interactive display system comprising an interactive surface for displaying an image and for receiving inputs from remote devices, the system being adapted to detect the presence of at least two remote devices proximate the interactive surface.... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125440 | Method and device for controlling and inputting data A method of entering combinatorial data on a data entry device (DED) including sensitive means which can be activated by an intermediary of at least one actuator allowing, according to a combination of sensitive means activated, an ad hoc computer program to designa... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120574 | Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus In the present invention, a strike determination range is set for an object in a game space. A straight line passing through coordinates in a three-dimensional space corresponding to coordinates on a touch panel input by a player, where a virtual camera is placed at... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120575 | Interactive pointing device An interactive pointing device having pointing function in space and game control is provided in the present invention. The interactive pointing device comprises an accelerometer module and a gyroscope device. The accelerometer module functions as sensing the moveme... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115730 | Inputting device which has keys within finger's movement and inputting method Disclosed are an input device in which an input key is located within the movement radius of a user's fingers, and a method for inputting a command using the input device. To this end, the input device according to the present invention comprises: an input key locat... | 02/14/2012 |
