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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8087936 | Systems and methods for verbal communication from a speech impaired individual An individual that is speech impaired, such as a patient in a dentist's office, is provided with means to communicate with a service provider, such as a dentist, without the individual using their own voice. In one embodiment, a computing system initiates display of... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7722355 | Braille cell cap An electromechanical Braille cell assembly includes a plurality of parallel bimorph reeds. A first plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a first side of a printed circuit board by a first plurality of clips and a second plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7462034 | Braille display assembly The present invention discloses a Braille display assembly including a plurality of individual Braille cells positioned in a substantially rectangular housing having a backplane forming a portion of a top wall of the rectangular housing, the backplane adapted to rec... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7405651 | Operating element for a heating and air conditioning system The invention relates to an operating element for a heating and air conditioning system for the setting of air conditioning parameters in a vehicle interior, the setting being fed back to the operator of the operating element. In order to provide an operating elemen... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7389232 | Communication device and learning tool A portable communication device and learning tool for use by speech impaired individuals or monolinguistic individuals is provided by the present invention. The device is foldable for convenient carrying and storage. A method of using the communication device and le... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7367806 | Braille cell cap An electromechanical Braille cell assembly includes a plurality of parallel bimorph reeds. A first plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a first side of a printed circuit board by a first plurality of clips and a second plurality of bimorph reeds is mounted to a ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369951 | Digital, self-calibrating proximity switch A signal processing system for detecting purposive signals includes an input receiving a signal having a signal characteristic subject to user manipulation. An activation detector compares a property of the signal characteristic to one or more signal characteristic ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366499 | Announcement service for the visually impaired A visually-impaired person possessing a GPS-equipped cellular phone, or other mobile communications device, who wants to know their location, uses the cellular phone to call a location-announcement service. In response, the service queries the GPS receiver for the p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359861 | Inter-language translation device A computer system with an appropriate set of instructions to allow the computer system to serve as a translation device for use in a structured interview between an interviewer using a first language and an interviewee in a second language in order to minimize or el... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357639 | Method for communicating using pictograms A device for communicating, preferably between two people who could not normally orally communicate, by at least one user pointing to pictograms on the device. The device can be a static medium having a plurality of icons thereon or can be part of a computer generat... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352356 | Refreshable scanning tactile graphic display for localized sensory stimulation Pressure-based refreshable scanning tactile graphic display apparatus and methods are disclosed for localized sensory stimulation. The apparatus include a display array having stimulus points embedded in a matrix, an energy source applied at the stimulus points thro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353109 | Display method and apparatus for navigation system for performing cluster search of objects A method and apparatus for a navigation system conducts a data search for finding relative density of objects such as points of interest in a specified area and displays the result of the search in various manners. The display method includes the steps of: defining ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7341456 | Braille type device, system, and method A Braille type device including printed or displayed matter on a medium in combination with printed or displayed Braille type code, preferably machine readable Braille type bar code. The Braille type system includes the combination of the Braille type device and a B... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337400 | Tactile user interface with application-specific tactile behavior A computer system includes a computer processor, an operating system operative in connection with the computer processor, and a display responsive to the operating system. The system also has a pointing device that includes a position sensor and a tactile actuator. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7325735 | Directed reading mode for portable reading machine A method of operating a reading machine includes receiving an image and receiving an user-initiated command. The reading machine interprets the command to determine the portion of the image to process. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321360 | Systems, methods and devices for efficient communication utilizing a reduced number of selectable inputs Embodiments of the subject invention relate to systems, methods, and devices providing a reduced number of selectable inputs that enable efficient communication. One aspect of what is disclosed are embodiments of a systematic code, which systematic code enables effi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318195 | System and method for integrating tactile language with the visual alphanumeric characters A mapping system that integrates tactile language (specifically level 1 Braille) with the visual alphanumeric alphabet. A unified tacto-visual form of communication and recording is created. Alphanumeric characters present simultaneous direct relationships between t... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7316566 | Method for accessing interactive multimedia information or services from Braille documents System and method to enable blind people to detect and access hyperlinks within Braille documents. A proximity sensing foil placed under a Braille page senses the position of a reader's fingertips and provides coordinates of the sensed position. A workstation comput... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318019 | Word output device and matrix keyboard for use therein A keyboard utilizing a matrix arrangement of word, character, numerical (print medium) keys to enhance a standard print medium keyboard. Instead of utilizing keys with letters and numbers, and instead of utilizing iconic symbols (or for use in combination with iconi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7290700 | Method and system for illustrating sound and text A system for displaying audio content with text including a book holder and a book. The book holder identifies which book of a plurality is placed in the holder by detecting magnetic indicators in specific locations and arrangements which are unique to each book. Th... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292984 | Method of producing voice data method of playing back voice data, method of playing back speeded-up voice data, storage medium, method of assisting memorization, method of assisting learning a language, and computer program A computer-assisted method of assisting a user of a computer to memorize includes steps of displaying an image indicating a content to be memorized, on a left-hand side of a computer screen for a particular period; displaying text data indicating language informatio... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287984 | System and method for providing a visual language for non-reading sighted persons A method and system for communicating to sighted persons who cannot read a standard alphanumeric text, the informational content of that text includes an alphanumeric text is converted to a machine-readable set of informationally corresponding data, and then scanned... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7280958 | Method and system for suppressing receiver audio regeneration The invention concerns a method (500) and system (100) for suppressing receiver audio regeneration. The method (500) includes the steps of receiving a communication signal (502), at a Radio Frequency (RF) unit (102), demodulating t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272563 | Personal computer and scanner for generating conversation utterances to a remote listener in response to a quiet selection A user conducts a telephone conversation without speaking. It does this by moving the participant in the public situation to a quiet mode of communication (e.g., keyboard, buttons, touchscreen). All the other participants are allowed to continue using their usual au... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267281 | Location, orientation, product and color identification system for the blind or visually impaired Barcode scanning and digitizing technology incorporated in the tip of a white cane for the blind, which houses barcode reader, sonar, color sensory and audio production mechanisms. Apparatus detects and announces via audio or vibratory output, obstacles, drop-offs, ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268703 | Methods, systems, and devices for cartographic alerts Systems, devices, and methods are provided for marine navigation and course calculation for avoiding preselected conditions. An electronic marine navigation device with marine course calculation capabilities includes a processor connected to a memory that includes c... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264474 | Personality style method In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a plurality of color-coded cards and representing four personality styles and a set of two cards representing the Extraversion-Introversion scale of Carl Jung. On each set of two (2) cards,... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7264476 | Magnetic teaching aid with replaceable name tag A desktop teaching aid which has a body having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, the bottom surface comprising a magnetic material for securing the body to a desk, the body defining a frame around an aperture, educational information represented on the t... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263669 | Patient communication method and system A healthcare communication system can include a patient terminal having a keyboard unit with message keys for transmitting different ones of one or more programmed messages, and alphanumeric keys for composing messages. The patient terminal can be communicatively li... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251344 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having an operation improved in view of use of normal healthy persons and handicapped persons. The image forming apparatus comprising an operation panel having a display and an input section, has: a specifying section for specifying whethe... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239233 | After-market, water-proof, vibrating monitoring system for motorcycle turn indicators A monitoring system in kit form to retrofit to motorcycles or other vehicles that do not have self canceling turn indicators and as an aid to the hearing impaired. After the kit is installed, when the indicators are activated, the device vibrates in the operator's s... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7234941 | Toy for use with vertical surfaces An interactive educational apparatus is described. The educational toy apparatus includes an indicium containing structure and a base unit capable of being vertically attached to a vertical surface such as a refrigerator door. The indicium containing structure is ca... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230538 | Apparatus and method for identifying surrounding environment by means of image processing and for outputting the results The present invention relates to an apparatus for identifying surrounding environment by means of image processing, so as to be used by blind people or unmanned vehicles. The said apparatus comprises an input device, which includes at least one CCD or CMOS means for... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226291 | Refreshable tactile computer display A method and apparatus for refreshable tactile output of information from a computer, includes using a movement actuator to move in unison along a first dimension a plurality of tactile elements that can be touched by a user of the tactile output. Based on data rece... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227625 | Meteorological observation LIDAR system A lidar system for meteorological observation, in which pulsed laser light having a prescribed central frequency is emitted from a laser device and reflected light thereof is observed, includes: a spectral analyzer for spectrally analyzing reflected light for observ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221765 | System and method for individualized training of hearing aid users In a method for individualized training of hearing aid users a number of hearing training courses are stored in a databank. An individual user profile is acquired in a training device. A transmission of the hearing training data from the databank to the training dev... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200560 | Portable reading device with display capability A hand held device that captures information with the capability to read only the captured information, display only the captured information, or simultaneously read and display the captured information. The device includes text-to-voice technology, a flat-panel dis... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7195490 | Behavior modification system A tool for and a method of communication that teaches children how to ask a person a question when the person is busy. Children learn to use any one of three tools that enable them to silently communicate a question without interrupting the person. The tools consist... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194404 | Linguistic retrieval system and method A system, method and article of manufacture utilize word chunks to enhance word prediction. At least one of selectable words and word chunks are displayed in response to receipt of an input character. Thereafter, a selection of a displayed word or word chunk is rece... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185453 | Label having improved aesthetic appearance A label includes indicia disposed on a facestock comprising cellophane. In one embodiment, the indicia are screen printed onto the facestock. In another embodiment, the label may further include layers of tactile coating selectively applied to discrete areas of the ... | 03/06/2007 |
