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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8133055 | Refreshable braille display device Disclosed is a refreshable Braille display device comprised of a rotary character display assembly which can display a refreshable Braille character in the plane of the rotary display assembly. Also disclosed is a method of displaying a refreshable Braille character... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7871271 | Creation and use of hyperlinks for accessing information pertaining to content located in a Braille document A user system for detection and access of hyperlinks within a Braille document. A hyperlink table is generated and includes for each touched item on a page of the Braille document: identification of the touched item, a hyperlink associated with the touched item, and... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7484960 | Printed matter for joint reading by a visually impaired and a sighted person The present invention provides a print lay-out of conventional textual characters and corresponding Braille characters that facilitates concurrent reading of the textual and the Braille characters, respectively, by a sighted person and a visually impaired, or blind,... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7407335 | Braille display for use with a notetaker and with personal computers for blind and low vision users A Braille display for use by blind and low vision users. The Braille display can be detachably mounted on a notetaker which includes either a Braille keyboard or a conventional QWERTY keyboard and a memory for storing in digital form information which is entered thr... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7339574 | Haptic mouse interface system for providing force and tactile feedbacks to user's fingers and arm A haptic mouse interface system includes a mouse, a first force feedback unit for providing a first force feedback in a first direction of a virtual object to the user's hand and arm, a second force feedback unit for providing a second force feedback in second and t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7321779 | Method for enhanced short message service A method and apparatus for an enhanced SMS can include receiving a short message, checking whether the received message is user data, processing the user data by referring to previously received control data if the received message is user data, and outputting the p... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7306463 | Pseudo-cuneiform tactile display This is an entirely new type of tactile display based upon cuneiform writing concepts which is an alternative to Braille. This invention uses electromechanical components to display a tactile coding of letters, numbers and symbols using rotating linear components an... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7246749 | Braille signage A thin plastic sheet has material displaced into braille characters protruding from the front face to provide information for the blind. The plastic sheet can be a clear plastic material having information for the sighted printed on the rear side for viewing from th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245292 | Apparatus and method for incorporating tactile control and tactile feedback into a human-machine interface A tactile user interface device that allows a user to manipulate the graphical elements of a graphical user interface and provides tactile feedback to the user. The interface device comprises a substrate and a plurality of tactile elements. Each tactile element of t... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228495 | Method and system for providing an index to linked sites on a web page for individuals with visual disabilities A system and method in accordance with the present invention allows blind and visually impaired users to quickly identify links to relevant material when “viewing” web pages that consist primarily of either plain text or images. By generating an aural or visual ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7217050 | Tape processing apparatus, method of processing tape in tape processing apparatus, and program Before embossing raised letters on a target tape which is subjected to embossing of raised letters, written letters are printed based on inputted character information, and also an upside-and-downside identifying information for identifying the upside and the downsi... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207467 | Identifying devices for the visually handicapped Devices which contain tactile and visually readable identifying indicia to assist the visually handicapped in identifying room numbers and the contents of items such as condiment shakers and liquid containers. The visually readable indicia allow a sighted person to ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7191191 | Haptic authoring Methods are presented for authoring geometrical databases which incorporate touch or haptic feedback. In particular, a database of geometrical elements incorporates attributes necessary to support haptic interactions such as stiffness, hardness, friction, and so for... | 03/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7182601 | Interactive toy and methods for exploring emotional experience An educational, interactive toy that symbolically represents emotions through visual, kinesthetic, and linguistic means. The toy includes a plurality of playpieces. Each playpiece is generally symbolic of a particular emotion, e.g., love, happy, sad, mad, and scared... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7176895 | Wearable keyboard apparatus A keyboard apparatus includes a fabric and switch units coupled to the fabric. Each switch unit includes a capsule containing an electrically responsive liquid, wherein the electrically responsive liquid causes the capsule to increase in rigidity in response to appl... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7134457 | Method of weaving braille and woven braille textile A method of weaving Braille and/or the resulting woven Braille textile may assist sighted persons in determining the woven Braille cells by differentiating the colors of each number 1 through number 6 Braille cell warp thread. A method of weaving Braille and/or the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134597 | System for handicapped access to voting ballots A voting system that allows voters who may be blind or otherwise disabled to use election ballots without needing to see the ballot. The present invention provides a balloting system which presents and holds an election ballot while allowing a voter to cast and insp... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7118135 | Embossed paper A sheet of embossed paper including a sheet-like body portion, at least one embossed or depressed line located on the body portion, and at least one printed line located on and extending at least partially along the embossed or depressed line. The invention may also... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112000 | Controlling a tape processing apparatus for embossing on a tape to be processed a recognizable braille and for printing ink characters There is provided a method of controlling a tape processing apparatus where braille is embossed at one side in the width direction of a tape with an embossing unit arranged at the one side. The method includes: an embossing-position defining step of defining a brail... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7097457 | Tactile pin holding apparatus, tactile pin display apparatus and braille display member Rotational member (310) with plural tactile pins (301) movable up-and-down for displaying characters is rotated by rotation driving means. Elastic O-rings (370) are provided in the rotational member (310) for pressing and holding the pins... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092907 | System and method for software selling Methods and system to progressively degrade a trial version of software products in various ways so as to permit the user to continue to use the product until the user becomes reliant on the product and becomes so frustrated that the user purchases the product. This... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7083342 | Keyboard arrangement A physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional keys with a reduced column QWERTY key arrangement overlaid with a numeric phone key arrangement for use in both text entry and telephony. Another physical keyboard includes a plurality of multi-functional ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7083416 | Contaminant-tolerant Braille pins A Braille pin has three parts sharing a common longitudinal axis. A first part has a first breadth and includes a rounded tip felt by a user. A second part has a noncircular transverse cross-section and has a breadth greater than the first breadth. A first shoulder ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077015 | Apparatus to reproduce tactile sensations A tactile sensing transducer provides as its output a skin deformation signal for storage or transmission to a tactile stimulation display transducer. A skin surface imaging means operating optically, acoustically or otherwise is positioned for viewing and providing... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079454 | Tactile timepiece A tactilely readable timepiece with a clock device that keeps time. The display comprises a display area and at least one moveable portion within the display. The moveable portion is moveable with respect to the display to form at least one displayed character that ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7066085 | Method of manufacturing operation panel for printer A molded product for an operation panel 1 is produced by injection molding or the like. A set of characters 7 indicative of the type of each operation switch 17 is formed, by a screen printing process, at a location near to the subject switch op... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054775 | Digitizing system and rotary table for determining 3-D geometry of an object A digitizing system and rotary table for determining the three dimensional geometry of an object is described. An apparatus includes at least one sensor that detects information describing the three-dimensional geometry of the object and provides the information to ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047683 | Album formed from folded photographic prints An album manufactured solely of folded photographic prints bonded together plus a treatment applied to the spine. Two-page spreads are imprinted on each print except the first and last pages, which are placed on the right and left halves of the first and last prints... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051292 | Information input/output device for visually impaired users The present invention provides an information input/output device for visually impaired users whereby the visually impaired users can easily obtain information for the operation and perform the operation without confusion. This device comprise a braille output unit ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050754 | Electronic interactive toy for promoting learning in a child A system where a child or other individual arranges one or more computer-recognizable characters on a working platform to spell words or provide a mathematical result in response to computer generated questions or prompts, the system then indicating whether the word... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7021340 | Method of and loom for teaching Braille Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a method of and loom for teaching Braille by weaving with a loom, wherein the levers to move the harnesses are shaped and spaced like the levers on a Perkins Brailler (a Braille typewriter). ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020840 | Relating to Braille equipment A apparatus and method are provided which assist the use of electronic documents in both a word processor (17) and Braille environment (16). The apparatus and methods facilitate conversion of electronic documents between various formats for subsequent ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7011525 | Encoding system combining language elements for rapid advancement A system and method for literacy and language instruction that can be practiced with graphophonic word-building blocks, learning activities, software, an electronic device, and educational card/dice/bingo, etc. games with multi-sensory learning that revolves around ... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009595 | Extended refreshable tactile graphic array for scanned tactile display Apparatus and methods for extended refreshable tactile graphic display are disclosed, the apparatus including an array of pins at a display surface, with pin setting actuators and display surface matrix preferably being separable units. The display matrix is provide... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6995745 | Electromechanical information browsing device An electromechanical information browsing device that controls page flipping actions of information displayed as an e-book on a display device. The browsing device includes a controller that provides tactile feedback so as to lessen the user-interface differences be... | 02/07/2006 |
