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7626572 |
Soap mobile electronic human interface device
A new mobile electronic device, referred to as a soap, may be used to control electronic devices, external or internal to the soap, in an intuitive, convenient, and comfortable manner. For example,...
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7619614 |
Three-dimensional optical mouse system
A three-dimensional optical mouse device with a Micromirror Array Lens (MMAL) is provided. To have the three-dimensional optical mouse system, a three-dimensional imaging device is used for...
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7619612 |
Pointing device with light source for providing visible light through a moveable puck
A pointing device includes a base surface. The pointing device includes a moveable puck confined to move over the base surface within a puck field of motion. The pointing device includes a position...
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7616189 |
Optical mouse light emitter
An optical mouse light emitter has a transparent body, a divergent light-emitting component and a disc reflective structure. The transparent body has a front end surface and a lateral circular...
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7616188 |
Mouse roller with horizontal scrolling and horizontal tilting switch
A number of embodiments of a rotatable member or wheel that can be mounted in a mouse or other input device that allows both rotation and response to lateral pressure for horizontal or other...
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7616186 |
Acceleration reference devices, cellular communication terminal systems, and methods that sense terminal movement for cursor control
An acceleration reference device comprises an accelerometer that is configured to generate acceleration information that is indicative of movement of the device; a communication interface that is...
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7615733 |
Optical navigation apparatus and method for making the apparatus
An optical navigation apparatus and method for making the apparatus uses a light source and a sensor having an imaging array mounted on a leadframe and encapsulated in an optically transparent body...
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7612764 |
Position tracking sensor of optical mouse and method of controlling the same
Disclosure is a position tracking sensor of an optical mouse and method of controlling the same. The position tracking sensor comprises an image sensor for receiving light inputted from exterior of...
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7609250 |
Optical module and input apparatus using the same
Provided are an optical module and an input apparatus having the same. The input apparatus includes the optical module having a circuit board provided with a light source and a sensor installed...
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7605803 |
Method of operating an optical mouse
Movement of a hand operated pointing device may be tracked by providing a source of non-coherent light in a movable housing for illuminating a work surface and providing circuitry for producing a...
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7598942 |
System and method for gesture based control system
The system provides a gestural interface to various visually presented elements, presented on a display screen or screens. A gestural vocabulary includes ‘instantaneous’ commands, in which...
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7595478 |
Method and device for processing optical signals in computer mouse
The present invention discloses a method and a device for processing optical signals in a computer mouse, which is related to electric digital data processing. The method is that the relative...
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7589711 |
User interface device with double sensor input to capture rotation
Embodiments of the present invention provide a user interface device that can capture motion in more than two degrees of freedom at a time. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention...
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7586482 |
Method and related wireless mouse for decreasing delay time of data packet transmission system
A method for increasing a report rate of a wireless mouse for decreasing delay time of the wireless mouse includes selecting a packet mode, inputting data corresponding to the selected packet mode...
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7570249 |
Responding to change of state of control on device disposed on an interactive display surface
A user input device includes one or more user controls that enable a user to selectively imports bits of data by activating the control when the user input devices proximate to a display surface of...
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7567235 |
Self-aligning optical sensor package
One embodiment relates to an optical navigation device. The device includes a lead frame having reference features, a laser, a detector array, and an optical component having alignment features....
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7564447 |
System and method for measuring operational life of a computer mouse
An exemplary system for measuring operational life of a computer mouse is disclosed. The system includes a computer ( 10 ), a servo controller ( 14 ), an X servo axis ( 12 ), a Y servo axis ( 13 ),...
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7561072 |
Interactive sequential key system to input characters on small keypads
This invention discloses an interactive sequential system to input letters of the English alphabet and of many world languages, numbers, punctuation marks and many other symbols on keypads with few...
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7557799 |
System for determining pointer position, movement, and angle
An a data input system includes an encoded pad having position encoding and a data input device adapted to image a portion of the encoded pad to determine position and orientation of the data input...
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7557798 |
Wireless input device
A first wireless input device includes a body, a case, a structure and a button. The button, connected to the body, activates the structure to make the case detach from the body when being...
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7557338 |
Electronic device with integrated optical navigation module and microlens array therefore
A portable device includes a transparent surface; a microlens array having lenslets, each lenslet forming a corresponding image of an object using light received through the transparent surface; a...
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7553537 |
Position identification pattern
A product 10 has a position identifying pattern 16 on it, the pattern comprising first and second positional components 24, 26 arranged to identify first and second positional coordinates x,...
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7551428 |
Automatic power control
In certain embodiments, a system comprises a computer housing, a device removably mounted to the computer housing, a removable component coupled to the computer housing under the device, and a...
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7545360 |
Optical pointing device
An optical pointing device is disclosed. The optical pointing device includes: a case having an opening portion formed on a bottom thereof; a light source installed in the case; an illuminating...
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7544924 |
Directional input device with a light directing shaft
A directional input device with a light directing shaft that avoids wear and tear caused by physical contact between a shaft and a sensor surface. A directional input device according to the...
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7532201 |
Position tracking device
A position tracking device is disclosed combining one or more optical sensors in a housing with a medical device. The medical device may be an insertion device or one that produces radiant energy....
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7525082 |
System and method for performing optical navigation on glass-like navigation surfaces
A system and method for performing optical navigation addresses M×N photosensitive elements of an image sensor array to capture first frames of image data of a navigation surface when set to a...
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7518570 |
Method and apparatus for miniaturizing digital light processing displays using high refractive index crystals
A digital light processing display system is provided with fewer major moving parts and a smaller form factor. A high-intensity, high-frequency strobe light is used to direct a pulse of light...
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7511825 |
Pointing device
A pointing device includes a light source, an aperture member, and a detector. The light source provides incident light for illuminating an obverse surface of a plate at a predetermined incident...
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7511699 |
Optical pointing system and method for controlling power and/or clock signal thereof
Disclosed are an optical pointing system and method for controlling power and/or clock signal thereof. The optical pointing system includes a movement speed sensing unit for calculating a movement...
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7505033 |
Speckle-based two-dimensional motion tracking
A relatively moving surface is illuminated with a laser. Light from the laser is reflected by the surface into an array of photosensitive elements; the reflected light includes a speckle pattern....
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7492352 |
Optical computer pointer and optical cursor/frame control method
An optical pointer includes a housing, a movable plate, a manipulable member and a displacement detecting unit. The movable plate is disposed in the housing and has a recognizable pattern. The...
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7492351 |
Optical navigation based on laser feedback or laser interferometry
A computer cursor control device includes (1) a light source generating light directed toward a stationary surface, (2) an optional phase modulator, (3) an optional function generator causing the...
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7489300 |
Programmable optical pointing device
A programmable optical pointing device. A read/write storage chip stores control code, and an integrated chip includes a photo sensor array and a control circuit. The control circuit reads the...
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7483018 |
Systems and methods for providing a combined pen and mouse input device in a computing system
Currently, a user may need to carry or otherwise keep track of both a mouse and electronic pen for a computer, such as a portable computing device. Carrying or otherwise keeping track of both...
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7477235 |
Display apparatus having a scroll feature
A display apparatus includes a display memory for storing an image of a first area forming a portion of an entire image; a display section including a display screen having a display area usable...
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7474296 |
Multi-axis joystick and transducer means therefore
The invention relates to improved multi-axis joysticks and associated multi-axis optical displacement measurement means. The displacement measuring means may include one or more light emitters and...
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7473885 |
System and method for calibrating the light source for an optical navigational system
Advantage is taken of the fact that in optical navigation devices it is possible to measure the intensity of light impacting the pixel array of photo-diodes. Based upon such an intensity...
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7471282 |
Light brightness controller for an optical mouse
A light brightness controller for an optical mouse, which has a light source, a current switch and a control unit. The light source illuminates a sampling plane of a mouse. The current switch has a...
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7470887 |
Collapsible structure for optical navigation system
A system for optical navigation includes an optical navigation sensor integrated circuit (IC) configured to generate image information for use in navigation sensing and a collapsible structure...
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7463244 |
Optical mouse and method for removing contaminants in an optical mouse
Optical device and a method for cleaning an optical surface on an optical device. An optical device has a device body and at least one optical surface on the device body. At least one access port...
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7460107 |
Computer input device with multi-purpose light guide
A computer input device includes a light guide that illuminates a target area for imaging so as to permit tracking relative motion of a surface. The light guide also directs light to a window that...
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7454038 |
Using directional weighting functions while computing optical flow through belief propagation
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses directional weighting functions while computing optical flow for an image through belief propagation. The system operates by...
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7446756 |
Apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer with low sensitivity to particle contamination
An apparatus for controlling the position of a screen pointer includes an at least partially coherent light source for illuminating an imaging surface, thereby generating reflected images. The...
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H002226 |
Mouse cable management
Disclosed are embodiments of portable electronic devices, such as computer mice, which have structures for temporarily storing a cable and/or electrical connector between uses. Some embodiments...
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7444159 |
Data input device, systems using the device, and methods for operating such systems
A data storage device 5 having a storage capacity of at least 8 Mbyte is surrounded by a housing including a stylus portion 23 , having a tip 25 for indicating a position. The stylus permits...
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7443383 |
Wireless optical pointing device with a common oscillation circuit
A wireless optical pointing device. The wireless optical pointing device comprises a photo sensor detecting a series of continuous images on an operating surface, a processing unit coupled with the...
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7442915 |
Signal conditioning circuitry
This invention relates to signal conditioning circuitry 14 a for an optical pointing device, the circuitry comprising: means 15 a for determining the rate of change of a signal generated on...
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7439954 |
Multi-light-source illumination system for optical pointing devices
In one embodiment of an optical pointing device, an illumination system includes a plurality of light sources. Each light source is characterized by a unique set of illumination characteristics....
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7439952 |
Pointing device
An electronic pointing cursor control device such as a trackball or mouse, comprising a first chamber adjoined to a second chamber, the chambers being separated by a fluid-tight wall comprising an...
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