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7382356 |
Input unit for games and musical keyboards
A computer game system uses an infrared sensor which produces an infrared light to produce pulse of infrared light. Optics focus reflections from the infrared light pulse from different portions of...
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7382355 |
Extractable terminal keypad
A terminal includes a terminal body, a data output interface, and a data input interface. The data output interface includes a display disposed on a face of the terminal body. The data input...
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7382353 |
Changing a function of a device based on tilt of the device for longer than a time period
In various embodiments, changing the function involves disabling an input device, disabling an output device, changing a display mode of the output device from portrait to landscape, or increasing...
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7379055 |
Data record method using a touch panel
A data record method using a touch panel is disclosed. The touch panel can be separated from a computer. The computer and the touch panel store data having plural records respectively. The method...
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7375956 |
Cover positioning structure of a dual-usage portable computer
A cover positioning structure of a dual-usage portable computer is disclosed, which comprises a base, at least one slide block sliding on the base, at least one elastic slice imposing a pressure to...
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7375721 |
Keyboard with changeable key display
A keyboard system comprises a first plurality of keys. The first plurality of keys have top surfaces with fixed indicia disposed thereon. The keyboard system further comprises a recessed section....
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7375296 |
Keyboard
A keyboard includes a main body and a plurality of keys arranged on a top plate of the main body. The main body includes the top plate, a bottom plate with a utility board arranged thereon, and a...
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7375295 |
Collapsible keyboard
A collapsible keyboard comprises a first key assembly, a second key assembly rotatably connected to the first key assembly and a third key assembly rotatably connected to the second key assembly....
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7372959 |
Handheld electronic device with reconfigurable keypad
An improved handheld electronic device has a display and a keypad, with the keypad being movable among a number of configurations that enable the “real estate” occupied by the keypad to be...
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7372454 |
Keyboard with variable-sized keys
A computer keyboard is provided having keys that vary in size based on the keys' frequency of use. The keyboard may, for example, be modeled after the standard QWERTY keyboard, but modified such...
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7372450 |
Analog input mapping for hand-held computing devices
A first hand-held computing device includes an analog input device and a processor. The analog input device generates analog input. The processor receives the analog input and converts the analog...
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7369121 |
Input device with a zoom apparatus
An input is disclosed that includes a zoom apparatus for increasing or decreasing the size of an image rendered on a display screen. The zoom apparatus has an actuator that is movable in a first...
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7369117 |
Application programming interface that maps input device controls to software actions
A system for using computer input devices with software applications is disclosed. The system includes an input device mapper API, which uses a language of semantics as an interface between input...
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7369064 |
Key and keyboard
A key includes a light-permeable body, a light-shading layer and a first dye layer. The light-shading layer is formed on the surface of the light-permeable body and has a first light-permeable area...
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7364339 |
Flexible backlight unit for key of input device
Provided is a backlight unit for a key of an input device. The unit includes a light guide plate and at least one light emitting unit. The light guide plate is formed of flexible transparent resin...
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7362310 |
Systems and methods to move a keyboard
According to some embodiments, a keyboard may be moved to a location behind a display.
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7362243 |
Apparatus and method using color-coded or pattern-coded keys in two-key input per character text entry
Letters (more generally, language symbols) are entered electronically by selecting, in sequential fashion, two keys on a standard phone layout. The first key in the two-key sequence is that key on...
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7359999 |
Inputting method and device with a flat input having sensor capable of coordinate touch input wherein display is switchable based on touch pressure
An input device includes a flat first input unit for a first input operation, a second input unit for a second input operation, a display unit having a display portion displaying data, and a...
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7358956 |
Method for providing feedback responsive to sensing a physical presence proximate to a control of an electronic device
In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls can be used to provide a user with information regarding the functionality of an auxiliary control....
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7358866 |
Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The...
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7355595 |
Tactile device for scrolling
A tactile touch-sensitive device for use as an electronic input device for navigating an electronic document on a display device is described. The tactile aspect of the device provides a document...
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7355590 |
Keymat
A keymat for use with a mobile station. The keymat includes a web for interconnecting a plurality of keys, the web and the keys lying external to the mobile-station enclosure when the mobile...
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7355589 |
Alphabet input apparatus and alphabet input method
Alphabet input apparatus and method are provided. In the alphabet input apparatus, one alphabet is determined by pressing two keys of a keypad to which ten basic figures made by analyzing shapes of...
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7353046 |
Portable telephone
A portable telephone has a phone-book capability of storing and searching plural pieces of receiver information including character information and image information and comprises phone-book memory...
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7352362 |
Integrated virtual hub chip
An apparatus that includes a serial port configured to interface with a separate host, one serial interface engine (SIE) connected to the serial port, and at least a first interface unit and a...
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7352359 |
Method and system for applying gearing effects to inertial tracking
Methods and systems for interactive interfacing with a computer gaming system are provided. A method includes providing an input device, where the input device is configured to convey inertial data...
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7352358 |
Method and system for applying gearing effects to acoustical tracking
A method and system for enabling dynamic user interactivity between user actions and actions to be performed by a computer program is provided. The system includes a computing system and an...
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7352357 |
Data processing apparatus
A data processing apparatus includes a main body, a cover unit having a display such as an LCD, and a detecting mechanism for detecting the opening and closing of the cover unit in relation to the...
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7348967 |
Touch pad for handheld device
A media player having a touch pad is disclosed.
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7348512 |
Key unit with reinforcing plate
The object of the present invention is to utilize a reinforcing plate formed out of a metal or a hard resin introduced into a key unit in order to overcome the weak point that conventional rubber...
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RE40153 |
Multi-touch system and method for emulating modifier keys via fingertip chords
A multi-touch system is disclosed that recognizes simultaneous touchdown of four fingers on, above, or below the home row of keys as a modifier chord and applies modifiers such as Shift, Ctrl, or...
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7346859 |
Administration of keyboard input in a computer having a display device supporting a graphical user interface
Administration of keyboard input in a computer having a display device supporting a graphical user interface (“GUI”), including storing keyboard input intended by a user for a second widget...
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7345599 |
Computer keyboard
A keyboard has a middle region that has upward longitudinal slopes rising to upper planes on both sides of the middle region. An alphanumeric section disposed in the keyboard housing generally in...
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RE40130 |
Liquid crystal display device video having signal driving circuit mounted on one side
Herein disclosed are a liquid crystal display device and a data processing device, which can have their frame portions reduced in area to reduce the size and weight by extracting the terminals of...
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7339499 |
Keypad signal input apparatus
Keypad apparatus for registering signals corresponding to data that a user enters by pressure on keys of an array in a surface extending in two dimensions. The elements of first and second sets of...
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7338224 |
Ergonomic keyboard apparatus
A plurality of embodiments of improved ergonomic keyboards for interfacing with a user's arms, wrists, hands and fingers in a more natural way, i.e., in ways that are optimally suited to human...
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7336481 |
Information processing apparatus having switch for inputting key data
An information processing apparatus includes a housing with a top surface and a rear surface, a CPU (central processing unit) provided in the housing, a keyboard placed on the top surface of the...
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7336375 |
Wireless methods and systems for three-dimensional non-contact shape sensing
Systems for acquiring an approximation of the surface geometry of a 3-dimensional object include a self-powered wireless, non-contact optical scanner, the location and orientation of which may be...
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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...
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7336257 |
Method for input of text by selection of letters using a cursor and device for carrying out said method
The aim of the invention is development of a method for input of text by selection with a cursor from a list of letters which operates with various operating elements for control of the cursor and...
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7336206 |
Input key and input apparatus
An object of the present invention is to provide an input apparatus and input key capable of reducing the number of operations on the input key for input of symbols and permitting a user to...
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7334952 |
Staggered keyboard for a portable device
A staggered keyboard for use with a portable device is provided. The staggered keyboard includes a plurality of keys arranged into a plurality of rows of keys. For each row of keys, the labeling of...
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7333085 |
Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The...
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7333084 |
Thumbwheel and switch for a mobile electronic device and methods thereof
A mobile electronic device has a thumbwheel subassembly having measurable rotatable and depressible input movements, for example, rolling the thumbwheel up, rolling the thumbwheel down and pushing...
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7330178 |
Display-input apparatus for a multi-configuration portable device
A portable electronic device includes a display-input apparatus ( 108 ) for displaying alternate character sets, in correspondence with a selected mode of operation of the device. The display-input...
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7330175 |
Information processing apparatus
In an information processing apparatus, a display unit is pivotally supported on a main unit by a hinge having a hinge pin. Left and right buttons serving as first and second function buttons for...
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7330134 |
Key construction method for a keyboard and the keyboard thereof
A key constructing method for a keyboard has M scan lines*N return lines. The electrical interconnects of the M scan lines*N return lines can generate numerical electrical contacts of A 1 to A M*N...
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7327347 |
Image classifying systems and methods
Methods and systems for classifying images, such as photographs, allow a user to incorporate subjective judgments regarding photograph qualities when making classification decisions. A slide-show...
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7326864 |
Method and apparatus for masking keystroke sounds from computer keyboards
Disclosed herein is a method of masking audible sounds emanating from a keyboard in response to a stroking of keys on the keyboard, the method comprising, selecting components from a plurality of...
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7324091 |
Handheld electronic device and keyboard having multiple-function keys
An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keyboard provides enhanced usability with fewer keys by enabling the keys to pivot slightly to provide multiple functions to the keys. The...
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