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7412653 Remote control having a display with multi-function EL segments  
An EL display is provided with EL segments which are individually illuminable and which include one or more complete function key images and/or fragments of complete function key images. One or...
7403189 Graphical calculator  
A hand-held graphical calculator having a display and an input area is described. The input area includes a maximum of 30 keys and an input device. A hand-held graphical calculator package includes...
7388576 Handheld electronic device and keypad providing enhanced usability and reduced size, and associated method  
An improved handheld electronic device, keypad, and method in accordance with the invention meet these and other needs. An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keypad provides...
7385591 Out-of-vocabulary word determination and user interface for text input via reduced keypad keys  
Out-of-vocabulary (OOV) word determination corresponding to a key sequence entered by the user on a (typically numeric) keypad, and a user interface for the user to select one of the words, are...
7385590 Surveillance system workstation  
A workstation for a surveillance system comprising a display, a user input device and a control unit in communication with the display and the user input device. The user input device has a...
7385584 Automated keyboard mouse switch  
A single set of input devices (keyboard, mouse, etc.) is employed with a plurality of data processing systems each having a separate display. The logical display areas for the displays are arranged...
7383061 Peripheral device for a wireless communication device  
A peripheral device for a wireless communication device combines a full-sized input device and a full-sized display screen in a single device. A user interacts with data stored on the wireless...
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....
7372453 Foot operated computer mouse  
A computer cursor control system ( 10 ) including a foot operated cursor control device ( 16 ) connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) ( 12 ). The cursor ( 20 ) is positioned by the operator (...
7370288 Method and system for selecting objects on a display device  
Different levels or categories of text or images or both can be selected on a display device with simple commands. A selection region including one of selected text and selected images can be...
7362244 User programmable input apparatus with a keyboard  
A user programmable input apparatus with a keyboard comprises several keys with one or more special keys thereof on the keyboard for input operations, a microprocessor to receive inputs from the...
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...
7355593 Pointer tracking across multiple overlapping coordinate input sub-regions defining a generally contiguous input region  
A touch system comprises overlapping coordinate input sub-regions defining a generally contiguous input surface. Each coordinate input sub-region generates pointer coordinate data in response to...
7352363 Single finger or thumb method for text entry via a keypad  
A single press method for entering text using a keypad is disclosed. A conventional four-row by three-column 12-key keypad is used to enter all of the letters of the alphabet using single key...
7350066 Computer peripheral operating event responding method and system  
A computer peripheral operating event responding method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a computer platform for providing a peripheral operating events...
7348961 Telescreen operating method  
The present invention relates to a communications system for distributing information to and from local and regional distribution centers as well as individual dial-up servers. The communications...
7345671 Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs  
Improved approaches for users of computing devices to interact with graphical user interfaces are described. According to one aspect, a rotational user action supplied by a user at a user input...
7337257 Adapter unit for a personal digital assistant having automatically configurable application buttons  
The present invention relates generally to an adapter unit for a personal digital assistant. More specifically, this invention relates to an adapter unit that provides additional functionality, and...
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...
7333093 Information processing apparatus and information processing method  
A new-type user interface for providing a hotkey is disclosed, which has high operability and which can also be used to provide the hotkey in a conventional manner. In information processing...
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...
7324083 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...
7319426 Controlling device with illuminated user interface  
An illuminable user interface includes a plurality of input elements, a source of light energy, and a fiber optic filament mat provided with irregularities arranged in one or more controlled...
7310083 Coordinate input device  
A coordinate input device includes a housing containing a movable member, a resilient member formed of a coil spring, and first and second detectors for detecting the sliding direction and the...
7307621 Computer system with monitor on/off functionality  
A portable computer system is disclosed comprising a central processing unit, a keyboard input unit coupled with the central processing unit, a display system coupled with the central processing...
7302106 System and method for ink or handwriting compression  
A system and method for compressing digital pen stroke data utilizing curve simplification. Digital pen stroke images (ink images) generate a relatively large amount of data to preserve the ink...
7301532 Digital display keyboard  
A digital keyboard has a plurality of keys having a top key surface having means for displaying images and indicia thereon. While the images/indicia can be composed of any picture, illustration,...
7295188 Modified computer keyboard number pad  
The present invention provides for a number pad section of a keyboard having a plurality of digit keys, a plurality of arithmetic operation keys, and a Tab key operational by the ring or little...
7289108 Method for constituting bootstrap hotkeys and input system thereof  
A method for constituting bootstrap hotkeys comprises a step ( 11 ) for identifying a predetermined keyboard and a step ( 13 ) for booting hotkey functions. The step ( 11 ) further comprises: a...
7287224 Operation-enabling training and safety computer system and associated methods  
An operation-enabling training and safety computer system and associated methods operable for selectively enabling and disabling a powered system including means for disabling the operation of the...
7281214 Automatically updating user programmable input sensors to perform user specified functions  
In a portable multimedia device, a method, apparatus, and system for automatically updating programmable buttons on a remote client device using a set of user preferences is described. A remote...
7256768 Computer keyboard with quantitatively force-sensing keys  
A computer keyboard has a grid of conductors forming a plurality of intersections, with force-sensitive resistor (FSR) elements located between the conductors at the intersections. A plurality of...
7245291 System and method for internet appliance data entry and navigation  
A system for Internet appliance data entry and navigation includes a reduced keyset remote control unit transmitting a user input keystroke sequence. An Internet appliance receives and parses the...
RE39716 System and method for creating a controlling device  
A system and method for creating a controlling device. In response to a user specifying one or more operating criteria for the controlling device, the system selects executable instructions from a...
7230607 6-key keyboard for touch typing  
A keyboard having six keys. Characters are entered in two strokes. That is, the user selects a group including a desired character by the first stroke, and selects the desired character by the...
7203521 Method of displaying speed dials on a screen of a mobile communication terminal  
Disclosed is a method of displaying speed dials on a screen of a mobile communication terminal with speed dialing map that may make users of the mobile communication terminal use the speed dials...
7202854 Alphanumeric keypad and display system and method  
Data entry and display apparatus and methods that provide greater efficiency in data processing devices. The apparatus comprises a keypad with a plurality of first keys and plurality of secondary...
7191409 Method and apparatus for programming hot keys based on user interests  
A system is provided that configures a computer keyboard hot key based upon user interests. The system determines a profile of interests for a user, selects a web site address to associate with the...
7188318 Web accessibility assistant  
A utility computer program to make the web accessible to users who cannot use a mouse filters a web page and adds code to trigger all URLs in the page with a 2-character key code, display the code...
7187357 Device for entering values using a display screen  
Device for setting values for processing audio signals includes a signal processor, at least two elements for manually entering and/or adjusting the values, a carrier for the at least two elements,...
7184024 Method and apparatus for mapping an input location with a displayed functional representation  
A user interface is disclosed which may take a data stream, or file having hyperlinks or functional text embedded therein. The CPU of the user interface may select distinct colors for each...
7170498 Computer system provided with hotkeys  
A method for implementing functions of hotkeys. The method includes the steps of asserting an SMI signal when an SMI event is detected, determining whether the SMI event results from one of the...
7170497 Electronic device and control element  
An electronic device ( 1 ) comprises a control element ( 6 ) for receiving user input, and the control element ( 6 ) comprises at least a first input means ( 6 b ), a second input means ( 6 c ) and...
7170495 Key input device  
A key inputting device includes a vowel switch for inputting vowels, and consonant switches for inputting consonants. The vowel switch is displacable in five directions, each consonant switch is...
7164410 Manipulating an on-screen object using zones surrounding the object  
A user interface for manipulating objects of various types in a consistent manner. Each on-screen object is surrounded by a control region including a number of zones for performing various control...
7158120 Hand-held electronic device  
A hand-held electronic device with a keyboard, thumbwheel, display and associated software is optimized for use of the device with the thumbs. The associated software has a plurality of features to...
7154478 Terminal and method for remotely controlling device using the same  
Device names and device control parameters are registered in a content table of a terminal. These device names and control parameters are each associated in the content table with partial images...
7148876 Input system, program, and recording medium  
An input system comprising a computer operably associated with a display screen, a first input device, and a second input device. The first input device has an operating region corresponding to an...
7139850 System for processing programmable buttons using system interrupts  
System for processing programmable buttons using system control interrupts in a portable device. The system comprises a programmable button that comprises logic to generate a selected system...
7133028 Drive activity sampling and notification  
A data storage device activity state is sampled and used to control a remote data storage device activity indicator. A disk drive activity signal is sampled by hardware either based on an edge...
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