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7620431 Methods and apparatus for controlling applications of a mobile device by using a pivoting input switch  
A mobile device includes at least one application and a user-controllable pivoting input switch. This application has a number of selectable items. This switch has a number of operational modes....
7619667 Solid-state image device and camera including solid-state image device for selective outputs  
A solid-state image device including pixels arranged two-dimensionally, the pixels each including a photoelectric converter for converting incident light into an electric signal, is provided. The...
7619618 Identifying contacts on a touch surface  
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification...
7619617 Size/scale and orientation determination of a pointer in a camera-based touch system  
A touch system includes a touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and having...
7619616 Pressure sensitive controls  
The use of pressure-sensitive controls is disclosed in which controls respond differently to different pressure applied by a stylus on a digitizer. Users interacting with displayed controls may...
7619584 Messaging including active response feature  
An enhanced messaging capability which enables the recipient of the message to respond to a query by pressing a single button or multiple buttons to issue the response. Code for enabling a...
7616971 System and method for providing access to forms for displaying information on a wireless access device  
A system and method for enabling users to send and receive messages and other information from mobile devices and enabling users to access server-based information using mobile devices over...
7616195 One dimensional and three dimensional extensions of the slide pad  
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for providing three-dimensional motion inputs to a device includes measuring characteristics (e.g., capacitances) between sense electrodes and a...
7616194 Key lock means and application method of the same  
A key lock means set on a tablet personal computer and application method of the same are provided, wherein the key lock means comprises a graphic input device, a typing input device, and means for...
7616193 Human input apparatus with touch sensors and method for calculating movement value thereof  
Provided is a human input apparatus and method for calculating a movement value thereof. The human input apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensors for varying and outputting output signals by...
7616192 Touch device and method for providing tactile feedback  
A touch device includes a touch panel and a vibration device to provide tactile feedback to a user to locate a key on a display of the touch panel. A processor generates a drive signal to the...
7614008 Operation of a computer with touch screen interface  
A touch screen computer executes an application. A method of operating the touch screen computer in response to a user is provided. A virtual input device is provided on the touch screen. The...
7612786 Variable orientation input mode  
User input methods may employ an input sensitive display screen that is agnostic with regard to the orientation in which the user is viewing the screen. Input methods may involve touching objects...
7612766 Portable terminal device  
A portable terminal device comprises an input device configured to receive an input operation on a plurality of positions, the input device allocating a function to be executed to the plurality of...
7612759 Cycle computer display apparatus  
A cycle computer display apparatus is provided with a touch panel for the rider to input data into the cycle computer. The cycle computer includes a display screen for producing visual images and a...
7610194 Dynamic database reordering system  
A dynamic database reordering system provides a linguistics database that contains words that are ordered according to a linguistics model that dictates the order in which words are presented to a...
7609253 Closed-loop sensor on a solid-state object position detector  
The present disclosure discloses an object position detector. The object position detector comprises a touch sensor formed as a closed loop and having a physical constraint formed on an upper...
7609252 Touch panel  
In a touch panel, upper and lower electrode connecting portions are provided in the vicinity of a sealing agent formed above extending electrodes, and the upper and lower electrode connecting...
7609178 Reconfigurable tactile sensor input device  
A reconfigurable tactile input device includes a first rigid electrode layer, a compressible dielectric structure, and a second flexible electrode layer forming together a tactile sensor with...
7607087 Input device  
An input device, e.g., for a motor vehicle, includes: a touch screen for the input of commands by touching a control panel or by pressing on the control panel; an actuator for moving the touch...
7606483 Electroluminescent display device and a digital camera using an electroluminescent display device  
An electroluminescent display device includes an electroluminescent display, and at least one switch which is positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the electroluminescent display, the switch...
7606421 Data extraction from temporal image data  
In a method and system to extract data from handwritten information when the information is captured as sequences of strokes, vectors, or marks, temporal data is stored within the color or...
7605805 Electrical touch sensor and human interface device using the same  
An electrical touch sensor is provided. The electrical touch sensor includes: a touch detection part having at least one touch pad and generating a first signal having a same delay time regardless...
7605804 System and method for fine cursor positioning using a low resolution imaging touch screen  
A system to position an element on a visual display is provided. The disclosed system comprises a touch detection module that detects a touch upon a touch-sensitive surface of a visual display....
7605802 Operator device with haptic feedback  
The invention relates to a control device ( 10 ) with haptic feedback, with at least one actuating element ( 12 ), at least one switching apparatus ( 14 ), and at least one positioning device ( 16...
7605523 Piezoelectric device, its manufacturing method, and touch panel device  
A piezoelectric device (X) includes a substrate ( 11 ) a piezoelectric film ( 12 ), a first electrode ( 13 ), and a second electrode ( 14 ). At least one of the first electrode ( 13 ) and the...
7603376 File and folder scanning method and apparatus  
A method, apparatus and computer program product for file and folder scanning is presented. A host agent uses a scanning policy from a server, and scans the storage for the host system in...
7602451 Input device, electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, method of manufacturing input device, and method of manufacturing electro-optical device  
An input device includes a first substrate that has a coordinate input surface, and a second substrate that faces the first substrate. In the input device, a position on the coordinate input...
7602384 Haptic feedback touchpad  
A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based...
7602383 Touch sensing apparatus with differential signal source  
A preferred embodiment of the touch sensing apparatus includes one or more touch sensing units, a detector, and a signal processing unit. Each touch sensing unit comprises: a differential signal...
7602382 Method for displaying information responsive to sensing a physical presence proximate to a computer input device  
In a computer system, a touch sensitive input device having touch sensitive auxiliary controls system can be used to anticipate a user's action. When a user's hand approaches a touch sensitive...
7602381 Hand-held interactive electronic device  
A hand-held interactive electronic device has an electronic display with a touch screen. A plurality of icons is on the touch screen. A frame element separate from the touch screen bounds a portion...
7602380 Display device with optical input function  
A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of pixel circuits and sensor circuits, a signal line drive circuit and scanning line drive circuit...
7602379 Digital annotator  
A method and apparatus for creating and using temporary electronic bookmarks, such as those associated with a web browser, uses a digitizer tablet with an inking pen (or stylus). An end-user...
7599828 Grammatically correct contraction spelling suggestions for french  
A method and product are provided that identify properly spelled words from an input string. Separate lexical entries are identified for different parts of an input word. Grammatical information...
7599712 Apparatus and methods for providing directional commands for a mobile computing device  
Various embodiments for providing directional commands for a mobile computing device are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may comprise a keypad arranged to operate...
7598949 Multi-touch sensing light emitting diode display and method for using the same  
Apparatus and method for both displaying graphical output and for sensing, e.g., multi-touch input are provided. A light-emitting diode (“LED”) matrix-array may be configured to both emit and...
7598752 Charge transfer device and method, touch sensing device and method  
The disclosure relates to a touch sensing device and method. An embodiment of the disclosed method includes starting to count with a counter while charging a sensing point which has distributed...
7595790 Pressure sensitive conductive sheet, method of manufacturing the same, and touch panel using the same  
A pressure sensitive conductive sheet is provided by having a plurality of ferromagnetic conductive particles dispersed in a transparent elastic member joined together and linearly aligned with the...
7595789 Transmission screen  
A transmission screen having a writable and erasable surface for one side is provided. This transmission screen is constructed so that the writable and erasable surface should have a specular gloss...
7593067 Electro-optical device and electronic equipment having touch panel with resin having particular elastic modulus  
An electro-optical device includes: an electro-optical panel having a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electro-optical substance interposed between the first and the second substrates; a...
7593005 Touch detection system  
A touch detection using wavelet algorithm for detecting touches on a surface by receiving acoustic waves generated by the touch and performing signal analysis on these acoustic waves using wavelet...
7593003 Image processing unit, method, and program  
A display of “scroll up by 1 hour” is overlaid on sections of station name of a program schedule Fa 1 when an up arrow key of a cross key provided to a remote commander is operated when a...
7593001 Image-processing apparatus  
An image-processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting operational signals. The input unit includes an operation surface and outputs, as the operational signals, a position detection...
7593000 Touch-based authentication of a mobile device through user generated pattern creation  
A method, system, and apparatus of a touch-based authentication of a mobile device through user generated pattern creation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a mobile device includes...
7592901 Input device  
There are provided an input means 2 that allows information to be input as touched by an operator, a vibration application means 3 disposed on a back side of the input means 2 , and a control...
7590858 Authentication apparatus, user authentication method, user authentication card and storage medium  
In an authentication apparatus, coordinates input from a coordinate detector via a plurality of discontinuous holes or openings, cutouts or marks provided on a member which is used to specify the...
7589798 Touch panel having upper electrode plate including electrode, polarizing plate, quarter wave plate and heat-resistant transparent resin plate  
An upper electrode plate has a 0.15 to 0.8 mm thick optically isotropic heat-resistant transparent resin plate having a glass transition temperature characteristic of not less than 150° C. The...
7589714 Tactile display device and touch panel apparatus with tactile display function using electrorheological fluid  
Conductivity of a photoconductive layer changes in accordance with a display pattern made of black and white, which is displayed on a display device of a touch panel apparatus with tactile display...
7589713 Capacitive coordinate detection device  
A composite capacitance between a common electrode and an X detection electrode having a plurality of detours is small, whereas lengths of parallel electrodes of the X detection electrode are set...