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7372510 Reflection resistant touch screens  
A flexible, non-birefringent cover and a polarizer on the front of a resistive touch panel reduce touch screen image distortion and obscuration resulting from the reflection of ambient light. Reduc...
7372456 Method and apparatus for calibrating an interactive touch system  
A method of calibrating an interactive touch system includes moving a pointer along at least one path on a touch surface over a calibration image presented on the touch surface. Pointer coordinates...
7372455 Touch detection for a digitizer  
A detector for detecting touches by fingers or like body parts on a sensor comprises at least one sensing conductor, typically a grid of such conductors, extending into the sensor, a source of osci...
7369724 Apparatus and method for an improved lens structure for polymer wave guides which maximizes free space light coupling  
A polymer waveguide assembly. The assembly includes a polymer waveguide have a plurality of waveguide cores and an associated plurality of lenses respectively. The assembly also includes a molded l...
7369123 Panel unit capable of avoiding contact between electrically conductive bodies thereon  
A first electrically conductive stripe extends from a starting point to an end point on the front surface of a lower base member in a panel unit. An upper base member is designed to oppose its back...
7369122 Touch panel spacer dots and methods of making  
The present invention provides touch panels and touch panel substrates that include spacer dots comprising a nanocomposite material. The present invention also provides methods of ink jet printing ...
7369100 Display system and method with multi-person presentation function  
Display systems, control systems for a display and a method for operating a display are provided in which people are detected a presentation space within which content presented by the display can ...
7365787 Mobile device with integrated camera operations  
A mobile device with an integrated camera responsive to signals from a camera activator. The mobile device includes application programs capable of editing documents. The user triggers the device o...
7365031 Conductive pressure sensitive textile  
A fabric including within its construction a first elongated electrical conductor crossed by a second elongated electrical conductor, the conductors being normally biased apart at a crossover point...
7362320 Electronic device having a light emitting/detecting display screen  
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, media, and arrangements enable the implementation of one or more features in electronic devices that have (e.g., display) screens that are capable of light emission ...
7362315 Apparatus and method for digitizer pen calibration  
A system for calibrating a digitizing pen applies a known actual pen force to a tip of the digitizing pen, infers an indicated pen force from a pen force signal sent by the digitizing pen, and comp...
7362314 Interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software  
An interactive surface for enabling user interaction with software in a computer system via a sensing device, the interactive surface comprising: visual information relating to a drawing fie...
7362313 Touch simulation system and method  
Systems and methods provide for simulating an effective touch on a touch screen sensor. A touch screen sensor includes a first surface, an opposing second surface, and one or more electrodes dispos...
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 ke...
7361860 Integrated touch sensor and light apparatus  
A touch sensor is physically integrated with a light emitting device to provide a switching device with built-in backlighting. In some embodiments, the touch sensor and the light emitting device sh...
7358965 Tapping to create writing  
The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to ind...
7358964 Electromagnetic inductive system with multi-induction loop layout and battery less pointer device and its method for locating the coordinate  
A multi-induction loop layout of an electromagnetic inductive system is disclosed. The multi-induction loop layout of the invention comprises a plurality of inductive loops, one terminal of each in...
7358962 Manipulating association of data with a physical object  
Data elements stored in a computing system and associated with a physical object are reassociated with the same or another physical object. An identifying characteristic presented by the physical o...
7358961 User interface for controlling light emitting diodes  
A LED lighting system ( 100 ) employing a LED light source ( 115 ), a user interface ( 124, 128, 134, 138 ), and a controller ( 112 ). The LED light source ( 115 ) includes a plurality of colored L...
7355620 Digital still camera and user instruction input method  
There is disclosed a digital still camera in which a direction and speed of a tracing operation by user's fingertips on a touch panel are judged and a dynamic image reproduction process is executed...
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 l...
7355594 Optical touch screen arrangement  
An optical touch screen arrangement includes two optical cameras arranged so that their planar fields of view intersect each other in a touch area situated adjacent a display screen operative for d...
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 po...
7355592 Digital resistive type touch panel and fabrication method thereof  
A display device integrated with a touch panel is disclosed, which can use various types of input devices. Thus, in addition to conductive devices, a gloved hand or a non-conductive stylus pen can ...
7353453 Method and system for categorizing data objects with designation tools  
A system and method for categorizing data objects with designation tools. A designation tool is provided for categorizing data in an electronic document. A user may select a designation tool corres...
7352366 Dynamic rendering of ink strokes with transparency  
Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For e...
7352365 Flexible computer input  
The invention relates to a “Flexible Computer Input”, determined from the data from a touch-sensitive input surface for fingertip positions and pressure trigger regions in comparison with a sto...
7352364 Method for toggling between touch control operation modes  
This invention relates to a method for toggling between operation modes of a touch control device, being applied in an electronic data processing device with a touch control device and providing an...
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 actua...
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 acousti...
7352356 Refreshable scanning tactile graphic display for localized sensory stimulation  
Pressure-based refreshable scanning tactile graphic display apparatus and methods are disclosed for localized sensory stimulation. The apparatus include a display array having stimulus points embed...
7352355 Transparent overlay input device  
A transparent overlay input device includes a transparent non-conductive substrate, a plurality of transparent conductive electrode pairs and a transparent non-conductive cover. The plurality of tr...
7352295 Apparatus for and method of inputting alphabets using a reduced keypad  
The invention concerns an apparatus for inputting English alphabets, comprising: a keypad having five buttons of one central button, a left top button, a left bottom button, a right top button and ...
7351340 Methods for providing kidney dialysis equipment and services  
A number of improvements relating to methods and apparatuses for kidney dialysis are disclosed. These include a method providing an apparatus for dialyzing to a consumer, with the apparatus includi...
7348998 Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device  
The method of capturing a digital image for viewing from a stream of digital images on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing a stream of digital images comprised of a plura...
7348967 Touch pad for handheld device  
A media player having a touch pad is disclosed.
7348966 Digital resistive-type touch panel  
A digital resistive-type touch panel includes first and second transparent substrates opposing each other; a plurality of first transparent electrodes extending along a surface of the first transpa...
7348965 Coordinates input apparatus having divided coordinates input surface  
In a coordinates input apparatus having a coordinates input surface that is operated by a coordinates pointer, a pointing mark on a screen being moved in accordance with the operation of the coordi...
7348964 Single-piece top surface display layer and integrated front cover for an electronic device  
A single-piece top surface display and integrated front cover for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the cover comprises a thin, flexible, transparent layer coupled with a supporting structur...
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 A...
7346665 System and method for multilevel government information accessing kiosk with uniform display  
A system and method is provided that allows a user to access life event information. Publicly accessible computer kiosks are provided. An individual user may make selections on the publicly accessi...
7345679 Input control apparatus and input accepting method  
A main control unit accepts an operation of deciding a touched button when the user releases the button on a touch panel in a menu window within a predetermined time period after touching the butto...
7345678 Editing character strings with touchscreen  
A method of editing a character string displayed on a touchscreen with an indicator means. A character string comprising a plurality of characters is displayed on the touchscreen. The character str...
7345677 Method for locating an impact on a surface and device therefor  
Apparatus and methods for locating an impact point on a surface of an object. The object is provided with an acoustic sensor that senses the impact from the acoustic waves that are generated when t...
7345676 Text entry for electronic device  
An electronic device has a touch sensitive surface ( 14 ) for entering text. The text is stored in memory ( 20 ) in a vector graphics format, preferably without carrying out character recognition.
7345675 Apparatus for manipulating an object displayed on a display device by using a touch screen  
Apparatus and a method of operation manipulates the display of an object on the display surface of a display device in accordance with sensing touching contact on a touch panel, superimposed on the...
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 dev...
7343178 Mobile terminal, display switching method of mobile terminal, and recording medium for recording display switching program  
An operator presses an e-mail mode selecting key, and a control unit shifts an e-mail mode from a standby mode. A display device displays a menu selecting screen of an e-mail and the operator there...
7342574 Method and apparatus for inputting information including coordinate data  
A method, computer readable medium, and apparatus for inputting information, including coordinate data, includes: extracting a predetermined object from an image, including a predetermined object a...
7342573 Electrostrictive polymer as a combined haptic-seal actuator  
This invention describes a method for a haptic (tactile) feedback to a user of an electronic device having a touch display (screen) by utilizing an electrostrictive polymer as a combined haptic-sea...

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