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7567241 |
Stylus with customizable appearance
A stylus comprising: an elongate chassis molding; a nib at one end of the chassis molding; and, an elongate cover molding for close-fitting engagement with the chassis molding; such that, the cover...
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7545366 |
Portable electronic device, method of controlling input operation, and program for controlling input operation
Disclosed herein is a portable electronic device including an operation surface for inputting an operating action of a user, detecting means for detecting the coordinates of a point of contact of a...
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7532206 |
System and method for differentiating between pointers used to contact touch surface
A touch system comprises a touch surface and at least one camera acquiring images of the touch surface. A pointer contact data generator generates pointer position data in response to pointer...
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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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7397465 |
Coordinate input control method
A coordinate input control method is used in a display-integrated coordinate input apparatus which includes a display having thereon a first area and a second area, and a single coordinate-input...
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7396178 |
Universal pen with optical, position and/or motion sensors
A pen for marking a visible path on a surface. The pen has a marking device adapted to change one or more attributes of the visible path, and a sensing device having at least one of a position...
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7394450 |
Display control device and method, and display system
A display control device executes different types of control according to a case wherein a screen region has been set with a display device and a case wherein a screen region has not been set with...
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7385595 |
Electronic pen and method for recording of handwritten information
An electronic pen for recording of handwritten or hand-drawn information has a control unit and a memory. The control unit registers pen movements across at least one base, stores a plurality of...
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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...
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7342572 |
System and method for transforming an ordinary computer monitor into a touch screen
A system and method for turning a regular computer monitor screen into a touch screen using an ordinary camera. It includes an image-screen mapping procedure to correct for the non-flatness of the...
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7330605 |
Decoding and error correction in 2-D arrays
A system and process for determining the location of a captured image from a larger image is described. A non-repeating sequence may be folded into a non-repeating array in which the array is...
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7302350 |
Selection of software and hardware functions with a force/torque sensor
A force-moment sensor ( 1 ) is used as a switch, with which, depending on the introduction of forces and moments onto an operating part ( 5 ) of the force-moment sensor ( 1 ), software or hardware...
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7298367 |
Light emitting stylus and user input device using same
The present invention provides a user input device that includes and array of light detectors and a light emitting stylus configured to emit a beam of light detectable by the light detectors. The...
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7286113 |
Method and system for user registration
A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the...
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7256773 |
Detection of a dwell gesture by examining parameters associated with pen motion
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are used to determine whether specific electronic pen gestures with respect to pen-based computing systems should be processed as “press-and-hold”...
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7227527 |
Handwritten text capture via interface surface and processing sensor
A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system via an interface surface and a sensing device. The interface surface contains information...
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7216224 |
Method and system for user registration using processing sensor
A method and system for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system. The method includes providing a printed registration form containing information relating to user registration, the...
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7180510 |
Pointed position detection device and pointed position detection method
A field sequential color projector includes an area sensor unit having an area sensor for photographing a screen, and an optical filter for permitting only a red light having the same color as a...
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7180509 |
Electronic pen, mounting part therefor and method of making the pen
An electronic pen comprises a writing means ( 7 ) which extends into the interior of the pen, a guiding element ( 9 ) for the writing means ( 7 ), a sensor ( 15 a ) for recording images and an...
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7176906 |
Method of generating digital ink thickness information
A method and system that converts ballistic movement of a pen (e.g., movement of a pen point across a surface) into thickness information for digital ink data. The pen includes at least one...
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7176890 |
Projection-type display device and software program
A projection surface on which a predetermined projection image is projected is provided; a writing surface on which an image can be drawn directly in a superimposing manner with a projection image...
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7176881 |
Presentation system, material presenting device, and photographing device for presentation
A presentation system comprises a display for setting a virtual screen, a pointing mark for operating a point on the display, a photographing device for photographing the pointing mark and the...
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7173608 |
Bluetooth-enabled pen
The method and system of the present invention allows a user to make notes on a paper book, where the information is transmitted to and overlaid on an online electronic duplicate of the book...
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7170009 |
Method of interfacing a remote wand to electronics control chassis
A method is provided for interfacing a remote wand to its electronics control chassis by means of a coiled cable. The wand may consist of a sensor such as a light-sensitive detector, and the...
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7142198 |
Method and apparatus for remote pointing
A remote pointing apparatus including a remote control that generates an optical signal that is periodically expanded and/or reduced around the origin and an optical sensor that detects whether the...
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7116316 |
Audible and visual effects as a result of adaptive tablet scanning
One aspect of the invention involves a writing tablet comprising a housing having a writing surface and internal logic placed within the housing and situated below the writing surface. The internal...
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7105752 |
Method and apparatus for avoiding pressing inaccuracies on a touch panel
A method and apparatus for avoiding pressing inaccuracies on a touch panel. The touch panel includes a panel, a control module having an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a delay buffer, and a...
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7095909 |
Light pen system and method
System and method for forming an operator controlled image on a video display screen with a light sensing pen. The pen is moved relative to the screen to provide a signal corresponding to the...
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6985138 |
Input writing device
A writing stylus ( 100 ) having a motion sensor ( 204 ) for sensing the movement of at least one end 110 of the stylus relative to an adjacent surface is described. The stylus has an elongated...
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6965384 |
In-situ digital inking for applications
A digital ink environment is provided for non-native ink application programs to create independent ink services for sharing between different application programs and transmission. The digital ink...
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6947032 |
Touch system and method for determining pointer contacts on a touch surface
A system and method for determining pointer contacts on a touch surface includes a touch surface to be contacted by a pointer. At least one imaging device having a field of view looks generally...
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6914595 |
Digitizing apparatus
Graphics are drawn with an input pen, which is provided with an optical sensor at its tip, on a display surface of an EL display. At this time, the EL display is caused to emit light in dot...
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6906699 |
Input unit, method for using the same and input system
An input unit has a mouse function and at least one inputting function. The input unit comprises image-recording means ( 8 ) which record images. These images are used for providing both the mouse...
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6894716 |
Method and apparatus for identifying a position of a predetermined object in free space using a video image
A method and apparatus is disclosed for identifying a position of an object in free space using a video image wherein the object is comprised of at least three equidistantly spaced, co-linear...
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6885878 |
Method and system for using an electronic reading device as a general application input and navigation interface
A method and system for controlling an electronic device uses a reading device and a specially formatted surface. The specially formatted surface includes a predefined address pattern and at least...
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6862037 |
Image transmitting ball-point pen
An image transmitting ball-point pen mainly consists of a battery compartment, a lower body, an extension tube and a tapered cap located at the terminal end of the extension tube which serves to...
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6839049 |
Physically interacting with a processor-based display
A physical element may be caused to appear to interact with an image displayed on a computer display screen. The position of the element with respect to the display screen may be determined...
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6813558 |
Method and system for route planning
The present invention provides method of enabling a user to plan a route using a computer system, the method including the steps of: printing a map of a geographic area, the map including coded...
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6813039 |
Method and system for accessing the internet
A method and system for interacting with computers by means of printed matter and sensing devices. The method includes providing a document with printed information relating to an Internet...
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6801967 |
Wireless mouse unit, wireless mouse and receiver
A wireless mouse unit has a wireless mouse generating signals for moving a cursor across a display screen, a rechargeable secondary battery cell built into the wireless mouse, and a receiver for...
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6789191 |
Interactive device network registration protocol
In a network connected to an interactive device and a registration server, a protocol for registering the interactive device with the registration server, including the steps of: installing a...
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6773177 |
Method and system for position-aware freeform printing within a position-sensed area
A method and system for position-aware freeform printing in which a source image space in a source medium and a target image space in a target medium are specified. A selected image in the source...
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6766066 |
Detection of pointed position using image processing
The present invention provides a technique that detects a pointing position, which is pointed with a pointing device having a light emitter, in a display image with a higher accuracy. A pointing...
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6734843 |
Reduced noise touch screen apparatus and method
A touch screen having a high or fine resolution at relatively low cost is provided. In one embodiment, electrodes are placed directly on the surface of a CRT screen without the need for an...
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6727892 |
Method of facilitating the selection of features at edges of computer touch screens
In one embodiment of the invention, a hot spot is normally centered in an area of contact between a user's finger and a touch screen to position the hot spot on an icon or other feature thereby...
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6686579 |
Digital pen using speckle tracking
A digital pen that has an ink writing tip includes a laser on a pen body that directs light toward paper across which the writing tip is stroked. A CMOS camera or CCD is also mounted on the pen...
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6661406 |
Touch panel coordinate rotation device
A touch panel coordinate rotation device is provided in a touch panel device that includes a touch panel provided on the image plane of a display device and a coordinate detecting device for...
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6657618 |
Optical memory unit for capturing complete analog motion
A device is provided for capturing complete analog motion, rather than digital events. A beam of columnated light, generated from a laser emitting diode, it directed at a clear, rotatable ball...
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6643346 |
Frequency detection circuit for clock recovery
A frequency detector is configured to provide reliable acquisition by a clock recovery and data regeneration circuit. A preferred frequency detector utilizes the output characteristics of a phase...
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6640007 |
Electronic writing implement and method of electronic writing
An electronic seal stamp and an electronic sheet are used. The electronic seal stamp has a stamp surface, and has a storing function and output function for electronic information. The electronic...
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