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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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