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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...
7594050 System and method for recognizing a keystroke in an electronic device  
The invention provides a system and a method of processing keystrokes being entered in an electronic device. The method comprises: monitoring for activation of two or more keys on the device;...
7581047 Usage of keyboard driver in extensible firmware interface for adding new hot keys at firmware level  
A hot key register request is created in an extensible firmware interface application, the hot key register request has a key number and a pointer to a hot key function for the new hot key. The hot...
7568035 Command binding determination and implementation  
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to generating and propagating commands. In aspects, elements of a graphical user interface may include an input binding which associates a...
7539795 Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts both for rapidly accessing web content and application program windows and for establishing context-based user environments  
The invention disclosed herein concerns methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts for use in navigating web content and application program windows. In particular, the methods and...
7519748 Stroke-based data entry device, system, and method  
A data entry system comprising of: an input surface, a limited number of input elements of any shape and positions at the input surface, and a processing device (for detecting a continuous sweeps...
7478182 Keyboard, mouse, and video (KVM) session capture system that stores and can playback portions of live KVM session via forensic capture module  
Keyboard, mouse and video (KVM) capture session architecture that includes command center forensics. That is, redirector hardware (HW) and a command center forensics (CCF) appliance. The redirector...
7477165 Handheld electronic device and method for learning contextual data during disambiguation of text input  
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting...
7464203 Method of validating plurality of data during serial communication using a dual path across a single serial link  
A method and apparatus is provided for validating a plurality of variable data transmitted in an automobile, comprising generating a control copy and a redundant copy of the variable data,...
7441057 System and method for providing character interactive input/output  
A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received...
7427933 Data entry device  
A self-service terminal alphanumeric data entry device comprises a multi-button input device and processing circuitry comprising a letter selector. At least one of the buttons is associated with a...
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...
7356626 Method and device for signal protection  
Method for decreasing the existence of externally detectable revealing signals, so-called {umlaut over (R)}Ö{umlaut over (S)}, from keyboards ( 1 ), e.g. for computers, where the keyboard is fed...
7334067 Programmable controller having reduced control key set  
In some embodiments, a wall-mountable, programmable controller having control keys (e.g., less than eight keys or another small number of keys), a subassembly including circuitry, and a control key...
7299309 Method and apparatus for protocol and code converter  
Apparatus and method for converting protocol and code for use with a Human Interface Device (HID)-compliant keyboard device comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, non-USB interface and a...
7284205 Providing multiple input bindings across device categories  
A commanding system for a computer. The system includes an input module that accepts a plurality of input sequences across multiple input device categories, and a commanding element having a...
7256714 Keyboard with reduced keying ambiguity  
When an array of proximity sensors is used as a keyboard, it can provide an ambiguous output if a user's finger overlaps several keys or if liquid is spilled on the keyboard. This ambiguity is...
7215257 Depression judgment device  
A depression-judgment apparatus which properly judges the ON/OFF of a key switch without being affected by chattering that occur when key switch is turned ON is provided. The depression-judgment...
7209985 Input information processing apparatus, method and program  
There are provided, on the POS device unit side, a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical keys arranged thereon; a screen keyboard comprising a plurality of screen keys arranged and...
7171498 Alphanumeric keyboard input system using a game controller  
An invention is provided for an alphanumeric keyboard input system using a controller, such as a game controller. A plurality of cells is provided, where each cell includes a plurality of...
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...
7164367 Component-based, adaptive stroke-order system  
An efficient and simple approach to encoding ideographic characters as sequences of input strokes or stroke categories is disclosed, wherein: each character is represented by one or more sequences...
7161505 A/D converter with comparators and low-power detection mode for resistive matrix keyboards  
An apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a fast, low power consumption, detection of at least one depressed key in a resistive matrix keyboard. The common contact of each row of a...
7155544 Portable information device capable of processing input data from external device and method thereof  
A portable information device capable of processing data input from an external device and a method thereof. The portable information device has an interfacing unit in connection with the external...
7143213 Attaching services to commanding elements matching command binding if the matching binding is found in either the table of bindings or servicing bindings  
A commanding system for a computer. An input sequence can be received from an input device, and the commanding system can be used to connect the input to an associated action. Commanding can be...
7124218 System and method for providing character interactive input/output  
A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received...
7117279 Keycode page switching apparatus and method for the same  
A keyboard with keycode page switching ability has at least one page switch key. The page switch key is operated to select one keycode page for the keyboard. A driver program of a computer...
7117240 Method and apparatus for launching a web site with non-standard control input device  
A method for launching a web browser application on a user's computer. A browser application is provided on the user's computer that is launchable in response to predetermined browser inputs being...
7010627 Method and apparatus for implementing hot key functions  
An apparatus and method for utilizing software to implement hot key functions without an embedded controller. A keyboard with hot keys, a keyboard encoder and a software driver module utilizes a...
6996641 Apparatus and methods for keyboard data normalization  
Apparatus and methods for keyboard data normalization are disclosed. The example apparatus and methods convert physical location dependent keyboard data into keycap dependent data in a pre-boot...
6972748 J-key input for computer systems  
Information elements such as alphanumeric characters are input into a small computing device having little or no keyboard by operating with a predetermined number of strokes on a multi-directional...
6968215 Portable communication terminal device and character/picture display method  
Disclosed is a portable communication terminal device and a method of displaying characters and picture for enabling every user to swiftly and correctly input desired characters or correct input...
6963984 Computer power supply startup apparatus  
In order to turn on the main power unit, when it is off, of a computer in a turned-off state from a keyboard, power is supplied from an auxiliary power unit to a USB controller on the keyboard unit...
6947031 Data processing apparatus with replacement keyboard  
Data processing apparatus ( 101 and 102 ) configured to receive signals from an input sensor ( 106 ) arranged to duplicate or replace operations of a keyboard, in which the signals correspond to...
6934778 Information processing apparatus and input assisting method for use in the same  
An information processing apparatus is capable of executing functions associated with a plurality of shortcut keys each comprising a combination of an auxiliary key and another key. The apparatus...
6912605 Method and/or apparatus for implementing security in keyboard-computer communication  
A method for altering timing between transmissions of an input device comprising the steps of (A) receiving a plurality of inputs from the input device, (B) altering the timing between the inputs...
6883047 Concurrent asynchronous USB data stream destuffer with variable width bit-wise memory controller  
A concurrent asynchronous USB 2.0 data stream destuffer and separator with variable-width bit-wise memory controller is described. A parallel stream bit destuffer module identifies in parallel one...
6874038 Attribute reporting over a PS/2 protocol  
Reporting an attribute of a device via PS/2 protocols to a host executing an industry standard PS/2 port driver that does not include explicitly recognize the attribute. For example, a wireless...
6850174 Method and apparatus for recognizing key  
A method is provided for recognizing a key in a terminal apparatus having a key matrix structure. The method according to the invention includes the steps of recognizing pushing of and detaching...
6839781 Wireless keyboard and information processing device having the same  
A wireless keyboard has a transmitting and receiving portion 12 for transmitting an input data D to an information processing device 2 and receiving a reception level from the information...
6803857 Remote control system  
A controller has means responsive to a continuous press of a continuously operable key to transmit, to an electronic device, a key command indicative of a type of the pressed key, and means for...
6801955 System and method for automatically selecting a digital sending functionality  
Systems and methods for automatically selecting digital sending functionality are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving input of a character, determining the nature of the...
6772236 System for conveying an attribute of a device not explicitly recognized by a PS/2 communication protocol and without requiring modification of the protocol  
Reporting an attribute of a device via PS/2 protocols to a host executing an industry standard PS/2 port driver that does not include means to recognize the attribute. For example, a wireless mouse...
6766392 Electronic apparatus, control circuit for electronic apparatus, and method of controlling electronic apparatus  
The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus, a control circuit of an electronic apparatus, and a method of controlling an electronic apparatus that change different states by a...
6751688 Method and apparatus for safe CT scanner button presses  
The present invention is, in one embodiment, a method for efficiently and reliably communicating button presses electronically on a network from one or more push button nodes each having at least...
6748468 Caps lock notification  
A Caps Lock notification method, system, mechanism, algorithm, and computer program product. A determination is made as to whether a Caps Lock key of a computer keyboard is in an error state, based...
6725318 Automated selection between a USB and PS/2 interface for connecting a keyboard to a computer  
A keyboard selectively operable to convey data to and from a host or personal computer (PC) through a universal serial bus (USB) port and/or a personal system/2 (PS/2) port. The keyboard is...
6711637 Communication apparatus, image processing apparatus, communication system, communication method, image processing method and storage medium  
For providing a communication system capable of easily and efficiently confirming information present in another device and easily and efficiently selecting desired information from such...
6711634 System and method of transmitting keystroke information to a client terminal  
Disclosed herein are a system and method for using a remote terminal to control processes executing on a client terminal by transmitting data to the client terminal emulating keystroke inputs at...
6643721 Input device-adaptive human-computer interface  
A computer user interface and method for its operation are disclosed. The interface uses a new architecture that allows it to adapt readily to the type of input device being used to operate the...
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