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7176888 Selective engagement of motion detection  
A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the...
7176886 Spatial signatures  
A handheld device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and a memory maintaining a spatial signature comprising a particular movement of...
7174031 Methods for using wireless phones having optical capabilities  
A wireless phone is equipped with a 2D optical sensor, enabling a variety of applications. For example, such a phone may also be provided with a digital watermark decoder, permitting decoding of...
7173604 Gesture identification of controlled devices  
A handheld device includes a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures, each gesture defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the handheld device. The...
7167165 Temporary lines for writing  
A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in neatly and accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user...
7159194 Orientation dependent functionality of an electronic device  
An electronic device is provided that includes a housing, a plurality of modules, a sensor and a selection mechanism. The housing has multiple housing segments, with each segment housing one of the...
7137077 Freeform encounter selection tool  
A freeform selection tool for a computer system with a graphical user interface allows a user to draw a freeform selection path so as to select one or more graphical objects. The user is provided...
7137076 Correcting recognition results associated with user input  
Recognition results associated with handwritten electronic ink, voice recognition results or other forms of user input can be corrected by designating at least a portion of a visual display....
7131067 Method and apparatus for editing and processing a document using a printer driver  
A printing image forming apparatus in which a printer driver is installed. The printer driver forms a space in an image of an original document to be printed in which a note is inserted. An...
7129927 Gesture recognition system  
A gesture recognition system includes: elements for detecting and generating a signal corresponding a number of markers arranged on an object, elements for processing the signal from the detecting...
7126579 Method for requesting destination information and for navigating in a map view, computer program product and navigation unit  
A method for querying target information within a card view ( 15 ) is disclosed wherein a three-dimensional object ( 151 ) is selected on the basis of a user input and data ( 152 ) linked thereto...
7120880 Method and system for real-time determination of a subject's interest level to media content  
A system and method for unobtrusively detecting a subject's level of interest in media content, includes detecting to what a subject is attending, measuring a subject's relative arousal level; and...
7113170 Method and terminal for entering instructions  
Method with which users ( 1 ) enter instructions, in which said instructions are entered with sequences of voluntary movements of eye parts, the sequence required for entering a certain instruction...
7099894 Multimedia information collection control apparatus and method  
In a multimedia information collection control apparatus, a multimedia information collection unit collects information from more than one kind of medium (multimedia). A multimedia correspondence...
7098896 System and method for continuous stroke word-based text input  
A method and system of inputting alphabetic text having a virtual keyboard on a touch sensitive screen. The virtual keyboard includes a set of keys where an each letter of alphabet is associated...
7096432 Write anywhere tool  
A transparent graphical user interface that overlays the user interfaces of other applications. The transparent user interface receives handwriting input and displays handwriting objects...
7095401 System and method for gesture interface  
A method for determining a gesture includes determining a change in a background of an image from a plurality of images, determining a object in the image, determining a trajectory of the object...
7093202 Method and system for interpreting imprecise object selection paths  
A graphical input and display system having a user interface for selecting and creating image object elements includes input devices permitting a user to manipulate elements of electronic images. A...
7090358 System, apparatus and method of displaying information for foveal vision and peripheral vision  
A system, apparatus and method of displaying information for foveal vision and peripheral vision are provided. The system, apparatus and method generate a composite display image fully viewable...
7088344 Data processor, I/O device, touch panel controlling method, recording medium, and program transmitter  
Provides control movement of a display area to an image displayed outside a display screen by means of a touch operation using a touch panel in such a general-purpose environment as a desk-top...
7088340 Touch-type key input apparatus  
A touch press key inputting device includes: a plurality of character keys 21˜32 with at least 2 characters displayed on the surface of each key; an input judging means 72 for sensing the...
7086013 Method and system for overloading loop selection commands in a system for selecting and arranging visible material in document images  
A graphical input and display system having a user interface for selecting object(s) to be operated on by the system includes input devices permitting a user to select and establish image object(s)...
7082578 Computer user interface using a physical manipulatory grammar  
A method for inputting information to a device connected to a deformable piece includes the steps of manipulating the deformable piece to provide a first morpheme input to the device. The first...
7071914 User input device and method for interaction with graphic images  
A device and method for effecting movement, responsive to user input, of an object on a graphical display are disclosed. An input device comprises a component for capturing video images, an input...
7065718 System and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface  
A system and method for configuring time related settings using a graphical interface is presented. A user is able to configure a time-of-day and select a time zone on an electronic device using a...
7058204 Multiple camera control system  
A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program running on a computer is provided. The tracking system includes two or more video cameras arranged to provide different...
7057616 Using constrained optimization in curve editing  
A curve may be reshaped by determining new locations for its control points that minimize some measure of the change in the curve (typically, the “energy” of the change), while meeting the...
7055110 Common on-screen zone for menu activation and stroke input  
A common on-screen zone provides two or more methods of activating a command. The user can perform a first action, such as a stroke or gesture within the zone to activate a command according to one...
7047503 Method and apparatus for the selection of records  
An improved method and system for record selection. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention interprets the “gesture” of swiping the pen horizontally across a line-item of a record...
7036094 Behavior recognition system  
A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in...
7032187 Pen-based interface for a notepad computer  
A notepad computer is disclosed with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen. Associated with the page is an interface useable with the pen...
7028269 Multi-modal video target acquisition and re-direction system and method  
The present invention relates generally to the field of video-camera systems, such as a video conferencing systems, and more particularly to video camera targeting systems that locate and acquire...
7027038 System and method for locating on a physical document items referenced in another physical document  
The present invention generally relates to interactive hypermedia systems and more particularly to a method and system for locating on a physical document items referenced in another physical...
7017124 Method for controlling electronic devices using digital recall tool  
In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a tool for storing and recalling elements displayed on the screen enables a user to draw a simple diagonal...
7007241 Display device with a focus buoy facility  
Data processing system comprising at least a processing unit executing simultaneously a number of application programs, a memory for storing the application programs, a display subsystem for...
7000200 Gesture recognition system recognizing gestures within a specified timing  
Gesture recognition in which timing data is used to temporally segment video data into video clips. The timing data can be beat data extracted from an audio signal.
6996460 Method and apparatus for providing virtual touch interaction in the drive-thru  
The present invention is a method and apparatus for providing an enhanced automatic drive-thru experience to the customers in a vehicle by allowing use of natural hand gestures to interact with...
6993157 Dynamic image processing method and device and medium  
A motion image processing method and device for authenticating a user using a specific device, using motion information of an object. Time series monochrome images, obtained by photographing an...
6990639 System and process for controlling electronic components in a ubiquitous computing environment using multimodal integration  
The present invention is directed toward a system and process that controls a group of networked electronic components using a multimodal integration scheme in which inputs from a speech...
6981229 System for dynamically mapping input device movement as a user's viewpoint changes  
The present invention is directed to a two-handed input control system that dynamically changes an input-to-object mapping for mapping movement of a graphical object on a display of a virtual scene...
6980202 Method and system for creating and accessing hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document  
A method of creating hyperlinks from annotations relating to a physical document comprises the steps of receiving a digitized handwritten annotation created with a stylus on a transparent...
6977645 Portable electronic device with mouse-like capabilities  
A portable electronic device includes a menu display having a plurality of menu items, and a menu item pointer movable by a user to highlight particular menu items. The portable electronic device...
6964022 Electronic board system  
An electronic board system includes an electronic board having a screen for displaying information of interest to a work group or community, an input device for receiving information from users in...
6961912 Feedback mechanism for use with visual selection methods  
A feedback mechanism usable with graphical user interface systems that do not have a cursor improves the usefulness of such graphical user interfaces. Locating, identifying and/or selecting...
6959423 Stateful ad hoc check box selection  
A method for stateful toggling of check box status, implemented as a software program installed and operating on a computer comprising a computer processor coupled to computer memory. Embodiments...
6952803 Method and system for transcribing and editing using a structured freeform editor  
A system and method for editing and transcribing using a structured freeform editor is provided. The method implemented in the system includes interpreting structure of freeform graphic elements...
6941507 Insertion point bungee space tool  
A computer system and method for providing user feedback when creating, modifying, or editing electronic documents. An insertion point icon is placed in a document at a position for insertion...
6938222 Ink gestures  
A system and process for capturing and implementing handwritten gestures is described. A user may use gestures to quickly command a pen-based input device to perform operations. Using the described...
6938221 User interface for stylus-based user input  
A stylus user interface for a computer system having a display is disclosed. The user interface receives stylus-based user input. Responsive to receiving the user input, the user interface displays...
6938220 Information processing apparatus  
An information processing apparatus obtains a distance that an input pen is moved in terms of the number of dots covered on a display screen, and from that number, judges whether a pen stroke is a...
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