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6075895 Methods and apparatus for gesture recognition based on templates  
An apparatus and a method for recognizing the gesture of the image of a player by identifying a gesture from a set of specific pre-defined gestures. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps...
6067073 Electronic graphic system  
An electronic graphic system comprises an image store for storing data defining an image, a brush store for storing data defining a drawing implement and a stylus and touch tablet for inputting...
6057845 System, method, and apparatus for generation and recognizing universal commands  
A universal command generator that generates commands that are recognizable by multiple contexts, where the universal command libraries are loaded automatically and dynamically as the user switches...
6054990 Computer system with handwriting annotation  
The present invention provides a graphical data entry system for accepting and processing hand sketches and writings such that the user can quickly specify graphical objects in a drawing on a...
6043805 Controlling method for inputting messages to a computer  
A controlling method for inputting messages to a computer, in which by the object, such as a hand, on the background of the capturing section of a video camera, the following parameters is set up...
6037937 Navigation tool for graphical user interface  
The system and method consistent with the present invention provides improved graphical navigation tool for electronic devices. The graphical navigation tools may be used to navigate through...
6018346 Freeform graphics system having meeting objects for supporting meeting objectives  
Meeting support objects for supporting meeting objectives for use in a freeform graphics system. Meeting support objects are representations of dynamic information that is used to support various...
6002395 System and method for building, testing and integrating a graphical touch user interface  
A builder, tester, and runtime integration system and method for a graphical touch user interface, such as a point-of-sale (POS) touch screen interface system, is provided. The system and method...
6002808 Hand gesture control system  
A system is provided for rapidly recognizing hand gestures for the control of computer graphics, in which image moment calculations are utilized to determine an overall equivalent rectangle...
5995079 Method for controlling a variable of a dialog box with cursor movement  
A user interface receives user input representative of movement of a mouse pointer relative to a datum point. This datum point is established as a origin with four quadrants. The movement is...
5990893 Data input device and method  
An object displayed in a picture can be designated by the operator, without use of any additional device for inputting data other than position data. Position data of a pointer for designating any...
5923323 Method and apparatus for organizing and displaying long lists of data items on a work space of a computer controlled display system  
A computer controlled display system for defining flow regions. A flow region enables a user to view long lists of data items on the work surface of a graphical display system. In a flow region, a...
5917493 Method and apparatus for randomly generating information for subsequent correlating  
A method and apparatus for manipulating data entries on a screen of a computer display is provided. Random data entries are allowed on pages of a dedicated application program in real time. A...
5914718 Method and apparatus for organizing a work space for a computer controlled display system using borders and regions  
A method and apparatus for organizing a workspace of a graphical input system that utilizes borders to define regions within the workspace. The present invention addresses the problem of...
5907328 Automatic and configurable viewpoint switching in a 3D scene  
A method and apparatus for automatically changing a user's avatar's displayed view perspective in a virtual world upon execution of a gesture by the avatar, and in which the view perspective is...
5889523 Method and apparatus for dynamically grouping a plurality of graphic objects  
When dynamically grouping a plurality of graphic objects, such as displayed on a graphic input display apparatus, a cluster tree is formed for the plurality of graphic objects. The cluster tree is...
5880743 Apparatus and method for implementing visual animation illustrating results of interactive editing operations  
An apparatus and method for animating editing changes on a display device is provided. The invention is designed to operate preferably with a graphical editing system that permits both handwritten...
5867150 Graphic indexing system  
A method and apparatus for selecting and indexing stored information for subsequent retrieval. The indexing system of the present invention indexes pages by storing a reference to a graphic segment...
5861886 Method and apparatus for grouping graphic objects on a computer based system having a graphical user interface  
A system for creating and manipulating groups of graphic objects using enclosures. A persistent graphic object, such as a closed loop is drawn around a set of graphic objects as an enclosure. When...
5859642 Virtual button interface  
An apparatus and method of issuing commands to a computer by a user interfacing with a virtual reality environment. To issue a command, the user directs gaze at a virtual button within the virtual...
5838326 System for moving document objects in a 3-D workspace  
A three dimensional document workspace for interacting with large numbers of document objects. A document object may be a document or a document collection. The document workspace is divided...
5821930 Method and system for generating a working window in a computer system  
A method and system for generating a working window on a video monitor in a computer system is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining if a user has performed a first predetermined...
5809267 Apparatus and method for executing multiple-concatenated command gestures in a gesture based input system  
A graphical editing system is provided which allows a user to draw number of commonly used gestures called primitive command gestures together in essentially one stroke. The primitive gestures are...
5805167 Popup menus with directional gestures  
A method and apparatus for using directional gestures in popup menus to enter data into and control a computer system. A popup menu contains a number of items represented by images or labels...
5802388 System and method for correction and confirmation dialog for hand printed character input to a data processing system  
A data processing system corrects handprinted character input represented as a sequence of points described by a writing path of a pointing device. The system receives a writing path signal from a...
5801704 Three-dimensional input device with displayed legend and shape-changing cursor  
In an image processing apparatus for performing image processing of a processed object by displaying the processed object and an operating cursor on an image display device, and by operating the...
5798758 Gesture-based data processing method and apparatus  
The invention aims to provide a data input method and apparatus with improved operations capable of reusing previously input gestures with simple operations. The invention aims to improve the...
5798752 User interface having simultaneously movable tools and cursor  
A user interface technique operates in the environment of a processor-controlled machine for executing a program that operates on a set of underlying data and displays a visible representation...
5796406 Gesture-based input 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...
5784061 Method and apparatus for collapsing and expanding selected regions on a work space of a computer controlled display system  
A method and apparatus for representing a group of graphic objects so as to maximize usage of a display area on a computer controlled graphics display system. The present invention provides a means...
5784504 Disambiguating input strokes of a stylus-based input devices for gesture or character recognition  
An apparatus and method in a tablet computer for disambiguating a handwriting input stream generated by a stylus-based user interface. A tablet application program interface (TAPI) of the present...
5781662 Information processing apparatus and method therefor  
Handwritten/input stroke data is compared with a gesture dictionary. If the data coincides with a specific gesture, it is checked whether the gesture is completed, and the stroke data is stored....
5778404 String inserter for pen-based computer systems and method for providing same  
A string inserter for a computer system having a graphical user interface and a pointer capable of interacting with a graphical user interface includes an insertion marker, an insertion initiater,...
5772342 Tape printing apparatus capable of inputting and printing graphics  
After an input width setting mode has been entered by operating an input width set switch, an upper-end position and a lower-end position of an input width are set by an input pen to define an...
5751843 Method for detecting the spatial position and rotational position of suitably marked objects in digital image sequences  
The images of an image sequence are put into binary form by applying a threshold value operation. The moments of the individual segments of each individual binary image of the binary image sequence...
5748956 Method and system for managing multimedia assets for proper deployment on interactive networks  
A method is disclosed for automatically managing multimedia assets for use in a multimedia application. The method includes the step of storing a plurality of multimedia asset data files in the...
5745110 Method and apparatus for arranging and displaying task schedule information in a calendar view format  
Method and apparatus for quickly arranging task schedule information in a calendar view format using internal caches and configurable, moveable task bars. The internal caches dramatically improve...
5745116 Intuitive gesture-based graphical user interface  
A user performs a manual selection or a gesture selection of a screen object (210, 220, 230) on a screen (150) of an electronic device (100) using a pointing device (190). After a manual selection,...
5745719 Commands functions invoked from movement of a control input device  
A method for expanding the command capabilities of pointing devices based on periodically sampling a cursor's position on a display device and analyzing the time-variation of a cursor-heading...
5734882 Pictographic bitmap naming of files in pen-based computer systems  
A system and method for storage and retrieval of pictographic images as computer file names. Upon generation of an input image, the computer saves the image and extracted spatial and temporal...
5689667 Methods and system of controlling menus with radial and linear portions  
A system that combines a radial marking menu portion with a linear menu portion in a single menu display. Item selection in the linear portion is performed by location selection using a pointing...
5684715 Interactive video system with dynamic video object descriptors  
An interactive video system by which an operator is able to select an object moving in a video sequence and by which the interactive video system is notified which object was selected so as to take...
5680527 Information processing system having recognized pattern control  
An information processing system has a memory to store information, a display device such as an LCD to display the information, as an image, stored in the memory, and a pattern input device such as...
5670987 Virtual manipulating apparatus and method  
A manipulation target such as a lever or button is displayed in a three-dimensional virtual space using three-dimensional computer graphics. The positions of a thumb and an index finger are...
5652849 Apparatus and method for remote control using a visual information stream  
Systems and methods for controlling devices remotely by embedding command information within video signals. The command information includes gestures or icons which are imbedded into the video...
5644628 telecommunications terminal interface for control by predetermined gestures  
A telecommunications terminal is to be provided which is easy to operate. According to the invention, a large-area touch-sensitive input-output unit with handwriting and graphics recognition is...
5636297 Method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment  
A method and system for recognizing a graphic object's shape, line style, and fill pattern in a pen environment are provided. In a preferred embodiment, a user draws a graphic object on an...
5600777 Method and system for spatial accessing of time-based information  
A method and system for permitting a user to spatially access and playback time-based information having a plurality of segments. Each of the plurality of segments are mapped to a corresponding one...
5596698 Method and apparatus for recognizing handwritten inputs in a computerized teaching system  
A pen-based teaching system recognizes handwritten input. The system comprises a display simulating a sheet of paper, and a stylus simulating a pen. The system uses handwriting recognition to...
5596697 Method for routing items within a computer system  
A method and apparatus are provided for routing information with a pointer-based computer such as a pen-based computer. The routing actions may be faxing, printing, mailing (electronically), and...
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