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7148879 |
Bioacoustic control system, method and apparatus
Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as a wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal, laptops and personal digital as...
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6771294 |
User interface
The invention relates to a method of using a portable mobile communication device such as mediaphone. In the method, an image of a hand of the user is made and the natural partition of the hand is ...
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6266057 |
Information processing system
An information processing system includes a desk with a planar display unit which also accommodates physical objects to be manipulated by the operator. The physical objects are representative of ph...
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6222465 |
Gesture-based computer interface
A system and method for manipulating virtual objects in a virtual environment, for drawing curves and ribbons in the virtual environment, and for selecting and executing commands for creating, dele...
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6215498 |
Virtual command post
A system of networked terminal apparatus for creating a three dimensional animated work environment wherein terminal users of various levels of immersion are depicted as avatars in the virtual work...
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6160899 |
Method of application menu selection and activation using image cognition
A method for selecting and activating a particular menu displayed in a client's region of a monitor screen by use of an image cognition is disclosed. Using an image-capturing device such as a camer...
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6147678 |
Video hand image-three-dimensional computer interface with multiple degrees of freedom
A video gesture-based three-dimensional computer interface system that uses images of hand gestures to control a computer and that tracks motion of the user's hand or a portion thereof in a three-d...
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6067079 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A method, memory, and apparatus, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, for creating a virtual pointing device. The method includes the steps of displaying a non-activated virtual po...
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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 corresp...
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5953693 |
Sign language generation apparatus and sign language translation apparatus
A sign language interpretation apparatus for performing sign language recognition and sign language generation generates easily read sign language computer graphics (CG) animation by preparing sign...
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5933134 |
Touch screen virtual pointing device which goes into a translucent hibernation state when not in use
A method, memory, and apparatus directing a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a hibernatable virtual pointing device. The method includes the steps of...
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5917490 |
Interactive information processing system responsive to user manipulation of physical objects and displayed images
An information processing system and method using a file storage unit which stores electronic information and a display unit which displays the electronic information. A discrimination unit discrim...
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5900869 |
Information processor system allowing multi-user editing
An information processor system includes a control unit for controlling the entire system mainly formed of a CPU, a display for displaying image data to be edited, a keyboard for entering various i...
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5874948 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for directing a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a virtual pointing device on the touchscreen for exe...
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5872559 |
Breakaway and re-grow touchscreen pointing device
An apparatus, method, and memory direct a computer system, having at least a touchscreen, to breakaway and re-grow one or more portions of a virtual pointing device. The method includes displaying ...
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5870083 |
Breakaway touchscreen pointing device
An apparatus, method, and memory direct a computer system, having at least a touchscreen, to breakaway at least a portion of a virtual pointing device. The method includes displaying a virtual poin...
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5864635 |
Distinguishing gestures from handwriting in a pen based computer by stroke analysis
Pre-recognition analysis on stroke characteristics such as the count, size and position of each stroke in real-time as it is drawn improves recognition accuracy. After each stroke, the set of strok...
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5862256 |
Distinguishing gestures from handwriting in a pen based computer by size discrimination
To distinguish between gestures and handwriting, the pen subsystem examines the size of the user's writing. The user may set the gesture versus text size according to his/her handwriting style. In ...
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5856824 |
Reshapable pointing device for touchscreens
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a reshapable pointing device. The method includes the steps...
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5835079 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A computer system, article of manufacture, and method direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a virtual pointing device. The method includes the st...
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5831584 |
Hand calibration system and virtual display selection for vehicle simulator
A virtual reality vehicle simulator has a seat for supporting a person in a sitting position. The person wears goggles that present to the person an image of a virtual vehicle, as well as a virtual...
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5812118 |
Method, apparatus, and memory for creating at least two virtual pointing devices
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture directing a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create at least two virtual pointing devices. The method includ...
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5808605 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A computer system, article of manufacture, and method direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a virtual pointing device. The method includes the st...
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5801707 |
Method and apparatus for displaying hierarchical data associated with components of a system
A method of displaying hierarchical data. The method includes the steps of: retrieving hierarchical network data and displaying the hierarchical network data using a perspective three dimensional v...
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5796395 |
System for publishing and searching interests of individuals
A method for publishing and searching interests of individuals, the method including providing a memory bearing software for performing the following: providing to a user a request for data by prov...
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5790104 |
Multiple, moveable, customizable virtual pointing devices
An apparatus, method, and memory direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create multiple, moveable virtual pointing devices. The method includes the steps...
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5784056 |
System and method for temporally varying pointer icons
A system and method for computer operation. An object to be pointed to in a user's computer display (109) is indicated with an animated pointer icon (113). In a computer network, such as the Worldw...
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5764222 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a virtual pointing device on the touchscreen. The method in...
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5748184 |
Virtual pointing device for touchscreens
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture direct a computer system, having at least a processor, memory, and touchscreen, to create a virtual pointing device on the touchscreen. The method in...
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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 infor...
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5732227 |
Interactive information processing system responsive to user manipulation of physical objects and displayed images
An information processing system includes a desk with a planar display unit which also accommodates physical objects to be manipulated by the operator. The physical objects are representative of ph...
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5714698 |
Gesture input method and apparatus
A gesture input apparatus comprises: a plurality of multiaxis angular velocity sensors or multiaxis acceleration sensors respectively for detecting multiaxis angular velocities or multiaxis acceler...
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5590256 |
Method for manipulating notes on a computer display
A method for manipulating notes on a screen of a computer display is provided. Each note area may include graphical, text, and data objects. An initial note area is provided with a header bar which...
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5588104 |
Method and apparatus for creating virtual worlds using a data flow network
A computer display displays a data flow network as a plurality of interconnected units. An interactive program allows the appearance of the plurality of interconnected units to be changed. The data...
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5563996 |
Computer note pad including gesture based note division tools and method
A method for manipulating notes on a screen of a computer display characterized by: (a) generating an initial note area; (b) dividing the initial note area into a plurality of note areas in respons...
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5563988 |
Method and system for facilitating wireless, full-body, real-time user interaction with a digitally represented visual environment
An electronic system for integrating a user's moving image into a computer-generated pictorial environment, and allowing the user to interact with the environment and objects therein. The environme...
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5561811 |
Method and apparatus for per-user customization of applications shared by a plurality of users on a single display
A multi-user multi-device system enables a plurality of users to control a single screen. Each user has one or more input devices, which can be used to control one or more stored applications. At a...
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5426436 |
Radar apparatus
A marine radar has a screen on which is displayed a radar image and several representations of the different control functions of the radar such as range, gain and sea clutter setting. The radar al...
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5398310 |
Pointing gesture based computer note pad paging and scrolling interface
A method for manipulating notes on a screen of a computer display is provided. Each note area may include graphical, text, and data objects. An initial note area is provided with a header bar which...
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5379374 |
Collaborative information processing system and workstation
In a collaborative information processing system including a plurality of terminals each having a multiwindow function and each being connected to the other terminal via a network, each terminal in...
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