Patents by Inventor Albert Yiu-So Shum

Albert Yiu-So Shum has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8274484
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method is adapted to tracking input with a device. The method includes an act of monitoring and acts of activating and displaying if a touch input is detected. The device has a first side and a second side, with the second side opposite the first side. The device has a display screen disposed on the first side, and a screen-reflective interface disposed on the second side. Respective positions on the screen-reflective interface correspond to respective locations of the display screen. The screen-reflective interface of the device is monitored. If a touch input is detected on the screen-reflective interface, the device performs acts of activating and displaying. Specifically, a tracking state is activated for the screen-reflective interface responsive to the detected touch input on the screen-reflective interface. The interface icon is displayed on the display screen to indicate that the tracking state has been activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick M. Baudisch, Georg F. Petschnigg, David H. Wykes, Albert Yiu-So Shum, Avi Geiger, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michael J. Sinclair, Joel B. Jacobs, Jonathan D. Friedman, Rosanna H. Ho
  • Publication number: 20100013777
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method is adapted to tracking input with a device. The method includes an act of monitoring and acts of activating and displaying if a touch input is detected. The device has a first side and a second side, with the second side opposite the first side. The device has a display screen disposed on the first side, and a screen-reflective interface disposed on the second side. Respective positions on the screen-reflective interface correspond to respective locations of the display screen. The screen-reflective interface of the device is monitored. If a touch input is detected on the screen-reflective interface, the device performs acts of activating and displaying. Specifically, a tracking state is activated for the screen-reflective interface responsive to the detected touch input on the screen-reflective interface. The interface icon is displayed on the display screen to indicate that the tracking state has been activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick M. Baudisch, Georg F. Petschnigg, David H. Wykes, Albert Yiu-So Shum, Avi Geiger, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Michael J. Sinclair, Joel B. Jacobs, Jonathan D. Friedman, Rosanna H. Ho
  • Patent number: 5775707
    Abstract: A fastening system for attaching a wheel to the shoe portion of an in-line skate, which includes a pair of first and second opposing walls that depend from the shoe portion, each having a bottom edge. A pair of opposing slots formed in the walls, each having an open end at the bottom edges of the walls. A safety recess is formed on each of the first and second walls adjacent the slots. Two frame spacers each include a flange portion surrounding a raised shoulder plug. The plug and flange portions having a through-hole formed therethrough. Each of the flange portions have a safety protrusion formed thereon adjacent the plug. The plugs are inserted into the slots such that the safety protrusions removably engage the safety recesses. A wheel having an axle hole formed through its center of rotation is positioned between the pair of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Primal Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Antonio Chung-Hua Hu, Albert Yiu-So Shum