Digitizer Or Touch Plate Patents (Class D14/389)
  • Patent number: 6937464
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of wearable and portable computers. Specifically, the invention is a flat panel display device which is designed with certain ergonomic features which allow the user to operate the display device comfortably for longer periods of time than with previous prior art hand held displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Xybernaut Corp.
    Inventors: Michael D. Adams, Martin D. Heyman, Garth Gibby, Matthew A. Rhoades, Mark H. Olson
  • Patent number: 6865075
    Abstract: A transformable computing apparatus and methods for configuring. An apparatus comprising a display, a key-entry device pivotally attached with the display and a housing pivotally attached with the display is configurable into an interactive user configuration when the key-entry device is pivoted about an edge of the display to a position adjacent with the display surface and the housing is pivoted about the edge of the display to a position adjacent with the opposing surface of the display. The apparatus is configurable into another interactive user configuration when the key-entry device is pivoted about the edge of the display to a position wherein an angle between the display surface and the key-entry device of substantially 90 degrees or more is formed, the housing being optionally pivoted about the edge of the display to a support position for the key-entry device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Nicholas W. Oakley
  • Patent number: 6816152
    Abstract: A digitizer which enables the user to set a collection of forms on a forms set portion and write on any page of the collection of forms with an input pen to input the data regarding the content of writing corresponding to the page, such that a user can efficiently open to a desired page of the collection of forms, is provided for. Additionally, a page turning side depression is provided in a right side frame portion delineating the right side of the forms set portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Yanagisawa
  • Patent number: 6757156
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of wearable and portable computers. Specifically, the invention is a flat panel display device which is designed with certain ergonomic features which allow the user to operate the display device comfortably for longer periods of time than with previous prior art hand held displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Xybernaut Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Adams, Martin D. Heyman, Garth Gibby, Matthew A. Rhoades, Mark H. Olson
  • Patent number: D541801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: QSI Corporation
    Inventors: James K. Elwell, Todd S. Christensen, Darren T. Barker, Nicholas G. Harper, M. Tyler Phillips
  • Patent number: D554757
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: D4D Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Basil A. Haymann, Robert Duerr
  • Patent number: D480089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: David N Skinner, Memphis Zhihong Yin, Glen A Oross
  • Patent number: D589961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Alf Hackenberg, Felix Heck, Andreas Schuessler
  • Patent number: D602022
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Felix Heck, Alf Hackenberg, Andreas Schuessler
  • Patent number: D625726
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Crisp, Michael Keith Lemmon, Pierre Harper, Kai Halsinger
  • Patent number: D664144
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer
  • Patent number: D667404
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Evans Hankey, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zorkendorfer
  • Patent number: D673952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: King Jim Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotoshi Toda, Shinji Higashiyama
  • Patent number: D689487
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Halsinger, Pierre Harper, Samuel James Amis
  • Patent number: D689488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Halsinger, Pierre Harper, Samuel James Amis
  • Patent number: D689490
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Halsinger, Pierre Harper, Samuel James Amis
  • Patent number: D689491
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Halsinger, Pierre Harper, Samuel James Amis, Takaaki Nakata
  • Patent number: D689492
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kai Halsinger, Pierre Harper, Samuel James Amis