Patents by Inventor Haruyuki Iwata

Haruyuki Iwata 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).

  • Publication number: 20100231505
    Abstract: In order to allow key input without operation of a keyboard or allow click and drag operations by finger tips of the hands, the present invention is primarily characterized in that a user wears a glove (7) (including a glove that covers only finger tips), which has a motion detection sensor (4) (based on the same principle as a laser mouse or an optical mouse) and a tactile sensor (5) (a conductive rubber, a piezoelectric element or the like) mounted on each finger-tip part thereof, on each hand (like mounting a small laser mouse or optical mouse on each finger tip), motion information about each finger tip is transmitted to an information processing device, such as a personal computer (PC), a PDA and a cellular phone, the position of each finger tip is displayed on a virtual keyboard (2) shown on a display (3) of the information processing device, and the tactile sensor (5) detects the pressure on a finger tip when the finger tip is pressed against an arbitrary object, such as a desk, thereby allowing input
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Haruyuki Iwata