Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a motion response module having a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. The motion response module is operable in the first mode of operation to monitor the motion of the device, to determine that the motion matches a predetermined mode selection trigger, and, in response to determining that the motion matches the predetermined mode selection trigger, to measure a baseline orientation of the device based on measurements of the components, and to switch to the second mode of operation.

Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a motion response module operable to identify a base reference position, to track the motion of the device in relation to the base reference position, to modify the image in response to the motion, to detect a predetermined pattern of motion of the device, to maintain the image without adjustment during the predetermined pattern of motion, to detect a completion of the predetermined pattern of motion, and to reset the base reference position upon detecting completion of the predetermined pattern of motion.

Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a first accelerometer operable to detect acceleration along a first axis and a second accelerometer operable to detect acceleration along a second axis. The second axis is perpendicular to the first axis. The device includes a tilt detection component operable to detect rotation having a component around at least one of the first axis and the second axis and a display operable to present a current image. The device includes a motion tracking module operable to track motion of the device in three dimensions using the first accelerometer, the second accelerometer, and the tilt detection component. The device also includes a controller operable to generate the current image and to modify the current image in response to the motion of the device.

Abstract: A handheld device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and a memory maintaining a spatial signature comprising a particular movement of the device with respect to a reference position. The device also includes a signature detection module operable to determine an input signature by identifying an initial position of the device and tracking movement of the device in reference to the initial position using the motion detection module, to determine whether the input signature substantially matches the spatial signature, and to generate an authorization in response to determining that the input signature substantially matches the spatial signature.

Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate a current image. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a gesture database comprising a plurality of gestures, each gesture defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The gestures comprise at least four planar gestures each defined by a motion vector generally aligned in parallel with the viewable surface. The device includes a gesture mapping database mapping each of the gestures to a corresponding command, the gesture mapping database mapping each of the four planar gestures to a corresponding grid navigation command.

Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes a plurality of applications each having a plurality of predefined commands and a gesture mapping database comprising a plurality of command maps. Each of the command maps corresponds to a particular one of the applications and maps each of the predefined commands to one of the gestures. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface.

Abstract: A handheld device includes a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures, each gesture defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the handheld device. The gestures comprise a plurality of remote command gestures and at least one device selection gesture. The device includes a gesture mapping database comprising a plurality of command maps, each of the command maps corresponding to a particular controllable device and mapping at least one of the remote command gestures to a command for controlling operation of the particular controllable device. The device also includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and a device selection module operable to detect the device selection gesture based on the motion of the handheld device and to select a currently controlled one of the controllable devices in response to the device selection gesture.

Abstract: A motion controlled handheld device includes a display having a viewable surface and operable to generate an image and a gesture database maintaining a plurality of gestures. Each gesture is defined by a motion of the device with respect to a first position of the device. The device includes a motion detection module operable to detect motion of the handheld device within three dimensions and to identify components of the motion in relation to the viewable surface. The device also includes a control module operable to detect an indication to record a new gesture, detect a stabilization of the components of the motion of the device, upon detecting the stabilization, determine a base reference position, record movement of the device with respect to the base reference position, detect an indication to stop recording the new gesture, define the new gesture using the recorded movement of the device with respect to the base reference position, and store the new gesture in the gesture database.

Abstract: In a liquid supplying member, for supplying liquid from a liquid container to a liquid ejection head which are provided in a liquid ejection apparatus, a plurality of elastic members, each of which is elongated in a first direction so as to have a first face and a second face, are arrayed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first film member is joined to the first face of each of the elastic members. A second film member is joined to the second face of each of the elastic members, such that a passage, through which the liquid is supplied from the liquid container to the liquid ejection heads extending in the first direction is hermetically defined between the adjacent elastic members by inner faces of the first film member and the second film member.

Abstract: In a liquid supplying member, for supplying liquid from a liquid container to a liquid ejection head which are provided in a liquid ejection apparatus, a plurality of elastic members, each of which is elongated in a first direction so as to have a first face and a second face, are arrayed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A first film member is joined to the first face of each of the elastic members. A second film member is joined to the second face of each of the elastic members, such that a passage, through which the liquid is supplied from the liquid container to the liquid ejection head, extending in the first direction is hermetically defined between the adjacent elastic members by inner faces of the first film member and the second film member.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid injecting apparatus equipped with a liquid injecting head, which is mounted on a carriage and moved reciprocally in a widthwise direction of a target, and a valve unit, which is mounted on the carriage to be supplied with liquid via a supply passage from a liquid retainer and to supply liquid to the liquid injecting head. The valve unit has a pressure chamber connected to the liquid retainer via the supply passage; a valve, which opens or closes the supply passage to supply liquid to the pressure chamber; and a flexible film member, which is displaced based on a negative pressure generated as liquid in the pressure chamber decreases to thereby operate the valve.

Abstract: A rib (206c) is formed on a ceiling surface of a tape guide mounted on a driver handle of a binding machine for gardening, and two plate springs (224a, 224b) are mounted on the bottom plate portion of the tape guide. The plate spring (224a), which is situated on the downstream side, is elastically contacted with the rib (206c) to thereby allow the plate spring (224a) and rib (206c) to hold tape (T) between them, while the upstream-side plate spring (224b) is contacted with the tape. When a tape roll is rotated reversely and the tape is thereby pulled back, tension is applied to the tape existing between the rib (206c) and tape roll, and the upstream-side plate spring (224b) is raised up due to the friction of the tape to curve a passage of the tape, which increases the frictional resistance of the tape to thereby be able to prevent the tape (T) against reverse movement.

Abstract: A liquid supplying member supplies liquid from a liquid container to a liquid ejection head which are provided in a liquid ejection apparatus. In the liquid supplying member, a flexible base member has a face formed with at least one groove. A flexible first plate member is joined to the face of the base member so as to seal at least a part of the at least one groove to form at least one liquid supplying passage, through which the liquid is supplied from the liquid container to the liquid ejection head. A first connector is monolithically formed with a longitudinal end portion of the base member to connect the at least one groove to one of the liquid container and the liquid ejection head.

Abstract: A liquid jetting device includes a sub tank, a main tank and a compressor. The main tank is communicated with the sub tank, and stores liquid therein. The compressor is communicated with the main tank via an air passage, and applies an air pressure to the main tank such that the liquid in the main tank is supplied to the sub tank. The air passage is communicated with the atmosphere.

Abstract: A steel for machine structural use which comprises, on the percent by mass basis, C: 0.1 to 0.6%, Si: 0.01 to 2.0%, Mn: 0.2 to 2.0%, S: 0.005 to 0.20%, P: not more than 0.1%, Ca: 0.0001 to 0.01%, N: 0.001 to 0.02% and Al: not more than 0.1%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, with a value of [Ca]e defined by [Ca]e=T.[Ca]?(T.[O]/(O)ox)×(Ca)ox of not more than 5 ppm or with a proportion of MnO contained in oxide inclusions of not more than 0.05 and a value of Ca/O of not more than 0.8 is excellent in machinability and, therefore, it can be used as a steel stock for various machine structural steel parts, such as in industrial machinery, construction machinery and conveying machinery such as automobiles. It is substantially free of Pb, hence suited for use as a steel friendly to the global environment. [Ca]e is the effective Ca concentration index (ppm by mass), T.[Ca] and T.

Abstract: A TEG (Test Element Group) block 1 includes a TFT (Thin Film Transistor) test element and a capacitance test element that are arranged adjacent to each other, and six test terminals. A TEG block 2 includes a resistance test element and a capacitance test element that are arranged adjacent to each other, and six test terminals. In these TEG blocks, the test terminals are arranged with the same pattern. Each of the test elements in each TEG block is connected to at least one of a plurality of test terminals included in that TEG block. The test elements can be efficiently formed on the substrate in view of the space on a display device substrate or the preference of characteristics to be evaluated. Moreover, characteristics of each test element can be conducted with a common probe regardless of the type of display device.

Abstract: An ink cartridge for an inkjet type printing apparatus having a print head, the ink cartridge including: a container having an ink chamber for containing ink therein; an ink supply port for ejecting the ink from the ink chamber to the print head; a memory device for storing data related to the ink or the ink cartridge, the memory device has an area in which the data is stored in a rewritable manner; and a contact device enabling the transmission of data between the memory device and an external device. The memory device may include data indicative of when the ink cartridge was recycled.

Abstract: The invention provides a steel for machine structural use, which is excellent in machinability, comprising, in percent by mass, C: 0.1-0.6%. Si: 0.01-2.0%, Mn: 0.2-2.0%, S: 0.005-0.2%, Al: not more than 0.009%, Ti: not less than 0.001% but less than 0.04%, Ca: 0.0001-0.01%, O (oxygen): 0.0010-0.01%, and N: not more than 0.02% and satisfying the following relations (1) to (3): n0/S (%)≧2500  (1) n1/n0≦0.1  (2) n2≧10  (3) where n0: total number of sulfide inclusions not smaller than 1 &mgr;m per mm2 of a cross section parallel to the direction of rolling (number/mm2); n1: number of MnS inclusions having not smaller than 1 &mgr;m and containing not less than 1.

Abstract: A system supports automated negotiations between any number of appropriately enabled computing devices. These devices provide for automated negotiation of potential transactions using an iterative process in which multiple proposal are exchanged between negotiating parties.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid supply unit having a supply unit case for accommodating a liquid charging portion, and a main body having a supply unit arranging part for arranging the liquid supply unit and a carriage part for moving along the vicinity of the supply unit arranging part, wherein the carriage side of the liquid supply unit arranged in the supply unit arranging part is provided with information storing means mounting portion formed to be protruded toward the carriage side, the supply unit arranging part is provided with a through window portion for causing the information storing means mounting portion to penetrate therethrough, and carriage side information storing means is formed in a portion corresponding to the through window portion in the carriage part for moving in the vicinity of the through window portion.