Patents by Inventor Ian Summers

Ian Summers 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).

  • TOUCH SCREEN, RELATED METHOD OF OPERATION AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120075229
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment concerns a touch screen arranged to determine when touched by a user's screen-engagement member and further arranged to identify an identifying characteristic of the engagement member and so as to differentiate between different screen-engagement members and wherein at least one aspect of subsequent operation of the screen is responsive to the identification of the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ian Summers
  • TOUCH SCREEN
    Publication number: 20120038681
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a touch screen including control functionality through touch and movement of a digit of a user's hand over a defined path, and arranged to have the path selectively defined by the user's movement of a screen-engagement member and for example to define the location of such as a digit or stylus scroll bar, and to a hand-held electronic device employing the same over the surface of the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventor: Ian Summers