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An apparatus and method of providing a floating user interface is provided. A floating user interface including menus for executable terminal functions is activated and a terminal function is executed through the floating user interface, thus enabling a user to conveniently perform terminal functions through the floating user interface under any environment of the terminal.

Disclosed is a multiple coordinate controller device having a three-dimensional body with a first surface portion and a second surface portion where the second surface portion is not coplanar with the first surface. A first transducer with a first sensing surface is coupled to the first surface portion of the body and capable of detecting both positions and a range of pressure forces at positions on the first sensing surface. The first transducer is further capable of providing a first range of z coordinates at a detected x,y coordinate in response to the range of pressure forces on said first sensing surface. A second transducer having a second sensing surface is coupled to the second surface portion of the body and capable of detecting both positions and a range of pressure forces at the positions on the second sensing surface. The second transducer is further capable of providing a second range of z coordinates of opposite polarity to the first range of z coordinates in response to the range of forces on second sensing surface.

The present invention relates to an input device and method of a portable terminal. The present invention includes generating an input event by a first input mode, generating a second input event by a motion of the portable terminal simultaneously or consecutively with the input event, and controlling operation of an application program according to the user function of the portable terminal in consideration of the first and second input events.

When settling a purchase price, a troublesome input is omitted and an input mistake or the like is prevented. The content data delivery server 42 makes the QR code generation unit 49 generate a QR code including encoded URL data of the settlement unit 70, a medium identifier data IDm and so forth. The QR code is displayed on a display 26.

After imaging the displayed QR code by a CCD camera 58, the QR code is analyzed and a data is read therefrom. It is transmitted to a settlement server 71 and a settlement request is performed.

An input device having touched position detecting means for outputting a signal indicating a touched position during a period of time of touch when the touched position detecting means is touched, wherein a character and a symbol are inputted to be displayed on a display screen. Provided are: a virtual keyboard in which each virtual key corresponding to a plurality of characters or symbols is arranged corresponding to each divided area on the touched position detecting means; means for outputting, during the period of time of touch, a code signal indicating a character or a symbol of a virtual key corresponding to an area including the touched position; means for temporarily displaying on the display screen a character or a symbol of the outputted code signal; and means for determinately displaying the character or the symbol on the display screen when the code signal has disappeared.

The present invention relates to a control unit for a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. A control unit for a refrigerator according to the present invention comprises an input means for receiving an operation signal for setting a service mode of a dispenser provided at the refrigerator; a storage means for storing a plurality of mode image data corresponding to the service mode of the dispenser; a display means for displaying mode images of the mode image data; and a control means for performing control such that mode image data corresponding to the service mode of the dispenser are read from the storage means according to an operation signal received by the input means and a mode image corresponding to the service mode of the dispenser is displayed on the display means. According to the present invention, there are advantages in that more various menus can be displayed in different manners, and the configuration of the input unit is simplified and thus can be more conveniently used.

An electronic battery operated and self contained acoustic guitar allowing playing back high quality prerecorded notes through its own soundboard electromechanically activated by a piezoelectric vibrating means. The guitar allows to play chords or melody with simplified fingering and provides trigger events (note ON, Off, velocity of the note played) with less than 15 ms delay. When the guitar is not powered it can be played as a normal high quality musical instrument.

Disclosed herein are a password management apparatus and method, a certification information storage apparatus and a certification information management method. The password management method of accessing and managing desired passwords through a portable password management apparatus and a terminal on which a password management program is installed, includes a first step of executing the password management program on the management terminal, a second step of receiving a user authentication number from the management apparatus, and comparing the first authentication number with a user authentication number previously stored in the management terminal, thereby authenticating whether a user is a legitimate user, and a third step of, only if the user is authenticated as a legitimate user, receiving a password list from the management apparatus and outputting the received password list onto a screen.

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for handling a touch input to a game executed on a device. The method includes the operation of rendering the game on the device. The device includes a touch screen for receiving touch input from a user. The game renders a game object that is moveable in one or more directions within a scene of the game. A touch input is detected from the touch screen when the game object is selected for movement. The touch input is analyzed to determine if the touch input is a movement gesture with a swipe profile and a direction. When the touch input is a movement gesture, the game object is caused to move along the direction defined by the touch input.

A method and control unit for medication administering devices. The first aspect of the present invention is automatic programming of the scheduled events. The second aspect is simple user-request expression. The third aspect is guided user operation. The forth aspect is automatic medication-storage mapping. The fifth aspect is no clock setting. Prior art systems typically require the user to figure out a loading-scheduling plan, follow the plan to load the medications, program the scheduled events and tell the system how the medications are stored (manual medication-storage mapping). The system of the present invention does the opposite: it figures out the loading-scheduling plan, guides the user to load the medications, program the scheduled events, and establishes medication-storage mapping, all automatically. The system of the present invention is extremely easy to use, and vision-impaired users can easily use it.

A mobile telephone has a display (240) and a rotator input device (250) comprising a rotatable element and capable of generating commands for browsing and selecting objects on the display. It also has a wireless telecommunication interface to a mobile telecommunications network. A processing device is coupled to the display, the rotator input device and the wireless telecommunication interface. A text-handling software application is executable by the processing device. The processing device is configured, in a first operating mode, to provide first user input by way of the rotator input device (250), said first user input including a number sequence representative of a desired telephone number which is to be reached over the mobile telecommunications network, and to use said first user input when establishing a telephone call connection through the wireless telecommunication interface. Moreover, the processing device is configured, in a second operating mode, to provide second user input by way of the rotator input device, said second user input including a character sequence representative of a desired text, and to forward said second user input to the text-handling software application No numeric or alphanumeric character keyboard is involved in neither of the first and second operating modes.

A low-cost input device suitable for a wearable computer is provided. An input method suitable for operating a wearable computer is provided. A wearable computer including the input device is provided. An input device 100 for outputting a control command γ to an external output device 40 includes a sensor 10 configured to be worn in or on a natural orifice of the body and sense a change in a shape of the natural orifice, and a controller 20 configured to control the external output device 40 based on a sensor signal α from the sensor 10. Here, the change in the shape of the natural orifice is caused by a predetermined action which is performed by a user wearing the sensor 10 with the intention of operating the external output device 40.

An electronic shelf label system includes a plurality of electronic shelf labels, plurality of transmitters, and a transmission controller. The transmission controller divides the transmitters into a plurality of communication groups so that each of the communication groups has a collective communication area including at least one of the transmitters, and to control the transmitters in units of the communication groups. The transmission controller also controls all of the transmitters included in one of the communication group, which is determined based on input of position specification information for specifying a position of a worker who is utilizing a portable information processing device, to cause product information of a target product to be transmitted to a target electronic shelf label by one of the transmitters that belongs to the communication group.

A hierarchical behavioral framework is used to generate and control autonomous and semi-autonomous behavior in an articulate object. A behavioral controller is arranged to receive input associated with a behavioral action, to infer a plurality of behavioral parameter values using the framework, and to generate equivalent behavior in the articulate object using the parameter values when loaded in the behavioral controller to generate output corresponding to the equivalent behavior. The equivalent behavior may reproduce the inputted behavioral action, and/or include one or more other behavioral actions, which may be performed simultaneously or as part of a sequence of actions.

A mobile terminal comprises a body comprising a keypad and a slider slidingly coupled to the body. The slider is configured to slide transversely with respect to the body and may comprise a display unit to display image information. The mobile terminal may further comprise a processor coupled to the slider to detect when the slider is slid from a first position to a second position and when the slider is slid from a second position to a first position. The image information may be rotated 90 degrees from a transverse orientation to a longitudinal orientation when the processor detects that the slider has been slid from the first position to the second position. Conversely, the image information may be rotated 90 degrees from a longitudinal orientation to a transverse orientation when the processor detects that the slider has been slid from the second position to the first position.

The inventive IC card includes a first communications unit, a second communications unit, and a passing information management unit accessible to a card application, The passing information management unit retains the processing identifier transmitted from an external R/W via the first communications unit and the PIN transmitted from a cell phone via the second communications unit in association with each other. The card application, receiving a processing identifier and a data request from the external R/W reads the PIN whose corresponding processing identifier matches the received processing identifier from the passing information management unit and transmits the PIN to the external R/W. Thus, even in case a cell phone is in the hands of another malicious person with a PIN written into an IC card, the PIN cannot be read from the IC card unless the processing identifier transmitted from the external R/W matches the processing identifier corresponding to the PIN.

A system and method for implementing an efficient and easy to user interface for a touch screen device. A cursor may be placed by a user using simple inputs. The device operates places the cursor coarsely and refines the cursor placement upon further input from the user. Text may be selected using a gripper associated with the cursor. The user interface allows text selection without occluding the text being selected with the user's finger or the gripper. For selecting text in a multi-line block of text, a dynamic safety zone is implemented to simplify text selection for the user.

A control device for a rotating electrical machine, which is able to reduce a tracking delay of an actual output torque and actual currents with respect to a fluctuating torque command and fluctuating current commands and to reduce steady state deviations, is obtained. The control device includes a torque current computing unit; an actual current computing unit; a current feedback control unit; and a voltage control unit that controls voltages on the basis of the two-phase voltage commands. The torque command includes a fluctuation cancellation torque command for cancelling transmission torque fluctuations transmitted from the internal combustion engine, and the current feedback control unit includes a harmonic controller that calculates the two-phase voltage commands by using a characteristic of a transfer function corresponding to a periodic function of a frequency of the transmission torque fluctuations.

The invention relates to the communication field, and provides a cluster communication terminal track real time anomaly detection method and system based on hybrid grid hierarchical clustering. The method comprises the steps: the step 1: constructing a track based on grids, and determining the size of the optimal grid; the step 2: calculating a Hausdroff distance matrix, utilizing a Hausdroff distance formula to calculate the distance between all the tracks based on the tracks of the grids, and generating a distance matrix of a track set; the step 3: hierarchical clustering, that is, based on the Hausdroff distance matrix of the track set, applying an agglomerate hierarchical clustering algorithm from bottom to top to realize classification of normal and abnormal tracks of a large scale of tracks; and the step 4: anomaly detection method evaluation and feedback: utilizing the above method to perform anomaly track detection on the track set which has a track classification identifier to obtain an anomaly classification result, and evaluating whether a model parameter is reasonable after comparison and making a feedback. The cluster communication terminal track real time anomaly detection method based on hybrid grid hierarchical clustering can realize on-line real time detection of an anomalous event, and can improve the upper layer dispatching efficiency of a cluster communication system.