158 results about "Computer handheld" patented technology

A pocket computer is presented having an apparatus housing and a user interface with a touch-sensitive display provided at a first side surface of said apparatus housing, at least one key for navigation among content shown on said display, and at least one key for performing zooming on content shown on said display. Various methods of operating this user interface are also presented.

The invention concerns a high speed writing system and a high speed writing device with special menu selection for entering text by means of a pen and a touch-screen. This method of entering text is suitable for desktop PCs, laptop PCs, palmtop PCs, mobile phones (for SMS, WAP and e-mail), watches and other electronic devices. Significantly higher writing efficiency than on a QWERTY keyboard is reached with little investment in practicing time.The monitor screen features a key section with all consonants of the alphabet, as well as one vowel key distinguished by its arrangement and function. All elements of the writing process defining the method can be generated by pen movements such as selection of a key or guiding it in one of eight stroke directions, as well as combinations of these pen movementsThe high speed writing devices described here excel by their small and ergonomically arranged entry sections, whereby all keys for text entry can be reached from one single hand position that never needs re-setting.

A novel and improved engine data system for collecting, displaying and analyzing engine / vehicle data is provided. The system have advantageously results in a more effective, convenient, portable and low cost method of monitoring and processing vehicle data. The vehicle data system includes a handheld computer containing operating system software adapted to operate the handheld computer in accordance with a data protocol different from a vehicle bus protocol and a handheld microprocessor for executing the operating system software. The system importantly includes an adapter for creating a data pathway between a vehicle bus connector and an external data port provided on the handheld computer which is physically incompatible with the engine bus connector. The adapter includes a data port connector for connection with the external data port, a bus compatible connector for connection with the engine bus connector, a battery power supply separate from the power supply of the handheld compuer and an adapter microprocessor powered by the battery power supply and connected via the data pathway with the bus compatible connector for protocol conversion of the data received from the engine bus. An engine data adapter system for creating a data pathway between the engine data bus and the handheld computer while determining the start and stop of messages received from the data bus and adding message identifiers to the engine data so as to minimize the required data processing by the handheld computer.

Prior miniaturzed palm-top computers have reduced-size keyboards which are not useful for standard typing. The present invention provides a folding pocket-sized computer, comprising up to a 12'' screen, a central processing unit, data storage and input means and a full size computer keyboard. It does this by having the keyboard divided into two halves hingedly connected along a fold line, whereby one of the keys is split along the fold line to permit folding of the keyboard, and by folding the screen and abutting the sections of the screen with no intervening frames.

Media slides are often employed in conference sessions, meetings, lectures, and other interactive forums. The proliferation of laptops and handheld computers allows a speaker to present directly from the laptop by connecting to the projector at the conference site. Physically connecting and disconnecting each presenter's laptop to the projection apparatus, however, can be a clumsy and disruptive process, particularly since the presenters may be seated at various locations around the room. A wireless interface between a presentation server and a laptop in a multi-user multi-projector presentation system allows a media sequence from each media source to be displayed on a common display via the presentation server and the wireless interface. Presenters need not run or swap cables or other physical connections to switch media sources to the common display. The interface requires no software modification to the media source laptops and maintains independence between media sources and the server for security. The presentation server communicates with the media sources over the mouse port allowing innovative user interfaces, such as gesture recognition, to be employed for presentation control without additional software. Multiple projectors redundantly illuminate the display surface, dynamically eliminating shadows and other display artifacts when presenters walk between a projector and the screen. Distracting projected light cast on to the occluding presenters is automatically suppressed.

An improvement to a transceiver, such as a cell phone, a palm pilot, or equivalent telephone or computer display device, comprising a plurality of display devices, expanding supports, and a screen-size indicator. The expanding supports are connected to the transceiver, such as a cell phone, palm pilot or computer, and to the plurality of display devices. The expanding supports expands the plurality of display devices about the transceiver, such as a cell phone. The screen-size indicator is connected to the plurality of display devices. The screen-size indicator displays the video signal on the transceiver, such as a cell phone display, or the plurality of display devices, or the combination of the transceiver, such as a cell phone, palm pilot or computer, display and the plurality of display devices, as determined by the screen size, respectively.

The present invention provides apparatus, systems and methods to wirelessly pay for purchases, electronically interface with financial accounting systems, and electronically record and wirelessly communicate authorization transactions using Personal Digital Assistant (“PDA”)(also referred to as Personal Intelligent Communicators (PICs), and Personal Communicators), palm computers, intelligent handheld cellular and other wireless telephones, and other personal handheld electronic devices configured with infrared or other short range data communications (for referential simplicity, such devices are referred to herein as “PDA's”). The present invention further provides apparatus, firmware, software programs and computer-implemented methods for making service and / or sale service charge payments for credit card charges, debit card charges, electronic cash transfers, ticket and other like financial transactions and for other types of transactions, such as for electronic coupons, where the amount of the transaction is for a small amount of money, such as, for example, less than $5.00.

A method to optimize the energy consumption of a station (STA)—as for example a laptop, palmtop or a mobile phone—in a network, preferably a WLAN according to the IEEE 802.11 standard where a station (STA) sending Power Save (PS) polls to an Access Point (AP) is characterized—regarding an efficient energy management of the station with a possibly low energy consumption—in that the Access Point (AP) confirms the receipt of a Power Save (PS) poll by sending an acknowledgement frame including information which indicates to the station (STA) whether a frame is stored for it at the Access Point (AP).

A time zone management system and method for a date-book like application. A user can associate a time zone with an event or appointment, especially on a palmtop computer. The event can be associated with the time zone by selecting the time zone as an attribute from a details menu, or other suitable user interface mechanism or other mechanism. The user can select a display time zone, and all events to be displayed are translated to the display time zone to be displayed on the palmtop computer.

The invention provides one intelligent remote close method and device to avoid electrical error operation, which comprises PAD computer, blue teeth opener and intelligent lock ware, wherein, the PAD computer is imbedded with relative operation software and blue teeth module for communication by blue teeth opener to collect relative information; it judges and sends operation order according to the rules to drive blue teeth opener; the intelligent lock ware has automatic opening and feedback information for display and relative operations by persons.

The present invention aims at granting easy and prompt start of wireless communications in which security is ensured without incurring addition of hardware. If a connection button provided on a surface of a PDA 1 is operated, a connection request is broadcast from the PDA 1. If the PDA 1 and a portable phone 2 are in proximity to each other, and a reception intensity of the connection request from the PDA 1 is equal to or higher than a threshold value, a request of the PDA 1 is granted by the portable phone 2. Then, an encryption key is newly generated by the portable phone 2, and is transmitted to the PDA 1 together with a communication parameter. An encryption key and the communication parameter transmitted from the portable phone 2 are acquired. Encrypted communications using the encryption key generated by the portable phone 2 are established with the portable phones 2 based on the communication parameter. The present invention is applicable to information processing apparatuses, such as the PDA and the portable phone or a notebook personal computer.

A patient healthcare and monitoring system facilitates communications between doctors and patients. The system includes a server hosting a database containing patient information including patient medical histories. Physicians are provided with a doctor client in the form of, for example, a Tablet PC with which a physician can set up patient alerts, surveys and messages and receive reports, messages and patient history. Patients are provided with a patient client in the form of, for example, a Smart phone, Pocket PC or PDA with which a patient receives alerts, messages and surveys generated by their physician and transmit alert completions, messages and survey answers. The doctor clients and the patient clients communicate with the server so that patients are alerted when to perform prescribed procedures or take prescribed medications and physicians are informed that prescribed procedures have been performed or medications taken and receive answers to surveys which become part of a patient's medical history.

The disclosed E-mail system comprises: a server, including a user proxy module with a Web Service container, a mail transmission proxy module, and a mail distribution proxy module; and a client. Wherein, the Web Service container comprises a main package sub-module, a mail transmission sub-module, a mail receiving sub-module, a mail decomposition sub-module, a user key management sub-module, an enciphering / deciphering sub-module, and some corresponding calling interfaces. This invention avoids repeated development, and has wide application, such as PC, palm PC, and mobile phone.

The invention discloses an image attendance information acquiring system and a personnel management system based on the same, relating to the technical field of information acquisition and attendance. The invention solves the problems of real-time and correctness of the traditional information acquiring system. The image attendance information acquiring system is realized based on the traditional wire network system, the wireless network system or the hybrid network of two network systems, while an attendance terminal is realized by using a computer with an image acquiring terminal, a palm computer, a mobile phone or an attendance terminal machine, and an image acquiring software module is embedded into the terminal. The attendance information acquiring system is an internet-based system capable of remotely acquiring data, which realizes real-time acquisition and record of the image attendance data by connecting the plurality of image information attendance terminals to an attendance server (in a group form) through the network. The attendance information acquiring system can be hooked with the traditional attendance system and can also be hooked with the attendance module of the traditional OA (Office Automation) office system to realize an attendance function.

Generation, coding and transmission of an effective video form, scalable portrait video. As an expansion to bi-level video, portrait video is composed of more gray levels, and therefore possesses higher visual quality while it maintains a low bit rate and low computational costs. Portrait video is a scalable video in that each video with a higher level always contains all the information of the video with a lower level. The bandwidths of 2–4 level portrait videos fit into the bandwidth range of 20–40 Kbps that GPRS and CDMA 1X can stably provide. Therefore, portrait video is very promising for video broadcast and communication on 2.5 G wireless networks. With portrait video technology, this system and method is the first to enable two-way video conferencing on Pocket PCs and Handheld PCs.

A medical data collection method and system (10) for gathering medical data from an individual when the individual is located remotely from a healthcare professional. A computer device that includes an aggregation device (22) is used at the patient remote site (11) for collecting medical data / information from various medical devices (14) that can gather appropriate medical data. The aggregation device (22) sends the recorded medical data using a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) web service / application (25) to a network 16. The information may be saved on a local or centralized data storage device (18) and / or stored to a patient's medical record. A healthcare provider (i.e. physician, physician's assistant, nurse or the like) (20) can access the medical data (25) in real time or from the optional data storage device via a connect manager or through a secure or unsecure connection in real time while the data is being captured from the patient or if the data is stored, at any time in the future using a personal computer or handheld device such as a personal computer, notebook, palm pilot, Iphone, Blackberry or the like that is capable of running a browser that can consume the medical record service (25) provided by the aggregation device (22).

An apparatus and method for processing heart rate information by wirelessly transferring the information between a heart rate monitor and a personal computer device (PCD). The information includes programming information and heart rate or training information collected during use of the heart rate monitor. The PCD may include a personal digital assistant (PDA), a pocket personal computer (pocket PC), or a laptop computer. The information is transferred over an infrared, sonic, audible, ultrasonic, magnetic, radio frequency, IEEE 802.11, or Bluetooth-based communication link.

The invention provides a novel control method of an intelligent television. According to the method disclosed by the invention, based on an intelligent touch control system, the intelligent television is remotely controlled through touch control on handheld computer equipment, so that the inconvenience caused by manipulating the intelligent television through a conventional remote controller is solved; a novel interaction manner brings about convenience for manipulating the intelligent television by a user and face-to-face interaction experiences of the intelligent television are improved; and the method is simple, low in cost and good in stability.

A method and system for synchronizing and using calendar information from a shared database is disclosed. Calendar information can be stored in a shared database, e.g., on a server system and accessed and synchronized with one or more portable computer systems. The calendar information is stored using particular category types which facilitate separate manipulation, access and remobal of the calendar information when placed onto a portable computer system (e.g., palmtop). In one embodiment, calendar information is stored on a shared database and is assigned a unique category type. Multiple portable computer systems can then access the shared calendar information which can be displayed on each computer system along with the system's own calendar information. The unique category type is different from the default type of each system's own calendar information and the user is not able to change category types on the portable computer system. Shared calendar information can be viewed and edited and then easily removed using the unique category type.

A compact handheld notebook computer using flash memory to store, retrieve and display information needed by emergency responders is designed for prolonged use under severe conditions and utilizes an electrophoretic display to conserve energy and provide a high resolution display more readable than LCD displays.

This invention relates to a network hospital system keeping contact directly with easy-ill people or patients characterizing that said network hospital system includes a network server, a wire and / or wireless network, terminals(desk computers, notebook computers, palm computers or intelligent cell phones), devices(the mono-chip processor system includes information testing process and satellite locating functions in ECG, blood pressure, blood sugar, blood-fat, temperature, breath and blood oxygen), a medical treatment service system( drug-stores, distribution station, a test and a physical examination center and a emergency center), in which, the device timely communicates with the server about the situations of the easy-ill people and patients by the terminal and network, at the same time, the system is connected with traditional hospitals, community hospitals, drug-stores, emergency centers, banks and government departments to provide various medical services.

A method and system for enhancing the entertainment and enjoyment of a spectator or participatory event, wherein participants and / or spectators automatically receive an opportunity to enter a drawing for a prize upon using a wireless communication device to make an electronic acquisition of interest. In a preferred embodiment, a fan of an entertainer will attend a concert by the entertainer and during the show use a cell phone or similar electronic wireless communication device to purchase a song, ring tone, or game, and in association with the ordering process, will be asked if they wish to be included in a drawing to identify a person or persons that would get to sit on stage up close to watch the artist perform. In an embodiment, the invention comprises a process of conducting a lottery type contest for participants at a live event. Participants will use their wireless devices by text messaging / SMS a number to enter the lottery. Entry may start at the time of ticket purchase for a live spectator event or start at the event itself. Lottery winners are randomly chosen by a computer system and prompted through their cellular device, PDA, pocket PC, and / or two-way pager as to how to receive their prizes

Systems and methods are described for automatically presenting at least one definition in context, for a dictionary entry, based a contextual analysis of the grammatical unit, such as the sentence, the clause, or the phrase, in which the dictionary entry is embedded. The dictionary entry may be single word, for example, “consideration,” or a phrase, such as “due to.” A definition in context will generally include a definition in accordance with the function of the word in the grammatical unit, and may further include a preferred definition from among several options for the same function, based on contextual clues within the grammatical unit. Similarly, a translation in context may be presented. These may be performed by a supercomputer, a personal computer, a laptop, a palmtop, a stand-alone hand-held, computerized scanning apparatus, a stand-alone hand-held, computerized photographing apparatus, a mobile phone, a blackberry, and the like. They may be perfumed locally, or over the web.

A filtering method and apparatus for a hand-held computing device such as a palmtop computer. The operating system's program registry is copied and then modified to direct all application data to a filter program such as a virus scanning filter program. If the filter program determines that the object is virus free, the copy of the program registry (filter registry) is queried by the filter program to determine the application program associated with the data object. The data object is then forwarded to the appropriate application program.

The present invention is a modular handheld device. The modular handheld comprises a console and a keypad / battery module that acts with the console. The handheld can have other module parts. For example different modular handles can be attached to the handheld. The user or user organization has the option to select from one or more smaller keypad / battery battery modules and / or one or more larger keypad / battery modules with more battery capacity. The appropriate keypad / battery module is selected based on the needs of the particular user or application. This allows an organization to have multiple handheld configurations which utilize the same core computing engine, thus greatly reducing the number of IT platforms that need to be supported. By combining the display, processor, scan engines and radios into a console and separating the keypad and batteries into a “personality module” many different handhelds can be customized from a single console.

The invention discloses an intelligent split screen display available mobile terminal which comprises a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit), wherein the CPU is a single-core or multi-core CPU supporting multithreading and multitasking; an inner core of the CPU supports a multi-domain display management function; the CPU is connected with the GPU; and the GPU is a single-core or multi-core GPU supporting split screen display and full high definition graphic processing, and is connected with a multi-channel video output interface and a projection output interface. The mobile terminal utilizes the CPU with the multi-domain display management function and the GPU with a split screen display function, so that the portability is kept, and display limitation of the mobile terminal is removed; a requirement of a large screen is met; intelligent multi-domain display management is available, so that the problem that display content can only be subjected to mirror image duplication in the prior projection is solved; and mobile equipment has powerful functions of equipment such as a PC (Personal Computer) and a palmtop, and has the potentiality of replacing the equipment such as the PC and the palmtop. The intelligent split screen display available mobile terminal can be widely applied to the field of the mobile terminals.

The invention discloses a percutaneous and bidirectional wireless communication device which is based on a PPM modulating way and belongs to the technical field of implanted medical treatment devices. The device consists of an external programmed controller, which comprises a control unit, a first emitting circuit, a first receiving circuit and a first radio frequency coupling unit; an implanted medical treatment device, which comprises a microcontroller, a second emitting circuit, a second receiving circuit and a second radio frequency coupling unit; a palm computer, which comprises a communication port that is connected with the external programmed controller. The invention selects the pulse position modulating (PPM) way for the wireless communication modulating between the implanted medical treatment device and the external programmed controller, and adopts serial communication between the external programmed controller and a PDA, cyclic redundancy checking for data checking, and a data signaling and request-response way for communication controlling. The invention is independent of the scale of communication data flow rate, has the advantages of simple implementation way, reliable communication process, small volume, low power consumption and high transmission speed, etc., and can be widely used for the data communication of multiple applications of various implanted medical treatment device systems.

Employing an automated data collection portable equipment such as a palm top or similar equipment, in addition to a central computer, which includes a database where the captured information is stored through said portable electronic equipment, and such data transfer may occur by means of cable, connection fixed bases, infra-networks or by means of wireless transmissions, and such database shall be operated by a software, which shall receive the unloaded data and shall perform the correlations with the parameters preset in the system, on a systematic and accurate manner, generating statistical reports and electronic spreadsheets, whose results may be automatically made available, aiming at a better adjustment of people's movement in commercial establishments and others.