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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for a help interface useful in a window based display system. SOLUTION: Access and presentation windows are provided, which "float" above all other layered windows being displayed regardless of the application currently being executed by the user. Both the access and presentation windows remain active and may be operated upon by the user, as does the top most window immediately below the access or presentation windows being displayed. The access window of the present window includes an alpha scroll bar horizontally spanning a defined area of the access window. A plurality of characters are displayed along the length of the alpha scroll bar. A slider is provided which may be selectively positioned over a character displayed on the alpha scroll bar. The placement of the slider over a character on the alpha scroll bar results in the CPU displaying data corresponding to the character selected. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an input display unit capable of detecting both a location of contact, and force applied at contact. SOLUTION: A unit to provide both force and location detection includes a first transparent substrate (having first and second sets of conductive traces oriented in a first direction), a second transparent substrate (having a third set of conductive traces oriented in a second direction) and a plurality of deformable members (e.g., rubber beads) arranged between the first and second transparent substrates. The first set of conductive traces, in combination with the conductive traces of the second transparent element, provide a capacitance signal representing where a user touches the display element. The second set of conductive traces, in combination with the conductive traces of the second transparent element, provide a capacitance signal representing the amount of force applied to the display element. When used with a display element, an input-output unit capable of both location sensing and force sensing operations is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a force measuring system as a part of a touch pad input device. SOLUTION: A force imaging touch pad includes first and second sets of conductive traces separated by a spring membrane. When a force is applied, the spring membrane is deformed moving the two sets of traces closer together. The resulting change in mutual capacitance is used to generate an image indicative of the amount or intensity of the applied force. A combined location and force imaging touch pad includes two sets of drive traces, one set of sense traces and the spring membrane. In operation, one of the drive traces is used in combination with the set of sense traces to generate an image of where one or more objects touch the touch pad. The second set of drive traces is used in combination with the sense traces and spring membrane to generate an image of the applied force's strength or intensity. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically and efficiently convert a Japanese hiragana character string to a katakana character string. SOLUTION: An exemplary method includes: receiving a first character string having the source character string; dividing the first character string into a plurality of sub-strings; converting the plurality of the sub-strings to second character strings through a dictionary; creating third character strings corresponding to the plurality of the sub-strings; analyzing the second and third character strings; constructing fourth character strings from the second and third character strings; creating a candidate list based on the fourth character strings; selecting the target character string from the candidate list and outputting the target character string. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system where an arbitrary assembly of nodes on a system bus have been resolved into an acyclic directed graph and communication between the nodes is established. SOLUTION: The constituent bus access arbitration scheme, the preferential bus access arbitration scheme, the token passing bus arbitration scheme, and the preemptive bus initialization mechanism or the like are implemented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform precise management of speed/quality rendering trade-off and without being concerned with individual rendering parameters. SOLUTION: A graphics rendering system allows retained-mode building and editing of a model, independently of the choice of renderer. Application program calls the rendering system to draw an object and specifies not only the object to draw but also a renderer to use to do so. More than one renderer can be active simultaneously. Furthermore, the application program is caused to call an immediate mode or a retained mode to render a model, without needing to know how many passes the renderer requires to complete an image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an more effective encoding method between blocks. SOLUTION: There are provided methods for encoding a first pixel set within a first image with reference to a second image within a video sequence in a number of embodiments. Within a first searching window, one method searches and identifies a first specified portion inside the second image that best matches a first pixel set within the first image. Within the first search window inside the second image, another method identifies a first location corresponding to the first specified portion. Next, within a second search window inside the second image that is defined near the first location, this method identifies a second specified portion inside the second image that best matches the first pixel set within the first image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI