Effector platform for performing actions over vertical surfaces
    1.
    发明授权
    Effector platform for performing actions over vertical surfaces 有权
    用于在垂直表面上执行动作的效果平台

    公开(公告)号:US06367902B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-09

    申请号:US09450484

    申请日:1999-11-29

    IPC分类号: B41J29393

    CPC分类号: B43L13/10 B43K23/02 B43L13/02

    摘要: The Pendulum Whiteboard Printer is an effector platform for a fully-automatic robotic device for marking or otherwise effecting whiteboards, pinboards, or other vertical surfaces The effector platform is designed to be suspended by two suspension wires whose lengths are adjusted by motorized spindles mounted above and on either side of the board surface. The position of the effector platform is adjusted by winding and unwinding the wires. Electrical power is supplied to the effector platform through the suspension wires or from an on-board battery. Control of a pen and/or other apparatus on the effector platform is achieved through modulation of the power voltage. The effector platform may be fitted with a variety of end effectors such as dry-erase markers, gripping elements, and squeegees.

    摘要翻译: 摆锤白板打印机是用于标记或以其他方式影响白板,插板或其他垂直表面的全自动机器人设备的效应器平台。效应器平台设计为由两根悬挂线悬挂,其长度由安装在上方的电动主轴调节, 在板表面的任一侧。 通过缠绕和展开电线来调节效应器平台的位置。 电力通过悬挂线或车载电池供应到效应器平台。 通过调节电源电压来实现对效应器平台上笔和/或其他设备的控制。 效应器平台可以装配有各种终端执行器,例如干擦标记,夹紧元件和刮板。

    System for effecting actions over vertical surfaces
    2.
    发明授权
    System for effecting actions over vertical surfaces 有权
    用于在垂直表面上执行动作的系统

    公开(公告)号:US06367901B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-09

    申请号:US09450468

    申请日:1999-11-29

    IPC分类号: G01D1516

    摘要: The Pendulum Whiteboard Printer is a fully-automatic robotic device for marking or otherwise effecting whiteboards, pinboards, or other vertical surfaces. The physical device consists of an effector platform suspended by two suspension wires whose lengths are adjusted by motorized spindles mounted above and on either side of the board surface. The position of the effector platform is adjusted by winding and unwinding the wires. Electrical power is supplied to the effector platform through the suspension wires or through an on-board battery. Control of a pen and/or other apparatus on the effector platform is achieved through modulation of the power voltage. A further component of this invention is electronic and computational apparatus for controlling the device, which may include automatic visual interpretation and feedback from a video camera viewing the board and printer.

    摘要翻译: 摆锤白板打印机是一种全自动机器人设备,用于标记或以其他方式影响白板,插板或其他垂直表面。 物理装置由两个悬挂线悬挂的效应器平台组成,其长度通过安装在板表面的任一侧上的电动主轴进行调节。 通过缠绕和展开电线来调节效应器平台的位置。 电力通过悬挂线或通过车载电池供应到效应器平台。 通过调节电源电压来实现对效应器平台上笔和/或其他设备的控制。 本发明的另一个组成部分是用于控制装置的电子和计算装置,其可以包括自动视觉解释和来自观察板和打印机的摄像机的反馈。

    Method for effecting actions over vertical surfaces
    3.
    发明授权
    Method for effecting actions over vertical surfaces 有权
    在垂直表面上进行动作的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06457792B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-10-01

    申请号:US09450467

    申请日:1999-11-29

    IPC分类号: G01D1516

    CPC分类号: G01D9/40 B43L13/024 B43L21/00

    摘要: The Pendulum Whiteboard Printer is a fully-automatic robotic device for marking or otherwise effecting whiteboards, pinboards, or other vertical surfaces. The physical device consists of an effector platform suspended by two suspension wires whose lengths are adjusted by motorized spindles mounted above and on either side of the board surface. The position of the effector platform is adjusted by winding and unwinding the wires. Methods are provided for using the Pendulum Whiteboard Printer to perform various actions and for moving the effector platform to a desired location.

    摘要翻译: 摆锤白板打印机是一种全自动机器人设备,用于标记或以其他方式影响白板,插板或其他垂直表面。 物理装置由两个悬挂线悬挂的效应器平台组成,其长度通过安装在板表面的任一侧上的电动主轴进行调节。 通过缠绕和展开电线来调节效应器平台的位置。 提供了使用摆锤白板打印机执行各种动作并将效应器平台移动到所需位置的方法。

    Operator icons for information collages
    4.
    发明授权
    Operator icons for information collages 有权
    信息拼贴的操作员图标

    公开(公告)号:US06326946B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-12-04

    申请号:US09156031

    申请日:1998-09-17

    IPC分类号: G09G500

    CPC分类号: G06F3/041 G06F3/0425

    摘要: An enhanced information collage that combines a computational system with a physical information collage to preserve the advantages of conventional information collages while alleviating many problems associated with such collages. A physical information collage (e.g. a pin board with spatially differentiated pin mounted task cards, each card having a detectable identity tag) can be made part of a computational system by sensing the identity, position, and contents of the collage component artifacts. In effect, each collage component has its content and position stored in a database, with movement of a particular component resulting in update of the database to record the new position of that component. Further provided are Operator Icon components which may be used to provide digital services, such as combining, erasing, saving, or transferring, to other collage components.

    摘要翻译: 增强的信息拼贴,将计算系统与物理信息拼贴相结合,以保护常规信息拼贴的优点,同时减轻与此类拼贴相关的许多问题。 可以通过感测拼贴组件工件的身份,位置和内容,将物理信息拼贴(例如具有空间差异的针脚安装的任务卡的针板,每个具有可检测的身份标签的卡)构成计算系统的一部分。 实际上,每个拼贴组件的内容和位置都存储在数据库中,特定组件的移动导致更新数据库以记录该组件的新位置。 还提供了可以用于向其他拼贴组件提供诸如组合,删除,保存或转移的数字服务的操作者图标组件。

    System and method for editing electronic images
    5.
    发明授权
    System and method for editing electronic images 有权
    用于编辑电子图像的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06903751B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-07

    申请号:US10104805

    申请日:2002-03-22

    CPC分类号: G06T11/60

    摘要: A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating electronic images includes input devices permitting a user to manipulate elements of electronic images received from various image input sources. A processor, connected to the system, receives requests for various image editing operations and also accesses a memory structure. The system memory structure includes a user interaction module, which allows a user to enter new image material or select and modify existing image material to form primary image objects, as well as a grouping module, which maintains an unrestricted grouping structure, an output module, and data memory.

    摘要翻译: 用于创建和操纵电子图像的图形输入和显示系统包括允许用户操纵从各种图像输入源接收的电子图像的元素的输入装置。 连接到系统的处理器接收对各种图像编辑操作的请求,并且还访问存储器结构。 系统存储器结构包括用户交互模块,其允许用户输入新的图像材料或选择和修改现有图像材料以形成主要图像对象,以及分组模块,其维持非限制性分组结构,输出模块, 和数据存储器。

    Parking mechanism for storing and exchanging end effectors used in a system for performing actions over vertical surfaces
    7.
    发明授权
    Parking mechanism for storing and exchanging end effectors used in a system for performing actions over vertical surfaces 有权
    用于存储和更换用于在垂直表面上执行动作的系统中使用的终端执行器的停放机构

    公开(公告)号:US06368002B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-09

    申请号:US09450466

    申请日:1999-11-29

    IPC分类号: B43K2302

    CPC分类号: B43K23/02 B43L13/02 B43L13/10

    摘要: The Pendulum Whiteboard Printer is a fully-automatic robotic device for marking or otherwise effecting whiteboards, pinboards, or other vertical surfaces. The physical device consists of an effector platform suspended by two suspension wires whose lengths are adjusted by motorized spindles mounted above and on either side of the board surface. The position of the effector platform is adjusted by winding and unwinding the wires. Electrical power is supplied to the effector platform through the suspension wires or through an on-board battery. Control of a pen and/or other apparatus on the effector platform is achieved through modulation of the power voltage. A parking facility is provided as a resting place for the effector platform for such purposes as keeping pens from drying out.

    摘要翻译: 摆锤白板打印机是一种全自动机器人设备,用于标记或以其他方式影响白板,插板或其他垂直表面。 物理装置由两个悬挂线悬挂的效应器平台组成,其长度通过安装在板表面的任一侧上的电动主轴进行调节。 通过缠绕和展开电线来调节效应器平台的位置。 电力通过悬挂线或通过车载电池供应到效应器平台。 通过调节电源电压来实现对效应器平台上笔和/或其他设备的控制。 提供停车设施作为效应器平台的休息处,用于保持笔不会干燥。

    Method and apparatus to convert bitmapped images for use in a structured text/graphics editor
    8.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus to convert bitmapped images for use in a structured text/graphics editor 有权
    用于转换位图图像以用于结构化文本/图形编辑器的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US07576753B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-08-18

    申请号:US11375809

    申请日:2006-03-15

    IPC分类号: G09G5/02

    CPC分类号: G06K9/00463

    摘要: An image analysis and conversion method and system. Bitmapped ink images are converted to structured object representations of the bitmapped images, which may be read and edited by a structured text/graphics editor. The structured object representations correlate to perceptually salient areas of the bitmapped images. The structured object representations are editable by the structured text/graphics editor to allow a user to generate alternative interpretations of the bitmapped images.

    摘要翻译: 一种图像分析与转换方法及系统。 位图油墨图像被转换为​​位图图像的结构化对象表示,其可由结构化文本/图形编辑器读取和编辑。 结构化对象表示与位图图像的感知显着区域相关。 结构化对象表示可由结构化文本/图形编辑器编辑,以允许用户生成位图图像的替代解释。

    Method for dynamically maintaining multiple structural interpretations
in graphics system
    9.
    发明授权
    Method for dynamically maintaining multiple structural interpretations in graphics system 失效
    在图形系统中动态维护多个结构解释的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5553224A

    公开(公告)日:1996-09-03

    申请号:US101646

    申请日:1993-08-04

    CPC分类号: G06T11/00

    摘要: A graphical input and display system for creating and manipulating an abstract graphical image by decomposing it into abstract elemental objects and organizing the elemental objects into a set of perceptually coherent composite objects. The system includes an input device for entering the graphical image, such as a mouse or digitizer and electronic stylus, a display, and a function selection system for manipulating the graphical image. The system decomposes the graphical image entered onto the display into abstract elemental objects each consisting of one or more consecutive "on" pixels within the image. The system organizes the elemental objects into composite objects, which are abstract groups of elemental objects, such that each elemental object belongs to one or more composite objects and each composite object contains one or more elemental objects. The elemental and composite objects are linked in a lattice data structure stored in system memory. When a user manipulates the graphical image, the system creates new elemental objects in the manipulated region of the image, reorganizes all or part of the composite objects into one or more new composite objects, and updates the lattice data structure.

    摘要翻译: 一种图形输入和显示系统,用于通过将抽象图形图像分解为抽象元素对象并将元素对象组织成一组感知相干的复合对象来创建和操纵抽象图形图像。 该系统包括用于输入图形图像的输入装置,例如鼠标或数字化仪和电子手写笔,显示器和用于操纵图形图像的功能选择系统。 系统将输入到显示器上的图形图像分解为每个由图像内的一个或多个连续的“开”像素组成的抽象元素对象。 系统将元素对象组织成复合对象,它们是元素对象的抽象组,使得每个元素对象都属于一个或多个复合对象,每个复合对象包含一个或多个元素对象。 元素和复合对象在存储在系统存储器中的网格数据结构中链接。 当用户操纵图形图像时,系统在图像的操纵区域中创建新的元素对象,将全部或部分复合对象重新组织成一个或多个新的复合对象,并更新网格数据结构。