| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 434085000 | Drawing | 21 |
| 20090061395 | SEQUENCE DOT CONNECT SHEETS - A drawing sheet assembly including a drawing sheet and a plurality of dots printed on the sheet. The dots have a differing optical property relative to each other. The drawing sheet assembly further includes a sequence guide configured guide a user to connect the dots in a particular sequence such that when a user connects the plurality of dots in accordance with the sequence guide a drawing or part of a drawing is created. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100028838 | Rotatable Drawing Device - A rotatable drawing device intended for children. The top and sides of said device are attached and are formed to accept drawing mediums such as chalk, water or dry erase marker used to color, write and draw upon this device. The top of the drawing device has a recessed portion to hold the drawing medium when not in use. The drawing device rests upon and is attached to a base platform on which it rotates. The drawing unit is spaced above the base platform so that the drawing cylinder may rotate about its center axis. Feet adhered to the bottom of the base hold the invention off the floor. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110212421 | THERMOCHROMATIC INKS, PRINTING METHODS AND KITS - The present invention relates to thermochromatic inks. The present invention provides a toy, wherein the toy includes at least one thermochromatic ink. The present invention provides a pre-printed item, wherein when the temperature of the pre-printed item is changed to particular temperatures, the color of a marking, the color of a drawing, or both, change. The present invention provides an interactive item, wherein the visual appearance of the item is changed by changing the color of at least one of a first or second inks. The present invention provides a drawing device, wherein the position of a substrate and a temperature element are such that a thermochromatic ink does not change color unless sufficient pressure is applied to the substrate effective to deflect the surface of the substrate and bring it temporarily sufficiently more proximate to the temperature element. The present invention provides a smart wand for drawing on a substrate that includes thermochromatic ink. The present invention provides a backlight system. The present invention provides a light box. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20120058454 | Sketching Devices having Improved Geometry - An improved sketching device is disclosed having a substantially flat base and a regular grid of at least 20×20 bumps disposed on the base. A bottom of the each of the bumps can be spaced apart from a bottom of an adjacent bump by a first distance comprising between 0.005-5 mm. The raised bumps can be sized and positioned to form a plurality of intersecting grooves. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120295231 | REALTIME USER GUIDANCE FOR FREEHAND DRAWING - Architecture that guides the freeform drawing of objects by a user to enable the user to produce improved drawings without significant training. As the user draws, the architecture dynamically updates a relevant shadow image proximate (e.g., underlying) the user's strokes. The strokes overlay an evolving shadow image, which shadow image is suggestive of object contours that guide the user during the drawing process. Relevant edge images selected from a large database are automatically blended to construct the shadow image. As the user draws, the strokes are dynamically analyzed using an encoding of overlapping windows for fast matching with the database of images. A top ranked set of matching database edge images are aligned to the drawing, a set of spatially varying weights blend the edge images into the shadow image, and a scoring technique is employed to select the optimum shadow image for display. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130084547 | Illuminated Child's Activity Toy - An illuminated child's activity toy in which a housing is provided on which opaque drawing sheets can be mounted. The housing includes an illumination system that can be used to back-light the surfaces of the housing. Using a scraping tool, a child can remove the opaque material from the drawing sheet to reveal the illuminated base and optionally, a design which has been pre-printed on the drawing sheet. The illuminated toy can be viewed using 3D glasses to enhance the visual appearance of the toy. Additionally, the toy can be used as a customized nightlight of the child's own design. A novel child's activity toy is provided. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20140045148 | Capacity Building System for Developing Visual-Spatial Construction Planning Ability, Capacity Building Method, Capacity Building Program and Recording Medium Thereof - A capacity building system is for developing visual-spatial construction planning ability. An arithmetic section has a model image display unit displaying a model image to be copied and a model image reference, a model image marks-entering request unit requesting the learner to enter marks, a model image auxiliary line-entering request unit requesting the learner to enter vertical and horizontal auxiliary lines in the model image area, an exercise image auxiliary line-entering request unit requesting the learner to enter vertical and horizontal auxiliary lines in an exercise image area, an exercise image marks-entering request unit requesting the learner to enter marks on positions, in the exercise image area, corresponding to the marks of the model image, and an exercise image forming request unit requesting the learner to form the exercise image by connecting between the marks in the exercise image area. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20150064661 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SOFTWARE TOOLS - Method of managing software tools using an electronic device includes initializing a three dimensional (3D) cube on a user interface of a software. The 3D cube includes cube surfaces. Each of the cube surfaces has been divided into blocks. A tool of the software is loaded on each of the blocks of each of the cube surfaces. In response to detecting a rotation signal on the 3D cube, a selected cube surface is determined. In response to detecting a touch signal on the selected cube surface, selected blocks on a same layer on the selected cube surface are determined, and a rotation direction of the layer is determined based on the touch signal. Current blocks are determined on the selected cube surface by rotating the layer according to the rotation direction. Icons of tools corresponding to the current blocks are displayed on the selected cube surface. | 03-05-2015 |
| 434086000 | Animal or human body model having movable parts | 1 |
| 20110123962 | DYNAMIC FORESHORTENING VISUAL AID DEVICE - An apparatus for a dynamic foreshortening visual aid. A manikin having articulated limbs and a poseable torso and neck is located in space in fixed dynamic natural and unnatural positions for viewing by a comic book artist. Variable orientation connectors are applied between the manikin and a flexible rod and/or between the flexible rod and a base plate or clamp. The manikin is removeably connected to the flexible rod such that various figures are used with a single flexible rod and base plate. A visual aid having multiple manikins that are viewed interacting with each other is also disclosed. | 05-26-2011 |
| 434087000 | Stencil | 1 |
| 20140011164 | DRAWING TOY WITH STYLUS DETECTION - A drawing toy and associated methods and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed. The drawing toy may comprise a stylus having a tip, a drawing surface configured to produce a visual path that follows a path of the tip along the drawing surface, and a plurality of stencils, each stencil comprising a plurality of designated areas and a plurality of trace paths. A controller of the drawing toy may identify a stencil placed upon the drawing surface, determine that a particular designated area of the placed stencil is proximate the stylus tip, and generate an output signal configured to cause a user perceivable output associated with the particular designated area determined to be proximate the stylus tip. | 01-09-2014 |
| 434088000 | Tracing | 9 |
| 20080206721 | Method and Device for a Game and for Drawing with Magnets - Drawing instrument divided into two parts and held together with magnets and a partition between the two parts. One side of the partition is the surface that is drawn upon. Movement of the hand held part will cause a corresponding movement of the tracing part, thereby tracing the drawing on the surface that is drawn upon. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090068622 | LETTER GUIDE SHEET - A drawing sheet assembly including a plurality of drawing sheets, each drawing sheet including sequential instruction indicia. The instruction indicia instructs a user to draw at least part of two pre-writing shapes that cooperate to create a rudimentary drawing. Each drawing sheet further includes a drawing space providing a space in which a user can draw the rudimentary drawing in accordance with the sequential instruction indicia. The plurality of drawing sheets collectively include instruction indicia instructing a user to draw at least part of all nine pre-writing shapes. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090117523 | Optical hand drawing plate - An optical hand drawing plate includes a body and a backlight module. The body has a concave portion and an input portion corresponding to one side of the concave portion. The backlight module is mounted in the concave portion and includes a light guide plate, a background plate and a light emitting assembly. An insertion space is formed between the light guide plate and the background plate and corresponds to the input portion. Basing on the structure of the present invention, a picture can be inserted in the insert space between the light guide plate and the background plate through the input portion, and a user can directly draw patterns shown on the picture. A light source is provided for the light guide plate via the light emitting assembly, thereby the optical hand drawing plate has a special visual effect. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100105014 | Kit With Integral Sketching Device - A kit for guiding a user is drawing a trace includes a sketching device coupled to a paper tablet. The sketching device comprises a first pattern of raised bumps sized and positioned to form a plurality of intersecting grooves along the surface of the sketching device. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100129779 | Image Capture and Tracing System and Method - This invention is an image capture device for manually transferring an image from a three dimensional scene or from a two dimensional picture onto paper comprised of a two-paneled foldable transparent clipboard. The clip board includes a first panel equipped with a paper clip and a second panel hinged to the first panel. The image capture device also includes a light box and an erasable pen. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100173268 | PORTABLE TRACING DEVICE - Disclosed is a portable tracing device. The portable tracing device assists in tracing a picture from a picture paper sheet onto a plain paper sheet. The portable tracing device comprises a housing and at least one light source. The housing includes a plurality of panels configured together to define an interior volume thereof. Further, at least one panel of the plurality of panels is cut to configure at least one window to secure at least one light transmissible panel thereon for providing a support to the picture paper sheet and the plain paper sheet. Furthermore, the at least one light source is disposed within the interior volume of the housing. The at least one light source emits a path of light through the at least one light transmissible panel such that the picture of the picture paper sheet is visible onto the plain paper sheet placed thereabove. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20130295528 | Conditioning Apparatus And Related Method - In one embodiment, a conditioning apparatus for conditioning a user includes a target, and an illumination source spaced apart from the target. The illumination source is configured to project a light upon the target for use in response to movement of the user. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140030679 | ART TEACHING SYSTEM AND RELATED METHODS - An interactive education system for teaching and practicing art and associated methodology. The objective of the system is two-fold. First, the system displays distortion-free demonstrable or traceable images, both still and motion, onto a student's working paper on a study desk. The system can demonstrate the proper writing sequence to achieve a certain art and illustrate the path and speed of a stroke. In the preferred embodiment, the system uses a projector which is configured in a way to prevent the formation of a shadow due to student's hand during writing. The method for the system involves determining the potential shadow from the user and recommending a location of one or more projectors accordingly. The second objective of the system is to provide quantitative feedback to the student. To this end, the system can evaluate the student's work by comparing it to an original, benchmarked image. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20150093723 | TRACING FIGURES FROM A DISPLAY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A manufacture for tracing figures from a display of an electronic device includes a sheet of transparent or semitransparent material having a shape corresponding to the electronic device or the display, and first and second sides. The first and second sides include a tracing area in which a figure displayed on the display is visible in the tracing area through the transparent or semitransparent material. The manufacture for tracing figures from a display of an electronic device also includes an adhesive applied to a portion of the second side of the sheet for the manufacture to adhere to the electronic device or the display such that the figure displayed on the display of the electronic device is visible in the tracing area through the transparent or semitransparent material such that a user may trace the figure on the tracing area by marking the first side with a writing device. | 04-02-2015 |
| 434090000 | Grid included in drawing aid or scene viewer | 1 |
| 20080241802 | Device for drawing lines on a sized sheet of paper and maintaining registration of the paper when it has been removed and is being replaced on the device - Improvements in the instruments for drawing lines using grooves providing the presentation of lines that may be drawn by placing a sheet of paper over the presentation and engaging the sheet of paper with the point of a writing tool with sufficient force to press the engaged part of the paper into a selected groove and then moving the writing tool point within the line, depositing pencil lead or ink from the end of the writing tool on the paper that is pressed into the selected groove to form a line on the paper. The improvements include the provision of registration marks on a clipboard which has the presentation of grooves for lines to be drawn on the upper side of the clipboard, the registration marks acting as guidelines for the precise placement of the sheet of paper on which lines are to be drawn and its retention in that placement by a clip attached to the end of the clipboard and engaging the end of the sheet of paper for such retention. This precise placement of the sheet of paper allows a sheet of paper that has had one or more lines drawn on it in the manner noted above to be removed and later replaced on the clipboard in precisely the same location as it had when the line or lines were earlier drawn on it, with the result that any additional lines to be drawn will be in perfect relation to the lines earlier drawn, and the later drawings and the earlier drawings appear to have been made just as if the sheet of paper had not been removed between such drawings. Various shapes of such marks may be employed. Another major improvement is the provision of a turntable as a part of the upper surface of the clipboard, with the presentation of the array of grooves being in the upper surface of the turntable, and the turntable may be rotated under the sheet of paper to allow the drawing of lines at different angles to each other. The amount of rotation of the turntable is limited to a desired amount of arcuate movement, within ranges of 90°, 180°, 270°, or 360°. Another improvement is the ability to use different turntables having different types of arrays of grooves which are easily substituted as desired, not requiring completely different clipboard assemblies. | 10-02-2008 |
| 434091000 | Perspective | 1 |
| 20100092927 | Method and System for Creating True Perspective Drawings and Drawings Created by Same - A method and system for creating perspective drawings on a preferably curved drawing surface. An easel and a drawing surface are provided. The artist securely positions his head at a central point relative to the drawing surface and looks past an edge of the drawing surface at an object to be drawn, thereby creating an illusion of a transparent margin of the drawing surface overlapping the object. The object is then traced onto the transparent margin of the drawing surface. The traced-upon margin is cut off and removed from the drawing surface, thereby creating a new transparent margin. These steps are repeated on the new transparent margin until all of the drawing surface is used. The cut-up pieces of the drawing surface are reassembled to form a complete image. The easel includes structure that allows the artist to position an eye at the center point of the drawing surface. | 04-15-2010 |
