Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hewlett-packard Company

Frederick Denham Taft

David H Ochs

Kenneth H Bronstein

Bruce A Stephens

James R Andreas

Debra L Johnson

Apparatus and methods for selectively masking image data and inhibiting projection of light corresponding to the masked image data. Projection devices include a light engine to project light onto a surface within an available field of projection and a processing unit configured to selectively mask image data in response to user input defining a desired field of view. The masked image data is that image data corresponding to areas outside the desired field of view.

Selectively masking image data

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to detect an on-screen display condition associated with the media player, and the control unit is configured to prevent first information associated with the on-screen display condition and provided by the media player from being displayed by the projector in response to detecting the on-screen display condition.

Media projector system for preventing the display of on-screen display information

Methods and apparatuses are provided for sizing an image on a display screen. A user is provided the ability to display an image, display graphical objects, navigate, highlight, and activate one of the graphical objects on a display screen thereby sizing the image to the display screen.

Method and apparatus for sizing an image on a display

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the projector is ready for operation, and the control unit is configured to prevent the media player from playing the media content until the projector is ready for operation.

Media projector system

A system comprising a media player configured to play media content, a projector operatively coupled to the media player and comprising a lamp, and a control unit operatively coupled to the media player and the projector is provided. The control unit is configured to determine whether the media content comprises visual content, and the control unit is configured to prevent the lamp from being turned on in response to determining that the media content does not comprise visual content.

The present invention provides methods, a computer-readable medium, a software system, a system, a testing system and an article of manufacture for tracking information received by a user from a network wherein the information includes at least some dynamic information. One embodiment of the method includes the steps of parsing the information received into static information, if present, and dynamic information and validating the static information, if present, and the dynamic information.

Test system for testing dynamic information returned by a web server

An input device, such as a mouse, has a base unit movable in an x direction and a y direction. Inside this base unit is a position detection mechanism which detects movement of the base unit. A handle is attached to the top of the base unit. The handle has sufficient length and width to accommodate the fingers of a human hand curled about it, and has an adjustable length, width, and orientation. After adjustment and during normal operation, the handle does not move in any direction independent of movement of the base unit. The handle has one or more switches on it. Each of the switches is positioned for activation by a different finger of a human hand curled about it.

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Frederick Denham Taft