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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
May. 23, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Reinhard Waibel, Berneck, CH;
Manfred Ammann, Lauterach, AT;
Assignee:
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft, Schaan, LI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 3/08 ;
Abstract
The optoelectronic distance measuring, signal processing and display device and the operating method upon which such a device is based are characterized in that a current function state of the device and changes made thereto by the user are shown graphically on a display of the device by at least one of icons, numbers and symbols, wherein active changes in the currently indicated function state are carried out exclusively by selecting at least one of the respective icons and numerical input. In such a device, no language-specific or country-specific fonts and programming language components are needed.