Touch screen form entry system
CA 1287925 C · Owner: Gillon, Alexander Carlyle · Inventors: Day, Benjamin Wilson; Gillon, Alexander Carlyle; Le Conte, Raoul Arntz
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Abstract A personal computer connected to a display and touch screen panel is provided with a form entry system integrated therewith. The form entry system is adapted to display a predefined form and to automatically display a predefined tool, such as a keyboard, menu, calculator etc. to facilitate inputting, information in a respective field of the form or chart. Specifically the user is, prompted as to which field is to be filled in by highlighting the field and concurrently displaying as an overlay (window) the tool that the user will use to input the information called for by the highlighted field. In the case where a field calls for illustratively the insertion of a name the system may …
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- Granted August 20, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended August 20, 2008.
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