Owner Yoshida, K.

Inventors Yoshida, Kenji

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-B-2003221408

PCT Number PCT/JP03/03162

PCT Pub. Number WO2004/084125

Filing date 17 March 2003

Wipo publication date 11 October 2004

Acceptance publication date 27 May 2010

G06F 3/023 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Arrangements for converting discrete items of information into a coded form, e.g. arrangements for interpreting keyboard generated codes as alphanumeric codes, operand codes or instruction codes

G06F 3/03 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form

G06K 7/10 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers - by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing

G06K 19/06 (2006.01) Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings - characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code

H03M 11/04 (2006.01) Coding in connection with keyboards or like devices, i.e. coding of the position of operated keys - Coding of multifunction keys