Patents Examined by Jeanette J Parker
  • Patent number: 11275500
    Abstract: Graphics authoring application user interface control and methods for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises: displaying, by a vector graphics application executing on a tablet, an artboard on the touch-sensitive display surface of the tablet, the artboard being a user interface for displaying vector graphic artwork of a user under control of the vector graphics application executing on the tablet; attaching one or more visual rulers to the artboard, each visual ruler of the one or more visual rules to provide a scale with markers and numbers and users interactable as graphical user interface (GUI) element; and creating one or more guides on the artboard by, at least in part, tapping a cursor positioned on one or more of the one or more rulers, the one or more guides being non-printing lines that appear over the artboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LINEARITY GMBH
    Inventors: Vladimir Danila, Paulo Mattos, Ralph Theodori, Igor Viveiros, Pavlo Pedai, Kai Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 11272991
    Abstract: A method facilitates touchless control of medical equipment devices in an OR. The method involves: providing a three-dimensional control menu, which comprises a plurality of menu items selectable by the practitioner by one or more gestures made in a volumetric spatial region corresponding to the menu item; displaying an interaction display unit (IDU) image corresponding to the three-dimensional control menu to provide indicia of any selected menu items; estimating a line of sight of a practitioner; and when the estimated line of sight is directed within a first spatial range around a first medical equipment device, determining that the practitioner is looking at the first medical equipment device. Then the method involves providing a first device-specific three-dimensional control menu displaying a first device-specific IDU image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NZ Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Ziraknejad, Pranav Saxena, Anshul Porwal, Nameet Kumar
  • Patent number: 11275480
    Abstract: Aspects of the systems and methods are described providing for modifying a presented interactive element or object, such as a cursor, based on user-input gestures, the presented environment of the cursor, or any combination thereof. The color, size, shape, transparency, and/or responsiveness of the cursor may change based on the gesture velocity, acceleration, or path. In one implementation, the cursor “stretches” to graphically indicate the velocity and/or acceleration of the gesture. The display properties of the cursor may also change if, for example, the area of the screen occupied by the cursor is dark, bright, textured, or is otherwise complicated. In another implementation, the cursor is drawn using sub-pixel smoothing to improve its visual quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventor: David S. Holz
  • Patent number: 11269512
    Abstract: The present disclosure, applying to the technical field of interaction intelligent tablets, relates to an annotation display method, device, apparatus and a storage medium. The method comprises: receiving touch data, wherein the touch data is data of a touch point caused by an annotation event that occurs on a touch screen of an interaction intelligent tablet; and displaying an annotation handwriting using the interaction intelligent tablet, wherein the annotation handwriting is obtained according to the touch data, and is drawn on a mouse layer; wherein the mouse layer is a transparent layer and is located above a system view layer. The embodiments of the present disclosure solve the problem that the system view cannot be refreshed when the writing acceleration is performed, and at the same time realize the object of quickly displaying the annotation handwriting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Lei Jiang
  • Patent number: 11270186
    Abstract: A software robot is designed to carry out an activity (e.g., a mouse click, a text input, etc.) on a target element (e.g., a button, an input field, etc.) of a user interface. The robot's code specification is configured to include an on-screen image of the target element and a text displayed by the target element. The robot is configured to automatically identify the target element at runtime according to an element ID specified in the source code of the user interface, and when such identification fails, to identify the target element according to the text and image stored in the robot's code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: UiPath Inc.
    Inventors: Cosmin V. Voicu, Dragos H. Bobolea, Ion Miron, Ilie C. Paunel, Bogdan Ripa
  • Patent number: 11256417
    Abstract: Display of a region for making a pointing operation valid or invalid is controlled in conjunction with a change to a display screen. A computer device (1) includes an application program execution processing section (31) configured to perform control such that at least one application window which accepts a pointing operation is displayed in a manner that allows the at least one application window to change in position or in size; and a region position control section (62) configured to generate an operation control region in such a manner that the operation control region is superimposed on the application window and is associated with the application window, the operation control region being a region for making a pointing operation valid or invalid, and to control a position of the operation control region such that the operation control region changes with a change to the associated application window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC JAPAN HOLDINGS LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Keiya
  • Patent number: 11252467
    Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamically navigating content are provided. An input to perform content navigation may be detected; in response, several selectable navigation settings are displayed, each navigation setting being associated with a navigation interval. An input indicating a selection of a navigation setting may be received and an input about a navigation amount may be received. Based on the navigation amount, navigation within the navigation interval is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Ankur Anil Aher, Charishma Chundi
  • Patent number: 11237694
    Abstract: Example methods are provided to provide synchronization between multiple pop-up windows that are displayed by a user interface. The pop-up windows may render graphical representations of usage data provided through operational metrics associated with elements in a virtualized computing environment. User navigation to a navigation point in one pop-up window results in a similar navigation to another navigation point in another pop-up window, such that information in for the navigation points in both pop-up windows may be presented in accordance with a common timestamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Branislav Abadzhimarinov, Martin Marinov, Plamen Semerdzhiev
  • Patent number: 11231839
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions to control a portable terminal to perform processes including: an receiving processing of receiving a user operation; a first determination processing of determining whether device identification information is stored in the storage; performing a first designation processing; a second designation processing; wherein the first designation processing includes: a first specifying processing of specifying the image processing device; a first selection screen display processing of displaying a first selection screen; and, when the user operation of designating the device object is received, a first storing processing, and wherein the second designation processing includes: a second specifying processing of specifying an image processing device; a second selection screen display processing of displaying a second selection screen; and, when the user operation of designating the device object is received, a second storing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 11221735
    Abstract: A vehicular control unit includes a display configured to display a menu screen including an object for activating an application for operating an apparatus mounted on a vehicle, and a controller configured to activate the application corresponding to the object in accordance with control information acquired from a touch sensor. The controller is configured to set a first stage and a second stage threshold values that are related to data based on pressing, and switch the menu screen when the data based on pressing reaches the second stage threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Hattori, Kazuhiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 11218838
    Abstract: A map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for a social media platform provides a map window that displays an interactive map that is movable within the map window responsive to user input. User icons for respective friend users of a user associated with a client device on which the map-based GUI is generated are displayed in the map window at respective locations on the interactive map. A predefined portion of the map window defines a focus area. Context information for respective friend users are automatically surface for those friend icons located within the focus area, while such context information are automatically omitted or de-surfaced for those friend icons outside of the focus area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Laurent Desserrey, Donald Giovannini, Daniel Rakhamimov
  • Patent number: 11216162
    Abstract: In the present invention, a user selects a transfer process with respect to transfer target data being displayed in a first display area (window), which is the transfer source. At this point, a display processor of the information processing device, for example, changes the display mode so that the first display area is hidden except for the transfer target data. When the user specifies a second display area (window) as the transfer destination, a data processor executes the transfer process of the data to the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoya Usui, Tohru Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11210639
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic dynamic calendar system, an electronic dynamic calendar operation method and a computer readable storage medium for providing an electronic calendar capable of importing multimedia messages such as audio, photos and video. Different from conventional electronic calendars that can only record text messages therein, the electronic calendar can have richer content. In addition to a text message, a multimedia message can be set as a reminder according to the user's need such that the reminder content set by the user can be more clearly understood and expressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: Kevin Ta Hsiang Hsu
  • Patent number: 11209953
    Abstract: In an object switching method based on visual programming that is applicable to a terminal device, an object switching instruction is obtained through an object management region of a target interface. The object switching instruction carries an object identifier of a first object. According to the object switching instruction, a second operable interface corresponding to a second object is switched to a first operable interface corresponding to the first object in a visual layout region of the target interface, and a programmable interface corresponding to the second object is switched to a programmable interface corresponding to the first object in a visual programming region of the target interface. The first object and the second object are comprised in the object management region, and the first object and the second object have different object identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Zili Huang, Boran Pang, Chenglong Hu, Zekai Liao, Zishun Chen, Huafeng Ma
  • Patent number: 11204650
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system enable indirect remote interaction with a web browser. In one embodiment, remote user gestures may be captured and processed to determine an action to be taken by the web browser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher L Elford, Howard P. Tsoi
  • Patent number: 11204784
    Abstract: First data indicative of a first plurality of transactions by a user may be processed to generate first behavioral information describing the user. The first behavioral information may be displayed by an interactive user interface. A user input made in response to the first behavioral information may be received and analyzed to generate user preference information indicating a relationship between the first user input and the first behavioral information. Second data indicative of a second plurality of transactions by the user may be received and processed with the user preference information to generate second behavioral information describing the user. The second behavioral information may be displayed by the interactive user interface differently from the first behavioral information by the interactive user interface as a result of the processing of the second data and the user preference information together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Colin Hart, Jason Ji, Alexandra A. Colevas, Steven Quadros, Adnan Malik, Jared M. Alexander, Scott Golder, Allison Abbott, Matthew Horton, Emma Sagan, Kevan Emmott, Christine Ann Berglund
  • Patent number: 11194471
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus is coupled with a first user interface and a second user interface. The first user interface includes a plurality of zones to receive user inputs. The second user interface includes a plurality of sections to display a plurality of display elements. The electronic apparatus receives a first input from one of the plurality of zones, determines a first display size for at least one of the plurality of sections based on the first input, and further controls the second user interface to modify display elements of at least one of the plurality of sections, based on the first display size. The electronic apparatus further determines a first zone size for the one of the plurality of zones and controls the first user interface to modify the one of the plurality of zones, based on the first zone size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Olivia M. Jacome
  • Patent number: 11188220
    Abstract: An electronic device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, including detecting an initial portion of the gesture while displaying a user interface of a first application, and including concurrently detecting a plurality of contacts on the touch-sensitive surface and detecting movement of the plurality of contacts. In response to detecting the gesture: if the gesture includes two contacts, the device performs an operation in the first application; if the gesture includes more than a threshold number of contacts greater than two and the movement of the contacts during the gesture meets first criteria, the device displays a user interface of a second application; and if the gesture includes more than the threshold number of contacts greater than two and the movement of the contacts meets second criteria, the device a home screen user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz
  • Patent number: 11188213
    Abstract: Techniques for edit experience for transformation of digital content are delivered in a digital medium environment. According to various implementations, an image editor system receives edits to a digital image to transform the digital image and generate an edited image. An edit experience is then generated that is presentable to recreate the image transformation process. The image editor system outputs the edit experience to enable a user to interact with the edit experience to reproduce the image transformation, such as via a step-by-step process. In at least some implementations, edits to a particular digital image are saved as presets that can be suggested for editing other images, such as images that are determined to be similar to an edited image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Eric Nichoson, Edward Christopher Wright, Christopher James Gammon, Christian Thomas Cantrell
  • Patent number: 11182064
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects an operation by an instruction unit on a display screen; and a control unit that controls whether to perform processing by a specific operation, which is one of a drag start operation or a drag end operation by the instruction unit, according to a movement state of the instruction unit in a case where the specific operation is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryouji Taguchi