Patents Examined by Nicholas Klicos
  • Patent number: 11960326
    Abstract: A moving image control method for controlling display of a moving image on a foldable display device is provided. The moving image control method includes: acquiring moving image position information indicating a position in a display region at which the moving image is displayed; acquiring fold state information indicating a fold state of the foldable display device; and controlling whether the moving image is stopped or reproduced in the display region based on the moving image position information and the fold state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LINE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 11922518
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to contact management and communication with contacts. On a portable electronic device having a display a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts are displayed. A first user input is received selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts. In response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, a contact information interface is displayed for the first contact. The contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact. The first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Sebastian Bauer, Tiffany S. Jon, Nicole R. Ryan
  • Patent number: 11841989
    Abstract: A method for generating a haptic feedback can be applied to a terminal, and include: in response to an interface element on a display interface of the terminal being touched, determining a first interface element type corresponding to the interface element, and determining a first haptic effect corresponding to the first interface element type based on a matchup between interface element types and haptic effects, where different interface element types correspond to different haptic effects; generating a haptic feedback of the first haptic effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhe Liang, Qiaozhuo Chen, Huiying Yang, Fan Jin, Wenwen Li, Yuefeng Ma, Yixin Zhao, Rong Liu, Liang Xuan, Qing Liu
  • Patent number: 11836165
    Abstract: A category determining unit (202) determines a category of a first layer and a category of a second layer related to an input keyword by using category information and the keyword. The category information is information indicating hierarchical categories. The second layer is a hierarchy lower than the first layer. A first display control unit (204) causes a display device (10) to display information on each product belonging to the determined category of the first layer. Here, the first display control unit (204) displays information on a product belonging to the determined category of the second layer at a higher priority than information on the other product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Tahara
  • Patent number: 11829584
    Abstract: An apparatus obtains application state information for another device and displays a login screen on a display that provides information for at least one application running on the other device. The information displayed may be an icon corresponding to an application running on the other device. The application state information may include an application identifier, a content identifier and a pointer to a location at which a given content is accessed by the application. An apparatus includes a display, application state monitor logic, operative to obtain application state information for another device, and login screen configuration logic, operatively coupled to the display. The login screen configuration logic is operative to configure a login screen on the display to provide information for at least one application running on the other device, based on the application state information for the other device obtained by the application state monitor logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Sujoy Das
  • Patent number: 11797160
    Abstract: To save a labor and time to input user information of a service, in a reception system (S), an applicant inputs user information to an input form of each of a plurality of services. Identification means (101) identifies other services associated with a service to be input. Display control means (102) displays pieces of user information that have been input to input forms of the other services in a selectable manner. Acquisition means (103) acquires, when the applicant has selected one of the pieces of user information displayed by the display control means (102), the selected one of the pieces of user information as user information of the service to be input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
    Inventors: SeungHee Lee, Hiroshi Oyamada
  • Patent number: 11755181
    Abstract: Systems and methods for populating answers to polling questions based on initial responses. A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to a set of participants of a conference call. The GUI includes a first portion that presents a polling question to be answered by the set of participants. A detecting is made that a first participant of the set of participants has provided a verbal answer to the polling question. The GUI provided to a second participant of the set of participants is modified to present, in a second portion, a textual form of the verbal answer provided by the first participant and a GUI element that allows the second participant to provide a non-verbal answer to the polling question via selection of the GUI element associated with the verbal answer provided by the first participant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Emily Burd, Akshat Sharma
  • Patent number: 11726645
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a display method thereof are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, a display method of a display apparatus includes: displaying a plurality of display items corresponding to a plurality of content items comprising a first display item displayed in a first region and remaining display items; displaying the first display item using a first display scheme and displaying the remaining display items using a second display scheme; and in response to sensing a user interaction for moving the display items, changing the display scheme of the first display item while moving the first display item in a direction corresponding to the user interaction, displaying the first display item using the second display scheme and changing the display scheme of second display items of the removing to the first region among the rest display items to the first display scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-ha Lee, Ben Cerveny, Gabriel Dunne
  • Patent number: 11693875
    Abstract: A method is provided to produce a custom calendar user interface (UI) display on an electronic device display screen comprising: providing a search query to a user device; sending the search query over the network to a server system; receiving over the network by one or more user devices from a server system, information that identifies one or more code objects that match the search query; using the identified one or more identified code objects by the one or more user devices to generate one or more visual content items within a calendar user interface (UI) grid display on their device display screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Asana, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua R. Smith, Anne DuBois, Cliff Chang, John Stahl, Jr., David Braginsky, Scott Alexander Smith
  • Patent number: 11694161
    Abstract: A system for investigative analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: In8Development, Inc.
    Inventors: James Daniels, Glen Wooden, Aryk Moore, Michael Payne, Jill St. Clair Webb, Jared Halper
  • Patent number: 11669152
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus are described herein for enabling one or more users to interface with virtual or augmented reality environments. An example system includes a computing network having computer servers interconnected through high bandwidth interfaces to gateways for processing data and/or for enabling communication of data between the servers and one or more local user interface devices. The servers include memory, processing circuitry, and software for designing and/or controlling virtual worlds, as well as for storing and processing user data and data provided by other components of the system. One or more virtual worlds may be presented to a user through a user device for the user to experience and interact. A large number of users may each use a device to simultaneously interface with one or more digital worlds by using the device to observe and interact with each other and with objects produced within the digital worlds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventor: Rony Abovitz
  • Patent number: 11665273
    Abstract: A method for setting parameter settings of an image signal processor (ISP) of a camera of a mobile device based on a user selection may include controlling a display of the mobile device to display a plurality of images, each of which is associated with corresponding parameter settings. The method may include receiving, via a user interface (UI) of the mobile device, the user selection in relation to an image of the plurality of images. The method may include determining selected parameter settings based on the user selection in relation to the image. The method may include setting the parameter settings of the ISP, based on the selected parameter settings, to permit the ISP to process a raw image from an image sensor of the mobile device using the selected parameter settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michael S. Brown
  • Patent number: 11635873
    Abstract: An information display method includes displaying, by a terminal, at least one poster in a first display area of a screen, receiving, by the terminal, a first input used to select a poster from the at least one poster, and obtaining, by the terminal, story line introduction information associated with a target video, and displaying a first window in a suspended manner in the first display area, where the first window displays the story line introduction information associated with the target video, and the target video is a video represented by the poster selected through the first input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhanggan Shu
  • Patent number: 11627215
    Abstract: Systems and methods for software application usage detection on a user device and other computing device are disclosed. The software application usage detection is done by monitoring the network usage of the application or by usage recognition using methods provided by operating systems. The system identifies a set of applications and monitors their usage. The system is enabled to monitor the behaviors of users and control the same using smart rules set up based on user preferences to prevent over usage and usage in un-acceptable conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Life360, Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Puvvula, Nitin Bhandari, Jack Furr
  • Patent number: 11620033
    Abstract: Systems and methods for proactively identifying user interface objects (e.g., internet links) directed to information of interest to the user and displaying the identified user interface objects in a user interface on an electronic device are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes receive, via a user input device, a user input within a user interface of an internet browser application and displayed on the display of the electronic device; and in response to the user input, display, within the user interface, a first set of one or more user interface objects, each providing a suggested internet link obtained from one or more data sources, different than the internet browser application, on the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alan S. Hshieh, Conrad A. Shultz, Karl Christian Kohlschuetter, Mateusz K. Rajca, Oluwatomiwa Alabi, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Shawn D. Moon, Zachary G. King, Garrett M. Davidson
  • Patent number: 11609693
    Abstract: Ergonomic keyboard-less typing may be used to replace traditional typing on a computer keyboard. The user may use an alternative user interface device, such as a smart phone, a tablet, or a wearable device, to make character selections. One of a plurality of user contact types may be received from an input interface, to provide a first indication of the character inputs the user would like to select. A display menu, generated at least in part based on the contact type received, may then present a plurality of gesture types, and one or more characters corresponding to each of the plurality of gesture types. A second indication of one of the plurality of gesture types may be received at the input interface. A selection of one or more characters may then be displayed based on the received first indication and the received second indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Typyn, Inc.
    Inventor: Marcos Lara Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 11606458
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a favorite-object display method. The method manages favorite objects in different applications, and after an input operation performed by a user on a favorite object is received, the method displays in an original application the content corresponding to the favorite object. The method further includes the following steps: displaying a favorites management interface, where a first favorite object and a second favorite object are displayed on the favorites management interface; receiving an operation entered by a user; and if the operation is directed to the first favorite object, responding to the operation by displaying, in a first application, a content corresponding to the first favorite object; or if the operation is directed to the second favorite object, responding to the operation by displaying, in a second application, a content corresponding to the second favorite object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhenhua Zhu, Lan Mo
  • Patent number: 11586249
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes: a flexible display; a processor electrically connected to the flexible display; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory may store instructions configured to, when executed, cause the processor to display a first portion of a main page including a first object group in a folded state of the flexible display, and when the flexible display is spread, to display a second portion of the main page including a second object group in which at least one object is hidden, along with the first portion of the main page, and in response to a user input for unhiding of the second object group in which at least one object is hidden, to display the second object group in a second portion of the main page. Other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyejin Sim, Hyunkyoung Kim, Hyundo Lee, Joonhwan Kim, Minwook Na, Jiwon Yoo, Boeun Song, Yunsung Jung, Hyemi Hong
  • Patent number: 11579758
    Abstract: A multi-tasking execution apparatus and a method for easily controlling applications running in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a display and a controller. The display displays an application-containing image in which at least one specific image representing at least one application running in a background is contained and arranged. The controller operatively displays at least one specific image representing at least one application running in the background, so as to be contained in the application-containing image, and controls the at least one application running in the background by controlling the specific image based on a specific gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-Kyung Jeon, Joo-Il Sung
  • Patent number: 11579764
    Abstract: A computing device is coupled to a display device, and includes a data monitoring software application program executing on a processor within a data monitoring system. Via the data monitoring software application program, various techniques are performed for generating user interfaces for data monitoring and event response. In a first technique, the data monitoring software application program displays a user interface that includes a first region including a data visualization and a second region including one or more images of a video stream. In a second technique, the data monitoring software application program generates a user interface associated with an event, receive an input corresponding to interaction with a user interface element in the user interface, and initiates an event channel associated with the event in response to the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SPLUNK INC.
    Inventors: Nathan Argroves, Christopher Chan, Bruce McLaren, Benjamin Weaver