Patents Examined by Ruay L Ho
  • Patent number: 10394410
    Abstract: Electronic devices, interfaces for electronic devices, and techniques for interacting with such interfaces and electronic devices are described. For instance, this disclosure describes an example electronic device that includes sensors, such as multiple front-facing cameras to detect orientation and/or location of the electronic device relative to an object and one or more inertial sensors. Users of the device may perform gestures on the device by moving the device in-air and/or by moving their head, face, or eyes relative to the device. In response to these gestures, the device may perform operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bryan Todd Agnetta, Aaron Michael Donsbach, Catherine Ann Hendricks, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Richard Leigh Mains, Jae Pum Park, Sean Anthony Rooney, Marc Anthony Salazar, Jason Glenn Silvis, Nino Yuniardi
  • Patent number: 10152216
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method control applications in the electronic device. A plurality of applications are executed in a foreground and a background. The number of touch points input to a touch screen are detected to select an application according to the detected number of the touch points. A touch gesture is detected for controlling the selected application, and the selected application is controlled according to the detected touch gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jaehoon Kim
  • Patent number: 10126920
    Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for providing information through a network. The method of providing information through a network includes: setting correspondence relations between first information, that is provided in a network site and a user wants to acquire through the network, and the appearance of an application; requesting a server for the first information and receiving a response; analyzing second information included in the response; and displaying the second information by manipulating the appearance of the application, according to the correspondence relations without visiting the network site or activating another application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyo Kim
  • Patent number: 8108786
    Abstract: Graphical user interfaces, systems, and methods of implementing electronic flashcards are disclosed. Embodiments provide an interface for enabling information on a selected side of an electronic flashcard to be displayed and hidden. For example, the information on a first side of an electronic flashcard may be displayed while the information on the second side is hidden, thereby enabling a user to test himself or herself before revealing the information on the second side of the electronic flashcard. The interface may also enable placement or storage of inactive electronic flashcards in multiple piles or stacks. For example, electronic flashcards which have not yet been viewed may be displayed in a first pile, while previously viewed flashcards may be displayed in one or more additional stacks. Additionally, the interface may limit the number of flashcards in one or more of the stacks. Further, the interface may perform automated shuffling of the flashcards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Inventor: Victoria Ann Tucci
  • Patent number: 7992087
    Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated and described herein provide one or more of systems, methods, and software operable to process multilayered documents including form fields. Some embodiments, are operable to process a new or modified background layer image to identify input fields, to match the identified fields with metadata in foreground layer data defining interactive input fields, and to modify the mappings of the input fields defined within the foreground layer of a page description language document as a function of identified input fields in the modified background layer image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Stefan Cameron
  • Patent number: 7987429
    Abstract: There is disclosed a data management apparatus having a display screen, which includes (1) a first area for displaying a list of title information representing data belonging to a specified category and capable of changing the list in response to changing the category specification, and (2) a second area in which no display content is changed despite changing the category specification, wherein at least either of copying and moving of any title information can be performed at least from the first area to the second area. In addition to the data management apparatus, the present invention can be understood as the invention of a camera including the data management apparatus, a data management method, and a recording medium recording a data management program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corp.
    Inventor: Motoi Hosoya
  • Patent number: 7984379
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a standardized schema that can be used by site developers to define a site map and its associated hierarchy. In at least some embodiments, a corresponding user interface can be created within an application such as, for example, a Web browser, to allow the user to specify locations at which they wish to see the site map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Justin Wald
  • Patent number: 7975243
    Abstract: Systems and method which allow for control of televisions and other media device are disclosed. A television set is provided with a gesture capture device configured to receive a gesture input directed to at least one of a plurality of predefined areas related to the television set. The television set further includes a user interaction interface configured to generate data indicative of the gesture input directed toward the at least one of the predefined areas and control the television based at least in part on the generated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Zheng, Dang Van Tran, Sun H Ahn
  • Patent number: 7971146
    Abstract: Audiences for viewing items in one or more electronic repositories including a blog are visually depicted. Input from a user is received for creating different types of items for viewing in the blog. The different types of items include private items, items that are internal for an organization, and public items. Input is also received from the user for selecting audiences for viewing the different types of items in the blog. Items for viewing on the blog are selected from among the created items, and the selected items are displayed on the blog for viewing by the selected audiences. Each selected item is displayed with a visual cue that is distinct for each type of item. The visual cue indicates the selected audience for viewing the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel M. Gruen
  • Patent number: 7962860
    Abstract: There is described a method, to a program and to a system for graphically displaying and projecting at least one network of devices of an automation system, a high density of information usually occurring at the user interface. To allow a user to selectively display devices in a network, in addition to a large quantity of overview information, a solution is proposed in which a user can display individual devices in more detail in an overview. The user can therefore select a device, the instantaneously non-visible details of which he wishes to access, and change the appearance of the device from a not very detailed display to a very detailed display by way of further interaction. This applies to any desired number of devices which can be simultaneously displayed in detail. One advantage is that the network interfaces of devices may also be displayed which cannot be displayed with all network interfaces in the overview without the user being forced to have to change to a different, detail-oriented view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ingo Eichner
  • Patent number: 7950009
    Abstract: A method of displaying contents on a mobile terminal. The method includes displaying a plurality of contents on a display of the mobile terminal, selecting a content from the plurality of displayed contents, and displaying the selected content and similar contents having a similar type as the selected content to be discriminated from other displayed contents that do not have the similar type as the selected content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Jong Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 7890709
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a management area storing management information. The management information includes navigation information for reproducing data from the recording medium, and the navigation information including region information. The region information indicates at least one geographic region in which reproduction of the data is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jea Yong Yoo, Wae Yeul Kim
  • Patent number: 7853879
    Abstract: An image display method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of items of moving image data on a screen include determining a virtual radius of a circular display area displaying one item of moving image data, and determining display positions of the plurality of items of moving image data on the screen such that another item of moving image data is not displayed within a circular display area having the determined radius centered at a display position of one item of moving image data. Each of the plurality of items of moving image data is displayed at the determined display positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Aratani, Tomoyuki Ohno, Katsuhiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 5546524
    Abstract: An apparatus for moving graphical objects including a display for displaying multiple graphical objects according to a display priority, apparatus for moving, responsive to a user input, a displayed graphical object, and apparatus for modifying, responsive to a user input, a display priority of the moved graphical object as the graphical object is moved so that the moved graphical object is displayed under a portion of a second displayed graphical object. In addition, a method for moving graphical objects including displaying multiple graphical objects according to a display priority on a display, moving, responsive to a user input, a displayed graphical object, and modifying, responsive to a user input, a display priority of the moved graphical object as the graphical object is moved so that the moved graphical object is displayed under a portion of a second displayed graphical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Alex C. Chow, John S.-Y. Wang