Abstract: When a handwritten image is input using a handwriting input device while an image based on any general data stored in a storage unit is being displayed on a display unit, the input/output apparatus displays a handwritten image in addition to the displayed image, and creates handwritten data including data specifying information specifying general data which is a basis for the displayed image. The input/output apparatus terminates the display of the handwritten image when the display of the image superposed by the handwritten image is terminated, and displays the image based on the data specified by the data specifying information included in the handwritten data when the handwritten image is displayed. This allows the association between the displayed image and the handwritten image to be saved and to easily be reproduced.

Abstract: A method, system, computer program product, and computer readable media for a semi-automated surface extraction approach to delineating an object of interest (OOI) from 3-D medical image data sets. This approach is imaging modality independent and results in enhanced displays of blob-like anatomies, including internal organs (e.g., cardiac chambers, liver) or disease processes (e.g., tumor masses). In an embodiment of the method: (I) the user provides multiple representative points located on the surface of the OOI using a Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR) tool; (2) those Cartesian points are translated into polar coordinates (each 3-D point is represented via two angles and a height), which uniquely define the surface points for a radial object, (3) a Radial-Basis Function (RBF) interpolator, with a Thin Plate Spline (TPS) radial function, finds the height function for the polar domain, and (4) polar domain representation of the OOI surface is converted back to Cartesian coordinates.

Abstract: An input device includes: a receiving section configured to receive a plurality of characters input by a user's operation, a confirming section allowing the display control section to confirm the plurality of characters received by the receiving section; a display section configured to display the plurality of characters allowed to be confirmed by the confirming section; a touch sensor configured to detect a touch point on the display section; and a display control section configured to identify, based on the touch point detected by the touch sensor through a user's double tap, at least one conversion target character among the plurality of confirmed characters, convert a character style of the conversion target character, allow the display section to display the conversion target character converted in character style, confirm the input of the conversion target character converted in character style.

Abstract: Media devices display content with fonts that contain sets of glyphs such as letters. Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing parameters for modifying a font. The modification of the font may increase readability for users of the media devices. The parameters may be determined based on at least one of an analysis of the content or an analysis of existing fonts and modifications already made to the existing fonts.

Abstract: A data processing method, apparatus, and computer program product for performing a similarity comparison between software programs are provided. An aspect of the invention provides a data processing method for performing a similarity comparison between two programs, where the data processing method includes: (a) extracting API names from each program and converting the API names to unique text sequences of a particular byte; (b) establishing a frequency table by counting a frequency of the extracted API names; (c) recording the API names converted into the unique text sequences in a log file in the order of extraction; and (d) saving the frequency table as a file and compressing the log file.

Abstract: A system for scaling visualizations may include a human machine interface (HMI) configured to display a visualization on a screen, a secondary display device configured to display a scaled visualization such that the scaled visualization is determined based at least in part on the visualization, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive an indication that the secondary display device has been coupled to the HMI, present two or more scaling mode options on the screen or the secondary display device, receive an input that corresponds to one of the scaling modes, generate the scaled visualization by applying a scaling factor to the visualization, wherein the scaling factor is based at least in part on the input, and facilitate sending the scaled visualization to the secondary display device.

Abstract: A printing device includes a feeding portion configured to feed a print medium along a feed direction, a printing portion configured to perform printing on the print medium fed by the feeding portion, the printing being performed for each of a print line extending in a direction orthogonal to the feed direction, a storage portion configured to sequentially store print data received from the external device, and a processor configured to determine whether consecutive identical data are accumulated in the storage portion, the consecutive identical data being identical print data for a predetermined number of the print lines that are consecutive in the feed direction, and cause the printing portion to start the printing based on the print data stored in the storage portion when it is determined that the consecutive identical data are accumulated.

Abstract: A method and an electronic device for providing a video call analysis service are provided. The method includes receiving video call data, detecting an emotional change of a call party using the received video call data, and, when the emotional change is detected, storing the video call data at a time point at which the emotional change is detected.

Abstract: A smart display allows a user to build custom layouts of user interface blocks on the smart display independent of the software on the computer creating the user interface. A customization mechanism in the smart display allows a user to select portions of a user interface and move them to different positions on the display. The customization mechanism creates custom layout metadata that defines a screen offset for portions of a user interface moved by the user. The smart display monitors the incoming display data and re-assigns pixel rendering data to the new location in the moved user interface blocks as the data coming from the computer application changes.

Abstract: A system and method for displaying information at a fuel dispenser comprises an electrophoretic display that may be configured to operate in low temperature environments. The fuel dispenser may comprise a keypad located beneath the electrophoretic display in order to present a graphical user interface to a customer and receive the customer's selections. The fuel dispenser may comprise additional electrophoretic displays to present additional information to the consumer.

Abstract: A display control method for controlling display of characters in a display section equipped with a plurality of pixels, includes: acquiring character data; and displaying a character according to the character data in a character display region of the display section. The character corresponding to the character data is displayed in the character display region by using a plurality of pixel groups each having a predetermined shape.

Abstract: A flexible web page template and template building tool which generates templates that grow and shrink according to an amount of user content.

Abstract: A method of describing inter-character spacing in a font file. The method includes receiving a plurality of glyphs associated with textual content, and determining a corresponding advance value for each of the plurality of glyphs, the corresponding advance value being based on a distance between a respective glyph and a next glyph following the respective glyph. The method further includes storing the corresponding advance value for each of the plurality of glyphs in an advance table of the font file, and generating an electronic document for the textual content based on the plurality of glyphs and the font file.

Abstract: An image display apparatus includes: a display device configured to display a plurality of images. At least one common setting is provided in common for the images, and an individual setting is allowed to be set individually for each image. A controller controls the display device to display the at least one common setting when the images displayed on the display device are being scrolled. When the images displayed on the display device are not being scrolled, the controller controls the display device to display at least one individual setting and at least one image of the images such that each of the at least one individual setting is displayed in association with a corresponding one of the at least one image.

Abstract: A method of displaying text on a path includes creating a mapping between distances along the path and points on a line based on changes in direction of the path, composing glyphs on the line, having a total line length defined in accordance with the mapping, to form a composed line, associating the glyphs with the path in accordance with the mapping and the composed line, and outputting the association of the glyphs with the path for display of the glyphs along the path.

Abstract: Examples described herein include a computing device that enables users to provide input to affect a particular manner in which a particular font is displayed. In particular, the user input can after a line weight and/or sharpness of a selected font.

Abstract: A system and method for rendering text data in web applications is provided that eliminates redundant processing. Constant resources are pre-computed and work is offloaded from the central processing unit to the graphics processing unit. This is generally accomplished by pre-computing before any rendering. A generic index vertex buffer object is created, and for each font, a glyph texture object and glyph position texture object are created. A frame including text is then rendered in which a glyph string texture object is created. For each character, a glyph index-to-texture and glyph offset to-texture is appended. A glyph texture, glyph position texture and glyph string texture are then bound, and the generic index vertex buffer object using a custom vertex shader is rendered.

Abstract: The present invention provides a character conversion system, comprising: a parsing unit, used to parse received data, determine at least one character contained in the data, and obtain property information corresponding to each character of the at least one character; a judging unit, used to, with respect to each character, determine a pattern bitmap of the character according to the property information, and judge whether the pattern bitmap satisfies a preset condition; a conversion unit, used to, if the judging unit judges that the preset condition is satisfied, determine an original inner code of the character according to the property information, and convert the character according to the original inner code; and if the judging unit judges that the preset condition is not satisfied, identify an actual inner code of the character according to the pattern bitmap, and convert the character according to the actual inner code.

Abstract: A system and method determines a management action as a function of device interactions. The method includes determining a first interaction data generated by an electronic device, the first interaction data being indicative of at least one of a device user interaction, a device environment interaction, and a device state interaction. The method includes generating, by the electronic device, a first notification data as a function of the first interaction data. The method includes transmitting the first notification data from the electronic device to a remote device management server. The method includes determining, by the device management server, a first management action data as a function of the first notification data, the first management action data being indicative of a functionality to be applied to the electronic device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for searching within images. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query from a user device; receiving a query image from the user device; identifying a result image responsive to the query; determining that an object depicted in a sub-portion of the query image is similar to the result image; and in response to determining that the object depicted in the sub-portion of the query image is similar to the result image: providing annotation data to the user device that causes the user device to display an annotation with the query image, the annotation specifying the sub-portion of the query image that includes the object that is similar to the result image.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a handwritten document processing device includes an input/output unit and a processing unit. The input/output unit acquires a plurality of sets of stroke data of a handwritten document. The sets of stroke data include a first portion including first stroke data, a second portion including second stroke data, and a third portion including third stroke data. The processing unit is capable of implementing a first processing operation of deriving first table data based on the sets of stroke data and supplying the first table data to the input/output unit. The first table data include a first ruled line corresponding to the first portion, first cell data corresponding to the second portion, second cell data corresponding to the third portion, and a second ruled line provided between the first cell data and the second cell data.

Abstract: Character recognition is described. In one embodiment, it may use matched sequences rather than character shape to determine a computer-legible result.

Abstract: A digital processor having a key input unit and a key input method are disclosed. The key unit includes: a base that is fixed at the central position of the key unit; a slider that horizontally moves in parallel to the horizontal plane of the base by the user's operation; a frame that supports the slider so as to horizontally move; and a restoration unit that gives a resistive force against the horizontal movement of the slider and restores the horizontally-moved slider to an original position. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of keys by increasing the number of information to be input by the use of a single key.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for reducing font execution instructions for a font, and thereby a file size for the font. The font execution instructions can be scanned (e.g., by examining tables) to identify one or more common instruction sets in the font execution instructions. A function can be defined for a common instruction set, and the instances or appearances of the common instruction set in the font execution instructions can be replaced with a call to the function. Because the call is generally smaller (e.g., comprises fewer lines of code) than the common instruction set it replaces, the number of execution instructions for the font is reduced.

Abstract: A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method that includes representing animation states of a virtual character in editable graphical representations. Each animation state represents each individual action of the character for an instance in time. The method also includes storing data that represents one or more changes in the animation states of the virtual character from the editable graphical representations. A pose of the virtual character is reconstructable upon retrieval of the stored data.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for rendering fonts of a user interface, both of which can establish a font cache table to cache fonts needed to be rendered, searches a font needed to be rendered in the font cache table and returns that font, and renders the founded font needed to be rendered. The method and the apparatus of the present invention pre-cache the fonts needed to be rendered by establishing the font cache table, so that the font rendering efficiency of the user interface can be improved significantly, especially the fluency of a dynamic user interface which contains plenty of font rendering is not reduced following the plenty of font rendering. In addition, the present invention further proposes a font supplementary scheme and a maintenance scheme of the font cache table, so as to make the present invention have more practical value.

Abstract: With respect to an object that strokes a path existing in page description data, the position of a start point of a line element formed along the path is estimated based on a path construction operator and a dotted line pattern determining operator. If the distance between the start point and an end point of the path is equal to or less than a prescribed threshold value, the position of the end point of the path is changed to another position along the path in order to increase the distance.

Abstract: A system and methods are disclosed which provide simple and rapid animated content creation with simple control of scene characteristics, scene-to-scene transitions, content elements, and certain element behaviors. Tools are disclosed for conveniently applying scene characteristic and transition labels to control the look and feel of a scene, such as camera attributes, lighting, and the like. A voice input tool enables quick creation of spoken language segments for animated characters. Tools are provided to enable multiple content creators to collaborate on content creation. A warehouse model is disclosed for animation content elements. The ability to create dynamic animated content, and the ability to increase the emotional and dramatic texture of that content, are provided through use of relatively simple and intuitive tools.

Abstract: The importance detection unit 52 detects importance of each pixel composing the original image thus acquired. In addition, the importance map generation unit 52 generates an importance map indicating distribution of the importance detected for each pixel. The characteristic region detection unit 61 detects a characteristic region of the original image, from the original image thus acquired. The determination unit 62 determines a brushstroke pattern that should be applied to the characteristic region thus detected, from at least two types of brushstroke patterns stored in a storage unit. The brushstroke pattern conversion unit 63 converts an image in the characteristic region into an image, to which the brushstroke pattern is applied, based on the brushstroke pattern thus determined. The adjustment unit 64 adjusts color of the image of the brushstroke pattern being the image in the characteristic region, based on the importance map thus generated.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for displaying an image on a display unit includes a message receiving unit to receive a message display request from an external apparatus via a network; an operation determination unit to determine whether the image processing apparatus is being operated when the message receiving unit receives the message display request; an image generator to generate a message image based on a message included in the message display request when the operation determination unit determines that the image processing apparatus is not being operated; and a message display unit to display the message image on the display unit.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for dynamically adjusting dimensions of characters, such as digits, displayed on a configurable display, such as in a human-machine interface. The height of the characters is fixed and the width is altered depending upon the number of characters to be displayed, resulting in changing aspect ratios for the characters. The width may be set to a predetermined maximum character width if all characters to be displayed will fit within the available space, or the width may be reduced to accommodate more characters. The technique may take into account cushion spaces for borders or frames, as well as spaces between characters. The resulting display allows for a change in the number of significant digits in a displayed numeral, while maintaining excellent readability.

Abstract: A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database in the form of vector data that defines various image objects, such as roads, geographical boundaries, etc., and textures defining text strings to be displayed on the image to provide, for example, labels for the image objects. The imaging rendering system renders the images such that the individual characters of the text strings are placed on the image following a multi-segmented or curved line. This rendering system enables text strings to be placed on a map image so that the text follows the center line of a curved or angled road or other image feature without knowing the specifics of the curvature of the line along which the text will be placed when creating the texture that stores the text string information.

Abstract: A developer tool is used to programmatically calculate the contrast between the text and background in a user interface. A luminosity ratio is automatically calculated by the tool by capturing an image of a user interface, archiving user interface elements that do not contain text, performing optical character recognition on the remaining user interface elements to find pixels on the text part of the user interface element and pixels on the background part of the user interface element, and finally calculating the luminosity ratio. Results including errors, warnings and luminosity ratio for one or more hotspots in the image can be returned. Results can be used to identify user interface elements that comply or fail to comply with visibility guidelines for contrast between user interface text and background.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that displays a document that includes several glyphs on a touch screen display. The method receives a touch input on the touch screen display to activate a zoom tool enabling location of a position indicator within a set of associated glyphs. The method automatically divides a touch screen region for the set of associated glyphs into sub-regions. Each sub-region is associated with a position indicator location between two subsequent glyphs. A first sub-region associated with a location between first and second glyphs has a same width as a second sub-region associated with a location between the second glyph and a third glyph. The first and third glyphs do not have an equal width. The method correlates movement of the touch input across the touch screen display with the equally-spaced sub-regions in order to move the position indicator between the glyphs in the associated set.

Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to serially displaying text on an electronic display using techniques for placement of an optimal recognition position of words at a fixed display location. In some embodiments, an optimal recognition position character is displayed at the fixed display location. In other embodiments, an optimal recognition proportionate position is displayed at the fixed display location. Various related techniques for processing and displaying text are further disclosed herein.

Abstract: A display processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive registration of a symbol by associating the symbol with a plurality of data selected from a group of data when each data included in the group of data is disposed and displayed on a different area among display areas by a display device; and a display control unit configured to control the display device to display the symbol registered by being associated with the plurality of selected data, by associating the symbol with the designated data, when the designated data is included in the plurality of data, in a case where any one data included in the group of data is designated.

Abstract: A system and method of selecting a letter for display in a communication device having a display and a reduced-key keyboard is provided. One of the plurality of keys on the reduced-key keyboard is selected and a default letter associated with the selected key is displayed. A backspace key is selected to display a cursor in the position of the default letter on the display. The key associated with the default letter is selected again and an alternate letter associated with the selected key is displayed in place of the default letter.

Abstract: A touch screen to smooth a moving trajectory of a touch unit input as a curved line and to display the moving trajectory, and a display method of the touch screen are provided. The display method of the touch screen may include sampling coordinates at touch points when a touch unit moves on a touch screen, determining whether a moving trajectory of the touch unit is a curved line according to inclination between the coordinates, and fitting the sampled coordinates to a curve and displaying the fitted curve on the touch screen upon determining that the moving trajectory of the touch unit is the curved line.

Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive designation of at least one data among a plurality of data when each of the plurality of data is disposed and displayed in each of a plurality of different first areas of a display area by a display apparatus; and a changing unit configured to change a degree of emphasis in each symbol displayed on the display area depending on a positional relationship between the symbol and the data associated with the designation received by the reception unit when the designation is received by the reception unit.

Abstract: A multicore system 2 includes a main system program 610 that operates on a first processor core 61 and stores synthesized audio data, which is mixed audio data, to a buffer for DMA transfer 63, a standby program 620 that operates on a second processor 62, and an audio output unit 64 that sequentially stores the synthesized audio data transferred from the buffer for DMA transfer 63 and plays the stored synthesized audio data. When an amount of storage of the synthesized audio data stored to the buffer for DMA transfer 63 has not reached a predetermined amount of data determined according to the amount of storage of the synthesized audio data stored to the audio output unit 64, the standby system program 620 takes over and executes the mixing and the storage of the synthesized audio data that is executed by the main system program 610.

Abstract: The interactive electronic book can be displayed on a dual-screen electronic device, with a first screen that displays the text of the book, and a second screen that displays the contextual references. Links to the contextual references can be displayed on the first screen alongside the text or embedded in the text. The contextual references can be historical descriptions, pictures, videos, contemporaneous writings and so on that help to put the text of the book in context. The contextual references can relate to the portion of the text that is displayed on the first screen. Different modes allow for the displayed text to be shown in marked mode, or unmarked mode. The interactive electronic book can also include testing software which tests the reader on their understanding of the text. The interactive electronic book can also be updated with new texts and contextual references.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for converting an image format object to a text format object are provided. The method includes selecting a region within an object displayed on a first screen; converting an image format object included inside the selected region to a text format object; and displaying the converted text format object on a second screen as an object that is inputtable to an input window of the second screen.

Abstract: A information display apparatus includes a content storage module, a controller, a specification module, and a marker information storage module. The controller controls a text to be displayed. The specification module specifies, based on a user's operation, a character string, as a marker display character string in the displayed text. The marker information storage module stores position information of the marker display character string within a storage region of the content storage module, and stores a stored time where the position information is stored as being related to the position information. The controller allows the text in an identifiable manner based on the position information, wherein a mode of the identifiable display is differed in accordance with time elapsed since the stored time for the marker display character string.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by visually depicting the presence/absence of a set of query terms in a set of paragraphs across a set of documents.

Abstract: A difference of coordinate values stored adjacent to each other is compressed by means of a statistical coding system when reading out outline font data storing coordinate values necessary for drawing a contour of a character in order of drawing the contour in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction and also a category of a line connecting a pair of coordinates simultaneously, followed by compressing the coordinate values of the outline font data. A value of a result of subtracting “A?1” from a difference of coordinate values is determined to be a difference value of coordinates if the difference of coordinate value is equal to or greater than a certain value A, and a code expressing the difference value of “0” is added in front of the codes of difference values that are smaller than the value A in the case of a category of line connecting adjacent coordinates to each other being a straight line.

Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method for editing ink text data. More specifically, a device for editing digital ink data displayed on a display includes a stroke order rearrangement processing unit configured to rearrange an input order of two or more strokes on the basis of a predefined criterion to generate a rearranged input order when receiving a user input including the two or more strokes, a data generation unit configured to generate digital ink data corresponding to a rearrangement stroke reflecting the rearranged input order, and an editing unit configured to change the digital ink data displayed on the display when an editing signal is generated. Thus, a user can intuitively and easily perform the editing operation, such as update, deletion, and insertion, on digital ink data displayed on a screen, and thus feel satisfaction.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for transforming a binary dot-matrix font to a gray dot-matrix font. The method includes generally five steps. First, a binary dot-matrix outline shape is received, which is designed to render a binary dot-matrix character image on a binary dot-matrix display. The binary dot-matrix outline shape includes one or more curve segments. Second, the received dot-matrix outline shape and the binary dot-matrix character image that can be rendered based on the received outline shape are placed on a lattice coordinate system composed of a plurality of dots. Third, for each of the one or more curve segments, intersecting points at which the curve segment intersects with the plurality of dots in the lattice coordinate system are recorded. Fourth, an anti-aliasing operation is performed on the binary dot-matrix outline shape placed on the lattice coordinate system to obtain a target gray value for each of the dots that are intersected by the one or more curve segments.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described to perform operations including displaying a first character in a user interface in response to a first user input, the first character encoded by a first ordered sequence comprising at least one code point, receiving a second user input, determining if the second user input defines an exception input to the first ordered sequence, in response to determining that the second user input defines an exception input to the first ordered sequence, generating a second ordered sequence comprising at least one code point, the second ordered sequence based on the first ordered sequence and the exception input, wherein the second ordered sequence does not include the first ordered sequence in a predicate sequence, and displaying a second character defined by the second ordered sequence in place of the first character in the user interface.

Abstract: A method of showing the time of day by displaying a mathematical expression. A display capable of showing numbers, letters, and other characters is used. A plurality of numbers in conjunction with one or more mathematical symbols is displayed to create a mathematical expression which changes at regular intervals. Evaluating the expression according to mathematical conventions yields a number that represents the current time of day. Such a device will serve to stimulate the mind by providing a different mental exercise at regular intervals, with the built-in reward for success being the ability to determine the time of day. Expressions can be easy or difficult to evaluate, geared to any number of different types and abilities of viewers.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program for high-speed, efficient text rendering are disclosed. In accordance with certain embodiments of the present invention, an image resource architecture is provided for optimal sub-image uploads to keep the glyph cache up to date. A glyph cache is divided into zones, or sub-caches, wherein requests for writing a glyph bitmap to the cache may be handled by destroying or clearing an entire zone. In accordance with other embodiments of the present invention, a highly efficient method of rendering is provided wherein commands are automatically combined and made into larger commands for the GPU. Alternatively, rather than performing a command stream flush upon each intersection, a texture cache flush may be implemented. All source glyph bitmaps may be placed into one texture.