By Arbitrary Ratio Patents (Class 345/668)
  • Patent number: 11847758
    Abstract: Provided are a material presentation method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The material presentation method includes steps described below. A to-be-presented splash presentation material is received. A splash presentation image of the to-be-presented splash presentation material is magnified, and the magnified splash presentation image is presented. In response to the presented magnified splash presentation image satisfying a minifying condition, the presented magnified splash presentation image is minified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shuai Liu
  • Patent number: 11800080
    Abstract: A method for generating a distribution image to be distributed via a network includes acquiring an image taken at least omnidirectionally, and generating a distribution image having a low image-quality part at four corners by thinning out and extracting pixels from the acquired image. The generating includes extracting the pixels by selecting the pixels to be extracted in accordance with a ratio between a circle having a center of the distribution image as an origin and an arc of the circle included in the distribution image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: OHMI DIGITAL FABRICATIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takuma Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11508069
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for processing an event data flow and a computing device. The method includes: reading a plurality of pieces of event data with a first duration sequentially from the event data flow; with respect to each piece of event data with the first duration, analyzing the event data to acquire time-difference information about each event within the first duration; and generating an image frame presenting a change in movement within the first duration in accordance with the time-difference information about each event within the first duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CELEPIXEL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Shoushun Chen, Shizheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11315267
    Abstract: A method for processing scan data which are recorded by a measuring device with a scan functionality, wherein a reduced scan data record is created from a recorded scan data record with a first scan data density by selecting individual scan data points. Here, the selection represents an adaptation to a reduced scan data density, which is less than the first scan data density of the recorded scan data record. The reduced scan data density depends on a predetermined display resolution for displaying scan data. The reduced scan data record is transmitted to an external data processing device and displayed by the latter by means of a display, depending on the predetermined display resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AG
    Inventor: Christoph Herbst
  • Patent number: 11195314
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for artificially rendering images using viewpoint interpolation and extrapolation. According to particular embodiments, a method includes moving a set of control points perpendicular to a trajectory between a first frame and a second frame, where the first frame includes a first image captured from a first location and the second frame includes a second image captured from a second location. The set of control points is associated with a layer and each control point is moved based on an associated depth of the control point. The method also includes generating an artificially rendered image corresponding to a third location outside of the trajectory by extrapolating individual control points using the set of control points for the third location and extrapolating pixel locations using the individual control points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Stephen David Miller, Martin Saelzle, Radu Bogdan Rusu
  • Patent number: 11144175
    Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a microphone, a touchscreen display, at least one processor operatively connected to the microphone and the display, at least one memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a user utterance via the microphone, to display a user interface (UI) on the display, to receive a touch or gesture input associated with the UI via the display, to identify at least one item associated with the user interface, based at least partly on the touch or gesture input, to identify an intent based at least partly on the user utterance, to identify at least one parameter using at least part of the at least one item, and to provide a response, based at least partly on the intent and the at least one parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dohyeon Kim, Jaeyung Yeo
  • Patent number: 11042690
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adaptive column selection. One of the methods includes obtaining a size of a display area. The method includes obtaining column descriptors, each column descriptor identifying a column and a column width. The method includes determining a set of columns to present, including comparing the column width of a column to an available size remaining, and including the column in the set in response to determining that the column size is less than the available size. The method includes calculating an aggregate width of all the columns in the set. The method includes allocating a portion of the size to each column in the set of columns based on a ratio of width of the respective column and the aggregate width. The method also includes presenting the columns in the set of columns on the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Vinyl Development LLC
    Inventor: Thomas R. Kennedy, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10976177
    Abstract: There is provided a technique for reducing the possibility that a user loses track of how a road, etc., grasped by him/her have been changed on a map. A navigation system includes: a map display part that displays a map on a display in any of a plurality of display modes, the map including a current location; a moving image display part that displays, when the display mode changes, a moving image in which the map is rotated and the display mode before being changed gradually changes to a changed display mode, on the display; and a speed-of-change control part that increases a speed of change in the display mode after start of the change in the display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Ueda, Kazunori Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10901663
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus that executes a first control program plugged in to an application to cause a printer to print data generated in the application and a second control program to be executed when a printing instruction is made, wherein the apparatus comprises a setting unit which sets, using the first control program, a predetermined sheet size which can include the data in one page to the application, and executes margin deletion setting to the second control program to cause margin deletion, a margin deletion unit which generates print data based on the data generated by the application and included in the one page having the predetermined sheet size, and deletes a margin in the generated print data, and an output unit which outputs, to the printer, the print data in which the margin has been deleted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Daisuke Hori
  • Patent number: 10838678
    Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment includes an acceptance unit, a setting unit, and a change unit. The acceptance unit accepts a change instruction for a display type on each of a plurality of screens capable of displaying images with different display types. The setting unit limits and sets the display type in such a manner that images with an identical display type are not displayed on the plurality of screens when the display type is changed based on the change instruction. The change unit changes an image on a screen with the change instruction being applied thereto to an image with the set display type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO TEN Limited
    Inventors: Fumi Honda, Shuji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10674113
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel having first and second sub-pixels for first and second color light, and a second pixel having third and fourth sub-pixels for third and second color light, an image processor to convert input image data into output image data of greater resolution, and a panel driver to display images based on the output image data, the input image data including first, second, and third input color data corresponding to the first, second, and third color light, the output image data including first, second, and third output color data corresponding to the first, second, and third color light, and the image processor for generating the first and third output color data, by performing an upscaling-rendering operation on the first and third input color data, and the second output color data, by performing an upscaling operation on the second input color data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji-Eun Park, Jinwoo Noh, Youngwook Yoo, Heechul Hwang
  • Patent number: 10649635
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an electronic device, a command input using a first modality; detecting, at the electronic device, a selecting input using a different modality; combining, using a processor, the command input and the selecting input into an application formatted command; and providing the application formatted command to an application running on the electronic device for execution. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Antoine Roland Raux, Akshay Chandrashekaran
  • Patent number: 10581139
    Abstract: In an interface unit, a shield layer includes an aperture through which magnetic flux generated by a power feeding coil of an antenna passes. Since the antenna is smaller than the shield layer, the aperture is much smaller than the shield layer. Thus, noise constituted by electromagnetic waves that travel from inside to outside of a computer via an aperture provided in an upper surface cover is blocked. During communication, the antenna and the shield layer are electromagnetically coupled to each other, and the shield layer defines and functions as an antenna. This allows proper communication with a communication target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Kato, Shinichi Nakano
  • Patent number: 10411800
    Abstract: An image area detector detects a high-luminance image area having a luminance value equal to or higher than a predetermined value, having a size equal to or larger than a predetermined size, and including two or more high-luminance subject images disposed adjacent to or overlapping with each other, from an input image frame. The enlargement controller controls the detected high-luminance image area to be enlarged and displayed. If any instruction to designate a subarea within a rectangular border surrounding the enlarged high-luminance image area is provided from the user, the position coordinate setter converts the coordinates of the subarea into the coordinates before the enlargement, and stores the converted coordinates into the memory as the coordinates of the LED serving as a light source that transmits information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naotomo Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10325389
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving a digital note of a plurality of digital notes generated based on image data comprising a visual representation of a scene that includes a plurality of physical notes such that each of the plurality of digital notes respectively corresponds to a particular physical note of the plurality of physical notes, wherein each of the physical notes includes respective recognizable content. In this example, the method also includes receiving user input indicating a modification to one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes editing, in response to the user input, the one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes outputting, for display, a modified version of the digital note that includes the one or more visual characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard J. Moore, Michael C. Leighton, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Linus Åkerlund, Olof Roland Persson, Héctor M. Aybar López, Diane R. Wolk, Pontus Axelsson, Staffan H. Kjellberg
  • Patent number: 10191716
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recognizing voice in a portable terminal, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for recognizing voice by re-combining commands in a portable terminal is provided. The method of controlling an application in a portable terminal includes displaying a voice control application, extracting keywords in a unit of a command from a received voice when receiving the voice, and classifying the keywords, rearranging the classified keywords according to a set control order, and generating a final command, and executing a function by processing the final command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngdae Koo, Taehyung Kim, Howon Jung
  • Patent number: 10133463
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for rendering a document on any size device includes, during runtime, rendering a document for display on a device, where the document includes multiple elements arranged in one or more rows and one or more columns. The method includes if a size of the device is greater than a threshold size, scaling the document as a whole to fit the size of the device. If the size of the device is less than the threshold size, scaling the document by stacking the columns containing elements into a single column, removing empty space from the single column, and scaling the elements in the stacked single column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Business Objects Software, Ltd
    Inventors: Cathie Marache-Francisco, Kevin Le Fur
  • Patent number: 10075634
    Abstract: A method and system for generating a surround view are provided. The method may include: establishing a surround surface; obtaining a plurality of images of surroundings; and projecting the images onto the surround surface based on a projection relationship between points on the surround surface and pixels on the images to generate a surround view, where the projection relationship may change with heights of the points on the surround surface. An improved projection effect may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jia He, Norman Weyrich
  • Patent number: 9851822
    Abstract: A method for secure touch screen input comprising: receiving from a touch screen an indication of a touch event on a predetermined enablement area on the touch screen; receiving from the touch screen an indication of a touch event on an interface element presented on the touch screen associated with a command; verifying that the interface element touch event occurs at an overlapping time with the enablement area touch event; and when the touch events occur at overlapping times, performing the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: TradAir Ltd.
    Inventor: Ayal Jedeikin
  • Patent number: 9730671
    Abstract: A method and system for incorporating voice commands into the interactive process of image segmentation. Interactive image segmentation involves a user pointing at an image; voice commands quicken this interaction by indicating the purpose and function of the pointing. Voice commands control the governing parameters of the segmentation algorithm. Voice commands guide the system to learn from the user's actions, and from the user's manual edits of the results from automatic segmentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Inventor: David Thomas Gering
  • Patent number: 9633167
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus, method, and program are provided that control display of an image. The information processing apparatus, method, and program designate a first point and a second point on an image, determine a zoom direction based on a position of the first point relative to a position of the second point, and zoom the image in the zoom direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeatsu Yoshioka, Masao Kondo, Yutaka Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9600451
    Abstract: A method for a terminal to display a file includes sending to a server a file specification corresponding to the file; receiving from the server a data package for trimming page margins of the file, wherein the data package is generated according to the file specification, and includes margin trimming data of a page of the file; and displaying the page of the file based on the received data package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventor: Ruiheng Qiu
  • Patent number: 9554060
    Abstract: In one aspect, one or more computing devices may capture a panoramic image. Panoramic images may refer to images having a field of view which is greater than that of the human eye, e.g., 180 degrees or greater. Some panoramic images may provide a 360-degree view of a location. In response to capturing the panoramic image, the one or more computing devices may provide for display a request for a non-panoramic, for example, a zoomed-in image. A zoomed-in image may be captured. An area of the panoramic image that corresponds to the zoomed-in image is determined by the one or more computing devices. The zoomed-in image is associated with the area by the one or more computing devices. In this regard, the panoramic image and the zoomed-in image may be taken close in time such that the images have the same or similar lighting conditions, scenes, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Joseph Filip
  • Patent number: 9332252
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic test system for a digital display system, which digital display system comprises display electronics configured to output a digital video stream, and a display screen connected to the display electronics to receive the digital video stream generated thereby and to display at least one image based on the received digital video stream. The automatic test system is designed to be connected to the digital display system to receive the digital video stream generated by the display electronics, and is configured to: reconstruct in memory an image based on the received digital video stream; compute a signature of the reconstructed-in-memory image; and test the digital display system by comparing the computed signature with a reference signature so as to thereby check whether the reconstructed-in-memory image completely matches an expected good display behavior, wherein said reference signature is indicative of said expected good display behavior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: AGUSTA WESTLAND S.P.A.
    Inventor: Antonio Silva
  • Patent number: 9305330
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing images having zoomspots are provided. In embodiments, an interactive image is provided. Such an interactive image includes a zoomspot that, if selected, results in a magnified portion of the interactive image corresponding with the zoomspot. Subsequently, an indication of a selection of the zoomspot is received. In response thereto, the magnified portion of the interactive image corresponding with the zoomspot is automatically presented. The magnified portion can be presented in accordance with a predetermined location of the interactive image and a predetermined quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rajeev Kumar Chand, Faisal Nasim, Andres De Vivanco Castro Mendivil, Sander Martijn Viegers, Shree Lakshmi Jayachandra Rao
  • Patent number: 9286895
    Abstract: A method of processing multiple inputs in an apparatus having interfaces for interaction with an outside is provided. The method includes detecting a first user input from one of the interfaces, performing a function in response to the first user input, detecting a second user input or a system input from another one of the interfaces, and changing attributes of the function in response to the second user input or the system input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Howon Jung, Woomok Kim, Taehyung Kim, Yoonjung Choi
  • Patent number: 9274693
    Abstract: In one example, a method includes receiving a digital note of a plurality of digital notes generated based on image data comprising a visual representation of a scene that includes a plurality of physical notes such that each of the plurality of digital notes respectively corresponds to a particular physical note of the plurality of physical notes, wherein each of the physical notes includes respective recognizable content. In this example, the method also includes receiving user input indicating a modification to one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes editing, in response to the user input, the one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes outputting, for display, a modified version of the digital note that includes the one or more visual characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Richard J. Moore, Michael C. Leighton, Guruprasad Somasundaram, Linus Åkerlund, Olof Roland Persson, Héctor M. Aybar López, Diane R. Wolk, Pontus Axelsson, Staffan H. Kjellberg
  • Patent number: 9262443
    Abstract: An unknown material is classified using texture. A database of predetermined images is accessed, each of a known material and each captured at a magnification factor that is relatively high. A query image of the unknown material is received. The query image is captured at a second magnification factor that is relatively lower than the magnification factors of the predetermined images. A collection of images of the known materials is dynamically generated at the second magnification factor. The received query image is matched against the dynamically generated collection of images, and the unknown material is classified in correspondence to a match between the received image and the dynamically generated collection of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Siu-Kei Tin
  • Patent number: 9063630
    Abstract: A graphical representation of data may be displayed along with a horizontal axis and a vertical axis. A user may define a region in the graphical representation using a zoom tool. If the defined region intersects with either of the horizontal or vertical axes, a single axis zoom may be performed according to the defined region rather than a conventional zoom. A single axis zoom may include maintaining the domain of either the horizontal or vertical axes, while zooming in at the intersected axis of the defined region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Oliver M. C. Williams
  • Patent number: 9063631
    Abstract: A computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for displaying of and enabling cooperative use of resources on a display of a computing device includes computer readable code means, the computer readable code means when executed by a processor device, being configured to provide an environment, the environment being configured to represent the resources on the display of the computing device, provide a first viewport to at least a portion of the environment on the display of the computing device, enable a resource to be added to the environment and be viewed within the first viewport and enable the resource to be acted upon within the first viewport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Inventor: Chad Dustin Tillman
  • Publication number: 20150116368
    Abstract: A method for adjusting characters of an application that are displayed on a device, includes: receiving an instruction for adjusting the characters of the application according to a first scaling coefficient; determining whether there is a second scaling coefficient, for the application, that is based on the first scaling coefficient; adjusting the characters of the application according to the first scaling coefficient if it is determined that there is no second scaling coefficient, for the application, that is based on the first scaling coefficient; and adjusting the characters of the application according to the second scaling coefficient if it is determined that there is a second scaling coefficient, for the application, that is based on the first scaling coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Xinyu LIU, Zhenwei Wen, Yue Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150103092
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a digital image viewer 110 may crop a digital image 304 to fit into the viewport 302 of the display application 112. The digital image viewer 110 may determine a viewport height of a viewport 302 for a display application 112 on a digital image viewer 110 that downloads a digital image 304. The digital image viewer 110 may execute an automatic size adjustment of the digital image 304 keyed to the viewport height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Panuruj Khambanonda, Vladimir Cabildo, Carolina Hernández
  • Publication number: 20150091908
    Abstract: When a plurality of enlarged/reduced images to be displayed based on a predetermined original image are displayed on a display screen, each of the enlarged/reduced images is created and displayed at a higher speed. Therefore, desired regions (vertical/horizontal target regions (532 and 533)) within an original image (690) are designated, and desired images (vertical/horizontal target images (700 and 710)) including the entire designated desired region are read from the original image, and stored separately from the original image (690). Then, an enlargement/reduction ratio (P) with respect to the original image (690) is acquired, and an enlarged/reduced original image (620) obtained by enlarging/reducing the original image (690) with the enlargement/reduction ratio (P) in both a long-side direction and a short-side direction is created and displayed on a display screen (53).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: Satoshi Kawatani
  • Patent number: 8880424
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for inserting a digital advertisement into a window by a computer processor for display on a screen. First, an initial portion of the window containing only text is identified that is of sufficient size to accommodate the advertisement. Next the advertisement is inserted into the identified initial window portion behind the text so that the text is readable. Then, the color of the advertisement or of a portion of the text is subsequently adjusted so that the advertisement becomes more prominent. The text may contain text-related graphics and the advertisement may be placed as not to obstruct any such graphs. As a user scrolls the underlying content, the advertisement is then moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Inventors: Ortho Flint, Stephen Richard Horne
  • Patent number: 8862974
    Abstract: A number-of-pixel acquisition unit acquires the number of pixels of the image data stored in a storage device. An aspect ratio acquisition unit acquires the aspect ratio of the image data. A display control unit displays a list of a plurality of thumbnail images of the image data on a display device. Herein, the display control unit displays a thumbnail of image data having more pixels as a larger thumbnail than that of image data having less pixels, while keeping the aspect ratio of the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Ohkubo, Akitsugu Komiyama, Takayuki Shinohara, Hidehiko Morisada, Takashi Umeda, Takahiro Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20140267439
    Abstract: A system includes cloud-based resources having backend storage for maintaining single copies of display content items, such as images, and a frontend content delivery network (CDN) to dynamically format and deliver the content items in response to client requests. In the case of digital images, for example, a single copy of full resolution version of the image is stored in the backend storage, rather than dozens of versions with different resolutions. The frontend CDN is configured with multiple graphic processing units (GPUs) configured to rescale the full resolution image in real-time at the time of delivery to the client device. By resealing images on the fly at the edge of the cloud-based resources, the system reduces storage costs while minimizing any negative impact on latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Jon Jenkins
  • Patent number: 8823749
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide an efficient user interface for providing continuous zoom or magnification of a displayed image on a computing device. A user may initiate a zoom-in or zoom-out function by tracing an ellipsoidal shape (e.g., a circle) using a user interface device, such as a touchscreen, touchpad or mouse. The zoom function continues so long as a touchscreen or touchpad are touched, or a mouse button is depressed, and an ellipsoidal path is traced. Zoom-in or magnification scaling factor may be applied to an image in response to a clockwise path trace and a zoom-out or demagnification scaling factor may be applied to an image in response to a clockwise path trace, or vice versa. A visual aid may be presented on the display that may be followed to conduct the zoom function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samuel J. Horodezky, Kam-Cheong Anthony Tsoi
  • Patent number: 8810605
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for processing adaptive video and a method of scaling video, which generate a graphical user interface (GUI) so that a GUI suitable for the screen size of a display device can be displayed according to the screen size of the display device. The apparatus can realize a GUI most suitable for the screen size of an external display device connected to the apparatus by enlarging or reducing the size of the GUI according to the screen size of the external display device, or by changing the arrangement of items arranged on the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-jun Park, Hee-soo Lee, Byung-soo Kim, Jae-cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 8792749
    Abstract: A scaling device for receiving and scaling a digital image signal includes a scaling module and a data quantity control logic. The scaling module scales the digital image signal and then outputs a scaled output signal according to a scaling ratio. The data quantity control logic controls output quantity of the scaled output signal according to a scaling ratio. Thus, when the data quantity outputted from the scaling module is controlled within the data quantity that may be processed by the post stage of the scaling module per unit time, the data quantities that may be processed per unit time in the post stage processing devices of the scaling module approximate a constant value such that the post stage processing speed of the scaling module may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chia-Pei Chang, Hsin-Ying Ou, Hui-Huang Chang
  • Patent number: 8624927
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit displaying information on a display screen, a distance detector detecting a distance from the display screen to the face of an operator, and a controller causing the information to be enlarged and reduced on the display screen in response to a change of the detected distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenta Ohmori, Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8587584
    Abstract: A method for determining interior coordinates is disclosed. The method includes receiving information specifying an object having a plurality of sites and a boundary. Interior coordinates associated with each of the plurality of sites are determined based on the boundary. The interior coordinate associated with each of the plurality of sites represent a system of coordinates that satisfy several properties, including non-negativity and interior locality. At least one value associated with the plurality of sites is then interpolated using the interior coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Anthony D. DeRose, Mark Meyer
  • Patent number: 8576252
    Abstract: An information display apparatus includes: a display portion that displays image information; an acquiring unit that acquires image information being subjected to a display processing; a scale-up and scale-down processing unit that subjects the acquired image information to a scale-up and scale-down processing with a designated scale-up and scale-down ratio; and a deforming unit that compares a size of the image information subjected to the scale-up and scale-down processing with a size of a display area of the display portion, and deforms the image information so that an entirety of the image information is displayed on the display area in a case where the image information is larger than the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukiyo Uehori, Tohru Fuse
  • Patent number: 8565554
    Abstract: Digital images are resized according to a prescribed image scaling factor. An original image is re-sampled according to the scaling factor, resulting in an initial resized image. A probability of text (POT) map is generated for the initial resized image, where the POT map specifies a smoothed POT value for each pixel in the initial resized image. A weighting factor (WF) map is generated which maps each different smoothed POT value to a particular WF value. The WF map is used to calculate an adjusted luminance value for each pixel in the initial resized image, resulting in a final resized image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yan Lu, Wen Sun, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li
  • Publication number: 20130222434
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for processing adaptive video and a method of scaling video, which generate a graphical user interface (GUI) so that a GUI suitable for the screen size of a display device can be displayed according to the screen size of the display device. The apparatus can realize a GUI most suitable for the screen size of an external display device connected to the apparatus by enlarging or reducing the size of the GUI according to the screen size of the external display device, or by changing the arrangement of items arranged on the GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20130155117
    Abstract: A display apparatus and method allow automatic partitioning of a display screen according to the number of content items so as to minimize a page scroll according to the number of captured content items when the content is reproduced, to increase user convenience, and a computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon computer program codes for executing the display method. The display apparatus includes a display controller that allows first content and second content to be displayed on a first area and a second area of a display screen, respectively. The display controller divides the first and second areas according to a golden ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyo-sang Bang
  • Patent number: 8451297
    Abstract: Determining a rectangular area with a given aspect ratio within a global boundary formed by multiple projectors. An iterated process is repeated at moved locations along the global boundary, until a stopping condition is met. According to the iterated process, a point at a location of the global boundary is selected, a minimum rectangle with the given aspect ratio is grown from identified directions, and the largest rectangle encountered is delivered when the stopping condition has been met. For each such direction, the minimum rectangle is grown in the direction from the selected point until it intersects with a boundary, the grown rectangle is grown in another direction responsive to a determination that the grown rectangle can grow in another direction. The largest rectangle encountered previously is replaced, responsive to a comparison which indicates that the grown rectangle is larger than the largest rectangle encountered previously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sangwon Chae, Hung Khei Huang, Yasuhiro Komori
  • Patent number: 8416267
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for processing adaptive video and a method of scaling video, which generate a graphical user interface (GUI) so that a GUI suitable for the screen size of a display device can be displayed according to the screen size of the display device. The apparatus can realize a GUI most suitable for the screen size of an external display device connected to the apparatus by enlarging or reducing the size of the GUI according to the screen size of the external display device, or by changing the arrangement of items arranged on the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-jun Park, Hee-soo Lee, Byung-soo Kim, Jae-cheol Lee
  • Publication number: 20130083079
    Abstract: Where a label for an item to be represented by an icon is customized, the icon is generated to dynamically display all of the label. Thus, at some point, the entire label is displayed, even though only a portion of the label is eventually displayed in the icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Anastasia Paushkina, Alfredo Mendonça de Almeida, Matthew Lenell Cooper, Michael J. Mc.Cormack
  • Publication number: 20130076797
    Abstract: Device simulators and methods for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the device simulators are capable of permitting accurate pixel to pixel and inch to inch mapping between a simulated display and a display of a target device. Web application development tools utilizing such simulators are also disclosed. In some embodiment, such web application development tools provide a convenient method to convert electronic document source files to interactive document web applications for multiple operating systems and form factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventor: Zhaorong Hou
  • Publication number: 20130050273
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image processing unit receiving an input of magnification ratio information indicating a magnification ratio of an image, and an image signal indicating the image, the image processing unit performing on the image signal, image processing which changes an image size of the image signal according to the magnification ratio; an image quality processing receiving an input of an image signal undergone the image processing, and the magnification ratio information, the image quality processing unit changing a sharpness frequency characteristic preliminarily determined according to the image, according to the magnification ratio, the image quality processing unit performing sharpness processing which emphasizes a frequency component of the image signal undergone the image processing, based on the changed sharpness frequency characteristic; and a display unit displaying on a display screen, an image based on the image signal sharpness-processed by the image quality processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: NEC Display Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuuichi Fujimura