Alphanumeric Patents (Class 345/685)
  • Patent number: 11886777
    Abstract: The disclosure notably relates to a method for designing a 3D modeled object that represents a mechanical part. The method includes obtaining, at a CAD system, a B-Rep skin which represents the mechanical part. The B-rep skin has a B-rep portion which includes a boundary face. The method also includes defining, by graphical user-interaction with the CAD system, a surface, and constructing, automatically by the CAD system, a B-rep replacement. The method further includes replacing, in the B-Rep skin, the B-rep portion by the B-rep replacement. This offers a “replace face” functionality when designing a B-Rep skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES
    Inventor: Vincent Bouvier
  • Patent number: 11810509
    Abstract: A backplane for driving a display includes a two-dimensional array of pixel drive circuits, organized as a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The backplane has at least one shift register addressing assembly that includes a shift register chain formed of a plurality of controlling shift registers serially connected with, and separated by, equal sized groups of non-controlling shift registers. Each controlling shift register controls a different one of a plurality of word lines that each connect with pixel drive circuits of one row. The backplane also includes a plurality of bit lines that each connect with pixel drive circuits of one column. A shift register data sequence is input to a first one of the plurality of controlling shift registers and propagates through the shift register chain to control the plurality of word lines to load display values from the bit lines into the pixel drive circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Li, Robert Lo
  • Patent number: 11694237
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically inserting content into webpages. A computing device can receive an information resource. The computing device can receive a content item for insertion at one of the candidate content insertion locations of the information resource. The computing device can identify candidate content insertion locations for insertion of the content item based on locations of one or more elements on the information resource. The computing device can monitor for a scroll event on the information resource. The computing device can identify a portion of the information resource to be displayed within the viewport of the application subsequent to processing the event. The computing device can determine that one of the candidate insertion locations is within or below the viewport. The computing device can set a content slot at the determined content insertion location. The computing device can insert, at the content slot, the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Burriesci, Keith Wright, Willa Angel Chen, Joshua Nedelka
  • Patent number: 11615816
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for adding lyrics to a short video. The device obtains a music material required by the short video and obtains a first playback duration of the short video. The device obtains a target music material having a playback duration matching the first playback duration. The device obtains a lyric sticker corresponding to the target music material based on the lyrics extracted from the target music material and displays a processed short video after adding with the lyric sticker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanan Hu, Mu He, Changrui Feng, Yanan Liang, Haiyang Jiang
  • Patent number: 11250169
    Abstract: A system for real-time authenticated obfuscation of electronic data provides real-time visual obfuscation of the data by transforming displayed data into undecipherable data when viewed by an unauthorized user while maintaining access for an authorized user. The system may further provide application-level obfuscation of electronic data via cryptographic keys such that only authorized applications may decrypt the encrypted data. In this way, the system provides secure access control of electronic data within a networked environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Robert Young, Manu Jacob Kurian, Jo-Ann Taylor
  • Patent number: 11120766
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11029834
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying visual content on an electronic device to a user. In some aspects, a viewable display area on a display of the device is determined, the viewable display area representing the portion of the display that the user is capable of seeing. Biometric data representing a state of the user is obtained from biometric device(s). Each state is mapped to one or more predefined control functions, the control functions determining the scrolling direction and scrolling speed of text through the viewable display area of the electronic device. A control function is selected based on a current state of the user, and the selected control function is used to control scrolling of visual content in real time or near real time. The system comprises a machine learning system to provide advanced adaptive capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 10917690
    Abstract: Methods and systems for navigating content displayed on a user computing device comprising generating content data configured for presentation on a display of a user computing device, transmitting, the content data to the display of the user computing device for display on the user computing device, collecting behavior data of the user sensed by the tracking module, and determining whether behavior engagement data represents a value that satisfies a threshold value. When the value satisfies the threshold value an instruction request that is associated with the value of the behavior engagement data is generated and when the value does not satisfy the threshold value the same content on the display of the user computing device is displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Inventors: Michal Knas, Jiby John
  • Patent number: 10831992
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for determining a reading speed based on user behavior are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include monitoring, by a processing device, data continuously, wherein the data is generated by a sensor of the user device; determining, by the processing device, an orientation and a wobble of the user device based on the data generated by the sensor; determining, by the processing device, a reading speed of a user using the user device based on the orientation and the wobble; detecting, by the processing device, a change in at least one of the orientation and the wobble of the user device based on the data; and adjusting, by the processing device, the reading speed of the user using the user device based on the change in the at least one of the orientation and the wobble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kaleb D. Walton
  • Patent number: 10782765
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device including a display, a memory, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a processor which stores a first image that is produced by a first application, in the memory, outputs the first image stored in the memory on the display by activation of the first application, if a second application is activated in response to the user input, provides the first image in a second image that is provided by the second application and stores the second image including the first image in the memory, and outputs the second image stored in the memory on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jong Won Lee, Sung Jae Park
  • Patent number: 10614171
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein facilitate multi-lingual communications. The systems and methods of some embodiments enable multi-lingual communications through different modes of communication including, for example, Internet-based chat, e-mail, text-based mobile phone communications, postings to online forums, postings to online social media services, and the like. Certain embodiments implement communication systems and methods that translate text between two or more languages. Users of the systems and methods may be incentivized to submit corrections for inaccurate or erroneous translations, and may receive a reward for these submissions. Systems and methods for assessing the accuracy of translations are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MZ IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Francois Orsini, Nikhil Bojja
  • Patent number: 10572132
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying content on a reduced-size user interface. An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a display, receives content associated with a designated area of the display, where the content is associated with a plurality of available display formats stored in the memory. The device determines a size of the designated area and determines a first display format for the content from the plurality of available display formats based on at least the content and the size of the designated area. The device displays a representation of the content according to the first display format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Eliza Block, Lawrence Y. Yang, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson, Paul W. Salzman, David Schimon
  • Patent number: 10410398
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying data on a display device. An example method of displaying data on a display device includes computing a texture based on a difference between a high quality (HQ) tile and a corresponding low quality (LQ) tile. The method also includes storing the texture into an alpha channel of the LQ tile. The method further includes compositing the LQ tile onto the display device when an attribute of the alpha channel satisfies a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shiu Wai Hui, Veluppillai Arulesan, Yida Wang
  • Patent number: 10331325
    Abstract: A mobile device having a parallax scrolling function and a method for controlling the mobile device are provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of objects on a touch screen of the mobile device, detecting a touch for scrolling the plurality of objects on the touch screen, and sequentially scrolling the plurality of objects at different time intervals according to attributes of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Joon Won, Masato Watanabe, Jong-Sung Joo, Joong-Hun Kwon, Ji-Eun Yang, Chang-Mo Yang, Hui-Chul Yang, Jae-Myoung Lee, Chul-Ho Jang, Yun Jegal, In-Won Jong, Hyung-Joo Jin
  • Patent number: 10198439
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting additional information for text depicted by an image. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image. Text depicted in the image is identified. The identified text can be in one or more text blocks. A prominence presentation context is selected for the image based on the relative prominence of the one or more text blocks. Each prominence presentation context corresponds to a relative prominence of each text block in which text is presented within images. Each prominence presentation context has a corresponding user interface for presenting additional information related to the identified text depicted in the image. A user interface is identified that corresponds to the selected prominence presentation context. Additional information is presented for at least a portion of the text depicted in the image using the identified user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cuthbert, Joshua J. Estelle
  • Patent number: 9955870
    Abstract: An identifying and monitoring system to be worn at all times that includes a bracelet that can locate lost or missing children, adults, and pets. The bracelet provides emergency personnel with pertinent identifying information including medical history and family contacts. The system includes GPS capabilities and the use of the internet and a web page to upload and download information per each individual bracelet. The bracelet also incorporates a unique locking system that when disengaged from a wearer's wrist an emergency signal and location information is immediately sent to emergency responders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: Allis Dunlavey
  • Patent number: 9778758
    Abstract: A cellular telephone device with a control unit sets a display mode of a display unit to any one of a first display mode for performing two-dimensional display, and a second display mode for performing three-dimensional display; the cellular telephone device displays both of first information and second information, which is subordinate information to the first information, on the display unit, in a case of being set to the second display mode; and the cellular telephone device displays any one of the first information and the second information on the display unit, in a case of being set to the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Sato, Takahiro Nagaya
  • Patent number: 9684641
    Abstract: In some examples, an electronic device may present a portion of a content item in a first language contemporaneously with a corresponding portion in a second language. Thus, a user may view the portion of content in the first language and the same portion of content in the second language. Further, the electronic device may dynamically adjust an area allotted to displaying each language version, such as in the case that a portion of content in one language takes up more space than a matching portion of content in the other language. In some examples, metadata for multiple language versions of a content item may include mapping information for correlating a portion of the first language version of the content item with a matching or corresponding portion of the second language version of the content item based, at least in part, on location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Janna S. Hamaker, Tom Killalea, Abhishek Patnia
  • Patent number: 9626033
    Abstract: A screen unit is connected via a first connection to a control unit. The control unit is connected via a second connection to an output unit. The control unit and also the screen unit are jointly supplied with electrical energy via the second connection. Moreover, data for controlling the screen unit are transmitted to the latter via both connections. In this context, the screen unit additionally provides a touch panel, wherein the touch panel is connected only to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Fuchs, Manuel Krause, Paul Kleist
  • Patent number: 9576619
    Abstract: A shiftable memory supporting atomic operation employs built-in shifting capability to shift a contiguous subset of data from a first location to a second location within memory during an atomic operation. The shiftable memory includes the memory to store data. The memory has the built-in shifting capability. The shiftable memory further includes an atomic primitive defined on the memory to operate on the contiguous subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Wojciech Golab, Matthew D. Pickett, Alan H. Karp
  • Patent number: 9547644
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting additional information for text depicted by an image. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image. Text depicted in the image is identified. The identified text can be in one or more text blocks. A prominence presentation context is selected for the image based on the relative prominence of the one or more text blocks. Each prominence presentation context corresponds to a relative prominence of each text block in which text is presented within images. Each prominence presentation context has a corresponding user interface for presenting additional information related to the identified text depicted in the image. A user interface is identified that corresponds to the selected prominence presentation context. Additional information is presented for at least a portion of the text depicted in the image using the identified user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cuthbert, Joshua J. Estelle
  • Patent number: 9501214
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a memory configured to store data; a touchscreen display; and a controller configured to: display a first portion of a panoramic file selected from the memory, said panoramic file having a display size greater than that of the touchscreen display, and scroll automatically the panoramic file in at least one direction so as to display another portion of the panoramic file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jungbin Lee, Jungsun Lee, Bonjoon Koo, Sangsoo Kim, Kwangsu Shin
  • Patent number: 9307372
    Abstract: A rapid assignment dynamic ownership queue for text message sessions queues incoming text messages destined for a service bureau, at a network server. Simultaneous access is provided to any one text message of the queued incoming text messages to a plurality of operator terminals at the service bureau. Initial ownership of the one text message is assigned as a result of a first acting terminal of the plurality of operator terminals having completed an action in service to the text message, and ownership is re-assigned to a subsequent operator terminal having completed another action in service to the text message after the first acting terminal. A configurable escalation queue may be implemented to assign an escalation code to each queued item, regardless of its position in the queue list, to alter the presentation of the queue item. A No Responders Online feature can indicate if all terminal devices are “offline”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Cuff, Chih Wang, Farhad Kasad, Firdaus Aryana, Gordon J. Hines
  • Patent number: 9218320
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to display summary information for an electronic book are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves, during an electronic book reader session, receiving a request for a summary associated with an electronic book. The example method also involves obtaining a marker indicative of a location in the electronic book and obtaining the summary for a portion of the electronic book demarcated by the marker. The summary is displayed via the electronic book reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Salvatore Ierullo
  • Patent number: 9213358
    Abstract: Monolithic three dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) (3DIC) cross-tier clock skew management systems are disclosed. Methods and related components are also disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, to offset the skew that may result across the tiers in the clock tree, a cross-tier clock balancing scheme makes use of automatic delay adjustment. In particular, a delay sensing circuit detects a difference in delay at comparable points in the clock tree between different tiers and instructs a programmable delay element to delay the clock signals on the faster of the two tiers. In a second exemplary embodiment, a metal mesh is provided to all elements within the clock tree and acts as a signal aggregator that provides clock signals to the clocked elements substantially simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pratyush Kamal, Yang Du
  • Patent number: 9183800
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device (LCD) and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The LCD includes a display panel, a data driven circuit configured for providing data voltages to the data lines, and a power reducing module. The display panel includes data lines, scanning lines intersecting with the data lines, and a matrix of pixels arranged in intersections of rows and columns. The power reducing module is configured for storing a most-reload-image, comparing the data of the most-reload-image and the data of an input image, determining if the input image is a reload image increasing a power consumption of the data driven circuit, and changing a polarity inversion method of a timing controller. By changing the polarity inversion method of the timing controller basing on the input images, the display performance is guaranteed and the power consumption of the data driven circuit is reduced at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Wei Fu, Yu Wu
  • Patent number: 9030539
    Abstract: This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8948788
    Abstract: A computer-implemented visual navigation method includes providing from a wireless mobile device, over a public wireless network to a server located remotely from the wireless mobile device, information identifying a geographic location. The method also includes receiving in response, from the server, image data of digital images captured from an location at the geographic location, displaying the image data to a user of the mobile device as an image of an image space around the geographic locations, and panning the image within the image space automatically in response to user motion of the wireless mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: David P. Conway, Adam Bliss, John H. Palevich, Erick Tseng
  • Patent number: 8848044
    Abstract: This invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a display in which both of a secret image and a public image can be efficiently displayed with high picture quality without reducing contrast of the public image. One of output images is a secret image which displays an input secret image as one of input images in a partial area of a screen, all the output images including the secret image have a relationship to become, when a luminance value of each pixel thereof is totaled, an input public image as one of the input images; and during a period in which at least the secret image is being outputted, shutter glasses disposed between a display to which the image signals are inputted and user's eyes are set to a light transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nec Corporation
    Inventors: Daigo Miyasaka, Masao Imai, Fujio Okumura
  • Patent number: 8647204
    Abstract: A video game program and a video game device are disclosed. If there is no move instruction from the player through a touch panel, the game image displayed on the display screen is scrolled if the position indicated by an input position from the touch panel is included within a first peripheral area along the periphery of the display screen. If there is a move instruction from the player through the touch panel, the game image displayed on the display screen is scrolled if the position indicated by the input position from the touch panel is included within a second peripheral area, larger than the first peripheral area, along the periphery of the display screen. Thus, in a video game device using a touch panel, an appropriate scroll process according to the status of the game is established, thereby improving the operability of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuji Kando
  • Patent number: 8542237
    Abstract: Font animation technique embodiments are presented which animate alpha-numeric characters of a message or document. In one general embodiment this is accomplished by the sender transmitting parametric information and animation instructions pertaining to the display of characters found in the message or document to a recipient. The parametric information identifies where to split the characters and where to rotate the resulting sections. The sections of each character affected are then translated and/or rotated and/or scaled as dictated by the animation instructions to create an animation over time. Additionally, if a gap in a stroke of an animated character exists between the sections of the character, a connecting section is displayed to close the stroke gap making the character appears contiguous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michel Pahud, William Buxton, Sharon Cunnington
  • Patent number: 8487936
    Abstract: A portable electronic device including a display unit uses a still character font and a scroll character font. The display unit can scroll through one or more images on a screen. The still character font is used for characters on a still screen. The scroll character font is used for characters on a scroll screen, and has the same characters as those of the still character font, the characters of the scroll character font having at least one different visual characteristic when compared to corresponding characters of the still character font.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Shoji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20130083071
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display apparatus including a recording unit in which a plurality of images are recorded, an obtaining unit which obtains at least one displaying image from the recording unit, a display unit and a setting unit which sets at least one image display region in the display unit. The image display apparatus further includes a deciding unit which decides a position for arranging the displaying image in the image display region and a control unit which displays the relating information corresponding to the displaying image in a non-arranging region along a longer dimensional direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20120139954
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display section that displays a plurality of lines of character strings on a screen; a character string specifying section that specifies one of the character strings displayed on the screen; and a display control section that scroll-displays the one of the character strings specified by the character string specified section based on a reading direction of the one of the character strings, in which character information is scroll-displayed in a predetermined direction according to the reading direction of the character string displayed on each line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeo OZAWA
  • Patent number: 8137196
    Abstract: A video game program and a video game device are disclosed. If there is no move instruction from the player through a touch panel, the game image displayed on the display screen is scrolled if the position indicated by an input position from the touch panel is included within a first peripheral area along the periphery of the display screen. If there is a move instruction from the player through the touch panel, the game image displayed on the display screen is scrolled if the position indicated by the input position from the touch panel is included within a second peripheral area, larger than the first peripheral area, along the periphery of the display screen. Thus, in a video game device using a touch panel, an appropriate scroll process according to the status of the game is established, thereby improving the operability of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuuji Kando
  • Patent number: 8086276
    Abstract: The wireless communication device, which implements voice communication, which further implements a first function and a second function, wherein when the first function is implemented, the video image generator generates a plurality of two-dimensional text images and the plurality of two-dimensional text images are displayed on the display, and when the second function is implemented, the video image generator generates a plurality of three-dimensional graphic images and the plurality of three-dimensional graphic images are displayed on the display, and the voice communication is initiated by the voice data input via the microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 8068880
    Abstract: The wireless communication device, which implements voice communication, which further implements a first function and a second function, wherein when the first function is implemented, the video image generator generates a plurality of two-dimensional text images and the plurality of two-dimensional text images are displayed on the display, and when the second function is implemented, the video image generator generates a plurality of three-dimensional graphic images and the plurality of three-dimensional graphic images are displayed on the display, and the current location of the wireless communication device is identified by utilizing the current location identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Iwao Fujisaki
  • Publication number: 20110164066
    Abstract: An electronic reading device provides automatic adjustment of image display and key functionality. An actuator and a plurality of keys symmetrically control the electronic reading device. A built-in motion detection mechanism detects changes in the orientation of the electronic reading device. The content of the display and the functionality of the actuator and plurality of keys is automatically adjusted based on the orientation of the device such that the actuator and the plurality of keys perform identical functions in a current orientation as were performed in a previous orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: TODD BEALS, NEWTON GUILLEN, STUART OUGH
  • Patent number: 7864194
    Abstract: Methods and systems for motion adaptive filtering detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame of an image. When such movement is detected and meets a certain level or threshold, the subpixel rendering processing of such text or areas of high spatial frequency may be changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Stuart Philip Kaler
  • Patent number: 7796142
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, involving the following steps: providing the document with an amount of graphic memory to create a buffer memory of the visible part of the document and zones nearest to said visible part; calculating and cutting out into pixmaps said memory; relatively positioning said pixmaps with respect to the entire document and its visible part; filling up the content of the pixmaps, when the document is subjected to a display or scroll procedure, recopying the pixmap content in the display window; and repeating the relative positioning of the pixmaps with respect to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Stéphane Villers
  • Patent number: 7737999
    Abstract: A user-interface system for entering an alphanumeric string or alphanumeric clusters for identifying information content is presented. The user-interface system has presentation logic for displaying an image of a virtual user alphanumeric interface on a presentation device. The virtual user alphanumeric interface includes an image of an overloaded keypad that has a two dimensional configuration of alphanumeric clusters. Each cluster corresponds to a set of alphanumeric characters. The user-interface system also has cluster selection logic for receiving user actions from an input device (e.g., five-button interface) to provide visual cues to help the user select an alphanumeric cluster and to cause the selected alphanumeric cluster or character from a cluster to be displayed in a display field of the virtual user alphanumeric interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Veveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sankar Ardhanari, Satyanarayanan Ramaswamy, Manish Mohan Sharma, Murali Aravamudan, Ajit Rajasekharan
  • Patent number: 7676455
    Abstract: The invention provides systems, methods, and computer programs to improve the accuracy and efficiency with which data analysts can use news stories, press releases, and other sources of information to maintain databases that contain information about individuals and businesses and other organizations. Documents containing material information are acquired in computer-readable form and optionally may then be reduced to raw text. One or more computerized systems process the text and tag important terms such as proper nouns, job titles, awards, and other terms indicating professional, educational, corporate, or other developments. The invention provides a user interface with which a data analyst can review, confirm, remove, modify, introduce, and link the tags, ultimately adding the information and links to a database and storing the source document in an electronic warehouse for future retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Bloomberg Finance L.P.
    Inventors: Michael A. Ursitti, Jupiter Bridge
  • Publication number: 20100014836
    Abstract: The application relates to an information transfer system, comprising a receiver (3) and a transmitter (1) for transferring an information signal to the receiver (3) via a transfer medium (2). The information signal comprises main data and sub data. The sub data comprises coded text lines having a plurality of character codes. The receiver is provided with a character display unit (10) for displaying characters corresponding with the character codes in the coded text lines. The number of character display positions is less than the number of character codes in the coded text line. The receiver is provided with display control means (9) for controlling the display of characters corresponding to the character codes included in the coded text line in dependence on serial control codes included in the coded text line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Björn BLUTHGEN, Richard C. SPIERO
  • Publication number: 20090237422
    Abstract: A method of presenting emergency alert textual media data on a display unit includes receiving emergency alert textual media data, storing the received emergency alert textual media data into a memory, superimposing the stored emergency alert textual media data on the display unit at an initial scroll rate, detecting a user operation, and adjusting the scroll rate of the superimposed emergency alert textual media data according to the user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Khelan Maheshchandra Modi, Steven Lee Cooper, Chad Andrew Lefevre
  • Patent number: 7439992
    Abstract: The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit 11 associates the cursor patterns with message types. In another embodiment, the control circuit 11 groups received messages into new messages not yet reproduced by a user and old messages already reproduced, causes display of the number of the new messages in a predetermined area of the display unit when the new messages are stored in RAM 13, and display of the number of the old messages in said predetermined area when the new messages are not stored in RAM 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tottori Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsunori Okagaki
  • Patent number: 7155492
    Abstract: In prefetch caching program implementation for hiding the delay of data access via a network, the operation of the existing applications with the prefetch program must branch, depending on whether data to access is on the cache and it is necessary to add branch processing to the data access process. In the disclosed invention, means for caching data on a device driver level in a client system and means for storing cached data into an external storage unit are provided. Cache control is accomplished by means for sending cache control commands such as “flush the cache” to the client from the outside of the client and means for executing received cache control commands within the client. Data access delay over a network can be hidden by caching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohiro Obara, Ryo Watanabe, Yoshinobu Sueno
  • Patent number: 7042443
    Abstract: A SpeedWriter program of this invention that upon loaded into a PDA, cell phone, tablet PC, or other computer processor, the loads lists of words, phrases and special characters on disk or memory in the computer that we will refer to as a dictionary. To get to the word, the user must search through the dictionary. SpeedWriter uses the editing functions of the system by treating SpeedWriter input as combinations of keyboard strokes and of a pointing device. SpeedWriter can accommodate a word, phrase, and whole sections of text rather than just characters. SpeedWriter can use dictionaries of common phrases and include algorithms to constantly update a user's frequently used groups of words. that involves quickly scanning an internal dictionary and providing text or word options based upon selected alphanumeric sets, and further narrowing the sets of characters until the desired text is selected and also a family of devices with this method programmed there within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Inventors: Scott E. Woodard, Herbert A. Greenman
  • Patent number: 6993362
    Abstract: A portable communication apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, has a display, a user-controlled input device, a memory, a controller, and a hierarchical menu system stored in the memory. The menu system has a plurality of menus, including top-level menus, sub-level menus, and a plurality of menu items under respective menus. The controller is arranged to present individual menus/menu items on the display, receive selection commands from a user through the user-controlled input device and in response perform functions related to the presented menus/menu items. The memory of the apparatus has a dynamic menu, the contents of which may be modified by the user. The dynamic menu is either a top-level menu or a sub-level menu in the hierarchical menu system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventor: Kristoffer Aberg
  • Patent number: 6928331
    Abstract: A computerized orientation method that automatically extracts the three bounding box size values of CAD objects and then copies the values into the appropriate length, width and thickness columns of a grid or table. The process uses data stored in an orientation tag of three defined positions and three defined variables and compares the three bounding box distance values to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Inventor: David Robert Wishengrad
  • Patent number: 6870551
    Abstract: A method and apparatus in a data processing system for displaying data. A stream of data is received. The stream of data is displayed in a scrolling display field in which data is scrolling. Responsive to a user input selecting a portion of the data in the stream of data being displayed, scrolling of the data is halted in the scrolling display field. A stationary display field is created. Scrolling of the data on the scrolling display field is restored. Responsive to changes in the selected data in the stream of data being received, the scrolling display field and the stationary display field are updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Theodore Jack London Shrader