Focus Control Of Multiple Diverse Workspace Objects Patents (Class 715/767)
  • Patent number: 11200252
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selecting items from a collection of items are indexed by a list of item identifiers. The item identifiers may be in the form of text, symbols, graphics, etc. An initial display is generated which includes one or more parts of the item identifiers. Selection of the one or more parts may be made and results in the generation of a display of further one or more parts for selection. The further one or more parts may be selected in order to the selected one or more parts to build a larger part or whole of an item identifier. Accordingly, selection from a large list of item identifiers may be carried out in a relatively short time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Kannuu Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Kevin W. Dinn
  • Patent number: 11169702
    Abstract: A method for displaying information includes: first application information of a second application is acquired in a process of displaying a present interface of a first application; and a floating window of the second application is generated according to the first application information of the second application, the floating window of the second application being used to display the first application information of the second application. As such, coordinated work between applications may be achieved, a user does not needed to switch two types of applications and can always get running statuses of the applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yizhan Lu, Hong Lu, Yaoluo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11126318
    Abstract: A computing device displays a primary data visualization in a data visualization workbook that includes a second worksheet having a secondary data visualization. The primary data visualization includes a plurality of visual marks representing a first set of data fields from a dataset. A first user input in a tooltip definition refers to the secondary data visualization. A second user input selects a first visual mark. In response to the second user input, the device generates a filtered version of the secondary data visualization, for a second set of data fields from the dataset, specified in the second worksheet, based on the selected first visual mark. The device displays the generated secondary data visualization in a tooltip. Sometimes the device receives a third user input selecting a second visual mark in the plurality of visual marks, and dynamically updates the displayed secondary data visualization based on the second visual mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: TABLEAU SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Marc Rueter, Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 11109818
    Abstract: This disclosure describes example alarm notification systems that can enable a clinician to respond to an alarm notification received via a computing device, which may have more advanced functionality than a pager. The clinician device may be a mobile device, such as a cellphone or smartphone, tablet, laptop, personal digital assistant (PDA), or the like. The clinician device may communicate with a remote server to obtain patient data generated by a patient device at the point-of-care (such as a bedside device or patient-worn monitor). This patient data may be continuous monitoring data for one or more patients. A mobile application (optionally a browser application) on the clinician device can enable the clinician to view continuous monitoring data for multiple patients, as well as view and respond to alarms and alerts, all from the clinician device, regardless of location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Ahmed, Bilal Muhsin, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Keith Ward Indorf, Sebastian T. Frey
  • Patent number: 11087116
    Abstract: A method of determining a fingerprint collection region includes: determining a contact region according to a touch signal generated by a touch operation from a starting moment t0 of sensing the touch operation; determining a change rate of a feature parameter of the contact region; and determining the fingerprint collection region according to the contact region when the change rate is smaller than or equal to a preset change rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiankun Hu, Ju Tang
  • Patent number: 11003469
    Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a method of controlling the display apparatus, the method including providing one or more input windows for receiving an input of identification (ID) values from a user, determining whether one or more ID values respectively input to the one or more input windows match with pre-registered registration values, and changing an error input window from among the one or more input windows by applying an animation effect to the error input window in which an ID value from among the one or more ID values does not match with the registration values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Se Hui Park, Hyun Il Lee, Yoo Ri Kim
  • Patent number: 10996788
    Abstract: An electronic device displays, on a display, a user interface that includes one or more user interface objects. The device detects a first input on the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to a first user interface object of the one or more user interface objects. Detecting the first input includes detecting a change in intensity of the first input on the touch-sensitive surface from a first intensity to a second intensity, different from the first intensity. In response to detecting the first input, the device obtains a change in a value of a respective simulated physical property that changes in response to changes in intensity of the first input on the touch-sensitive surface, and updates an appearance of the user interface by progressing a first animation between a first state and a second state based on the change in the value of the respective simulated physical property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, Avi E. Cieplinski, Matthew I. Brown, May-Li Khoe, Nicholas Zambetti, Bianca C. Costanzo, David J. Hart, B. Michael Victor
  • Patent number: 10976917
    Abstract: An electronic device displays an application switching user interface. The device, while displaying the application switching user interface, detects a touch gesture by a contact. In response to the touch gesture: if the touch gesture includes movement by the contact in a first direction and started at a location that corresponds to an application representation corresponding to a respective application, the device closes the respective application; and, if the touch gesture includes movement by the contact in the first direction and started at a location that corresponds a predefined region in the application switching user interface that is outside of the representations of respective applications, the device ceases to display the application switching user interface and displays an application launching user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia
  • Patent number: 10969935
    Abstract: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven content generation system is configured to interact with and inject user inputs into the decision-making process to navigate the user through the boundless creative space offered by content generation algorithms powered by AI. A content generation application may generate an initial collection of artifacts (e.g., multimedia) for exposure to a user, which may be generated based on user input, context awareness, or randomly generated. Responsive to user selection of one of the initial artifacts, a subsequent collection of artifacts is generated based on characteristics of the selected artifact. The generative process is recursive in that the generative application and the user continue to interact until the user decides to use one of the generated artifacts. The generative process enables the user to navigate the virtually infinite creative space of artifacts which may be generated by AI algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Charles Butcher, Eric Paul Nichols, Mark Fenwick Wheeler, Ted Tai-Yu Chen, George Valavanis, Wesley Hodgson, Ines Khelifi
  • Patent number: 10939302
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an improved computing system to determine a suitability of a RF plan and a dynamic wireless network system. The method includes receiving uploads of RF plans associated with wireless network deployments which provided wireless network capability throughout each respective deployment area. Further, storing the uploaded RF plans with in a network storage cloud. In addition, training a predictive model with the stored uploaded RF plans. The dynamic wireless network system disclosed herein includes a plurality of internet-of-things devices within a deployment area. The system further includes at least one network device communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of internet-of-things devices, wherein the at least one network device has access to a trained predictive model that is to determine a number of access points and a layout of the access points within the deployment area based on a set of characteristics associated with the deployment area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Gopal Agarwal, Gopal Gupta
  • Patent number: 10929208
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for extracting information corresponding to a user selected area of a displayed web page are described. A user selected region, e.g., rectangular region, of a displayed web page is identified based on received user input. The elements beneath the user selected region are converted to a raster data URL. An HTML5 image element is created with an src attribute set to the raster data URL and with a low image element opacity property. The created HTML5 image element is added to the web page as an overlay. The web browser's built-in copying functionality can now be used to copy the overlying image element to the clipboard as an image as desired, e.g., using a context menu which enables image MIME type data to be placed on the clipboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Accusoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kiril Vatev, Cody Owens, Stephen Brooks, Eric Goebel, Adam Cooper, Tim Kannapel
  • Patent number: 10915820
    Abstract: An example method described herein involves receiving a data input; identifying a plurality of topics in the data input; determining an underrepresented set of data for a first set of topics of the plurality of topics based on a plurality of knowledge graphs associated with the first set of topics; calculating a score for each topic of the first set of topics based on a representative learning technique; determining that the score for a first topic of the first set of topics satisfies a threshold score; selecting a topic specific knowledge graph based on the first topic; identifying representative objects that are similar to objects of the data input based on the topic specific knowledge graph; generating representation data that is similar to the data input based on the representative objects to balance the underrepresented set of data with a set of data associated with a second set of topics of the plurality of topics; and performing an action associated with the representation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Freddy Lecue, Md Faisal Zaman
  • Patent number: 10891023
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a user interface (UI) in a first position on a touch-sensitive display. While displaying the UI in the first position, the method includes: detecting a first input and, in response: shifting the UI from the first position to a second position including sliding a portion of the UI off the display while maintaining display of another portion, the shifting including removing the UI from a respective region of the display; and displaying at least some of a plurality of UI elements for opening recently used applications in the respective region. While displaying the UI in the second position, the method includes: detecting a second input; and, in response: shifting the UI back from the second position to the first position so that the UI is displayed in the respective region; and ceasing to display the UI elements for opening recently used applications in the respective region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 10891016
    Abstract: A device, system, and method generate a graphical interface including a map for a set of items. The method includes identifying the items in the set of items. For each item, the method includes measuring a usage characteristic for the item at a predetermined time and generating an icon for the item, a display characteristic of the icon based on the usage characteristic. The method includes generating the map including the icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: VIACOM INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Niral Parekh, Uta Knablein, Phil Kim, I-Wen Huang, Anna Fine
  • Patent number: 10838598
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to moving focus between user interface (UI) elements that are displayed in a UI. The method includes displaying, a UI that includes a native region and a virtualized region, where native UI elements and virtual UI elements are concurrently displayed in the native and the virtualized region, respectively. While an indication of focus is on a native UI element, the method includes detecting a first user input, removing the indication on the native UI element, and displaying the indication on a first virtual UI element if native UI element is the last native UI element. While the indication is on a virtual UI element, the method includes detecting a second user input, removing the indication on the virtual UI element, and displaying the indication on the first native UI element if the virtual UI element is the last virtual UI element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Lee Ann Rucker
  • Patent number: 10831808
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method of sentiment analysis based on ambiguity analysis, which includes analyzing information with the sentiment analysis models and the ambiguity analysis models. Another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method of training the sentiment analysis models and ambiguity analysis models, which includes acquiring information, constructing lexicons, conducting sentiment analysis and ambiguity analysis with said lexicons, acquiring corpus, and training models, etc. Meanwhile, another aspect of the present disclosure relates to a system of sentiment analysis, which includes input, and output modules, acquisition modules, processing modules and database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HITHINK ROYALFLUSH INFORMATION NETWORK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zheng Yi, Wei Xia
  • Patent number: 10769427
    Abstract: Methods and systems that detect and define virtual objects in remote screens which do not expose objects. This permits simple and reliable automation of existing applications. In certain aspects a method for detecting objects from an application program that are displayed on a computer screen is disclosed. An image displayed on the computer screen is captured. The image is analyzed to identify blobs in the image. The identified blobs are filtered to identify a set of actionable objects within the image. Optical character recognition is performed on the image to detect text fields in the image. Each actionable object is linked to a text field positioned closest to a left or top side of the actionable object. The system automatically detects the virtual objects and links each actionable object such as textboxes, buttons, checkboxes, etc. to the nearest label object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Automation Anywhere, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Gajera, Gaurang Patel, Abhijit Kakhandiki
  • Patent number: 10732795
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive surface, a display, and a camera sensor. The device displays a message region for displaying a message conversation and receives a request to add media to the message conversation. Responsive to receiving the request, the device displays a media selection interface concurrently with at least a portion of the message conversation. The media selection interface includes a plurality of affordances for selecting media for addition to the message conversation, the plurality of affordances includes a live preview affordance, at least a subset of the plurality of affordances includes thumbnail representations of media available for adding to the message conversation, and the live preview affordance is associated with a live camera preview. Responsive to detecting selection of the live preview affordance, the device captures a new image based on the live camera preview and selects the new image for addition to the message conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Y. Yang, Roberto Garcia, Imran Chaudhri, Richard R. Dellinger, Justin Wood, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick L. Coffman, Matthaeus Krenn
  • Patent number: 10712912
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for providing contextual or cognitive cues that link browser tabs together within a browser application. Browser tabs that are determined to be related to one another can be colored with a similar color. A similar color can be one in which a color property is modified so that the colors appear similar to a user. Relationships between browser tabs can be determined based upon whether a browser tab was created in response to following a link within a parent browser tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: VMWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash Agarwal, Sivasubramaniam Sivakumar, Sharun Samuel
  • Patent number: 10694057
    Abstract: In an apparatus, a reception unit receives information indicating an end of image process in an external apparatus or information indicating an occurrence of an error in the external apparatus. A display control unit causes a display unit to display predetermined information based on the information received by the reception unit. An acquisition unit acquires a constraint condition for causing the display unit to limit a display of the predetermined information. A determination unit determines whether an operating state of an apparatus capable of controlling the display unit meets the constraint condition. When the determination unit determines that the operating state meets the constraint condition, the display control unit limits the display of the predetermined information on the display unit based on the information received by the reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mizuki Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 10691253
    Abstract: Touch-control screen, driving method thereof, and touch-control apparatus are provided. The touch-control screen includes a touch-control area and a driving unit. The touch-control area includes a main touch-control area and an auxiliary touch-control area smaller than the main touch-control area. The touch-control area further includes a plurality of touch-control electrodes, having a plurality of first touch-control electrodes in the main touch-control area and a plurality of second touch-control electrodes in the auxiliary touch-control area. In a touch-control stage, the driving unit is configured to transmit electrical signals respectively to the plurality of first touch-control electrodes in the main touch-control area and to the plurality of second touch-control electrodes in the auxiliary touch-control area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sijian Luo, Yin Sun, Yumin Xu
  • Patent number: 10656779
    Abstract: A computing device displays a graphical user interface on a display. The graphical user interface has a data visualization region that displays a primary data visualization, which includes a plurality of visual marks. The primary data visualization represents a first set of data fields of a plurality of data fields from a dataset. The device receives user input in the graphical user interface to select one of the visual marks. In response to the user input, the device generates a secondary data visualization, filtered according to one or more data values. The data values correspond to the first set of data fields and are associated with the selected visual mark. The secondary data visualization represents a second set of data fields from the dataset. The device then displays the generated secondary data visualization in a tooltip for the selected data mark, overlaying a portion of the primary data visualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Rueter, Jun Kim
  • Patent number: 10656780
    Abstract: A method for specifying a position through touch input in a screen displayed on a touch panel display. The position is specified by acquiring an initial contact position with the touch panel display, displaying a position displaying cursor in a position according to the initial contact position, displaying the position displaying cursor in the position according to the initial contact position during the period for which the contact position sensing continues until the distance from the initial contact position to the contact position reaches a predetermined distance and terminating the display of the position displaying cursor where the contact position sensing is terminated before the distance reaches the predetermined distance, and displaying the position displaying cursor in such a way that the position displaying cursor follows movement of the contact position after the distance reaches the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gyokubu Cho, Koichi Komatsu, Hiraku Ishiyama
  • Patent number: 10650787
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a display device for displaying a screen divided into regions, and a controller for changing the divided regions of the screen displayed by the display device in accordance with an upward movement or downward movement of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Dong Uk Kim, Hyun Jin Park, Sung Eun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10643605
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic multi-performance evaluation system for hybrid speech recognition and, more particularly, to an automatic multi-performance evaluation system for hybrid speech recognition capable of automatically evaluating a processing result of speech recognition and language understanding through a hybrid terminal and a processing result of server speech recognition and language understanding through a cloud server by simultaneously using the hybrid terminal and the cloud server, to thereby output an accurate and fast performance and function verification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MEDIAZEN, INC.
    Inventors: Seung Pyo Ryu, Min Kyu Song
  • Patent number: 10628717
    Abstract: An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kumiko Ogino, Shinsaku Tohki
  • Patent number: 10614279
    Abstract: Provided are a fingerprint controller for driving a fingerprint sensing array in a touchscreen divided by at least a touch sensing region and a fingerprint sensing region, a method of operating the fingerprint controller, and a driver integrated circuit for driving the touchscreen including the fingerprint sensing array. The method includes: receiving a reference timing signal from an external module; generating a fingerprint sensing timing signal for driving the fingerprint sensing array in synchronization with the reference timing signal; and driving the fingerprint sensing array based on the fingerprint sensing timing signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sun-kwon Kim, Min-gyu Kim, Yoon-Kyung Choi, Seong-il Park, Se-woong Ahn
  • Patent number: 10582244
    Abstract: In a broadcasting system of the present disclosure, a feeding device includes a broadcasting unit that broadcasts a program to a receiving device via a broadcasting network, and a feeding unit that feeds a segment data sequence containing at least one piece of segment data including a segment validity period indicating a synchronization period for progress of the program and metadata associated with the program in progress to the receiving device, and the receiving device includes a receiving unit that receives the program broadcast from the feeding device via the broadcasting network, an acquisition unit that acquires the segment data sequence fed from the feeding device, and a presentation unit that presents information about the program to a user in synchronization with the progress of the program based on the acquired segment data sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventor: Naohisa Kitazato
  • Patent number: 10552517
    Abstract: A computer implemented methods to allow a user to copy content from a rendered document into a target document using a linking command. The target document can be a new document or an existing document, that is not rendered. The copied content can include a link to the document from which the content was copied from. The linking command can be a refer command or a send to file command. A refer command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with text associated with the refer command remaining in the rendered document. A send to file command allows a user to copy and paste the content from a rendered document into a target document with no trace left in the rendered document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Tene, Zach Johnston
  • Patent number: 10552236
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples, are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for a focus management framework that provides for greater knowledge and control of focus transitions. An event listener is attached to a root focusable element of the DOM. The event listener may receive all focus interactions with any child element. By listening for all focus events the framework may provide more powerful events that provide both the source element and destination element as event parameters. This framework allows many different applications, such as for example, allowing the application to customize the order focus is transitioned (from the browser's default order), to allow for a history of focus events, to enable a declarative language for defining behaviors for elements of the application that need to be involved with scenarios that depend on focus transition, aggregating messages sent to assistive technologies triggered by a focus transition, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Moein Pahlavan Yali, Patrick C Miller, John G Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10498550
    Abstract: A method, and associated computer system and computer program product, for notifying users of events. A notification server that includes a computer receives a notification rule. The notification server generates, for the received notification rule, a unique identifier for communication using a predefined social networking service. The notification server receives an indication of an event that occurred in an event source. The notification server determines whether the received indication satisfies the notification rule. In response to determining that the received indication satisfies the notification rule, the notification server marks the received event, using the unique identifier and broadcasting the marked event using the social networking service for receipt by those users who have access to said unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric M. Anderson, Szymon W. Harat, Michal P. Malczewski
  • Patent number: 10484328
    Abstract: A browsing service of messages exchanged through posts and responses to the posts among multiple users is provided in a message-browsing system. A terminal device includes an assigning unit assigning user images corresponding to multiple specific users who are a subset or all of the multiple users to respective ones of a number of reference positions that is equal to the number of the user images on a screen according to a predetermined rule, a position determining unit determining the reference positions assigned to the user images corresponding to the multiple specific users as display positions displaying the respective user images, and a position changing unit changing a display position of a user image corresponding to a user responding to a post another user has contributed to a position close to a user image corresponding to another user who has contributed the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: KONAMI DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koki Kimura, Erika Nakamura, Takashi Suenaga, Takashi Hamano, Wataru Ito, Fumiaki Oshita
  • Patent number: 10474333
    Abstract: An electronic device provides, to a display, data to present a user interface that includes a first group of user interface objects and a second group of user interface objects. A current focus is on a first user interface object of the first group of user interface objects. The device receives an input that corresponds to a request to move the current focus to a user interface object in the second group of user interface objects; determines a projection of the first user interface object based on a direction of the input; identifies one or more user interface objects that overlap with the projection of the first user interface object in the direction on the display that corresponds to the direction of the input; and moves the current focus to a second user interface object of the one or more identified user input objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Justin T. Voss, Blake R. Seely, Matthew D. Ricketson, Henrique D. Penha, Grace H. Hwang, Graham R. Clarke, Jeffrey L. Robbin, William M. Bachman, Benjamin W. Keighran, Jennifer L. Folse, Jonathan Lochhead, Joe R. Howard, Joshua K. McGlinn
  • Patent number: 10444948
    Abstract: Provided is a method of displaying web pages, performed by an electronic apparatus including a display displaying a first web page in a display region. The method includes receiving, from a user, an input for selecting a first link included in the first web page; and splitting the display region into a plurality of section regions, displaying the first web page in a first section region from among the plurality of section regions, and displaying a second web page corresponding to the first link in a second section region different from the first section region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NAVER Corporation
    Inventors: Hyo Kim, Min Chul Jeong, Myeong Jin Cho, Ji Ho Choi, Yun Seok Lee
  • Patent number: 10353495
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing personalized operations of a mobile device are provided. An example method includes determining a sensor signature has been received. The sensor signature may be a combination of acoustic and non-acoustic inputs. A classification or recognition or matching score for the received sensor signature may be calculated. A context associated with one or more of the operations of the mobile device may be determined. A confidence level or weight may be determined for the acoustic and non-acoustic inputs based on the context. Based on the confidence level or weight, a determination may be made whether to perform the one or more operations. The determination whether to perform the one or more operations may be further based on a combination of the confidence level or weight and the score. Determining the context can include identifying the type and level of noise associated with the mobile device's environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Sridhar Krishna Nemala, Deborah Kathleen Vitus, David Klein, Eitan Asher Medina
  • Patent number: 10345994
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of information processing technologies, and disclose a method used by a mobile terminal to return to a home screen, a mobile terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: determining whether the screen touching gesture is a gesture for displaying a virtual home screen button; displaying the virtual home screen button when the screen touching gesture on the current page is the gesture for displaying the virtual home screen button, and detecting whether the virtual home screen button is tapped; and returning from the current page to a home screen if the virtual home screen button is tapped. After it is detected that a screen touching gesture on a current page is a gesture for displaying a virtual home screen button, the virtual home screen button is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Cancai Yuan, Junwei Liu, Jintao Qiu
  • Patent number: 10282054
    Abstract: Provided is a method for controlling a plurality of work processes in a multitasking mobile terminal, and more particularly, a method for selecting a second work process during a first work process and controlling a predetermined function of the selected second work process. In the controlling method, icons corresponding to the respective work processes are displayed in response to a user command, and a desired work process is selected through the displayed icons. A predetermined function of the selected work process is controlled through a pop-up menu activated in response to the user command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventors: Seul Ki Choi, Sang Jin Yoon
  • Patent number: 10282453
    Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein are directed towards providing a contextual interactive session (or activity) within the context of search. Search is typically a one-way communication with little to no interaction provided to a user. Aspects of the technology can provide an interactive session within search to increase user engagement. The interactive sessions can include games, quizzes, polls, riddles, crosswords, etc. The output may be configured such that interaction with the interactive session does not alter the original output such that a user is able to engage with the interactive session on the same page and is not navigated to a different destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Puneet Garg, Sharat Attupurath, Anirudha Udaykumar Bodhankar, Prashant Satishchandra Borole, Achal Gupta, Divya Sharma
  • Patent number: 10275118
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, to a user via an electronic display, a radial control comprising a plurality of concentric arcs, the radial control including a first central section defined by a first arc of the plurality of concentric arcs, and a plurality of child sections collectively defined by the first arc and the other arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, the plurality of child sections being delineated from one another by dividers extending between two or more arcs of the plurality of concentric arcs, wherein the first central section is associated with a parent activity and each of the plurality of child sections is associated with a child activity related to the parent activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: ALLSCRIPTS SOFTWARE, LLC
    Inventors: Christy Jill Reed, Leigh Randal McClure
  • Patent number: 10210275
    Abstract: A method and system for controlling focus moving on a webpage is provided, which includes that when an end position of a focus after moving is inconsistent with a determined target position, an moving offset tolerance zone is determined according to an initial position and the end position, and at least one auxiliary position is set in the determined moving offset tolerance zone; the initial position is made to correspond to one or more moving paths generated by the focus moving instruction, and the one or more moving paths are set to comprise a first path from the initial position to the set auxiliary position and a second path from the set auxiliary position to the target position, and the focus is controlled to directly move through the auxiliary position to the target position of the focus. In this way, the focus is avoided from moving to a position inconsistent with the target position, thereby improving accuracy and convenience of the focus moving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Xi'an Zhongxing New Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sheng Yu
  • Patent number: 10185492
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same that may be used considering more convenience of users are disclosed. The mobile terminal comprises a wireless communication unit; a touch screen; and a controller controlling the touch screen to output at least a part of a first notification panel configured to output notification information based on a drag touch input applied to one area of the touch screen, wherein the controller outputs at least a part of a second notification panel different from the first notification panel based on a touch applied to one area of the first notification panel in a state that at least a part of the first notification panel has been output, and notification information of an application of which notification mode is set to a specific mode is displayed on the second notification panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seonhwi Cho, Donghoe Kim, Wanho Ju, Sungchae Na
  • Patent number: 10176460
    Abstract: An electronic business card exchange method and apparatus. The method comprises: if a first electronic business card terminal on which a first electronic business card is displayed receives a first touch signal, the first electronic business card terminal turns the first electronic business card upside down to enable the business card to face the other party, and establishes a data connection to a second electronic business card terminal (101); if the first electronic business card terminal on which the first electronic business card that has been turned is displayed receives a second touch signal, the first electronic business card terminal sends the first electronic business card to the second electronic card terminal through the data connection (103); and through the data connection, the first electronic business card terminal receives and displays a second electronic business card sent by the second electronic business card terminal (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ORA INC.
    Inventors: Jian Hua Xing, Kai Ren, Ping Wang, Ye Zhao, Jian Guo Wu
  • Patent number: 10175852
    Abstract: Information processing methods and electronic devices are provided. The method is applicable in an electronic device, which includes a display unit, M applications being installed in the electronic device, each of the M applications having an application logo, M application logos corresponding to the M applications respectively, M being an integer no less than 2. The method includes: obtaining attribute information of N applications corresponding to N application logos of the M application logos, when the N application logos are located in a first folder; determining K application logos of M-N application logos complying with a predetermined rule, based on the attribute information of the N programs and the predetermined rule; outputting prompt information when the N application logos are displayed on the display unit by the first folder responding to a trigger instruction, the prompt information prompting that the K application logos can be moved into the first folder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Gaoge Wang, Kai Kang
  • Patent number: 10165175
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a control unit and an acceptance unit to accept an operation to move a selected location on a screen in which items are positioned. When moving a particular item not located in a first direction at an end of selectable locations, the particular item is moved in the first direction. Where the particular item is located in the first direction at the end of the selectable locations, the particular item is not moved. In response to selecting a selectable locations without moving any item, a selected location is moved to a location in the first direction from the location being currently selected. Where the location in the first direction being currently selected is at the end of the selectable locations, the selected location is moved, in a direction opposite the first direction, from the location being currently selected to a location at a selectable locations end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Emi Kondo
  • Patent number: 10146318
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a pose- or gesture-based recognition system that processes images of the human hand, downconverts degrees of freedom of the human hand to lower-dimensional space, and then maps the downconverted space to a character set. In one embodiment, the system is implemented in a smart phone or as a computer-input device that uses a virtual keyboard. As the user moves his or her hand, the smart phone or computer provides simulated vocal feedback, permitting the user to adjust hand position or motion to arrive at any desired character; this is particularly useful for embodiments which use a phonetic character set. Software that performs character selection can be implemented in a manner that is language/region agnostic, with a contextual dictionary being used to interpret a phonetic character set according to a specific language or region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Malzbender
  • Patent number: 10115002
    Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided, in which the device detects contact with a user's finger, scans its fingerprint and sets the orientation of the electronic device based on the fingerprint (e.g., whether is from the user's left hand or right hand) and on an angle of the fingerprint with respect to the device. This allows the electronic device to determine its orientation with respect to the user rather than with respect to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Amber M. Pierce, Michael J Lombardi
  • Patent number: 10083205
    Abstract: A method for performing a search on a user device includes transmitting a search query to a search engine from a processing device via a network and receiving, by the processing device, search results from the search engine. The method also includes displaying, by the processing device, the search results and receiving, by the processing device, a first user input directed to one or more of the input elements of the query card. The method also includes receiving, by the processing device, a second user input selecting the query card, generating, by the processing device, the selected search query based on the first user input and transmitting the selected search query to the search engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liron Shapira
  • Patent number: 10061494
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device for webpage zooming on an electronic apparatus. The method comprises: constructing a custom zooming processor object and replacing an original zooming processor object with it; inheriting a webpage display control to construct a custom touch event method; detecting an operation of touching an electronic apparatus as an operation of releasing n?1 touch points in n touch points; judging whether a zooming processor object is supported; if supported, the zooming processor object performs operations, in the zooming ending method a webpage text zooming scale is set to be a display zooming scale of the webpage display control, and executing the zooming ending method; and if not supported, setting the webpage text zooming scale to be the display zooming scale of the webpage display control, reflectively setting and enabling a zooming scale method, and executing a touch event method of the inherited webpage display control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignees: Beijing Qihoo Technology Company Limited, Qizhi Software (Beijing) Company Limited
    Inventors: Jiongxuan Zhang, Guofeng Fan
  • Patent number: 10042418
    Abstract: Proximity based systems and methods that are implemented on an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes sensing an object spaced away and in close proximity to the electronic device. The method also includes performing an action in the electronic device when an object is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steve P. Hotelling, Brian Q. Huppi, Joshua A. Strickon, Duncan Robert Kerr, Imran Chaudhri, Greg Christie, Jonathan P. Ive, Peter J. Kennedy, Anthony M. Fadell, Jeffrey L. Robbin
  • Patent number: 10019141
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a moving operation detecting unit and a first display position changing unit. The moving operation detecting unit detects a moving operation for requesting to move a text display region displayed in a display. When the moving operation detecting unit has detected the moving operation, the first display position changing unit moves a display position of the text display region in the display according to the moving operation in a state where a cursor position in the display is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kazumasa Okabe