Dynamically Generated Menu Items Patents (Class 715/825)
  • Publication number: 20150026643
    Abstract: System (100) for enabling an interactive inspection of a region of interest (122) in a medical image (102), the system comprising display means (160) for displaying user interface elements (310, 320, 330) of actions associated with the interactive inspection of the region of interest and a processor (180) for executing one of the actions when a user selects an associated one of the user interface elements, the system further comprising establishing means (120) for establishing the region of interest in the medical image, determining means (140) for determining an anatomical property (142) of the region of interest in dependence on an image property of the region of interest, and the display means (160) being arranged for (i), in dependence on the anatomical property, establishing a display configuration (162) of the user interface elements, and (ii) displaying the user interface elements in accordance with the display configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Juergen Weese, Irina Wächter-Stehle, Axel Saalbach
  • Patent number: 8938688
    Abstract: An operating sequence for a handheld computing device manages the device to automatically detect cues describing the device's environmental and user actions performed with the device, learn which cues and cue combinations are relevant to predict user actions, and then in response to occurrence of the relevant cues, predictively implementing the appropriate user action or configuring the device in anticipation of user action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan R. Bradford, David J. Kay, Michael Longe, Pim Van Meurs, Gaurav Tandon
  • Publication number: 20150020029
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile terminal for displaying at least one graphical user interface (GUI) on a standby screen, by which a graphic user interface for supporting interactions between a user and an operating program, an operating system or the like more smoothly can be efficiently displayed. The present disclosure includes a display unit configured to display a 1st standby screen and a prescribed graphic user interface displayed on the 1st standby screen and a controller, if a region of the 1st standby screen displayed on the display unit is changed, controlling at least one of a display style and a display information of the prescribed graphic user interface displayed on the display unit to be changed based on the changed region of the 1st standby screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Haein LEE, Yoonji MOON, Egun JUNG, Yongkyoung SHIN, Jeehee PARK
  • Patent number: 8935634
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface control groups and provide a method, system and computer program product for rendering a set of user interface controls with dynamic content in a GUI. In one embodiment, the invention can include a data processing system including a set of user interface controls and control data including a set of cumulative selection metrics for each user interface control in the set. Each user interface control in the set, in turn, can include a label and an indicator of cumulative metrics for the user interface control. For instance, the set of user interface controls can include a set of radio buttons in a radio button control group. As another example, the set of user interface controls can include a set of check boxes in a check box control group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Muller, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Patent number: 8935288
    Abstract: User specific logs in multi-user applications. Level data associating a user of a multi-user application with a respective log level is received. The multi-user application then records an amount of information determined by the log level corresponding to the user presently using the multi-user application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Venkata Naga Ravikiran Vedula
  • Patent number: 8935621
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting components to include in portions of a displayable file. Selecting the components may include determining an order of the components for each portion of the displayable file. The components' order for a given portion may be based on a score for each component, where a component's score is based on an estimated value and standard error associated with the component. The component to include in each portion of the displayable file may be selected based at least in part on the determined component order for each portion and a predetermined priority of each portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett E. Lounsbury, Samuel A. Minter, Vishal M. Shanbhag, Jeffrey B. Slosberg, Michal M. Brye, Daniel B. Lloyd, Joseph Steven Mate, Tri M. Cao, Stephen B. Ivie
  • Publication number: 20150012859
    Abstract: A method of disabling a locking screen of an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting at least two objects among at least three objects each having a unique color, determining whether at least one of a color order and a rotation direction of the selected at least two objects matches a pre-set color order and a pre-set rotation direction, and disabling a locking screen upon determining the match with at least one of the pre-set color order and the pre-set rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Kyu-Ho SHIN, Jae-Woo SEOL, Sung-Keun KIM, Geon-Soo KIM, Jeong-Hyun PANG
  • Patent number: 8930342
    Abstract: Multidimensional search capabilities are enabled on a non-PC (personal computer) device being utilized by a user. An original query submitted by the user via the non-PC device is received. A structured data repository is accessed to extract structured data that is available for the original query, where the extracted structured data represents attributes of the original query. The extracted structured data is provided to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query, such modification resulting in a revised query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Johnson Apacible, Mark Encarnacion, Aleksey Sinyagin
  • Patent number: 8930852
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for manipulating folder and file icons on a screen of an electronic device. A folder icon representing a folder is displayed on a screen, in a first mode, at a first location on the screen. The folder may contain a plurality of individual files and the folder icon is configured to indicate the plurality of individual files. An activation event is detected comprising a movement from the first location on the screen to a second location on the screen. In response to detecting the activation event, the folder icon is displayed on the screen along with icons representing the individual files on the screen. The screen may display the icons of the individual files as fanning out from the folder icon and/or may display the icons of the individual files entirely outside of the folder icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Ting-Pang Chen, Chih-Hsiang Lin, Shao-Chieh Lin, Chia-Hui Feng, Yi-Hsun Liu, Ching-Sheng Tsai
  • Patent number: 8924399
    Abstract: A system comprising a client application configured to receive input targeting an identifier of a first page history entry, and obtain, from a client-side memory, the first page history entry and generate a second page history entry comprising a second resource location and a second client-side parameter. The client application is further configured to store the second page history entry in the client-side memory and send, to a server application, a request comprising the first resource location retrieved from the first page history entry. The client application is further configured to receive first resource data from the server application in response to the request, apply the client-side parameter to the first resource data to obtain reformed first resource data, and generate a second page comprising the reformed first resource data and the page history list listing an identifier of the second page history entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Teresa Lynn Roberts, Victoria Dolginsky, Syed Yousuf Haider
  • Patent number: 8918712
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for dynamically generating a mobile application. A server receives a request from a mobile device to launch an application on the mobile device. The server generates a configuration file based on the launched application. The server transmits the configuration file to the mobile device for generation of a user interface of the launched application using the configuration file. The user interface includes a first display area using browser functionality of the mobile device to display one or more web page elements formatted by the server to appear as native to the mobile device. The user interface further includes a second display area having one or more interface elements that are native to an operating system of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Jorge Nario, Wen-Ying Chu, Rob Chapman, Paul Martel, Yevgeny Safontchik, Mark Moore, Edward Kelly
  • Patent number: 8918739
    Abstract: A method for display-independent recognition of a graphical user interface (GUI) control, the method comprising capturing a screenshot of a GUI of a computerized application, determining a cursor position in the screenshot, analyzing an area surrounding the cursor position, to identify a GUI control, and storing an image of the GUI control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kryon Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Emma Butin, Oren Keinan, Erez Keinan, Alon Rabinovich
  • Patent number: 8918736
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a current set of characters in response to a sequence of user commands. The current set of characters includes a current sequence of words. A respective word in the current sequence of words includes one or more characters in the current set of characters. The user commands include character entry commands. Additional user commands that specify characters to delete from the current set of characters and characters to add to the current set of characters are received. Replay recommendations for additional words to be added to the current set of characters in accordance with one or more deleted words that correspond to the deleted characters are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Jobs, Scott Forstall, Greg Christie, Bas Ording, Imran Chaudhri, Stephen O. Lemay, Marcel Van Os, Freddy Allen Anzures, Mike Matas
  • Patent number: 8914747
    Abstract: A menu displaying apparatus and method in a portable terminal are provided. In the menu displaying apparatus, a select image buffer stores select images, and an unselect image buffer stores unselect images. A controller reads a select image for a selected menu from the select image buffer, displays the select image together with a title text of the selected menu at a predetermined position in a menu region, reads unselect menu images for unselected menus from the unselect image buffer, and displays the unselect menu images together with title texts of the unselected menus at predetermined positions in the menu region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Soo Kim, Eun-Chul Ra, In-Gu Bae, Jae-Hyoung Bae, Byoung-Ho Cho
  • Publication number: 20140365967
    Abstract: The described technology provides a method and device for data screening, and solves the technical problem that the user needs to return to the check box interface to reset the screen element and thus the operation steps are cumbersome. The method for data screening comprises: screening raw data according to a first screen element to obtain a first result subset, the first result subset belonging to the raw data and being corresponding to the first screen element; displaying the first result subset and an element list and receiving a second screen element selected by a user according to the element list; screening the first result subset according to the second screen element to obtain a second result subset, the second result subset belonging to the raw data and being corresponding to the second screen element; displaying the second result subset. The described technology is mainly applied during the process of data statistics and screening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Chengtao Fan, Gongwei Li, Jiang Li, Haiyang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20140365893
    Abstract: Apparatus, the apparatus having at least one processor and at least one memory having computer-readable code stored therein which when executed controls the at least one processor to perform a method comprising: causing a first element to be displayed, the first element associated with content; in response to an input in relation to the first element, causing a plurality of second elements to be displayed, each second element associated with one of a plurality of parts of the content, wherein the number of second elements is dependent upon a property of the input; and, in response to an input in relation to one or more of the plurality of second elements, carrying out an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Fiona Gao, Mikko Juhani Peltola, Julie Yan, Jenny Xiong, Alan Wang, Alex Yu
  • Patent number: 8910081
    Abstract: The present application is directed to push notifications that can be used to dynamically update multiple icon panels. For example, the push notifications can be used to update two or more icon panels associated with the same application or two or more panels (i.e., sides) of a three-dimensional icon. In one embodiment, one or more push notifications can be used to independently update content on the panels. In another embodiment, a user can choose settings to assign panels that are to be updated using push notifications. A third party server can be automatically informed of an identification for the panel so that future push notifications incorporate the identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Theron Thomas Fennel
  • Patent number: 8910206
    Abstract: When a user hovers a screen cursor over a TV channel icon on a cross-media bar (XMB) user interface (UI) for a threshold period, enhanced metadata from PSIP/XDS/EPG that pertains to the program currently available on the associated TV channel is presented in a pop-up window on the XMB UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hyehoon Yi
  • Patent number: 8907977
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are provided which may allow for enhanced icon and widget manipulation and use. The mobile terminal may include a display module configured to display a first zone and a second zone. The first zone may include at least one execution zone where an application is executed. The mobile terminal may also include a user input module configured to receive a command from a user, and a controller configured to control at least one icon corresponding to an application executed in the at least one execution zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Roth, Hyojin Suh, Youneui Choi, Youngjun Kim, Mikyung Kim, Jaehee Chung
  • Patent number: 8908995
    Abstract: A method of operating a dimensioning system to determine dimensional information for objects is disclosed. A number of images are acquired. Objects in at least one of the acquired images are computationally identified. One object represented in the at least one of the acquired images is computationally initially selected as a candidate for processing. An indication of the initially selected object is provided to a user. At least one user input indicative of an object selected for processing is received. Dimensional data for the object indicated by the received user input is computationally determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Intermec IP Corp.
    Inventors: Virginie Benos, Vincent Bessettes, Franck Laffargue
  • Patent number: 8909920
    Abstract: Token detection at a single computing platform may be linked with a user identification to unlock content and/or effectuate modifications in virtual space instances presented via multiple computing platforms, in accordance with one or more implementations. Exemplary implementations may enhance consistency in a user's experiences of a virtual space across multiple computing platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Vignocchi, Robert Nelson, Jeffrey Bunker, Troy Leavitt, Robert Lowe, John Blackburn, Christopher Shen
  • Patent number: 8910070
    Abstract: The present invention relates to navigation in a browser, such as a web browser. In a first embodiment, a system creates a new tab in a browser. The system includes a new tab module that generates a new tab page. The new tab page includes navigation options customized to a user. The new tab module sends a signal to display the new tab page to the user in the new tab on the browser. In a second embodiment, a computer-implemented method for displaying a bookmarks toolbar. A user input is received signaling the user's intent to navigate to a new site. A toolbar is displayed with buttons to navigate to bookmarked pages in response to the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Goodger, Glen Murphy, Brian Rakowski
  • Patent number: 8903759
    Abstract: Information is captured from a rendered document with a handheld document data capture device. Electronic information associated with the rendered document is applied to determine the system's actions and/or behaviors in response to the data capture. In some embodiments, the electronic information is markup data or an action map associated with the rendered document. In some embodiments, an electronic counterpart corresponding to the rendered document is located, and information associated with the electronic counterpart is applied to determine actions and/or behaviors available to a user of the handheld document data capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. King, Dale L. Grover, Clifford A. Kushler, James Q. Stafford-Fraser
  • Patent number: 8904298
    Abstract: Exemplary implementations may facilitate effectuating modifications within an instance of a virtual space presented via multiple disparate client computing platforms responsive to detection of a token associated with a single client computing platform. In some implementations, tokens may be detected based on signals received from token readers associated with individual ones of the multiple client computing platforms. A given token may be a standalone physical object. The given token may be detectable based on a signal conveying information associated with the given token. The information associated with the given token conveyed by the signal may be devoid of virtual space content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Nelson, Justin Towns, Kirk Baum, Robert Zobell, Terry Penn
  • Patent number: 8893033
    Abstract: Application notification techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler J. Donahue, Brian K McNeil, Kevin Michael Woley, Matthew R. Ayers, Gaurav S. Anand, Anshul Rawat, Relja Ivanovic
  • Patent number: 8893044
    Abstract: A method is disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes receiving an indication of a selection of one of a plurality of displayed selectable symbols displayed in a first display area; receiving an indication of at least one further selection of at least one of the plurality of displayed selectable symbols; and providing feedback to the user, subsequent to and in response to the at least one further selected at least one next symbol completing a symbol sequence including at least the first selected symbol, the feedback including display, in a second display area separate from the first display area, of previously undisplayed information including at least one of a message, command, and program and display of the first selected symbol and the at least one further selected symbol, in sequence of selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce R. Baker, Robert V. Conti, Rob Dillon, Dave H. Hershberger, Thomas J. McGrath, III
  • Patent number: 8893045
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that acquires first data from a first server connected to the information processing apparatus via a network; generates a first menu based on the first data; controls a display to display the first menu; acquires second data from a second server connected to the information processing apparatus via a network based on a received input corresponding to the first menu; generates a second menu based on the second data; and controls the display to display the second menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Junichi Sakaeda
  • Patent number: 8893023
    Abstract: A method for an electronic messager to predict text while composing a reply message, including receiving an incoming message for a user, parsing the incoming message to identify questions, phone numbers and special phrases therein, and presenting, by an electronic messager having a memory and a processor, possible responses that the user may choose from while the user replies to the incoming message, based on the questions, phone numbers and special phrases identified by the parsing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Hagit Perry, Uri Ron
  • Patent number: 8886663
    Abstract: The multi-party conversation analyzer of the present invention allows users to search a database of recorded phone calls to find calls which fit user-defined criteria for “suspicious calls”. Such criteria may include indications that a call included a 3-way call event, presence of an unauthorized voiced during the call, presence of the voice of an individual known to engage in identity theft, etc. A segment of speech within a call may be graphically selected and a search for calls with similar voices rapidly initiated. Searches across the database for specified voices are speeded by first searching for calls which contain speech from cohort speakers with similar voice characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Gainsboro, Charles Barrasso, Jonathan Klein, George Roberts
  • Publication number: 20140331182
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method (M) for entering a personal identification code composed of characters in a device comprising a user graphical interface. Said method is characterized in that it comprises the steps of: —displaying a plurality of reference elements on the device's user graphical interface; —displaying a plurality of characters on the device's user graphical interface; —indicating, by means of an audio canal of the device, a reference element to be used for setting a personal identification code's character in correspondence with said reference element; and —capturing said personal identification code's character which has been positioned by means of said user graphical interface to correspond with said reference element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: GEMALTO SA
    Inventors: Michel Lombard, Stephane Socie, Alexandre Benoit
  • Patent number: 8881059
    Abstract: A virtual object display determination unit identifies from real object display determination information a priority corresponding to a movement of a user indicated by user movement information notified by a state communication unit and, at the same time, identifies from real object attribute information a priority corresponding to a state change indicated by state change information notified by the state communication unit. By comparing the two identified priorities, the virtual object display determination unit determines whether or not to change a display mode of a virtual object. A UI generation unit generates a UI to be presented to the user based on a determination result of the virtual object display determination unit, and causes the UI to be displayed by a UI display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Takao Adachi
  • Publication number: 20140325443
    Abstract: There is provided a method of operating a menu in an electronic device, including displaying the execution screen of a specific function on a touch screen, detecting a touch gesture having an arc trajectory in the state in which the execution screen is displayed, and displaying an arc trajectory menu related to the specific function in response to a touch gesture having the arc trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Geonsoo Kim, Yongjoon Jeon
  • Publication number: 20140325444
    Abstract: Techniques for sorting and filtering a list in a space-constrained viewing area are described. A filter widget and a list of items are displayed in a view of an electronic display screen. In response to user input selecting the filter widget, and without changing to a different view, a filter category overlay is displayed in the view to provide various selectable filter categories. In response to selection of a filter category, a visual depiction of the selected filter category is displayed in the view. The list of items is filtered according to the selected filter category and displayed in the view without changing to any other view. Subsequently added visual depictions are linearly stacked in the view. Further, a filter modification overlay, which provides selectable filtering attributes, is displayed upon selection of a visual depiction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel Garrison, Brian Sarbin
  • Patent number: 8875032
    Abstract: An object is implemented to represent a visual element in a user interface while being linked to data associated with the visual element. A user can manipulate the visual element through the user interface to modify the object or how the object is processed. The data associated with the visual element tracks with the modifications to the visual element and/or object to permit the data to conceptually move with the visual element. The object may be implemented using a document object model in a web browser. The object may be assigned to a user interface component that may treat the object differently in dependence upon the user manipulations. The visual element may be formed using HTML and the user manipulations may be implemented using a script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Dialogic Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald D. Olsen, Brian Kamrowski
  • Patent number: 8870661
    Abstract: Methods and system for processing a game slice of a game includes presenting a plurality of games on a display. Each game is associated with a plurality of game slices and each game slice is a pre-selected portion of the game. Passive selection activity is detected proximate to an initial image of a game. In response, a primary video segment of a game slice of the game is rendered. During the rendering of the primary video segment, active selection activity is detected for the primary video segment. The active selection activity causes executable code of the game slice to be loaded to allow playing of an unlocked subset of the game within the game slice. The plays of the unlocked subset of the game within the game slice are recorded to define secondary video segments. The secondary video segments are posted for sharing with users of a social network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: David Perry, Victor Octav Suba Miura, Warren Benedetto
  • Publication number: 20140317570
    Abstract: A graph display device includes an expression input unit, a graph display control unit, first and second display control units and a coefficient changed graph display control unit. The expression input unit recognizes a functional expression. The graph display control unit displays a graph corresponding to the recognized functional expression in a display part. The first display control unit displays a first user interface object for changing a numeric value set to a variable when a coefficient in the functional expression is the variable. The second display control unit displays a second user interface object for changing a numeric value as a constant when a coefficient in the functional expression is the constant. The coefficient changed graph display control unit displays a graph corresponding to the functional expression in which a numeric value changed by the first or second user interface object is set as a coefficient value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kota ENDO
  • Publication number: 20140317569
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for Chinese language input to a touch screen. A method can include displaying pinyin “initials” on the touch screen and sensing a touch input at a first position of the touch screen. If the touch input is continuously sensed at the first position for a predetermined period of time, the method can include determining a pinyin “initial” and then discontinuing displaying the pinyin “initials” and displaying pinyin “finals” on the touch screen. By sensing a removal of the touch input from the touch screen at a second position, a selected “final” is determined. The method can also include displaying at least one Chinese character on the touch screen based upon the selected “initial” and the selected “final.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventor: Tian-Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140310654
    Abstract: An application interoperation method including the steps of: maintaining a handler table including data type information, function information and calling information which are associated with each application installed in a portable device; receiving input information on a menu key of the portable device, from a user, while a first application is active; extracting, in response to the receipt of the input information, at least one function information associated with data type information of data, which is being processed or requested by the first application, from the handler table; dynamically generating a menu including the extracted at least one function information to provide the user with the generated menu; receiving selection information on particular function information among the provided menu, from the user; and identifying calling information associated with the selected particular function information by referring to the handler table and executing a second application on the basis of the identi
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Yun Ho Jeon, Eun Ah Kim, Su Jin Kim
  • Patent number: 8863036
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to preventing a user from losing sight of a parameter that the user is currently set. To solve the problem, there is provided an information processing apparatus or a display control method for, when detecting that a node in a structure display area is selected by a user's operation, specifying a tab of setting associated with the selected node via a management unit and displaying the tab in a detailed setting display area, and when detecting that a tab in the detailed setting display area is selected by a user's operation, specifying a node associated with the selected tab, via a management unit and displaying the node in a selected state in the structure display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sato
  • Patent number: 8856686
    Abstract: A method of generating a menu display (203), the method comprising the steps of: selecting a plurality of menu items (205—1, 205—2, 205—3, 205—4) from a plurality of candidate menu items, the candidate menu items being arranged in a plurality of hierarchical levels, on the basis of most frequently used menu items and most difficult to access menu items within the plurality of hierarchical levels; and displaying the selected menu items simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: TP Vision Holding B.V.
    Inventor: Rui Li
  • Publication number: 20140289631
    Abstract: An operation input unit detects an operation position corresponding to an operation input; a display processing unit changes a display item to be displayed on a display unit of a plurality of items, depending on a change of the operation position; a processing control unit continues a process of changing the display item to be displayed on the display unit until a predetermined input is received, while a vehicle is moving, and when an operation speed of moving the operation position is higher than a preset threshold of the operation speed, or an operation acceleration at which the operation speed changes is higher than a preset threshold of the operation acceleration; and an item selecting unit selects any of the plurality of items based on the predetermined input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro Onaka
  • Publication number: 20140282248
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating enhanced views of information management applications. In an implementation, a suitable computing system or systems presents a link to a dynamic menu within a perspective of an active module of various modules in an information management application. In response to an indication of interest generated with respect to the link, the computing system presents the dynamic menu which includes various dynamic icons. Each of the icons provides update information and a link associated with a corresponding module of the various modules in the information management application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Brendan J. Reeves, Jason A. Cook, Kenneth Fern, Michael Anthony Faoro, Joseph P. McLaughlin, Jonathan David Friedman, Jasdeep Singh Chugh
  • Publication number: 20140282249
    Abstract: A method for the operator control of at least one electronic device and/or application on a display device 10, for example in a motor vehicle, in which a plurality of selectable objects are presented, wherein the objects are displayed spatially in a two-dimensional landscape and are automatically filtered and/or sorted by a preselection with a gesture in front of or on the display device. Also disclosed is a device for carrying out the method having a display device, a touchpad, a processing device, a control device for gesture and handwriting recognition, and a memory for filtering and/or sorting a plurality of selectable objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Manuel Joachim, Michael Mischke, Michael Wittkämper
  • Patent number: 8838453
    Abstract: A user input is received by a computing device. An interactive input module determines whether the first user input is a first character of a script for a supported language. If the first user input is a first character, the first character is stored in an input buffer. A plurality of words in the supported language that match a contents of the input buffer are identified, and a subset of the plurality of words are displayed to the user based on a frequency value associated with each of the plurality of words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventor: Pravin Satpute
  • Publication number: 20140258933
    Abstract: An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface is displayed that includes an expanded feature selection surface. The out-space user interface may be used to display one or more status panes for providing status information about a document being edited in the in-space user interface. Application features for affecting changes to a given document's status may be exposed in the out-space interface in proximity to associated status information. An out-space communication user interface (UI) component may be temporarily displayed in the document in-space user interface to communicate document status information that is presently available in the out-space user interface. A message bar may be displayed in the in-space user interface for communicating information from the out-space user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Marina Dukhon, Paula Guntaur, Jesse Clay Satterfield, Amy E. Alberts
  • Publication number: 20140258932
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for controlling a user interface in an electronic device. Content details are displayed and scrolled at an initial scroll speed. An object is detected within a predetermined distance from an electronic device without touching the object. The initial scroll speed is reduced in accordance with the distance of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-Ki CHO
  • Patent number: 8831950
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the automated voice enablement of a Web page. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for voice enabling a Web page can include selecting an input field of a Web page for speech input, generating a speech grammar for the input field based upon terms in a core attribute of the input field, receiving speech input for the input field, posting the received speech input and the grammar to an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine and inserting a textual equivalent to the speech input provided by the ASR engine into a document object model (DOM) for the Web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor S. Moore, Wendi L. Nusbickel
  • Patent number: 8832596
    Abstract: Input sources to a display, such as a television, are depicted with a first indicator if active, such as active with a signal having visual information, and are depicted with a second indicator if inactive, such as lacking an active signal. A selection module allows a user of the display to select an active source but precludes selection of an inactive source. For instance, a user is allowed to select highlighted input sources that are active but not allowed to select grayed out input sources that are inactive. An override allows the user to present all input sources with the first indicator, whether or not the input sources are active.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Stephens, Andrew G. Habas
  • Patent number: 8826112
    Abstract: Methods, computer program products and systems are provided for navigating a display of a table in a computer application that includes enabling a context sensitive action menu, detecting activation of the action menu in the displayed table, and executing a table display control instruction from the context sensitive action menu to reformat and redisplay the table in a collapsed or an expanded format around one or more selected cells of the table. The display instruction indicates which columns, etc. are to be reformatted. Further steps may include populating an array with data from corresponding cells of the table and executing an array display control instruction to display at least a portion of the array on an action menu display panel. Navigation tools provide selection of array elements and reformatting and redisplaying the table in the collapsed or the expanded format around a table cell corresponding to the selected array cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David K. Clark, Mary W. Ferguson, Julie L. Gilbreath, Theodore J. Shrader
  • Patent number: 8826175
    Abstract: A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller adapted to present a task toolbar by way of a display of the communication device, create an entry in the task toolbar, identify a party responsible for one or more tasks associated with the entry, associate the party with the entry and update the task toolbar to show by way of the display the association of the party to the entry, create one or more tasks, associate the one or more tasks with the entry of the party in the task toolbar, and synchronize one or more communication resources of the party according to the entry associated with the party and the associated one or more tasks. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: R. Tyler Wallis, William Stanley Robbins