Patents Examined by Haoshian Shih
  • Patent number: 8555179
    Abstract: A mobile communication terminal having a camera module and a touch screen is provided. The mobile communication terminal transmits and receives text data while performing the video call with at least one other party's terminal. The touch screen displays at least one images when the text data transmission and reception function is started, an input window for displaying text data input through the touch screen, an output window for displaying the transmitted and received text data, and at least one soft key, and a controller for controlling, when the input window or one of the at least one soft key is selected, the touch screen for changing a display method of at least one of the first image, the second image, the input window, the output window, and the at least one soft key and for displaying a touch pad comprising a plurality of keys for inputting text data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ha Youn Lee, Eun Young Lee, Min Hak Lee, Moon Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 8527884
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for browsing based on user recognition. The method includes receiving input from a user, verifying a user identity based on the input, identifying a browsing device of the user, retrieving a user profile associated with the user and the identified browsing device, the profile storing browser settings, and launching a browser on the identified browsing device with browser settings from the retrieved user profile. The input can be speech. The user identity can be verified by network-based speaker recognition. The method can further automatically update the user profile based on user actions. In one aspect, the method further identifies a preferred browser in the user profile, provisions a version of the preferred browser adapted to the identified browsing device, and launches the provisioned preferred browser on the identified browsing device with settings from the retrieved user profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Anderson Alfred, Joseph M. Sommer
  • Patent number: 8527896
    Abstract: A graphical user interface is provided that has two distinct sections. A first area has an array of menu items. When a menu item is hovered over by a pointer, an icon such as a contextually-related animated icon is displayed on a second area and changes its appearance in such a way as to indicate to the user the location of the pointer and/or the consequence of selecting that menu item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Andrew Matthews, Kanwal VedBrat, Mark Richard Ligameri, Paul Alexander Gusmorino, III, Charles W Stabb, Gregory Scott Matthews Melander, Robert Kenneth Stein, III, Jenny Lam
  • Patent number: 8510675
    Abstract: Systems and methods for interfacing with a window having a hidden border are provided. In some aspects, a method includes providing for presentation of a first window within a display, while providing for hiding a border of the first window. The method also includes receiving an indication of a first user input for interfacing with an edge of the first window. The method also includes providing for making visible the border of the first window in response to the indication of the first user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: John Nicholas Jitkoff, Daniel T. Erat
  • Patent number: 8499242
    Abstract: An image editing method comprises: a step of acquiring identification information on each of a plurality of operation instruction units for instructing editing of an image, a step of automatically selecting one or more images for editing from a group of images to classify the one or more images into a group of usable images based on the identification information, a step of determining a right to edit reaching contents of processing which each operation instruction unit is authorized to perform against each image in the group of usable images, and a step of performing editing processing on an image to be edited in the group of usable images based upon the determined right to edit according to an editing instruction supplied from each operation instruction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Karin Kon, Kei Yamaji, Kazuhiro Mino
  • Patent number: 8495495
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Isozu
  • Patent number: 8495520
    Abstract: The method represents a plurality of independent data items. The method first assigns a multi-dimensional iconic representation to each data item, then alters at least one dimension of each iconic representation according to a change in a corresponding state of the corresponding data item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Farhad Fuad Islam, Neil Eric Carlyle, Margaret Hanna
  • Patent number: 8484583
    Abstract: Storage apparatus and related methods wherein an operator control panel that controls functions and displays information regarding the storage apparatus and its storage devices is configured to have or display a selectable thumbtack function. The operator control panel is configurable to show a number of operational screens for managing the storage apparatus, show a default screen after a period of inactivity at the operator control panel, receive a designation that an operational screen should replace the default screen, and if designated, show the designated operational screen instead of the default screen after a period of inactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kelly J. Reasoner, Curtis C. Ballard, Mike P. Fleischmann
  • Patent number: 8468462
    Abstract: Devices and methods for controlling displays in a multi-display environment are disclosed. An exemplary method may comprise the following steps. Initially, an exemplary method may continuously track and record currently active display surfaces. Next, the exemplary method may identify the display surface that is determined to have been active immediately prior to the newly invoked display. After updating the specification file for the newly invoked display to include the identity of the display surface just identified, the exemplary method may be completed by displaying the newly invoked display on the same display surface as previously identified. In the event that the newly invoked display is a critical display, both the newly invoked display and the display determined to have been active immediately prior to the invoked display may be assigned an always-on-top status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Honeywell International, Inc.
    Inventor: James S. Adams
  • Patent number: 8458609
    Abstract: A multi-context service is described. In embodiments, a first input on a touch-screen of a portable device is detected as a selection of an object icon displayed on the touch-screen. A second input on the touch-screen is detected as a selection of an application icon displayed on the touch-screen. The object icon is associated with a content object, and the application icon is associated with a command provider that performs one or more actions on the content object. The content object is associated with the command provider to initiate the command provider to perform at least one of the actions on the content object based on the content object being associated with the command provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Weerapan Wilairat
  • Patent number: 8407616
    Abstract: A graphical user interface facilitates methods for analyzing a temperature distribution across a scene that is captured by a thermal imaging device. Preferably, the interface includes a both a two-dimensional image of the captured scene and a three-dimensional representation of the captured scene. The three-dimensional representation is formed by a plurality of pixels, each of which are coded by a qualitative value from within a range of qualitative values, and each value, within the range, corresponds to a temperature. Each of the plurality of pixels is arranged, in a first and a second dimension of the three dimensions, according to a position of a corresponding pixel of the two-dimensional image, and, in a third dimension, according to a magnitude of the temperature associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: Peter A. Bergstrom, Jordan B. Schlichting
  • Patent number: 8392835
    Abstract: In an apparatus having a display for supplying parameters to a mixing system, a first display control section controls the display to present a scene list containing identifications of each scene and configuration data of the mixing system specified by first specification data contained in each scene. A scene selection acceptance section accepts selection of a scene from the scene list presented on the display. A second display control section controls the display to present operation data of the mixing system specified by second specification data contained in the selected scene, such that the display presents each portion of the operation data. Each portion contains one option of the operation data specified by the second specification data in manner distinguishable from another option not specified by the second specification data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Takemura, Makoto Hiroi, Hiromu Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 8381103
    Abstract: When a jump instruction to display contents regarding a control out of contents in a help screen is given, if the jump instruction is given for a control with the same identification data as that of a control for which a preceding instruction is given, an explanation at a position next to a position of contents displayed in response to the preceding jump instruction is displayed on the help screen, out of the contents of a help data corresponding to the identification data of the control. If the jump instruction is given for a control with different identification from that of the control corresponding to the preceding jump instruction, an explanation at a head position, out of explanations in the help data corresponding to the identification data of the control for which the current jump instruction is given is displayed on the help screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Kotaro Terada, Masaru Aiso, Masaaki Okabayashi
  • Patent number: 8352878
    Abstract: Selections from a long list of elements on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) are presented. When a context window is presented for the selections, different cues are provided in the context window to provide feedback regarding the selections that are not in the current view, and to also facilitate rapid navigation to those selections on the GUI. Interaction with the GUI widgets within the context window, and interaction with the context window itself, facilitates the navigation toward the other selections that are not in the current view. Interaction with the GUI widgets also facilitates the preview of the selections that are not in the current view, thus making it easier to determine what has been selected without having to navigate to the view that contains those selections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joel Duquene, Morris S. Johnson, Jr., Henri F. Meli, Karline Vilme
  • Patent number: 8352882
    Abstract: A device for managing image and audio files displays thumbnails, which are representative of the files, on a screen in different arrangements, depending on the selected layout and order. When the user enters input to indicates that he or she wishes to browse through the thumbnails, the thumbnails move across the screen in sequence, following a path through a focus outline in the center of the screen. The path followed by the thumbnails depends on the selected layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Eduardo Agusto Sciammarella, Junichi Rekimoto, Haruo Oba, Makoto Imamura, Hideyuki Agata, Masakazu Hayashi, Masato Kuninori
  • Patent number: 8327285
    Abstract: Text that is selected at a virtual keyboard is submitted to and displayed at an application data field and is echoed at a keyboard data field that is in relatively close proximity to virtual keys used to select the text. Thus, a user does not have to alter their field of view to the application data field to determine what was submitted to the application data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: John Christopher Whytock, Ali Moradd Vassigh, Sabrina Boler
  • Patent number: 8321806
    Abstract: Graphical representations of operational process control data associated with monitored processes is displayed within the context of the geographical locations at which the processes operate, and in a manner as to model individual components of the processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Iconics, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell L. Agrusa, Simone Massaro, Leonardo Altamore, Vojta Kresl, Roberto Vercelli, Alexander Klimov, Roberto Raimondo, Christopher N. Elsbree
  • Patent number: 8321781
    Abstract: Configuration of an interactive chart is performed by user interactions with a user interface in a satellite pane, which is distinct from a chart pane used to display the data fields present on an interactive chart. Upon entry of a configuration selection, a query is executed to retrieve data to be displayed by the interactive chart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Kirstin M. Tolle
  • Patent number: 8316311
    Abstract: A system and method for visually indicating one or more problems in a graphical program. The graphical program may be programmatically analyzed to discover a problem (or potential problem) in the graphical program. The problem found during the programmatic analysis of the graphical program may then be visually indicated on a display device. Visually indicating the problem may comprise visually indicating one or more objects in the graphical program to which the problem corresponds. Visually indicating the graphical program object(s) may comprise displaying information or altering the appearance of the object(s) in order to call the user's attention to the object(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventor: Darren M. Nattinger
  • Patent number: 8316301
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus, medium, and method segmenting video sequences based on a topic. The apparatus may include a start-shot determination unit detecting a plurality of key-frames by using character information from video sequences including a plurality of frames to determine the detected key-frames as start-shots for each topic, and a topic list creation unit creating a topic list by using the start-shots for each topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungbae Kim, Doosun Hwang, Jiyeun Kim