Patents Examined by Shourjo Dasgupta
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Patent number: 9256354Abstract: Provided is a list display apparatus configured to: arrange, from a list including a plurality of item images arranged in order, item images included in a partial range of the list in a predetermined scroll direction, and display the item images in the partial range on a screen; and move the item images in the scroll direction at a speed corresponding to a user's scroll instruction, and move item images that have not been displayed on the screen in the scroll direction from outside of the screen into the screen so as to newly display the item images on the screen. When the item image that is newly displayed is moved in the scroll direction into the screen, at least a part of the item image is moved in a cross direction crossing the scroll direction from the outside of the screen into the screen at a predetermined speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.Inventors: Arito Mochizuki, Kuniaki Oe
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Patent number: 9256690Abstract: A method and system for remote control of a presenter's computer screen using only web browsers is described. Viewers are able to view representation of a presenter's screen on a screen of the viewer's device and remotely control the presenter's screen directly from a web browser, without any downloads, plugins, or dialog boxes. Viewer control events are captured by the browser, sent to a server, and transmitted to the presenter's computer. A program running on the presenter's computer executes the control events, updates the presenter's screen, and transmits images of the updated screen back to the viewers.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: CLEARSLIDE, INC.Inventors: Adam Michael Lieb, James L. Benton
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Patent number: 9189130Abstract: An exemplary method includes a user computing device 1) determining current states, such as current integration states and/or current operational states, of software applications included in a suite of software applications relative to the user computing device, 2) identifying, based on the current states, access options for the software applications included in the suite of software applications, and 3) providing, by the user computing device for display, a graphical user interface that includes the access options configured to be selected by a user of the user computing device to access the software applications included in the suite of software applications. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.Inventors: Heath Stallings, Omar Abou-Khamis, Nathan J. Maxfield, Ashok Kumar, Andrien J. Wang, Don G. Archer, Aravind Perumandla
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Patent number: 9164647Abstract: A graphical user interface device includes an operation procedure information database, a display element information database, an operation determination section, a display element selection section, and an integrated procedure and display-element screen preparation section. Procedure information and a display item to be operated by an operator are registered in the operation procedure information database. The procedure information is text information forming an operation manual. The operation determination section determines a current operation step based on information given from an actual plant. The integrated procedure and display-element screen preparation section prepares a layout of an operation screen allowing the procedure information and the display item of the current operation step to be simultaneously displayed on a single screen of the input/output equipment.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yohei Ueno, Tadashi Oi, Kazuyuki Mori, Akira Kobashi
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Patent number: 9160630Abstract: A method for displaying a graphical user interface for a computing environment including computing resources that are provided to a plurality of organizations over one or more external networks includes displaying representations of the one or more external networks. The method further includes displaying a first node in the graphical user interface that is connected to the representations of at least one of the one or more external networks, where the first node is associated with a first organization; displaying an aggregate node in the graphical user interface that is associated with a plurality of other organizations besides the first organization; receiving a selection to view details of the first organization; and displaying an expanded view of the first organization in the graphical user interface in response to the selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventors: Karen Natalie Wong, Peter J. Shepherd, Alex Smolen
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Patent number: 9069374Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems that render display of a video on a first page, that has been occluded from view by the subsequent viewing of a second page, to viewing on such subsequently viewed second page. Source location of the video is identified from source code of the first page, the identified video source is retrieved, and then it is input into source code of the second page to transfer the video to the second page. The video may then me displayed on the second page. The computer program products and computer systems both include a number of program instructions for effecting the transfer of the video from the first page to the second page for the continuous unobstructed or non-occluded viewing thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Pramod K. Sudhakar Palla, Nitendra Rajput
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Patent number: 9071709Abstract: An apparatus for enabling provision of collaboration of remote and on-site users of indirect augmented reality may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least selecting a stored image including a virtual representation of a real world location based on position information and orientation information of a mobile terminal, causing provision of first visual content to be displayed at the mobile terminal based on the virtual representation, causing provision of second visual content to be displayed at a remote device based on the virtual representation, and enabling collaborative interaction between a user of the mobile terminal and a user of the remote device with respect to the first visual content and the second visual content. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Jason Robert Wither, Yun-Ta Tsai, Thommen Korah
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Patent number: 9058627Abstract: A credit score user interface that may comprise a circular visual interface to view a consumer's credit information is disclosed herein. Sections of the circular visual interface may correspond to credit categories, where each section is sized according to the impact of the associated credit category on the consumer's credit score. One of the category sections may be selected, and credit information about a specific consumer that is related to that section may be displayed. The selected credit category may change based on touch input. A change in selection may cause new credit information related to the newly selected credit category to be displayed about the specific consumer.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: ConsumerInfo.com, Inc.Inventors: Jeremy Wasser, Michelle Felice-Steele, Melinda Nies, Luke Giltner
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Patent number: 9047006Abstract: A method of operation of an electronic device system includes: detecting a drag performed on a touch screen, the drag having a first direction from a starting point and an ending point; detecting a stretchable cursor extendable based on the drag, the stretchable cursor having a cursor length, a cursor direction, a starting portion, and an ending portion at the ending point and larger than the starting portion at the starting point; displaying the stretchable cursor on the touch screen, the stretchable cursor stretched across a centerline on the touch screen; detecting whether a second direction of the drag is opposite the first direction; and moving a starting position of the stretchable cursor toward the centerline and away from the starting point when the second direction is opposite the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: George Arriola, Michael P. Bauerly, Brian W. Johnson, Reiko Miyazaki, Tatsushi Nashida, Ken Miyashita
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Patent number: 8875044Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image display element, an instruction position detection unit for accepting an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detecting and outputting an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face, a storage unit for storing and holding image data of images, and a display control unit for performing a control for displaying an image in accordance with the stored and held image data on the image display element, in which when the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control unit performs a control for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ozawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Akagawa, Ayako Iwase
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Patent number: 8826167Abstract: A text input method and apparatus of a portable terminal supporting a virtual keypad including a plurality of character keys are provided. The method includes displaying, when a text input mode is activated, a virtual keypad including a plurality of key regions, each key region being assigned plural letters, compounding, when a touch movement event is detected on the virtual keypad, letters assigned to a first key region to which a touch-down event is made with letters assigned to a second key region to which a touch-up event is made into compound letters, displaying the compound letters, and inputting, when a compound letter is selected, the compound letter selected.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong Joon Park, Bum Soo Kim
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Patent number: 8812976Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer readable medium for configuring programmable equipment having hardware devices that can be programmatically interconnected into different hardware configurations. A graphical user interface is provided on a computer display which permits a user to iconically define both a hardware and procedural configuration of the available hardware devices. Configuration data is generated that can be used to automatically configure the programmable equipment according to the user-defined hardware and procedural configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: RHK Technology, Inc.Inventors: Adam Kollin, John Keem, Steffen Porthun
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Patent number: 8788947Abstract: A mobile device has a display that supports gesture-based control operations. Computers maintain connections to a remote access service. The user desires to copy and/or move resources between first and second of his connected computers. After receipt of data indicating a first gesture requesting an operation with respect to the resource, an overview of one or more target devices is displayed. The overview is a folder level view of all folders and files located on the target devices. In addition, an additional display element is shown. This element is a representation of the resource from which the operation has been requested. The element is displayed as an overlay, and it is adapted to be selectively positioned in the overview using a gesture. Upon receipt of data indicating a second gesture positioning the representation over an available location within a computer connected to the service, the operation is completed.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: LogMeln, Inc.Inventors: Ákos Putz, György Juhász, Márton B. Anka
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Patent number: 8756506Abstract: In an image reproduction window, an image reproduction area in which images are reproduced, and an operating area in which a slide bar is displayed are provided. When a slider of the slide bar is moved, the number of images to be displayed in one frame in the image reproduction area is increased or decreased in accordance with a position of the slider. The number of images in one frame increases as a displacement amount of the slider increases. When the slider is moved within a range in which the number of images to be displayed in one frame does not change, only a frame change interval is changed while the number of images in one frame is unchanged.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Masahiro Terada
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Patent number: 8621352Abstract: A method is provided in one particular example that includes identifying an attempt by a first communications device to play video data within a virtual meeting session using a first media player. The first communications device can be sharing at least a portion of a desktop presented on the first communications device with one or more other remote communications devices participating in the virtual meeting session. The method can also include identifying a copy of the video data, and launching one or more media players to present at least a portion of the copy of the video data on the one or more other remote communications devices. The one or more media players are launched to correspond to a location of the first media player on the shared portion of the desktop.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jianzhong Ding, Haitao Xin, Zheng Yuan, Guangbing Liu, Hailei Sheng
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Patent number: 8578286Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an imaging section configured to image an object, a display section configured to display at least an icon for controlling the imaging section, an operation section configured to acquire a first operation and a second operation on the icon, and a controller configured to, when the operation section has acquired the first operation, set a timer in accordance with an operation amount of the first operation and change a display of the icon on the display section in accordance with a progress of the timer, and to, when the operation section has acquired the second operation or when the timer has expired, cause the imaging section to image the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takuro Noda, Yasushi Okumura
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Patent number: 8572508Abstract: A method for displaying applications of a touch-controlled device includes the steps of: generating an electronic signal according a gesture applied on a touch panel of the touch-controlled device; generating a detection result according to the electronic signal, wherein the detection result includes a first position of the gesture corresponding to the touch panel; when the detection result indicates that the detected gesture is a multi-fingered grab gesture, starting an application container; and outputting a control signal to the touch panel according to the application container, in order to display the application container at the first position.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventors: Shao-Chieh Lin, Chih-Hsiang Lin, Ching-Sheng Tsai