Patents Examined by Shourjo Dasgupta
  • Patent number: 10423329
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program product for information processing and keyboard display are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a touch operation detection unit to detect a touch operation; a determination unit to determine whether the touch operation is a touch operation in a home position; and a control unit that changes a key change area to a correction key if the touch operation is a touch operation in the home position. The method includes: determining a simultaneous touch operation of at least two points in a sensing area; and displaying a correction key in a preset display change area. The computer program product includes software keyboard display processing for: determining a simultaneous touch operation of at least two points in a sensing area, and displaying a correction key in a present display change area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Luo, Hiroshi Itoh, Ryohta Nomura
  • Patent number: 10409458
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a user interface and circuitry. The user interface displays a screen including a plurality of graphical representations corresponding to a plurality of application programs being installed on the image processing apparatus. The circuitry counts a number of times of use, for each of the plurality of application programs, each time of use being counted when the application has been activated for at least a predetermined time period, selects one of the plurality of application programs having the greatest counted number of times of use, as the application program that is most frequently used, and controls the user interface to automatically display an operation screen of the selected application program, when the image processing apparatus is in an unused state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Yabe
  • Patent number: 10409487
    Abstract: Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe gesture input processing. As an example, a gesture input may be a continuous gesture input that is received through a soft keyboard application. The continuous gesture input may comprise query input and a selection of an application extension displayed within the soft keyboard application. The query input may be processed using a component associated with the application extension. A result for the query input may be provided. As an example, the result may be provided by the component associated with the application extension. Other examples are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Sung Joon Won
  • Patent number: 10402211
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing innovation-creativity data information, a user equipment (UE) and a cloud server, which provide a user with an integrated data information collecting mode, allowing that innovation-creativity data information of a user be collected anytime, anywhere, through various means, and be sent to a cloud. A first data string is generated based on the data information, and preserving information returned from the cloud is received, which includes the first data string or a second data string. The first data string enables verification of data information integrity, ensuring integrity of the data information. The second data string includes trusted time information issued by a trusted time issuing device based on time when the first data string is received. The data information goes through a data-oriented online processing, realizing a seamlessly connected IP services for real-time protection of innovation and creativity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: INNO STREAM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yizhong Lu
  • Patent number: 10401978
    Abstract: To provide an information output system and an information output method capable of providing appropriate information for the user's current situation. The operation device comprises a state detection section for detecting a posture of the operation device, and a state information transmission section for transmitting state information to a home-use computer based on the state detected by the state detection section. The home-use computer outputs information depending on the state information transmitted by the state information transmission section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventor: Ken Kutaragi
  • Patent number: 10394445
    Abstract: An MFP (Multi-Functional Peripheral) as an information processing apparatus accepts an input through a keyboard selectively displayed on the touch panel of an operation terminal from among a plurality of keyboards configured with software key groups different from each other. The MFP displays a setting screen including a plurality of input areas on the touch panel. When the setting screen appears, the MFP acquires the type of the selectively displayed keyboard and decides an input accepting area that accepts an input through the selectively displayed keyboard, from among the plurality of input areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Shohei Ichiyama, Toshimi Shinchi
  • Patent number: 10379706
    Abstract: A device for and method of changing a size of a display window on a screen are provided. The method includes receiving a user input for changing the size of the display window, moving a guideline and displaying the moving guideline according to the user input, the guideline indicating the size of the display window, determining a changed size of the display window after the user input is terminated, and displaying the display window with the determined changed size, wherein contents are displayed in the displayed display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chul-joo Kim, Kang-tae Kim, Eun-young Kim, Kwang-won Sun, Jae-yeol Lee
  • Patent number: 10379806
    Abstract: A system and method for modifying a feature of a device based on an applied touch intensity is disclosed. When a touch is received, a sensor component sends a signal to a measurement component. The measurement component converts the signal into a touch intensity and provides the determined touch intensity to a selection component. The selection component selects at least one action from a set of actions to be executed by the device based on the determined touch intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Barsness, Jay S. Bryant, James E. Carey, Joseph W. Cropper, John M. Santosuosso
  • Patent number: 10372296
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a menu item selection operation decision unit that selects a menu item in a context menu; a target selection operation decision unit that selects, regarding the selected menu item, an end position that is the result of a movement due to a predetermined operation; and a command calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of the selected end position, a command indicated by the menu item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Koki Hatada
  • Patent number: 10372289
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a wraparound interface layout method, which adopts a user-centered wraparound layout in a stereo space, thus more display objects are available for the layout, and the expansibility is better; by clearly presenting the display objects located in a user's sight line to the user, main content in the interface is effectively highlighted, so that the user finds the sense of presence, and a better user experience is achieved; in addition, the distances from the display objects to the human eyes are corrected, which avoids the undesirable display effect that the objects close to the user are visually larger and the objects far away from the user are visually smaller, and provides a more comfortable viewing experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Beijing Pico Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaolin Rao, Xue Feng
  • Patent number: 10365789
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and machine-readable media for a common run-time design-time environment. That a user has design credentials associated with a website can be confirmed. An indication of an interaction of the user with a display element of the website can be received during run-time. A graphical user interface associated with the display element can be displayed to the user during run-time responsive to the interaction and responsive to the confirmation that the user has design credentials. Input from the user that causes a design-time modification to a relationship between the website and a monitoring service can be received in a common run-time design-time environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Ilan Uriel
  • Patent number: 10366407
    Abstract: An information processing device according to the present application includes a detecting unit and a predicting unit. The detecting unit detects a move operation to move contents displayed on a display screen of the information processing device. The specifying unit specifies a focused region on which a user is focused for the display screen of the information processing device based on a result of the detection by the detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yohei Abe
  • Patent number: 10359294
    Abstract: A digital map of a geographic area is displayed in a map sheet in a software application executing on a portable device. Several individually selectable location indicators are displayed over the digital map in the map sheet. In response to a first one of the several location indicators being selected on the map sheet, an informational sheet related to the selected location indicator is generated, where the informational sheet occludes a portion of the map sheet. In response to a gesture applied to the informational sheet, (a) a selection of a second one of the several location indicators is automatically indicated on the map sheet, and (b) the informational sheet is updated to display information related to the newly selected location indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Graf, Darren Delaye
  • Patent number: 10353567
    Abstract: Operability is improved when operating an electronic device with one hand. An electronic device (1) includes a touch sensor on a front surface and a touch sensor on a back surface. A controller (14) causes a cursor for selecting an icon positioned at an upper portion of a display (11) to be displayed upon detecting an operation on the touch sensor (13) on the back surface and executes processing corresponding to an icon selected by the cursor upon detecting an operation on the touch sensor (12) on the front surface. The controller (14) also executes processing related to a phone call application upon detecting an operation on the touch sensor (13) on the back surface during a phone call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeto Hattori
  • Patent number: 10341270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced application interoperability are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may present, on at least one display screen, a first user interface that is associated with a first application. In response to determining that the at least one display screen has been rotated from a first orientation to a second orientation, the computing device may present, on the at least one display screen, a second user interface that is associated with a second application different from the first application. In one or more embodiments, the second user interface may include at least some information that is contextually related to information included in the first user interface. In addition, a state of the first application may be preserved when the second user interface that is associated with the second application is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Priscila K. Penha, Kelly M. Nash, Daisuke Sakurai, Shih-Hao Yeh
  • Patent number: 10338794
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns the providing of media, and more particularly to the streaming of media. In accordance with an example embodiment: a portion of a day is determined; a first data message is sent to a computer server system. The first data message comprises instructions to the computer server system to return media content associated with the determined portion of the day. A second data message is received from the computer server system, the second data message comprising media content associated with the determined portion of the day. In response thereto is playback performed of the media content at the user interface of the electronic device in dependence of the determined portion of the day. While performing playback is a visual appearance parameter of the user interface adjusted according the determined portion of the day.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SPOTIFY AB
    Inventors: Karl-Johan Persson, Steven Paul Everington, Fredric Vinnå, Stig Gustav Viktor Söderström, Daniel Galfvensjö, Ari Liusaari, Dejan Sormaz, Felice Mancino, Samwoo E
  • Patent number: 10331322
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for prototyping graphic user interface, the methods includes at least: receiving, by a prototyping terminal, a first chain reaction rule through a prototyping interface, sensing, by a prototype execution terminal, a change in a value of a reference attribute of a trigger object within a trigger range of the first chain reaction rule, and changing, by the prototype execution terminal, a display state of a reaction object according to a change rule of the first chain reaction rule when sensing the change in the value of the reference attribute of the trigger object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: STUDIO XID KOREA, INC.
    Inventors: Soo Kim, Jae Won Song
  • Patent number: 10324611
    Abstract: A content display area that is an area where screen scroll is possible on the basis of an input performed with a pointing device and includes a three-dimensional image area for projecting a three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional image area for displaying a two-dimensional image, the two-dimensional image area being adjacent to the three-dimensional image area, is displayed on a screen. Then, when the content display area is scrolled on the screen, both the three-dimensional image area and the two-dimensional image area are scrolled on the screen together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ginga Kamei, Masayuki Okada, Ryutaro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10320723
    Abstract: Configurations for providing a widget that displays participants involved in the conversation thread and provides different graphical elements (e.g., buttons) to initiate one click actions to start a group chat, create a meeting on each participant's calendar, or start a new conversation thread. In the case of the group chat, the subject technology can include the contents of the group chat session as an additional electronic message in the conversation thread. In one example, the widget is implemented as a floating toolbar that can be positioned in the user interface while in the conversation thread view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ariel Lauren Rideout, Steven Henry Bills, Maria Khomenko, Andrew James Palay, Jason Briggs Cornwell, Mark Striebeck, Paul Morell McDonald, Zohair Hyder, Richard James Treitel, Jamison Richard Gray
  • Patent number: 10310704
    Abstract: An apparatus including a plurality of user controlled devices, each located at a respective predetermined location within a geographic area of a user, a respective location indicator associated with each of the plurality of user controlled devices, a portable user device including a respective controlling application of each of the plurality of user controlled devices embodied in a memory of the portable user device, a monitoring processor of the portable user device that detects a location of the portable user device within the geographic area based upon a wireless signal from one of the respective location indicators and an interface processor of the portable device that loads the controlling application of one of the plurality of user controlled devices based upon the detected location of the portable user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ADEMCO INC.
    Inventors: Deepak Sundar Meganathan, Ravikumar Vemagal Aswath