Patents by Inventor Jost Eckhardt
Jost Eckhardt has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10705672Abstract: Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each portion of visual content to be outputted may first be enhanced, such as via magnification, before being displayed on one of the multiple display devices. The user may be provided with a first control that enables the user to adjust a portion of visual content displayed on a first display device independently of a portion of visual content displayed on a second display device. A second control may also be provided that enables the user to adjust the portion of visual content displayed on the second display device independently of the portion of visual content displayed on the first display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Richard Demar, Jost Eckhardt, Scott David Moore
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Patent number: 10627982Abstract: A screen magnification software feature that listens to internal messages within an operating system and automatically detects an input control coming into focus and sets a primary magnified viewport on that input control. As an end user interacts with the input control the software further listens for operating system messaging indicating a change in an output region responsive to the interaction with the input control. Upon detecting this output region change, a secondary magnified viewport is displays simultaneously with the primary magnified viewport on a graphic user interface, the focus staying within the primary magnified viewport. The end user has magnified views of both the control she is interacting with (e.g., a virtual calculator keypad of buttons) in the primary viewport and the output region (e.g., a text box showing the calculated result) in the secondary viewport.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventor: Jost Eckhardt
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Patent number: 10078417Abstract: A screen magnification software feature that listens to internal messages within an operating system and automatically detects an input control coming into focus and sets a primary magnified view port on that input control. As an end user interacts with the input control the software further listens for operating system messaging indicating a change in an output region responsive to the interaction with the input control. Upon detecting this output region change, a secondary magnified view port is displays simultaneously with the primary magnified view port on a graphic user interface, the focus staying within the primary magnified view port. The end user has magnified views of both the control she is interacting with (e.g., a virtual calculator keypad of buttons) in the primary view port and the output region (e.g., a text box showing the calculated result) in the secondary view port.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventor: Jost Eckhardt
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Publication number: 20180011609Abstract: Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each portion of visual content to be outputted may first be enhanced, such as via magnification, before being displayed on one of the multiple display devices. The user may be provided with a first control that enables the user to adjust a portion of visual content displayed on a first display device independently of a portion of visual content displayed on a second display device. A second control may also be provided that enables the user to adjust the portion of visual content displayed on the second display device independently of the portion of visual content displayed on the first display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Richard Demar, Jost Eckhardt, Scott David Moore
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Patent number: 9804727Abstract: Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each portion of visual content to be outputted may first be enhanced, such as via magnification, before being displayed on one of the multiple display devices. The user may be provided with a first control that enables the user to adjust a portion of visual content displayed on a first display device independently of a portion of visual content displayed on a second display device. A second control may also be provided that enables the user to adjust the portion of visual content displayed on the second display device independently of the portion of visual content displayed on the first display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Richard Demar, Jost Eckhardt, Scott David Moore
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Patent number: 9401099Abstract: Methods and apparatus for displaying closed-captioning content on a display device. In response to determining that closed-captioning is desired, a display area of the display device is partitioned into non-overlapping portions. A first portion of the display area is configured to display the closed-captioning content and a second portion of the display area is configured to display a computer desktop. The closed-captioning content may be transformed by replacing at least some text in the closed-captioning content with at least one symbol based, at least in part, on a context of the at least some text in the closed-captioning content.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: AI SquaredInventors: Jost Eckhardt, Hana Giat, Scott David Moore
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Patent number: 8856682Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to techniques for displaying a user interface of an application program on a display device. The display device may be partitioned into two portions, such that the user interface and a computer desktop are displayed in separate portions of the display. As a result, the user interface does not overlap or obscure any portion of the displayed desktop.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: AI SquaredInventors: Scott David Moore, Yi Fang, Jost Eckhardt, Richard Wayne Demar
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Publication number: 20110283243Abstract: Methods and apparatus for displaying closed-captioning content on a display device. In response to determining that closed-captioning is desired, a display area of the display device is partitioned into non-overlapping portions. A first portion of the display area is configured to display the closed-captioning content and a second portion of the display area is configured to display a computer desktop. The closed-captioning content may be transformed by replacing at least some text in the closed-captioning content with at least one symbol based, at least in part, on a context of the at least some text in the closed-captioning content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: Al SquaredInventors: Jost Eckhardt, Hana Giat, Scott David Moore
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Publication number: 20110283227Abstract: Some embodiments are directed to techniques for displaying a user interface of an application program on a display device. The display device may be partitioned into two portions, such that the user interface and a computer desktop are displayed in separate portions of the display. As a result, the user interface does not overlap or obscure any portion of the displayed desktop.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2010Publication date: November 17, 2011Applicant: AI SquaredInventors: Scott David Moore, Yi Fang, Jost Eckhardt, Richard Wayne Demar
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Publication number: 20110225544Abstract: Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each portion of visual content to be outputted may first be enhanced, such as via magnification, before being displayed on one of the multiple display devices. The user may be provided with a first control that enables the user to adjust a portion of visual content displayed on a first display device independently of a portion of visual content displayed on a second display device. A second control may also be provided that enables the user to adjust the portion of visual content displayed on the second display device independently of the portion of visual content displayed on the first display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2010Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: AI SquaredInventors: Richard Demar, Jost Eckhardt, Scott David Moore
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Publication number: 20060146075Abstract: A screen magnification tool to scale the content of a computer display screen by distinguishing text and non-text elements of the content and applying different scaling methods to the text and non-text elements. Information about the text elements is stored in a database. Other embodiments are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2005Publication date: July 6, 2006Inventors: Benjamin Weiss, Richard Demar, Jost Eckhardt