Patents by Inventor Nghi Dong Doan

Nghi Dong Doan 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).

  • Patent number: 6377285
    Abstract: A computer interface is provided for easy organization, arrangement and zooming of logical sets of zooming objects in a zooming graphical user interface. Information is displayed as a zooming universe of graphical objects, including groups of associated member objects, that can be manipulated with interactive input devices. The interface permits a user to associate logically related objects in a space-grid group object, a two dimensional table of cells forming rows and columns on the zooming space. Objects may be positioning in each cell. If such positioning results in an object overlaying the dimensional boundaries of the cell or other zooming objects in the cell, cell dimensions are automatically increased and the positioning of objects in the cell adjusted, allowing a newly added object to be positioned at the user indicated position. Cells with the same row coordinate have the same height dimension. Cell with the same column coordinate have the same width dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics
    Inventors: Nghi Dong Doan, Kenneth Herndon
  • Patent number: 6069606
    Abstract: Multiple images are displayed on a screen of a computer system to reflect a temporal relationship among them. Based on date and time when an image is obtained in relation to other displayed images, its size is set accordingly. Namely, the more recent the image, the larger its size on the screen. In addition, the larger the size of the image, the more processing operations, including graphical or text processing functions, are available to a user to be performed on that image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Sciammarella, Kenneth Herndon, Franklin Servan-Schreiber, Nghi Dong Doan, Jad Nehme