Patents by Inventor Peter George Matthews

Peter George Matthews 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: 7783978
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and information processing device for user selectably presenting information. It comprises a display screen (101) having various areas or zones for facilitating the exploration of the information. A flow zone (102) shows links or pointers (103) to various information units or content, which links continuously flow in a certain direction. The user is allowed to control the flow speed and flow direction and select any link so as to view a full presentation (108) of the related content in a presentation zone (106). The flow zone may be controlled to include only links to selected content in dependence on a user selectable filter agent (105). Personal links may be stored into and loaded from a physical token, using a token detector (113) and token area (110) displaying the personal links. The token can be used to carry personal links between information processing devices of the system according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Anton Oguzhan Alford Andrews, Peter George Matthews, Lira Nikolovska
  • Publication number: 20040169681
    Abstract: The system (300) displays a sequence of images on a display device (308) in a display order that corresponds with the order of the images in the sequence. One of the images is selected as the current image and is displayed in full. Other images of the sequence are displayed in part. A user can scroll through the sequence of image, whereby the images are shifted by a position in the display order and whereby a neighboring images is fully shown as the current image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: September 2, 2004
    Inventors: Ann-Martine Josette Van Kesteren, Marieke Verspaandonk, Peter George Matthews