Patents by Inventor Steve Tomkins

Steve Tomkins 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).

  • System having user interface using motion based object selection and mouse movement
    Patent number: 8497842
    Abstract: A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application controls the touchscreen display to provide a container and a user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application identifies a user manipulation as a mouse movement in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventors: Steve Tomkins, Dan Dodge, Peter Van Der Veen, Xiaodan Tang, Colin Burgess
  • System having user interface using object selection and gestures
    Patent number: 8334847
    Abstract: A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application may control the touchscreen display to provide a container and a selectable user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application may identify a gesture function in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude in a plane of the touchscreen display exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventor: Steve Tomkins
  • System compositing images from multiple applications
    Patent number: 8330774
    Abstract: A system compositing images from different applications includes a movie clip based application, an image application, and a compositing application that is in communication with the movie clip based application and the image application. The movie clip based application defines one or more movie clip images for display. The image application provides one or more images for display with the one or more movie clip images. The compositing application operates to composite the one or more movie clip images with the one or more images of the image application for viewing on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: QNX Software Systems Limited
    Inventors: Garry Turcotte, David Donohoe, Dan Dodge, Peter van der Veen, Steve Tomkins, Xiaodan Tang, Colin Burgess
  • SYSTEM COMPOSITING IMAGES FROM MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20090195556
    Abstract: A system compositing images from different applications includes a movie clip based application, an image application, and a compositing application that is in communication with the movie clip based application and the image application. The movie clip based application defines one or more movie clip images for display. The image application provides one or more images for display with the one or more movie clip images. The compositing application operates to composite the one or more movie clip images with the one or more images of the image application for viewing on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Garry Turcotte, David Donohoe, Dan Dodge, Peter van der Veen, Steve Tomkins, Xiaodan Tang, Colin Burgess
  • SYSTEM HAVING USER INTERFACE USING MOTION BASED OBJECT SELECTION AND MOUSE MOVEMENT
    Publication number: 20090115736
    Abstract: A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application controls the touchscreen display to provide a container and a user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application identifies a user manipulation as a mouse movement in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Steve Tomkins, Dan Dodge, Peter van der Veen, Xiaodan Tang, Colin Burgess
  • SYSTEM HAVING USER INTERFACE USING OBJECT SELECTION AND GESTURES
    Publication number: 20090102806
    Abstract: A system includes a touchscreen display and an interface application. The interface application may control the touchscreen display to provide a container and a selectable user interface control. The user interface control may be selected through manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container proximate the user interface control. The user interface application may identify a gesture function in response to manipulation of the touchscreen display in an area of the container when the manipulation has a motion magnitude in a plane of the touchscreen display exceeding a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Steve Tomkins
  • GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE
    Publication number: 20080263452
    Abstract: A system includes a display that is controlled by a processor. Software code may be executed by the processor to link a plurality of images of an image set into an endless loop in virtual space. The images of the image set may be scrolled along the endless loop for display. The endless loop may include one or more portions to which the images of the image set that are not currently visible on the display are linked, and one or more further portions to which the images of the image set that are currently visible on the display are linked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventor: Steve Tomkins