Patents Issued in June 21, 2016
  • Patent number: 9372559
    Abstract: A touch screen, a method of manufacturing the same, and a mobile terminal having the same for minimizing a border area of the mobile terminal are provided. The touch screen includes a flexible display panel including an active area in which an image is displayed and a wiring area including signal lines for transmitting data corresponding to the image, and a flexible touch panel attached to a front surface of the display panel and including a touch detection area at which touch sensors for detecting a touch are positioned and a wiring area at which signal lines for transmitting a touch signal are positioned, wherein the wiring area of the display panel and the wiring area of the touch panel are bent so as not to be parallel to the active area and the touch detection area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dongsub Kim
  • Patent number: 9372560
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a signal detection system of a touch screen, and more particularly to a signal detection system of a large-sized mutual capacitive multi touch screen that is capable of effectively reducing RC time delay, signal distortion, an effect of noise, parasitic resistance, and parasitic capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: IKAIST CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyu Hyeong Cho, Sang Hui Park, Gyu Ha Cho, Chul Kweon, Joo Yeong Yoon, Sung Jin Kim, Soo Hyun Park
  • Patent number: 9372561
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch-screen unit which includes a flat surface touch-screen region and a curved surface touch-screen region, and a body unit to which the touch-screen unit is attached. Here, the electronic device determines that a first user command is input when a border between the flat surface touch-screen region and the curved surface touch-screen region is traversed from a first direction, and determines that a second user command is input when the border between the flat surface touch-screen region and the curved surface touch-screen region is traversed from a second direction, where the second direction is opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hwang-Keun Kim
  • Patent number: 9372562
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a touch screen display unit configured to display content; and a controller configured to receive a setting of a region included in the displayed content, display a first graphic object corresponding to a first type of data included in the content in the set region and display a second graphic object corresponding to a second type of data included in the content in the set region, receive a selection of the first graphic object, extract the first type of data included in the content, and display the first type of data extracted from the content without the second type of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minjoo Chung, Hosoo Kim, Jeehee Park
  • Patent number: 9372563
    Abstract: A touchscreen device is configured to facilitate editing on a touchscreen. The touchscreen device determines a position of a guide device on the touchscreen and determines an axis of the guide device on the touchscreen. The touchscreen device displays a first line on the touchscreen parallel to the axis of the guide device, while the touchscreen displays a second line on the touchscreen. The touchscreen device detects movement of the guide device on the touchscreen and moves the first line on the touchscreen based on the detected movement. The touchscreen device moves the first line to coincide with the second line in response to a determination that the first line is within the threshold distance of the second line. The touchscreen device then indicates that the second line is selected for potential editing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Gregory Cy Muscolino
  • Patent number: 9372564
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an in-cell touch panel and a display device to decrease the influence of the touch driving electrode in the in-cell touch panel on image display. The in-cell touch panel includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate opposite to each other, and includes a plurality of touch sensing electrodes provided on the upper substrate and a plurality of touch driving electrodes provided on the lower substrate, wherein the touch sensing electrodes are laterally distributed, and the touch driving electrodes are longitudinally distributed; wherein the touch sensing electrodes include one or a plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes which are parallel to each other and distributed laterally, and the plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes are in parallel connection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Lei Wang, Shengji Yang, Xiaoliang Ding, Yingming Liu, Weijie Zhao, Tao Ren, Chunlei Wang, Hongjuan Liu
  • Patent number: 9372565
    Abstract: The dynamic tactile interface includes: a tactile layer defining a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region and operable between a retracted setting and an expanded setting; a substrate including an attachment surface and coupled to the peripheral region and defining a fluid conduit adjacent the deformable region and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit; a border region proximal a periphery of the substrate and defining a cavity configured to receive an instrument, the cavity supporting the instrument in a first configuration and releasing the instrument in a second configuration; and a bladder fluidly coupled to the fluid channel and coupled to the cavity, the instrument compressing a portion of the bladder in the first configuration to displace fluid from the bladder into the fluid channel to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting to the expanded setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Tactus Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Guron Calub, Carl del Rosario, Mario Garcia, Michael Hammersley, Roman Rak, Curtis Ray, Micah Yairi, Nathan Knapp, Robert Adrian Ray, Brandon Gregory Miller, Kyle Gregory, Maxwell Harshorn Shimshak, Craig Ciesla
  • Patent number: 9372566
    Abstract: Disclosed is the structure of a touch window. The touch window includes a transparent window, a touch sensor module on one surface of the transparent window, and a transfer film layer between the transparent window and the touch sensor module. The transfer film layer is provided in the touch sensor module to remove the structure of a printed pattern, so that the conventional problems related to the flatness caused by a printing step are solved, thereby improving the adhesive efficiency and expanding the realization range of various colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hoon Bae Park
  • Patent number: 9372567
    Abstract: A display device includes: an input controller configured to detect a first contact coordinate input by a drag operation on a touch panel on a surface of a display and record the first contact coordinate in a memory in association with an acquisition time of the first contact coordinate; and a display controller configured to calculate a second contact coordinate at a time preceding a current time by a given time based on the first contact coordinate and the acquisition time corresponding to the first contact coordinate and control a display operation on the display with defining the second contact coordinate as a display coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Taro Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9372568
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method, device and system for interacting, in which first information of each of the external accessories is obtained, it is judged whether the first information of each of the external accessories satisfies a preset first condition, and each of the external accessories is processed according to the preset first condition if the first information of each of the external accessories satisfies the preset first condition, therefore interaction between an electronic device and the accessories is achieved and user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd., Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Weizhi Lin, Cheng Guo, Hao Wang
  • Patent number: 9372569
    Abstract: A difference between a length Ls of a slit and a length Ld of a dummy electrode is within ±15% of the length Ld. A difference between a length Le in the first direction of a portion between the slits adjacent to each other in the first direction in a detection electrode and the length Ld of the dummy electrode is within ±15% of the length Ld. A difference between a width Ws of the slit and a gap Dde between the dummy electrode and the detection electrode adjacent to each other in the second direction is within ±15% of the gap Dde. A difference between a width We in the second direction of a portion obtained by dividing the detection electrode by the slit and a width Wd of the dummy electrode is within ±15% of the width Wd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
  • Patent number: 9372570
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program are provided. The method comprises: controlling a touch sensitive display, while a user digit is detected hovering a distance from the touch sensitive display, to display a transient indication of first content for pasting, wherein if the user subsequently moves the user digit away from the touch sensitive display such that the user digit is no longer detected, the transient indication of the first content for pasting is removed from display on the touch sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Pekka Ketola, Jari Selenius, Panu Johansson, Ari Tolonen
  • Patent number: 9372571
    Abstract: A canvas (e.g., a digital page or sheet of paper) on which a user can input data is displayed on a display device of a computing device in response to the canvas being invoked. The canvas can be invoked in different manners, such as by the user activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration. The user can input any digital data such as notes, drawings, and so forth on the canvas that he or she desires. In response to the canvas being dismissed (e.g., by the user again activating a switch or button at an “eraser” end of a stylus that mimics a pen/pencil configuration), display of the canvas ceases. The digital data input by the user is saved or otherwise processed by the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Graham Williams, Catherine N. Boulanger, Yann Florian Daniel Riche, Hua Wang, John G. A. Weiss, Anthony Christian Reed, Ralf Groene, Steven Nabil Bathiche, Vincent L. Ball
  • Patent number: 9372572
    Abstract: A locating method for an optical touch system determines a center position of an indication object on a touch area of the optical touch system by an optical location means. The locating method determines a light-emitting position of a light emitter of the indication object on the touch area by receiving indication light emitted from the light emitter by two optical sensors. The locating method determines a touch position and a touch direction according to a relative relationship between the center position and the light-emitting position; therein, the touch position can be regarded as a touch point on the touch area by the indication object, and the touch direction can be regarded as a rotation angle of the indication object relative to the touch area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Shou-Te Wei, Shang-Chin Su
  • Patent number: 9372573
    Abstract: An array substrate, a touch panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate comprises a base substrate (1) which is formed with gate lines, data lines (8), first common electrodes (5) and second common electrodes (6) thereon, and the second common electrodes (6) comprise: transverse electrode groups (601) located in the same row and metal jumper wires (302) connecting two adjacent transverse electrode groups (601) in the same row; the first common electrodes (5) comprise longitudinal electrode groups (501), and switch circuits (701, 702) are provided between the first common electrodes (5) and the data lines (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiayang Zhao, Yuanbo Zhang, Wei Qin, Xiangxiang Zou
  • Patent number: 9372574
    Abstract: A touch panel controller (1A) includes: a capacitor drive portion (5A); a multiplying portion (2A) which performs multiplication of first linear sum signals by a second code sequence to obtain signals and then performs addition of the signals to generate a second linear sum signal; an inner product operation portion (3A) which generates a first inner product operation signal by calculating an inner product of the second linear sum signal and the second code sequence; an inner product operation portion (3AA) which generates a second inner product operation signal by calculating an inner product of the first inner product operation signal and the first code sequence. This makes it possible to reduce a mounting area of the touch panel controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 9372575
    Abstract: A method for noise reduction in a digitizer includes determining a location of a stylus with a known frequency of emission over a first sampling period, sampling output from a plurality of detecting elements over a second sampling period, identifying detecting elements with sampled output in the second sampling period above a defined threshold in a selected frequency, the selected frequency being close to but different than the known frequency of the stylus, selecting as a candidate carrier of mere noise a detecting element from the detecting elements identified that is spaced away from the determined location of the stylus, and reducing values of output sampled over the second sampling period from at least one other detecting element, in accordance with the output sampled over the second sampling period from the detecting element selected as the candidate carrier of mere noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Haim Perski, Ori Rimon
  • Patent number: 9372576
    Abstract: An image jaggedness filter is disclosed that can be used to detect the presence of ungrounded objects such as water droplets or coins, and delay periodic baseline adjustments until these objects are no longer present. To do otherwise could produce inaccurate normalized baseline sensor output values. The application of a global baseline offset is also disclosed to quickly modify the sensor offset values to account for conditions such as rapid temperature changes. Background pixels not part of any touch regions can be used to detect changes to no-touch sensor output values and globally modify the sensor offset values accordingly. The use of motion dominance ratios and axis domination confidence values is also disclosed to improve the accuracy of locking onto dominant motion components as part of gesture recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Wayne Carl Westerman
  • Patent number: 9372577
    Abstract: A plurality of methods 600-800 that collectively reduces touch swipe latency within a user interface (210) of an electronic device 100/200 includes: activating 610 a predictive touch utility 120; and in response to detecting 710 a sliding movement of an external manipulator 165 from a set of prior positions on a touchpanel 148 to a current position on the surface: dynamically computing 712 a predicted next position 392 based on the set of prior positions and the current position, before the external manipulator 165 arrives at an end position 240 while continuously touching the surface; and triggering 714 advancement of 536 the user interface 210 to a predicted next frame corresponding to the predicted next position 392. Activating the predictive touch utility 120 includes selecting and loading 612 a predictive touch profile 134 having a response curve 1500/1600 that correlates to gains applied to compute the predicted next position 392.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: John Zafiris
  • Patent number: 9372578
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch point detection method, device, a touch driving circuit and a touch panel. After determining a to-be-determined touch point among touch detection points of a touch panel, it is determined whether the to-be-determined touch point is influenced by noise of a display driving circuit according to a touch signal, a first noise value and a second noise value of touch detection points in a line where the to-be-determined touch point is located; and after it is determined that the to-be-determined touch point is influenced by the noise of the display driving circuit, it is determined whether the to-be-determined touch point is a touch point according to the second noise value and a preset first threshold value; the second noise value is the noise value of the touch driving circuit when the display driving circuit is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youqiang Lu, Yun Qiu, Jing Wang
  • Patent number: 9372579
    Abstract: A touchscreen display assembly has an array of first electrodes distributed across an active area of the touchscreen display assembly such that the density of first electrodes increases in a first direction across the touchscreen. An array of second electrodes is distributed across an active area of the touchscreen display assembly such that the density of second electrodes decreases in the first direction across the touchscreen. The position in the first direction of an input on the touchscreen can be determined by the proportion of first and second electrodes density in the area of the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Harald Philipp
  • Patent number: 9372580
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes sending a first set of signals to a first set of lines of a touch sensor. The method also includes receiving a second set of signals on a second set of lines of the touch sensor in response to sending the first set of signals. The second set of lines are capacitively coupled to the first set of lines. The method includes sending a third set of signals and receiving a fourth set of signals. The fourth set of signals is capacitively generated based on the third set of signals. The method also includes determining a fifth set of signals by compensating the second set of signals based on the fourth set of signals and determining whether a touch occurred based on the fifth set of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Martin John Simmons, Darren Golbourn, Daniel Pickett, Andrew Hersee
  • Patent number: 9372581
    Abstract: Adaptive reconfiguration of a capacitive touch controller is implemented by estimating the interference spectrum of the signal received by the touch controller. The spectrum of the received signal is used to determine a desired frequency, and the touch panel transmitter is configured to use that desired frequency. The spectrum of the received signal is also used to determine an desired filter transfer function. A filter in the touch panel received signal path is configured to use that desired filter transfer function. The adaptive reconfiguration is focused on improving the signal to noise ratio of the received signal without the need for shielding the touch panel, performing additional scans of the touch panel, or using components that operate at higher power levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Federico Santiago Cattivelli, David Amory Sobel, John S. Walley, Satish Vithal Joshi
  • Patent number: 9372582
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes modifying an amount of charge of a capacitance of a touch sensor. The modified amount of charge resulting in a voltage at the capacitance being a first pre-determined voltage level. The method also includes applying a first pre-determined amount of charge to the capacitance. The application of the first pre-determined amount of charge to the capacitance modifying the voltage at the capacitance from the first pre-determined voltage level to a first charging voltage level. The method also includes determining a first difference between the first charging voltage level and a reference voltage level; and determining whether a touch input to the touch sensor has occurred based on the first difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Brunet, Bernard J. Hermes, Trond Jarle Pedersen, Luben Hristov Hristov, Shahrooz Shahparnia, Vivek Pant
  • Patent number: 9372583
    Abstract: A display device including a touch screen and method of driving the same are provided. In a method of driving display device including a touch screen, the display device including a panel including a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of electrodes respectively corresponding to the plurality of gate lines, the method includes: applying, by a touch sensing unit, a touch scan signal to a display driving unit, applying, by the display driving unit: a gate signal to a subset of the plurality of gate lines, a common voltage to a first subset of the plurality of electrodes, corresponding to the subset of the plurality of gate lines, and a touch scan signal to a second subset of the plurality of electrodes, other than the first subset of the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Chul Kim, Jung-Han Lee
  • Patent number: 9372584
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide an integrated input device. The integrated input device includes a plurality of sensor electrode sets including a plurality of common electrode sets, a plurality of gate electrodes, and a gate selector. A processing system is configured to drive the sensor electrode sets for capacitive sensing during a plurality of sensing periods and update display lines by driving the common electrode sets during display update periods. A sensor electrode of a first sensor electrode set that is driven last during a first sensing period and a sensor electrode of a second sensor electrode set that is driven first during a second sensing period are spatially non-sequential sensor electrodes. The first display update period, second display update period, and third display update period are non-consecutive and non-overlapping with the first sensing period, the second sensing period, and the third display update period, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 9372585
    Abstract: A detecting device and method for a capacitive touch screen is proposed. A plurality of frequency settings is employed. Each frequency setting corresponds to a type of driving mode of a type of driving potential. These frequency settings are used for setting the detecting device for the capacitive touch screen. When the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of the signals in the capacitive touch screen is not appropriate, frequency settings are changed by selecting one that yields a more appropriate S/N ratio among the frequency settings. The driving mode includes a single-electrode driving mode in which only a single driving electrode in the capacitive touch screen is driven at a time, and a multiple-electrode driving mode in which multiple driving electrodes are simultaneously driven at a time, and there can be several types of driving potentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: EGALAX₋EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Chin-Fu Chang
  • Patent number: 9372586
    Abstract: A touch display includes a display module and a touch module. The touch module includes a first three-layer electrode structure and a transparent cover substrate, wherein the first three-layer electrode structure is disposed above a polarizer, and the transparent cover substrate is disposed above the first three-layer electrode structure. The first three-layer electrode structure includes a bottom index matching layer, a mesh electrode layer and a top index matching layer, wherein the mesh electrode layer is sandwiched between the bottom index matching layer and the top index matching layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Henghao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-An Chen, Ming-Chuan Chih
  • Patent number: 9372587
    Abstract: A capacitive input device including a substrate, a first plurality of sensor electrodes disposed proximate a top surface of the substrate and extending along a first direction, a second plurality of sensor electrodes disposed proximate a bottom surface of the substrate and extending along a second direction different from the first direction, and a plurality of routing traces coupled to the second sensor electrodes. Each routing trace is configured to extend along the first direction between respective first sensor electrodes, and to extend along the second direction underneath a second sensor electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Yun Chang, Chris Rehn, Yeh-Cheng Tan
  • Patent number: 9372588
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive multi-touch device is provided. The multi-touch device includes a matrix of pressure-sensitive cells, each pressure-sensitive cell configured to change a resistance of the cell inversely proportional to an amount of force applied to that cell. The multi-touch device further includes a force-spreading layer configured to diffuse a force of a touch input at a contact area to two or more pressure-sensitive cells within the matrix of pressure-sensitive cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Dietz, John Lutian
  • Patent number: 9372589
    Abstract: Structured information about nodes may be generated and shared using sub-nodes. A node in a social networking system may be associated with sub-nodes that are definable by the node owner, such as menu items for a restaurant or songs in playlists for an artist. Users of the system may interact with the sub-nodes, and the interactions may be presented back on the page to a user, aggregated according to the user's connections in the social networking system (e.g., which songs your friends listened to the most by the artist, which menu items were consumed the most). Users may associate other sub-nodes to the node, such as identifying other menu items served by a restaurant, and the node owner may confirm these associations. Location awareness functionalities may be used to inform a user of highly recommended sub-nodes nearby as indicated by other users of the social networking system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruno Rahle, Blaise DiPersia, Rousseau Kazi
  • Patent number: 9372590
    Abstract: A magnifier movement system is described herein that provides a more user-friendly experience for users of natural input devices when moving the magnifier and interacting with magnified user interface elements. The system receives an indication that a user has touched the screen with a natural input device at a particular location. The system displays a drag control for moving the magnifier, but does not move the magnifier unless the user selects the drag control and moves the natural input device. If the drag control is unselected and the system receives additional natural input, then the system passes the input on to the magnified application. Thus, the magnifier movement system provides a more satisfying user experience for users of natural input-based computer systems and screen magnifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nazia Zaman, Paul J. Reid
  • Patent number: 9372591
    Abstract: Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-input devices employ various techniques for controlling the window framing of images. Such techniques provide control, including moving, sizing, and orientating, of one or more displayed window frames in which one or more images are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: PERCEPTIVE PIXEL, INC.
    Inventors: Philip L. Davidson, Jefferson Y. Han
  • Patent number: 9372592
    Abstract: An electronic device may present an interface providing information related to one or more content items. For example, the interface may present representations related to a plurality of content items to indicate relative values among the content items of at least one metric. Additionally, each representation may further indicate at least one of a quality of the value of the metric or a different metric value. A user may navigate the interface to more specific or more general views for a particular metric, characteristic and/or category, and may use the interface to view more information about a selected content item. Alternatively, the representations may represent, or may be arranged according to, authors, publishers, genres, etc. In some examples, the representations may represent terms obtained from content items that satisfy one or more metrics, such as terms that occur in content items sold within a specified period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua M. Goodspeed, Peter Thomas Killalea, Donald E. Schneider
  • Patent number: 9372593
    Abstract: In some implementations, a cursor can be rendered based on a three-dimensional model. In some implementations, the three-dimensional cursor can be manipulated to change the orientation of the three-dimensional cursor based on the context of the cursor. In some implementations, parameters associated with the three-dimensional model can be manipulated based on the context of the three-dimensional cursor to change the appearance of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Duncan Robert Kerr
  • Patent number: 9372594
    Abstract: A method for adding an icon to an interface of an Android system, where the Android system has N interfaces, includes: a. obtaining add command information; b. obtaining, according to the add command information, space information of an icon to be added; c. obtaining remaining space information of an Mth interface according to the add command information; d. judging whether the space information of the icon to be added is greater than the remaining space information of the Mth interface; if yes, executing step e; if no, executing step f; e. judging whether the Mth interface is a last interface to be judged; if yes, executing step g; if no, assigning M+1 to M and returning to step c; f. adding the icon to the interface; and g. establishing another interface, and adding the icon to the newly established interface; where M and N are natural numbers, and 1?M?N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI DEVICE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Pei Wang
  • Patent number: 9372595
    Abstract: A surface texture measurement device displays in a display an operation screen based on display information of a current operation screen, and displays in the display a guidance screen when guidance display is requested by pressing a guidance screen display button on the operation screen. The operation screen has icon display for one or more buttons that activate predetermined functions. The guidance screen has a button list field that displays a list of icon display and function name display for the buttons included in the current operation screen and a description display field that displays a function description for any of the buttons included in the current operation screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Megumi Fukuda, Hiroyuki Hidaka
  • Patent number: 9372596
    Abstract: In general, techniques are described for providing a user interface to create report specifications and included source definitions for business reporting and analysis. For example, a computing device includes a user interface (UI) module for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and receiving a selection of a data element at a start location of the GUI. The UI module may display an overlay element having a boundary forming a plurality of paths from the start location to a plurality of end locations, the paths corresponding to a plurality of report options associated with the data element. The UI module may receive a second input indicative of a traversal of the overlay element along a chosen path. The computing device may include a definition module operable to create a definition for a report specification based at least in part on the report option corresponding to the chosen path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Ilse M Breedvelt-Schouten
  • Patent number: 9372597
    Abstract: Appliance systems providing user-friendly shared music playlist editing are provided. An example method of operating an appliance includes identifying a plurality of audio files accessible by the appliance over one or more local area networks. The method includes uploading data identifying the plurality of audio files to a server. The method includes providing an access code to a user computing device. The access code allows the user computing device to communicate with the server to select one or more of the plurality of audio files for playback. The method includes receiving from the server data identifying a first audio file selected for playback. The method includes causing one or more speakers to play the first audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Keith Wesley Wait
  • Patent number: 9372598
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for reference-based circular scrolling on a computer display. Techniques include generating a circular scrolling bar in a computer display, the scrolling bar comprising a plurality of segments; populating the circular scrolling bar with reference-based information corresponding to an information source, wherein each segment of the plurality of segments displays a unique reference corresponding to a corresponding discrete portion of the information source; presenting the corresponding discrete portion of the information source corresponding to a particular segment in response to contact with the particular segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Barry A. Kritt, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 9372599
    Abstract: Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the representation of a menu button may vary, depending on its state. An image or an image sequence, e.g. cartoon, may be associated to a buttons state, providing user animation. Further, a sound or sound sequence, e.g. melody or click, may be associated to a buttons state, and may be played back when the button enters this state. A data structure is disclosed which allows storage of such menu data e.g. on a Blu-ray disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jobst Hoerentrup, Dirk Gandolph, Ralf Ostermann, Harald Schiller, Hui Li
  • Patent number: 9372600
    Abstract: A screen display method and apparatus of a mobile terminal is provided for changing a screen represented by an index to another screen represented by a newly selected index. A screen display method of a mobile terminal includes displaying a page represented by an index, the page including an index region having a plurality of indices and a content region displaying content corresponding to the index highlighted in the index region, selecting a new index in the index region according to a selection input, and changing the page represented by the highlighted index for a new page represented by the new index, the new page appearing in a direction from a position of the new index to a position of the highlighted index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tae Yeon Kim, Jae Myoung Lee
  • Patent number: 9372601
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus that controls a user interface to display content, acquires position information corresponding to an input received at the user interface, determines a condition corresponding to the position information, and controls the user interface to display data corresponding to the input based on a result of the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9372602
    Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method for revealing at least a portion of a disguised password on a display device. The method comprises receiving a plurality of password characters typed by a user, presenting a plurality of replacement symbols in a password field displayed by a display device of a terminal having a touch surface, each the replacement symbol being indicative of the reception of another of the plurality of password characters, detecting a fingertip which slides contiguously against the touch surface, and temporarily replacing the presentation of at least some of the plurality of replacement symbols with of the presentation of at least some of the plurality of password characters in a sequential manner correspondingly with a movement of the fingertip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Idan Ben-Harrush, Nili Guy, Samuel Kallner, Ariel Landau, Yoav Rubin, Gal Shachor
  • Patent number: 9372603
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for presenting users with relevant data and statistics related to the operations of an industrial system. Data obtained by a SCADA system may be stored in a real-time status database (which reflects the current process data of the industrial system) and a historian database (which archives the process data from the industrial system as it changes over time). A user may request from the SCADA system process data obtained during a specified period of time. The request may be subdivided into a plurality of time intervals, and process data associated with each time interval may be analyzed to determine one or more salient values that are representative of the interval. The salient values associated with each time interval then may be transmitted to the user in response to the process data request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Air Liquide Large Industries U.S. LP
    Inventors: Sultan Q. Mukhi, Emitaz A. Momin, Mehrab Momin
  • Patent number: 9372604
    Abstract: The present embodiments provide methods and apparatuses for use in navigating through content. Some embodiments provide methods for use in navigating through content that receive an initial first directional control command, activate a seek mode upon receipt of the initial first directional control command comprising advancing over a first amount of content in a first direction from a first point in the content to a second point in the content, receive an initial second directional control command following the receipt of the initial first directional command, and activate a search mode upon receipt of the initial second directional control command, comprising advancing back over a second amount of the first amount of the content where the second amount is less than the first amount of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Oetzel, Allan B. Lamkin
  • Patent number: 9372605
    Abstract: The method and apparatus object of this invention refer to a system for using generic software applications by means of ocular control characterized by simple interaction techniques which minimize the cognitive effort of the user required to manipulate the software and which permit to overcome the problems resulting from the intrinsic problem of accuracy of eye-tracking systems. Indeed, such technique does not provide using the pointer of the mouse moved by means of the gaze to control the various software applications but to use a separate application which through the use of suitable interaction techniques is comfortable and does not involve an increased effort of concentration by the user. An attempt has indeed been made to simplify the process of interaction between the user and machine also by means of the use of visual feedback which allows the same operations of the mouse to be performed by the user without the typical user frustration due to the problems of accuracy of the eye-tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: SR LABS S.R.L.
    Inventor: Paolo Invernizzi
  • Patent number: 9372606
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for dynamically selecting and ordering facets and/or facet values in a user interface. A user's “preference” concerning the selection and ordering of facets and/or facet values that the user desires to be displayed in the user interface is determined. Such user's preference may be determined based on monitoring the actions of the user (e.g., online activity) as well as possibly other types of information, such as the user's input and context of the user's faceted search. Upon determining the user's preference, facets and/or facet values are selected and ordered based on the user's preference and consequently displayed in the user's user interface. In this manner, the user is provided a more relevant and insightful perspective on the data set as the user sees the “best” information more quickly while performing less work to see and apply the facets and/or facet values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Josef Scherpa, Andrew L. Schirmer, Ethan L. Perry
  • Patent number: 9372607
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provide access to cloud services over the Internet for customizing user interface of a vehicle. One method includes receiving a request to access a server that provides logic for defining a custom user interface for a vehicle associated with a user account. The method also includes receiving selection options for associating applications to the custom user interface. The applications including interfaces associated with functionalities of the vehicle and interfaces for connecting with internet accessible services. The method includes receiving arrangement selections for placing at least one of the interfaces at a user defined location of a display screen of the vehicle. The selection options of the associated applications and the arrangement selections defining the custom user interface for the user account. The method further includes communicating the custom user interface to memory and electronics of the vehicle over a wireless internet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventors: Angel A. Penilla, Albert S. Penilla
  • Patent number: 9372608
    Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for suggesting emoticons for insertion into text based on an analysis of sentiment in the text. An example method includes: determining a first sentiment of text in a text field; selecting first text from the text field in proximity to a current position of an input cursor in the text field; identifying one or more candidate emoticons wherein each candidate emoticon is associated with a respective score indicating relevance to the first text and the first sentiment based on, at least, historical user selections of emoticons for insertion in proximity to respective second text having a respective second sentiment; providing one or more candidate emoticons having respective highest scores for user selection; and receiving user selection of one or more of the provided emoticons and inserting the selected emoticons into the text field at the current position of the input cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Machine Zone, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Leydon, Nikhil Bojja