Patents Issued in July 28, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160216826
    Abstract: A touch panel and a method for arranging electrodes of the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of touch sections. Each of the touch sections includes a first transmitter electrode, a first receiver electrode, a second transmitter electrode, a second receiver electrode, and a third receiver electrode. The first transmitter electrode has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first receiver electrode adjoins the first side. The second transmitter electrode has a third side and a fourth side opposite to the third side. The second receiver electrode adjoins the second side and the third side. The third receiver electrode adjoins the fourth side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Lai, Ching-Yang Pai
  • Publication number: 20160216827
    Abstract: A touch sensor device includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes disposed on a substrate, and a polymer layer including a polymer material disposed on the first and second touch electrodes and on a substantially entire area of the substrate, in which the polymer layer includes conductive and non-conductive regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Byeong-Jin LEE, Sung Ku KANG, Jung-Yun KIM, Joo-Han BAE, Dong Eun LEE, In Nam LEE
  • Publication number: 20160216828
    Abstract: An image display terminal and a method of controlling a touch for an image display terminal are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes displaying a first widget in a first area on a touch screen and a second widget in a second area on the touch screen different from the first area. The method also includes extracting a first touch policy of the first widget and a second touch policy of the second widget. The method further includes individually controlling touch driving characteristics of the first and second areas based on the first and second touch policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Hoeung Lee
  • Publication number: 20160216829
    Abstract: A method for making input devices connected to a smartphone to function as touch control to the smartphone is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) operatably connecting the handheld computer to a personal computer with an input device; b) presenting the input device to be a virtual touch sensitive device to the handheld computer when the input device is a non-touch sensitive device; c) converting a first touch event of the input device into a second touch event compatible to the handheld computer when the input device is a touch sensitive device and is being touched; and d) sending the second touch event to the handheld computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: I/O INTERCONNECT, LTD.
    Inventors: Kun-Yuan Lin, Chung-Han Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20160216830
    Abstract: A method includes displaying information via a first display, displaying information via a second display, controlling the information displayed via the first display and the second display with a controller, and receiving a first input from a user through a user interface. The first input includes a command to change a setting of the first display or the second display and/or the information being displayed via the first display or the second display. The method also includes generating a first haptic effect to confirm receipt of the first input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Neil Olien
  • Publication number: 20160216831
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that may be enabled by a user's simple operation to a touch panel, a control method of the electronic apparatus, and a control program of the electronic apparatus are provided. An electronic apparatus includes a contact detector for detecting a contact, an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration, a display for displaying an image, and controllers for controlling the display to start displaying the image when the acceleration detector detects predetermined acceleration caused by a first tap and, within a predetermined period therefrom, the contact detector detects a contact caused by a second touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuhiro UENO, Shigeki TANABE, Hideki MORITA, Isao MASUIKE, Shinya MIZUNO, Taro IIO
  • Publication number: 20160216832
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus that may be enabled by a user's simple operation to a touch panel, a control method of the electronic apparatus, and a control program of the electronic apparatus are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Yuya YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160216833
    Abstract: A system can include a display, a first device, and a second device all operatively connected to a controller. The first and second devices each use or share at least a portion of the display area. The controller is adapted to transmit during a pixel refresh time period of the display a first signal that is received by the first device. The first sync signal indicates a first time period in which a first operation can be performed in the first device. The controller is also adapted to transmit a second sync signal that is received by the second device indicating a second time period in which a second operation can be performed in the second device. The second time period can be during the pixel refresh time period or outside of the pixel refresh time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher J. Butler, Peter W. Richards, Christian M. Sauer, Manu Agarwal
  • Publication number: 20160216834
    Abstract: A touch-based user interface system comprising an arrangement for scanning a tactile sensor array to produce a corresponding array of measurement values that are presented to a processor for computation. The computation produces a plurality of running sums created from selected measurement values or functions of selected measurement values. A post-scan computation algorithm derives at least three independently-adjustable interactive control parameters responsive to at least displacements or angles the contact of a single area of threshold contact or threshold proximity. The system provides output control signals responsive to the independently-adjustable interactive control parameters. In one aspect of the invention, n algorithmic element for handling of regions of threshold contact or threshold proximity having non-convex shapes. In another aspect of the invention, an algorithmic element calculates the rate of change of one or more of the independently-adjustable interactive control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Advanced Touchscreen and Gestures Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Lester F. Ludwig
  • Publication number: 20160216835
    Abstract: A touch panel device (11) includes a panel main body (21) including a plurality of first electrodes (X) extending parallel to one another and a plurality of second electrodes (Y) intersecting with the first electrodes (X), and a detection section (31). The detection section (31) includes a transmission section (33) for sequentially applying a driving signal to the first electrodes (X), and a current-voltage conversion section (35) configured to scan the second electrodes (Y) and convert a current flowing through the second electrode (Y) to a voltage signal, an AD conversion section (36) configured to sample the voltage signal and convert it to digital data, and a touch determination section (37) for determining a touch position from the converted digital data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Nobumichi TAKABA, Takayuki TAJIRI, Ippei TAHARA, Shingo ARIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160216836
    Abstract: A sense amplifier can be designed with a series variable resistance circuit to dynamically adjust an input resistance in series with the sense amplifier for stability during the different operating modes. In some examples, a switchable resistor can be switched into the input path of the sense amplifier for stability when required by increased capacitive loading of the sense electrodes, and can be switched out of the input path of the sense amplifier when unnecessary for stability. In some examples, an adjustable resistor can be coupled to and in series with the input of the sense amplifier. The resistance of the adjustable resistor can be tuned to stabilize the sense amplifier during operating modes having increased capacitive loading from the sense electrodes and can be minimized when additional input resistance is unnecessary for stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Weijun YAO, Wei Hsin YAO, Yingxuan LI
  • Publication number: 20160216837
    Abstract: A device for providing a touch-based user interface is disclosed. The device comprises a screen, a camera, and processor. The camera images a reflection of the screen by a cornea of a user of the device. The processor displays at least one user-interface element on the screen, detects that a finger of a hand touches or is about to touch the screen, estimates a trajectory of the finger, and determines an intended location of touch of the finger on the screen. The trajectory of the finger is estimated by analyzing a sequence of images of the reflection. The intended location of touch is determined based on the estimated trajectory of the finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Julian Charles NOLAN, Matthew John LAWRENSON, Till BURKERT
  • Publication number: 20160216838
    Abstract: This relates to a touch sensor panel including: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a first touch node formed by a first drive line and a first section of a first sense line both routed on the first surface of the substrate; and a second touch node formed by a second drive line routed on the first surface of the substrate and a second section of the first sense line routed on the second surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Morakinyo J. AINA, Amit NAYYAR, Sean E. O'CONNOR, Peter CSASZAR
  • Publication number: 20160216839
    Abstract: A display device includes: a processor configured to receive first image data for a display panel from an external system, determine a touch path based on a touch event generated by a touch sensor panel, and output second image data obtained by using the touch path to add overlay data to the first image data; and a control signal generating unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling an operation timing of a gate driver and a data driver, and operate in an interlace mode when the second image data is output to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Su Hyeong PARK, Ho Yong JUNG, Jun-Woo HONG, Joon-Chul GOH, Mun-San PARK, Ho Seok SON
  • Publication number: 20160216840
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screen edge touch control optimization method, including that a screen edge touch control optimization region is set, and when it is determined that a touch point detected currently is located in the screen edge touch control optimization region, a touch control event corresponding to the detected touch point is prohibited from being reported to an application layer. An embodiment of the present disclosure also discloses an edge touch control optimization device and a terminal. By adopting the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present disclosure, misoperation caused by touching an edge of a screen can be effectively avoided, and user experience is improved while good visual experience is brought to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Jian Lei
  • Publication number: 20160216841
    Abstract: A touch panel includes: a first sensor unit that includes first transmission electrodes and first receiving electrodes; a second sensor unit that includes second transmission electrodes and second receiving electrodes; a transmission unit that provides a drive signal to the first transmission electrodes and the second transmission electrodes; and a receiving unit that receives a plurality of output signals from the first receiving electrodes and the second receiving electrodes. The first sensor unit has a first sensing region and a blank region. The second sensor unit has a second sensing region and a wiring region. The second sensing region is formed to the inside of the blank region in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshimitsu GOTOH, Masayuki HATA
  • Publication number: 20160216842
    Abstract: A hybrid touch-screen display that integrates force-based touch-screen technology with any one from among a group of projective capacitive, surface capacitive, resistive, digital resistive, SAW, IR, APR, DST, optical and electromagnetic touch-screen technologies to provide an ability to compensate for non-perfect force transfer. An alternate implementation is also disclosed that employs a single force sensor for relative force measurement in a system in which force is traditionally not measured, here a water dispenser unit. This allows compensation for varying static loads, run-time calibration, and filtering of extraneous loads through firmware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Anders L. Mölne, David Griffith
  • Publication number: 20160216843
    Abstract: An optical touch system includes a touch surface, a first light source and a first light-sensing unit. The first light source emits a first light. The first light is reflected at positions on a first section of the touch surface to form a first reference section at the first light-sensing unit. The first light is reflected at positions on a second section of the touch surface to form a second reference section at the first light-sensing unit. The second section is located between the first section and the first light-sensing unit. A touch object reflects the first light between the first section and the second section to produce a first input light region on the first reference section, or reflects the first light between the second section and the first light-sensing unit to produce a second input light region on the second reference section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ching-An Cho, Yu-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20160216844
    Abstract: An arrangement for a touch sensitive apparatus comprises a light transmissive panel having a front surface and an opposite rear surface defining an optical media for transmitting light signals via total internal reflection. A shield layer is arranged at the rear surface of the light transmissive panel and is substantially non-transparent to visible light from the front surface. A refractive layer is arranged between the light transmissive panel and the shield layer and allows a light signal to propagate by total internal reflection within the light transmissive panel. At least one aperture is arranged through the shield layer and the refractive layer and is configured to allow a light signal to pass through the aperture. The shield layer, the refractive layer, and the aperture are arranged at the periphery of the light transmissive panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Håkan Bergström
  • Publication number: 20160216845
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes, at a server, loading in a browser a webpage including flash content. The browser loads a flash redirection plugin, and requests the plugin to execute an ActionScript. The plugin passes the ActionScript to a flash redirection browser at a client. The plugin receives from the flash redirection browser the result of executing the ActionScript, and the result is provided to the browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ramanujam VENKATESH, Vishwanath BIRADAR
  • Publication number: 20160216846
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to hierarchical tree file browsers and provide a method, system and computer program product for selectably flattening a hierarchical tree object structure in a hierarchical tree object browser. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of flattening an object hierarchy in an object browser can be provided. The method can include selecting a node in an object hierarchy in an object browser and, responsive to selecting the node, displaying content for the selected node and content for at least one node below the selected node in the object browser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Josef Scherpa, Andrew L. Schirmer
  • Publication number: 20160216847
    Abstract: A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium stores therein a screen control program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes performing when a predetermined operation is detected during display of a first calendar screen or a second calendar screen, screen control of changing a date of a calendar screen to be displayed, by a changing scheme that differs according to whether a displayed calendar screen is the first calendar screen or the second calendar screen. The computer is configured to switch display of the first calendar screen by which dates are aligned chronologically in a vertical direction enabling scrolling and the second calendar screen in which the dates are arranged according to days of a week in a horizontal direction and chronologically in a vertical direction in a lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Makoto HONDA, Naoki SAKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160216848
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for interacting with images having similar content. In an embodiment, a method may include identifying a plurality of photographs as including a common characteristic. The method may also include generating a flipbook media item including the plurality of photographs. The method may further include associating one or more interactive control features with the flipbook media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Ioffe, Vivek Kwatra, Matthias Grundmann
  • Publication number: 20160216849
    Abstract: A system and method provide feedback regarding the confirmation of automated and operator assigned tasks, wherein one of the operator tasks and automation tasks includes a value for a parameter. The operator task and automation task that includes the value is rendered subsequent to being accomplished if the value does not match the parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Amit Nishikant Kawalkar, Stephen Whitlow, Steve Hickman
  • Publication number: 20160216850
    Abstract: Real-time managing multiple display windows on a screen for multiple users each allowed to request reserving an area on the screen and each having a priority value indicating a level of right to use the screen is considered. In a method, the screen is partitioned into grid-area units. Upon receiving a request from a requesting user, determine a target window formed by one or more of these units to cover the area to be reserved. Whether the requesting user is permitted to use the target window is then determined. If permitted, the target window is allocated to the requesting user as a new window. If the target window overlaps any already-allocated display window, the already-allocated window is adjusted (resized/removed) to not overlap the target window. All the allocated windows are then tiled one by one in an order according to the users' priority values for maximizing the screen's usage percentage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Yat Cheung NGAI
  • Publication number: 20160216851
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to image segmentation for data verification. A method of the disclosure comprises: receiving, using a processing device, an image of at least a part of a document; identifying a first image region in the image that corresponds to data to be verified by a user; extracting data from the image of at least the part of the document partitioning the image into a plurality of image segments based on positioning information related to the first image region, wherein the plurality of image segments comprises a first image segment and a second image segment, and wherein the second image segment comprises the first image region; and presenting data extracted from the first image region in association with the first image segment and the second image segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Diana Kanivets
  • Publication number: 20160216852
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes a display, an interface unit to exchange data with a mobile terminal, and a controller to control the display to display an execution icon to execute at least one of applications installed in the mobile terminal and, in response to selection of the execution icon, to display an execution image of at least one application corresponding to the execution icon. Thereby, mirroring between the mobile terminal and the image display apparatus may be simply performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jaekyung LEE, Eunjung LEE
  • Publication number: 20160216853
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor configured to control to display of the display one or more first objects related to a selected item if the item is selected by a first gesture from among one or more items displayed on the display, and control to display on the display one or more second objects for performing a function of a selected first object if the first object is selected by a second gesture continuing from the first gesture from among the one or more first objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Sang-Yup LEE
  • Publication number: 20160216854
    Abstract: An information management problem definition system has a processing device configured for receiving a plurality of messages comprising a chat session from a plurality of users communicating via a plurality of workstations during a problem definition initiative conference session. The processing device is further configured for logging session data and event data comprising data corresponding to one or more messages received from one or more users during the chat session, archiving at least a portion of the logged event data, wherein the archived data is configured as searchable and retrievable data, and initiating an interface to one or more of the plurality of users including initiating display of at least one of the plurality of messages via the interface and initiating display of at least some of the event data and at least some of the session data via the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Timothy McClellan, William Cather Steincamp, II, Kelley Hullett LeRow
  • Publication number: 20160216855
    Abstract: A service monitoring system executing on one or more processors may have operations that are determined by control information. Control over the operation of the service monitoring system can be exerted through the use of a graphical interface. The graphical interface may present the control information of a new or existing correlation search definition for user interaction. The service monitoring system may maintain a data store of key performance indicator (KPI) data, where a KPI value in the data store is produced by a KPI-defining search query that derives the value from machine data associated with one or more entities that perform a monitored service. A correlation search definition of the service monitoring system determines how a search of the KPI data is conducted, how its data is evaluated to determine whether a triggering condition has been met, and, if so, determines what triggered action is to be initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Hemendra Singh Choudhary, Tristan Antonio Fletcher, Brian Bingham, Fang I. Hsiao, Brian C. Reyes
  • Publication number: 20160216856
    Abstract: A method for integrating notifications of a mobile device into an Action Center of a Windows personal computer is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) operatably connecting the handheld computer to the Windows personal computer; b) acquiring a list of active notifications; c) sending a notification to the Windows personal computer; and d) the Windows personal computer displaying the notification in an Action Center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: I/O INTERCONNECT, LTD.
    Inventors: Gary Kung, Johnny Chen
  • Publication number: 20160216857
    Abstract: A tree building system that accesses data from a social networking site and, in some embodiments, other data sites having information that may pertain to the relationships between users of the social networking site. A rules engine within the system implements logic for analyzing the data from the social networking site. The system provides a candidate list of possible relatives for selection by a user and solicits information from the user through the use of guided questions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
    Inventors: Kendall Hulet, Christopher D. Bradford, Joshua Penrod
  • Publication number: 20160216858
    Abstract: A method and program product comprises displaying a graphic area in a page of an e-book comprising a first three dimensional object being operative for animating and interacting. A first control object is displayed on the page. The first control object comprises a second three dimensional object being operative for animating and interacting for navigation to a next page in the e-book. A second control object on the page. The second control object comprises a third three dimensional object being operative for animating and interacting for navigation to a previous page in the e-book. A text area is displayed in the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Manzurul Khan
  • Publication number: 20160216859
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a list of items from selections of content within an e-Book are provided. A portion of content of an e-Book presented on the e-reading device is selected. The portion of content is imported into a designated list category. A user accessible list interface is provided for each designated list category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Kobo Incorporated
    Inventor: Sarah FLAWN
  • Publication number: 20160216860
    Abstract: User interface virtualization describes a technique for providing a user with access to one computing device from another computing device, while translating the ergonomics of one computer's user interface style into the ergonomics of the other's. An agent running on a remote desktop exchanges metadata and input events with a corresponding client running on a client device that accepts a “touch and swipe” style input. The agent running on the remote desktop may use an interface interaction API or software framework to programmatically manipulate the user interface of the remote desktop and act as a proxy for the corresponding client. The client constructs and displays native graphical user interface elements at the client device that are virtual representations of a corresponding user interface element at the remote desktop, including file dialogs, clipboards, start menus, and task switchers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Daniel James BEVERIDGE
  • Publication number: 20160216861
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for changing a touch control function when a smartphone is connected to a computer with a touchscreen. The method includes the steps: a) operationally connecting the desktop computer to the handheld touchscreen computer to project a screen picture of the handheld touchscreen computer on the touchscreen, wherein the screen picture contains a first item, and a second item corresponding to the first item is shown on the touchscreen; b) pressing and holding the second item for more than one second; c) sending a touch event about the operation to the second item from the desktop computer to the handheld touchscreen computer; and d) performing a pressing-and-holding operation to the first item by the handheld touchscreen computer according to the touch event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: I/O INTERCONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Hao-Hsun Hou, Kun-Yuan Lin
  • Publication number: 20160216862
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for using gestures to deliver content to predefined destinations. After a user designates a content item, a flick gesture is detected, where the flick gesture has a point of origin and crosses a trip line surrounding the point of origin. A destination associated with the flick gesture is identified from a plurality of predefined destinations. Each predefined destination is associated with a region in a predefined plurality of display regions. The content item is delivered to the determined destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Andrew Russell Turner
  • Publication number: 20160216863
    Abstract: A user interface (UI) links additional content and curators of videos by connecting dots with lines to show the connections. The lines can fade out as to not busy the interface. Content may be linked using sidebars, icons, tabs, buttons. When lines are used, lines are depicted on the UI connecting a first video icon to icons of other linked videos or curators that have connections to the first video. When a content icon is selected, a connection opens a new “circle” of content on the UI which can then have connections from the selected content. In this way a user can discover new content that has relevancy to what the user is currently viewing. The lines can time out to clean up the look of the UI. When navigating or swiping the screen the lines can reappear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Steven Friedlander, David Young
  • Publication number: 20160216864
    Abstract: An information processing device may activate a first application program for providing a first function corresponding to a first item image, in a case where the first item image is selected from among N1 pieces of item images in a first item selection screen, under a non-connection state in which a storage device that stores program control data is not connected to the information processing device. The information processing device may activate a second application program for providing a second function, in a case where a second item image is selected from among N2 pieces of item images in a second item selection screen, under a connection state in which a second storage device that stores first program control data is connected to the information processing device, and display a function related screen which is related to the second function in accordance with the first program control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Tetsuya OKUNO, Toyoshi ADACHI, Katsunori ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160216865
    Abstract: A device receives an indication to run on plural devices in a kiosk mode, wherein the indication identifies the application and indicates that the application is to be run in the kiosk mode on the device. A first graphical icon is displayed within a login screen on the device; the first graphical icon for initiating the application on the device in the kiosk mode. A second graphical icon is displayed within the login screen, the second graphical icon for logging into the device via a user profile. A user selection, corresponding to the first graphical icon or the second graphical icon, is received at the device. In a case where the received user selection corresponds to the first graphical icon, the application runs on the device in the kiosk mode. In a case where the received user selection corresponds to the second graphical icon, the user is logged into the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander Friedrich KUSCHER, Zelidrag HORNUNG, Vidya NAGARAJAN
  • Publication number: 20160216866
    Abstract: A method for inputting text to a handheld computer by way of using the keyboard on a personal computer connected thereto. The method includes the steps of: a) establishing an ADK connection between a handheld computer and a personal computer with a keyboard; b) opening a WINDOWS input mode under an editing mode in the personal computer; c) inputting text and/or symbols by using the keyboard and the WINDOWS input mode; d) converting the text and/or symbols into a format acceptable by the handheld computer; and e) transferring the converted text and/or symbols to the handheld computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: I/O INTERCONNECT, LTD.
    Inventors: Ping-Shun Zeung, Hao-Hsun Hou
  • Publication number: 20160216867
    Abstract: A method for launching software applications of a smartphone through a personal computer connected thereto is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) operatably connecting the handheld computer to the personal computer; b) the personal computer acquiring information of used times of applications of the handheld computer; c) converting tops of the most frequently used applications into items in a subwindow of the personal computer; and d) launching one of the applications by clicking an item in the subwindow, wherein the clicked item corresponds to the launched application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: I/O INTERCONNECT, LTD.
    Inventors: Gary Kung, Johnny Chen
  • Publication number: 20160216868
    Abstract: A computing device with a touch screen display simultaneously displays on the touch screen display a plurality of user interface objects and at least one destination object. The computing device detects a first input by a user on a destination object displayed on the touch screen display. While continuing to detect the first input by the user on the destination object, the computing device detects a second input by the user on a first user interface object displayed on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the second input by the user on the first user interface object, the computing device performs an action on the first user interface object. The action is associated with the destination object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: B. Michael VICTOR
  • Publication number: 20160216869
    Abstract: A method, device and terminal for processing an interface and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a compression instruction for compressing an interface is received; and the interface is compressed according to the compression instruction, wherein an effective triggering range for a control operation on the interface is determined according to the compression of the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Mingsheng YAN
  • Publication number: 20160216870
    Abstract: A content playback apparatus comprises a touch screen, a memory and a processor. The touch screen is configured to play back a plurality of contents and to detect a touch input for the contents. The memory is configured to store instructions to control a playback of the contents. The processor is configured to control the playback of the contents according to the instructions. The instructions include a display instruction for displaying playbacks of the plurality of contents in a predetermined size, a move instruction for moving, among the plurality of contents, a content according to the touch input, and a magnification instruction for, in response to said moving, magnifying a playback size of the moved content according to the touch input and displaying a playback of the content on the touch screen at the magnified playback size of the content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jae Seob SHIN, Sun Gul RYOO, Se Hoon SON, Kwang Woo PARK, In Suk HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160216871
    Abstract: A method includes capturing a first segment of video content, and displaying the video content of the captured first segment in a first page of a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executing on a mobile device as the first segment is being captured, where the GUI is displayed on a touchscreen. A second segment of video content is captured, where the second segment is not temporally contiguous with the first segment, and, as the second segment is being captured, a first static screenshot of a frame of the first segment of video content is displayed in the page of the GUI and the video content of the captured second segment is also displayed in the page of the GUI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Paul STAMATIOU
  • Publication number: 20160216872
    Abstract: A method of connecting graphical objects on a display includes associating a first portion of a connector with a first plane such that the first portion of the connector tends to remain in the first plane. The method includes receiving user input that manipulates a location of a first end terminal of the connector and/or a second end terminal of the connector. The method includes determining a first minimum number of elbows in the connector when the first portion of the connector is to remain routed in the first plane the manipulation. The method includes determining a second minimum number of elbows included in the connector when the connector does not remain routed in the first plane the manipulation. The method includes routing the first portion in the first plane unless the first minimum number of elbows is greater than the second minimum number of elbows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Benjamin N. Dilts
  • Publication number: 20160216873
    Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for determining and displaying automatically binned information via a graphical user interface. A graphical user interface (GUI) may include a first graphical element representing a first metric value for a first time window and a second graphical element representing a second metric value for a second time window. An indication of a selection of the first time window may be received via the GUI. An updated GUI comprising a third graphical element representing a third metric value for the third time window and a fourth graphical element representing the fourth metric value for the fourth time window may be displayed, wherein the third time window and the fourth time window may be sub-ranges of the first time window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Nicholas Filippi, Siegfried Puchbauer-Schnabel, Cary Noel
  • Publication number: 20160216874
    Abstract: A user terminal comprising: a display having an available display area; a processor configured to run a client application having a user interface capable of operating in a full screen mode whereby a single layer of content is displayed in the available display area or in a split-view mode; wherein the client application is configured to: detect, whilst controlling the user interface to operate in the full screen mode, a user selection that the user interface operates in the split-view mode, and in response display a first layer of content in a predetermined position to partially overlap a second layer of content such that a portion of the second layer of content is displayed in the available display area and a remaining portion of the second layer of content is not displayed; and display an indicator providing an indication of how content displayed on the two layers is related.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Stuart A. Bayston, Guilherme Schneider, Daniel Winston, Richard James West, Daniele Pizziconi
  • Publication number: 20160216875
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, methods and apparatus for a computer implemented graphical user interface (GUI) for monitoring and controlling an energy management system (EMS) in real time. The GUI includes a card carousel GUI control wherein the card carousel GUI control includes a plurality of cards arranged in a sequence, each card displaying a unique set of status information about related EMS parameters, wherein the unique set of status information of each card is concurrently visible. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Jo S. Soo, Jeff Walz, Tuan Le, Touhid Khan