Patents Issued in December 8, 2016
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Publication number: 20160357351Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a host, a display panel, a touch panel and a projection member, wherein, relative positions of the touch panel and the display panel are changeable, and the display panel is configured to display a display image; the projection member is configured to project a projection image onto the touch panel in a case that the display panel and the touch panel do not coincide; the touch panel is configured to detect a touch operation and generate a touch signal based on the touch operation; and the host is configured to process the display image of the display panel according to the touch signal. The display device is convenient to carry and use, and use diversity of the display device is greatly enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Zhixiang FANG, Ming HU, Taofeng XIE
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Publication number: 20160357352Abstract: A first story is displayed at a client device. The first story includes a second story and an indication of a previous user interaction with the second story that resulted in creation of the first story. First and second user-feedback interfaces corresponding to the first story and second story, respectively, are concurrently displayed. The first and second user-feedback interfaces include affordances for providing user feedback regarding their respective stories. User feedback is received for the first story through the first user-feedback interface or for the second story through the second user-feedback interface. When the user feedback is received through the first user-feedback interface, notification is sent to a server to associate the user feedback with the first story, and when the user feedback is received through the second user-feedback interface, notification is sent to the server to associate the user feedback with the second story.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Michael James Matas, Benjamin S. Langholz, Brian Daniel Amerige
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Publication number: 20160357353Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for presenting a synchronized content scrubber. For example, a user device may store digital content items for presentation on a screen of the user device. A user interface may be configured with multiple viewing areas. An image that represents a content item may be presented in the first viewing and the second viewing area. However, in the second viewing area, the image that represents the content item may be presented in a visually distinct manner from other images in the second viewing area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Britt S. Miura, Andreas J. Karlsson, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Justin S. Titi, Simon I. Bovet, Nicholas D. Lupinetti
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Publication number: 20160357354Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for accessing modes of operation and techniques for providing an alarm interface for electronic devices. In some embodiments, a device detects that a battery is being charged and that the device is oriented in a predefined orientation. In accordance with the detection that the battery is being charged and that the device is oriented in the predefined orientation, the device activates a predefined mode of operation. In some embodiments, a device displays a first user interface object in a first color, and, at a predetermined time, the device displays the first user interface object in a second color and displays an option for dismissing an alarm, wherein the option for dismissing is displayed as a second user interface object located at a portion of a display of the device proximate to a hardware button of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Kevin Will CHEN, Christopher WILSON, Lawrence Y. YANG, Alan C. DYE, Jonathan P. IVE
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Publication number: 20160357355Abstract: A streaming media service can permit artists or other users to create and upload “posts” to the service. Posts can include text, references to content items in the catalog of the streaming media service, and/or non-catalog media content items that are created by the artist and uploaded as part of the post. Posts can be presented to users as they browse the catalog of the streaming media service and/or in a dedicated feed. The rendering of a post on a user device can include graphical user interface controls that allow the user to access content items referenced by or included in the post.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, Shaun C. Lind, Ofer Morag, Monika E. Gromek, William Martin Bachman, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Thomas Alsina, Justin G. Wismer, Ryan D. Walsh, Steve S. Gedikian, Michael Trent Reznor, Brendon E. Manwaring
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Publication number: 20160357356Abstract: A method includes displaying an on-screen ruler in a sketch area in response to a predefined input. The on-screen ruler has a first edge and an interior portion delineated by the first edge. The method further includes, in response to detecting a first touch input directed to the first edge of the on-screen ruler, rendering a line in the sketch area in accordance with the first edge of the on-screen ruler. The method further includes, in response to detecting a second touch input directed to the first edge of the on-screen ruler, adding fill content in a first portion of the sketch area that corresponds to regions touched by the second touch input on the touch-sensitive surface and that is delineated by the first edge of the on-screen ruler, such that the first portion of the sketch area is confined by the first edge or the line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Charles J. Migos, William J. Thimbleby, Gustaf Engstrom
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Publication number: 20160357357Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at an electronic device with a display, one or more input devices, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. The method includes displaying a navigation window of an application and an interface object associated with the navigation window; and while displaying the navigation window and the interface object, detecting selection of the interface object. In response to detecting selection of the interface object the method includes adjusting display of the navigation window in order to provide display space adjacent to a first edge of the navigation window; and displaying a content-creation window as at least partially overlapping the provided display space that was occupied by the navigation window immediately before the display of the navigation window was adjusted in order to provide the display space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Stephen Olivier Lemay, Patrick Lee Coffman, Tiffany Jon
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Publication number: 20160357358Abstract: Many electronic devices have graphical user interfaces that use applications windows. Because a user may use one or more instances of a particular application or multiple applications at once, application windows are useful tools for organizing items stored in electronic devices and using features provided by various applications. A user may need to manipulate, organize, configure and/or resize application windows. Some methods for manipulating, organizing, configuring and/or resizing application windows require a sequence of user inputs that navigate in a menu system. For example, with these methods, a user may need to select a user interface object in display a menu and/or perform one or more actions on the selected user interface object associated with one or more application windows. The various methods disclosed herein streamline manipulating, organizing, configuring and/or resizing application windows.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Kristin Marie Forster, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Eric Lance Wilson, John O. Louch
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Publication number: 20160357359Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating transition in a rendering of a network page given a resizing of a view port of a viewing window on a client device. The client device renders a network page in a view port on a display device, the network page defining a plurality of view port resolution ranges. The client device then implements a first level of changes in a display of the network page in response to resizing of the view port within a respective one of the view port resolution ranges. The client device subsequently implements a second level of changes in the display of the network page in response to resizing of the view port through a transition threshold defined between a respective pair of the view port resolution ranges.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Sean M. Scott, Devraj Varadhan, Douglas J. Gradt
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Publication number: 20160357360Abstract: A message display terminal comprising at least one processor configured to: display a message object representing a message input by each of a plurality of users in a display mode that enables a user having input the message to be identified; receive a selection operation for selecting the message object; obtain message data, which is generated in response to the selection operation, relating to a second message which is determined based on a first message represented by a first message object which is the selected message object; and display a second message object representing the second message in a display mode that enables a user having conducted the selection operation to be identified as a user having input the second message based on the obtained message data.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Shingo OSHIBA
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Publication number: 20160357361Abstract: A system for sharing a physical display screen among multiple applications on a mobile platform includes an Internet-connected client device and software executing on the client device from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a first function assigning dominancy to one of the multiple running applications, a second function mitigating application background transparency among the multiple running applications, a third function establishing a messaging mechanism and protocol between the multiple running applications, and a fourth function enabling the dominant application to intercept digital input directed toward individual ones of the multiple running applications and to dispatch the input to the appropriate application.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: David Beilis, Adrian Lee-Kwen
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Publication number: 20160357362Abstract: An event can be detected by an input device. The event may be determined to be a triggering event by comparing the event to a group of triggering events. A first prediction model corresponding to the event is then selected. Contextual information about the device specifying one or more properties of the computing device in a first context is then received, and a set of one or more applications is identified. The set of one or more applications may have at least a threshold probability of being accessed by the user when the event occurs in the first context. Thereafter, a user interface is provided to a user for interacting with the set of one or more applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jason J. Gauci, Lukas M. Marti, Hyo Jeong Shin, David R. Stites, Liviu T. Popescu, Lili Cao, Matthaeus Krenn
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Publication number: 20160357363Abstract: Systems and methods for providing and managing docked browser tabs are provided. In one exemplary method, a webpage may be open in a first tab in a browser application on an electronic device. In response to one or more inputs, the state of the webpage in the first tab may be changed. A user may request to open the webpage in a second tab that is different from the first tab; and it may then be determined whether the first tab is a docked tab and whether the webpage is associated with a docked tab. In accordance with a determination that the webpage is associated with a docked tab and that the first tab is a docked tab, the webpage is presented with the state of the webpage in the first tab. In accordance with a determination that the webpage is associated with a standard tab and that the first tab is not a docked tab, the webpage may be presented in the second tab with a state different from the state of the webpage in the first tab.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Kevin DECKER, Ada CHAN, Steven FALKENBURG, Chanaka G. KARUNAMUNI, Richard MONDELLO, Patrick L. COFFMAN
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Publication number: 20160357364Abstract: Some embodiments provide a document viewing application with first and second document-browsing modes. The first document-browsing mode, accessed through a first UI item of several top-level UI items, displays several selectable document channel items corresponding to previously-selected document channels. Selection of one of the selectable document channel items causes the document viewing application to present a set of documents related to the document channel corresponding to the particular selectable item. The second document-browsing mode, accessed through a second UI item of the several top-level UI items, displays several selectable document panes corresponding to documents related to several of the previously-selected channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Pepijn T. Zoon, Jay C. Capela, Daniel L. Carter, Anton Davydov, Michel Elings, Ian J. Elseth, Steven Evergreen, Genevieve Garand, Alden M. Haley, Alexander C. MacLean, Steve E. Marmon, Charles J. Migos, Martin J. Murrett, Jonathan M. Penn, Roger R. Rosner, Collin D. Ruffenach, Brian J. Turner, Jip van der Velde, Martin Walvius, Matthijs J. Zoon
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Publication number: 20160357365Abstract: Some embodiments provide a document viewing application with first and second document channel browsing modes. The first mode displays selectable items corresponding to document channels. Selection of an item causes the application to add the corresponding document channel to a set of selected document channels from which to retrieve documents for presentation within the application and dynamically add items corresponding to document channels related to the selected document channel to the selectable items for display in the first mode. The second mode displays a first set of selectable items corresponding to sources of documents and a second set of selectable items corresponding to document topics. Selection of an item in the second browsing mode causes the application to add the corresponding document channel to the set of selected document channels and modify the selectable items presented in the second mode a next time the second mode is entered.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Genevieve Garand, Imran Chaudhri, Anton Davydov, Michel Elings, Mark A. Gingrich, Alen M. Haley, Dominic J. Hughes, Vincent Lane, Aimee Machado, Alexander C. MacLean, Steve E. Marmon, Charles J. Migos, Jonathan M. Penn, Jip van der Velde
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Publication number: 20160357366Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for a document viewing application. While displaying a sequence of selectable items that each correspond to a different document in a sequence of documents, the method receives selection of an item corresponding to a particular document in the sequence. The method retrieves a first set of content for displaying at least a portion of the particular document. After the first set of content is retrieved and displayed, the method retrieves content for displaying documents surrounding the particular document in the sequence of documents such that the content is available if input is received to display one of the documents surrounding the particular document in the sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Charles J. Migos, Michel Elings, Ian J. Elseth, Genevieve Garand, Kyle Howarth, Steve E. Marmon, Martin J. Murrett, Jip van der Velde
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Publication number: 20160357367Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a note-taking application: displays, on the display, a first user interface of the note-taking application, wherein: the note-taking application includes a plurality of notes prepared by a user; the plurality of notes includes electronic text content input by the user, and content created and/or selected by the user that is distinct from the electronic text content; the content created and/or selected includes content from a plurality of distinct content categories; and the first user interface displays a categorized-content-view affordance; detects activation of the categorized-content-view affordance; and, in response to detecting activation of the categorized-content-view affordance, displays, in a categorized-content view, a scrollable list of at least some of the content created and/or selected by the user that is distinct from the electronic text content input by the user, wherein the content in the scrollable list is organized and displayed by the content categorType: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: J. Gabriel Foster, Charles J. Migos, Gustaf Engstrom, Markus Hagele, Michael D. Trent
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Publication number: 20160357368Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first view of a first application; detecting a first portion of a first input; if the first portion of the first input meets application-switching criteria, concurrently displaying portions of the first application view and a second application view; while concurrently displaying the portions of the application views, detecting a second portion of the first input; if the second portion of the first input meets first-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a first region), ceasing to display the portion of the second application view and displaying the first application view; and if the second portion of the first input meets multi-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a second region), maintaining concurrent display of a portion of the first application view and a portion of the second application view on the display after detecting the liftoff of the contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Craig M. Federighi, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Andrew B. Cato, Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher P. Foss, Olivier D.R. Gutknecht, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Michael T. Jurewitz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
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Publication number: 20160357369Abstract: A system is disclosed including a first display control section 218 for selectively displaying, in a first display area, a second predetermined number of first objects among first objects, corresponding to a first predetermined number of game programs, for which an order is set, a second display control section for displaying a position designation image at a position corresponding to a position, of subject software, in an order set for the first predetermined number of pieces of software; a display change section for designating a first object to be displayed in the first display area, based on an operation input received by using the position designation image; and an activation execution section for activating software corresponding to one first object which is selected from among the second predetermined number of first objects displayed in the first display area, based on the operation input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Yoshihiro MATSUSHIMA, Yuki ONOZAWA
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Publication number: 20160357370Abstract: Systems and methods are used to organize and manage objects in a geographic area. A representation of the geographic area is displayed on a user display. A representation of an object is superimposed on the geographic area on the display. Information about the object is represented or coded through the display of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Mark Willey, Warren Coykendall
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Publication number: 20160357371Abstract: Disclosed herein are a schedule management terminal and method. The schedule management terminal includes a display unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The display unit may display a user interface including a period display region, in which a continuous period is divided into intervals, and one or more event buttons. The input unit may receive user input including a selection, a dragging or a dropping for the user interface that is displayed by the display unit. When receiving user input adapted to select a part of the event buttons via the input unit and drag and drop the selected event button on a desired interval of the period display region, the control unit may generate event information corresponding to the selected event button for the desired interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Seung Mi LEE
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Publication number: 20160357372Abstract: In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a computer system, including: a specifically programmed publishing server; a non-transitory database; a network publishing portal for connecting digital content creators and digital content viewers to the publishing server over a computer network; where the server, the database and the portal are programmed with specialized publishing software for: receiving digital content from each digital content creator; displaying a specifically programmed hotspot template; where the hotspot template permits to define a plurality of hotspots in the digital content; where each hotspot is an interactive visual programmed clue which allows the viewer to dynamically proceed to experience another portion of the digital content; and where, by sequentially experiencing a first portion of the digital content and another portion of the digital content, the viewer experiences a viewer personalized storyline digital experience which differs from a storyline digital experienceType: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Antonio Bolfo, Michael Lanza, Mark McQuillan
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Publication number: 20160357373Abstract: An authoring tool for authoring a presentation of a wrap package of cards. The authoring tool enables creation of a vertically navigable card including a plurality of components that brows-able in the vertical direction and two or more horizontally navigable cards, each including components. When authoring is complete, the tool generates a portable data object and a URL for identifying and distributing the wrap package. When rendered on a consuming device, the wrap package, including the individual cards, has the same presentation as authored.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Eric H. GREENBERG, John M. GARRIS, Ian MCFARLAND, Jared L. FICKLIN, Mark E. ROLSTON, Matthew J. SANTONE, Jon STEVENS, Eric J. WICKS
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Publication number: 20160357374Abstract: A method can include executing at least two applications, wherein at least one of the two applications is for providing social media information. The acts can also include receiving a signal in response to a detected input gesture indicative of a selection of an entity. The selection of the entity can be performed via another one of the two applications. The acts can also include integrating the two applications such that social media information is generated about the entity. The integration can be in response to receiving the signal, and the social media information can include information from one or more social networking websites. The acts can also include displaying the social media information about the entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Cristy Swink, Jason Sikes, Benjamin Fineman, Jonathan Solis Snydal, Matthew James Schoenholz, Craig Alan Williams, David Merkoski, Claudia Knop, Alex Tam, Alison Rae Maiorano, Christopher Marshall Turitzin, Dhana Dhanasarnsombat, Eric Brady Burns, Hannah Regier, Jennifer Siu Bettendorff, Karin Maire Curkowicz, Katrin Asen, Harry Lawson Kight, Flora Elysia Howell, Megan Elisabeth Knight, Paul McDougall, Philip Foeckler, Ratna Desai, Sara Louise Todd, Thomas L Rohrer
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Publication number: 20160357375Abstract: The present aspects relate to swift movement between multiple pages or views. Electronic devices may be limited in readily moving between two or more pages or views within an application process. For example, to move between multiple pages or views, an electronic device may receive a single input for movement between one page or view and another page or view. However, the present aspects enable an electronic device to move between two or more pages in response to receiving a single input representing, for instance, a contact on a touch-sensitive surface of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Tom E. KLAVER
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Publication number: 20160357376Abstract: Listings of media content items can be presented on a user device in an ownership-agnostic matter. For instance, a user device can interact with both a streaming media service and a personal media collection, portions of which might or might not be hosted by the streaming media service. A listing of media content items that satisfy selection criteria can be presented in a page with multiple tabs. One tab can include a listing of all content items from the streaming music service that satisfy the criteria, regardless of whether the content items are associated with the user's personal collection. Another tab can include a listing of all content items in the user's personal collection that satisfy the criteria, regardless of whether the content items are in the catalog of the streaming music service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Taylor G. Carrigan, William Martin Bachman, Monika E. Gromek, Jeffrey L. Robbin, Ofer Morag
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Publication number: 20160357377Abstract: A first electronic device with a display maintains a consistent output based on concurrent textual edits received at multiple collaborating devices. The first device maintains a directed acyclic graph to represent a textual string concurrently edited by the first device and at least a second device of the multiple collaborating devices. The directed acyclic graph includes: a plurality of nodes each representing a respective character input received from one or more of the multiple collaborating devices, and multiple parallel paths each including at least one node that represents a respective one of multiple concurrent character inputs received from distinct devices of the multiple collaborating devices. The first device topologically traverses the directed acyclic graph in accordance with a predetermined ordering rule to deterministically sort the plurality of nodes into a string sequence. The first device displays the textual string in accordance with the deterministically obtained string sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: William J. Thimbleby
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Publication number: 20160357378Abstract: A display apparatus, a stand, and a driving method of the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display an image, a stand configured to support the display, a stand driver configured to control a position of the stand according to a user input, a detector configured to detect an operation state of the stand driver, and a controller configured to generate an alarm signal indicating an abnormal operation state of the stand driver in response to the operation state detected by the detector indicating the abnormal operation state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kun-sok KANG, Kyung-hoon LEE, Mi-ra YU, Sung-han LEE, Sang-on CHOI, Eun-seok CHOI
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Publication number: 20160357379Abstract: A schedule management system that includes processing circuitry that generates schedule information for managing operation of equipment, generates changed schedule information by changing the schedule information in response to a request for changing the schedule information, generates equipment operation time information representing an operation time of the equipment when the equipment operates in accordance with the schedule information or the changed schedule information, creates a presentation screen including information on a first difference between the schedule information and the changed schedule information and a second difference between the changed schedule information and the equipment operation time information, and controls a display to display the presentation screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: Azbil CorporationInventor: Toru KASHIMA
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Publication number: 20160357380Abstract: Providing an alternative human interface for an electronic device when a current human interface is made ineffective by at least an environmental factor is described herein. By ineffective it is meant that the current human interface cannot maintain a minimum level of interactivity between a user and the electronic device in the current or anticipated environment. In addition to maintaining at least a threshold level of interactivity, the configuration of the alternative human interface can take into consideration other factors such as an expected operating state of the electronic device affected by the choice of alternative human interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jesse W. Boettcher, Jeffrey T. Lee, Aram Lindahl
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Publication number: 20160357381Abstract: An electronic device displays an arrangement that includes a plurality of content items and has a first axis and a second axis. While displaying the plurality of content items, the electronic device receives an input. In accordance with a determination that a first portion of the input is in a first direction corresponding to movement along the first axis, the electronic device scrolls the displayed content items along the first axis in response to the input without changing a selection state of content items in the arrangement. In accordance with a determination that the first portion of the input is in a second direction different from the first direction, corresponding to movement along the second axis, the electronic device changes a selection state of one or more content items in the plurality of content items in response to the input based on a starting location of the input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Damien Coin-Perard, Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Justin S. Titi
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Publication number: 20160357382Abstract: A novel method for scrolling an electronic document (e.g., a webpage, article, etc.) that is displayed in a display area on a screen is provided. The method receives a swipe gesture on a touch-sensitive input surface, which can be a touch-sensitive surface of a cursor controller (e.g., trackpad, etc.) or can be a touch-sensitive surface of the screen. Based on the swipe gesture's velocity, the method scrolls the document on the display screen and identifies a first location on the document for ending the scrolling. Also, based on this velocity, the method identifies a size for a neighboring region around the identified location. The method then determines whether a scroll stoppage marker is defined for the neighboring region. Each scroll stoppage marker specifies a location within the document for stopping the document's scrolling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Jean Sebastiaen Metz, Pepijn T. Zoon, Matthijs Jacob Frederik Zoon
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Publication number: 20160357383Abstract: In an electronic file system, preview information is provided to the user during a drag operation of a selected object onto a target object. The information indicates what type(s) of action is to be taken should the selected object be dropped onto the target object. The action(s) to be taken may depend upon the type of the selected object and/or the type of the target object. For example, where the selected object is an item and the target object is a persisted auto-list, the action may include adding, removing, or modifying one or more properties of the selected object to conform to one or more criteria defined by the persisted auto-list. Also, numerical feedback may be provided to the user where multiple objects are selected. For example, where seven objects are selected, the textual number “7” may appear next to the cursor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: CHARLES CUMMINS, CORNELIS K. VAN DOK, DAVID G. DE VORCHIK, STEPHAN HOEFNAGELS, TIMOTHY P. MCKEE, TYLER K. BEAM
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Publication number: 20160357384Abstract: A supplemental display unit may provide information to a display associated with a wearable article. The supplemental display unit may share a communications channel with a mobile device, and exchange data with the mobile device over the communications channel while the mobile device resides within the wearable article. The supplemental display unit may generate a screen having a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the exchanged data, where an appearance of the screen is based on a measurement of the wearable article. The supplemental display unit may provide icons on the GUI presenting information to the user, where the icons may be arranged in groups based upon the type of information that each icon presents, and provide the GUI to the display, where the display is coupled to the wearable article.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Mohammad Raheel Khalid, Paul Berman, Marlene Enright, Cory Michael Bruno, Christian Egeler
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Publication number: 20160357385Abstract: Various embodiments utilize a portable electronic device determining the relative physical location of a connected device and displaying a location indicator on a display of the portable electronic device. This location indicator can “point” to the connected device and provide an indication as to how far away the connected device is. The portable electronic device can facilitate user interaction with the connected device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Ronnie Dan, Robert Cressey, Patricia Patitucci, Olivier Frebourg, Simon Dyke, Andrew Zamler-Carhart
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Publication number: 20160357386Abstract: A display device including a touch screen configured to display an analog watch screen; a wireless communication unit configured to receive data from an external device; a sensing unit configured to sense at least one of a motion of the display device and biometric state information of a user; and a controller configured to switch the analog watch screen to a digital watch screen in response to at least one of a predetermined touch input on the touch screen, an amount of data received from the external device, a specific motion of the display device sensed by the sensing unit, and specific biometric state information of the user sensed by the sensing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Kyungdong CHOI
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Publication number: 20160357387Abstract: An electronic device that includes a touch-sensitive surface stores a plurality of sequences of images. The device displays a first representative image for a first sequence of images in a movable first area on a display. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including movement by a contact that corresponds to movement in a first direction on the display. In response to detecting the gesture on the touch-sensitive surface: the device moves the first area in the first direction on the display; moves a movable second area in the first direction on the display; and, in accordance with a determination that sequence-display criteria are met, displays, in chronological order in the second area, at least some images for a second sequence of images acquired by the camera before acquiring a second representative image for the second sequence of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Henrique D. Penha, Gregory M. Apodaca, Brendan J. Langoulant, Behkish J. Manzari, Charles A. Mezak, Pavel Pivonka, Justin S. Titi, Simon Bovet
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Publication number: 20160357388Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface that includes a first region corresponding to a first software application and a second region corresponding to a second software application, receives a first touch input, on a touch-sensitive display, that originates from a first location corresponding to the first region and extends to a second location corresponding to the second region. The first region includes a non-boundary region and a boundary region. In response to receiving the first touch input, when the first location corresponds to a non-boundary region of the first region, the device processes the first touch input with the first software application. When the first location corresponds to a boundary region of the first region, the device conditionally processes the first touch input with the second software application.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Brittany D. Paine, Jonathan E. Drummond, Benjamin E. Nielsen
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Publication number: 20160357389Abstract: An electronic device, while displaying a user interface that corresponds to at least a portion of a web page on a display, detects a touch input on a touch-sensitive surface at a first location that corresponds to the displayed portion of the web page on the display. While detecting the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface, the electronic device detects an intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface, determines whether the intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface has changed from below a first intensity threshold to above the first intensity threshold, and in response to determining that the intensity of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface has changed from below the first intensity threshold to above the first intensity threshold, generates a force down event that is distinct from a mouse down event.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Beth M. Dakin, Dean R. Jackson, Samuel M. Weinig, Jonathan J. Lee
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Publication number: 20160357390Abstract: A method includes: displaying a first view of a first application; detecting a first portion of a first input; if the first portion of the first input meets application-switching criteria, concurrently displaying portions of the first application view and a second application view; while concurrently displaying the portions of the application views, detecting a second portion of the first input; if the second portion of the first input meets first-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a first region), ceasing to display the portion of the second application view and displaying the first application view; and if the second portion of the first input meets multi-view display criteria (liftoff of contact detected in a second region), maintaining concurrent display of a portion of the first application view and a portion of the second application view on the display after detecting the liftoff of the contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Craig M. Federighi, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Andrew B. Cato, Jonathan R. Dascola, Christopher P. Foss, Olivier D.R. Gutknecht, Joseph A. Hagedorn, Michael T. Jurewitz, Chanaka G. Karunamuni
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Publication number: 20160357391Abstract: An electronic device, with a touch-sensitive surface and display, displays a user interface at a first display rate. While displaying the user interface in accordance with the first display rate, the device detects movement of a touch input, including detecting the touch input at a first set of sequential locations on the touch-sensitive surface, including a plurality of locations on the touch-sensitive surface, and predicts for the touch input a first set of one or more predicted locations on the touch-sensitive surface based on multiple locations in the first set of sequential locations. The device updates the user interface in accordance with the first set of one or more predicted locations of the touch input on the touch-sensitive surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Bruce D. Nilo, David Michael Chan, Jacob A. Xiao, Jason Clay Beaver
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Publication number: 20160357392Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes a touch screen disposed at a first side of the mobile terminal and configured to display information; and a controller configured to: divide the touch screen into a plurality of regions corresponding to a first function in response to a touch drag starting from a preset point on the first side, wherein the plurality of regions correspond to a plurality of sub-menus of the first function; execute the first function according to a sub-menu corresponding to a region where the touch drag is released; and cause the touch screen to display an execution screen of the executed first function according to the sub-menu to at least part of the touch screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Juha HYUN, Shinnyue KANG, Yoonseok YANG
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Publication number: 20160357393Abstract: Systems and methods for generating and providing intelligent time to leave reminders on an electronic device are disclosed herein. In one aspect, the method includes: automatically, without human intervention, identifying a calendar entry including a first identifier (e.g., text in the title of a calendar entry that relates to a location, such as “go to dental checkup”), the first identifier corresponding to a geographic location that is unknown. The method further includes: automatically, without human intervention, retrieving a previously-visited address (e.g., a street address or GPS coordinates for the street address) associated with the first identifier. The method also includes: automatically, without human intervention, determining a departure time for the calendar entry based on the previously-visited address (e.g., based on a route from the current location of the device to the previously-visited address).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Daniel C. Gross
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Publication number: 20160357394Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display unit configured to display a home screen page including graphic objects corresponding to applications installed on the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to execute a corresponding application in a background, control the corresponding application to be in either a background activated state or a background deactivated state, in response to a preset type of touch input applied onto a graphic object of the corresponding application, when the corresponding application is in the background deactivated state, upon reception of a request generated from the corresponding application for execution of a function related to the corresponding application, do not execute the function related to the application, and when the corresponding application is in the background activated state, upon reception of the request generated from the corresponding application for execution of the function related to the corresponding application, execute the function related to the corresType: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kyongpil TAE, June KIM, Jeunguk HA, Byul JANG
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Publication number: 20160357395Abstract: An information processing device includes an operation receiver and a controller. The controller acquires a size of an object being a target for a gesture operation performed via the operation receiver, sets a size change associated with resizing performed by a first gesture operation for a first object to a first degree, when the acquired size of the first object is a first size, and sets a degree of a size change associated with resizing performed by the first gesture operation for a second object to a second degree, when the acquired size of the second object is a second size which is larger than the first size, the second degree being smaller than the first degree. The controller reflects, when the identified gesture operation is resizing, the resizing of the object on a screen in accordance with the set degree of the size change.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Shunsuke TAKAMURA, Shinya OGINO, Kazuma TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20160357396Abstract: An object association method, apparatus and a user equipment are provided. A method comprises determining at least one association direction of at least two objects according to respective first touch parameters of the at least two objects; and associating the at least two objects at least according to the at least one association direction of the at least two objects. Accordingly, an improved interaction scheme based on touch parameters is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventor: Jia Liu
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Publication number: 20160357397Abstract: A terminal can include a touch screen, and a control unit to control at least one touch-available icon to appear on the touch screen in a first direction of a first touch-drag on the touch screen, in response to a touch input to one of the at least one touch-available icon, execute a specific function such that an execution image related to the executed specific function is displayed on the touch screen. Further, the control unit of the terminal can receive a message while the specific function is being executed, receive a second touch-drag in a second direction on the touch screen, and control a message window for the received message to appear on the touch screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seong Cheol LEE, Jin SEO, Sang Hyun PARK
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Publication number: 20160357398Abstract: Many devices present a cursor on a display. In order to facilitate the user's visual identification and tracking of the location of the cursor, the device may present the cursor with many visual variations, such as blinking the cursor, or selecting colors for the cursor that contrast with the background. However, these techniques may only marginally increase the visibility of the cursor in some circumstances, and/or may appear visually unappealing to the user. Presented herein are techniques for presenting a cursor on the display as a first cursor layer in a first cursor color that blends with the background color, and, under the first layer, a second cursor layer in a contrasting cursor color with respect to the first cursor color and the background. The device may also periodically remove the first layer to display the contrasting second layer and to indicate the location of the cursor to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Peter Frem, Tyler Robert Adams, Christopher Maloney, Kimberly Shay Koenig
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Publication number: 20160357399Abstract: A device comprises a viewpoint sensor for sensing a user's viewpoint; a rendering viewpoint determination unit for determining a rendering viewpoint according to the sensed user's viewpoint; a rendering performing unit for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) graphical user interface (GUI) screen according to the determined rendering viewpoint; a display unit for displaying the rendered 3D GUI screen; and a controller, wherein when the user's viewpoint changes, at least one new object is additionally displayed on the 3D GUI screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Seung-ho SHIN, Seon-ho HWANG, Young-min KWAK, Chan-min PARK, Sang-kyung LEE, Hae-in CHUN, Jong-youb RYU
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Publication number: 20160357400Abstract: An electronic device displays an image in a sequence of images. The sequence of images includes a representative image and images acquired by the camera before and after acquiring the representative image. While displaying the image, the device detects a first input and, in response, displays a user interface for trimming the sequence of images. The user interface includes: representations of images in the sequence of images; a begin-trim icon that delimits a beginning image in the subset of the sequence of images; and an end-trim icon that delimits an ending image in the subset of the sequence of images. The begin-trim and end-trim icons are located at positions that are automatically selected by the device. The device detects a second input and, in response, trims the sequence of images to the subset of the sequence of images based on the positions of the begin-trim and the end-trim icons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2015Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Henrique D. Penha, Graham R. Clarke, Brandon J. Langoulant, Paulo M. Lopez, Behkish J. Manzari, Charles A. Mezak, Britt S. Miura, Justin S. Titi