Patents Issued in January 19, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170017319
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a shadow elimination arrangement, a touch screen and a method for producing the same. The shadow elimination arrangement for a pattern of an ITO layer includes a silicon oxynitride layer, on which the pattern of the ITO layer is provided, being provided on a transparent substrate; and a silicon dioxide layer, provided over the pattern of the ITO layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Du, Ming Hu
  • Publication number: 20170017320
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes: a common electrode; a first switching element connected between a voltage line and the common electrode; a data line transmitting a data signal during a display period and a touch sensing signal during a touch period; a pixel electrode; a second switching element connected between the data line and the pixel electrode; and a third switching element connected between the data line and the common electrode. During the display period, the first switching element and the second switching element are turned on and the third switching element is turned off. During the touch period, the first switching element and the second switching element are turned off and the third switching element is turned on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Hao TSAI, Chih-Hao CHANG, Bo-Feng CHEN, Tung-Kai LIU, Jen-Chieh PENG
  • Publication number: 20170017321
    Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of wirings. Each of the plurality of first electrodes has a first portion formed on a layer different from that on which the second electrodes are formed and intersecting the second electrodes, and a second portion formed on the same layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed, but separated from the second electrode. The second electrode and the second portion of the first electrode are formed on a layer different than the layer where the wiring is formed. The first portion of the first electrode is connected to the second portion through a contact portion formed in an insulating film made of a negative resist between the first portion and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Masahiro TERAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170017322
    Abstract: An input device according to the present invention includes a touch panel (1), display means (2) provided to be superimposed on the touch panel (1), measurement means (11) that is able to measure a measurement value corresponding to a situation whether a glove is worn and a thickness of the glove, and sensitivity setting means for setting sensitivity of the touch panel (1) according to the measurement value measured by the measurement means (11). The measurement value may be a value corresponding to a range in which an electrostatic capacitance of the touch panel (1) has changed, for example, and the sensitivity setting means (12) increases the sensitivity of the touch panel (1) as this value increases. It is therefore possible to provide an input device that is able to improve operability regardless of whether the glove is worn or even when a different type of glove is worn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicants: NEC CORPORATION, NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshikazu SHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170017323
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Hsuhua Yu, Nima L. Shams, Britton Michael Holland, Yu Fei Chen
  • Publication number: 20170017324
    Abstract: Internet connected electrical switches can benefit from an electronic rather than mechanical means to indicate their output power level. In one embodiment a touch-controlled dimmer switch is disclosed, including an interactive, uniformly illuminated bar of light, indicating the output power state of a dimmer switch. In response to a user moving their finger on a touch-sensitive front cover the dimmer switch illuminates corresponding regions with well-defined edges on a touch sensitive cover. The illuminated regions can be elongated, wider than a typical finger and encompass the most recently touched location, thereby providing improved feedback between the finger position on a touch sensitive surface and the operating point of an electrical switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: James Thomas O'Keeffe
  • Publication number: 20170017325
    Abstract: A touch display device comprising a touch display panel, a first de-multiplexer and a driving integrated circuit (IC) is provided. The touch display panel includes a plurality of first display data transmitting wires and a touch data transmitting wire. The first de-multiplexer includes a plurality of first output terminals and a first input terminal. The driving IC includes a multiplexer including a second output terminal. The first output terminals of the first de-multiplexer are electrically connected to the first display data transmitting wires and the touch data transmitting wire, respectively. The second output terminal of the multiplexer is electrically connected to the first input terminal of the first de-multiplexer through a first lead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Tsai, Jen-Chieh Peng, Chih-Hao Chang, Bo-Feng Chen, Tung-Kai Liu
  • Publication number: 20170017326
    Abstract: The invention provides a gate driving circuit for an in-cell touch panel to improve the issue wherein the undesired falling time of a pre-stage shift register and the undesired rising time of a next-stage shift register during a touch sensing period, in which the undesired falling time and the undesired rising time are caused by the output signal of the shift register cannot be correctly transmitted to the pre-stage shift register and the next-stage shift register during the touch sensing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chun-Fu WU, Wen-Tsai HSU, Chien-Hsueh CHIANG, Wei-Kuang LIEN
  • Publication number: 20170017327
    Abstract: A touch display device is provided. The touch display device includes a first substrate; a transistor disposed over the first substrate; a first insulating layer disposed over the transistor; a first electrode disposed over the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed over the first electrode; a conductive layer disposed over the second insulating layer, wherein the conductive layer includes a touch signal line; a third insulating layer disposed over the conductive layer; and a second electrode disposed over the third insulating layer, wherein one of the first electrode and the second electrode is electrically connected to the touch signal line, wherein another one of the first electrode and the second electrode is electrically connected to the transistor and at least partially overlaps the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chih-Hao CHANG, Bo-Feng CHEN, Chia-Hao TSAI, Tung-Kai LIU, Jen-Chieh PENG
  • Publication number: 20170017328
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes a substrate, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, common electrode pads, and a driving IC. The substrate includes a display area and a non-display area. The first metal layer disposed on the substrate includes gate lines and first metal wires, wherein the gate lines extend along a first direction. The second metal layer disposed on the substrate includes data lines and second metal wires, wherein the data lines extend along a second direction. The common electrode pads are disposed on the display area along the first direction and the second direction. The first metal wires and/or second metal wires are connected the common electrode pads and the driving IC. The first metal wires and/or second metal wires extend to the non-display area and extend to the display area along the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Hao TSAI, Jen-Chieh PENG, Chih-Hao CHANG, Bo-Feng CHEN, Tung-Kai LIU
  • Publication number: 20170017329
    Abstract: A first insulating film is formed between a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor. The pixel electrode is connected to a conductive electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole formed in the first insulating film. The common electrode is formed so as to overlap a data signal line in plan view, and a metal wiring, which is electrically connected to the common electrode, is formed so as to overlap at least a part of the contact hole in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20170017330
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch control display substrate and a touch control display device, belongs to the field of touch control technology, and can solve the problem that a driver chip of an existing touch control display substrate is overloaded and display effect is poor. The touch control display substrate of the present invention includes a plurality of sensing areas for sensing a touch, each sensing area is provided therein with a sensing electrode for sensing a touch, each sensing area includes a position at which the sensing electrode is not provided, and the position at which the sensing electrode is not provided is provided with a common electrode. The touch control display device of the present invention includes the above touch control display substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Lei WANG, Yingming LIU, Xiaochuan CHEN, Wenbo JIANG, Yue LI
  • Publication number: 20170017331
    Abstract: A controller for interfacing with an interactive application includes an interface region disposed on a surface of a body of the controller. The interface region includes a plurality of interface elements for providing input to the interactive application. One of the interface elements is an input surface that is defined by an indentation and is configured to receive touch input. Plurality of sensors disposed under the input surface detects movement of a finger of a user. Processing circuitry is used to analyze the movement of the finger of the user over the input surface and transmit signals that are used by the interactive application to drive interaction in the interactive application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Ennin Huang, Anton Mikhailov
  • Publication number: 20170017332
    Abstract: A touch film includes a main body. The main body has a top surface. A recess is defined in the top surface of the main body and configured to be found by a tactile feeling of a finger of a user. A touch module with the touch film is also provided in the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: YI-SHENG LIN, KUO-HSIEN WU
  • Publication number: 20170017333
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an in-cell touch screen and a display device. A touch electrode arranged in the touch screen is provided with a slit at a region corresponding to a gap between two adjacent pixels, such that the slits in respective touch electrodes of the in-cell touch screen and the gaps between the touch electrodes are uniformly distributed to avoid defective problem of bright lines or dark lines present in the in-cell touch screen. Further, a strip-shaped floating electrode is further provided in the touch screen to be electrically connected with the touch electrode and is arranged at the a slit of the touch electrode and/or at the gap between two adjacent touch electrodes. The strip-shaped floating electrode is used to partially fill or cover the slit in the touch electrode, which can alleviate reduction in an effective area of the touch electrode due to providing the slit in the touch electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Xiaochuan Chen, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu, Wei Liu, Changfeng Li
  • Publication number: 20170017334
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing device and an image processing method. The image processing device comprises: a display means, which is configured to display an operation object, a touch means, which is configured to detect a first action and a second action of a touch operation, and a processing means, which is configured to determine a first position of the first action on the operation object and a second position of the second action on the operation object and to adjust a display parameter at the first position on the operation object and a display parameter at the second position. Employment of the present invention allows for content having a user-personalized operation to be photographed or produced and allows implementation of partial display parameter adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Qiang Li, Shaohua TANG
  • Publication number: 20170017335
    Abstract: Provided are a touch panel, a displaying unit, and a touch panel manufacturing method that make it possible to thin a wiring line and that suppress visibility of a wiring line to improve appearance. A first electrode group extends in a direction intersecting with a second electrode group in plan view. A large part of a first wiring line or the entire first wiring line is arranged so as to overlap a light-shielding part in the entire line width thereof in plan view. On the basis of a display device, a first electrode part is located on an outer side of a dielectric part and the first wiring line and/or a second wiring line has a line width varied according to a height, and has a line width in an outermost region smaller than a line width in an innermost region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Yuji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20170017336
    Abstract: A detecting device that can sufficiently exhibit its performance even when used integrally with a high-resolution display device is implemented. In a detecting device that can perform a location detection process using both of a self-capacitance scheme and a mutual-capacitance scheme, a touch panel controller drives a location detection electrode group formed in an area where location detection by the location detection process is to be performed, for example, such that the location detection process using the self-capacitance scheme is performed during a vertical flyback period (52) and the location detection process using the mutual-capacitance scheme is performed during horizontal flyback periods within an effective vertical scanning period (51). As such, when the location detection process is performed using at least one of the self-capacitance scheme and the mutual-capacitance scheme, the touch panel controller drives the location detection electrode group based on a synchronizing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Masashi Mayumi
  • Publication number: 20170017337
    Abstract: Provided is a technique whereby, in an input device in which a plurality of touch panels are arranged so as to be adjacent to one another, even if an upper limit number of input operations on the touch panels as a whole is less than the total number of input operations, an input operation with respect to the touch panels as a whole can be determined according to frequencies of input operations. The input device detects contact positions corresponding to input operations detected at fixed time intervals on each of the touch panels arranged so as to be adjacent to one another, and outputs contact positions the number of which is less than the sum of the numbers of the input operations detectable during the fixed time interval on the respective touch panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Yoichi KUGE
  • Publication number: 20170017338
    Abstract: A touch display device is disclosed, which comprises: a substrate; a thin film transistor unit disposed on the substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the thin film transistor unit; a touch signal line layer disposed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on the touch signal line layer; a first transparent conducting layer disposed on the second insulating layer; a third insulating layer disposed on the first transparent conducting layer; and a second transparent conducting layer disposed on the third insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chia-Hao TSAI, Jen-Chieh PENG, Chih-Hao CHANG, Bo-Feng CHEN, Tung-Kai LIU
  • Publication number: 20170017339
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flat panel device and a method for operating a flat panel device. The flat panel device has a reset switch. The reset switch is used to disconnect a battery of the flat panel device from a load so as to force to turn off the flat panel device when a touch control panel of the flat panel device is disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jinfeng Zhou, Zhichong Chen
  • Publication number: 20170017340
    Abstract: A touch display panel capable of operating in a display mode and a touch mode. In the touch mode, a data line transmits a data voltage signal to a pixel electrode of the touch display panel, and a corresponding common electrode is at a constant voltage level. In the touch mode, the data line transmits a touch driving signal to the pixel electrode and then receives a touch sensing signal from the pixel electrode, and the corresponding common electrode is floating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Tung-Kai LIU, Jen-Chieh PENG, Chia-Hao TSAI, Chih-Hao CHANG, Bo-Feng CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170017341
    Abstract: A touch display panel includes common electrodes arranged along a first direction and a second direction, At least one common electrode having a first side and a second side parallel to the second direction, and metal wires extending parallel along the second direction. At least one common electrode is connected with one of the metal wires via at least a contact hole. The common electrodes include a first common electrode and a second common electrode that are adjacent in the first direction. The second side of the first common electrode is adjacent to the first side of the second electrode. The distance between the contact hole of the first common electrode and the second side of the first common electrode is equal to the distance between the contact hole of the second common electrode and the first side of the second common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Bo-Feng CHEN, Tung-Kai LIU, Chih-Hao CHANG, Chia-Hao TSAI, Jen-Chieh PENG
  • Publication number: 20170017342
    Abstract: A touch panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The touch panel has a double-layered sensing pad structure or a single-layered sensing pad structure. In the double-layered sensing pad structure, the sensing pads in each layer have corresponding dummy sensing pads in the other layer for compensating the difference of transmittance. In the single-layered sensing pad structure, the sensing pads are coplanar so that the problem of color shift can be overcome and the visual effect of the touch panel can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Chun Wu, Hsin-Hung Lee, Mei-Sheng Ma, Tun-Chun Yang, Seok-Lyul Lee, Yao-Jen Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20170017343
    Abstract: A noise reduction capacitive touch panel comprises a sensing area, a non-sensing area, a main body, a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of driving electrode wires, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrode wires, at least one noise sensing electrodes and at least noise sensing electrode wires. The sensing area is located in the middle of the panel and the rest area of the panel is the non-sensing area. The main body is a flat board having a normal line. The driving electrodes are strip electrodes and disposed on the main body. The driving electrodes are perpendicular to the normal line. The driving electrodes wires are disposed on the main body. The sensing electrodes are strip electrodes and disposed on the main body. Capacitive coupling is occurred between the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes because there is a distance between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Chi Chin CHEN, Wen Yi LEE, Chia Wei WU, Chang Kuang CHUNG, Tse Yen LIN
  • Publication number: 20170017344
    Abstract: A detection device that detects an operation by a user on a display in midair, includes: a control unit that changes a positional relationship between a detection reference detecting the operation and the display, wherein: the control unit is capable of changing the positional relationship by user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidenori KURIBAYASHI, Tatsuyoshi TANABE, Marie SHIMOYAMA, Hidefumi TOKI, Daisaku KOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20170017345
    Abstract: Provided is a driving circuit for a touch display apparatus. The driving circuit includes: a main control unit, providing image data for image display at a first speed; a driving unit, receiving the image data and sending display data to the touch display apparatus according to the received image data; a data buffering module, disposed in the driving unit, sending the display data at a second speed higher than the first speed, and forming, due to the difference between the second speed and the first speed, a pause time for stopping sending the display data to the touch display apparatus during the process that the main control unit provides the image data; and a touch detection unit, performing touch detection of the touch display apparatus in the pause time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FOCALTECH ELECTRONICS, LTD.
    Inventors: Lianghua MO, Xinxi JIANG, Ningning CAI
  • Publication number: 20170017346
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting user input to an electronic device are disclosed. The electronic device can include an input sensor system that itself includes an input-sensitive structure that compresses or expands in response to user input. The input sensor system measures and electrical property of the input-sensitive structure for changes. The input sensor system is coupled to an accelerometer to receive acceleration data to modify the detected changes to the input-sensitive structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Baboo V. Gowreesunker, Alex Bijamov, Vinay Chawda
  • Publication number: 20170017347
    Abstract: An electronic system includes a processing device and a trellis pattern of conductors coupled to the processing device. The trellis pattern of conductors forms a multiple capacitors and the processing device is configured to sense a capacitance of each of the capacitors. A host is coupled to the processing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Cole D. Wilson, Patrick N Prendergast, Jonathan R Peterson
  • Publication number: 20170017348
    Abstract: The present invention introduces a touch sensing apparatus capable of adjusting an Rx frequency band, and the touch sensing apparatus can adjust the width of the Rx frequency band of a driving signal which is applied from a driving electrode of a touch screen panel and transferred to a receiving electrode of the touch screen panel, using a high pass filter and a low pass filter which are implemented with a differentiator and an integrator, respectively. The touch sensing apparatus can adjusting the resistances of a plurality of resistors and the capacitance of a capacitor, thereby selectively receiving a driving signal at each frequency and amplifying the received driving signal to a predetermined magnitude. Thus, since the touch sensing apparatus does not requires a separate filter for removing noise contained in the driving signal, the system can be simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: SILICON WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Sung AHN, Hee-Sop SONG, Yong-Suk KIM, Hyung-Seog OH
  • Publication number: 20170017349
    Abstract: A method for a mapping of user interfaces includes providing a mapping description between first data elements of a first user interface and second data elements of a second user interface, receiving input events via the first user interface, and intercepting a communication between the first user interface and an application by an interface mapper. The method also includes aggregating a series of the received input events to a first user interface pattern, transforming the first user interface pattern to a second user interface pattern based on the mapping description, and rendering the second user interface pattern in a second user interface in parallel to rendering the first user interface pattern in the first user such that both user interfaces are visible at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Giuseppe Ciano, Gianluca Della Corte, Leonida Gianfagna, Luigi Massa, Antonio M. Sgro
  • Publication number: 20170017350
    Abstract: A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Myeong Gi JEONG, Young Hee PARK, Kwang Choon KIM, Jung Yun SEO, Choong Nyoung SEON
  • Publication number: 20170017351
    Abstract: Systems and methods are providing for handling notifications across multiple devices associated with a user. A notification, such as an alert, is sent by an application server to a plurality of user devices associated with a user. The notification may be sent as a push notification. When the user interacts with the notification on one of the associated user devices, the device sends a report to the application regarding the extent to which the user has interacted with the notification. In response to the report regarding the extent of user interaction, the application sends a message downgrading the notification on other devices associated with the user. The message may be downgraded on other devices only if the user has interacted with the notification on a device designated as a primary device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Mona SINGH
  • Publication number: 20170017352
    Abstract: An online system presents a feed of content including content items and one or more scrollable content units to a user of the online system. A scrollable content unit includes an ordered set of content items and a display area presenting fewer than all of the content items of the ordered set at a time. The user navigates through the ordered set of content items in the display area by interacting with the scrollable content unit. If the user navigates through fewer than all of the content items in the ordered set, the online system modifies the ordered set. If the scrollable content unit is again provided to the user, the scrollable content unit presents content items based the modified ordered set. For example, the modified ordered set prioritizes presentation of content items from the ordered set that were not previously presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Jeffrey Andrew Kanter, Sanchan Sahai Saxena, Mohit Rajani
  • Publication number: 20170017353
    Abstract: Various examples of the present disclosure include techniques and mechanisms for providing a customizable visual and functional experience for a user of an application or service. According to various examples, a system includes a first visual interface that is mapped to a first feature set to operate together as a first user interface that is presented throughout the application or service when selected. The system further includes a second visual interface that is mapped to a second feature set to operate together as a second user interface that is presented throughout the application or service when selected. The first feature set and second feature set differ from each other and both the first user interface and second user interface are customizable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Fyusion, Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Josef Holzer, Michelle Ho, Pantelis Kalogiros, Radu Bogdan Rusu
  • Publication number: 20170017354
    Abstract: An Internet of Things Controller, and related tools. The tools address application development and deployment. An Application Meta-Data Editor permits a developer to specify meta-data, that guides the structure of actual data, that can be passed to the application, when invoked as a particular execution (or task) for a particular end-user. Once an application is developed, and has undergone a test deployment, the developer can upload the application to an online Application Store, from which the application can be downloaded and deployed by others. A Data Editor permits an end-user to create his/her own data, in accordance with the developer's meta-data, that adapts the execution to his/her particular needs. While permitting adaptation, the Data Editor ensures that the data created follows the overall pattern of the meta-data, as provided by the developer. Facilities for internationalization of a deployed application's documentation, on a crowd-sourced basis, are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Qingjun Wei
  • Publication number: 20170017355
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen configured to display a plurality of icons; and a controller configured to receive a predetermined touch input on a first icon of the plurality of icons, said predetermined touch input being different than a touch input for executing an application corresponding to the first icon, and display at least one graphic object on the touch screen representing an event that has occurred with respect to the application corresponding to the first icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyungah LIM, Yoonhee KIM, Sehee KIM, Chulhee LEE
  • Publication number: 20170017356
    Abstract: A visual communications (VC) tool enables visual communication over a data communications network. An email is sent to a recipient containing a link to a first visual arrangement generated by a sender. The first visual arrangement may include images of various products. The first visual arrangement is displayed via a web browser in a first display area of the VC tool in response to actuation of the link in the email message. The recipient then selects a first image in the first display area. The selection may include dragging and dropping the first image into a second display area of the VC tool. The selection triggers the generating of a second visual arrangement which includes a copy of the first image. The copy of the first image is displayed in a second display area concurrently with the display of the first image in the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Joseph Shohfi, Danette Gorman
  • Publication number: 20170017357
    Abstract: An electronic device, including an input interface configured to receive an input signal, a command determination unit configured to determine a plurality of possible commands based on the input signal, and an output interface configured to provide a plurality of output information corresponding to effects associated with each of the plurality of determined possible commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fritz HOHL, Stefan UHLICH, Wilhelm HAGG, Thomas KEMP
  • Publication number: 20170017358
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a user interface and circuitry. The user interface displays a screen including a plurality of graphical representations corresponding to a plurality of application programs being installed on the image processing apparatus. The circuitry counts a number of times of use, for each of the plurality of application programs, each time of use being counted when the application has been activated for at least a predetermined time period, selects one of the plurality of application programs having the greatest counted number of times of use, as the application program that is most frequently used, and controls the user interface to automatically display an operation screen of the selected application program, when the image processing apparatus is in an unused state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hirohisa Yabe
  • Publication number: 20170017359
    Abstract: A control method of an electronic device including a display is provided. The control method includes displaying, on a first area of the display, an array in which a plurality of objects corresponding to a plurality of applications are arranged in a form of a curve, displaying a first object to be distinguished from other objects based on a first user input selecting the first object from among the plurality of objects, displaying, on a second area of the display, a first application corresponding to the first object among the plurality of applications, and displaying, on a third area of the display, an object for deletion which is configured to delete at least some of the plurality of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Eun-Jung CHOI, Sung-Jin YOON
  • Publication number: 20170017360
    Abstract: A method for checking network elements in a network is provided. The respective network element can be activated with the aid of a web interface and has a network address. The method includes the steps: calling up the web interfaces with the aid of the network addresses; generating an image record for each web interface called up, the image record including a graphical representation of the web interface on a display device; ordering the web interfaces called up in groups, the graphical representations on the display device of the web interfaces allocated to a respective group having a graphical measure of similarity and the graphical measure of similarity being determined with the aid of the respective image record; and displaying the graphical representations of the web interfaces of at least one of the groups on a screen having a screen surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: MICHAEL KIRCHNER, BENEDIKT VAMOS
  • Publication number: 20170017361
    Abstract: Systems and methods allow a user to interact with an augmented reality device. In one implementation, a wearable device for providing task-based instructions to a user includes a display; a network interface; a data input device configured to capture information relating to progress of a task; and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is configured to provide to a server system, via the network interface, the captured information relating to progress of the task; receive from the server system, via the network interface, information relating to a next step in the task; and cause the information relating to the next step in the task to be shown on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Adams Ballard, James Leighton Athey, Wonjae Kim, Jeffrey Edward Jenkins, Edward Robert English, Todd Richard Reily, Michael Anthony Sciscenti
  • Publication number: 20170017362
    Abstract: An inventive exemplary graphical user interface which includes a visual display component specifically programmed with a plurality of actionable features allowing a user to perform at least the following: moving to and from the visual display component at least the following items: a first object corresponding to a first native application; a second object corresponding to a second native application, where the first native application is distinct from the second native application; a first data item of a first data type; and a second data item of a second data type, where the first data type is distinct from the second data type; where each of such items is moved by utilizing a single action while each item is in an active form or an inactive form; tracking such items based on timing of actions involving such items; and interacting as if each item being in a native computing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Stephen B. Zutphen
  • Publication number: 20170017363
    Abstract: Rapid Response “Tab(s)” (RRT) are ergonomically designed taking into account various human factor(s) related to high-impact tasks. Mediums used to accomplish this comprise (in-part) of several computer types and mobile devises alike, whereby input is attained electronically. As such, users “key in” (either by activation of a keyboard key within a a particular operating system and/or within a software application pull-down menu) desired RRT choice. In either case, selection of a distinct RRT allows for delineation i.e. specific parameters that at a minimum include one or more different colors that includes: green, yellow, and red. Primarily, each color is meant to elicit a stimuli “response” with understood boundaries corresponding with road signage“protocol” and/or other influencing factors based on cultural aspects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Steven Patrick Pascale
  • Publication number: 20170017364
    Abstract: Systems and methods utilize navigation information to prepare electronic documents for display and/or provide electronic documents for display. In particular, in one or more embodiments, methods and systems identify pages likely to be selected for display based on a current page selected for display and navigation information. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that determine an order of preparing pages for display based on navigation information. Navigation information includes, for example, navigation direction; navigation rate; a page previously selected for display; information regarding the contents of a page; and data regarding how one or more users have previously navigated one or more pages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Samuli Kekki, Vladimir Grecescu, Dmitry Shkolnik
  • Publication number: 20170017365
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for visually altering a graphical user interface based on application program runtime information. At least one indicia is presented on a graphical user interface of a device. Each indicia corresponds with an application program accessible utilizing the device. Further, runtime information associated with at least one application program is identified. At least a portion of the graphical user interface is visually altered in connection with a corresponding indicia on the at least one graphical user interface, based on the runtime information associated with the at least one application program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Zongfang Lin, Reza Yazdani, Chen Tian, Ziang Hu
  • Publication number: 20170017366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for an electronic device to share content information. The electronic device includes: a display; a processor that is electrically connected to the display; and a memory that is electrically connected to the processor. Upon the processor executing instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to perform: displaying a content in the display; detecting at least one shared area from the content; and generating a single image based on information associated with the at least one shared area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventor: Bum-Seung CHO
  • Publication number: 20170017367
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for operating a mobile device having stored thereon a plurality of applications (“apps”) that are each configured to capture an image. The method includes receiving first user input data requesting invocation of a given one of the applications. The given application is launched by the user. After launching the given application a user interface is presented which serves as an entry point through which all of the image capture applications stored on the mobile device are made available to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Aaron Sauve, Shamik Bandyopadhyay, Kathryn C. Lemson, Jannes Paul Peters, Eric Bennett, Ahmad Bilal
  • Publication number: 20170017368
    Abstract: An automatic service monitor in an information technology environment may be equipped to automatically process machine data originating from a running IT environment to identify the entities that perform services in the environment, and to reflect the discovered entities and service associations in the control and configuration data that directs the monitoring operations performed by the system. A related user interface is taught.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Sonal Maheshwari, Vladimir Shcherbakov, Mehul Goyal, David Gustav Ashpole