Patents Issued in March 21, 2017
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Patent number: 9600112Abstract: A flexible substrate may have one or more bends. A bend in a flexible substrate may be made along a bend axis. Conductive traces in the flexible substrate may have elongated shapes. Each conductive trace may extend along a longitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the bend axis. Metal or other conductive materials may form the conductive traces. The traces may be formed from a chain of linked segments. Each segment may have patterned trace portions that surround one, two, or more than two openings. Traces may also be formed that have multiple layers of metal or other conductive material interconnected using vias. A polymer layer may cover the traces to align a neutral stress plane with the traces and to serve as a moisture barrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zhen Zhang, Paul S. Drzaic, Yi Tao
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Patent number: 9600113Abstract: Flexible circuits for routing signals of a device, such as a touch sensor panel of a touch sensitive device, are provided. The flexible circuit can include a first set of traces for routing a first set of lines and a second set of traces for routing a second set of lines. The first set of traces can couple together the ends of at least a portion of the first set of lines. Additionally, the first set of traces can be non-intersecting or non-overlapping with the second set of traces. The flexible circuit can have a T-shape configuration and can be incorporated within a touch sensitive device, display device, printed circuit board, or the like. The flexible circuit can be placed over another flexible circuit, and can extend onto the device.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven P. Hotelling, Joshua G. Wurzel, Steven J. Martisauskas, Thayne M. Miller, Kuo-Hua Sung
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Patent number: 9600114Abstract: The disclosed variable pressure touch system includes an information handling system (IHS) that may take many forms. In one embodiment, the IHS may be a tablet with a touch sensor in the form of a touch sensitive display. A user may apply pressure to the touch sensor with a finger, stylus, or other pointing device. The touch sensor may then generate a current pressure indication of the current pressure exhibited by the touch on the touch sensor. In one embodiment, a touch tool of the IHS may receive the current pressure indication and generate a display image on the display of the IHS that changes as the current pressure indication changes. In other embodiments, the touch tool of the IHS may receive the current pressure indication and generate a visual indicator on the display of the IHS that changes as the current pressure indication changes.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Jennifer L Milam, Pamela A Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9600115Abstract: A haptic device includes a substrate that is subjected to lateral motion such as lateral oscillation with one or more degrees of freedom together with modulation of a friction reducing oscillation in a manner that can create a shear force on the user's finger or on an object on the device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: James Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin
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Patent number: 9600116Abstract: Computing devices and at least one machine readable medium for controlling the functioning of a touch screen are described herein. The computing device includes a touchscreen having one or more force sensors. The computing device also includes first logic to detect a force applied to the touchscreen via the one or more force sensors and second logic to control a functioning of the touchscreen in response to the applied force.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Jiancheng Johnson Tao, Hong W. Wong
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Patent number: 9600117Abstract: A position indicator is provided, which includes a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure applied to a tip of the position indicator. The position indicator further includes a storage configured to store the pressure as one type of digital data and to store at least one other type of digital data. The position indicator also includes a receiver configured to receive a command signal transmitted from a position sensor, and a control circuit configured to select one or more types of digital data in the storage based on the command signal. The position indicator includes a transmitter configured to transmit the selected one or more types of digital data to the position sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yuji Katsurahira
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Patent number: 9600118Abstract: A method for preventing a touch misrecognition includes counting a total number of touch detection values of a touch panel which is greater than or equal to a first threshold value; comparing the total number of touch detection values with a second threshold value; and when the total number of the touch detection values is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, determining that bending of the touch panel has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Kyung-Wan Park, Seok-Myong Kang, Ho-Seong Seo, Dae-Kwang Jung, Ji-Hyun Jung, Shi-Yun Cho, Youn-Ho Choi
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Patent number: 9600119Abstract: The present disclosure provides a clamshell electronic device. The clamshell electronic device includes a touch module, a sensing device and a calculation unit. The touch module is arranged to detect touch events. The sensing device is arranged to detect whether an upper cover and a lower cover of the clamshell electronic device are separated, and produce a detecting signal when the upper cover and the lower cover are separated. The calculation unit is arranged to count the number of times the upper cover and the lower cover are separated according to the detecting signal to obtain a separated number, and calibrate the touch module when a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein the predetermined condition comprises that the separated number is greater than a predetermined number.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Wistron Corp.Inventors: Che-Hsuan Hsu, Yung-Feng Chen
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Patent number: 9600120Abstract: A method includes displaying three or more display layers, the three or more display layers including at least a first display layer and a second display layer. The method further includes shifting display positions of at least the first display layer and the second display layer. Shifting the display positions includes applying a first (x,y) offset to the display position of the first display layer, and applying a second (x,y) offset to the display position of the second display layer, wherein the first (x,y) offset and the second (x,y) offset are determined in accordance with a calculated difference between a detected orientation of the electronic device and a reference orientation. The method further includes redisplaying the three or more display layers after the shifting of the display positions. At least one of the first display layer and the second display layer is responsive to touch input gestures.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Eliza Carey Block, Alessandro F. Sabatelli
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Patent number: 9600121Abstract: In an example, a processing system for a capacitive sensing device includes a sensor module and a determination module. The sensor module includes sensor circuitry coupled to a plurality of transmitter electrodes and a plurality of receiver electrodes. The sensor module is configured to receive resulting signals from the plurality of receiver electrodes during a plurality of noise acquisition bursts while suspending transmission with the plurality of transmitter electrodes. The resulting signals include the effects of noise. The sensor module is further configured to introduce at least one time delay between a respective at least one pair of the plurality of noise acquisition bursts. The determination module is configured to determine an interference measurement for a first frequency based on the resulting signals.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATEDInventors: Matthew Stevenson, Adam Schwartz, Joseph Kurth Reynolds
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Patent number: 9600122Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a body configured to form an external appearance of the terminal; and a touch display unit formed on the body. Further, the touch display unit includes a display panel configured to display screen information, a window formed on the display panel, a first sensing unit and a second sensing unit disposed below the window and configured to sense touch coordinates of a touch input on the window, a deformation region configured to deform with at least one region of the window where the touch input occurs on the window, and a third sensing unit separated from the first sensing unit by interposing the deformation region therebetween. The terminal also includes a controller configured to execute a specific control command based on the touch input sensed by the first through the third sensing units.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Hanbin Lee
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Patent number: 9600123Abstract: An optical sensor includes: a driving circuit that turns off a light-emitting element during a first period, a second period, and a fourth period and that turns on the light-emitting element during a third period; an integrating circuit that outputs a first integrated-value difference (FID) and a second integrated-value difference (SID), the FID being a difference between an integrated value of a photocurrent generated by a light-receiving element in accordance with respective states of the light-emitting element during the first period and the second period, the SID being a difference between an integrated value of a photocurrent generated in accordance with respective state of the light-emitting element during the third period and the fourth period; and an output control circuit that outputs the SID when the FID is zero and that outputs a difference between the SID and the FID when the FID is not zero.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Takayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9600124Abstract: A sensor is arranged to determine the presence of an object from a change in a capacitance of a sensing element. The sensor includes a capacitance measurement circuit operable to perform measurement cycles to measure a capacitance of the sensing element, and a controller circuit.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2008Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Harald Philipp, Esat Yilmaz
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Patent number: 9600125Abstract: A capacitive sensor array may include a first set of sensor electrodes and a second set of sensor electrodes. Each of the second set of sensor electrodes may intersect each of the first set of sensor electrodes to form a plurality of unit cells each corresponding to a pair of sensor electrodes including one of the first set of sensor electrodes and one of the second set of sensor electrodes. Each point within each of the plurality of unit cells may nearer to a gap between the pair of sensor electrodes corresponding to the unit cell than to a gap between any different pair of sensor electrodes, and a first trace pattern within a first unit cell of the plurality of unit cells may be different from a second trace pattern within an adjacent unit cell of the plurality of unit cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: CTPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Massoud Badaye, Peter Vavaroutsos, Milton Ribeiro, Oleksandr Hoshtanar
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Patent number: 9600126Abstract: In a location detection device, a capacitive touch panel is disposed on a surface of a display screen of a display device. The location detection device includes a touch panel that includes a plurality of transparent electrodes arranged in mutually intersecting directions; a location detection unit that detects a touch location of an instruction body by selecting parts of the plurality of transparent electrodes and measuring a change in capacitance between the parts; and, a low impedance setting unit that, at a point in time when the location detection unit selects the parts of the transparent electrodes, puts remaining transparent electrodes into a low impedance state.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Alpine Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Kazuhiro Kitamura
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Patent number: 9600127Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen panel is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate each including a display region and a non-display region. A sealing member is formed between the non-display regions of the upper and lower substrates and the sealing member includes a first region and a second region, wherein the second region is located adjacent to the corners of the substrates. An electrode is formed over substantially the entire display region of the lower substrate. A power line is formed in the non-display region of the lower substrate and a first connection electrode is formed electrically connecting the power line to an end portion of the electrode. Each of the power line, the end portion of the electrode, and the first connection electrode at least partially overlaps the first region and does not overlap the second region.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sang-Min Hong
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Patent number: 9600128Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch control device and touch determination method thereof. When a processor determines a capacitive coupling variation of a sensing point at a sensing panel of the touch sensitive device is smaller than a predetermined negative threshold or larger than a predetermined positive threshold, the processor then computes from local 2D sensing information of second 2D sensing information measured at the sensing point, to obtain a flatness index, The processor determine that the sensing point is not touched by any external object if the flatness index is between a predetermined flatness index negative reference value and a predetermined flatness index positive reference value that indicates the capacitive coupling amount at the sensing point is changed by the sensing point is not touched by any external object, whereby a false touch control determination due to removing water drop on the touch sensing panel can be prevented.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: eGalax_eMPIA Technology Inc.Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Shang-Tai Yeh
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Patent number: 9600129Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of first lines, a plurality of second lines, a plurality of switch elements, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a plurality of third lines, a display layer, and a controller. The plurality of first lines extend in a first direction. The plurality of second lines extend in a second direction. The plurality of third lines extend in the second direction. The switch elements are electrically connected to the first lines and the second lines. The pixel electrodes are connected to the switch elements. The display layer performs an optical operation based on an electrical signal applied to the pixel electrodes. The controller includes at least one switch connected between the second lines and the third lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Makoto Hayashi, Hidetoshi Komatsu
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Patent number: 9600130Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including: a plurality of pixel electrodes to which a display voltage is supplied; a common electrode forming first capacitance with the plurality of pixel electrodes, and having a common voltage supplied thereto; a plurality of sensing electrodes forming second capacitance with the common electrode, and having a touch driving signal supplied thereto; and a touch controller supplying the touch driving signal, wherein a voltage of the common electrode includes a first ripple component that is generated due to variation in the display voltage and a second ripple component that is generated due to variation in the touch driving signal, and the touch controller supplies the touch driving signal such that a polarity of the second ripple component is determined based on a polarity of the first ripple component.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong Young Kim, Myeong Eon Lee
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Patent number: 9600131Abstract: A method and system for providing an integrated application that includes software modules coupled to a message bus. The software modules include applications of different degrees of complexity and different number of components, such as management applications, service applications, and other similar applications. A computer system receives a first input that selects a user interface (UI) to access the integrated application. The selected UI can be a specific UI associated with a software module, or an orchestrator UI that unifies individual styles of the specific UIs. The computer system receives, via the selected UI, a second input to access a destination module among the software modules. If the selected UI is the orchestrator UI, the second input is forwarded to the destination module via the message bus. If the selected UI is a specific UI, the second input is sent to the destination module via the selected specific UI.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventors: Jesus M. Rodriguez, Michael B. McCune
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Patent number: 9600132Abstract: A device identifies a location for a custom RFT command in a message. The custom RTF command is stored in the identified location of the message. The device also receives such messages and detects the custom RTF command in the message and acts upon the detected RTF command.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: David J. Moy
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Patent number: 9600133Abstract: Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Paul Bradford Vaughan, James Eric Tilton, Christopher Morgan Connors, Ralph Lynn Melton, Jay Christopher Capela, Ted Stephen Boda
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Patent number: 9600134Abstract: Processing documents by highlighting a portion of a document displayed on a computer display, where the portion is highlighted when a cursor is in a predefined location of the display relative to the location of the portion of the document, where the portion is identified as a candidate for selection for a post-selection operation prior to the cursor being in the predefined location of the display, and where the highlighting is done independent of any input received via a computer input device to indicate the extents of the portion, and recording a selection of the portion when an input that is predefined to indicate a selection action is received in association with the portion via a computer input device.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Joshua Fox, Michael Pelts, Vladislav Rybak
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Patent number: 9600135Abstract: A system for executing a multimodal software application includes a mobile computer device with a plurality of input interface components, the multimodal software application, and a dialog engine in operative communication with the multimodal software application. The multimodal software application is configured to receive first data from the plurality of input interface components. The dialog engine executes a workflow description from the multimodal software application by providing prompts to an output interface component. Each of these prompts includes notification indicating which of the input interface components are valid receivers for that respective prompt. Furthermore, the notification may indicate the current prompt and at least the next prompt in sequence.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Vocollect, Inc.Inventor: Sean Nickel
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Patent number: 9600136Abstract: A system for creating a custom field type comprises an input interface, a processor, and an output interface. The input interface is configured to receive an indication to create a custom field type. The processor is configured to validate a parameter of the custom field type. The output interface is configured to provide the custom field type for creating a custom field of a custom object.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Workday, Inc.Inventors: Erin Hsu Yang, Jonathan David Ruggiero, Charulatha Dhuvur
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Patent number: 9600137Abstract: In some embodiments, a processor accesses electronic content that includes multiple selectable objects that are renderable in a graphical interface. The processor generates multiple selection areas respectively associated with the selectable objects. An input to the graphical interface received within each selection area selects an associated selectable object. Generating the selection areas includes generating a boundary around at least one of the selectable objects. Any point within the boundary is closer to the associated selectable object than any other selectable object. Generating the selection areas also includes clipping the boundary to define the selection area for the selectable object. The processor adds the selection areas to a document object model associated with the electronic content. The document object model is usable for rendering the graphical interface with the selectable objects and identifying the selection areas.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Nathan Carl Ross
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Patent number: 9600138Abstract: Disclosed herein are planning, navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the planning method and system uses patient specific pre-operative images. The planning system allows for multiple paths to be developed from the pre-operative images, and scores the paths depending on desired surgical outcome of the surgery and the navigation systems allow for minimally invasive port based surgical procedures, as well as craniotomies in the particular case of brain surgery.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC.Inventors: Monroe M. Thomas, Gal Sela, Cameron Piron, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, William Lau, Sheryl Thingvold, Kelly Dyer
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Patent number: 9600139Abstract: An electronic device and a user interface implementing method therein are disclosed. The method includes displaying at least one content, displaying a shortcut key corresponding to the at least one content if close contact is detected, and executing a function corresponding to the at least one content if the shortcut key is selected. The shortcut key can invoke a function corresponding to the at least one content if an input tool closely approaches the at least one content in an area on the touch screen and is located within a distance from the surface of the touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hyun Jin Kim, Ji Yeon Kwak, Yong Gook Park, Soo Yeoun Yoon
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Patent number: 9600140Abstract: A motor vehicle includes an input device for the input of a search criterion or a search term, a first interface for the exchange of data with a first offboard data memory, a second interface for the exchange of data with a second offboard data memory, and a computing device for the automatic search for information corresponding to the search criterion or the search term in the first onboard data memory and in the second onboard data memory.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignees: VOLKSWAGEN AG, AUDI AGInventors: Brian Ng, Vickie Chiang, Arne Stoschek
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Patent number: 9600141Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable media are provided. In some embodiments, a method can include: detecting a selection of an item, the item being displayed via user interface (UI); searching for information associated with the item for which selection is detected, wherein the searching is performed automatically based, at least, upon the detecting the selection of the item; and displaying search results, via the UI, wherein the displaying the search results is performed automatically during the selection of the item. In some embodiments, the search results comprise at least one of: a voicemail, a number of voicemails, messaging details, a portion of text, contacts information or social media information associated with the item for which selection is detected.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Cristy Swink, Jason Sikes, Benjamin Fineman, Jonathan Solis Snydal, Megan Elisabeth Shia
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Patent number: 9600142Abstract: The invention relates to the field of man-machine interfacing. In particular, it relates to a user interface allowing a unified approach for organizing and navigating data on a computing device. A method executed on a processor for displaying on a screen a set of entities associated with at least one of at least two particular entities, comprises the steps of: displaying on the screen indicia of the at least two particular entities; determining the distance on the screen between the displayed indicia of the at least two particular entities; determining the set of entities based on the distance on the screen between the indicia of the at least two particular entities; and displaying on the screen indicia for the set of entities.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: EXB Asset Management GmbHInventor: Ramin O. Assadollahi
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Patent number: 9600143Abstract: A mobile terminal for classifying contents and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display a plurality of contents; a touch sensor configured to sense a touch input applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to classify at least one of a plurality of contents selected on the basis of a touch input applied to the display unit into a particular category, and display an object indicating the category of the selected contents in a region adjacent to the selected contents.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kumar M Arun, Sasikala Paruchuri, K Suhail
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Patent number: 9600144Abstract: An event wizard server includes at least one processor that executes the event wizard server application that bidirectionally communicates event planning data with a user of a client device via a network interface. The event planning data includes: event type menu data, and event type selection data, wherein at least one event type includes a sequential task-oriented event.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Planet Social, LLCInventors: Michelle Stockton, Judith Stuckman, Christine Laramy, Bruce Edward Stuckman
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Patent number: 9600145Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The present invention includes a touchscreen and a controller, if a 1st touch gesture is received through the touchscreen, outputting a movable button pad including at least one 1st touch button to the touchscreen in response to the received 1st touch gesture, the controller, if a prescribed one of the at least one 1st touch button is selected, enabling a prescribed function corresponding to the prescribed 1st touch button. Accordingly, in controlling a touchscreen having a relatively large size, the present invention can provide a touch screen control environment for enhancing user's convenience.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hyunjoo Jeon, Suyoung Lee
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Patent number: 9600146Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various interactive user interfaces containing interactive maps. The user may use the interactive map to perform searches for data objects, toggle different layers associated with different types of objects for display, generate heatmaps based upon a grid and/or data object shapes, copy data between different interactive maps, and/or define filters to filter the displayed data. In response to user interaction with the map at a client system, tile layers are generated using server-side components, assembled into map tiles, and transmitted to client-side components to be displayed to the user. The tile layers may include a base tile layer, vector tile layer, selection tile layer, and inactive tile layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Daniel Cervelli, Cai GoGwilt, William Macrae, Robert Prochnow, Dylan Scott, Henry Tung, Kevin Verdieck, Agatha Yu
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Patent number: 9600147Abstract: Multi-layer user interfaces are provided. A user may traverse a hierarchy of information by accessing information in different branches of the hierarchy without having to traverse back up the current branch to access the new branch. A multi-layer user interface (UI) may comprise a set of UIs, each of which corresponds to a navigation layer and a level of the hierarchy. Each UI may comprise a set of UI controls that allow the user to traverse within a level or to a different level of the hierarchy. The UI controls may be configured such that a visual clue as a breadcrumb and user path history may also be provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Sylvia Park-Ekecs, Keith Tralins, Richard Cardran, Tiffany R. Smith
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Patent number: 9600148Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a detection unit and a controller. The detection unit detects a specified position on a display screen on which an image is displayed. When the specified position on the display screen is moved, the controller performs a page switching operation or a move operation on the basis of a movement direction in which the specified position is moved. The page switching operation is an operation of switching an image being displayed on the display screen to another image. The move operation is an operation of moving a display position of the image being displayed on the display screen.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Kiyoko Shimadate
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Patent number: 9600149Abstract: It is possible for a user to intuitively and efficiently set a predetermined condition for each parameter. A display processing system includes GUI display means for displaying a plurality of parameter components (103) corresponding to a plurality of parameters and a plurality of parameter condition components (104) corresponding to a plurality of conditions set to a plurality of parameters (103) on a display, and condition specification means for associating one parameter condition component (104) with a first parameter component (103) by means of the display position of the first parameter component (103) and the display position of each of a plurality of parameter condition components (104), and specifying the condition corresponding to the parameter condition component (104) as a condition set to the parameter corresponding to the first parameter component (103).Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Junko Togami
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Patent number: 9600150Abstract: A system and method for displaying auxiliary content during an idle time in a virtual space. Execution of requested actions in an instance of a virtual space may be associated with wait times. Idle periods of time imposed on a user by the wait times of the requested actions may be detected. During the detected idle periods of time, sets of auxiliary content to present to the user may be determined. The sets of auxiliary content may be presented along with the view of the virtual space to the user during the detected idle periods of time. The responses of the user to the individual sets of auxiliary content during the idle periods may be monitored. In some implementations, sets of auxiliary content may be determined based on past responses of the user to previously determined sets of auxiliary content.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventor: Ziqiang Xu
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Patent number: 9600151Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating design variations. The technique involves identifying a first design variable and a second design variable associated with a first design. The technique further involves generating a first plurality of design variations based on the first design. Each design variation is generated by varying at least one of the first design variable and the second design variable. Finally, the technique involves causing the first plurality of design variations to be displayed to a user.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.Inventors: Mark Thomas Davis, Malte Tinnus, Jeff Kowalski, Jose Madeira De Freitas Garcia
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Patent number: 9600152Abstract: A data processing system and computer program product for sharing displayed content. A content displayed on a source computer system is shared with a set of target computer systems, wherein the content is displayed on a target display on each target computer system in the set of target computer systems. In response to a change in the content displayed on the source computer system, a progress in displaying the change in the content on the target display on the each target computer system in the set of target computer systems is identified. An indication of the progress in displaying the change in the content on the target display on the each target computer system in the set of target computer systems is generated at the source computer system.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Anne R. Sand
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Patent number: 9600153Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the mobile terminal and method for controlling the same are capable of adjusting the magnification of a web page being displayed on a web browser to an optimal level or assigning an access key to a link so as to provide a more convenient web browsing environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Hyeongseok Roh
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Patent number: 9600154Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which creation, editing and sharing of a shortcut to such various informations having similarities as applications, files web documents, contacts and the like can be facilitated. The present invention includes selecting a 1st content through a 1st application, selecting a 2nd content corresponding to a 2nd application in response to an input of a link command, creating a link information between the 1st content and the 2nd content, displaying a 1st link corresponding to the 1st content when the 2nd content is displayed or displaying a 2nd link corresponding to the 2nd content when the 1st content is displayed, and displaying the 1st content through the application if the 1st link is selected or displaying the 2nd content through the 2nd application if the 2nd link is selected.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Yongkyoung Shin
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Patent number: 9600155Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products for customizing a data interface in an on-demand service environment. In some implementations, a computing device provides an application for customizing a data interface displayable on a plurality of display devices having different form factors, the application providing one or more configurable templates. The computing device receives a selection of a template and provides for display a configuration interface of the application displaying one or more components arranged according to the selected template. The computing device receives a request to display a preview of the data interface at a display dimension corresponding to a display device, the display device having a form factor.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.Inventors: Shannon Hale, Cameron Reynolds-Flatt, Adam James Putinski
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Patent number: 9600156Abstract: A mechanism is provided for enhancing a selection region for select information associated within a document. A document is analyzed to determine one or more pieces of information in the document that are likely to be selected by the user, wherein the one or more pieces of information are less than all of the information in the document. Responsive to the document failing to have been analyzed before, a selection region associated with each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is enlarged by a first predetermined size amount thereby forming a respective region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information. The region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is then recorded.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Cary L. Bates, Megan D. Kostick
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Patent number: 9600158Abstract: Computerized systems and methods are disclosed for aggregating information and digital services into an interactive user interface. In accordance with certain embodiments, computerized systems and methods are provided that display a plurality of tiles for a plurality of sources, the plurality of sources being provided by at least a first information provider and a second information provider. The systems and methods may further include receiving a selection of content within a first tile in the plurality of tiles, the content being provided by the first information provider. The systems and methods may further include dragging, based on input from the first user, the selected content onto a second tile linked to the second information provider. The systems and methods may further include sending, based on the dragging, the selected content to the second information provider to share the selected content with a second user.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: AOL Inc.Inventors: David Temkin, Oliver Steele, Jim Sabia, Thomas Andrew McDonald, Michael John Ackerman, Lorien Mae Henry-Wilkins, Sarah Allen
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Patent number: 9600159Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to navigation of a scrollable desktop. In one embodiment, a user interface includes a scrollable desktop portion and a navigation portion. The scrollable desktop portion may display open applications, and the navigation portion may display representations of the open applications on the scrollable desktop with the relative position of the open applications on the scrollable desktop.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Richard James Lawson, Chandar Kumar Oddiraju, Marguerite Letulle
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Patent number: 9600160Abstract: There is provided an image processing device including a moving image generation unit configured to generate a parallelly animated moving image in which a plurality of object images are each parallelly animated, the plurality of the object images having been selected from a series of object images that have been generated by extracting a moving object from frame images of a source moving image, and an image output unit configured to output the parallelly animated moving image.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tatsuhiro Iida, Shogo Kimura
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Patent number: 9600161Abstract: A method displays a copy of a specified display area on a computer display. A first signal is received from a user. The first signal specifies a display area on a display as a specified display area. The specified display area presents a dynamic activity being performed on a computer. A second signal is received from the user to identify a particular object in the specified display area. A copy of the specified display area, which includes only the particular object, is generated. The copy of the specified display area has a same shape as the specified display area, presents the dynamic activity being performed on the computer, and is displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mihoko Hasegawa, Keiji Miura, Masato Noguchi, Lianzi Wen
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Patent number: 9600162Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprises an operating module to which a touch operation performed with a pointing tool is entered; a calculating module that calculates a reference distance that is a distance between a reference point on an image display area of an operation display surface and a point on the image display area defined by a first operation performed on the operating module with a single piece of the pointing tool, calculates a control distance that is a distance between the reference point and a point on the image display area defined by a second operation performed on the operating module with a single piece of the pointing tool, and calculates a magnification ratio based on the reference distance and the control distance; and a magnification/reduction module that generates a scaled image by magnifying or reducing a display image displayed on the image display area by the magnification ratio.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Shunichi Maeda