Patents Issued in July 3, 2018
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Patent number: 10013113Abstract: A transform is used to transform raw sensor data from the time domain to the frequency or sequency domain. The transformed data falls into several signal bins. The transformed data in at least one of the signal bins is analyzed to determine whether a touch event or release event has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: TOUCHSENSOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventor: James W. Citta
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Patent number: 10013114Abstract: A light touch panel, a light touch display screen and a light touch display device are disclosed. The light touch panel includes a substrate (1) and one or more light sensitive elements (2) disposed on the substrate, wherein the light sensitive elements (2) are configured to convert touch infrared light incident onto them into current signals to facilitate determining a touch position of the touch infrared light according to the electric current signals. The light touch panel converts touch infrared light that is incident onto it into current signals with light sensitive elements, thereby enabling the light touch panel to determine touch position of touch infrared light more accurately and sensitively, and in turn improve light touch performance of light touch panels.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Huan Wang, Mookeun Shin
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Patent number: 10013115Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing and having a display area to display an image or a menu icon, a sensing unit installed in the housing adjacent to the display unit, having a virtual area to sense an object which is disposed over the display area of the display unit, and having a first camera to photograph and display the virtual area in a photographing mode and a second camera to extract the object from the virtual area and display a sensed image of the extracted object in a sensing mode, and a controller to analyze status of the object according to the sensed image of the object, and to determine the analyzed status of the object as a user input in the sensing mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Inventor: Seungman Kim
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Patent number: 10013116Abstract: A projection display unit (1) includes a projection optical system (10A), a polarization separation device (15), and a detection optical system (10B). The projection optical system includes an illuminator (11), a projection lens (16), and a light valve (12) that modulates illumination light supplied from the illuminator on the basis of an image signal, and outputs the modulated illumination light toward the projection lens. The polarization separation device (15) is disposed between the light valve and the projection lens. The polarization separation device separates entering light into a first polarized component and a second polarized component, and outputs the first polarized component and the second polarized component in respective directions that are different from each other. The detection optical system includes an imaging device (13) and a reduction optical system (14). The imaging device is disposed in a position that is optically conjugate with a position of the light valve.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumasa Kaneda
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Patent number: 10013117Abstract: A light curtain installation method, which is a method for adjusting or checking an installation state of a light curtain for detecting an operation with respect to an image plane of a display apparatus, includes: determining whether or not it is possible to detect an object that comes into contact with a target region on the image plane which corresponds to a reference pixel which is a pixel at a predetermined position; and setting a drive state of the reference pixel such that the drive state of the reference pixel is different depending on a result of the determining.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Shun Imai, Yasuhiro Honda
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Patent number: 10013118Abstract: An input/output device for a computing device including one or more touch sensors and one or more force sensors. The touch sensors sense data including one or more locations at which a contact or near-contact occurs. The force sensor sense data including a measure of an amount of force presented at the one or more locations at which a contact occurs. The touch sensors and the force sensors responsive to signals occurring in response to whether the signals are in response to contact or in response to an amount of force. The input/output device also includes one or more circuits coupled to the touch sensors and to the force sensors, and capable of combining information from both sensors.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian Q. Huppi, Martin P. Grunthaner, John G. Elias, Sinan Filiz, Steven P. Hotelling
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Patent number: 10013119Abstract: The shape or position of an object is estimated using a device comprising one or more transmitters and one or more receivers, forming a set of at least two transmitter-receiver combinations. Signals are transmitted from the transmitters, through air, to the object. They are reflected by the object and received by the receivers. A subset of the transmitter-receiver combinations which give rise to a received signal meeting a predetermined clarity criterion is determined. The positions of points on the object are estimated using substantially only signals from the subset of combinations.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: ELLIPTIC LABORATORIES ASInventor: Tobias Dahl
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Patent number: 10013120Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to achieve a manufacturing method that, in a capacitive touch panel, prevents the occurrence of residue in an electrode film caused by an etching defect for a touch panel in which electrode patterns are difficult to recognize. The manufacturing method for the touch panel includes: an electrode formation step for forming, upon an insulating substrate (10), first electrodes (11) and second electrodes (12) that extend in mutually intersecting directions; an insulating film formation step for forming insulating films (16) which cover portions of the insulating substrate (10), the first electrodes (11), and the second electrodes (12); and a bridge formation step for forming bridges (17) that connect neighboring second electrodes (12) together over the insulating films (16). In addition, before the bridge formation step, a surface treatment step for etching the surface of the first electrodes (11) and the second electrodes (12) is performed one or more times.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Katsunori Misaki
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Patent number: 10013121Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are provided. The touch panel includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate provided opposite to each other, a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes which are disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate and provided in a same layer and insulated from each other, and a touch detection chip configured to determine a touch position by detecting capacitance variation of the self-capacitance electrodes in the touch time-period. Thus, an in-cell touch panel with higher touch accuracy, lower cost, higher productivity and higher transmittance can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haisheng Wang, Xue Dong, Hailin Xue, Yingming Liu, Xiaoliang Ding, Shengji Yang, Weijie Zhao, Hongjuan Liu, Tao Ren
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Patent number: 10013122Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device comprises a display panel and a detection electrode. The panel includes a display area in which pixels are arranged with a first pixel pitch in a first direction and a second pixel pitch in a second direction. The electrode includes an pattern having line fragments. The pattern has connection points at which ends of the fragments are connected to each other, and at least part of the connection points is arranged linearly such that an arrangement gaps thereof in the first and second direction is set to a first and second connection point pitch.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki
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Patent number: 10013123Abstract: Disclosed are a touch screen device and a method of driving the same, which minimize an influence of parasitic capacitance of a touch electrode and sense a voltage charged into capacitance(s) of the touch electrode. The touch screen device includes a touch electrode, a touch driving line connected to the touch electrode, a touch driving voltage output unit connected to the touch driving line through a first switch to output a touch driving voltage, a current source connected to the touch driving line through a second switch to discharge electrical charges charged into parasitic capacitance of the touch electrode according to a predetermined discharge current, and a touch voltage sensing unit connected to the touch driving line through a third switch to sense a voltage charged into each of finger capacitance and the parasitic capacitance of the touch electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: SungChul Kim, CheolSe Kim
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Patent number: 10013124Abstract: An array substrate, a touch screen, a touch display device and fabrication methods are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate having a display region and a non-display region adjacent to the display region, a plurality of touch leading wires disposed in the display region, a plurality of touch electrode blocks disposed in the display region and electrically connected to the plurality of touch leading wires, and a peripheral driving circuit having a plurality of driving transistors disposed in the non-display region. Each driving transistor includes a top gate electrode formed at a same layer as the touch leading wire.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Junhui Lou, Tianyi Wu, Yong Wu
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Patent number: 10013125Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including: a first sensor having a first indication input surface for detecting a position indicated by an indicating object; a second sensor having a second indication input surface for detecting the indicating object, the second indication input surface being disposed adjacent to the first indication input surface of the first sensor in a direction along a surface direction of the first indication input surface; and a controller which, in operation, controls a scan operation for detecting the position indicated by the indicating object in the first indication input surface of the first sensor when the indicating object is detected in the second sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takeshi Kobori
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Patent number: 10013126Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a single-layer multi-point mutual capacitive touch screen thereof are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: FOCALTECH SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Weijing Hou, Hui Liu, Chao Chen
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Patent number: 10013127Abstract: A touch panel includes a display region and conductive pad parts in which a portion thereof is exposed to a display region, wherein the conductive pad parts have a plurality of holes formed in at least a region including the exposed portion thereof. The touch panel is capable of significantly reducing an area of a non-display region, has excellent visibility of an image to be displayed by reducing visibility of a conductive pad part exposed in a display region, and has significantly reduced damage in a manufacturing process by preventing an occurrence or propagation of cracks.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.Inventors: Byung Jin Choi, Jae Hyun Lee
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Patent number: 10013128Abstract: Disclosed are a touch detection electrode, a touch detection method and a touch detection device. The touch detection electrode can realize ordinary capacitive touch by inputting corresponding sensing signals to a part of or all touch sensing electrodes in a first time period; and can realize force touch by inputting corresponding sensing signals to a part or all of the touch sensing electrodes in a second time period. That is, the determination of touch coordinate and the sensing of pressure can be simultaneously realized by driving the ordinary capacitive touch and the pressure touch in time division mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Xiangxiang Zou
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Patent number: 10013129Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a display that displays predetermined information, an electrostatic-capacitance touch panel that allows visible light corresponding to display contents of the display to pass through the touch panel, a transparent member that protects the touch panel and that allows the visible light to pass through the transparent member, and a detector that detects deformation of the transparent member. The touch panel detects a pair of two-dimensional coordinates indicated by an indicator, wherein when the touch panel detects a plurality of pairs of two-dimensional coordinates and when the detector detects a predetermined deformation amount; at least one pair of two-dimensional coordinates detected during a predetermined time period prior to a time when the deformation is detected is validated.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Tomoki Takano, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Yuuichi Takizawa
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Patent number: 10013130Abstract: A readout device for a capacitive sense matrix includes a computer readable storage medium configured to store capacitance data. The capacitance data represents capacitance values of the capacitive sense matrix. The readout device also includes a readout circuit configured to receive a signal from the capacitive sense matrix, the readout circuit being configured based upon the capacitance data. Also described are a readout method and a method of compensating for variations in capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte LtdInventors: Yannick Guedon, Sze-Kwang Tan, Dianbo Guo
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Patent number: 10013131Abstract: There are provide a display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yoshitoshi Kida, Koji Noguchi
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Patent number: 10013132Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a signal from an electrode of a touch sensor that senses a charge displacement, based on the signal, in order to detect the contact or separation. The method further includes detecting a contact or separation input to the touch sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.Inventors: Ernest Rehmi Post, Olivier Bau, Iliya Tsekov, Sajid Sadi, Mike Digman, Vatche Attarian, Sergi Consul, Cody Wortham
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Patent number: 10013133Abstract: A touch display panel and a method for driving the touch display panel. The touch display panel including: a substrate; first scan lines and data lines; sub-pixels arranged in an array; touch sensing electrodes disposed in an array, each of which corresponds to the sub-pixels; first control switches, wherein each of the touch sensing electrodes is connected to at least one of the data lines via one of the first control switches. When in a touch state, the first control switch is turned on, so that the at least one of the data lines is configured to provide a touch signal to the touch sensing electrode corresponding to the data lines; and when in a display state, the first control switch is turned off, so that each of the data lines is configured to provide a display signal to the sub-pixel corresponding to the data line.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: SHANGHAI TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yong Yuan
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Patent number: 10013134Abstract: A virtual space may be provided to users. In providing the virtual space to users, actions performed in the virtual space responsive to user input may be dynamically assigned a quality of service that is dependent on one or more of user value, past user action requests, past action requests cumulatively for all users, server health, and/or other criteria. This may facilitate an operator of the virtual space increasing overall user engagement and/or value, and/or provide other enhancements.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.Inventors: David Chang, Timothy Villanueva, Amit Ranade, Clifford J. Harrington, Daniel Williams
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Patent number: 10013135Abstract: Tools and techniques for adjustable user interfaces with movable separators are provided. Display devices provided by these tools may include fixed-size hardware display screens. These display screens include input control portions that are responsive to user input to receive commands from users, and include output display portions for presenting output to users in response to the commands. These display screens also include separators that are movable along the display screens, with the separators dividing the input control portions from the output display portions. In response to movements of the separators, the input control portions and the output display portions are resized relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2009Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Yandong Wen
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Patent number: 10013136Abstract: Accessible user interface applications for crowdsourced notification and sharing of events are disclosed that include: at least one piece of multimedia information content that is related to an at least one event, experience or combination thereof, at least one mapped geographical location that is related to the at least one event, experience or combination thereof, wherein the at least one piece of multimedia information content and the at least one mapped geographical location are collected by the accessible user interface application and converted into a crowd sourced social map; and a mobile device, wherein the accessible user interface is stored on, located on, shown by, accessed by the user from or a combination thereof. Related methods and systems are also disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Inventors: Michael L Bachman, Justin D Dionisio
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Patent number: 10013137Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for enabling an unlimited multi-user desktop environment. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes a computing device hosting the desktop. Each user connects to the desktop through the same or different computing devices. Each user will, in their client-area, render a section of the unlimited sized multi-user desktop. The section can be the same or different for all users. In accordance with an embodiment, compatible objects can be allowed to render the same content at different content positions for each connected user. For example, a user can scroll on a shared webpage without impacting the scroll position for other users looking at the same window of the same webpage. Additional embodiments are also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Datapath LimitedInventor: Anders Nancke-Krogh
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Patent number: 10013138Abstract: Method and apparatus for secure data entry. In the method a virtual data entry interface is generated, and is outputted so as to be readable only by the user. The user then enters data using the interface. The apparatus includes at least one display, or optionally a pair of displays that output a 3D stereo image. It also includes a data processor, and at least one sensor, or optionally a pair of sensors that capture 3D stereo data. The data processor generates a virtual data entry interface, and communicates it to the display or displays. The displays output the virtual interface such that it is only readable by the user. The sensor or sensors receives data entered by the user's actions, and send signals representing those actions to the processor. The processor then detects the data from the signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Atheer, Inc.Inventor: Sleiman Itani
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Patent number: 10013139Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a display of a cluster for a vehicle includes: a setting unit receiving settings indicating three-dimensional (3D) levels with respect to various information from an operator; a communication unit collecting information to be displayed on the cluster; a control unit controlling the cluster to apply 3D levels corresponding to the information collected by the communication unit and to display the collected information with the corresponding 3D levels applied thereto; and the cluster displaying the collected information with the corresponding 3D levels applied thereto.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventor: Ju Hyuk Kim
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Patent number: 10013140Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing updated content in a user interface are disclosed. An example method for providing a user interface includes receiving at a portable electronic device an icon configuration file, installing an icon associated with the configuration file in an icon repository on a portable electronic device, displaying the icon with first content in a user interface on the portable electronic device, receiving second content based on the configuration file, and displaying the icon with the second content in the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2011Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Suzanne Abellera, Li Chen, Ankur Aggarwal, Cipson Jose Chiriyankandath
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Patent number: 10013141Abstract: A computer-implemented system for managing an electronic signature is provided. A data collector receives one or more information items. A signature builder builds an electronic signature based on at least one of the information items. The electronic signature includes a set of icons. Individual icons in the set of icons are respectively associated with at least one of the information items. Individual icons in the set of icons are configured to initiate a communication application when one of the icons is selected in order to communication via the communication application using the information item associated with the selected icon.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Inventor: Jacob J. Dayan
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Patent number: 10013142Abstract: A method and associated system that enable files in a file directory to be queued or marked prior to sending the files to a common application. A first selectable function is provided to queue a selected file within a first queue, wherein only selected files are queued, and wherein files from different folders may be queued. A selection of an application with which to open the queued and selected files is received. A second selectable function is provided to automatically open all of the queued and/or selected files with the application, wherein files across different folders can be opened with a single operation of the second function.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Randolph M. Forlenza, John P. Kaemmerer
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Patent number: 10013143Abstract: A technology is described for interfacing with a computing application using a multi-digit sensor. A method may include obtaining an initial stroke using a single digit of a user on the multi-digit sensor. A direction change point for the initial stroke can be identified. At the direction change point for the initial stroke, a number of additional digits can be presented by the user to the multi-digit sensor. Then a completion stroke can be identified as being made with the number of additional digits. A user interface signal to can be sent to the computing application based on the number of additional digits used in the completion touch stroke. In another configuration of the technology, the touch stroke or gesture may include a single stroke where user interface items can be selected when additional digits are presented at the end of a gesture.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hrvoje Benko, Daniel Wigdor
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Patent number: 10013144Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
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Patent number: 10013145Abstract: Terminal devices and methods for designing a network application product are provided. The terminal device includes a task starting interface, a graphical displaying interface, an inputting interface. The task starting interface is configured to receive a task starting instruction to obtain a plurality of first type e-cards having at least one dimensionality type. Each first type e-card contains graphic information corresponding to a dimensionality type and text information corresponding to the graphic information. The graphical displaying interface is configured to display the plurality of first type e-cards. The inputting interface is configured to receive an inputting instruction to select at least two first type e-cards from the plurality of first type e-cards. The inputting interface is further configured to receive context information generated by correlating information including the graphic information and the text information on the at least two first type e-cards.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zhenwei Zhang, Ling Wang, Wenpei Hou
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Patent number: 10013146Abstract: In an approach for displaying applications associated with content in a clipboard, a computer receives a selection of content to transfer to a clipboard, wherein the content is selected from a first application on a computing device. The computer identifies one or more applications on one or more computing devices capable of processing the received selection. The computer assigns the identified one or more applications to one or more categories. The computer displays one or more user interface objects representative of the one or more applications with a respective assigned category.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Girish Padmanabhan, Sunanda Patil, Hina Purohit
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Patent number: 10013147Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus that displays a first page and a second page. The display apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the layout of the first page is similar to the layout of the second page by comparing an object included in the first page with an object included in the second page which is different from the first page; and a display unit configured to display the first page on a screen based on a display area having been set by a user, wherein, if the determining unit determines that the layout of the first page is similar to the layout of the second page, the display unit displays the second page on the screen based on the set display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Sumio, Yoichi Kashibuchi, Motoki Ikeda, Masahito Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10013148Abstract: Method, system and computer storage medium for displaying microblog wall are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining microblog messages of a specified topic; obtaining a set display duration of the microblog messages; pulling the microblog messages according to a specified time interval; displaying the pulled microblog messages according to the corresponding display duration. By obtaining the set display duration of the microblog messages and pulling the microblog messages according to the specified time interval, the method, system and computer storage medium for displaying microblog wall may control the display duration of the microblog messages and prevent the chaos from occurring during the displaying of microblog messages.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Xiangbo Wu, Jian Li, Jian Zhang, Lei Wei, Bin Hu
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Patent number: 10013149Abstract: A process control monitoring system for a process control plant uses graphic trend symbols to assist in detecting and monitoring trends of process variables within the process control plant. A graphic display application within the process control monitoring system may implement and display each graphic trend symbol to graphically indicate or encapsulate current trend and value information of a process variable within the process control plant. The graphic display application may display the graphic trend symbol in a spatially realistic location within a graphical representation of the process control plant while maintaining the hierarchical structure or each hierarchical level of the process plant. The graphic display application may also include a zoom feature that enables a user to quickly drill down through tend data to obtain more information and to support problem identification and diagnosis tasks.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Maia B. Cook, Daniel I. Manes, Harvey S. Smallman
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Patent number: 10013150Abstract: A method for providing a user interface (UI) for playing a multimedia content in a user terminal may include defining a UI area in at least one portion of a display of the user terminal, visually providing a first wheel disposed at one side of the UI area and a second wheel disposed at another side of the UI area, visually displaying playback state information of a multimedia content file being played, in a space between the first wheel and the second wheel, visually displaying a playback control button of the multimedia content file in the UI area.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: CHUNGDAHM Learning, Inc.Inventors: Mu Jung Kim, Jun Su Kim
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Patent number: 10013151Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and a terminal device for adjusting a widget. The method includes: acquiring a size value of the widget on an interface of a terminal device after switching a grid configuration of the interface from a first grid configuration to a second grid configuration; and determining the number of grids occupied by the widget according to size values of each grid in the second grid configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Weixing Li, Fei Xu, Daqing Sun, Ying Wang
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Patent number: 10013152Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for selecting displayed content are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a selection request for content displayed on a device, and predicting, while receiving the selection request, content intended to be selected based on at least one of a visual cue, historic cue, semantic term, or user habit. The method also includes selecting the predicted content displayed on the device. Systems and machine-readable storage media are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Paul Nordstrom
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Patent number: 10013153Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes detecting a plurality of faces within one or more images, and, for each of the plurality of faces, registering the face with a contact. The method further includes receiving a selection of one of the plurality of faces from a user, and, in response to the selection of the one of the plurality of faces, determining the contact associated with the selected one of the plurality of faces. Still further, the method includes retrieving information about the contact, and generating a list of selectable communication types to be displayed to the user on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: James M. Freeman, Vaidya Balasubramanian Pillai, Matthew Eric Riley, Sr., David W. Thurber, Gregory Dwayne Carter, Jason Chang
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Patent number: 10013154Abstract: A broadcast control apparatus for visual data includes a touch screen (32, 34) display panel operable to receive and display visual data simultaneously in real time from a plurality of visual sources. It also includes a touch screen graphical panel for the retrieval of control functions from a control function register. The visual data from at least one of the visual sources is selectable for use by finger pressure on the associated portion of the touch screen (32, 34) display panel and the selected data is modifiable in accordance with the retrieved control function.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: GRASS VALLEY CANADAInventors: Mark Stoneham, David Griggs, David Sabine, Matthew Caves, Graham Broadbridge, Michael Reznik, Colin Grealy, Craig Morrison, Thomas Barnett, Christopher McMillan
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Patent number: 10013155Abstract: A shift controller 113 of a focus management unit 110 decides whether the component designated by a focus position has a handler 131 when shifting a focus. As a result of the decision, if the component has the handler 131, the shift controller 113 shifts the focus in accordance with the processing described in the handler 131. Unless the component has the handler 131, the shift controller 113 decides whether it can shift the focus in accordance with a general rule 112a. As a result of the decision, it carries out control in a manner as to shift the focus if it can shift the focus, but not to shift the focus if it cannot shift it.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Takayuki Tsukitani
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Patent number: 10013156Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller that enlarges or reduces an image within a second area specified in a first area of an image including at least one object at such a display magnification that the image within the second area fits in the size of a display area, thereby displaying the resultant image in the display area, a position storage that stores a position on the image within the second area, and a converter that converts the size of the second area within the first area. When the display magnification is equal to or greater than a threshold, the display controller displays a first symbol at the position in the display area and, when the display magnification is less than the threshold, the display controller erases the first symbol and displays at the position a second symbol for indicating the position in the display area.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITEDInventor: Ken Takehara
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Patent number: 10013157Abstract: A cloud-based environment is configured to interface with storage devices that store 3D object models and a 3D rendering code base that is accessible by two or more user devices over a network using browsers or web agents. A web application is delivered to the user device, whereupon the browser or agent receives the 3D object model and the 3D rendering code into a web application that has user controls for defining at least one 3D scene that is rendered using user-defined camera shots and events associated with the 3D object model. User interactions invoke executable event handler components and executable shot components that correspond to one or more camera shots. User controls serve to invoke generation of custom event handler components and executable shot components. A preview of the 3D scene is presented by rendering the shots and events in a web browser or web agent.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Box, Inc.Inventors: Ross Albert Inch McKegney, Michael David Charles Bond, Derrick Ronald Weis
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Patent number: 10013158Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for sharing a folder and any contents (e.g. file(s)) thereof, via at least one communication. In an aspect, the folder and any contents (e.g. file(s)) thereof may be shared through a specific combination of capabilities or operations involving an email message and a file explorer interface without an attachment included with the at least one email message.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Sitting Man, LLCInventor: Robert Paul Morris
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Patent number: 10013159Abstract: A driving support information display device includes a status display area controller, a menu display area controller, and a status information controller. The status display area controller manages a status display area having a plurality of status display sections arranged vertically in one side area of a display screen. The menu display area controller manages an upper menu display area having a plurality of selection button sections arranged side by side in an upper area of the display screen and a lower menu display area having a plurality of selection button sections arranged side by side in a lower area of the display screen. The status information controller displays status information in the status display section by providing to the status display area controller status information relating to a functional module assigned to the selection button section that has been touch input.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATIONInventors: Keiji Takahashi, Susumu Umemoto, Eiji Nishi, Yoshihiro Kushita
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Patent number: 10013160Abstract: Detecting user input based on multiple gestures is provided. One or more interactions are received from a user via a user interface. An inferred interaction is determined based, at least in part, on a geometric operation, wherein the geometric operation is based on the one or more interactions. The inferred interaction is presented via the user interface. Whether a confirmation has been received for the inferred interaction is determined.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Bonnie E. John, Peter K. Malkin, John T. Richards, Calvin B. Swart, John C. Thomas, Jr., Sharon M. Trewin
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Patent number: 10013161Abstract: An electronic device displays text of an electronic document on a display; displays an insertion marker at a first position in the text of the electronic document; detects a first horizontal gesture on a touch-sensitive surface; in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a first set of one or more predefined conditions: translates the electronic document on the display in accordance with a direction of the first horizontal gesture, and maintains the insertion marker at the first position in the text; and, in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a second set of one or more predefined conditions, moves the insertion marker by one character in the text from the first position to a second position in the text in accordance with the direction of the first horizontal gesture.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin J. Murrett, Matthew Todd Schomer, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, James Vernon Van Boxtel
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Patent number: 10013162Abstract: While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a screen reader accessibility mode, the device displays a character input area and a keyboard, the keyboard including a plurality of key icons. The device detects a sequence of one or more gestures on the touch-sensitive surface that correspond to one or more characters. A respective gesture of the one or more gestures that corresponds to a respective character is a single finger gesture that moves across the touch-sensitive surface along a respective path that corresponds to the respective character. The respective path traverses one or more locations on the touch-sensitive surface that correspond to one or more key icons of the plurality of key icons without activating the one or more key icons. In response to detecting the respective gesture, the device enters the corresponding respective character in the character input area of the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Darren C. Minifie, Gregory F. Hughes, Ryan N. Dour, Ian M. Fisch, Joel M. Lopes Da Silva, Michael M. Pedersen, II, Eric T. Seymour, Devang K. Naik, Ryan S. Dixon