Patents Issued in August 14, 2018
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Patent number: 10048805Abstract: An apparatus can include a left optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a left optical trackpad signal; a right optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a right optical trackpad signal; assignment circuitry that assigns a status to the optical trackpads that is a right hand dominant status or a left hand dominant status; and control circuitry that outputs one or more commands based at least in part on the status and at least one of the right optical trackpad signal and the left optical trackpad signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Julie Anne Gordon, James S. Rutledge, Bradley Park Strazisar, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jay Wesley Johnson
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Patent number: 10048806Abstract: An optical touch system including an optical touch apparatus and an optical touch stylus is provided. The optical touch apparatus includes a curved operation surface and a plurality of optical sensors. The curved operation surface has a vertex. The optical touch stylus performs a touch operation on the curved operation surface, and has a tip portion for generating a light signal. The optical sensors are arranged on a side of the curved operation surface based on a reference line. The optical sensors are configured to receive the light signal to sense the touch operation of the optical touch stylus performed on the curved operation surface. A surface sag exists between each of the optical sensors and the vertex. A difference between a tip length of the optical touch stylus and a distance of two selected surface sags is not smaller than a region parameter of the optical touch system.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventors: Yen-Ting Lin, Chia-Chang Hou, Po-Liang Huang
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Patent number: 10048807Abstract: A touch control detecting method applied to an electronic apparatus comprising an image sensor. The touch control detecting method comprises: (a) capturing a plurality of sensing images via the image sensor; and (b) determining if an object performs a predetermined touch control operation to the electronic apparatus, according to a brightness variation tendency of the sensing images.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Guo-Zhen Wang, Shih-Feng Chen, Han-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 10048808Abstract: An input operation detection device to detect input operation input to an image includes a first and second imaging parts and a processor to detect input operation based on data acquired by the first and second imaging parts. The image is divided into first and second images. The optical axes of imaging optical systems of the first and second imaging parts intersect with the image at points on the same side as installation position sides of the corresponding imaging parts with respect to the center of the corresponding images.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Koji Masuda, Yasuhiro Nihei, Takeshi Ueda, Masahiro Itoh, Shu Takahashi, Takeshi Ogawa, Hiroaki Tanaka, Shiori Ohta
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Patent number: 10048809Abstract: Disclosed in the invention are a projector screen, touch screen projection displaying method and system, which belong to the field of display technology. The touch screen projection displaying system comprises a projector screen, a processing module and a projector, wherein the projector screen is provided with a capacitive touch film layer, is connected with the processing module, and is configured to receive a touch operation via the capacitive touch film layer, and transmit the touch position information generated by the touch operation to the processing module; the processing module is connected with the projector, and is configured to determine the target image information according to the touch position information; and the projector is configured to receive the target image information transmitted by the processing module, process the target image information, and project the processed target image information onto the projector screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yifei Zhan, Dayu Zhang
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Patent number: 10048810Abstract: A system detecting actuation of a pre-determined function, the actuation executed by touch contact with a pre-determined path associated with the function on a touch-sensitive surface of an object, including: at least two separate sources for transmitting bulk acoustic waves in the touch-sensitive surface, configured to generate acoustic interference between the transmitted waves; at least one bulk acoustic wave receiver after propagation and interference thereof in the touch-sensitive surface, configured to supply a reception signal based on the acoustic waves received; a mechanism storing plural reference spectral signatures associated with the pre-determined path, each of the spectral signatures associated with a localization of a touch on the pre-determined path; and a mechanism detecting actuation of the pre-determined function by comparing at least one spectral signature of the reception signal to a spectral envelope, or reference spectral envelope, of the plural reference spectral signatures associatedType: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, RENAULT s.a.s.Inventors: Gerard Chalubert, Jean-Pierre Nikolovski, Nicolas Guenard, Olivier Brelaud, Jean-Philippe Alexander
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Patent number: 10048811Abstract: A touch input provided by a touch input indicator device is received on a propagating medium of a receiving device. The touch input indicator device includes a transmitter that transmits a signal to the propagating medium when the touch input indicator device contacts the propagating medium. The signal encodes a digital binary data identifying the signal. The signal that has been propagated through the propagating medium is received at a receiver of the receiving device. The receiver is coupled to the propagating medium. The digital binary data is detected in the received signal. Based at least in part on the detection of the digital binary data, the touch input provided by the touch input indicator device is detected.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Sentons Inc.Inventors: Samuel W. Sheng, Shih-Ming Shih, Yenyu Hsieh, Mark Hamblin, Lapoe E. Lynn
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Patent number: 10048812Abstract: A single layer mutual-capacitive touch panel and a capacitive touchscreen are disclosed, which belong to the field of display technologies. The scanning frequency of a SITO and the accuracy in scanning a touch signal can therefore be improved. The single layer mutual-capacitive touch panel comprises a substrate and a plurality of touch units arranged in an array on the substrate, wherein each of the touch units includes a first sensing electrode for sensing a vertical coordinate of a touch signal, a second sensing electrode for sensing a horizontal coordinate of the touch signal, and a scanning electrode arranged close to the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode to form mutual capacitors therewith respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chengliang Ye, Chun Kai Chang, Ruhai Fu, Jie Qiu, Yung Lun Lin
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Patent number: 10048813Abstract: A capacitive sensing method includes detecting present measured values of plural reference points selected from plural sensing points, generating a present difference value according to the present measured values of the reference points and one or more reference measured values, obtaining a selected adjustment factor according to a relation setting and the present difference value, detecting present measured values of the sensing points, generating plural position signals of the sensing points according to the present difference values of the sensing points, adjusting the position signals according to the selected adjustment factor, and controlling the output of the adjusted position signals according to a reference signal. The sensing points are defined by electrodes intersected with one another and configured to form an array. The reference points are located at the periphery of the array. The relation setting is the relationship between signal difference values and adjustment factors.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: SALT INTERNATIONAL CORP., IMAGINATION BROADWAY LTD.Inventor: Shang-Li Lee
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Patent number: 10048814Abstract: Processes for manufacturing touch sensors with one or more guard traces to reduce the effect of moisture damage are provided. One example process can include forming one or more guard traces between an edge of the touch sensor and the metal traces that route the drive and sense lines to bond pads. The one or more guard traces can be uncoupled from the drive lines and sense lines to protect the inner metal traces from moisture damage. In some examples, ends of the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by copper. In other examples, ends of the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by indium tin oxide or the one or more guard traces can be coupled to ground by a strip of indium tin oxide. In yet other examples, the guard trace can be floating (e.g., not coupled to ground).Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Siddharth Mohapatra, Sunggu Kang, John Z. Zhong
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Patent number: 10048815Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide improved sensor devices and methods that facilitate improved sensor devices. Specifically, the devices and methods provide capacitive image sensors that require only two layers of conductive elements formed on a single substrate. The ability to provide an image sensor using only a single substrate with two layers of conductive elements may substantially reduce the cost and complexity of the capacitive image sensor. In one embodiment, an input device is provided that comprises a first substrate having a first and second side. Each of the second array of second sensor electrodes comprises a plurality of isolated components disposed on the first side and a plurality of connectors disposed on the second side. The connectors and isolated components of the second sensor electrodes are arranged such that adjacent pairs of connectors along the first direction are separated by a distance substantially greater than the first pitch.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Synaptics IncorporatedInventors: Tai-Wei Yau, Yeh-Cheng Tan
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Patent number: 10048816Abstract: A touch window is provided. The touch window may include a substrate including an active area and an unactive area, a first sensing electrode on the active area, a wire electrode on the unactive area, an intermediate layer on the substrate, a second sensing electrode on the intermediate layer, and a conductive layer on the wire electrode. The conductive layer may include a material that corresponds to a material constituting at least one of the first sensing electrode and the second sensing electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Soung Kyu Park, Gyun Rin Lee, Do Youb Kwon, Seok Pyo Yun, Jae Hak Her
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Patent number: 10048817Abstract: According to one embodiment, a touch control method of a touch control device which drives a touch sensor to collect data indicating a position of at least one object to be detected, and outputs the data to an external device, the touch sensor having plural first electrodes arranged to extend a first direction, and plural second electrodes arranged to extend in a second direction crossing the first direction, the touch control method includes driving the first electrodes in a self-detection mode to specify at least one of the first electrodes which detects the object, and driving the specified at least one first electrode and the second electrodes in a partial mutual detection mode to collect data indicating the position of the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Fumitaka Gotoh, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshitoshi Kida
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Patent number: 10048818Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch panel capable of detecting a capacitive touch input of a finger of a human body or a touch input tool having conduction characteristics similar to those of the finger, and more particularly, to a structure of a touch panel having a high resolution so as to detect a touch input tool having a diameter smaller than a unit pi. In a touch panel having a high resolution according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to maintain high touch sensitivity while minimizing a change in structures of touch patterns depending on a size or a purpose of the touch panel.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: G2TOUCH CO., LTDInventor: Sung Ho Lee
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Patent number: 10048819Abstract: A touch sensor panel having column traces that can terminate at a short edge of a substrate is disclosed. A flex circuit can have a wide flex circuit portion extending the full width of the short edge that can bond to the bond pads on the top side of the substrate. It can be undesirable to have column traces (e.g., sense lines) and row traces (e.g., drives lines) cross over each other at the bonding area, and it can also be undesirable to have bond pads formed on directly opposing sides of the substrate because such areas can generate unwanted stray mutual capacitance and coupling of signals. Row traces can be routed to the same short edge of the substrate as column traces using wide conductive traces running along the borders of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Martin Paul Grunthaner, Lili Huang
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Patent number: 10048820Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel. The touch panel includes a plurality of sensing electrode patterns spaced apart from each other on a substrate; and a bridge electrically connecting the sensing electrode patterns to each other, wherein an end portion of the bridge is perpendicular to a surface of the substrate or is inclined within a predetermined angle with respect to a perpendicular line of the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Keon Lee, Ja Ram Kim, Jae Hong Lee, Jong Sun Kim, Beom Sun Hong
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Patent number: 10048821Abstract: A touch window may include a substrate, a sensing electrode disposed on the substrate to sense a position, and a protective layer on the sensing electrode. A touch device may include the touch window, and a driving part on the touch window. The substrate may include a first active area and a second active area. The second active area may be flexibly provided from the first active area. The sensing electrode may be provided on the substrate to sense a position. Moreover, the protective layer may be disposed in the second active area.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Mun Suk Kang
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Patent number: 10048822Abstract: A stretchable display includes: a stretchable substrate including first areas and second areas; main pixels disposed on the first areas of the stretchable substrate, the main pixels configured to display different colors; and at least one sub-pixel disposed on the second areas of the stretchable substrate, the at least one sub-pixel being configured to display one color that is the same as any one of the main pixels, wherein the sub-pixel is configured to turn on in response to the stretchable substrate being stretched.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jong Ho Hong, Won Sang Park, Won Il Choi
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Patent number: 10048823Abstract: A method of imitating a texture on a touch surface, the method including the steps of sensing a position of a user's finger on the touch surface, modulating a coefficient of friction of the touch surface in response to the sensed position of a user's appendage relative to the touch surface and/or a derivative thereof, where the friction modulator does not alter the contour of the touch surface in a manner that is perceptible to a user's sight or touch.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: James Edward Colgate, Michael A. Peshkin, John Glassmire, Laura Winfield Alexander
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Patent number: 10048824Abstract: A user terminal device is disclosed. The user terminal device includes a display, an inputter configured to receive a user drawing manipulation, a storage configured to store an image generated by the user drawing manipulation and information of a control operation matched with at least one part of the image, and a controller configured to display a home screen composed of a plurality of display layers sequentially overlaid on the display, and display the image on at least one display layer from among the plurality of display layers. The controller may be further configured to, in response to one part of the image being selected, perform the control operation matched with the selected part. Accordingly, a user's own home screen can be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-woo Jung, In-sik Myung, Taik-heon Rhee, Dong-bin Cho
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Patent number: 10048825Abstract: A first data visualization based on first and second sets of data items is provided on a first dashboard. A second data visualization based on third and fourth sets of data items is provided on a second dashboard. Each data item of the first and third sets has at least a first tag. Each data item of the second and fourth sets does not have the first tag. A selection of the first tag is received. In response to the selection, a third data visualization based on the first set of data items and not based on the second set of data items is provided in place of the first data visualization and a fourth data visualization based on the third set of data items and not based on the fourth set of data items is provided in place of the second data visualization.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Randal L. Bertram, Gregory R. Hintermeister, Anthony D. Mora, Nicole X. Xie
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Patent number: 10048826Abstract: Interactive visualizations of a convolutional neural network are provided. For example, a graphical user interface (GUI) can include a matrix having symbols indicating feature-map values that represent likelihoods of particular features being present or absent at various locations in an input to a convolutional neural network. Each column in the matrix can have feature-map values generated by convolving the input to the convolutional neural network with a respective filter for identifying a particular feature in the input. The GUI can detect, via an input device, an interaction indicating that that the columns in the matrix are to be combined into a particular number of groups. Based on the interaction, the columns can be clustered into the particular number of groups using a clustering method. The matrix in the GUI can then be updated to visually represent each respective group of columns as a single column of symbols within the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: SAS INSTITUTE INC., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Samuel Paul Leeman-Munk, Saratendu Sethi, Christopher Graham Healey, Shaoliang Nie, Kalpesh Padia, Ravinder Devarajan, David James Caira, Jordan Riley Benson, James Allen Cox, Lawrence E. Lewis, Mustafa Onur Kabul
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Patent number: 10048827Abstract: A dual-screen user device and methods for controlling data displayed thereby are disclosed. Specifically, the data displayed by the multiple screens of the dual-screen user device is conditioned upon the type of user gesture or combination of user gestures detected. The display controls described herein can correlate user inputs received in a gesture capture region to one or more display actions, which may include maximization, minimization, or reformatting instructions.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Z124Inventors: Martin Gimpl, Alexander de Paz, Sanjiv Sirpal
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Patent number: 10048828Abstract: A method and an apparatus for configuring a user interface in an electronic device are provided. The method for configuring the user interface in the electronic device includes determining whether application execution information satisfies a predefined condition. The method for configuring the user interface in the electronic device includes determining an icon corresponding to the condition among a plurality of icons. The method for configuring the user interface in the electronic device includes displaying the determined icon. The application execution information includes at least one of an execution count, an execution time, and an execution point of the application during a reference time.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Ju-Ho Hyun
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Patent number: 10048829Abstract: A method for displaying icons and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: determining N icons which have a one-to-one correspondence with N applications of an electronic apparatus, where N?1, each of the N icons has a first display parameter; acquiring a sensing parameter by a sensor of the electronic apparatus; determining whether the sensing parameter matches with a preset operation; and adjusting the first display parameter of at least one of the N icons if the sensing parameter matches with the preset operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jiacheng Liu
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Patent number: 10048830Abstract: A computer implemented method of integrating microservices. The computer displays a graphical environment and determines a suggested next microservice according to usage data. At least one of the microservices may access a hardware sensor that generates measurement data for the at least one microservice.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Aby Jose, Vikas Gupta
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Patent number: 10048831Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the generation of a user interface displaying the devices associated with a local network. A client device may retrieve information associated with one or more devices associated with a common central device, local network, and/or subscriber. The client device may generate a user interface including one or more device objects organized along an ellipsoidal wireframe, wherein each device object represents an identified device. The user interface may include device identification and/or status information associated with each displayed device. Devices displayed within the user interface may be filtered based upon one or more parameters selected by a user. The client device may update and rearrange the displayed device objects based upon navigation commands received from a user via a control device.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Marek Bugajski, Marcin Morgos
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Patent number: 10048832Abstract: The present invention relates to a user interface in a device, in which first and second selection areas are displayed on a display. The first selection area can be an area for selecting an object. In response to user input being received that selects the first selection area and the second selection area, a first predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the first selection area before the second selection area, and a second predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the second selection area before the first selection area. The user input can be received by various methods, including a touch and/or drag event received through a touch screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: German Jose D' Jesus Bencci
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Patent number: 10048833Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of controlling therefor are disclosed. The method includes activating a memo mode while displaying a screen of a first application; displaying a first touch pattern in response to a first pattern input including the first pattern; displaying a plurality of primary graphic user interface (GUI) items respectively corresponding to a plurality of primary content items associated with the first touch pattern; and displaying content associated with a primary content item corresponding to a selected primary GUI item, wherein the selected primary GUI item is selected from among the displayed plurality of primary GUI items in response to an input, and wherein the displaying of the content is at a position proximate to the displayed first pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Bongjun Lee, Changyong Yi
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Patent number: 10048834Abstract: The invention discloses an information processing method and an electronic device. The information processing method is applied to an electronic device that includes a display unit, the method comprising when a second electronic device is connected with the electronic device and placed on the display unit, obtaining a placement position of the second electronic device on the display unit; determining a display position of a menu of the second electronic device based on position information of the placement position of the second electronic device; and displaying the menu on the determined display position; wherein the menu is a navigation menu of files stored on the second electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventor: Xingping Jiang
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Patent number: 10048835Abstract: Space interaction (SI) functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with a space without unduly distracting the user. The SI functionality includes an application interface module that presents information and/or exposes functionality within a plurality of workspaces. Each workspace has a determined spatial relationship with respect to other workspaces. Further, the application interface module may detect and respond to various gestures, by which the user may move among workspaces and interact with menus and other information that are presented in those workspaces. The user's interaction with these workspaces and menus may be supplemented by various sounds generated by a sound generation module, and/or various haptic cues (e.g., vibration cues) generated by a haptic cue generation module.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bradley Neville Cotier, Catalin Nicolae Doroftei, Jarnail Singh Chudge, Matthew Robin Farmer, Michael James Belfield Parker, Robert John Wilcox
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Patent number: 10048836Abstract: Systems, computer products, and methods are described herein for determining the applications and/or devices that a user users, or has used in the past, through a user computer system. The system categorizes the applications and/or devices related to one or more potential targets in which the user maybe interested and presents the targets to the user for selection by the user. The system monitors and aggregates information from the applications and/or devices related to the one or more desired targets and provides suggestions to aid in achieving the desired targets. The system allows the user to control, or may automatically control, the applications and/or devices related to the one or more desired targets in a central location. The aggregated information and/or one or more desired targets may be pushed to systems, applications, and devices, in order to act as filters or additional information for providing additional output to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Alicia C. Jones-McFadden, Caitlin Chrisman Bullock, Matthew Hsieh, Jaydev Ajit Kumar, Yaakov Lyubetsky, Yun Suk Paik, Heng Xu, Jimin Zheng
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Patent number: 10048837Abstract: A method may include identifying, from a set of applications, a subset of the set of applications, each application from the subset of the set of applications being predicted, by a computing device, to be selected by a user. The method may also include outputting a graphical user interface that includes: a plurality of application icons representing the set of applications and positioned around at least a portion of a perimeter of the graphical user interface; and a plurality of prediction icons positioned within an interior of the graphical user interface and representing the subset of the set of applications. The position of a particular prediction icon representing a particular application may be based on a position of a particular application icon representing the particular application. The method may further include executing an action associated with the particular prediction icon or the one of the plurality of application icons.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Hao Lu, Uran Oh, Yang Li
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Patent number: 10048838Abstract: 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 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Girish Padmanabhan, Sunanda Patil, Hina Purohit
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Patent number: 10048839Abstract: A method of navigating a tree structure in a user interface is provided. A node set is displayed on the user interface, and includes a central node representing a parent node and child nodes arranged around it. Movement and/or position of a pointer is tracked. As the pointer is moved towards a child node, grandchild nodes are rendered and enlarged within the target child node until they fill the area of the target child node. At the same time, the area of the target child node around the central node relative to the other child nodes is enlarged. Once the pointer has crossed a first selection threshold at a threshold point, the grandchild nodes have completely filled the area of the target child node, and the central node is surrounded by the grandchild nodes so as to represent the target child node. In this manner, a tree structure may be continuously navigated through movement of the pointer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Flow Labs, Inc.Inventor: Hendrik Frans Verwoerd Boshoff
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Patent number: 10048840Abstract: A method for application switching in an operating system may be provided. The method may comprise providing at least two active applications on the operating system, and providing a first list of actions related to the first active application, via a first interface, to an application switching manager, and providing a second list of actions related to the second active application, via a second interface, to the application switching manager. Additionally, the method may further comprise selecting an active application out of the at least two active applications together with selecting an action selected from the first list of actions for a first application or a second action for the second list for a second application using a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mauro Arcese, Luca Gimondo, Marco Imperia, Stefano Manocchio
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Patent number: 10048841Abstract: An apparatus, method, and program product are disclosed for collaborative project management. One apparatus includes a selection module that receives a selection by a local user of an information handling device to display an application screen of a remote user of multiple remote users. The application screen of the remote user displays a project used by the multiple remote users in a collaborative environment. The apparatus includes a display module that displays on the information handling device the application screen of the remote user. The application screen of the remote user is updated immediately as modifications to the project are made.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Brigham Young UniversityInventors: Brett Stone, Philip Cox, David French, Ammon Hepworth, Charles Gregory Jensen, Walter Edward Red
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Patent number: 10048842Abstract: In some implementations, data indicating a touch received on a proximity-sensitive display is received while the proximity-sensitive display is presenting one or more items. In one aspect, the techniques describe may involve a process for disambiguating touch selections of hypothesized items, such as text or graphical objects that have been generated based on input data, on a proximity-sensitive display. This process may allow a user to more easily select hypothesized items that the user may wish to correct, by determining whether a touch received through the proximity-sensitive display represents a selection of each hypothesized item based at least on a level of confidence that the hypothesized item accurately represents the input data.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Diego Melendo Casado, Glen Shires
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Patent number: 10048843Abstract: A mobile terminal including a display; a wireless communication processor configured to transceive data with a drone and an external device through wireless communication; and a controller configured to display a mobile terminal graphic object corresponding to the mobile terminal, an external device graphic object corresponding to the external device, a drone control menu object and a camera control menu object on the display, assign the external device to control the drone in response to the external device graphic object and the drone control menu object being selected, and assign the external device to control the camera on the drone in response to the external device graphic object and the camera control menu object being selected.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jipyo Hong, Taehoon Cho
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Patent number: 10048844Abstract: The instant disclosure provides an operating method of inspecting equipment, with the method applicable to semiconductor inspecting equipment having a movable element. The method includes: displaying a wafer graphic by a touch display; detecting a touch signal generated by the touch display; detecting the magnification of the wafer graphic when the touch signal is generated; and determining the moving speed of the movable element based on the magnification of the wafer graphic when the touch signal is generated. In addition, the moving direction of the movable element can be determined according to the touch signal. Through the instant disclosure, the operator can more intuitively operate each movable element of semiconductor inspecting equipment.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MPI CORPORATIONInventors: Stojan Kanev, Yung-Chin Liu, Andrej Rumiantsev, Yao-Chuan Chiang
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Patent number: 10048845Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus comprises a display including a display area having a first edge and a second edge, an input unit including a detector, and at least one processor. The display displays a display screen on the display area. The detector detects an operation performed on the display area. The at least one processor places a mode change element adjacent to the first edge or the second edge of the display area, scales down the display screen in response to detection of a first operation performed on the mode change element, and displays the display screen, which is scaled down, as a scaled-down screen on a part of the display area. The at least one processor determines, in response to a user's input to the input unit, which one of the first edge and the second edge is to be adjacent to the mode change element.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Yamada, Natsuhito Honda
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Patent number: 10048846Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a user interface unit to provide one or more shortcuts; a storage unit to store shortcut information about functions corresponding to the one or more shortcuts and options related to the functions; a job executing unit; and a control unit to control the job executing unit to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut, wherein when the shortcut is selected, the control unit controls the job executing unit to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut or controls the user interface unit to display an option setting page to set an option necessary to perform the function corresponding to the selected shortcut.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: S-PRINTING SOLUTION CO., LTD.Inventor: Tae-gyun Cho
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Patent number: 10048847Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method for managing display of a window. In certain aspects, the method includes presenting a window in a display area, wherein the window comprises a control icon, receiving a first input indicating a selection of the control icon and presenting a plurality of selectable options associated with the control icon, wherein each of the plurality of selectable options correspond with one of a left direction or a right direction. In certain aspects, the method further includes receiving a second input indicating a selection of a first one of the plurality of selectable options and adjusting a size of the window in response to the second input based on a direction associated with the first one of the plurality of selectable options. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, John Nicholas Jitkoff
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Patent number: 10048848Abstract: A computer program for rendering a magnified graphic user interface (GUI) establishes an initial magnification level for the graphic user interface and the pointing indicia. The GUI and the pointing indicia are magnified in synchronization until the magnification convergence point is reached. At magnification levels above the convergence point, magnification of the GUI and the pointing indicia becomes decoupled, and only GUI is magnified while the pointing indicia remain at the convergence magnification level. If the GUI magnification level falls below the convergence point, the magnification of GUI and the pointing indicia is recoupled and magnification becomes synchronized. Floor and ceiling magnification values for the pointing indicia may also be established.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Bowman Stringer, Garald Lee Voorhees
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Patent number: 10048849Abstract: In an approach to threshold setting for pie charts, a computing device displays one or more pie charts. The computing device receives an instruction to enter Threshold-Setting Mode. The computing device displays one or more threshold-setting flags associated with one or more pie chart slices and one or more indicators associated with the one or more pie chart slices. The computing device receives an instruction to set a threshold associated with a slice. The computing device updates a percentage displayed on an indicator associated with the threshold. The computing device displays the threshold as a virtual slice.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ying Jin, Jun Liao, Ying Shao, Gang Yin, Jing Zheng
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Patent number: 10048850Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed. The electronic apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory having program code stored thereon, the program code being such that, when it is executed by the processor, it causes the processor to: control a display of a first parameter-setting image that relates to values of one or more parameters related to imaging, the first parameter-setting image comprising a graph and an indicator point that is movable by user input, where the values of the one or more parameters related to imaging are set based on a location of the indicator point in the graph; and display, in association with the first parameter-setting image, a second parameter-setting image that relates to values of at least one additional parameter related to imaging.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Keiichi Yoshioka, Ayaka Tamura, Satoshi Akagawa
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Patent number: 10048851Abstract: A robot operation apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, an operation detecting unit capable of detecting a touch operation or a drag operation on the touch panel, a motion command generating unit that generates a motion command for operating a robot, and a display control unit that controls display content of the display. The motion command generating unit performs a motion speed determining process in which a motion speed of the robot is determined based on a slide distance that is a distance from a start position of a drag operation detected by the operation detecting unit to a current position. The display control unit performs a speed graphics display process in which a speed graphics in which the slide distance and the motion speed of the robot are correlated and that changes in aspect in accompaniment with changes in the slide distance is displayed on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventors: Daisuke Yui, Motoki Kanada, Atsuko Sugano, Hirota Touma
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Patent number: 10048852Abstract: An occupancy sensing electronic thermostat is described that includes a thermostat body, an electronic display that is viewable by a user in front of the thermostat, a passive infrared sensor for measuring infrared energy and an infrared energy directing element formed integrally with a front surface of the thermostat body. The passive infrared sensor may be positioned behind the infrared energy directing element such that infrared energy is directed thereonto by the infrared energy directing element. The thermostat may also include a temperature sensor and a microprocessor programmed to detect occupancy based on measurements from the passive infrared sensor.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Anthony Fadell, Matthew Rogers, David Sloo, Michael Plitkins, Shigefumi Honjo, John Filson, Michael Matas, Fred Bould, Brian Huppi
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Patent number: 10048853Abstract: When a screen displayed on a display includes a scrollable scroll region, and a first condition is satisfied which defines that the scroll region is not scrolled to a scroll position at which the last part of the displayed content in the scroll region is displayed on a display, a control module executes a first control of setting a time limit to be longer as compared to a case where the screen does not include the scroll region or not darkening or turning off the display based on the time limit. On the other hand, when a screen displayed on the display includes a scroll region, and the first condition is not satisfied, the control module executes a second control of setting the time limit to be shorter as compared to the first control or darkening or turning off the display based on the time limit.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Toshihiro Kamii, Atsushi Suzuki, Keisuke Nagata
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Patent number: 10048854Abstract: A user of a web application can perform a drag and drop operation from a first component of the web application to a second component of the web application. The drag and drop operation can include three actions. The first action can be initializing a drag of an object within a first component of a web application. The second action can be dragging the object from within the first component over a drop target located within a second component of the web application. The third action can be dropping the object onto the drop target located within the second component of the web application. One of the first and second components can be a web component, and the other component can be a visualization component. The first and second components of the web application can communicate with each other using a communication component of the web application.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Hugh Zhang, Teck Hua Lee, Kevin Chow, Diar Ahmed, Prashant Singh