Patents Issued in December 6, 2018
  • Publication number: 20180348982
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes touch and pressure detection units and a control unit. The touch detection unit detects a touch on a touch surface. The pressure detection unit detects a pressure on the touch surface. In response to movement of a touch position in a first direction with the touch kept detected, the control unit changes a setting value of a specific setting item in a predetermined direction. In response to movement of the touch position in a second direction with the touch kept detected, the control unit changes the setting value in another direction different from the predetermined direction. In response to detection of the pressure by the touch after changing the setting value of the specific setting item upon movement of the touch position in the first direction, the control unit further changes the setting value of the specific setting item in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Toshiaki Ueguri
  • Publication number: 20180348983
    Abstract: A medical image display device having a touch panel that displays a medical image, includes: a hardware processor that accepts an operation on the touch panel and detects a drag operation on a mark corresponding to a function selected from a plurality of functions; calculates a movement position of the mark according to a rule corresponding to at least one of the selected function, an object, and a user based on coordinates of a touch position in the drag operation; and causes the touch panel to display the medical image and the mark and to move the mark on the medical image based on the calculated movement position, wherein the hardware processor calculates the movement position of the mark such that a movement trajectory of the touch position and a movement trajectory of the mark are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Yusuke TANABE
  • Publication number: 20180348984
    Abstract: An image display device includes a display configured to display a plurality of items and a cursor indicating a location of an input; input receiving circuitry configured to receive an input for moving the cursor; and a controller configured to control the cursor to move in accordance with the received input, to control items adjacent to the cursor to be set as candidate items if the cursor stops moving, and to control guidelines to be displayed on the candidate items, wherein in response to an input of a direction key while the focus is displayed on the first candidate item, and wherein the controller is further configured to control the focus to move to a second candidate item among the candidate items corresponding to the input of the direction key if the input of the direction key corresponds to a short press and to control the cursor to move in a direction corresponding to the input of the direction key if the input of the direction key corresponds to a long press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Hyeong-o KIM, Bo-sung SEO
  • Publication number: 20180348985
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can provide a map application providing a representation of a physical structure of venues (e.g., shopping centers, airports) identified by the application. In addition, the application can provide an inside view that includes the physical layout and geometry of the venue's structure as well as the location, structure and layout of points of interest (e.g., stores, security check points, restrooms) within the venue. The views become more detailed as the user zooms into the venue to reveal points of interest and to give the user a feel for traversing the venue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan D. Shelby, Ryan W. Apuy, Vincent P. Arroyo, Sunny Chan, Jae Woo Chang, Megan M. Frost, Brett L. Lareau, Sean P. O'Brien, Tadayasu Sasada, Sebastian A. Araya
  • Publication number: 20180348986
    Abstract: A method of providing a virtual space according to at least one embodiment of this disclosure includes defining a virtual space, wherein the virtual space comprises a first object and a second object. The method further includes detecting a motion of a part of a body of a user in a real space. The method further includes moving the second object in the virtual space in synchronization with the detected motion. The method further includes detecting that a position of the first object and a position of the second object satisfy a predetermined relationship. The method further includes moving the position of the first object in a first direction in synchronization with the detected motion or movement of the position of the second object in the first direction when the predetermined relationship is satisfied. The method further includes detecting that a first movement amount of the movement of the first object in the first direction exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Kazuaki SAWAKI
  • Publication number: 20180348987
    Abstract: A method of providing a virtual space according to at least one embodiment includes defining a virtual space, wherein the virtual space comprises a first avatar corresponding to a first user associated with a first head-mounted device (HMD) and a second avatar corresponding to a second user associated with a second HMD. The method further includes identifying a first position in the virtual space, wherein the first position is associated with the first avatar. The method further includes defining a visual field in the virtual space in accordance with the first position. The method further includes outputting a visual-field image corresponding to the visual field to the first HMD. The method further includes identifying a second position in the virtual space, wherein the second position is associated with the second avatar. The method further includes receiving a command to move the second avatar to a third position in the virtual space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Kazuaki SAWAKI
  • Publication number: 20180348988
    Abstract: Approaches enable three-dimensional (3D) display and interaction with interfaces (such as a webpage, an application, etc.) when the device is operating in a 3D view mode. For example, interface elements can be highlighted, emphasized, animated, or otherwise altered in appearance, and/or arrangement in the renderings of those interfaces based at least in part on an orientation of the device or a position of a user using the device. Further, the 3D view mode can provide for an animated 3D departure and appearance of elements as the device navigates from a current page to a new page. Further still, approaches provide for the ability to specify 3D attributes (such as the appearance, action, etc.) of the interface elements. In this way, a developer of such interfaces can use information (e.g., tags, CSS, JavaScript, etc.) to specify a 3D appearance change to be applied to at least one interface element when the 3D view mode is activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Charley Ames, Dennis Pilarinos, Peter Frank Hill, Sasha Mikhael Perez, Timothy Thomas Gray
  • Publication number: 20180348989
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to computer-implemented management of first and second electronic documents, each of containing a sequence of content components. A user interface displays a first sequence of display elements to represent the first electronic document, and a second sequence of display elements to represent the second electronic document. Each of the display elements in each of the displayed sequences represents an individual content component or group of content components of the electronic document represented by that sequence. The first and second sequences are displayed alongside each other, with their respective display elements in an initial alignment, to allow a side-by-side comparison of the electronic documents. The user can automatically realign the sequences to a selected content component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Samuel Gavin SMYTH, Andrew FITZGIBBON, Siân Elizabeth LINDLEY, Richard Malcolm BANKS, Darren Keith EDGE, Advait SARKAR, Olivia Evelyn Mary FLETCHER VANE, Michael William ARMSTRONG, Ewa LUGER
  • Publication number: 20180348990
    Abstract: The subject technology provides rendering an image in a first view including a plurality of tiles, each tile comprising image data corresponding to a portion of the image. The subject technology, responsive to detecting an initiation of touch input corresponding to the image, copies the image data from the plurality of tiles to a graphical canvas. The subject technology displays the image data in the graphical canvas in a second view, the graphical canvas being overlaid over at least a portion of the rendered image. The subject technology receives input stroke data corresponding to the second view, the input stroke data being continuous with the touch input. The subject technology responsive to detecting that the touch input has ended, copies the input stroke data to the plurality of tiles of the first view. Further, The subject technology displays the input stroke data and the image in the plurality of tiles of the first view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: William J. THIMBLEBY, Peter L. HAJAS, Jennifer P. CHEN
  • Publication number: 20180348991
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for visually presenting geospatial information. An information request for an area may be received. The area may include one or more predefined regions. The predefined region(s) may be subdivided into one or more levels of predefined sub-regions. Information for the area may be accessed. The information for the area may include region information for the predefined region(s) or sub-region information for the predefined sub-regions. A response to the information request may be determined based on the region information or the sub-region information. The response may enable a visual presentation of (1) the information for the area, and (2) one or more geographical boundaries corresponding to the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Wilczynski, Andrew Elder, Jeffrey Bagdis, Ryan Zheng
  • Publication number: 20180348992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal and a method of controlling the same. A terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a touchscreen, and a controller configured to cause the touchscreen to display video at a reproduction speed, cause the touchscreen to display a first icon, capture the displayed video according to a touch received at the first icon, and adjust the reproduction speed of the video according to a degree of the touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyerim KU, Juhye LEE, Minhun KANG, Minkyoung SHIN
  • Publication number: 20180348993
    Abstract: Provided is a method and a terminal equipment for searching an application and related products, and the method includes the follows. A first interface is displayed by the terminal equipment. The terminal equipment includes the first interface and a second interface. The first interface contains an icon of a first application and an interface. The second interface is established according to an application type and contains an application icon of the application type corresponding to the second interface. An instruction for selecting the application type corresponding to the second interface is received. The second interface is switched to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Jian Bai
  • Publication number: 20180348994
    Abstract: An image forming device includes; a control unit acting as a display control section, an operation receiving section and a controller; and a display section having a touch panel function of sensing proximity and contact of an object to and with a display screen. The display control section displays an operation image in which icons are arranged on the display screen. When the operation receiving section receives a user operation of instructing execution of a function of one of the icons, the controller executes the function. After the operation receiving section receives a user operation of putting an object close to one of the icons, when the state where the object is close to the icon continues for a predetermined time, the display control section displays an explanatory image including the icon and an explanatory note describing the function of the icon in the whole area of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu KITABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20180348995
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Martin Gimpl, Alexander de Paz, Sanjiv Sirpal
  • Publication number: 20180348996
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for a user to input individualized primitive data and equipment and a system. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting an input sequence on user equipment; performing match search on the input sequence to acquire one or more matched local individualized primitive data options; and selecting the matched local individualized primitive data options as candidate options, and displaying the candidate options to the user to select. By the method, the equipment and the system, the defect that only character input and symbol input are supported by a traditional input method is overcome; the input of multiple types of individualized primitive data including pictures, audios/videos, style template user-defined characters and the like is realized by the input method; and the user experience is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: CIENET TECHNOLOGIES (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang ZHENG, Xibin LIU
  • Publication number: 20180348997
    Abstract: A system for monitoring and stimulating user actions to contents retrieved from a network is disclosed. The system may comprise a set of configurable rules, a rules engine for applying the rules, and a server coupled to an end-user computing device and the network. The server may be configured to associate the end-user computing device to the rules engine and to at least one of the rules, determine at least one of a state of the server, an input at the server, a state of the end-user computing device, or an input at the end-user computing device each associated with at least a portion of the retrieved contents, and execute the associated at least one rule utilizing the associated rules engine to stimulate a user action from the end-user computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jinlin WANG, Feng SHAO, Amod R. SETLUR
  • Publication number: 20180348998
    Abstract: The system, method, and computer readable medium described herein provide improvements in the ways that user interfaces present multi-dimensional relationships between data samples to a user. The disclosed user interface framework provides users with a visualization of the complex relationships between data samples having multi-dimensional attributes which allows the users to quickly and intuitively grasp the relationships between data samples for a large number of attributes at a glance and in a single data map visualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Klaus Mueller, Shenghui Cheng
  • Publication number: 20180348999
    Abstract: A mobile terminal having a display, processor, and storage medium storing a program including instructions to display a first interface of the first application in full size with a status bar, obtain a first screenshot of the first application that includes only a portion of the first interface, display a second interface of the second application in full size with the status bar, obtain a second screenshot of the second application that includes only a portion of the second interface, detect a browsing operation for background applications, display the first screenshot in response to the browsing operation, delete the first screenshot in response to a second operation, detect a switching operation by the user, and switch to running the second application in the foreground in response to the switching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Weibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20180349000
    Abstract: Automating the shifting of pixels within a digital image comprises a processor receiving an indication of a starting point through a user interface. The starting point is received through a user selection of a particular portion of the digital image. Additionally, the processor receives, through the user interface, a direction associated with the starting point. The processor also selects a set of pixels extending in the direction away from the starting point. Further, the processor shifts the set of pixels in the first direction. Shifting the set of pixels comprises rendering and re-rendering in a loop the set of pixels being shifted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Troy Plota, Sascha Connelly
  • Publication number: 20180349001
    Abstract: A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone or tablet device, can be coupled to any one or more of multiple display devices at any given time. The mobile computing device allows the home screen displayed on the display devices to be dynamic, changing based on which display device the mobile computing device is coupled to. The mobile computing device can also be coupled to multiple different display devices concurrently, and different home screens are concurrently displayed on those different display devices. User inputs changing the information displayed on the home screen can also be received, and a record of the change is maintained by the computing device so the changed home screen for a particular display device is again displayed to the user the next time the mobile computing device is coupled to that display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Issa Yousef Khoury, Petteri Jussinpoika Mikkola, Abolade Gbadegesin
  • Publication number: 20180349002
    Abstract: Techniques herein organize and display as branches the historical versions of filtrations of a property graph in a way that suits interactive exploration. In embodiments, a computer loads metadata that describes versions of filtration of a graph that contains vertices interconnected by edges. Based on the metadata, the computer displays, along a timeline, version indicators that each represents a respective historical version of filtration of the graph. The computer displays, responsive to receiving an interactive selection of a particular version indicator of the plurality of version indicators, a particular version of filtration of the graph that is represented by the particular version indicator. Subsequences of versions for the timeline may be organized as branches that may be interactively created and merged. Branching and merging are integrated into the general lifecycle of graph filtration. A version timeline may be presented and operated as a tool for historical navigation and speculative exploration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Julia Kindelsberger, Daniel Langerenken, Korbinian Schmid, Sungpack Hong, Hassan Chafi
  • Publication number: 20180349003
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include receiving, in a user interface of a first page of an application executing on a computing device, a selection of an animation option, receiving, in a user interface of a second page of the application executing on the computing device, a selection of an icon. In response to receiving the selection of the icon, the method can further include launching a third page of the application, and performing an animation of a visual presentation of the launching of the third page of the application from the second page of the application. The animation can be based on the received animation option selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian Moreno, Annette Jann, Roman Rommel
  • Publication number: 20180349004
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and content customization apparatuses that provides a front-end interface in response to a received request to generate a custom widget and receives an address for a web page submitted via the front-end interface. The request includes an address for a web page. The web page is obtained based on the address and web page source code for the web page is analyzed to extract a plurality of wrappers. Each of the wrappers includes information for one of a plurality of identified items. The wrappers are then provided to the front-end interface in response to the request. The front-end interface is configured to generate and output a style editor panel and a preview panel configured to display a widget comprising the wrappers and automatically update the widget, in response to modification of presentation source code via the style editor panel, to generate the custom widget. The custom widget is received from the front-end interface and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Enrico Scoda, Giovanni Piller Cottrer
  • Publication number: 20180349005
    Abstract: Slider manipulation with precision alteration is described. In example implementations, a computing device increases a precision level of a slider to make selecting a specific value easier and more efficient. Initially, a user interface is displayed that includes a slider having a first precision level with a first granularity of values. The computing device detects a first user interaction that moves a marker indicative of a value along the slider. Based on a detection of a second user interaction, the computing device alters the slider to have a second precision level with a second granularity of values. Examples of second user interactions include a movement to some distance away from the slider or a change in speed of the movement. By making the second granularity lower than the first granularity, the slider having the second precision level is displayed with wider separation spaces between adjacent values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Animesh Bhargava, Christopher Philip Clevenger, Anmol Dhawan, Alok Pandey
  • Publication number: 20180349006
    Abstract: This disclose relates to computer-implemented management of an electronic slide deck, the electronic slide deck containing a set of slides to be presented individually. The computer system processes the slides of the electronic slide deck to autonomously group the slides into a plurality of groups, the autonomous grouping being performed by identifying the slides in each of the groups as having related content, generates in association with the electronic slide deck, grouping data in electronic storage accessible to the computer system, the grouping data denoting the identified groups of slides, and controls a user interface based on the stored grouping data to convey, to a user, information relating to at least one of the identified groups of slides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Siân Elizabeth LINDLEY, Andrew FITZGIBBON, Samuel Gavin SMYTH, Richard Malcolm BANKS, Darren Keith EDGE, Advait SARKAR, Olivia Evelyn Mary FLETCHER VANE, Michael William ARMSTRONG, Ewa LUGER
  • Publication number: 20180349007
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for sharing maps in a collaborative environment using classification-based access control. The generation of and dissemination of maps and/or data within such maps can be governed by classification-based access control, where a user's classification level can determine whether or not maps and/or data within those maps can be seen. In some scenarios, a user may wish to reveal the existence of data and/or additional details within a limited geographical area or subset of a map. The systems and methods further provide a geo-fenced view that can dynamically declassify data (to a specified degree). For example, declassified details can be revealed for moving data sets or objects upon entry into the geo-fenced view, and upon existing the geo-fenced view, the moving data sets or objects are reclassified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Wilczynski, John Carrino, Daniel Zangri
  • Publication number: 20180349008
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces. In some examples, the electronic device provides for transitioning between simulated lighting effects. In some examples, the electronic device applies a simulated lighting effect to an image. In some examples, the electronic device provides user interfaces for applying a filter to an image. In some examples, the electronic device provides for a reduced filter interface. In some examples, the electronic device provides a visual aid displayed in a viewfinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Behkish J. MANZARI, Marek BAREZA, Jeffrey A. BRASKET, Frederic CAO, Alan C. DYE, Elliott HARRIS, Cyrus Daniel IRANI, Jonathan P. IVE, Garrett JOHNSON, Emilie KIM, Joseph A. MALIA, Grant PAUL, Pavel PIVONKA, Billy SORRENTINO, Andre SOUZA DOS SANTOS
  • Publication number: 20180349009
    Abstract: A domestic appliance for treating objects includes a control device and an operating device being an external or internal touch screen. The control device displays a display field within a screen display having an operating element and a display element setting and displaying a control variable of the appliance settable by touch. The operating element contains a sensor element having segments. A lowest value of the control variable or an OFF function deactivating the control variable is associated with a first segment and different values of the control variable are associated with further segments. The control device displays at least two display elements after and/or simultaneously with touching the sensor element. The first display element displays lowest settable value of the control variable or OFF function and the second display element displays highest settable value of the control variable. A method for operating the appliance is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: JONAS BREME, JOHANNES GEYER, SWETLANA GORODEZKI, CHRISTIAN IVANIS, HANS-PETER KADEL, BASTIAN KOCH, MANUEL MILDE
  • Publication number: 20180349010
    Abstract: A user configurable tile allows the user to configure a set of threshold values for a corresponding metric. When the metric is calculated by the system, it is compared against the threshold values to determine what range the calculated metric resides in. A corresponding tile is displayed, with a visual indicator that is indicative of the range that the corresponding metric resides in, relative to the one or more threshold values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jacob WINTHER JESPERSEN, Jonathan Edward DAVIS, Christian Heide DAMM, Marko PERISIC
  • Publication number: 20180349011
    Abstract: A device receives a request to enroll in music sharing. After receiving the request, the device displays an enrollment user interface that includes concurrently displaying representations of a plurality of playlists created by a first user and privacy settings for the plurality of playlists. The privacy settings have default values. The enrollment user interface includes a first affordance that corresponds to a first playlist of the plurality of playlists, and a second affordance that corresponds to a second playlist of the plurality of playlists. The device receives one or more user inputs changing the privacy settings from corresponding default privacy settings to user-specified privacy settings. After completing enrollment, the device provides access to the plurality of playlists of the first user to other users with a predetermined relationship to the first user based on the privacy settings for the plurality of playlists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Ofer Morag
  • Publication number: 20180349012
    Abstract: Technologies described herein provide a mixed environment display of attached control elements. The techniques disclosed herein enable users of a first computing device to interact with a remote computing device configured to control an object, such as a light, appliance, or any other suitable object. Configurations disclosed herein enable the first computing device to cause one or more actions, such as a selection of the object or the display of a user interface, by capturing and analyzing input data defining the performance of one or more gestures, such as a user looking at the object controlled by the second computing device. Rendered graphical elements configured to enable the control of the object can be displayed with a real-world view of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: David M. HILL, Andrew William JEAN, Jeffrey J. EVERTT, Alan M. JONES, Richard C. ROESLER, Charles W. CARLSON, Emiko V. CHARBONNEAU, James DACK
  • Publication number: 20180349013
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for providing a prototyping tool, including at least: acquiring input data from a user; defining, as a trigger, a gesture generated by using the input data; and defining an interaction for allowing at least one action to be performed if the trigger occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: STUDIO XID KOREA INC.
    Inventor: Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20180349014
    Abstract: A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display. The presentation system can displaying indicia of such contacts, such as when a user writes with a fingertip, and can remove or alter such indicia responsive to other gestures and contacts. The system can accurately distinguish between types of gestures detected, such as between a writing gesture and an erasing gesture, on both large and small touch sensitive displays, thereby obviating the need for a user to make additional selective inputs to transition from one type of gesture to another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Joseph Samuel, Alain Nimri, Feroz Patwa, Chistopher Paul Large, Tingyu Xie
  • Publication number: 20180349015
    Abstract: A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display. The presentation system can displaying indicia of such contacts, such as when a user writes with a fingertip, and can remove or alter such indicia responsive to other gestures and contacts. The system can accurately distinguish between types of gestures detected, such as between a writing gesture and an erasing gesture, on both large and small touch sensitive displays, thereby obviating the need for a user to make additional selective inputs to transition from one type of gesture to another. The system can determine how long to keep user annotations displayed during a presentation, based on the nature of the gesture used to make the annotations and the context in which they are made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alain Nimri, Shu Gao, Stephen Schaefer, Robert Murphy, Daniel Palmer
  • Publication number: 20180349016
    Abstract: A presentation system capable of detecting one or more gestures and contacts on a touch sensitive display. The presentation system can displaying indicia of such contacts, such as when a user writes with a fingertip, and can remove or alter such indicia responsive to other gestures and contacts. The system can accurately distinguish between types of gestures detected, such as between a writing gesture and an erasing gesture, on both large and small touch sensitive displays, thereby obviating the need for a user to make additional selective inputs to transition from one type of gesture to another. The presentation system can distinguish between gestures appropriate for one type of writing and another. For example the system can determine that gestures correspond to writing in Chinese versus English, and display the writing in a style that is appropriate for that language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Shu Gao, Alain Nimri
  • Publication number: 20180349017
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a system and a system for displaying handwriting synchronously, and a handwriting device thereto. The handwriting device adopts a bistable display panel and includes a sensor circuitry that is used to record the handwriting contents over the panel. The sensor circuitry through the handwriting renders handwriting positions and pressure values. These sensed data is transmitted to a computer device instantly when the data of positions and pressure values are generated by the handwriting device. In the computer device, the handwriting can be synchronously displayed through a transformation from the received data to displaying positions and pressure values. Finally, in the computer device, a document recording the handwriting track over time is created. The document can be a picture, a video, or even a document with audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: WEN-BIN CHEN, HAN-PO TSAI
  • Publication number: 20180349018
    Abstract: A device implementing a system for rendering animated user input strokes includes at least one processor configured to retrieve a user-specified mapping of physical characteristics of input strokes to ink parameters, and to receive input stroke data, the input stroke data including metadata corresponding to physical characteristics of the input stroke data. The at least one processor is configured to generate, based on the user-specified mapping, a set of ink parameters from the metadata corresponding to the physical characteristics of the input stroke data, and to render, using at least a portion of the generated set of ink parameters, a stroke based on the input stroke data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: William J. THIMBLEBY, Jennifer P. CHEN, Peter L. HAJAS
  • Publication number: 20180349019
    Abstract: Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof, by which a position of a display region of a video can be automatically adjusted. The present invention includes a wireless communication unit that receives data for playing a video, a display unit that displays the video, and a controller that adjusts the position of a display region of the video in accordance with trace information indicating the position of the display region as a function of the play timing point of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Sanghyun Eim, Jihye Ham
  • Publication number: 20180349020
    Abstract: In accordance with various implementations, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a drawing user interface including a plurality of drawing objects. While a drawing tool that is associated with a predefined operation is selected, the method includes detecting, via the one or more input devices, a user input moving to define a path within the drawing user interface. In response to detecting the user input moving to define the path within the drawing user interface, the method includes performing the predefined operation with respect to two or more of the plurality of drawing objects that intersect the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Tiffany S. Jon, Jennifer P. Chen
  • Publication number: 20180349021
    Abstract: A device displays a drawing region. While displaying the drawing region, the device detects a sequence of drawing inputs on a touch-sensitive display. In response to the sequence of drawing inputs, the device draws a plurality of strokes in the drawing region. The plurality of strokes correspond to a plurality of characters. After detecting the sequence of drawing inputs, the device detects a predefined gesture that corresponds to a request to perform an operation based on the plurality of characters represented by the plurality of strokes. In response to detecting the predefined gesture, the device concurrently displays a first visual prompt indicating that a first subset of one or more characters in the plurality of characters can be used to perform the operation and a second visual prompt indicating that a second subset of one or more characters in the plurality of characters can be used to perform the operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel E. Gobera Rubalcava, Ryan S. Dixon
  • Publication number: 20180349022
    Abstract: A technique for providing feedback based on activity. In particular, the technique detects inputs with various input intensities and provides varying feedback based on the activity state of an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Imran CHAUDHRI, Nicholas ZAMBETTI, Stephen O. LEMAY
  • Publication number: 20180349023
    Abstract: A numerical value input screen display unit displays a numerical value input screen on a touch panel display unit. A high-order digit numerical value input unit sets a numerical value of an integer place based on the position of a slider on an input range bar by operation of slider. A low-order digit numerical value input unit sets a numerical value of a first decimal place by increasing or decreasing the numerical value based on amount and the direction of movement operation of orbiting button. An input numerical value display unit determines an input numerical value based on numerical value of the integer place set by the high-order digit numerical value input unit and the numerical value of the first decimal place set by the low-order digit numerical value input unit, and displays the input numerical value on a numerical value display spot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Koichi TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180349024
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display; and a controller that executes control so as to employ a first or second display mode. The first display mode includes first areas and first images; the second display mode includes second areas and second images; at least one of the second areas has a size different from sizes of the first areas or the number of the second areas is different from the number of the first areas; content of at least one image among the second images is different from content of the first images; and upon detecting at least one of an instruction for image selection issued to select at least one image among the first images and an instruction for area selection issued to select at least one area among the first areas, the controller switches from the first to the second display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaoru YOSHINO, Yuki KATSUMATA, Yoshiaki MIYAKAWA, Takashi KURIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180349025
    Abstract: A method for controlling a display device comprising a touch screen is provided. The control method displaying, on the touch screen, a plurality of windows that do not overlap one another and that respectively correspond to executing, displaying a center button disposed at an intersection of a plurality of dividing lines that distinguishes the plurality of windows, receiving an input of a window size change command for changing a size of at least one of the plurality of windows, changing the size of at least one of the plurality of windows in response to the window size change command, and discontinuing the displaying of less than all of the plurality of windows and enlarging a size of at least one remaining window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Seung-Woon LEE, Kang-Tae KIM, Young-Jin KIM, Dae-Wook PARK, Jung-Hwan CHOI
  • Publication number: 20180349026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive fetch coalescing are disclosed. NVM Express (NVMe) implements a paired submission queue and completion queue mechanism, with host software on the host device placing commands into the submission queue. The host device notifies the memory device, via a doorbell update, of commands on the submission queue. Instead of fetching the command responsive to the doorbell update, the memory device may analyze one or more aspects in order to determine whether and how to coalesce fetching of the commands. In this way, the memory device may include the intelligence to coalesce fetching in order to more efficiently fetch the commands from the host device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Elkana Richter, Shay Benisty, Klod Assulin
  • Publication number: 20180349027
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for minimizing computational resources when copying data. The method includes: receiving a first set of data from a first data source including portions (a) used to compute a well-being scoring, and (b) not used to compute the well-being scoring; copying non-numerical data items included in the portion used to compute the well-being scoring to an aggregate data structure; and, for each numerical data item in the portion used to compute the well-being scoring: assigning a first data type to the numerical data item if it complies with the first data type, otherwise assigning a second data type to the numerical data item, where the first data type uses less bytes than the second data type, and copying, by the processor, the numerical data item to the aggregate data structure, wherein the well-being scoring is calculated for the member based on the aggregate data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kay D. Mooney, Phillip J. Lerner, Shawn Moore, Karen Ryan, Amy Kruse, Susan Salerno, Paul Mendelowitz, Madhavi Vemireddy, Elena Koshkina, Derek Jackson, Amanda Widmaier, Pritesh Motipara, Bridget K. McCabe, Eileen McNeely, Tyler Vanderweele
  • Publication number: 20180349028
    Abstract: According to a storage system, method, and apparatus for processing an operation request provided by embodiments of the present invention, a controller directly encapsulates a SCSI protocol operation request into an Ethernet operation request packet at the MAC layer instead of using the TCP/IP protocol layer and a disk enclosure decapsulates the Ethernet operation request to obtain the SCSI protocol operation request and sends the SCSI protocol operation request to a target disk, thereby reducing layers of encapsulation, reducing a processing delay of the storage system, and improving performance of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Chang, Xinyu Hou, Haitao Guo
  • Publication number: 20180349029
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods to control memory operations on buffers. An example apparatus includes a memory device and a host. The memory device includes a buffer and an array of memory cells, and the buffer includes a plurality of caches. The host includes a system controller, and the system controller is configured to control performance of a memory operation on data in the buffer. The memory operation is associated with data movement among the plurality of caches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Ali Mohammadzadeh, Jung Sheng Hoei, Dheeraj Srinivasan, Terry M. Grunzke
  • Publication number: 20180349030
    Abstract: A storage control program for causing a storage control device to perform: receiving, from a higher-level device, an input/output request including a logical address specifying a logical block within a volume; and determining a storage control device for processing the input/output request from among a plurality of storage control devices that may access a storage having a physical storage area assigned to the volume based on the logical address included in the received input/output request, the number of logical blocks per divided block size partitioning the volume, and number of the plurality of storage control devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Ohyama, Noriyuki Yasu, TATSUHIKO MACHIDA, Kenichiro Shibata
  • Publication number: 20180349031
    Abstract: A storage system according to the present invention includes a first storage device configured to receive a command from a command issuing apparatus, a second storage device configured to manage target data of the command, and a third storage device configured to form a copy pair with the second storage device for the target data and store the target data. When the target data is forwarded from the first storage device to the third storage device through the second storage device and stored in the third storage device, the second storage device stores the target data therein so that the target data is redundantly stored in the second storage device and the third storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro IDE, Osamu TORIGOE, Shinichi KASAHARA