Patents Issued in December 15, 2020
  • Patent number: 10866677
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes a touch panel which is equipped with a plurality of electrostatic capacitive sensors of which the electrostatic capacitances vary as an object comes close to, or comes into contact with, the touch panel. A measurement unit measures the electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor, and a touch detection unit detects an object coming close to, or coming into contact with, the touch panel on the basis of a difference between a measured raw value and a base line value. A base line value update unit updates the base line value to follow the raw value of the electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor to correct a variance in electrostatic capacitance of the electrostatic capacitive sensor. A proximity detection unit detects an object approaching the touch panel, and an update control unit controls the update speed on the basis of a detection result of the proximity detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Yuki Haraikawa
  • Patent number: 10866678
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a device for responding to a touch operation, belonging to the field of man-machine interface. The method includes the followings. A usage scenario of a mobile terminal is determined. A first touch operation and a second touch operation applied on a touch display screen within a predetermined duration are received. A first operation type of the first touch operation is determined. A second operation type of the second touch operation is determined. It is determined whether to respond to the first touch operation and/or the second touch operation based on the first operation type, the second operation type and the usage scenario.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunqiao Hua, Guojun Sun
  • Patent number: 10866679
    Abstract: A display panel, a display device, and a pressure detecting method. The display panel includes: a first substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements spaced with each other on one side of the first substrate, a plurality of photosensitive detecting elements, and elastic light-reflecting components arranged on a light-emitting side of the light-emitting elements, an orthographical projection of the photosensitive detecting elements on the first substrate is in an orthographical projection of the light-emitting elements on the first substrate; and the elastic light-reflecting components is configured to be deformed by pressing so that areas of orthographical projection thereof on the first substrate become larger to thereby change an amount of light emitted by the light-emitting elements, and reflected by the elastic light-reflecting components to the photosensitive detecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yujie Liu, Yingxue Yu, Tingting Zhao, Meiling Jin, Jian Zhang, Liangliang Li, Jinzhao Zhou, Lulu Li, Cai Zheng, Qin Xin, Yahui Niu, Zhiqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10866680
    Abstract: A touch panel with a single plate includes a plate and a sensing circuit structure. The substrate is taken as a cover. The sensing circuit structure is formed on the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Kuei-Ching Wang
  • Patent number: 10866681
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes a housing including a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first touch screen display arranged between the first and second surfaces and exposed to an outside through the first surface, a second touch screen display arranged between the first and second surfaces and exposed to an outside through the second surface, and at least one pressure sensor arranged between the first and second touch screen displays to sense a pressure of an external object on at least one of the first and second touch screen displays. In addition, other embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Ji Woong Oh, Jeong Seob Kim, Hyung Sup Byeon, Sung Ho Son, Jung Won Kim, Eun Sung Cho
  • Patent number: 10866682
    Abstract: A novel input/output panel that is highly convenient and reliable is provided. The input/output panel includes a gate wiring, a first electrode, a second electrode, a current sensing circuit, and a pixel. The first electrode is electrically connected to the gate wiring. The second electrode intersects with the gate wiring and is provided so that capacitance is generated between the first electrode and the second electrode. The current sensing circuit is electrically connected to the second electrode and has a function of sensing a change in the capacitance. The pixel includes a transistor and a display element. The transistor includes a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The gate electrode is electrically connected to the gate wiring. The display element includes a third electrode and a liquid crystal material. The third electrode is electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10866683
    Abstract: A device includes a housing defining part of an interior volume and an opening to the interior volume; a cover mounted to the housing to cover the opening and further define the interior volume; a display mounted within the interior volume and viewable through the cover; and a system in package (SiP) mounted within the interior volume. The SiP includes a self-capacitance sense pad adjacent a first surface of the SiP; a set of solder structures attached to a second surface of the SiP, the second surface opposite the first surface; and an IC coupled to the self-capacitance sense pad and configured to output, at one or more solder structures in the set of solder structures, a digital value related to a measured capacitance of the self-capacitance sense pad. The SiP is mounted within the interior volume with the first surface positioned closer to the cover than the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pavan O. Gupta, Andrew W. Joyce, Benedict Drevniok, Mo Li, David S. Graff, Albert Lin, Julian K. Shutzberg, Hojjat Seyed Mousavi
  • Patent number: 10866684
    Abstract: An interface environment captures and stores complex and variable data from a user in a rapid, robust, adaptable, and structured manner. The interface environment includes a display of a document, and the document includes one or more contextual objects. Each contextual object is responsive to an input of a user changing the content of the contextual object, and adds or removes from the document one or more contextual objects. The one or more contextual objects are added or removed in accordance with the content of the contextual object mapped to a definition in a domain specific knowledge for the document and in response to external applications monitoring the contextual objects. The interface environment is applicable to all types of domains including healthcare, point-of-sale, legal, financial, and other services. The document and the contextual objects are saved to a database and accessible by other external applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Ricky Steven Pionkowski
  • Patent number: 10866685
    Abstract: A computer system may be configured to: execute a first query associated with a first panel; display the first panel in a user interface based on first display settings of the first panel, the first panel displaying at least a portion of the result of the first query, the result of the first query associated with a variable; execute a second query associated with a second panel, wherein the second query refers to the variable associated with the first query; display the second panel in the user interface based on second display settings of the second panel, the second panel displaying at least a portion of the result of the second query; and in response to user input changing the displayed result in the first panel: re-execute the second query; and update the display of the second panel in the user interface based on results of the re-executed second query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsay Ward, Derek Cicerone, Punyashloka Biswal, Sixin Li, Geoff Cameron, Adam Storr, Ashwin Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 10866686
    Abstract: Provided is a method of recognizing text in a terminal, the method including generating first tag information about a kind of language set in a user interface (UI) for inputting text and a location of a cursor at a time point when a text input has started, when the UI for inputting text displayed on the terminal is executed; when a language switch request that requests the terminal to switch the kind of language set in the UI is received, generating second tag information about a kind of switched language and a location of the cursor at a time point of receiving the language switch request; when the text input is finished, storing a screen image of the terminal; and recognizing the text input to the terminal based on at least one piece of tag information and the screen image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-soo Kim, Hyon-sok Lee, Tae-kwon Chang, Ji-woong Choi, Jong-youb Ryu, Hae-in Chun
  • Patent number: 10866687
    Abstract: A method of method of providing an advertisement is provided. In this method, at least two interfaces are provided that are configured to allow the tapper and the content provider to join a content sharing community. A third interface is also provided to allow the tapper to select the content provider from a map where at least one of the tapper and the content provider are unknown to the other prior to the tapper selecting the content provider. Then a solicitation is conveyed from the tapper to the content provider to provide a video feed. The method further generates a derived video feed by superimposing an augmented reality object onto the video feed, wherein the augmented reality object is based at least in part on the determined context, and then conveys the derived video feed to the tapper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Wormhole Labs, Inc.
    Inventor: Curt Hutten
  • Patent number: 10866688
    Abstract: In augmented reality self-guided tour, different augmented reality views are received in a mobile computing device. One of the views presents a holographic animation of a tourable three-dimensional structure with multiple activatable points of interest disposed thereon. A geographic location of the device relative to the structure is determined and a camera of the device retrieves an image of a surrounding portion of the environment so as to compute a position in the image at which to render the animation. The animation is then projected in the display at the computed position. Upon selecting an activatable point of interest, it is determined if the geographic location matches that of the selected point of interest. If so, a different animation associated with the selected point of interest is projected in the display at the computed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.
    Inventors: Joey Hasty, David Smith, Josh Nakaya
  • Patent number: 10866689
    Abstract: To indirectly express a state change of an information processing apparatus. An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that generates a display screen including a background object, and the display control unit moves the background object in accordance with a state change of the information processing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Hama, Shoichiro Moriya, Takahiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10866690
    Abstract: A device, system, and method are directed towards facilitating composing, editing, and displaying a message that includes text and graphics inline. An edit window provides a mechanism for editing the text inline. The message, including text and graphics, may be sent to a remote device. The remote device may display the message, and edit the text and graphics inline, and send a reply message to the original sender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Chris Kalaboukis, Sunil Nagaraj
  • Patent number: 10866691
    Abstract: Methods and systems for manual and programmatic remediation of websites. JavaScript code is accessed by a user device and optionally calls TTS, ASR, and RADAE modules from a remote server to thereby facilitate website navigation by people with diverse abilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AUDIOEYE, INC.
    Inventors: Sean D. Bradley, Mark D. Baker, Jeffrey O. Jones, Kenny P. Hefner, Adam Finkelstein, Douglas J. Gilormo, Taylor R. Bodnar, David C. Pinckney, Charlie E. Blevins, Helena Laymon, Trevor C. Jones
  • Patent number: 10866692
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a trending tool for presenting trending information measured or collected with regard to a content page within the context of a display of the content page. In some cases, a trending tool may be used to present trending information based on analytics data for a given selectable item of the content page, such as a clickable link or image, where the trending information may be displayed proximate to the given selectable item within the user interface. The trending information may be determined from the analytics data over a given period or periods of time. Further, the visual presentation of the trending information within, for example, an overlay may be modified based on the trending information, or based on other selected elements of the analytics data or based on other calculations of the analytics data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew L. Freestone, Mark R. Koopman, Frank E. Snedecor, III, Kyung Yeo Bhattacharjee, Scott T. Pead
  • Patent number: 10866693
    Abstract: A display control device includes an operation information acquisition unit and a cursor coordinate controller. The cursor coordinate controller is configured to, in a state in which a cursor is set to a predetermined selection item, when operation information is acquired from the operation information acquisition unit, and when, based on a position of the cursor on a display surface of a display device, the selection item is included in a search area that is set in a direction corresponding to an operation direction included in the operation information on the display surface, select the selection item at a position closest to a reference point of the cursor in the direction corresponding to the operation direction as the selection item to be a movement destination of the cursor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD., PANASONIC CORPORATION, HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shoji Kakinuma, Kensuke Hanaoka, Yusuke Takeuchi, Satoru Akashi, Yoshito Momiyama, Kazuyuki Ueda, Kazuhiro Kamiya, Hitoshi Araki, Kentaro Kakuse
  • Patent number: 10866694
    Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises: a first main body including a first surface and a second surface which faces the opposite direction to the first surface; a second main body including a third surface which faces the first surface of the first main body part when being folded in a first direction, and a fourth surface which faces the second surface of the first main body part when being folded in a second direction; a rotatable connection unit which connects at least a part of one side of the first main body part and at least a part of one side of the second main body part; a first display which is exposed to the first surface of the first main body part; a second display which is exposed to the third surface of the second main body part; a processor which is electrically connected to the first display and the second display; and a memory which is electrically connected to the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joon-Hwan Kim, Yo-Han Lee, Hyun-Yeul Lee, Kyung-Wha Hong, Sun-Hee Moon, Won-Sik Lee, Seung-Yeon Chung, Hye-Min Ha
  • Patent number: 10866695
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing user interfaces associated with physical activities. The user interface displays a scrollable list of affordances associated with physical activities. The affordances may contain physical activity and heart rate information. A user can launch a physical activity tracking function or an interface to change a workout metric using an affordance. Users can also control the music that is played in response to selecting a workout. Further, the interface can be used to compose a reply message to a received message that contains workout information. The interfaces can show a graph that includes heart data when the user's heart rate meets a heart rate alert criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aled Hywel Williams, Roxanne Brittain, Gary Ian Butcher, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher D. Soli, Molly Pray Wiebe
  • Patent number: 10866696
    Abstract: An automated device for data transfer and associated methods is provided. The automated device communicates with a server to exchange data which is used to dynamically populate one or more of the interfaces in a sequence of interfaces that include a welcome interface providing a plurality of selectable options for performing an action using the automated device; an authentication interface for receiving an authentication code associated with an access card inserted into the automated device; a source selection interface for selecting a source account for the data transfer; a destination selection interface for selecting a destination account for the data transfer; a data value selection interface for receiving a data value for the data transfer; a transaction acknowledgment interface providing an option to end the session and an option to continue the session; and a record preview interface providing a preview of a record of the session and an option to generate output of the record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Steven Gervais, Sara Durning, Amanda Buchanan, Na-Hyun Sophie Park, Gregory James Hamilton, Miguel Martin C. Florendo, Gary Joseph Fernandes, Nikolay Tzankov Markov, Bridget Lennon, Tristian Rodzen, James Grimmer
  • Patent number: 10866697
    Abstract: A touch-sensitive graphical user interface (GUI) may include a touch screen configured to display a graphical user interface including an arrangement of one or more virtual widgets, each virtual widget having a shape and including one or more user interface elements displayed via the graphical user interface. The arrangement of the one or more virtual widgets is configurable. A microcontroller may be configured to sense a touch at the touch screen, identify a virtual widget corresponding with the touch, and initiate an action including at least one of (a) controlling an actuator to provide haptic feedback at an area of the touch screen on which the identified virtual widget is displayed or (b) controlling an electronic device associated with the user interface system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
    Inventor: William J. Liddell
  • Patent number: 10866698
    Abstract: An example method involves monitoring, by a computing device, a communications feed for an indication of media and detecting, in the communications feed, the indication of the media. The method may further involve identifying at least one media item corresponding to the indication of the media and causing a playback queue of a media playback system to include one or more of the identified at least one media item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Clayton, Danny Valente
  • Patent number: 10866699
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine-readable mediums which allow for more secure authentication attempts by implementing authentication systems with credentials that include interspersed noise symbols in positions determined by the user. These systems secure against eavesdroppers such as shoulder-surfers or man-in-the middle attacks as it is difficult for an eavesdropper to separate the noise symbols from legitimate credential symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Wei-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 10866700
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods capable of performing text exploration on large volume of corpus without prior knowledge in an accurate and efficient manner and may also provide any number of additional or alternative benefits and advantages. In particular, embodiments described herein provide a text exploration executable environment that uses unsupervised machine-learning to assist a human analyst with distilling key emerging themes from a corpus of hundreds or thousands of text files presented in a time series graphical user interface (GUI). A document may be a unit of text under analysis received from a particular data source, such as word-processing documents, paragraphs, sentences, chat sessions, speech-to-text call segments, online texts, social media postings (e.g., Tweets®), and other machine-readable text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventor: William Leland Fehlman, II
  • Patent number: 10866701
    Abstract: Providing a thumbnail view of a document or other dataset is disclosed. A user input data associated with a user interaction with a thumbnail as displayed in a viewer component is received via a user interface associated with a viewer component. A tracking data reflecting the interaction is stored in a local data structure. The tracking data stored in the local data structure is used to ensure that a thumbnail affected by the user input is displayed by the viewer component in a manner that reflects the user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ramkumar Ganesan, Priya Lakshmi Muthuswamy
  • Patent number: 10866702
    Abstract: A device concurrently graphs a first data visualization and a second data visualization on a display. The first data visualization and the second data visualization share a common axis corresponding to a shared data field from a data source. The first data visualization comprises graphical marks corresponding to data values of a first data field from the data source and the second data visualization comprises graphical marks corresponding to data values of a second data field. A user moves a first graphical mark from a first location corresponding to an actual data value of the first data field to a second location, creating a first hypothetical value of the first data field. The device moves a second graphical mark in the second data visualization to an adjusted location corresponding to a computed hypothetical value for the second data field according to the first hypothetical value of the first data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Tableau Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Bora Beran
  • Patent number: 10866703
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for multi-user communication sessions. In some examples, a device initiates a live stream in a communication session. In some examples, a device transitions between streaming live audio and live video. In some examples, a device enables synchronizing media playback during a live stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Nicholas V. King, Stephen O. Lemay, Hoan Pham, Giancarlo Yerkes
  • Patent number: 10866704
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for segregating web browser instances are provided. A first web browser application instance may be opened. An application instance may comprise at least an application opening a new application window for displaying content. A plurality of webpages may be browsed in a plurality of tabs in the first web browser application instance. An indication to browse to a new webpage that is not one of the plurality of webpages may be received. A determination may be made that the received indication is a browser-change event. A second web browser application instance may be opened. Content corresponding to the new webpage may be surfaced in the second web browser application instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Felix Gerard Torquil Ifor Andrew
  • Patent number: 10866705
    Abstract: In certain implementations, a user request to add a new concept may be received. A set of media item recommendations may be caused to be loaded on a user interface for presentation to a user responsive to the user request to add the new concept. The media item recommendation set may include a set of recommendations loaded on an on-screen portion of the user interface and a set of recommendations loaded on an off-screen portion of the user interface. The on-screen user interface portion is visible to the user at a first time. The off-screen user interface portion is not being visible to the user at the first time. A user selection of one or more recommendations of the on-screen recommendation set is received. The off-screen recommendation set may be caused to be updated on the user interface during the presentation of the media item recommendation set based on the user recommendation selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Clarifai, Inc.
    Inventors: John Rogers, Keith Ito, Marshall Jones, Daniel Kantor, Matthew Zeiler
  • Patent number: 10866706
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory for storing at least one application, a wireless and/or wired communication interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a display event for the at least one application, in response to the detection of display event, determine whether the electronic device is in a state of being connected to an external output device through the communication interface, when it is determined that the electronic device is in the state of being connected to the external output device, determine whether execution of the at least one application is possible, based on a state of connection with the external output device, and control to display, on the external output device, information indicating whether execution of the at least one application is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byeongkuk Keam, Seungkyu Lee, Hoyoung Lee, Won Jin Choi, Yujin Choi
  • Patent number: 10866707
    Abstract: A method for accessing data stored in a database may include receiving, at an application, a request to load a data story including a first software widget and a second software widget. The first software widget and the second software widget each being configured to create, based on a portion of data stored in a database coupled with a cloud-based analytics engine, a corresponding data presentation providing a visual representation of at least the portion of data. The first software widget may be rendered while visualization data for the second software widget is retrieved from the cloud-based analytics engine, processed, and stored in a cache. Upon completing the rendering of the first software widget, the processed visualization data for the second software widget may be retrieved from the cache in order to render the second software widget. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Sanam Narula, Nathan Wang, Pak Man Chan, Rita Huang
  • Patent number: 10866708
    Abstract: Using combined eCommerce and brick-and-mortar data to produce intelligent recommendations for web page operation is described. In an example, a request to access an eCommerce GUI presented on behalf of a merchant can be received from a device operable by a viewer. Brick-and-mortar point-of-sale (POS) transaction data associated with one or more customers that transact with the merchant or one or more other merchants that utilize the payment processing service to process brick-and-mortar POS transactions can be used to determine a variation of the eCommerce GUI presented on behalf of the merchant to present to the viewer. Instructions for rendering the variation of eCommerce GUI can be sent to the device operable by the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Wael Al-Sallami, Christine Loh, Vitaly Odemchuk, Xuanhua Ren, Drew Richards, Neil Straghalis, Katherine Swett
  • Patent number: 10866709
    Abstract: A visual system architecture tool uses financial system functions represented as building blocks or capability blocks. The capability blocks are placed in proximity to show elements of a particular solution to a system design requirement. The capability blocks may include detailed descriptions of the functions that are accessible graphically and may also include code modules for rapid prototyping of some or all of the system being designed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
    Inventors: Akshay Chopra, Matthew Dill
  • Patent number: 10866710
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions to control a portable terminal to perform processes including: an receiving processing of receiving a user operation; a first determination processing of determining whether device identification information is stored in the storage; performing a first designation processing; a second designation processing; wherein the first designation processing includes: a first specifying processing of specifying the image processing device; a first selection screen display processing of displaying a first selection screen; and, when the user operation of designating the device object is received, a first storing processing, and wherein the second designation processing includes: a second specifying processing of specifying an image processing device; a second selection screen display processing of displaying a second selection screen; and, when the user operation of designating the device object is received, a second storing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norihiko Asai
  • Patent number: 10866711
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments that provide account information, such as usernames and passwords, to applications. Respective account information is stored for multiple accounts. A user interface is rendered that facilitates a user selection of a particular application from multiple applications. A particular account is identified in response to the user selection. One or more operations are initiated to create a runtime association between an instance of the particular application and the account information corresponding to the particular account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brad Lee Campbell, Daniel Wade Hitchcock, Joshua Lee Davis
  • Patent number: 10866712
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for implementing a multi-function control element in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The method includes responsive to a cursor being away from a control element, present the control element in a compact state in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) within a display. The method also includes responsive to the cursor being over the control element, present the control element in an expanded state. The method includes responsive to receiving the selection of the option and determining the cursor is away from the control element, return the control element to the compact state from the expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Cinthya Rossana Urasaki, Zachary Paul Maier
  • Patent number: 10866713
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for enabling a user to selectively make one or more highlights in a currently displayed document on a mobile, handheld, eBook reader, or similar device are disclosed. The user-generated highlights are persistent over user-initiated cursor control activities as well as persistent over reading sessions. Furthermore, the highlighting functionality can be invoked without downloading and installing any custom software components, and without explicitly generating a user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Rohit Chandra
  • Patent number: 10866714
    Abstract: A user terminal device and a method for displaying on a user terminal device. The method includes displaying a first screen, detecting a user interaction to rotate the first screen while the first screen is displayed, and in response to the detected user interaction, displaying the first screen in a rotated state in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction at a predetermined angle and displaying a second screen related to the rotated first screen on at least one of a plurality of corner areas of the user terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun-kyung Kim, Hae-yoon Park, Yong-yeon Lee, Ji-yeon Kwak, Yeo-jun Yoon
  • Patent number: 10866715
    Abstract: Various aspects and attributes of a single-click list selection user interface are described herein. A user can toggle the list inclusion status of any item by single clicking on the item in a selection pane of the user interface. When the user single-clicks a storage container item, the selection pane navigates to and displays items in the selected storage container. In order to prevent inadvertent selections, the user interface may provide graphical feedback indicating the inclusion status of an item prior to the user single clicking that item, e.g., responsive to mouse hover over that item. The user interface may further include a list pane which displays all items presently included in the list, regardless of each item's original storage container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason F. Moore, Justin Mann, Martijn E. Van Tilburg, Colin R. Anthony
  • Patent number: 10866716
    Abstract: Systems and methods allow a user to input user attributes, to search for products or services, and to receive recommendations concerning items, such as products or services, based on the user attributes. A user may provide opinion information with respect to particular attributes of products or services, and may easily view and understand others' opinions regarding those particular attributes. A user may participate in a live consultation session with a person having particular knowledge with respect to a product or service. Accordingly, a user may receive highly personalized information with respect to products or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Wheesearch, Inc.
    Inventors: Hillary New Sinclair, Chandra Nagaraja
  • Patent number: 10866717
    Abstract: A numerical controller capable of easily creating a custom screen on which necessary information is aggregated includes an attribute assignment unit for assigning an attribute to one or more screen components included in one or more existing screens, a custom screen creation unit for setting the attribute to be displayed on the custom screen, and a custom screen display unit for displaying the custom screen on which the screen components selected based on the attribute are exclusively aggregated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Fanuc Corporation
    Inventor: Shuji Sato
  • Patent number: 10866718
    Abstract: A device with one or more input devices receives a user input for scrolling through a representation of a set of assets, determines that an attribute associated with the received input is above a threshold value, and in response, sets a scrolling mode to be an accelerated navigation mode. While the scrolling mode is in the accelerated navigation mode and while scrolling through the representation of assets in accordance with the input, the device provides one or more asset subset identifiers that identify a respective subset of the assets through which the device is currently scrolling in accordance with the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: William Bull, Kourtny Minh Hicks, Policarpo Wood, Eric James Hope
  • Patent number: 10866719
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for auto-scrolling devices and methods. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a content feed that includes first content and second content for presentation at a user device, and determining a first relevance value for the first content. Example methods may include determining that the first content is relevant to a user account associated with a user of the user device based at least in part on the first relevance value, determining a second relevance value for the second content, and determining that the second content is irrelevant based at least in part on the second relevance value. Example methods may include determining a first scroll speed to scroll through the content feed when the first content is presented by the user device, and determining a second scroll speed to scroll through the content feed when the second content is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prakash Bulusu, Pragyana K. Mishra
  • Patent number: 10866720
    Abstract: A system of controlling a content comprising a content, a number of controlling conditions and/or a number of controlling means, wherein the visibility of at least portion of said content is defined and controlled by using at least one of said controlling conditions and/or controlling means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventor: Benjamin Firooz Ghassabian
  • Patent number: 10866721
    Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques to enable a user to navigate a color picker or other graphical-user-interface (GUI) tool using an input device of a handheld controller. For example, a user may operate a color picker presented on a display by pressing upwards on a joystick to activate selection of hue. In some instances, the user may also operate the joystick to alter a tint, tone, shade, or brightness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Valve Corporation
    Inventor: Joe Demers
  • Patent number: 10866722
    Abstract: An exemplary multi-line communication system presents a single on-screen user interface on a communication device. The communication device is configured to conduct communication sessions over both a first communication line associated with a first mobile directory number (“MDN”) and a second communication line associated with a second MDN. Within the user interface, the multi-line communication system presents an aggregated communication history including communication records representative of communication sessions associated with both the first and the second communication lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lonnie Katai, Kristopher T. Frazier, Michael J. D'Argenio, Zachariah Eamon Nelson
  • Patent number: 10866723
    Abstract: The present invention provides an information processor, a game program, and a game control method. It is able to adjust a repeated frequency of a bonus game easily. An information processing unit 1 comprises a display 2 for displaying a screen and a touch panel 5 for receiving a touch input of a user. The information processing unit 1 displays a displaying area 21 set based on the screen in a map 20 which has a plurality of node icons 22 on the path, displays a current position indicating icon 24, sets the current position based on a certain node icon 22 of the plurality of node icons 22 in a case of the node icon being touched, and displays the displaying area 21 in which the node icon 22 set to be the current position is located in the map 20 in a case of the current position indicating icon 24 being touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Oyama, Atsushi Kumita, Toshikazu Jinnouchi
  • Patent number: 10866724
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for further implementing a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of a terminal is provided. The method preferably includes determining a virtual screen which interworks with a screen of the terminal, providing the screen of the terminal and the determined virtual screen together, and displaying an operation according to touch input on the provided virtual screen on the virtual screen and the screen of the terminal, which interworks with the virtual screen. The virtual screen can be overlaid on a software screen and can further visually distinguish the virtual screen from the main screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chan-Hyoung Park
  • Patent number: 10866725
    Abstract: An input device includes a manipulation surface, a light emitting circuit disposed along the manipulation surface, and a detection circuit configured to detect an action of a finger on the manipulation surface. The light emitting circuit has first and second segment groups. The second segment group is disposed along the first segment group. The first segment group emits light at a first intensity if the detection circuit is restricted to receive a prescribed input. The first segment group emits light at a second intensity if the detection circuit is allowed to receive the prescribed input. A part of the second segment group emits light if the detection circuit detects an action of the finger alongside the first segment group while the first segment group is emitting light at the second intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nishio, Naoki Usui
  • Patent number: 10866726
    Abstract: A touch input device and control method thereof, wherein the touch input device includes a swiping input unit configured to receive a selection of a character through a swiping gesture by a user, a gesture input unit placed on an area different from that of the swiping input unit and in which a user inputs a gesture trough a touch, and a controller configured to determine that the selected character is input when a touch gesture is input from the swiping input unit to the gesture input unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Gi Beom Hong, Jungsang Min, Jeong-Eom Lee, Sihyun Joo