Rotation Patents (Class 345/649)
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Publication number: 20140085338Abstract: One exemplary embodiment involves receiving, in an electronic content creation application, provided on a computer device, input for an object of electronic content being edited in the electronic content creation application. The input modifies a position attribute or a size attribute of the object in at least one state of the multiple states relative to bounds that is the same for multiple states of the object. The electronic content creation application determines whether to update the bounds associated with the object based on the input and, if updating the bounds is necessary, it updates the bounds associated with the object and, based on the update of the bounds, updates the position attribute or the size attribute.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2010Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Winsha Chen, Peter S. Flynn
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Patent number: 8669996Abstract: An image processing device includes an image generation unit generating a computer graphics image on the basis of computer graphics description data, an image mapping unit texture-mapping an input image to a surface of a computer graphics object drawn by the image generation unit, and a coordinate setting unit undergoing a change manipulation of a texture coordinate and storing contents of the change manipulation, in which the image mapping unit performs texture mapping by a text coordinate which is changed on the basis of contents of the change manipulation which are stored in the coordinate setting unit when texture-mapping the input image to the surface of an object.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sensaburo Nakamura, Norimasa Ozaki, Takeo Ugai, Toshimasa Kakihara
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Patent number: 8670002Abstract: A portable electronic device adapted to change its operation mode is disclosed. When a rotation of the portable electronic device is detected, the operation mode is changed according to the angle of rotation, and a user interface corresponding to the changed operation mode is output by a display unit. This method intuitively changes the mode based on a rotation of the device without requiring a complicated and unnecessary key input, and provides a more convenient and faster user interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dong-Kyun Kim, Joon-Suh Kim, Gee-Hong Yoon
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Publication number: 20140055494Abstract: An image display device capable of saving time and effort required for viewing image data, to which image rotation information unintended by a user is added, in a desired orientation. An acceleration sensor detects an attitude of the image display device. A system controller controls the direction of display of an image based on the image rotation information and the detected attitude of the image display device. When the image display device is rotated from a state where the long side of the image displayed on a monitor and that of the monitor do not match each other, the system controller rotates the image such that the long sides of the image and the monitor match each other, and then, the system controller restricts rotation of the displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Takuma Mikawa
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Patent number: 8659595Abstract: A method and system for combining a 2D image and a 3D model and a storage medium thereof are provided. A corresponding relation between a general model and a 2D image is established. A system provides an operation interface. Next, functions provided by the operation interface include designating a feature point on the 2D image and specifying a confirmation point corresponding to the feature point on the general model. Finally, according to a viewpoint space vector of the general model, a display space vector of the 2D image is decided. Furthermore, when the operation interface displays the general model according to a specific viewpoint space vector, the 2D image having the corresponding display space vector is selected for display.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: Institute for Information IndustryInventors: Mao-Yuan Chin, Jui-Yi Kuo
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Publication number: 20140049563Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein may operate to adjust display orientation of a user device based on facial landmark information. In various embodiments, information identifying and describing a facial landmark of a user may be received via a user device corresponding to the user. Head orientation of the user may be determined based at least in part on the information identifying and describing the facial landmark. A display unit of the user device may be automatically signaled to align display orientation of contents being presented with the head orientation as determined based at least in part on the information identifying and describing the facial landmark.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2012Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: eBay Inc.Inventor: John Patrick Edgar Tobin
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Patent number: 8648871Abstract: An information processing section of a game apparatus executes a program for implementing a step S100 of acquiring a camera image; a step S200 of detecting a marker; a step S400 of calculating a position and an orientation of a virtual camera; a step S600 of generating an animation in which layed-flat surfaces of a hexahedron appear, and the hexahedron is folded so as to confine virtual objects representing targets therein when a stage is cleared; a step S800 of generating an animation in which the folded hexahedron is unfolded so as to position different virtual objects thereon; a step S900 of mapping the photographed image on objects; a step S1000 of taking an image of the objects by means of the virtual camera; and a step S1100, S1200 of displaying the camera image and an object image which is superimposed on the camera image.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2010Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignees: Nintendo Co., Ltd., HAL Laboratory Inc.Inventor: Tetsuya Noge
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Publication number: 20140035942Abstract: A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display includes a display including a plurality of transparent display layers, and a controller configured to control the display, when a first event occurs, to display a first screen on a first transparent display layer from among the plurality of transparent display layers, and to display a second screen on a second transparent display layer that is from among the plurality of transparent display layers, wherein the controller controls the display to display the first screen that is currently displayed on the first transparent display layer to be displayed on the second transparent display layer for a predetermined time when a second event occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.Inventors: Il-kook YUN, Joon-kyu SEO, Chang-soo LEE
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Patent number: 8643597Abstract: A display apparatus including a communication port to communicate with an external source, an on screen display (OSD) generator to generate an OSD menu, and a display panel to display the OSD menu thereon, the display apparatus further including a pivot sensor to sense a pivoting angle of the display panel, and output data corresponding to the pivoting angle when the display panel is pivoted, and a controller to set an OSD displaying direction of the OSD generator according to the data about the pivoting angle from the pivot sensor, and transmit the data relating to the pivoting angle to the external source through the communication port.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2005Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mi-sook Jang, Geun-sam Yang, Yun-ju Hong
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Publication number: 20140028724Abstract: A display device according to the present invention includes an input unit that receives an operation instruction, a display unit that displays a screen, a changer that changes a displayed direction of the screen displayed by the display unit, and a stopper that stops the displayed direction of the screen from being changed by the changer if the input unit has received an operation instruction about information on the screen displayed by the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: NEC CASIO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS, LTD.Inventor: Yasuhiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 8639059Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for lossless shearing and/or rotation of two-dimensional (2D) data, including digital images, with minute discrete angular increments, carried out only by permutations in the Fourier frequency domain, by exploiting the natural shear occurring as a result of computing a single one-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of 2D arrays. Rotations in general, especially for oblong arrays, occur on elliptical paths. Circular rotation, by an angle of arctan(1/width), is achieved on square arrays. When each dimension is multiple of a smaller N, the rotation/shear angle can be increased to arctan(2N/width). Rotation steps can be repeated in long, animation-like series, with neither loss nor degradation of the Fourier content; so much so that tracing the steps back does restore the original data with remarkable precision.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Inventor: Andrew Batrac
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Patent number: 8633840Abstract: A determining method and apparatus thereof for a transition point of a sequence which can be applied to a decoder. The determining method determines the transition point of the sequence having N numbers, wherein the sequence is composed of a first value and a second value and N is a positive integer. The determining method includes determining the position the first value appearing consecutively in the sequence to determine a first interval; determining the position the second value appearing consecutively in the sequence to determine a second interval; and determining the longer interval between the first interval and the second interval, when the first interval is longer, determining an adjacency of the first interval and the second value as the transition point according to the first interval, and when the second interval is longer, determining an adjacency of the second interval and the first value as the transition point.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.Inventors: Po Lin Yeh, Chien-Hsing Lin, Jui-Hua Yeh, Shao Ping Hung, Chih-Tien Chang
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Patent number: 8619340Abstract: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for augmenting present methods used for determining the orientation direction automatically being detected of digital pages of a plurality of scanned documents in a digital document processing environment. The present method takes advantage of the observation that pages scanned in data processing centers are often highly correlated. The present method contains five primary steps. 1) Page orientation (i.e., up/down) is detected using a traditional method. 2) Each page is classified as either directional or non-directional. 3) The pages classified as directional are clustered into groups. 4) The direction for each group is determined. 5) The directional group's direction is used to revise the orientation for pages contained in the group. Through the implementation of the teachings hereof, performance, in terms of both speed and accuracy, are very high relative to current methods and detection error rates can be reduced significantly.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Zhigang Fan, Michael R. Campanelli
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Patent number: 8619099Abstract: An exemplary display device includes a display panel, an orientation recognition unit and a directional detection circuit. The display panel is used to display images. The orientation recognition unit is used to determine an angle of rotation of the display panel and generates a corresponding direction detection signal. The directional detection circuit is used to adjust an orientation of one or more images displayed by the display panel according to the direction detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignees: Innocom Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Chimei Innolux CorporationInventors: Wei Wang, De-Quan Mo, Qz-Feng Yang, Chang-Wei Lin
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Publication number: 20130342579Abstract: A multimedia interaction system includes: multiple electronic devices and a location detection circuit. The location detection circuit dynamically detects respective electronic device's spatial position and orientation. When an user instructs a source electronic device of the multiple electronic devices to transmit a target image object toward a selected direction, the source electronic device decides a target direction according to a location of a first candidate electronic device and the selected direction if a relative position between the first candidate electronic and the selected direction satisfies a first predetermined condition. The source electronic device transmits a target command corresponding to the target image object to a second candidate electronic device to perform corresponding multimedia interaction operations only if a relative position between the second candidate electronic and the target direction satisfies a second predetermined condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.Inventors: Siu-Leong YU, Shih-Chun WEI, Chen MA
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Patent number: 8605098Abstract: A memory architecture for image processing comprising a memory array having multiple multi-byte memory data paths of equal multi-byte data width, and a multiplexing structure connected to the output of the multiple multi-byte data paths, capable of selectively providing a multi-byte data path of a desired width containing a desired permutation of bytes chosen from one or more of the multiple data paths.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.Inventor: Mahesh Chandra
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Publication number: 20130321467Abstract: In response to certain inputs to an application, the operating system generates a snapshot of the graphical interface of an application. Such inputs include, but are not limited, actions that initiate an update of the graphical interface in the display area for the application, such as repositioning, resizing and/or rotating the display area, bringing the display area onto the display, and removing the display area from the display. Other actions that may initiate creation and use of a snapshot include suspending an application, bringing an application into the foreground, and swapping data for an application into and out of main memory. The operating system updates the display area for the application using the snapshot until the application has completed updating its graphical interface for the modified display area. While the application is updating its graphical interface, the operating system can manage other inputs to the application.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Henry Tappen, Alex Snitkovskiy, Gabriel DeBacker, Charing Wong
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Patent number: 8599220Abstract: A position fine tuning of an object without movement of creation points of the object is facilitated with a position tool having a graphic position tool displayed on a display. The graphic position tool may comprise a rotation tool, dragging of which causes the object to rotate accordingly around its creation axis, and/or an offset tool, either a clickable one or a draggable one, with which the object's position on an offset plane can be changed. A clickable offset tool may comprise buttons clicking of which causes the object to move a predetermined offset value(s) to a direction defined by the button.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Tekla CorporationInventors: Tuomas Kaski, Vesa Tuomiaro
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Patent number: 8594418Abstract: In a method for editing a digital image by computer, operating controls for controlling properties are offered on a monitor; modifications of the image are formed in one step and modifications are applied to the image in a subsequent step. Operating controls for each type of modification are operative simultaneously. An apparatus for working the method as well as computer program products are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Michael Donvig Jonsson
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Publication number: 20130300768Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, are described for displaying a document. In one view, a first substantially rectangular shape containing a current page of the document may be displayed adjacent to a second substantially rectangular shape containing a number of pages other than the current page. A rotational motion input may be received at the device, and the first and second shapes may be updated based on a new current page identified by the rotational motion input. In another view, a number of curved shapes may be displayed in a nested arrangement defined by a spiral, each of the curved shapes being associated with a portion of the document. A current page may be stored, and a rotational motion input may be received. The current page may be updated according to at least an end point of the received rotational motion input.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventor: Kulathumani Krishnan
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Publication number: 20130300769Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an image rotation control method and device. The method includes: reading image blocks of a first image from a first buffer according to a rotation angle, where the first image is in a first image format; writing the read image blocks into a preset second buffer; and reading image data from the second buffer according to a second image format, so as to obtain a rotated second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventor: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 8581933Abstract: A method controls display of an image by dividing a source image into a plurality of M×N blocks of pixels, selecting a first one of the blocks, and transferring the pixels in the first block from a source memory to a display memory, the pixels in the first block transferred based on orientation change information. The selecting and transferring steps are then repeated to transfer pixels in remaining ones of the blocks to the display memory. Each block corresponds to only a portion of the source image, where any given portion represents less than a full line of pixels in the source image.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Guruprasad Nagaraj, Krishna Koteshwara Sridhar Murthy, Vijayalaxmi Patil, Nataraja Kambadahalli Muniyappa, Sunil Ramappa Nyamagouda
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Patent number: 8576224Abstract: A method of determining a rigid motion between a master solid model and an approximated target model (or, more generally, between any two models having different types) includes identifying, within each model, geometrical entities having a unique characteristic, and then determining the best match between the identified geometric entities. The system provides, in machine-readable form, a master model comprising a precise definition of a three-dimensional solid and a target model comprising a simplified definition of the three-dimensional solid. Then it identifies a first set of geometric entities (e.g., planar faces) within the master model that have a unique characteristic (e.g., planar area), and identifies a second set of geometric entities in the target model that have the unique characteristic. The system then determines a best match between a member of the first set of geometric entities and a member of the second set of geometric entities using, for example, a Hungarian matching algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jan H. Vandenbrande, Thomas A. Grandine, Miriam Lucian, John Monahan
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Publication number: 20130286049Abstract: In some embodiments a controller is to determine an orientation of a head of a user relative to a display. The controller is also to adjust an orientation of an image displayed on the display in response to the determined orientation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2011Publication date: October 31, 2013Inventors: Heng Yang, Xiaoxing Tu, Yong Jiang
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Patent number: 8564609Abstract: A method and system for performing full-scene anti-aliasing for an image through a technique of rotating and unrotating rasterization of a scene and rendering a resulting image. A scene is rasterized at a first angle relative to a first coordinate system to generate a plurality of pixels, which are then applied to a polygon surface that is rendered at a second angle equal to the inverse of the first angle. Thus, the resulting image is re-oriented with respect to the first coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Round Rock Research, LLCInventor: Gregory M. Hunter
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Patent number: 8564533Abstract: The disclosure relates to controlling and manipulating an image of an object on a display device based on tracked eye movements of an observer. When the object is displayed according to an initial view, the observer's eye movement is tracked and processed in order to determine the focus of the observer's attention or gaze on the image. Thereafter, the displayed image is modified to provide a better view of the part of the object in which the observer is most interested. This is accomplished by modifying at least one of the spatial positioning of the object within the viewing area, the angle of view of the object, and the viewing direction of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Peking UniversityInventor: Xiaoru Yuan
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Publication number: 20130275042Abstract: User equipment includes a storage unit for separately storing map data, POI (Point Of Interest) information, and location information of the POI information on the map data, a map output unit for displaying the POI information on a screen based on the location information of the POI information so that the POI information is overlapped with the map data in parallel to the lateral axis of the user equipment, and a rotation angle calculating unit for calculating a rotation angle for the rotation of the map data. The map output unit rotates the map data and the POI information, which are displayed on the screen in an overlapping state, according to the rotation angle so that the POI information is disposed in parallel to the lateral axis of the user equipment after rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: JH Investments LLCInventor: Jee Hoon PARK
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Publication number: 20130271495Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the use of a multi-segment wearable accessory. In this regard, methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for controlling and, in some instances, interacting with a multi-segment wearable accessory. Each screen presented on or capable of being presented on the display of a segment of the multi-segment wearable accessory may be considered a virtual segment, and the number of virtual segments may be greater than the number of physical segments of the accessory. One or more of the virtual segments may be associated with one or more of the segments in an overlaid configuration, such that a topmost virtual segment is presented for viewing while another virtual segment lies below the topmost virtual segment, hidden from the user's view. A virtual segment may be replaced with presentation of another virtual segment in response to rotation of the accessory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATIONInventors: David H. Nguyen, Kenton M. Lyons
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Patent number: 8558851Abstract: An accelerometer of a mobile computing device is operable to provide a first input to an orientation module of the device. The orientation module is configured to use multiple signals to determine a spatial orientation of the device. A magnetometer of the device is operable to provide a second input to the orientation module. The orientation module is operable to receive the first input from the accelerometer and the second input from the magnetometer, and to determine an orientation of the device based on a combination of the first input and the second input.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Erick Tseng
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Patent number: 8542238Abstract: A user can control the animation of an object via an interface that includes a control area and a user-manipulable control element. In one embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes an arrow. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes an ellipse, and the user-manipulable control element includes two points on the circumference of the ellipse. In yet another embodiment, the control area includes a first rectangle, and the user-manipulable control element includes a second rectangle. In yet another embodiment, the user-manipulable control element includes two triangular regions, and the control area includes an area separating the two regions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gregory E. Niles, Stephen M. Sheeler, Guido Hucking
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Patent number: 8542252Abstract: Techniques may comprise identifying surfaces, textures, and object dimensions from unorganized point clouds derived from a capture device, such as a depth sensing device. Employing target digitization may comprise surface extraction, identifying points in a point cloud, labeling surfaces, computing object properties, tracking changes in object properties over time, and increasing confidence in the object boundaries and identity as additional frames are captured. If the point cloud data includes an object, a model of the object may be generated. Feedback of the model associated with a particular object may be generated and provided real time to the user. Further, the model of the object may be tracked in response to any movement of the object in the physical space such that the model may be adjusted to mimic changes or movement of the object, or increase the fidelity of the target's characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kathryn Stone Perez, Alex Kipman, Nicholas Burton, Andrew Wilson, Diego Fernandes Nehab
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Patent number: 8542248Abstract: An X-ray image diagnosis apparatus allows setting information indicating an object direction in a radiographed image without any errors. This invention is an X-ray detection apparatus which detects X-rays applied to an object and generates a radiographed image of the object. This apparatus includes a unit to display, in a display area, a symbol which has a form corresponding to the object and for which a vector representing a direction as a reference for the symbol is defined, a button to change the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area, and a unit to output information concerning the direction of the vector in association with a radiographed image of the object, when the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area is changed to match the direction of the object with the direction of the symbol displayed in the display area.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tomohiro Goto
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Patent number: 8542251Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include presenting to a user one or more images, receiving a rotational reorientation of the one or more images by the user, and providing access to a computing service based on a comparison of the orientations of the one or more images after reorientation by the user to a standard for each image.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Shumeet Baluja, Maryam Kamvar
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Patent number: 8543910Abstract: A method includes presenting a content page of a number of content pages on a display of an electronic device. The content page is placed in a content page container. A page turning container is created having length and width that is based on length and width of the content page, and the page turning container is positioned off-angle relative to a display of an electronic device. The content page container is positioned within the page turning container at approximately at a same angle as the display of the electronic device. A dog ear is placed in a dog ear container such that the initial size of the dog ear covers the top corner of the content page is within the page turning container. The method includes performing page turning operations comprising rotating the page turning container and rotating and shifting the content page container and the dog ear container.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Richard Redpath
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Patent number: 8537443Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a document correction section and a display control section. The document correction section carries out rotation processing with respect to a document image so that a first reference direction from a reference side of a document to a side facing the reference side coincides with an upper-to-lower direction of the document image which has been subjected to the rotation processing. Further, before the rotation processing is carried out, the display control section causes the display apparatus to display an image in which the document and a mark indicating the reference side of the document to a user are shown in accordance with the document image. This allows a user to easily predict how the document shown in the document image will be oriented after the document image is subjected to the rotation processing, before the user inputs a command to carry out the rotation processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Atsuhisa Morimoto
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Publication number: 20130235083Abstract: An information processing method and an electrical device are described. The information processing method is applied to an electrical device having at least a processing unit, the electrical device has a plurality of usage modes and further includes a plurality of sensing units. The method includes acquiring, by the processing unit, data collected by the plurality of the sensing units; judging whether the electrical device is in a first usage mode according to the acquired data collected by the plurality of the sensing units; wherein the first usage mode is one of the plurality of the usage modes. With the present method, objects of integrating a plurality of usage modes into one electrical device and judging a usage mode corresponding to a current application scene efficiently are realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicants: BEIJING LENOVO SOFTWARE LTD., LENOVO (BEIJING) CO., LTD.Inventors: Haidong Bao, Ningyu Wang, Xianshuan Zeng, Ying Gao
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Publication number: 20130222431Abstract: A content view display method and apparatus allow a user to intuitively use contents regardless of any change of a display mode between a landscape mode and a portrait mode by maintaining an arrangement of the contents even though the display mode is changed. The method for displaying a content view includes simultaneously displaying at least two pages of the content view in the landscape mode, and displaying at least one of the pages of the content view when the display mode of the mobile device is changed from the landscape mode to the portrait mode. Each page of the content view includes a plurality of panels. Content is located in each of the panels. An arrangement of the panels is maintained regardless of a change of the display mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2013Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
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Patent number: 8520025Abstract: An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: James Patterson, Nathan Moody, Scott Dougall
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Patent number: 8517946Abstract: Embodiments of a user interface in an ultrasound system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the ultrasound system comprises a display unit for prompting a user to touch a desired one of hierarchically arranged soft buttons for triggering an execution of the function of the ultrasound system associated with the touched button. The display unit includes a display having a display with touch panel mounted. The display unit is configured to display a touch screen menu together with the ultrasound image on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Medison Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyoung Jin Kim
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Patent number: 8515207Abstract: A technique for efficient processing of annotations in images such as panoramic images is herein disclosed. In an embodiment, a first user annotation is received for a feature in a first panorama, and a second user annotation for the same feature is received in a second panorama. The coordinates for the feature can then be generated by computing the intersection between data generated for the first user annotation and for the second user annotations.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Stephen Chau
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Patent number: 8508534Abstract: Input is received that selects an animation aspect associated with an object within an animation. The animation involves the object and an original frame of reference through which the animation is displayed, and the selected animation aspect is one that changes over time with respect to the original frame of reference. The animation is displayed through a new frame of reference defined by holding the selected animation aspect constant over time. During the animation display through the new frame of reference, input is received that manipulates the object to create a new animation aspect associated with the object. The new animation aspect associated with the object is recorded in the animation.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Paul A. George, Robert S. Sargent, David C. Holloway
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Patent number: 8509855Abstract: A mobile information terminal has a front surface on which a display surface of a display device is arranged and a rear surface on which a plurality of operation keys are arranged. The mobile information terminal further has a half-depressing sensor for detecting that each of the operation keys is half-depressed and/or a touch sensor for detecting that each of the operation keys is touched. A control section executes a processing operation to cause the display device to display an image showing the arrangement of said operation keys and to change an icon which corresponds to a key of operation keys when a control section determines, according to an input signal from the half-depressing sensor or the touch sensor, that the finger of the operator is placed on this key of operation keys.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Toshiyuki Oga
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Publication number: 20130201218Abstract: Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for showing calendar events that are not visible on screen. Event objects are shown when an event is within a viewable time range, but the event object is partially drawn on screen (e.g. clipped) when the event is not within a viewable time range. The displayed parts of event objects indicating off-screen event can stack on top of each other to provide information about a number of off-screen events for a particular day. With the events clipped and stacked, a user has a visual indicator that there are events off screen for a particular day. As a user scrolls to the time of the event, the event can completely reveals itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Samuel C. Cates, Raymond S. Sepulveda, Viktor Miladinov, Patrick Coffman, Lala Dutta
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Publication number: 20130201219Abstract: There is described a portable electronic device capable of managing screen orientation. The portable electronic device comprises a display, a motion sensor, an image sensor and a processor. The display provides an image at a first orientation. The motion sensor attempts to detect a rotation of the portable electronic device. The image sensor attempts to detect one or more body features. The processor determines a second orientation of the image at the display based on the rotation detected at the motion sensor and/or the body feature or features detected at the image sensor. The portable electronic device may determine an orientation of the image at the display in response to detecting the rotation at the motion sensor and/or the body feature or features at the image sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: Motorola Mobility, Inc.Inventors: Hong Zhao, LieJun Tao, Dean E. Thorson
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Publication number: 20130187955Abstract: The invention relates to an intra-operative image presentation method, in which an image representation (30) of a branched body structure which has been graphically segmented from a medical image data set is presented on a display, in particular a monitor (17), wherein the viewing situation of a person looking at the display and any changes in said viewing situation are determined, and the image representation is modified accordingly by adapting the image representation (30) to the changes in the viewing situation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2010Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: BrainLAB AGInventors: Uli Mezger, Juergen Gassner
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Publication number: 20130187921Abstract: The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a support such as vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus in various surfaces of rotation. A displayed image may be three dimensional. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and can have the capability of producing a clear, bright, high definition image that is equivalent to that of a modern day TV or high quality computer monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Applicant: LIGHTNING WHEELS, LLCInventor: Lightning Wheels, LLC
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Patent number: 8493413Abstract: An apparatus and a method for changing a screen mode depending on a posture and movement of a terminal are provided. A motion sensor measures a value of a three-axis sensor that changes depending on the posture or movement of the terminal, and transfers the measured value to the controller. A storage stores a plurality of screen modes corresponding to the posture or movement of the terminal. A controller determines the posture or movement of the terminal using the value of the three-axis sensor transferred from the motion sensor, and maintains the current screen mode a change in one of three axes is greater than the other two axes which indicates a user did not intended to switch the screen mode.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hyun-Young Mo
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Patent number: 8495706Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television apparatus includes a receiving module, a display controller, a receiving controller, an obtaining module, a storage module, and a controller. The receiving module receives an operation for putting the television apparatus into a waiting state to connect to an external device. The display controller displays identification information identifying the television apparatus, security information generated randomly, and displays screen information received from the external device. The receiving controller receives the request for connection and the security information. The obtaining module obtains external-device identification information identifying the external device if communication with the external device is initiated. The storage module stores the external-device identification information.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Tomohiro Kanda
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Publication number: 20130182014Abstract: A mobile terminal for outputting an image and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes a terminal main body, a display unit disposed on a front surface of the main body and configured to display an image, a movement sensor mounted in the main body and configured to sense a movement of the main body, a camera sensor activated in response to a movement of the main body, and a controller configured to control a display direction of the image according to a user location sensed by the camera sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2012Publication date: July 18, 2013Inventor: Jieun PARK
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Publication number: 20130176341Abstract: A device and method for controlling rotation of a displayed image is provided. The device includes a sensor unit for detecting whether the device has been rotated; a photography unit for taking a picture of the face of a user in response to a determination that the device is rotated; a rotation determination unit for determining a rotation of the displayed image based on the captured face image of the user; and an image rotation unit for rotating the displayed image according to the determined rotation of the displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-su JUNG, Yong-gook Park, Ju-il Eom