Abstract: Video or image capture device and method of operation of the capture device are described. One example method includes determining, for a video capture by a capture device, a capture orientation mode setting of the capture device, capturing a video using one of a first camera or a second camera based on the capture orientation mode and a current orientation of the capture device, wherein the video is in the capture orientation mode, and storing, after capturing, the video in a video file.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for relatively changing a parameter value from a first value using a pressure sensitive user interface (UI) element. In an embodiment, the techniques include: activating the UI element in response to pressure signals received at the UI element; displaying the first value as the parameter value; converting the pressure signals to corresponding parametric values; presenting the parametric values as feedback concurrently with the converted pressure signals and with the displayed first value; unlocking the activated UI element when the parametric values fall within a first window of the first value for a first time period; after the unlocking of the activated UI element, relatively changing the parameter value from the first value to the parametric values concurrently with the displayed parametric values; and deactivating and locking the UI element in response to a lack of pressure signals received at the touch point of the UI element.

Abstract: The systems and methods of the present disclosure may provide, among other features, easy-to-learn, efficient, and/or unambiguous methods for controlling rotation and/or other manipulation of multi-dimensional (for example, 2D and/or 3D) images and/or objects. The systems and methods may be used for any type of image display/manipulation on a wide variety of computer systems and coupled displays including personal computers with monitors, phones, tablets, and televisions. In general, a user may select a particular rotation plane (for example, rotation only in x axis) by placement of a cursor, or touch of a finger, over a certain portion of the image such that subsequent movements of the mouse result in only rotations in the particular plane, and unwanted rotations and/or other manipulations in other planes do not occur. In this way, the user can more precisely control rotations of the 3D image and/or object.

Abstract: A user device may receive a web page having multiple different types of content (e.g., text, images, videos, etc.). The user device may identify the different types of content, and may generate reformatted pages that each include a particular type of content associated with the web page. For instance, one reformatted page may include text content of the web page, without including image content of the web page (and/or vice versa). The reformatted pages may include resized and/or repositioned versions of the original content (e.g., resized and/or reformatted images and/or text).

Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for displaying a service screen in an electronic device. The method includes: displaying a first service screen included in a first window on a display module; generating a second window including a second service screen; and displaying a service screen included in one of a plurality of windows corresponding to a viewing angle of a user with respect to the electronic device on the display module.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for nesting objects in 2D sheets and 3D volumes. In one embodiment, a nesting application simplifies the shapes of parts and performs a rigid body simulation of the parts dropping into a 2D sheet or 3D volume. In the rigid body simulation, parts begin from random initial positions on one or more sides and drop under the force of gravity into the 2D sheet or 3D volume until coming into contact with another part, a boundary, or the origin of the gravity. The parts may be dropped according to a particular order, such as alternating large and small parts. Further, the simulation may be translation- and/or position-only, meaning the parts do not rotate and/or do not have momentum, respectively. Tighter packing may be achieved by incorporating user inputs and simulating jittering of the parts using random forces.

Abstract: A method for editing content including at least one three-dimensional object. The method includes determining by a processing element one or more constraints, rendering by the processing element a shell defining an offset distance to the three-dimensional object corresponding to the one or more constraints, receiving a user input to a point related or connected to the three-dimensional object, and moving the point in a direction corresponding to the user input. In the method, the movement of the point is limited in at least one direction by the shell.

Abstract: The use of visual cues associated with rendered visual items to cue a user on whether a rendered visual item has interactive capability and/or what type of interaction is possible with that visual item. The visual items may be rendered in a data driven way with each constructed using a corresponding parameterized view component. The parameter(s) are populated by data, perhaps by model variables obtained from an analytical model. The parameters then drive logic associated with the view component to thereby construct a visual item which may then be rendered. The rendering engine then renders the visual item with the visual cue. The user may then interact with the rendered visual item. Such interaction might cause some external action to occur, might change which visual items are displayed, and/or might change a value of the input parameters of one or more view components used to generate displayed visual items.

Abstract: A method including presenting, by a computer, multiple interactive items on a display coupled to the computer, and receiving, from a depth sensor, a sequence of three-dimensional (3D) maps containing at least a hand of a user of the computer. An explicit select gesture performed by the user toward one of the interactive items is detected in the maps, and the one of the interactive items is selected responsively to the explicit select gesture. Subsequent to selecting the one of the interactive items, a TimeClick functionality is actuated for subsequent interactive item selections to be made by the user.

Abstract: In a method for displaying information in a motor vehicle, at least one two-dimensional object is displayed graphically in a first representation which shows one side of the object, and in a second representation which shows the other side of the object, with the aid of a display mounted in the motor vehicle, different information being shown on the respective sides of the two-dimensional graphical object, and the graphical object extending substantially over the entire size of the display in at least one direction in the first and/or second representation. The representation of the graphical object is altered as a function of a control signal such that the graphical object rotates from one side to the other side in a perspective representation on the display, the two-dimensional graphical object always being fully displayed, at least perspectively, during the rotation. A corresponding display device for a motor vehicle is provided for performing the method.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a 3D object control method thereof for controlling the depth or rotation of a 3D object using a 3D manipulation portion displayed around the 3D object. According to the present invention, a circular- or ring-shaped 3D manipulation portion may be touched to intuitively control the rotation and enlargement/reduction of the 3D object, thereby providing usefulness and convenience for the user, capable of editing the 3D object while directly viewing the transformed form and depth of the 3D object.

Abstract: When the device is rotated from a portrait orientation to landscape orientation, or vice versa, the display device rotates the content items within distinct respective content regions of a page template (“slots”) that each appear to stay in their same position with respect to a frame of reference of the display device. While the content regions stay in their same positions, the content within each content region counter-rotates in place to offset the rotation of the display device. Thus, the content within the content regions maintains an orientation with respect to a constant (non-rotating) frame of reference, regardless of the orientation or rotation of the display device. In one embodiment, a slot's position, height, and width in a template in a second orientation are determined from the slot's position, height, and width in the template in a first orientation.

Abstract: A graphics presentation apparatus including a display unit, an eye-tracking module, and a data output module. The eye-tracking module registers image data representing at least one eye of a user of the apparatus. Furthermore, the eye-tracking module determines, based on the registered image data, an orientation of the at least one eye relative to the display unit. Finally, in response thereto, the eye-tracking module generates a control signal controlling the data output module to produce visual content with such orientation on the display unit that a misalignment between the orientation of said at least one part and the orientation of the at least one eye of the user is minimized.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device having a movable display screen is used to capture image data. The movable display screen is movable between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position a first portion of the display screen is hidden from view and a second portion of the display screen is viewable, and in the second position the first portion and the second portion of the display screen are viewable, the handheld electronic device having an image sensor, an orientation sensor for sensing an orientation of the handheld electronic device, and at least one position sensor for sensing a position of the display screen. Device orientation information is received from the orientation sensor, display screen position information is received from the position sensor and image data is received from the image sensor representing an image. An image orientation for the image is determined in dependence on both the display screen position information and the device orientation information.

Abstract: The method and system for dynamic font support on a mobile communication device is disclosed herein. The present invention determines if a mobile communication device such as a mobile phone can properly render a digital communication from an enterprise using the native language of the mobile communication device. If not, the invention will render the digital communication at a server and transmit a raster equivalent to the mobile communication device.

Abstract: An editing method includes: detecting a selection of first and second clip portions of a source media depiction, generating corresponding first and second block icons and snapping hands-free the first and second block icons across the screen to a linear queue so that the blocks are snugly adjacent, detecting a move of the first or second block icon relative to one another substantially along the queue, and if the first or second block icon overlaps the other by substantially one half of the other block icon, reversing displayed positions in the queue of the first and second block icons.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for transforming a display image on a display from a first orientation to a second orientation, the method having the steps of: breaking up the display image into multiple sub-images; and transforming each of the multiple sub-images individually, the transforming step including selecting a pixel, determining a transformed location for the pixel, and writing the pixel to a display buffer.

Abstract: The data acquisition unit acquires data in correspondence with each dimensional axis and the time axis. The mode setting unit makes setting and clearing of a dimensionality investigation mode. In the dimensionality investigation mode, the axis-determinative variation-rate calculation unit calculates axial data variation rates. The axis determination unit determines whether or not the axial data variation rate corresponding to each axis is low. The objective-axis setting unit sets each axis as an objective axis when the axial data variation rate corresponding to the axis is determined to be high. While the dimensionality investigation mode is cleared, the recording-determinative variation-rate calculation unit calculates axial data variation rates. The recording determination unit determines, on the basis of the axial data variation rate, whether to record the acquired data. The recording unit does not record the data when the data is determined not to be recorded.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a multifinger twisting gesture is detected on or near the touch screen display. The multifinger twisting gesture has a corresponding degree of rotation. A 90° screen rotation command is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation exceeds a predefined degree of rotation. A screen rotation command with an acute angle of rotation is executed and, upon ceasing to detect the multifinger twisting gesture, a screen rotation command with an angle of rotation opposite to the acute angle is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation is less than the predefined degree of rotation.

Abstract: An approach is provided where a request is received to rotate graphical objects displayed on a display screen from a first orientation to a second orientation, the request received from a user operating the machine. The second orientation of the graphical objects is calculated based on a rotational reference that is included in the request. The graphical objects are then displayed on the display screen at the calculated second orientation, with the second orientation being visually rotated from the first orientation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system which integrates unique lighting technologies, switching systems, mounting systems, information delivery systems and power supply systems within a vehicular wheel to provide an advanced, high quality visual display apparatus. These technologies, and their many unique applications, provide for a novel and useful series of video display devices that are small, lightweight, efficient and 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.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: In a design support apparatus, a storage unit stores location data of an assembly including a first member long and flexible and a second member connected to the first member and having a larger cross-sectional shape than that of the first member within a product, and respective positions of installed objects. A geometric center calculation unit virtually extends straight lines from a point on a route along which the first member passes, radially in directions normal to a tangential direction of the route, virtually positions points where the straight lines come into contact with the installed objects, and calculates a geometric center from the positioned points. A route change unit changes the route such that the first member passes the calculated geometric center. A verification unit verifies whether or not the assembly interferes with any of the installed objects during passage of the first member along the changed route.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a controller, a touch screen display in communication with the controller, and a plurality of accessories in communication with the controller. The various accessories are each individually controlled by inputting commands into the touch screen display. The controller transmits the inputted command via a communication system to the selected accessory to motivate the accessory between a first setting and a second setting.

Abstract: A system for changing the display direction of a screen includes a gravity sensor, a control key unit, a display control unit, and a control mode choice unit. The gravity sensor is adapted to generate gravity-sensing signals according to the orientation of the screen. The control key unit is adapted to generate a control instruction. The control mode choice unit is connected to the gravity sensor and the control key unit. The control mode choice unit is adapted to send either the gravity sensed signal from the gravity sensor or the control instruction from the control key unit to the display control unit. The display control unit is adapted to control the display direction of the screen according to either the gravity sensed signal or the control instruction.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device having a movable display screen is used to capture image data. The movable display screen is movable between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position a first portion of the display screen is hidden from view and a second portion of the display screen is viewable, and in the second position the first portion and the second portion of the display screen are viewable, the handheld electronic device having an image sensor, an orientation sensor for sensing an orientation of the handheld electronic device, and at least one position sensor for sensing a position of the display screen. Device orientation information is received from the orientation sensor, display screen position information is received from the position sensor and image data is received from the image sensor representing an image. An image orientation for the image is determined in dependence on both the display screen position information and the device orientation information.

Abstract: A portable terminal and method capable of detecting a touch event unintended by a user to control unnecessary touch so that a corresponding touch event is not applied are provided. The touch control method includes collecting at least one touch event of a touch panel, determining location information of the at least one collected touch event, and applying a touch event by disregarding the collected touch event when the location information is an invalid region.

Abstract: A method for processing a selected item in a GUI of a multimedia application is provided. The method includes receiving a hot key input that specifies a function that is to be applied to the selected item and displaying a set of control guidelines associated with the hot key input. The set of control guidelines indicates cursor movement inputs needed to specify particular aspects of the function. A method for transforming a received cursor movement in a first coordinate system to a transformed cursor movement in a second coordinate system is provided. The received cursor movement specifies a particular manner (e.g., aspect and extent) of a function to be applied to an item in a workspace of a multimedia application. The first coordinate system displays a particular view of the workspace.

Abstract: Methods for generating supports (30) for parts (50) produced by solid freeform fabrication (“SFF”) are disclosed. The method includes defining a plurality of layers (L) that make up the part, and for each layer, determining those regions (R) that require support. The method also includes merging the regions for the different layers (L) into one or more common regions that require support, and providing at least one support for each of the one or more common regions. The result is that fewer supports are used as compared to conventional SFF fabrication methods.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating data entry into an electronic device via a touchscreen. As a user places his or her finger on the touchscreen, a cursor may be displayed at a location relative to other items displayed on the touchscreen that is proximate the physical location where the user touched the touchscreen. Because the cursor is likely now obscured by the user's finger, the items displayed on the touchscreen, including the cursor, may then be shifted or scrolled so that the cursor is offset from the physical location where the user touched the touchscreen. At the same time, the items displayed on the touchscreen may be magnified in order to further facilitate data entry. At this point, the user may shift or tilt his or her finger in order to achieve the desired cursor placement.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, a method, and a medium for displaying contents according to motions by identifying the direction of a sensed motion and moving the content region in a direction opposite to the identified direction or moving the background region in the identified direction. The apparatus including a motion sensing unit to sense a motion; a display control unit to adjust a position of an image region with reference to a direction of the sensed motion; and a display unit to display a content and a background according to the adjusted position, wherein the image region comprises a content region having the content and a background region having the background.

Abstract: Technologies are described herein for laying out content. Constraints and rules are defined for one or more content objects. The constraints are utilized to lay out content objects on a canvas. Content is received for one of the content objects. The constraints and rules for the content object are utilized in an attempt to fit the content to the selected content object. If the content cannot be fit to the selected content object, the rules are utilized to modify the constraints for the other content objects and the layout for the canvas is regenerated. If the available content cannot be fit to the content objects on a page without overflowing, one or more additional pages are added to the canvas. Once the additional pages have been added, the content objects are laid out and content is fitted to the content objects across all of the pages.

Abstract: A method for determining a pose of an object from a range image is presented. A distribution of poses for an object is determined from a model of the object. A set of reference poses is selected according to the distribution, such that more reference poses are selected for more probable poses than less probable poses. A reference image for each reference pose is generated, and the reference pose used to generate the reference image that best matches a range image including the object is assigned as the pose of the object.

Abstract: In order to improve the operationality of a walk-through system using panorama photography images, the system is provided with a view calculating unit for calculating view information in accordance with a user instruction from an operation unit, the view information including view position information and view direction information; a panorama image storing unit for storing a plurality of panorama images; a path storing unit for storing path information of the panorama images; an advancable path calculating unit for calculating advancable path information at a next dividing point in accordance with the view information and the path information; and an image generating unit for generating a cut-out image from the panorama image in accordance with the view information, generating a sign figure representative of the advancable path in accordance with the advancable path information, and synthesizing the cut-out image and the sign figure to generate a display image.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect portrait/landscape orientation of the apparatus, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve, out of a plurality of image data, image data oriented according to the detected orientation, a display unit, and a control unit configured to display on the display unit an image relating to the retrieved image data.

Abstract: A mobile phone (1) of this invention includes: a position determination section (31) for determining a position of a display section (18), which display section (18) is rotatable on an axis perpendicular to a display screen of the display section (18) so as to be fixed at respective one of at least two positions; and a view angle control section (40) for changing the view angle of the display section (18) in a predetermined view angle control direction which corresponds to the position determined by the position determination section (31). Hence, a liquid crystal display device is attained which appropriately maintains a view angle in accordance with a usage state of a display section.

Abstract: The invention includes computer instructions that operate to receive an input corresponding to generation of a pattern in a computer aided design (CAD) solid model. Pattern is comprised of a number of features included within a boundary of the solid model. The instructions further operate to receive an indication of modification to the solid model. The instructions operate to automatically modify the solid model and its boundary based at least upon the received indication. The instructions further operate to automatically determine whether modification, if any, to at least one of pattern and number of features to be continuously included within the boundary of the modified solid model, is necessary, based at least upon the modified solid model and received input. Upon so determining, the instructions operate to cause the necessary modification to be effectuated. As a result, simplified modification of patterns of features in a CAD solid model is facilitated.

Abstract: Extending graphical information to a remote computing system such that a multiple monitor configuration can be implemented for the first computing device is illustrated. The multiple monitors include a display connected to the first computing device and one or more displays connected to other computing devices. A remote session is established between the first computing device and the second computing device. Graphics commands are generated for first and second display drivers at the first computing device as if a multi-display configuration is active at the first computing device. The first display driver is associated with a display at the first computing device. The second display driver doesn't have an associated display at the first computing device. Graphics are displayed from the graphics commands for the first display driver at the display at the first computing device. Graphics commands for the second display driver are remoted to the second computing device.

Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided including a display module, an acceleration sensor, and a controller. The display module is for displaying first content and second content. The acceleration sensor is for providing measurement data on a direction of gravitational acceleration. The controller is configured to display the first content and the second content in line vertically and to rotate the first content and the second content when the measurement data indicate that the mobile terminal has been rotated to a first position while uniformly maintaining a display direction of the display module. The controller is further configured to display the first content and the second content in line horizontally and to rotate the first content and the second content when the measurement data indicate that the mobile terminal has been rotated to a second position while uniformly maintaining the display direction of the display module.

Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for enabling an automatic creation of a parts list and 3-dimensional illustrations of a product based on 3-dimensional CAD or XVL data of an industrial product consisting of a plurality of parts. A method for generating a parts catalog consisting of a parts list and corresponding disassembly illustrations is provided. This method comprises the steps of (a) assigning reference numerals/symbols based on the parts list; (b) building a disassembly algorithm based on the parts list; and (c) generating disassembly illustrations based on the disassembly algorithm, wherein minimum disassembly units of the disassembly illustrations are parts and parts groups assigned with the reference numerals/symbols, and displaying the reference numeral/symbol for each of the parts and parts groups in the disassembly illustrations.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a device with a touch screen display is disclosed. In the method, a multifinger twisting gesture is detected on or near the touch screen display. The multifinger twisting gesture has a corresponding degree of rotation. A 90° screen rotation command is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation exceeds a predefined degree of rotation. A screen rotation command with an acute angle of rotation is executed and, upon ceasing to detect the multifinger twisting gesture, a screen rotation command with an angle of rotation opposite to the acute angle is executed if the corresponding degree of rotation is less than the predefined degree of rotation.

Abstract: A method for generating a three-dimensional representation of a ribbon cable in a computer-aided design drawing is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user may create a three-dimensional ribbon cable object with an arbitrary shape and an arbitrary number of fold or twists. A user creates or specifies a ribbon cable template incorporating several attributes and a computer aided design application may be configured to generate a three-dimensional ribbon cable object from the template and displays the representation of the three-dimensional ribbon cable object in the computer-aided design drawing. Further, once generated, the ribbon cable object may be flattened to a two-dimensional surface, identifying the overall length of the ribbon cable and the location of any folds.

Abstract: A portable electronic equipment includes a main body, a display screen, an orientation sensing module and a display controlling module. The display screen is arranged on the main body for displaying an image in an original orientation. The orientation sensing module includes a first elongated chamber, a first sensing unit, a second sensing unit, an opaque medium partially filled in the first elongated chamber and an air pocket received in the first elongated chamber. The display controlling module is configured for deviating the displayed image at a given angle clockwise or counterclockwise from the original orientation of the image.

Abstract: Determining a minimum condition and a maximum condition of an assembly of parts includes determining a subset of the assembly of parts, constructing a tolerance chain comprised of tolerance features associated with the parts and that have tolerances that can assume maximum and minimum values, setting at least one tolerance to a minimum value or a maximum value, and calculating the minimum condition and the maximum condition of the assembly based on the setting of the tolerance.

Abstract: The present invention provides a processing system for enabling modifications to be made to a virtual design in a CAD system, in particular a collaborative CAD system with a number of spatially distributed users. An indication is constantly provided as to the degrees of freedom of the components involved in any modification and the effects on the degrees of freedom of any changes to be made.

Abstract: In order to improve the ease of operation of a conventional walk-through system using panoramic photographic images, a system is provided with a view calculating unit for calculating view information in accordance with a user instruction from an operation unit, the view information including view position information and view direction information; a panoramic image storing unit for storing a plurality of panoramic images; a path storing unit for storing path information of the panoramic images; an allowable path calculating unit for calculating allowable path information at a next dividing point in accordance with the view information and the path information; and an image generating unit for generating a cut-out image from the panoramic image in accordance with the view information, generating a sign figure representative of the allowable path in accordance with the allowable path information, and synthesizing the cut-out image and the sign figure to generate a display image.

Abstract: The method of capturing a digital image for viewing from a stream of digital images on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing a stream of digital images comprised of a plurality of individual digital images, selecting an individual image from the stream of digital images by touching the touch display, and automatically saving the selected individual image to a storage device. The method of orienting a digital image for viewing on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing the digital image, the digital image being defined by a plurality of sides, displaying the digital image in a first orientation on the touch display with four corners of the digital imaging device, the display, providing selection means for select at least one of the corners; and automatically displaying the digital image in a second orientation responsive to the selecting of one of the corners.

Abstract: Computer programs and computer-implemented methods implement techniques for creating and manipulating related vector objects in an image. These include creating a first vector object or elements in an image, creating a second vector object or elements in the image, and in response to creating the second vector object(s) in the image, calculating one or more new values for a first attribute of the one or more attributes for the first vector object(s) based at least in part on one or more of the current attribute values for the second vector object(s). Relationships are defined between vector objects using equations that define a value (or values) for an attribute for one vector object or elements as a function of attribute value(s) defined for the same or different vector objects in the image. In preferred embodiments, the function includes equations defining an attractive force and a repulsive force between the attribute value(s).

Abstract: As characters move, building are rotated and deformed, then, a powerful expression as if the characters moved lively and freely in three-dimensional space. The game machine stores a first image plane for displaying a ground, a second plane for displaying images of upper surfaces of solid bodies of buildings, a third image plane for displaying the background in the graphic memory. A sprite image to be pasted on side surfaces of the buildings and other solid bodies is stored in the graphic memory. Thereby, realistic image expression is realized by displaying solid bodies with the same height.