Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display; an image receiver which receives image signals from a plurality of image sources; a main controller which performs a control function to generate a main image which corresponds to any one of the received image signals; and a graphics controller which performs a control function to generate source information related to a connected image source through the image receiver and to display an image which corresponds to the received image signal in the source information.

Abstract: An in-vehicle device includes: a memory for storing a gadget corresponding to an icon, a display content of which is changed with time, wherein the gadget provides a process; a display having a screen, on which the icon is displayed; an operation receiver for receiving an operation to the icon; a controller for executing the process when the controller determines that the operation receiver receives the operation to the icon under a condition that the display displays the icon; and a driving condition information obtaining element for obtaining driving condition information of a vehicle. The controller controls the display to change a display mode of the icon based on the driving condition information when the display displays the icon.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display unit displaying information on a display screen, a distance detector detecting a distance from the display screen to the face of an operator, and a controller causing the information to be enlarged and reduced on the display screen in response to a change of the detected distance.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit for causing a display unit to display a map, a first operation obtaining unit for obtaining a first operation for moving a center of a designated area on the map, a second operation obtaining unit for obtaining a second operation different from the first operation for moving the center, and a size setting operation obtaining unit for obtaining a size setting operation for setting a size of the designated area.

Abstract: Techniques are directed to managing image generation for desktop and screen sharing systems as well as for large image systems such as mapping. An apparatus may comprise a logic device, a remote sharing module and an image generation module. The remote sharing module is operative on the logic device to share an image with one or more client devices. The image may be divided into a plurality of tiles each corresponding to a portion of the shared image. The image generation module is operative on the logic device to determine a version of each of the plurality of tiles and compares the version of each of the plurality of tiles with a received client version of the same image.

Abstract: A display control apparatus that enables to reliably and quickly search for a desired image. When a wheel is operated by a user by an amount less than a predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a first display mode where a plurality of images are displayed on an image display unit. When the wheel is operated by the user by an amount equal to or greater than the predetermined operation amount, image feeding is made in a second display mode where a larger number of images than in the first display mode are displayed on the image display unit in a smaller size than in the first display mode.

Abstract: A method of outputting graphics to a display comprising: detecting an input from a user representative of an image manipulation request; performing a first image manipulation process on at least part of the retrieved image data set in accordance with the image manipulation request to produce second graphics; outputting the second graphics to a display area of the display; determining that a boundary condition relating to the retrieved image data set has been satisfied, the boundary condition relating to a limit of the retrieved image data set beyond which there is no further element of the retrieved image data set to be displayed; performing a second image manipulation process on at least part of the retrieved image data set to produce third graphics, the second image manipulation process providing a second type of alteration to the retrieved image data set, the second type of alteration being of a different type than the first type of alteration; and outputting the third graphics to the display area of the d

Abstract: Methods for touch-based gestural command input on a device with a touch-sensitive surface and a display are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying an electronic canvas including an object at a first magnification level; simultaneously detecting a first and a second contact on the touch-sensitive surface, wherein at least one of the first contact and the second contact on the touch-sensitive surface is at a location that corresponds to a location on the display that is away from the object; detecting a gesture made with the first and second contacts; when a velocity of the gesture is less than a predefined gesture velocity threshold, scaling the electronic canvas in accordance with the gesture; and, when the velocity of the gesture is greater than the predefined gesture velocity threshold transitioning the electronic canvas from the first magnification level to a second, predefined magnification level in response to the gesture.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for user interfaces. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include generating a virtual desktop including a plurality of objects organized in accordance with at least one of a theme and a structure; providing a navigation pane on the virtual desktop to navigate through the plurality of objects; and providing a controller to enable a multi-level zoom on at least one of the plurality of objects on the virtual desktop. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method to scale a vector-based graphic design by a non-integer scaling factor. The relationships of control points of the vector-based graphic design, with respect to each other and with respect to the coordinate system of the workspace, are determined prior to rescaling the vector-based graphic design. Subsequent a multiplication of the coordinate values of the control points by the non-integer scaling factor to scale the original vector-based graphic design, the relationships of the control points, in the scaled vector-based graphic design, are determined and compared to the relationships of the control points in the original vector-based graphic design. Adjustments of the position of the control points in the scaled vector-based graphic design are effected to obtain, within a pre-determined tolerance, the same relationships.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reframing an image according to at least one predefined reframing method to obtain a reframed image for which the format ratio is equal to a target format ratio. The method comprises the following steps for: analyzing the image, selecting the predefined reframing method in a set of at least two reframing methods according to the result of the analysis step, and reframing said image using the selected reframing method. The invention also relates to a device for reframing an image.

Abstract: This invention provides systems and methods that allow a user to change the size of a background used with a graphics-based user interface. This enables tailored background sizes based on user preference and allowable conditions, which are particularly useful with display devices having a large display area. By custom sizing a background to current conditions, a user may navigate an image among obstacles at a receiving surface and obstacles along a projection path between a projection lens and receiving surface. In addition, a user may customize the background size on a large LCD screen according to more suitable dimensions for an image used in the background or to a personal preference, thereby creating a personalized look and feel for the graphics-based user interface. One embodiment of the present invention defines a usable area for a graphics-based user interface according to the current size of the background.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a natural media painting application may receive user inputs through tablet stylus gestures. Various digital painting and image editing tasks may be invoked and/or controlled using such gesture-based inputs. The application may detect stylus gestures that mimic real-world actions of artists, and may perform appropriate painting and image editing actions in response to detecting and recognizing the stylus gestures. The system may provide an automatic zoom mode in which, as the stylus is moved into proximity of the tablet, the application zooms into a displayed image to focus on an area of interest. The system may also provide an automatic panning mode that allows the user to pan an image when the stylus is in proximity to, but not touching, the tablet. One or more thresholds for determining whether the stylus is in proximity with the tablet may be pre-defined or may be user configurable.

Abstract: A computer program product is tangibly embodied on a computer-readable medium and includes executable code that, when executed, is configured to cause a data processing apparatus to display multiple objects in a three dimensional (3D) representation, where the multiple objects are visual representations of real objects, and display a subset of the objects and associated metadata in a shaped lens that is movable within the 3D representation in all three axes, where the subset of the objects displayed within the shaped lens are sized larger than the objects outside of the shaped lens.

Abstract: Techniques and systems are disclosed for navigating human scale image data using aligned perspective images. A consecutive sequence of digital images is stacked together by aligning consecutive images laterally with an image offset between edges of consecutive images corresponding to a distance between respective view windows of the consecutive images. A view window of an image in the sequence is rendered, where the view window of the image corresponds to a desired location. Offset portions of the view window of a desired number of images in the sequence are rendered, for example, alongside the full view of the image at the desired location.

Abstract: System and method for storing a dataset of image tiles.

Abstract: An image converting device includes; a downscaling unit which downscales a two-dimensional image to generate at least one downscaling image, a feature map generating unit which extracts feature information from the downscaling image to generate a feature map, a visual attention calculating unit which generates a low-level attention map based on a visual attention of the feature map, and an image expansion unit which up-scales the low-level attention map, wherein an increasing gray value may be added to image data disposed on the upper portion in the low-level attention map, and 0 or a decreasing gray value may be added to the image data disposed on the lower portion.

Abstract: A computing system that supports the use of multiple displays in display mirroring mode and extended display mode may automatically determine a display mode in which to configure the system (with little or no user input) based on various characteristics of the displays in the system. For example, the system may determine that a television, projector, or other presentation type display is connected in the system, and in response, may determine that the system should be configured in a display mirroring mode, rather than in an extended display mode. The system may also determine that the presentation type display is the preferred display, and may render image content in a best (or preferred) mode for that display using its native resolution, aspect ratio or color profile. The system may then scale the rendered image content for display on other (non-preferred) displays, such as an internal display, without re-rendering it.

Abstract: Road information is compressed for map tiles of a map containing a network of roads. The map can have different sets of tiles for each zoom level. For a given zoom level, road segments can be grouped based on the class of the roads (e.g., interstate highway, state highway, divided highway, side street, etc.). The road segments of a particular class can be combined into paths, and a representative segment can be chosen for each path. The features of the representative segment can be used in displaying the corresponding path, thereby reducing the size used to store the path in a map tile. This reduce-size map tile can be transmitted more efficiently due to the smaller size.

Abstract: An object sharing system includes a common terminal and a personal terminal. The common terminal includes a common screen for displaying an object handwritten in the personal terminal, and a control section configured to define a reference size and transmit the reference size to the personal terminal. The personal terminal includes a personal screen including a touch panel, and a control section configured to perform processes of determining a guide size based on the reference size, and displaying a guide of the determined size on the personal screen, and processes of calculating a display size on the common screen of an object which has been handwritten on the personal screen, and transmitting the handwritten object and the display size to the common terminal. Further, the control section of the common terminal is further configured to make the common screen display the handwritten object of the display size.

Abstract: A background map remains stationary while a portable unit moves within a plane parallel to the screen of the portable unit. As the user moves the unit, images of the background map appear on the screen of the portable device. The user scans the stationary map presented on the screen of the portable unit. This has several benefits since now relative distances and angular displacements within the plane between objects that are outside of the range of the screen of the handheld unit can be immediately be located and placed into view on the screen of a portable unit. The handheld unit is like a Sliding Window which provides a view of this image of a stationary map lying in the background of the portable unit.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device, comprising: an input unit configured to accept a user instruction to designate first image data; and an image addition unit configured to add the first image data corresponding to the user instruction to second image data, as a thumbnail for the second image data.

Abstract: An adaptive video presentation method for automatically presenting a video with stream-embed information based on content analysis of the video on a smaller display with a limited screen size is provided. The method comprises steps of determining a salient object group containing at least one salient object based on perceptual interest value of macroblocks for each frame of said video, extracting a window having a minimum size containing the salient object group for a scene of the video, characterized in that it further comprises steps of comparing size of the extracted window with the smaller display size; and presenting at least a selected area of the extracted window containing at least a part of the salient object group for the scene on the smaller display in different operation modes based on the result of the comparison steps for different motion mode for the scene of the video.

Abstract: When NN pairs of sample data are inputted, pre-processing and area division processing are performed by a pre-processing means and area division means respectively. Thereafter, when number of classes NP is inputted to projection matrix generation means based on the NN pairs of sample data, clustering in which NN pairs of sample data are classified into NP classes. Then, representative sample data representing each of classes (NP classes) are selected from NN pairs of sample data as the learning data. Then, based on the nature of Formula (2), calculation means generates an inverse first projection matrix (ML)?1 using a plurality of low resolution sample images (pre-transformation sample data) of a plurality of pairs of representative sample data and a second projection matrix MH using a plurality of high resolution sample images (post-transformation sample data). Thereafter, a transformation matrix {MH·(ML)?1} is generated by transformation matrix generation means.

Abstract: Techniques include: identifying scalable parts and unscalable parts of image modules that are to be scaled to fit within a fixed dimension; determining scaling factors that are to be applied to the scalable parts of the image modules to scale the image modules; applying the scaling factors to the scalable parts of the images modules to produce scaled image modules that fit within the fixed dimension, where the unscalable parts are unaffected by the scaling factors; and generating data for displaying the scaled image modules on a computing device display screen.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing content to user that is moving. The method includes obtaining movement information or bio-information about a user, processing content based on the movement information or the bio-information, and outputting the processed content.

Abstract: Movies of volume rendered medical images that give an impression of the anatomy, become more and more important, because this type of visualization comes close to reality. An apparatus for creating a fly-path movie of a volume rendered medical image dataset is provided. The apparatus is configured to perform segmentation of an object, such as the coronary arteries, in the medical image dataset, such that key images on the fly-path may be defined with different classification and opacity. By fading from one to the other the coronaries are visualized one by one in an optimal way. A method, computer-readable medium and use are also provided.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a touchscreen configured to display a plurality of display objects; a sensing unit configured to detect a motion of the mobile terminal; and a controller configured to move and modify a shape of the plurality of display objects to reflect a characteristic of the detected motion of the mobile terminal.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for viewing an image on a display device, where the image is larger than a display area of the display device. The method includes selecting an area of the image; detecting background and foreground areas in non-selected areas of the image; and displaying the image on the display device. The selected area of the image is displayed in a predetermined scale, all of the background and foreground areas in the non-selected areas of the image are simultaneously displayed on the display device, a degree of deformation of the background areas, differs from a degree of deformation of the foreground areas, and the degree of deformation of the foreground areas changes in relation to distance moving away from the selected area.

Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus are described to render a map according to hybrid map data. A map may be generated by a map service and sent to a client device. Hybrid map data composed of raster graphics data and vector graphics data may be generated by a map service to be sent to and rendered on a client device. A client device obtains hybrid map data, renders the vector graphics data using vector graphics, renders the raster graphics data using raster graphics, and displays the map view. A client device may receive input modifying the zoom level of the displayed map. In response a client device may render the vector graphics data at the modified zoom level and scale the raster graphics data to the zoom level. Some embodiments may obtain update raster graphics data.

Abstract: An exemplary information-processing device includes: a display controller configured to display selectively in a display region of a display device a first image and a second image including the first image, in which second image a display magnification decreases or increases toward an end of the display region.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a first display section configured to display an image, an input receiving device configured to receive an input associated with the image, and a computer processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to determine a selected portion of the image based on the input, to reduce a scaling factor associated with the selected portion of the image as an amount of time that the input device continuously receives the input increases, and to apply the scaling factor to the selected portion of the image to generate a scaled image. The device also includes a second display section configured to display the scaled portion of the image.

Abstract: Provided are a display apparatus and a control method thereof which supports image data at differing frame rates, such as 60 Hz and 120 Hz, input from an image supply source. The display apparatus includes a first scaler which processes input image data; a second scaler which processes input image data; a display unit which displays thereon the image data processed by the first and second scalers; and a controller which selectively controls based on a frame rate of the image data to process the image data by the first scaler only, or to divide and process the image data by both the first and second scalers.

Abstract: Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to select an image container and modify the placement, scaling, and displayed portion of an image associated with the image container. Upon user selection of an image container from the product design, an image pane is presented to the user which displays the base image associated with the selected image container and at least one active control on either or both of the image container and the image pane which allow the user to modify which portion of, and how the portion of, the base image appears in the electronic product design.

Abstract: Visually defining terminology in a paragraph by invoking a multi-media viewer to rotate a subject-object and zoom-in on the associated feature in response to clicking on the terminology; higher resolution, or a different image capture technique is then overlaid. Viewer re-positions near terminology clicked. Clicking on a feature answers a question. Two viewers are synchronized to display the same pose to facilitate a phone conversation; synchronization session is initiated by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone. Viewer analytics information is a heat map indicating angles seen, paused, zoomed-in, or terminology clicked; ranks different marketing message wording. After webpage loads, an image having a special pattern within its filename is replaced with multi-media viewer. Upon loading or providing additional subject-object data, advertisements are shown if a subscription fee is not paid. Clipboard data is copied to another computer by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes: an input position detecting unit for detecting a position of an operator positioned on an operation input unit; a direction detecting unit for detecting a moving direction of the operator based on time change of the position of the detected operator; a magnification change unit for changing a magnification of a screen in accordance with a number of the operator detected by the input position detecting unit; and a display content moving unit for moving a content displayed on the screen along the moving direction of the operator detected by the direction detecting unit.

Abstract: A method for automatically producing video cartoons with user-provided faces superimposed on cartoon characters is presented. A cartoon template stores the original video cartoon with unanimously-colored backgrounds and original cartoon characters' faces drawn following the guidelines of the invention. A background detection algorithm is used to detect the unanimously-colored backgrounds, while a face detection algorithm is used to detect the facial colors, facial expressions, sizes, rotations, positions and clippings of the original cartoon characters' faces. The detected unanimously-colored backgrounds may be replaced by optional user-provided backgrounds. User-provided faces with the best matching user-specified facial colors and expressions are superimposed over and on top of the corresponding original faces of the cartoon characters at the detected sizes, rotations, positions and clippings to produce the final video cartoon. The cartoon template can be distributed to many different users.

Abstract: A display controller executes a comparison mode if a display state is switched to a second display state after one of multiple files is selected from a list of thumbnail images in a first display state. In the comparison mode, the display controller displays a magnified image of the selected file on a first display area at a size suitable for the number of magnified images displayed on the first display area at that time. Accordingly, a desired image can easily be selected from stored images in a terminal device with a display function such as a cell phone.

Abstract: An apparatus generates display data on a display unit. An image constructing unit constructs an image of an image list including a plurality of images each corresponding to an image data file. A data output unit outputs first display data of the image list, and then, when a switching command is received from a user, outputs second display data of the image list in response to the switching command. A confirmation calculating unit calculates a degree of confirmation indicating whether a user confirmation is performed for each of the images in the image list. An image modifying unit modifies the images in the image list based on the degree of confirmation.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for resizing images using seam carving techniques may include generation of a partial solution matrix by at least partially isolating dependencies between sub-problems of a dynamic programming problem corresponding to its solution within different regions of an input image. The number and/or shape of the isolated (or partially isolated) sub-problems may be dependent on the access pattern used by a dynamic programming operation to identify seams in the input image. Multiple sub-problems may be processed independently and in parallel on respective processor core(s) or threads thereof to generate the partial solution matrix. The partial solution matrix may then be processed to identify one or more low-cost seams of the input image. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU configured for parallel processing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for a user interface for page view zooming. The method comprises generating a default user interface including an electronic document. The method further includes receiving touchdown and hold data indicating that a user has interacted with a portion of the electronic document and beginning a continuous zoom process for that portion of the electronic document. The method further includes halting the zoom process once a user has released the touch over the portion of the electronic document and displaying the magnified document on the user interface. The method employs a similar operation to enable a de-zooming operation.

Abstract: A comment data acquisition unit acquires comment data for display over a display image, and a superimposition processing unit 162 generates a superimposition image from the comment data. The comment data includes a scaling factor or information related to the scaling factor, and a display requirement determination unit determines whether the scaling factor of the display image and either a scaling factor or information related to the scaling factor included in comment data are in a predetermined relationship. When the scaling factor of the display image and either the scaling factor or the information related to the scaling factor included in the comment data are in the predetermined relationship, a superimposition image generation unit generates a comment image using display information included in the comment data.

Abstract: A method and a device for controlling zooming of interface content of a terminal. The method comprises: sensing a displacement of a terminal between two time points; and performing zooming control on interface content of the terminal according to the displacement. In the present invention, the displacement of the terminal between two points is sensed, and zooming of interface content is controlled according to the displacement, so that the operation is simple, convenient, and not cumbersome, and the zooming efficiency is improved.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is for rendering a three-dimensional (3D) effect by transforming a first quadrilateral image to a second quadrilateral image. The apparatus includes a target image determining unit, a block determining unit and a graphic unit. The target image determining unit generates an outline associated with the second quadrilateral image according to the first quadrilateral image and the 3D effect. The block determining unit divides an area within the outline into a plurality of second blocks and correspondingly determines a plurality of first blocks from the first quadrilateral image. The graphic unit scales image data of the first blocks to respectively generate image data of the second blocks to obtain the second quadrilateral image.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining content to be displayed includes determining a first size aspect of first content that is to be presented in a graphical user interface. The method includes obtaining second content and causing the second content to be presented in the graphical user interface with the first content, wherein the second content has a second size aspect with a predefined relationship to the first size aspect. A system includes a size determining module determining a first size aspect of first content that is to be presented in a graphical user interface. The system includes a content module obtaining second content based on the first size aspect, the second content having a second size aspect with a predefined relationship to the first size aspect. The system includes a page generating module causing the second content to be presented in the graphical user interface with the first content.

Abstract: An information display apparatus includes: a display portion that displays image information; an acquiring unit that acquires image information being subjected to a display processing; a scale-up and scale-down processing unit that subjects the acquired image information to a scale-up and scale-down processing with a designated scale-up and scale-down ratio; and a deforming unit that compares a size of the image information subjected to the scale-up and scale-down processing with a size of a display area of the display portion, and deforms the image information so that an entirety of the image information is displayed on the display area in a case where the image information is larger than the display area.

Abstract: A scaling-up control method and a scaling-up control apparatus are used in a display device. The display device includes a scaler for converting an original image signal into an output image signal by performing a linear interpolation. Moreover, by utilizing a global locking mechanism and a local locking mechanism to perform the linear interpolation to determine the actual position of the interpolated pixel, the position error of the pixel position is largely reduced. Since the difference between the calculated pixel value and the ideal pixel value is reduced, the imaging quality of the output image signal is enhanced.

Abstract: Methods for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character, for emphasizing an advertisement in a computer generated display, and for presenting multiple GUIs in desktop user interfaces using detail-in-context graphical distortions. The method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for a user-selectable item presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising: receiving a selection signal for the item from a user; distorting the original image to produce a distorted region for the item to provide the user with detailed information for the item; and, receiving a purchase signal for the item from the user.

Abstract: In at least some examples, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, initial content to be rendered. The initial content includes a plurality of sections in a predetermined order. The method also includes applying auto-fit rules to the initial content, by the computing device, wherein the auto-fit rules include a prioritization for the plurality of sections and a layout space. If the initial content does not fit within the layout space, the method also includes updating content to be rendered, wherein the updated content omits at least one of the plurality of sections from the initial content based on the prioritization and maintains the predetermined order for non-omitted sections from the initial content.

Abstract: While a user is viewing in a first display area a portion of an electronic document intended to be printed to produce a printed product, presenting to the user in a second display area a representation of the physical outline of the printed product and an indicator that indicates to the user the size and location of the electronic document portion relative to the printed product. When the user positions a cursor in the second display area, a second indicator image, visually distinctive from the first indicator image, is displayed. The user can position the second indicator at a desired location relative to the representation and request that the portion of the electronic document at that second indicator location be displayed in the first display area.