Graphical User Interface Tools Patents (Class 345/661)
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Patent number: 8928657Abstract: A digital map of a geographic area is displayed via a user interface, and a 3D representation of a building located in the geographic area is displayed on the digital map. A virtual camera is used to view the digital map, and the location of the virtual camera is changeable in response to user input. The external shell of the 3D representation is made increasingly transparent as a virtual camera approaches the 3D representation of the building to reveal indoor information for the building.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Zhou Bailiang
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Patent number: 8928699Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Marianne Kodimer, Hung Tran, William Su
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Patent number: 8928700Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating simultaneous zoom in windows on a touch sensitive device. A first portion of the user content is zooming into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the first portion using the touch input device while retaining an original zoom size of a first remaining portion of the user content. A second portion of the user content from the first remaining portion is zoomed into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the second portion using the touch input device while retaining a zoomed in first portion and an original zoom size of a second remaining portion of the of the first remaining portion, the original zoom size of the first and the second remaining portions being the same.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2013Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLCInventor: Margarita Khafizova
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Patent number: 8922563Abstract: A technique is disclosed for dynamically adjusting dimensions of characters, such as digits, displayed on a configurable display, such as in a human-machine interface. The height of the characters is fixed and the width is altered depending upon the number of characters to be displayed, resulting in changing aspect ratios for the characters. The width may be set to a predetermined maximum character width if all characters to be displayed will fit within the available space, or the width may be reduced to accommodate more characters. The technique may take into account cushion spaces for borders or frames, as well as spaces between characters. The resulting display allows for a change in the number of significant digits in a displayed numeral, while maintaining excellent readability.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Robert F. Lloyd
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Patent number: 8922531Abstract: The apparatus to control an image output position of a flexible display moves a position of an image output area in a screen area when the flexible display is rotated. The apparatus may include: a bending measurement unit to measure a bending degree of the flexible display; a rotation measurement unit to measure a rotation degree and a rotation direction of the flexible display; and a controller to output an image at an image output area, and move a position of the image output area.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Pantech Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kwang Hee Lee
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Publication number: 20140368550Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic visualization of genomic data are provided in which a genomic visualization system adapts presentation of information content according to scale-relevant annotations within a sequence object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Inventors: Charles Joseph Vaske, John Zachary Sanborn, Stephen Charles Benz
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Publication number: 20140362119Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for providing gesture-based user control of display functions with respect to a mobile electronic device. In an embodiment, the device is configured such that a user hover of a finger or thumb triggers a zoom and pan mode or a screen resizing and relocation function wherein the displayed material is decreased in scale and relocated to be adjacent the screen edge from whence the user is interacting with the screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2013Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLCInventors: Jason L. Freund, Ling Li, Michael D. McLaughlin
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Publication number: 20140362120Abstract: A method, apparatus, computer program product, and system provide for displaying analytics data based upon aggregated data corresponding to an object via an interface. The method may include receiving analytic data corresponding to at least one object characteristic. The method may also include generating at least one display element having the analytic data corresponding to the at least one object characteristic at one or more time intervals, and causing the at least one display element to be displayed in an interface. The interface may be configured to size the at least one data element within the user interface to enable the display of a plurality of display elements in the display. The interface may be further configured to receive an input corresponding to a user input.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventors: Michael A. Wohl, James J. O'Hagan, Anthony R. Brown, Wolfgang Strobel, Dean Lodwig
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Patent number: 8902256Abstract: A reproducing apparatus includes: a reproducing portion for reproducing, from a recording medium, moving image data including plural frames whose information amount has been compressed by intraframe encoding; a memory for storing the moving image data reproduced by the reproducing portion; a decoding portion for reading out the frames of the moving image data stored in the memory and decoding the read-out data, the decoding portion reading out the moving image data in succession starting from an upper end of a screen for each frame to decode the read-out moving image data; an instruction portion for instructing enlargement of the moving image data; an enlarging area setting portion for setting, for each frame of the moving image data, a partial area on which enlarging processing is to be performed; a control portion for controlling the decoding portion in accordance with the enlarging instruction, the control portion stopping reading out the one frame of moving image data from the memory, which is performed bType: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yoshinobu Sato
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Patent number: 8902259Abstract: Methods and systems for content selection using touchscreens are disclosed. A method for selecting content using a touchscreen includes determining first content displayed at least partially within an area of a touchscreen where the area is defined by a shape drawn on the touchscreen by a user, magnifying the first content on the touchscreen, receiving user input identifying one or more deletable content portions displayed within the first content, and selecting a desired content where the desired content is obtained by removing the deletable content from the first content. Corresponding systems and computer readable media are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Lantian Zheng
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Patent number: 8903690Abstract: Methods of providing usability predictions are set forth herein. A method includes obtaining test cases for analyzing usability of a graphical user interface of a given software application. The method further includes automatically generating, using a processor, a human performance model based on the test cases. The method also includes generating the usability predictions based on the human performance model. At least some of the test cases are generated automatically from an analysis of the given software application.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Myra B. Cohen, Bonnie E. John, Padmanabhan Santhanam, Amanda M. Swearngin
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Patent number: 8902260Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to providing a method for creating customized labeled maps that include displaying a map using a presentation device based on a selectable elevation value, where the map contains geocoded information and the user selects at least one position on the displayed map. The method continues by automatically creating and displaying at least one label located in proximity to the selected position, where at least one label is based on reverse geocoded information associated with the selected position.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Stefan Kuhne
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Patent number: 8903691Abstract: Systems and computer program products for providing usability predictions are set forth herein. A system includes a test case collector for obtaining test cases for analyzing usability of a graphical user interface of a given software application, the test case collector having at least a memory storing the test cases. The system further includes a human performance model generator for automatically generating a human performance model based on the test cases. The system also includes a usability predictor for generating the usability predictions based on the human performance model. The test case collector automatically generates at least some of the test cases from an analysis of the given software application.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Rachel K. E. Bellamy, Myra B. Cohen, Bonnie E. John, Padmanabhan Santhanam, Amanda M. Swearngin
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Patent number: 8896633Abstract: This is directed to adjusting the size of displayed text in response to receiving user instructions. An electronic device can display text or other content using one or more default sizes. A user can direct the device to increase a display size of text by providing a corresponding input. In response to receiving the instruction, the electronic device can increase the display size of the text and display the beginning of the text (e.g., the beginning of a sentence), even though an input may be detected in a region near the end of the text. In some cases, when the user instructs the device to increase the display size of text beyond a maximum level, the electronic device can provide an audio output corresponding to the text instead of or in addition to increasing the display size of the text.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Jorge Fino
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Patent number: 8896621Abstract: A drawing application provides functionality for assisting the user in performing freehand drawing. The user can place virtual stencils on the screen, and can manipulate the stencils in various ways. The stencils can be used as guides for freehand drawing and/or to transform freehand drawings into more precise shapes. In general, the stencils do not form part of the final graphical document being created (or edited), but are used to assist the creation (or editing) of the document, in a manner that is analogous to the use of physical stencils in when drawing on paper or other physical medium. The stencils can be used for straightening lines, for constraining the effect of drawing or painting, and/or as a visual guide for performing any drawing operations. The user can cause the stencils to be dismissed and/or hidden at any time, so that the graphical document can be viewed without the overlaying stencils.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Pinger, Inc.Inventors: Joseph K. Sipher, Brook Lenox
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Patent number: 8892360Abstract: A method of generating a suggested navigation route with a portable electronic device includes presenting a map to a user on a touch-sensitive screen of the portable electronic device, and receiving touch input from a user stroking the touch-sensitive screen from a touch-down location corresponding to a starting point on the map to a release location corresponding to an ending point on the map for indicating a location of a preferred route, the preferred route beginning with the starting point and finishing with the ending point. The method further includes generating the suggested navigation route by selecting streets for the suggested navigation route according to the preferred route in order to closely approximate the preferred route, presenting the suggested navigation route to the user on the touch-sensitive screen, and providing navigation assistance to the user for guiding the user along the suggested navigation route.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Mitac International Corp.Inventor: Takuya Otani
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Patent number: 8884991Abstract: A control system including: an input apparatus including a sensor portion; and a control apparatus including a coordinate generation portion that generates, based on a detection signal detected by the sensor portion, positional coordinates of a pointer on a screen, a selection area change portion that changes, in accordance with a level of a shake amount calculated based on the detection signal, a size of an icon selection area as an area where an icon on the screen is selected by the pointer, and a display control portion that controls display on the screen so that the pointer is displayed at a position corresponding to the positional coordinates of the pointer.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Takuya Fujita
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Patent number: 8884928Abstract: The ability of a user to provide input when using a touch screen or other such element of a computing device can be improved by correcting for parallax errors. A camera of the computing device can determine the relative position of the user's head or eyes with respect to the device, and determine a viewing perspective of the user with respect to content displayed on the touch screen. Using the perspective direction and information about the dimensions of the touch screen, the device can determine an amount and direction of parallax error, and can make adjustments to remove or minimize that error. The device can cause the position of the displayed graphical elements to shift and/or can adjust the mappings of the touch sensitive regions that correspond to the graphical elements. Such an approach enables the graphical elements and touch mappings to align from the current perspective of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Leo B. Baldwin
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Patent number: 8884990Abstract: Scaling arbitrarily complex graphical objects is described by superimposing a grid of four guide lines on a graphical object defined by one or more vectors. The guide lines define nine grid sections. The graphical application development environment (GADE) divides any vectors crossing multiple grid sections into separate section vectors, such that each section contains whole vectors. The application and resulting vector information in each grid section is compiled into an executable file. When executed in a compatible run-time container, the container virtually renders a transformed representation of the graphical object in memory. Using information gathered from analyzing the outline of the transformed representation, the run-time container generates code blocks for transforming each of the vectors within the grid sections an appropriate amount that conforms to the outline information. The resulting transformed vectors are displayed in the running application.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Jethro Villegas, Lee Thomason, Michael Richards
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Patent number: 8886622Abstract: A data pool receives first data derived from user-generated input that identifies events that have occurred at the corresponding remote first computing system. Thereafter, the data pool generates messages based on the identified events that specify data to be extracted from each of a plurality of data sources. The data pool then transmits data comprising the generated messages to at least one of a plurality of data daemons. The data pool subsequently receives second data extracted and processed by the data daemons in response to the transmitted data. In addition, the data pool transmits at least a portion of the received second data to at least one remote second computing system to enable the remote second computing system to render visualizations that are based on the received data and which are displayed within at least one data lens that overlays a substrate in the graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Conduce Inc.Inventors: Kevin Todd Parent, Mattie Ruth Kramer, Alan Lewis Browning, Ryan Patrick Clancey, Corey A. Porter
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Patent number: 8878845Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to create and edit a surface object in a computer implemented surface modeler. A surface object creation process is commenced and a surface object type is selected. During the surface object creation process, visual affordances are presented. The visual affordances are grips that can be used to inject modification into the surface object creation process. Subsequent to creation of the surface object, the same visual affordances are displayed and used to edit the surface object.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventor: Hans-Frederick Brown
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Publication number: 20140320539Abstract: A region is selected in a visualization that displays cells representing respective events, the cells being depicted in the visualization according to a first group of attributes of the events, where the region corresponds to a subset of the events. In response to detecting a first type of input provided with respect to the region, a semantic zoom-in visualization of the region is generated, the semantic zoom-in visualization depicting the cells representing the events of the subset at an enlarged scale and according to the first group of attributes and at a higher resolution to show further information relating to the events of the subset. In response to detecting a second type of input provided with respect to the region, a semantic drill-down visualization of the region is generated, the semantic drill-down visualization visualizing the events of the subset at an enlarged scale and according to a second group of attributes having at least one attribute that differs from the attributes of the first group.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Sebastian Mittelstaedt, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Daniel Keim
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Patent number: 8866853Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor that executes a process including detecting a position of an object with respect to a screen of a display, determining whether a distance from the object to the screen is between a first value and a second value smaller than the first value on a basis of the position, displaying a first image on the screen when the distance is determined to be between the first value and the second value, the first image being an enlarged image of an area corresponding to the position, determining whether the distance is equal to or less than the second value on a basis of the position and displaying a second image when the distance is determined to be equal to or less than the second value, the second image being displayed on the screen when the distance decreases to be the second value.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Masashi Uyama, Masashi Tanimura, Katsuhiko Akiyama
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Patent number: 8866969Abstract: A display apparatus includes a receiver which receives a broadcasting signal, a display which displays an image based on the received broadcasting signal, a communication unit which communicates with a mobile device, and a controller which determines whether the mobile device interferes with at least one channel of a plurality of broadcasting channels received through the receiver, and controls the display to display a user interface (UI) indicates a user whether image noise has resulted from channel interference by the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seok-woo Yong
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Publication number: 20140267437Abstract: A method for content displaying implemented by a mobile device that comprises a display, the method comprising detecting a user touch on the display via a graphical user interface, generating a lens animation effect in a region of content based on the user touch, wherein the lens animation effect at least magnifies the region of content shown on the display, and displaying the lens animation effect on the display adjacent to a location of the user touch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Anthony J. Mazzola
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Patent number: 8830272Abstract: Multiple views, or windows, of an image of flowgraph nodes can be modified to facilitate viewing the nodes. In one embodiment, each window includes at least one boundary that is shared with another window so that when a window is changed by moving a particular boundary it causes another window sharing the particular boundary to correspondingly change. Window subsections can be used for viewing a different portion of the image.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Sukendeep Samra, Makoto Kawamura, Shingo Kawabe, Kyoko Nakamura
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Patent number: 8830273Abstract: An information processing device including a user interface that displays content and receives an input. The information processing apparatus controls the user interface to reduce a size of the displayed content based on a received input, and controls the user interface to display an operation corresponding to the content based on the size reduction.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Ryoko Amano
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Patent number: 8823708Abstract: Upon a request for a teleportation operation, a user of a virtual universe is provided with an interface for specification of image resolution parameters for initial rendering of a teleportation destination and the user's avatar which are degraded from a full resolution rendering of the teleportation destination and avatar. Degradation of resolution can be in regard to any of a plurality of image qualities such as spatial resolution, temporal resolution colors or color depth, light modeling and rendering style or the like or combinations thereof. Alternatively, a degraded copy of the teleportation destination can be provided as an alternative initial teleportation destination image. Since a rendering of a degraded image can be done with reduced response time, the user is thus provided with full control over a trade-off between image quality and response time and teleportation operations are thus encouraged.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Christopher J. Dawson, Barry M. Graham, Rick A. Hamilton, Clifford A. Pickover
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Apparatus having a control unit that recognizes circle motions to change a display state of an image
Patent number: 8826189Abstract: A display method for controlling a display state of an image regardless of a motion direction, includes displaying an image in a screen; and when an inward or outward motion having a center, is input onto the screen, the motion moving in a direction toward or away from the center, controlling a display state of the image according to the direction of the motion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Mikolaj Michal Malecki -
Patent number: 8823732Abstract: A method for creating image products includes the following steps. Image data and positional data corresponding to the image data are captured and processed to create geo-referenced images. Edge detection procedures are performed on the geo-referenced images to identify edges and produce geo-referenced, edge-detected images. The geo-referenced, edge-detected images are saved in a database. A user interface to view and interact with the geo-referenced image is also provided such that the user can consistently select the same Points of Interest between multiple interactions and multiple users.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.Inventors: Steven Douglas Adams, Yandong Wang, Frank D. Giufrrida
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Patent number: 8824862Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit including a screen; a detection unit configured to detect a position designated by a user on the screen; and a controller configured to display, with at least a partial range of a moving image being a display range, a plurality of images corresponding to a plurality of frames belonging to the display range by annularly arranging them in time series, and shift, when an operation is judged to be made along a direction in which the plurality of images are arranged based on a result of the detection by the detection unit, the display range in the moving image.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Masachika Sasaki, Kenji Shoda, Takahiro Shimada, Kunihiro Iwakiri
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Publication number: 20140240362Abstract: A method for displaying image information, the method including a step of specifying a character string which a user tries to distinguish among character strings displayed on a display portion and a step of enlarging and displaying the character string.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keiichi Kurita
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Patent number: 8817051Abstract: A display control apparatus controls to execute variable magnification processing of a partial image of an image indicated by a display range, and displays the partial image in a display area. The display control apparatus includes a calculation unit which obtains a vertex/vertexes of the display range farthest from a center of the image and sets the vertex or a center point of the vertexes as a reference point, a changing unit which changes a size of the display range while keeping the position of the reference point, and a moving unit which moves the display range in the image. In addition, a display control unit controls to execute the variable magnification processing of the partial image and displays the partial image in the display area. The calculation unit re-calculates the reference point in response to movement of the display range in the image by the moving unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2010Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Chiaki Mikawa
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Patent number: 8817050Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes receiving an image having indication pixels that define a plurality of regions within the image that are used for resizing the image and determining, based on the indication pixels, two or more of the regions that are stretchable regions that change size when the image is resized. The method also includes resizing the image by changing a size of at least one of the determined stretchable regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mark S. Friedman, Michael A. Cleron, Dianne K. Hackborn
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Patent number: 8810604Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for line of sight, hands free interaction with interactive objects within a defined space on a line of sight basis. The system can include a base station in communication with one or more interactive objects having a variety of display options. Details about the display options are stored on the system along with the location of the interactive objects and layout of the surroundings of the interactive object. Users can carry devices that are in communication with the base station and that determine the user's location and head orientation and relay that information to the base station. Using the location and orientation of the user, the location of the interactive objects and the layout information about the surrounding area, the system can determine if the user is looking directly at an interactive object and can cause the interactive object to perform an action.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventor: Stephen Whitney
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Patent number: 8810596Abstract: Systems and techniques are disclosed for applying an effect to a digital image using a cursor. An effect can be applied to an image at a region under a cursor. The cursor has an outer periphery and an effect indicating periphery within the outer periphery. The outer periphery defines a maximum extent to which the effect is applied. The effect indicating periphery indicates how the effect will be applied to the image, such as providing a visual indication of a softness setting.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Douglas Joseph Ahmann, Mark Lee Kawano
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Publication number: 20140225929Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for zooming an image displayed in a viewport, wherein the image comprises a plurality of regions, each region of the plurality of regions having a zoom function associated with the region, the system comprising an input unit (110) for receiving a region input for selecting a region of the plurality of regions and for receiving a zoom input for zooming the image, and a zoom unit (120) for zooming the image based on the zoom input, using the zoom function associated with the selected region. The zoom function associated with each region of the plurality of regions may be defined in any way deemed useful. For example, it may be defined in such a way that the selected region or an interesting portion of it is displayed in the viewport or, vice versa, the selected region or an interesting portion thereof is removed from the displayed view of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Iwo Willem Oscar Serlie, Rudolph Martherus
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Publication number: 20140225932Abstract: A display device includes: a reduction section (15) for displaying, in a case where (i) a part of a content contained in a page is visually recognizable by magnifying and displaying the page at a magnification ratio (8) and (ii) a user conducts a turn-over operation (1), an entire page to be displayed in accordance with the turn-over operation (1); and a magnification section (16) for magnifying a given part of the page at the magnification ratio (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryuji Ikeda, Hitoshi Okamoto
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Patent number: 8803911Abstract: This invention provides a simple user interface and sequencing viewing method for a mammography interpretation workstation. In particular, the invention includes the method and apparatus that moves the source images and the associated data using two-level of pre-fetching and caching mechanism, sequences the reading workflow (including worklist, hanging protocol, viewing sequencing), draws markup using electronic grease pan, and automatically generates the recall forms and screening reports. The user interface operates on single button and mouse wheel style to maximize the radiologists' efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2008Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Three Palm SoftwareInventors: Heidi Daoxian Zhang, Patrick B. Heffernan, László K Tabár
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Patent number: 8797363Abstract: A method of controlling a touch panel display device, and which includes displaying a first display screen on the display device; receiving, via a controller of the touch panel display device and a touching signal indicating a touching action at a specific point on the first display screen; magnifying, via the controller, a predetermined area surrounding the specific point on the first display screen; displaying a second display screen including the magnified predetermined area with the specific point located at a center of the magnified predetermined area; receiving, via the controller, a selection signal indicating a selection of release touch icon displayed on the display device; and displaying the first display screen in response to the received selection signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Tae Hoon Kim
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Patent number: 8797264Abstract: Predetermined image processing is performed in accordance with an input operation performed by an input device having image pickup means for taking an image of one or a plurality of imaging targets. Target image data, which is obtained from one target image of the one imaging target or a plurality of target images of the plurality of imaging targets in the image taken by the image pickup means and which indicates a distance between the plurality of target images or a size of the one target image, is sequentially obtained. A display image is enlarged and reduced in accordance with a change in the target image data. Then, the display image processed in such a manner is displayed on a display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2006Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Keizo Ohta
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Publication number: 20140204123Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying a plurality of secondary images based on image data of a primary image include displaying a primary image and a plurality of secondary images based on the image data of the primary image. Each of the plurality of secondary images is displayed having a size based on a relevance of each respective one of the plurality of secondary images to the primary image. The primary image can be selected from a plurality of images or a frame of a video. Subsets of secondary images can be displayed in clusters including images having content similar to particular content of the primary image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Lee Begeja, David Crawford Gibbon, Raghuraman Gopalan, Zhu Liu, Eric Zavesky
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Publication number: 20140198132Abstract: An information displaying device has a virtual hand generating portion that generates a virtual hand that displays an image of a hand of a user. The virtual hand generating portion includes a transformation ratio calculating portion that calculates a display scale for an object in a display screen, based on the spacing between objects and/or the sizes of objects included in the display data, and calculates a virtual hand transformation ratio from the display scale and the finger widths of the virtual hand. The virtual hand generating portion also includes a virtual hand transforming portion that transforms the virtual hand to a size suited to the objects in the screen display through enlarging or reducing the virtual hand based on the transformation ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2014Publication date: July 17, 2014Applicant: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroaki TSUTSUI
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Patent number: 8780140Abstract: An information processing apparatus including an interface that displays an object and receives an instruction to change a display scale of the object, and a processor that controls the interface to change the display scale of the object based on the received instruction, controls the interface to stop changing the display scale of the displayed object for a predetermined period of time when the display scale of the displayed object becomes a predetermined display scale, and controls the interface to resume changing the display scale of the displayed object upon determining that the predetermined period of time has elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications ABInventors: Kosuke Endo, Takamoto Tsuda, Yutaka Shiba
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Patent number: 8780139Abstract: Resolution monitoring when using visual manipulation tools is described, including determining a minimum resolution for a visual manipulation tool, monitoring a usage of the visual manipulation tool, and interrupting the usage of the visual manipulation tool if the visual manipulation tool is operating below the minimum resolution.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Robert Murata
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Publication number: 20140192089Abstract: A projector system includes: a position detecting unit that detects a pointed position of a pointer on a projection surface; a drawing unit that performs drawing on the projection surface according to the pointed position detected by the position detecting unit; a height detecting unit that detects a height of a user of a projector; and a display changing unit that changes, according to the user's height detected by the height detecting unit, at least one of a shape of the image projected onto the projection surface and a display position of the image on the projection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro HONDA, Takashi OZAWA
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Patent number: 8773469Abstract: A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video scalers operating in parallel for generating initially scaled video streams by performing video scaling in at least one dimension on a plurality of video input streams. The video multiviewer system may also include at least one video cross-point switcher coupled downstream from the video scalers, and a processing unit coupled downstream from the video cross-point switcher for generating additionally scaled video streams by performing additional video scaling on the initially scaled video stream. The video scalers and the processing unit may communicate through the video cross-point switcher using a serial digital interface.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Imagine Communications Corp.Inventors: Marcin Andrzej Komorowski, Cristian Camer, Anthony Singh
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Patent number: 8767019Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides for specifying a processing operation by means of a gesture by way of a first and second database, tables, organizational graphs, organizational nodes, KPI-values (including aggregated KPI values, O-aggregated KPI-values), and an application where the application displays the O-aggregated KPI values retrieved from the first database or received from the second database in an organization view of the GUI, the organization view displaying the current organization node and its direct child organization nodes, the organization view enabling the user to navigate within the organization graph, whereby a selection of one of the displayed organization nodes triggers a re-execution wherein the selected organization node is used as the current organization node.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Sovanta AGInventors: Claus Heinrich, Michael Kern
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Patent number: 8766980Abstract: A method for constructing relation information between data elements in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in first and second domains includes importing data from the first domain DAG and data from the second domain DAG to generate a relation graph; responsive a relation between a node va of the first domain DAG and a node vb of the second domain DAG, generating a join node between va and vb in the relation graph, the join node linking a node upstream of va in the DAG to a node upstream of vb in the DAG; if there is a pair of va of the first domain DAG and vb of the second domain DAG that do not have a join node, generating a join node v between va and vb in the relation graph, and generating an edge (va, v) and an edge (vb, v) in the relation graph.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hisashi Miyashita, Hiroaki Nakamura, Kohei Suenaga
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Patent number: 8760473Abstract: This method is an improvement to a method used to enlarge the display of a first portion of a map, without hiding a first peripheral portion of this map. This improvement involves detecting an event which appears in said first peripheral portion (SPP4?). The improvement further involves defining a second portion to be enlarged (SPA5), centered on the position (BS2) of this event, defining a second peripheral zone (SPP5) associated with this second portion to be enlarged, displaying (SPA5?) the second portion to be enlarged (SPA5) by applying respective enlargement ratios greater than 100% to at least some elements of that portion, so as to make the event more legible, and displaying (SPP5?) the second peripheral portion (SPP5) by applying at least to some elements of this portion respective enlargement ratios lower than 100% so as to save surface area to avoid hiding a portion of the map.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Alcatel LucentInventors: Jean-Roch Houllier, Alain Brethereau, BĂ©atrix De Mathan