Enlargement Only Patents (Class 345/671)
  • Patent number: 12033300
    Abstract: System, methods, and devices provide scaling for multi-window displays. Systems include decoders configured to decode a plurality of media streams, wherein each of the plurality of media streams includes a plurality of frames each comprising video data. Systems further include memory devices configured to store a plurality of unscaled frames included in the plurality of frames and received from the decoder, and processing devices configured to generate a plurality of display parameters based, at least in part, on the plurality of media streams. Systems also include a plurality of scalers configured to identify frames to be scaled based on the plurality of display parameters, further configured to scale the identified plurality of frames based on a plurality of scaling parameters. Systems further include encoders configured to encode at least some of the plurality of scaled frames into one or more media steams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: RGB SPECTRUM
    Inventors: Clive Walker, Lynton Auld, Scott Norder
  • Patent number: 11861293
    Abstract: Methods and systems for selecting and displaying items includes causing the display of a large image of a selected item, a plurality of view icons indicative of different views of the selected item, and item details associated with a selected item. After the customer selects a view and/or color for the large image and mouses over the image, a zoom box appears and a corresponding magnified image window appears with a magnified image of the zoom box image for the selected view and color of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Michael Scott, Douglas J. Gradt, Doug Irvine, Nimrod Hoofien, Eva Manolis, Christopher J. Vigder, Amy Bates
  • Patent number: 11709575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to providing a dynamic graphical user interface for efficiently presenting users with relevant ride information throughout the fulfilment of a ride request. In some embodiments, the system detects a trigger event during a ride, and based on detecting the trigger event, the system expands or collapses an information portion within a graphical user interface. When in a collapsed state, for example, the information portion of the graphical user interfaces includes a first set of content. Upon detecting a trigger event, the system dynamically expands the information portion to provide a second set of content that includes information associated with the detected trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Harrison Joel Bowden, Zachary Alistair Cole, Maxamilion Ab Gustofson, Jonathan Aaron Tourtellot, Patrick Steven Wong, Frank Taehyun Yoo
  • Patent number: 11676311
    Abstract: A method for replicating interfaces in augmented reality for missing devices is provided. A processor identifies an expected position pattern of one or more wearable devices in conjunction with an augmented reality device based on an expected usage pattern of a user. A processor compares a current position pattern of the one or more wearables user to the expected position pattern. In response to the current position pattern not matching the expected position pattern, a processor retrieves an overlay corresponding to a use case indicated by the expected usage pattern. A processor renders the overlay in the augmented reality device, where the overlay is rendered in the expected position pattern for the one or more wearable devices relative to a view of the augmented reality device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Atul Mene, Jeremy R. Fox, Kushal S. Patel, Sarvesh S. Patel, Tushar Agrawal, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Patent number: 11636576
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an image processing apparatus comprising a first setting unit which sets a first parameter for processing for removing an influence of a fine particle component based on image data; a first image processing unit which performs fine particle removal processing based on the first parameter; a second setting unit which sets a second parameter; a second image processing unit which performs fine particle removal processing based on the second parameter; a setting unit which sets a region for which the first image processing unit is to be used and a region tor which the second image processing unit is to be used and a generation unit which generates image data by applying a result from the first image processing unit and a result from the second image processing unit to the respective set regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Itoh
  • Patent number: 11460887
    Abstract: A display device and a terminal device are disclosed. The display device includes a main body and a cover body rotatably connected to the main body, the main body includes a first display screen on a side, close to the cover body, of the main body, the cover body is provided with an accommodating cavity penetrating through the cover body in a direction perpendicular to the first display screen, the cover body includes a second display screen in the accommodating cavity, the second display screen is stacked on the first display screen in the direction perpendicular to the first display screen, and the second display screen is a transparent display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing BOE Technology Development Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liyu Fang, Xiuyun Chen, Lingyu Sun, Fei Liang, Jingjun Du, Tingxiu Hou, Peng Zhong, Jian Zhao
  • Patent number: 11327575
    Abstract: A system for positioning and controlling sound images in three-dimensional space, comprising: a three-dimensional motion sensing input device; and a computer system incorporating a digital audio workstation application including a gesture library and one or more built-in features, the computer system being connected to the three-dimensional motion sensing input device by a communication link, wherein gestures that are pre-defined in the gesture library are captured by the three-dimensional motion sensing input device and are provided to the computer system via the communication link and used by the digital audio workstation application to position a sound image in three-dimensional space or to control one or more built-in features of the digital audio workstation application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Tino Fibaek
  • Patent number: 11262892
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are clutch and boom features that can enable the manipulation of user interface elements when using a touch-sensitive component to build or otherwise design a graphical display, such as a website, video game, magazine layout, etc. Upon touching user interface element to be manipulated, the user interface element can be targeted for manipulation. In response to a clutch user interface element being engaged, the targeted user interface element can be enabled for manipulation (e.g., colored, rotated, moved, etc.) by the user, while the non-targeted user elements are protected from manipulation. Boom is an example of manipulation functionality provided by some embodiments, which can be configured to move the targeted user interface element a precise amount (e.g., pixel-by-pixel).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Newman Infinite, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Allan Newman
  • Patent number: 11197056
    Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive a cast command in response to input to a source device, and to establish a cast mode to cast content from the source device to a target device pursuant to the cast command. The cast mode may be established based at least in part on information appertaining to the target device. The instructions may also be executable to present the content on the target device in a first format responsive to establishing a first cast mode and to present the content on the target device in a second format responsive to establishing a second cast mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Mark Patrick Delaney, Nathan J. Peterson, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler
  • Patent number: 11080518
    Abstract: A face image generating method for recognizing face performed by a face image generating device to extract a face image from image frames collected from an image acquiring device and generate a face image for face recognition, includes: a first step of converting an RGB-based image frame received from the image acquiring device into a YCbCr image; a second step of setting a region satisfying a skin color condition in the YCbCr image as a face candidate region; a third step of determining a face region; a fifth step of calculating a degree of inclination of a side face; and a sixth step of generating a face image for recognition by converting the front face image and the side face image into different sizes according to a distance to the image acquiring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: EVER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Du Chun, Min Jung Lee
  • Patent number: 11037332
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting a map and other location-based info using an electronic device. In an aspect, an elongated map segment is created according to a device pointing direction. In another aspect, other location-based information is sorted and presented according to a device pointing direction. In the other aspect, a directional mark pointing to a target is configured on a map. The map segment and directional mark are arranged for quick map viewing and direction determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
  • Patent number: 10997691
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method of interpolating an image including a pixel array formed of multiple pixels. The method includes: determining a position of an interpolation point relative to the pixel array; determining weights of an edge direction of the pixel array at the position of the interpolation point in a plurality of preset edge directions based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels adjacent to the interpolation point; selecting, for each preset edge direction, one or more corresponding pixel sub-arrays covering the interpolation point from the pixel array to calculate an interpolation pixel value of the interpolation point; calculating a weighted interpolation pixel value of the interpolation point based on the weights of the edge direction of the pixel array at the position of the interpolation point in the preset edge directions and the interpolation pixel value of the interpolation point corresponding to each preset edge direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MONTAGE LZ TECHNOLOGIES (CHENGDU) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mengchi He, Binxuan Sun, Ke Wu, Chia Chen Chang
  • Patent number: 10996823
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various interactive user interfaces containing interactive maps. The user may use the interactive map to perform searches for data objects, toggle different layers associated with different types of objects for display, generate heatmaps based upon a grid and/or data object shapes, copy data between different interactive maps, and/or define filters to filter the displayed data. In response to user interaction with the map at a client system, tile layers are generated using server-side components, assembled into map tiles, and transmitted to client-side components to be displayed to the user. The tile layers may include a base tile layer, vector tile layer, selection tile layer, and inactive tile layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Cervelli, Cai GoGwilt, William Macrae, Robert Prochnow, Dylan Scott, Henry Tung, Kevin Verdieck, Agatha Yu
  • Patent number: 10802682
    Abstract: A method for switching an application interface at an apparatus is disclosed. The method is performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes receiving, from a user of the apparatus, an interface switching instruction with respect to an original application interface that is currently displayed at the apparatus. The interface switching instruction includes information indicating a two-dimensional direction from a stored set of two-dimensional directions. The method includes retrieving a predefined database that includes two-dimensional location information associated with a group of application interfaces including the original application interface. The method also includes determining, based on the two-dimensional direction and the two-dimensional location information, a target application interface from the group of application interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Gang Cheng
  • Patent number: 10762461
    Abstract: A method includes generating, by a processor, a Systems, Applications, Products (SAP) profile standardization data structure for secure SAP profile entry submission. A reporting data structure including records from a first SAP profile data structure and a second SAP profile data structure is generated for a visual line-by-line result of a comparison of the first SAP profile data structure with the second SAP profile data structure. The reporting data structure comprises a compare template data structure including the first SAP profile data structure and the second SAP profile data structure placed side-by-side and each indicating the visual line-by-line result of the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lynn M. Clauer, Robert M. Mireault, Debra J. White
  • Patent number: 10739990
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method being performed in connection with a mobile computer system comprising a central processing unit, a touchscreen and a memory, the computer-implemented method comprising: detecting a gesture performed by a user across the touchscreen, where in the gesture comprises a plurality of unidirectional or circular motions performed by the user over substantially the same area; determining at least one characteristic of the detected gesture; and selecting a command for execution by the central processing unit of the mobile computer system based on the at least one determined characteristic of the detected gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Inventor: Leonid Despotuli
  • Patent number: 10444941
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various interactive user interfaces containing interactive maps. The user may use the interactive map to perform searches for data objects, toggle different layers associated with different types of objects for display, generate heatmaps based upon a grid and/or data object shapes, copy data between different interactive maps, and/or define filters to filter the displayed data. In response to user interaction with the map at a client system, tile layers are generated using server-side components, assembled into map tiles, and transmitted to client-side components to be displayed to the user. The tile layers may include a base tile layer, vector tile layer, selection tile layer, and inactive tile layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Cervelli, Cai GoGwilt, William Macrae, Robert Prochnow, Dylan Scott, Henry Tung, Kevin Verdieck, Agatha Yu
  • Patent number: 10444940
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that display various interactive user interfaces containing interactive maps. The user may use the interactive map to perform searches for data objects, toggle different layers associated with different types of objects for display, generate heatmaps based upon a grid and/or data object shapes, copy data between different interactive maps, and/or define filters to filter the displayed data. In response to user interaction with the map at a client system, tile layers are generated using server-side components, assembled into map tiles, and transmitted to client-side components to be displayed to the user. The tile layers may include a base tile layer, vector tile layer, selection tile layer, and inactive tile layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Cervelli, Cai GoGwilt, William Macrae, Robert Prochnow, Dylan Scott, Henry Tung, Kevin Verdieck, Agatha Yu
  • Patent number: 10402068
    Abstract: Features are disclosed for dynamically generating a navigation interface for rendering content related to an item. To generate the interface, the system analyzes the content available and organizes the content in an intuitive way that keeps the user oriented as they explore the product. Some aspects also consider the access device rendering the interface to ensure the interface includes content that is appropriately selected and formatted for presentation via the access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L S Dodge, Charles Shearer Dorner, Janet Ellen Galore, Zakaria David Zajac
  • Patent number: 10373290
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program reads a file representing a source image. The file specifies an interior image and a set of successive exterior images that correspond to a set of successive zoom levels. The interior image includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel in the interior image has a particular size. Each exterior image in the set of successive exterior images includes a plurality of pixels configured to encompass the interior image. The plurality of pixels of each successive interior image have a successively larger size than the particular size. The program generates the source image based on the interior image and the set of successive exterior images. The program receives a selection of a zoom level in the set of successive zoom levels. The program generates a target image based on the selected zoom level and the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Han Xiang Chen, Letao Chen
  • Patent number: 10142499
    Abstract: A sample image and a folder name of a selected saving destination folder are obtained, and character recognition processing is performed on the sample image to obtain character strings. When it is determined that the same character string as the folder name of the saving destination folder exists among the obtained character strings, an area where the same character string is detected as an enlargement area, and the identified enlargement area, the sample image, and the folder name are registered while being associated with one another. When a target image on which distribution processing is performed is obtained, a sample image similar to the obtained target image is identified, and an enlargement area registered while being associated with the identified sample image is identified. An area of the target image corresponding to the enlargement area identified by the identification unit is enlarged and displayed on a folder specification screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinya Honda
  • Patent number: 10136067
    Abstract: An observation apparatus includes an image-pickup control unit configured to set an image-pickup condition of an image-pickup unit so as to control the image-pickup unit, and an enlargement control unit configured to conduct control so that display enlargement is conducted for part of an observation image picked up by the image-pickup unit when a prescribed manipulation is made while the observation image is displayed and to control the image-pickup control unit so that at least a portion of the image-pickup condition set on the basis of an observation image that is not enlarged is changed and set on the basis of a target for which the display enlargement is to be conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Atsushi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10078978
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a data compressor compressing first line data received from the outside to generate first compressed data, compressing differential data between the first line data and second line data, which are the previous line data of the first line data, to generate second compressed data, and selectively outputting any one of the first and second compressed data; and a source driver decompressing the compressed data output from the data compressor to reconstruct the first line data and supplying data signals corresponding to the reconstructed first line data to the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadashi Amino
  • Patent number: 10067664
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for providing a prototyping tool, including at least: acquiring first input data and second input data by using a sensor, and acquiring combination data for specifying a combination between the input data; defining, as a trigger, a gesture in which the first input data and the second input data are combined according to the combination data; providing a first graphic element corresponding to the trigger, a second graphic element corresponding to an object, and a third graphic element corresponding to an action; and defining an interaction for allowing an action corresponding to the third graphic element to be performed with respect to the object corresponding to the second graphic element if the trigger corresponding to the first graphic element occurs, when the first graphic element, the second graphic element, and the third graphic element are selected and combined by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: STUDIO XID KOREA INC.
    Inventor: Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9813768
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an input device is provided for receiving one of a plurality of commands via the manipulation of one or more fingers of a user and sending output commands to a separate device based on the nature of the manipulation. According to one embodiment, the input device is a hand-held tablet and the separate device is a computer. In one embodiment, the system may be used for editing electronic video or audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: RED BIRD RISING II LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Chow
  • Patent number: 9755999
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided that is performed by an electronic device. A display screen provides a first user interface to receive a first user input and to display user inputted content including a first representation of the first user input. An instruction to provide a second user interface is received. The display screen provides the second user interface together with the first user interface in response to the received instruction. A portion of the user inputted content is displayable in the second user interface in an enlarged size. A second user input is received via the second user interface. In response to the second user input, a second representation of the second user input is displayed in the second user interface. The user inputted content displayed in the first user interface is updated by adding the second representation in a displayed size smaller than a size used for displaying the second representation in the second user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ki-Tae Lee, Soo-Ryeol Kim
  • Patent number: 9569817
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus, determines, using a pixel signal included in a region referenced on a pixel of interest of a target image, a direction having a high signal correlation in the region, performs, using pixel signals from neighboring pixels of the pixel of interest based on a determination result, interpolation processing for interpolating a pixel signal of the pixel of interest, and performs reduction by reducing the number of pixels of the interpolated image, wherein the interpolation processing is executed according to a reduction rate used in the reduction, such that a high frequency component of the image decreases as a degree of reduction increases, while applying a weight to the pixel signal of a pixel, among the neighboring pixels, located in the direction determined as having the high correlation based on the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shun Matsui
  • Patent number: 9486123
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes an image acquisition section, an attention area setting section, and a scaling section. The image acquisition section acquires a captured image that includes an object image. The attention area setting section sets an attention area within the captured image based on information from the endoscope system. The scaling section performs a local scaling process that relatively enlarges the attention area as compared with another area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Morita, Seigo On, Jumpei Takahashi, Naoya Kuriyama, Keiji Higuchi
  • Patent number: 9288464
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for scaling a first channel, wherein the method comprises computing a low resolution second channel based on a transformation of the second channel with a transformation function used to transform high resolution channel into a low resolution channel; computing a correlation function between the low resolution second channel and the first channel; determining a predicted second channel having the high resolution from the low resolution second channel according to a prediction method; computing an high-pass second channel based on the difference between the second channel and the predicted second channel and based on the correlation function; determining a predicted first channel having the high resolution from the first channel according to the prediction method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christophe Bernard, Vincent Varoquaux, Marc De Vulpillieres
  • Patent number: 9256917
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating nested 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 remaining portion of the user content. A second portion of a zoomed in first portion of the user content is zooming into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the second portion using the touch input device while retaining an original zoom size of the zoomed in first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Open Invention Network, LLC
    Inventor: Margarita Khafizova
  • Patent number: 9160673
    Abstract: A method is provided for selecting a transmit link in a bonding group. Traffic is distributed to the links based on a selection method. Typical selection methods for bonded links of the same type include round robin or weighted round robin. A method is disclosed including selecting from among bonded links of different types based on link priority or link-to-group backpressure, sometimes both, and in some cases also based on traffic class. Link priority is based on the reliability, or quality, of the link. Adding link priority, and optionally traffic class, into the selection method allows high priority traffic to be always transported over high quality links. Also, considering the link-to-group backpressure, such as based on congestion status of operational links, or active links, will help avoid link congestion. The method is relevant to Quality of Service (QoS) implementation in transportation systems used for mobile backhaul or carrier access networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: PMC-Sierra US, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Lang, Avi Hagai, Nadav Busani, Amit David
  • Patent number: 9064245
    Abstract: A calendar graphical visualization is generated that includes an arrangement of blocks including pixels representing data records containing user feedback, wherein plural groups of the blocks represent different attributes of the data records, and wherein the blocks correspond to respective time intervals. A size of the blocks is determined based on identifying a union of time positions corresponding to data records received for the different attributes in a particular time interval of the time intervals. Pixels in a first of the blocks corresponding to a first of the attributes are aligned with pixels in a second of the blocks corresponding to a second of the attributes by placing gaps in the first and second blocks at respective time positions that are missing values for corresponding ones of the attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu
  • Patent number: 9019314
    Abstract: At the first scale size, a predetermined first arrangement position is determined as the arrangement position of an image to be arranged on a map. At the second scale size larger than the first scale size, the second arrangement position closer to the shooting location of the image than at a position corresponding to the first arrangement position on the map at the second scale size is determined as the arrangement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroto Oka
  • Publication number: 20150077437
    Abstract: A method for implementing an electronic magnifier and a user equipment (UE), which relate to the field of electronic devices, and can facilitate a user operation and content viewing. The method in the present invention mainly includes after an electronic magnifier of a UE is activated, determining information about a tilt angle variation of the UE's display screen using a gravity sensor of the UE; and moving a magnified area of the electronic magnifier according to the information about the tilt angle variation, where the magnified area of the electronic magnifier is a part of a display area of the display screen, so that displayed content entering the magnified area is magnified and displayed. Embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied in a process of implementing a magnifier in an electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yishi Yin, Janakiraman Thiyagarajah
  • Patent number: 8963950
    Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a pickup image acquisition unit that acquires a pickup image of a viewer viewing a display image, a detection unit that detects a viewing position and a viewing distance of the viewer with respect to the display image based on the pickup image of the viewer acquired by the pickup image acquisition unit, and a display control unit that changes a size of the display image in accordance with the viewing distance of the viewer detected by the detection unit while associating the viewing position of the viewer detected by the detection unit with a display position of the display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Murakami
  • Patent number: 8957918
    Abstract: Methods for activating multi-touch functionality by recognizing and processing multi-touch interactions on a touch surface of non-multi-touch computing devices. The computing device may detect a jump from the location of the first touch event to determine that a multiple touch gesture is being traced. Virtual touch events are detected and stored. Using mathematical formulae, parameters are calculated based on initial and subsequent virtual touch event locations. Based on these parameters the multi-touch functionality is determined, such as a zooming or rotating function. A transform factor may be determined and applied to the image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sri Venkatesh Godavari
  • Patent number: 8947459
    Abstract: A contents playback apparatus and the like are provided which allow a user to promptly designate a desired portion when displaying a part of a content in an expanded manner, and are thus excellent in operability. A contents playback apparatus includes an associating unit and a playback unit. The associating unit generates association information for a plurality of characteristic portions contained in a content by referring to priority orders of the respective characteristic portions relative to each other, the association information associating each of the characteristic portions individually with a predetermined operation key of an input device included in the apparatus in accordance with the priority orders. The playback unit plays back, in response to detecting an operation of an operation key during display of the content, the characteristic portion corresponding to the operation key in an expanded display mode, in accordance with the association information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Osuga, Takashi Oshiba, Katsuhiro Ochiai, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Kozo Satoda, Kazuaki Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20150015583
    Abstract: A projector includes a superimposed image projection unit that projects a projection image generated based on a video signal superimposing a predetermined superimposed image on the projection image, and a signal controller that detects variation in a projection area of the projection image based on the video signal. The superimposed image projection unit modifies a projection position of the superimposed image in accordance with the variation in the projection area of the projection image detected by the signal controller, determines whether the superimposed image has a part that is selected in the superimposed image before the variation, adjusts a display position of the selected part based on variation amount of the projection position of the superimposed image, and projects the adjusted superimposed image so as to display the selected part differently from other parts of the superimposed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Ayako WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8878879
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for displaying content and a computer-readable recording medium thereof are disclosed. The method for displaying content includes: generating a page corresponding to a content file included in a folder; generating a folder display portion corresponding to the folder and an information display layer including the page; outputting the information display layer on a content display apparatus; sensing touch of the content display apparatus; and changing an output format of the information display layer based on the sensed touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science & Technology
    Inventors: Joong Ho Lee, Ji Hyung Park, Dong Wook Yoon
  • Patent number: 8872856
    Abstract: A method and/or system of scaling images by providing a horizontal macroblock scaler with pixels of the images in units of macroblocks and a vertical macroblock scaler where the pixels of the output image are in units of macroblocks. For the horizontal macroblock scaler macroblocks decoded or vertically scaled are read into the horizontal scaler to generate horizontally scaled macroblocks of pixels. The horizontal scaler need not access data stored in a memory, which reduces the memory bandwidth need for scaling the image. For the vertical macroblock scaler macroblocks decoded or horizontally scaled are read into the vertical scaler from memory to generate vertical scaled macroblocks of pixel. The output of the vertical scaler can be sent directly to an encoder without going through memory first, which reduces the memory bandwidth need for scaling the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Zenverge, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony D. Masterson
  • Patent number: 8866828
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a system that drives an integrated display on a computer system from an electronic device. The system includes a circuit, a processor, and an application executing on the processor. The circuit may receive a display command sent from the electronic device to the computer system. The application may obtain the display command from a memory on the computer system and process the display command to control a capability of the integrated display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian E. Sun, Thomas A. LaPerre, Jr., Collin L. Pieper, Eugene I. Chen
  • Publication number: 20140292813
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an adjusting section configured to detect, when a plurality of observation targets are included in a slide, regions of images of the observation targets from an image of the slide and continuously arrange the regions to thereby generate data of a reconfigured slide image in which arrangement of the observation targets is adjusted; and a display control section configured to display, on a display apparatus, an enlarged image corresponding to a part of a display region of the reconfigured slide image and change the enlarged image displayed on the display apparatus such that the display region moves on the reconfigured slide image according to a movement instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomohiko Takayama, Tomochika Murakami
  • Patent number: 8847927
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a pointing device and a display section for displaying an image. A coordinate detection section detects coordinates pointed to by the pointing device. A first change amount calculation section calculates a change amount of the coordinates in a first direction, the coordinates obtained when inputting is continuously performed by the pointing device. A second change amount calculation section a change amount of the coordinates in a second direction, the coordinates obtained when inputting is continuously performed by the pointing device. A first operation section performs a first operation based on the change amount in the first direction, the change amount calculated by the first change amount calculation section. A second operation section performs, based on the change amount in the second direction, a second operation different from the first operation, the change amount calculated by the second change amount calculation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mari Shirakawa, Akito Oshizawa, Mitsuteru Ozawa
  • Patent number: 8836721
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes providing a first image from a server system to a client computing device for display and providing a second image from the server system to the client computing device for display. The method also includes providing instructions from the server system to the client computing device for displaying a window over the first image that displays a portion of the second image within the window, where the portion of the second image displayed within the window corresponds to a position of the window over the first image, and where the portions of the second image include one or more rectangular shapes to approximate a curved shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Marcin Kazimierz Wichary, Kristopher Hom
  • Patent number: 8823749
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide an efficient user interface for providing continuous zoom or magnification of a displayed image on a computing device. A user may initiate a zoom-in or zoom-out function by tracing an ellipsoidal shape (e.g., a circle) using a user interface device, such as a touchscreen, touchpad or mouse. The zoom function continues so long as a touchscreen or touchpad are touched, or a mouse button is depressed, and an ellipsoidal path is traced. Zoom-in or magnification scaling factor may be applied to an image in response to a clockwise path trace and a zoom-out or demagnification scaling factor may be applied to an image in response to a clockwise path trace, or vice versa. A visual aid may be presented on the display that may be followed to conduct the zoom function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samuel J. Horodezky, Kam-Cheong Anthony Tsoi
  • Patent number: 8817050
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Friedman, Michael A. Cleron, Dianne K. Hackborn
  • Patent number: 8803921
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image display apparatus including: a display section; a theme icon storage section which stores a plurality of sets of a theme of an image corresponded to a theme icon representing the theme; an image storage section which stores an image folder storing a sequence of a plurality of images; an image theme detecting section which detects an image theme of each image; a representative theme extracting section which extracts an image theme which represents an image line of the divided sequence of the plurality of images as an image line representative theme for each image line; and a folder icon display control section which positions each theme icon corresponding to the plurality of image line representative themes extracted by the representative theme extracting section according to an order of the image line to form a folder icon and allows the display section to display the folder icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Kojo
  • Patent number: 8797364
    Abstract: When a display position for any of a plurality of images is designated using a touch panel, an instruction accepting section enlarges, for a predetermined period of time, an area for accepting the input of an instruction associated with any of the image of the plurality of images that is displayed in the designated display position, in accordance with speed of change that is detected by a speed detector at the time of the designation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Matsuki
  • Patent number: 8760473
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Jean-Roch Houllier, Alain Brethereau, BĂ©atrix De Mathan
  • Publication number: 20140168276
    Abstract: A radiographic-image processing device executes image processing on radiographic image data obtained by radiographic imaging of a diagnostic target part as an imaging subject. The device includes a display unit and an enlargement display unit. The display unit displays a radiographic image based on the radiographic image data. The enlargement display unit enlarges a predetermined area including an interest area in the radiographic image and which displays the enlarged predetermined area on the display unit as an initial image which is the first to be displayed after radiographic imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro TAKEDA