Display Processing Patents (Class 715/273)
  • Patent number: 8769432
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for capturing information from a web site. The method includes accessing the web site using a browser with a browser module, where the web site comprises a number of web pages having information in a first format, and obtaining a profile corresponding to the web site, where the profile defines a manner to capture information in a first format from the web site. The method further includes capturing information, by the browser module, from at least one of the number of web pages based on the profile and sending the information captured by the browser module to a destination application, where the destination application is external to the browser and where the destination application is configured to use the information in a second format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford L. Rhyne, Larry John Raab, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 8769392
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method in a client-server environment, is provided for document research, aggregation, and compilation. The system and method includes a server having a search module configured to generate a search interface displayable to a client communicably coupled to the server, and responsive to instructions received via the search interface, to search and sort selections of interest within a plurality of source documents. A customized report module is configured to generate a custom report interface displayable to the client, and responsive to user selection instructions received via the custom report interface, to extract and aggregate the selections of interest into a customized report. PDF, PPT, and XLS modules are configured to respectively enable source documents in the PDF, PPT, and XLS formats to be searched, sorted, and aggregated by the search module and customized report module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Content Catalyst Limited
    Inventor: Daniel J. Lord
  • Patent number: 8769406
    Abstract: In setting, by using a format, a non-display region in image data obtained by an image reading unit, a format location information input unit writes in the image data, an image representing information on access to a format storage unit in an external apparatus where a format to be used has been stored. In displaying the image data, a format location information extraction unit extracts the format location information by extracting the image from the image data. A format obtaining unit obtains the format by accessing the format storage unit based on the information. An image modification unit uses the obtained format to modify the image data such that the designated region is displayed in an invisible manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hashimoto, Takeshi Hibino, Kana Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20140181629
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for automatically creating screen captures of a user interface. In an implementation, a method may include identifying a portion of a user interface display associated with a page object. The method may also include creating a screen capture image including the portion of the user interface display associated with the page object. The method may further include associating the screen capture image with a documentation record for the page object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Laurence A. Hey, William J. Izard, Matthew J. Ponsford
  • Publication number: 20140181648
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, apparatus, and systems implementing techniques for displaying labels included in a body of content are presented. Part of a portion of a body of content is displayed in a display area. The body of content includes a label for the portion, and the label has a normal position adjacent to and not overlapping the portion in the body of content. The label is displayed in the display area in the normal position if doing so places the label fully within the display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Vincent L. Parsons
  • Patent number: 8762837
    Abstract: A document management platform system and methodology for capturing, transmitting, storing, retrieving and displaying documents, document versions, and images in a shared-system environment using the Internet or other network. Through utilization of thumbnail images along with full images, transmission of multipage documents is facilitated, avoiding system bottlenecks. Document security is hierarchically based with document control being available to system users in addition to system administrators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Critical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Rule, Kim Stroh
  • Patent number: 8762836
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for the efficient application of a system font mapping to a design. Specific embodiments of the invention involve creating a design environment for a user that is configured to display a design. The design environment allows a user to apply a design font to text in the design. The user is also allowed to define a mapping from the design font to a target font. These embodiments also include generating a markup language representation of the design and applying the mapping to the design. The text is linked to the design font using an encoding prior to the generating step, and the text is linked to fonts in the markup language representation using a different encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Axure Software Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Hsu, Martin Smith, Ian Gardner
  • Patent number: 8756500
    Abstract: Dynamic filtering of content in a content feed may be provided. A user interface may be displayed on a computer for presenting different views of content. The user interface may include a title bar for switching between the different views and for displaying notifications. The different views may include content generated by users of the content feed. Content in the different views may be filtered based on a type and a priority of the content during the presentation of each of the views in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew W. Harris, Erin M. O'Connell, Hayley Lynn Steplyk
  • Patent number: 8756493
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating Web pages are provided. Web page development components, referred to as “pods,” may be used to encapsulate discrete functionality for use and re-use within Web pages. The pods may be contained in a library, from which a developer may select one or more pods that provide the functionality and/or presentation definitions the developer wishes to include in the Web page. A pod may contain all the functional and presentation information required to implement the desired functionality, and may contain only that functional and presentation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Neopost Technologies
    Inventors: George Demosthenes Nickas, Jr., Justin Wiley Johnson, Jennie Marie Mosley, Jacob Andrew Stearns
  • Patent number: 8749832
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquiring unit, an image page selecting unit, a reducing unit, and an outputting unit. The acquiring unit acquires a file including a plurality of pages. At least one of a character and an image is carried on each page. The image page selecting unit selects a page containing the image from the plurality of pages. The reducing unit generates a reduced-size page carrying a reduced-size image from the selected page. The outputting unit outputs the reduced-size image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norio Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20140157120
    Abstract: A testing materials production system generates a testing document associated with an electronic foundation document. The testing materials production system automatically generates the testing document by populating regions of a template with testing elements extracted from the electronic document. User customizations of the testing document are received, and the testing document is published to an extended catalog database associated with the electronic document. Regions of the testing document may be delivered in association with the electronic document to designated recipients via browser applications executing on computing devices of the recipients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Chegg, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Le Chevalier, Charles F. Geiger
  • Publication number: 20140157105
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a customized digital publication are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method for creating a customized digital publication comprises receiving, at an application builder executed by a processor, a digital publication application shell comprising an application programming interface (API), the digital publication application shell specifying standard functionality or appearance features for a digital publication application, and custom feature code specifying a custom feature based at least in part on a reference to the API of the digital publication shell, and producing the digital publication application based at least in part on the digital publication application shell and the custom feature code, wherein the digital publication application comprises at least some of the standard functionality or appearance features specified by the digital publication application shell and the custom feature specified by the custom feature code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: Nathan Plesnicher
  • Patent number: 8744147
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for graphically representing the condition of an anatomical structure that is the subject of a medical examination. The method includes displaying a background image representative of the anatomical structure, the image including a plurality of layers corresponding to different layers of the anatomical structure, selecting a layer of the background image, presenting a plurality of symbols, each corresponding to an anatomical pathological state and selected from a group associated with the selected layer, each symbol having a plurality of parameters which determine the rendering condition of a symbol on the background, selecting one of the presented symbols, selecting an X-Y position within the selected layer and displaying the symbol on the selected layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventor: Robert Torti
  • Patent number: 8745483
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for visually indicating relationships among cells in a spreadsheet. Each of a first graphical linking element extending between cells in a first branch of a dependency tree of a root cell and a second graphical linking element extending between cells in a second branch of the dependency tree of the root cell is independently displayed and hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael D. Chavoustie, Andrew M. Eberbach, Trevor L. Montgomery, Joshua M. Woods
  • Patent number: 8745477
    Abstract: A content management tool can assist publishers/authors in managing access rights and other parameters related to the display of documents online. The documents may include books and other documents that are traditionally published as printed works. The content management tool may display presentation parameters for the documents that relate to how the documents are to be shown to users when accessing the documents. The content management tool receives modifications to the presentation parameters and applies the modified versions of the presentation parameters to future accesses of the documents by users. The content management tool can, for example, be used to modify the portions of the document available for display, turn on/off certain portions of the document, manage links displayed concurrently with the document, and/or manage advertising related to the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph K. O'Sullivan, Cathy Gordon
  • Publication number: 20140149858
    Abstract: A mechanism for referencing a portion of a document. A method includes identifying, by a processing device of a user device, a portion of a document, the portion selected by a user of the user device. The method also includes displaying, by the processing device, the selected portion of the document as a graphical representation of an icon on the user device. The method also includes detecting, by the processing device, a reference to the icon displaying the selected portion of the document, the reference performed by the user. The method further includes providing, by the processing device, the referenced selected portion of the document associated with the icon to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: RED HAT, INC.
    Inventors: Martin Vecera, Jiri Pechanec
  • Patent number: 8739054
    Abstract: In a case wherein a drop area of a capture window is clicked with a mouse and text is entered through a keyboard, a CPU of a computer device changes the drop area of a capture window to an edit area which displays text characters that were entered from the keyboard. The CPU changes the capture button to a print button used to enter a command for text printing. If the print button is clicked with the mouse, the CPU outputs the text which is displayed on the edit area to a tape printer as print data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuhiro Ikedo, Mikitoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8739032
    Abstract: A document analysis system receives multiple concepts along with multiple reference documents and generates sensory indicators that assist a researcher in assessing the relevance of each of the documents to the concepts. In one exemplary aspect, the document analysis system displays a table of keywords separated into blocks, each block of keywords corresponding to one of the concepts. Each block is colored according to the prevalence of any keyword within a given keyword group. The color of a block thus indicates the relative presence of a concept in the document. The document analysis system also determines a unique color for each block of keywords for highlighting in the text of the document. In this manner a researcher can quickly identify passages that contain multiple concepts. Additionally, the researcher is provided the ability to quickly locate reference characters, figure numbers and patent numbers in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Patrick Sander Walsh
  • Publication number: 20140136971
    Abstract: A system and process are disclosed for providing users with page previews during page loading events, such that the delay experienced before the display of page content is reduced. The previews may include screenshots of the pages or of portions thereof, and may be generated periodically and cached by the system for delivery to user devices. The process of generating and delivering the previews via the Internet or some other network may be implemented partly or wholly within an intermediary system that sits logically between the user devices and content servers. The process may be used with existing browsers without the need for any browser modifications, or may be used with a “preview-aware” browser that includes special program code for providing page previews.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Krishna Kumar, Scott Zachary Bressler, Ivan King Yu Sham, Ian William Stewart, Brett Richard Taylor, Peter Frank Hill, Aakarsh Nair, Steven Michael Reddie, Patrick Joseph Armstrong, Samuel John Young, Ameet Nirmal Vaswani, Andrew Hayden
  • Patent number: 8725751
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to an apparatus for blocking or blurring unwanted image features. The apparatus includes at least a memory, a processor, a browsing application, and an image blocking component. The image blocking component is configured to block or blur images with unwanted image features before the images are displayed by the browsing application. Another embodiment relates to a process for blocking or blurring unwanted image features prior to displaying web pages. A web page including an image is received, but it is not displayed the image until after checking the image for unwanted image features. Image features are extracted from the image, and the extracted image features are compared against features in a customized image feature database. The image is displayed if no match is found during said comparison. The image is blocked or blurred if a match is found during said comparison. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Trend Micro Incorporated
    Inventors: Cheng-Jyun Lai, Wei-Chin Chen, Shih-Yun Chen
  • Patent number: 8723870
    Abstract: Systems, servers, methods, media, and programs for storing a list of options associated with object-types, such as a chart-type, selected during an on-line session. When a new object-type is selected, some of the options in the first object-type are copied from the options list associated with the first object-type to the options list associated with the second (new) object-type. The list of options to be transferred is determined by a set rules associated with a transferable array and a set of rules associated with a quarantine set. The transferrable array includes rules for options available for transfer, and quarantine list includes rules for options and type pairs that are not available for transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Libicki, Hillel Maoz
  • Patent number: 8726153
    Abstract: A display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the contents, a content arranging unit configured to arrange the contents based on time information possessed by the contents, a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between adjacent contents in terms of time based on the time information possessed by the contents, a display position setting unit configured to set a position of each content along a time axis based on the time difference between the contents, the display position setting unit determining whether the time difference between the contents is larger than a predetermined value, and a content display unit configured to display the plurality of contents based on position information on the time axis along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, QiHong Wang, Akiko Terayama, Takuo Ikeda, Hidenori Karasawa
  • Patent number: 8725513
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application, the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a speech engine through a VoiceXML interpreter, including: receiving, by the multimodal browser, user input from a user through a particular mode of user interaction; determining, by the multimodal browser, user output for the user in dependence upon the user input; determining, by the multimodal browser, a style for the user output in dependence upon the user input, the style specifying expressive output characteristics for at least one other mode of user interaction; and rendering, by the multimodal browser, the user output in dependence upon the style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles W. Cross, Jr., Ellen M. Eide, Igor R. Jablokov
  • Patent number: 8719275
    Abstract: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for displaying search results are disclosed. In an embodiment, this may comprise receiving search results, receiving information about search result scores according to a plurality of criteria, creating a star in the radar chart based on the search result scores, coloring the star based on the search result scores, and displaying the radar chart. Different weight may be given to each search result score. Multiple search results may be displayed in one radar chart, or multiple radar charts may be used. Color intensity and hue may be used to represent difference in the search result scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventor: Pierre-Yves Chevalier
  • Patent number: 8717383
    Abstract: Managing diagram elements in a drawing becomes more challenging as the number of diagram elements increases. Placing a new diagram element in a drawing often requires manual movement of one or more other diagram elements within the drawing. Functionality can be implemented within a drawing application to automatically manage diagram elements in a drawing by applying layouts to sets of diagram elements. A drawing tool can associate a set of diagram elements and assigns them a exclusive area or region in the drawing space. Since a layout occupies an exclusive area, the drawing tool can manage the drawing space by automatically moving elements within a first layout when overlap with a second layout is detected. Managing drawing spaces with layouts reduces time spent adjusting diagram elements as a result of applying operations to other elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventors: Peter A. Coldicott, Eduardo T. Kahan, Velayoudame P. Mouttoucomarasamy
  • Patent number: 8719703
    Abstract: By analyzing a web page, the web page can be divided into component parts. Specifically, the web page can be divided into items, templates and the remaining HTML. Then, using dedicated user interfaces, each component part can be separately edited. To facilitate editing, the component parts not being edited can optionally be suppressed or presented in abbreviated form, and all parts can optionally be shown in the same order in which they occur in the web page. The live version of the web page is then updated with the edited version of the component parts, taking into consideration any contributions from other users made during the editing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Allan Bier
  • Patent number: 8718364
    Abstract: An apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a region extraction unit configured to extract region data for each object from document image data including tables; a table structure analysis unit configured to analyze the region data relating to table objects out of the extracted region data and extract table structure information on each of the table objects; a sheet generation unit configured to generate a display sheet for reproducing a layout of the object in the document image data and an edit sheet for each table for editing the table, by using the region data and the table structure information on each object; and an electronic-document generation unit configured to generate an electronic document which associated the display sheet with the edit sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Makoto Enomoto
  • Patent number: 8719695
    Abstract: An electronic device displays at least a portion of an electronic document with a predefined page layout at a first magnification level on a display; detects a first input indicating a first insertion point in the document, where the first insertion point is proximate to a first portion of text in the document; and in response to detecting the first input: selects a second magnification level different from the first magnification level, where the second magnification level is selected so as to display the first portion of text at a target text display size, and, while maintaining the predefined page layout of the document, displays, at the second magnification level, a portion of the document that includes the first portion of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, Martin J. Murrett, Matthew Todd Schomer, Kevin Raemon Glyn Smyth, Ian Joseph Elseth
  • Publication number: 20140123002
    Abstract: A method for providing linked note-taking includes receiving a notification from an online presentation service presenting a document that a note file relating to the document has been created in a client application, requesting at least a portion of the document and document information from the online presentation service, receiving, from the online presentation service, the at least a portion of the document and document information retrieved from a client application where the document resides, receiving a note within the note file and associating the note with at least a portion of the document and document information without locally opening the document in the client application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Cynthia D. Wessling, Apeksha Godiyal, Mustafa Bilal, Charles Duze, James M. Krantz, Abraham Mathew, Thomas C. Underhill, Cassandra Lewis, Chad Nedzlek
  • Patent number: 8713421
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for identifying a drawing scale for a graphical view of a drawing, the drawing scale specifying a ratio of two units; selecting one or more annotations associated with the view that support the drawing scale, each of the selected annotations associated with context for the drawing scale, the context specifying one or more of: the annotation's position in the view, the annotation's style in the view, or the annotation's rotation in the view; adding a graphical representation of each of the selected annotations to the view according to the drawing scale and each annotation's respective context; and removing any one or more of the annotations from the view that does not support the drawing scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Samuel Finn, Ramakrishna Rao Mummidi, Phillip Dennis Beymer, Tom Ball, John Gilbert Beltran
  • Patent number: 8711395
    Abstract: We describe a method of displaying one or more pages of a document on an electronic document reading device using a second, computerised electronic device, the method comprising: running a document display management program on said second electronic device; using said management program to invoke an application running on said second electronic device to open said document on said second electronic device, such that said opening of said document is hidden from said user; using an intermediary code module, in particular a printer driver for said application, coupled to said application to generate image data representing an image of a said page of said document to be displayed on said electronic document reading device; sending said image of said page to said electronic document reading device; and displaying said image of said page on said electronic document reading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
    Inventors: Duncan Barclay, Anusha Nirmalananthan, William Reeves
  • Patent number: 8712772
    Abstract: A method and system for processing dictated information into a dynamic form are disclosed. The method comprises presenting an image (3) belonging to an image category to a user, dicatating a first section of speech associated with the image category, retrieving an electronic document having a previously defined document structure (4) associated with the first section of speech, this associating the document structure (4) with the image (3), wherein the document structure comprises at least one text field, presenting at least a part of the electronic document having the document structure (4) on a presenting unit (5), dictating a second section of speech and processing the second section of speech in a speech recognition engine (6) into dicatated text and associating the dictated text with the text field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Mehmet Mert Oez
  • Publication number: 20140114878
    Abstract: A system aggregates data that may be used during the course of a scheduled meeting and allows for the customization of the data for presentation during the scheduled meeting. The system communicates the customized data to meeting participants for discussion and review. The system also accepts inputs during the meeting that define additional meeting information such as bookmarked pages and views that were reviewed during the meeting. The inputs may further define notes reflecting discussions held during the meeting. The system stores information reflecting the bookmarks and notes that were made during the meeting. After the meeting has concluded, the data that was presented during the meeting as well as the bookmarks and notes that were presented during the meeting may be reviewed and selected for inclusion in an electronic document. The document may then be electronically communicated to the participants in the meeting for reference at a later time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SUNGARD DATA SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Jon S. Bluth, Rajesh S. Anneswamy, Eileen Van Scoy
  • Publication number: 20140115454
    Abstract: A device, method and system of screenshot grabbing and sharing comprise projecting contents on a display device connected with a communication device; and grabbing a screenshot from the contents projected on the display device, in response to a screenshot grabbing request from another communication module connected with the communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Wenlong Li
  • Patent number: 8707151
    Abstract: A user interface method and apparatus for a Rich Media service in a terminal. A decoder decodes a received stream to check a header of the received stream. A renderer adaptively composes a scene using scene composition elements of the received stream, according to adaptation information in the header checked by the decoder, and a display displays the adaptively composed scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Seo-Young Hwang, Jae-Yeon Song, Kook-Heui Lee
  • Patent number: 8705060
    Abstract: Provided is a display input device including: a display portion for displaying setting screens for setting items; a storage portion for storing: a program that is a combination of setting items and is invoked to cause the display portion to sequentially display the setting screen for each of the setting items selected and registered in advance; and data for additional display, which is used for determining whether or not to perform the additional display in which the setting screen is added to the program, and which setting screen is to be additionally displayed; an input portion for receiving an input made to invoke the registered program; and a processing portion for determining, when the registered program is invoked, an additional setting item, which is the setting item to be added, based on the data for additional display, and causing the display portion to additionally display the additional setting item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Keiko Morita
  • Patent number: 8707173
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for maintaining the aspect ratio of an image in the form of a graphic element or a photograph on a printed product in a theme collage. The aspect ratio of each image in the theme collage is maintained independent of any aspect ratio or resolution of the theme collage. Other methods provide for maintaining the resolution of a graphic element on a printed product in a theme collage using any desired combination of bitmap or vector based graphic data and alpha data when rendering the graphic element. An exemplary system may include one or more modules for determining the size of an image on a page while maintaining an aspect ratio of the image, displaying the image, receiving graphic data for the image, receiving alpha-transparency data for the image, and changing the image appearance according to a rendering parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Visan Industries
    Inventors: Michael R. Moore, Daniel A. Kaye, Kenneth A. Turcotte, Randy J. Jongens, Michael D. Wang-Helmke, Peter A. Tjeerdsma, Christopher H. Davey, Daniel N. Sashko
  • Patent number: 8707152
    Abstract: A method of dynamically presenting temporally ordered image events includes providing a pre-determined presentation rate and a corresponding pre-determined presentation period; using a processor to receive at irregular intervals a plurality of temporally ordered image events at an average image event rate less than the presentation rate; storing the received image events in an ordered list corresponding to the order in which the image events were received; accessing, according to a pre-determined rule, stored image events from the ordered list; sequentially presenting the accessed image events for the presentation period; and interrupting the sequential presentation of the stored image events when a new image event is received and presenting the received new image event for the presentation period and resuming the sequential presentation of the accessed image events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ron Barzel, Jon Allyn Campbell, Ronald Steven Cok, Mark S. Cook
  • Publication number: 20140108909
    Abstract: In the present invention, a combination of asynchronous rendering and synchronous rendering is utilized to render an electronic document on the screen of a computing device. Particularly, a document-rendering application may be configured to draw asynchronously a high-detail version of the document to a rendering cache. This high-detail version is used to paint the document to the screen in a synchronous screen refresh operation. If, during the screen refresh operation, there are parts of the viewport that the asynchronous process has not finished rendering, these missing parts are filled in with a low-detailed version of the document that is painted fast enough to maintain the high screen refresh rate. For example, the low-detailed version of the document may show the basic structure of the document including the background color, layout boxes, and lines. However, other elements of the document may be replaced or excluded entirely from the less-detailed version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: OPERA SOFTWARE ASA
    Inventor: Marcus GEELNARD
  • Publication number: 20140104628
    Abstract: Methods, and computer systems and computer program products for performing them, for storing a destination document from a source document. Recurring content in the source document is flattened and stored in a first memory location, and then for each page in the source document, the page is flattened using the variable and (stored) recurring content, and portions influenced by the variable content are extracted and stored in a second memory location The content in the first and second memory locations may be optionally color converted from a source color space to a device color space and stored in third and fourth memory locations, respectively. For each page n, a new page is added to the destination document comprising the flattened, recurring content stored in the first (or third, if color-converted) memory location and the flattened, variable content stored in the second (or fourth, if color-converted) memory location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Esko Software BVBA
    Inventors: Lieven Plettinck, Luc Henri Maria Leon Schildermans, Kris Slegers
  • Publication number: 20140108926
    Abstract: A method comprises retrieving metadata from at least one memory, the metadata comprising statistical information associated with each of a plurality of sub-items of a static content item, and causing a representation of the static content item to be displayed on a display, the representation comprising plural sections, each of the sections representing a different sub-item, the appearance of each of the sections having been adapted based on the metadata associated with the corresponding sub-item so as to communicate statistical information associated with the sub-item to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: NOKIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jarmo Antero Nikula, Mika Allan Salmela, Jyrki Veikko Leskela, Aki Happonen
  • Patent number: 8700999
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kroeger, Ian Chadwyck Faragher, Fady Samuel, Cosmin Truta, Varun Jain
  • Patent number: 8701000
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Kroeger, Ian Chadwyck Faragher, Fady Samuel, Cosmin Truta, Varun Jain
  • Patent number: 8701078
    Abstract: A method of managing agile software development includes displaying a group of assets associated with an agile software development process. The group has a particular type and the assets include a first set of attributes selected for display. In response to detecting a request by a first user, a group of available attributes is displayed including the first set. De-selection of an attribute from the first set is detected. For other users accessing respective groups of assets of the particular type, the first set of attributes is displayed for assets in the respective groups, wherein the first set does not include the deselected attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Versionone, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Holler, Mark Crowe, Rajiv Delwadia, Dan Gilkerson, Pavel Mamut, Donald Hanson
  • Patent number: 8701001
    Abstract: A method and system for screen capture are provided. The method includes: selecting a screen area; determining properties of an open window displayed in the screen area, including determining the position of the window and the application and current application data; using image processing to detect scroll bars within the application data of the open window, including detecting the position of the slider in the scroll bar; and saving metadata of the screen area including the open window and the scroll bars as a file. The metadata file re-creates the screen area including the open window with the application data in the correct position within the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Esther L. Dovey, Emma L. Grove, Keira L. Hopkins, Adam J. Pilkington
  • Patent number: 8699043
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus of the present invention includes: a blank document determination section determining whether or not input image data is image data of a blank document, regardless of a process mode set for setting a process with respect to the input image data; a storage device storing the input image data in association with a determination result made by the blank document determination section; and a control section (i) reading out the input image data from the storage device and (ii) excluding the input image data determined as image data of a blank document by the blank document determination section, from images to be displayed by the image display device, when the image display device carries out a preview display of the input image data. This configuration makes it possible to carry out a preview display in which a blank document (blank page document) is skipped, without reading the document again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Makio Gotoh, Yasutaka Hirayama, Sohichi Yoshimura
  • Patent number: 8698827
    Abstract: A display control apparatus includes: an updating frequency calculator (42) which obtains an updating frequency of an attribute relating to display of display elements constituting a screen to be displayed on a display section (3) for each of the display elements; an updating frequency-specific storage (44) which holds display content storing areas (441 through 443) that are for storing display contents in displaying the display elements on the display section (3) and that respectively correspond to updating-frequency ranges obtained by dividing an updating frequency in a unit of a predetermined range; a storing area manager (43) which determines the display content storing areas corresponding to the updating-frequency ranges to which the obtained updating frequencies of the attribute respectively belong, as drawing areas of the respective display elements; a drawing section (41) which draws the display contents of the display elements respectively in the display content storing areas determined as the drawin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Yajima, Hidehiko Shin
  • Patent number: 8699053
    Abstract: A method, printer, system, and program product for mobile printing, comprising, in one embodiment, the steps of: obtaining a portable computing device with a reference to a printer-independent On-the-Go-print queue on the Internet; obtaining print data; and transferring the print data to the On-the-Go Print Queue on the Internet. In a further aspect of the present invention, the On-the-Go Print Queue may be accessed to set at least one storage or print parameter. In a further aspect of the present invention, the print data may be converted to generic print data and encrypted prior to transferring the print data to the On-the-Go Print Queue. In a yet further aspect, a key for decryption and the reference for the On-the-Go print queue may obtained at a printer from a portable computing device such as a smart card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Rick P. Hoover, Shell S. Simpson
  • Publication number: 20140101544
    Abstract: User input identifying a selection of a textual portion of a document being displayed in a computer display region can be received. Identification of an entity indicated by the selection and text around the selection can be automatically requested. A determination of whether the identified entity is an entity type in a predetermined set of entity types can also be requested. Each entity type in the set can correspond to a display technique for displaying information about that entity type. The display technique for each entity type can be different and can include displaying one or more user interface items specific to the entity type. If the entity type is determined to be an entity type of the types in the set, then the information about the identified entity can be displayed according to the display technique for the determined entity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Albrecht, Julianne M. Bryant, Christopher Doan, Jeffrey Weir
  • Patent number: 8694884
    Abstract: A method and system for screen capture are provided. The method includes: selecting a screen area; determining properties of an open window displayed in the screen area, including determining the position of the window and the application and current application data; using image processing to detect scroll bars within the application data of the open window, including detecting the position of the slider in the scroll bar; and saving metadata of the screen area including the open window and the scroll bars as a file. The metadata file re-creates the screen area including the open window with the application data in the correct position within the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Esther L. Dovey, Emma L. Grove, Keira L. Hopkins, Adam J. Pilkington