Translucency Or Transparency Interface Element (e.g., Invisible Control) Patents (Class 715/768)
  • Patent number: 11887230
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for generating data. The method includes obtaining a multi-modality embedding by encoding multi-modality data, the multi-modality data comprising text data and image data. The method further includes obtaining a table embedding by encoding table data associated with the multi-modality data. The method further includes generating a condition embedding based on the multi-modality embedding and the table embedding. The method further includes generating multi-modality table data based on the condition embedding. In this way, it is possible to combine table data generation with multi-modality learning, which improves the characterization capability of the generated data and makes the generated data have sufficient information to describe a real scenario. At the same time, it is possible to reduce the model configuration cost and save computational and storage resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Zijia Wang, Zhisong Liu, Zhen Jia
  • Patent number: 11881298
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) workflows. In one example, a method includes receiving, from a medical image storage device, an instance availability notification, in response to determining that the notification indicates that one or more medical images have been saved at the medical image storage device, querying the medical image storage device to retrieve metadata associated with the one or more medical images, initiating a work-item with an AI orchestration platform for the metadata, and receiving, from the AI orchestration platform via the work-item, AI results related to the one or more medical images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Garrett Rogers, Kunal Patil, Pankaj Kumar, Mayuri Kumari, Arun Viswanath, Vijay Kumar Reddy Arlagadda
  • Patent number: 11832072
    Abstract: Various implementations include systems for processing audio signals. In particular implementations, a system for processing audio signals includes: an accessory device that includes a first processor for running a machine learning model on an input signal, where the machine learning model includes a classifier configured to generate metadata associated with the input signal; and a wearable audio device configured for wireless communication with the accessory device, the wearable audio device including a second processor that utilizes the metadata from the accessory device to process a source audio signal and output a processed audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Marko Stamenovic, Li-Chia Yang, Carl Ralph Jensen, Kenneth Scott Lyons, Sara Maree Adkins, Jahn Dmitri Eichfeld, Daniel Ross Tengelsen
  • Patent number: 11775244
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data processing method and an electronic terminal. The electronic terminal obtains target data that includes at least one data item, converts the target data into a data image by using a data visualization technology, and then sets the data image as wallpaper, where the data image includes at least one graphic element, and the graphic element is in a one-to-one correspondence with the data item. The target data is user data, and may include operation event information of operating the electronic terminal by a user, or information that is associated with a user account and that is based on at least one network platform, so as to automatically generate the wallpaper, show the user data to the user by using the wallpaper, and improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huaqi Hao
  • Patent number: 11750773
    Abstract: Methods for onboarding a client user to a real-time video chat authentication system is provided. Methods may include, during an onboarding session, receiving the client user's credentials. The client user's credentials may be received at a client user graphical user interface (GUI). Methods may include receiving an opt-in from the client user for authentication via video capture. The opt-in may also be received at the client user GUI. Methods may include initiating a video capture session at a video conferencing platform. The video conferencing platform may be executed at a client device and an administrator device. The platform may enable the client user to communicate with an administrative user. Methods may include capturing a video capture of the client user at the video conferencing platform. Methods may include storing the video capture at a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Burgess, Trish Gillis, Taylor Farris, Napangsiri Wanpen
  • Patent number: 11613727
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and systems for configuring settings of a cell expansion system including a bioreactor. Through a user interface, a user may configure display settings, system settings, and settings associated with protocols for loading, growing and/or harvesting cells. In configuring settings for protocols and associated processes, a diagram view or window of the cell expansion system is displayed in embodiments. The diagram view displays the process settings as graphical user interface elements. Settings available for configuration are enabled for selection in the diagram view. The diagram view allows the user to visualize the settings available for task configuration and to configure enabled settings. Configured settings are stored and capable of retrieval for subsequent execution or modification of the applicable protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Terumo BCT, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Allan Stanton, IV, Glen Delbert Antwiler, Patrick J. Howley, Michael E. Kinzie, Jon A. Dodd, Casey V. Medina
  • Patent number: 11450069
    Abstract: In some aspects, a method for using a transparent window to augment an application includes establishing a transparent window to be displayed in synchronization over a first window of an application on a client device. The content of the application in the first window is viewable through the transparent window. The method further includes detecting, by the transparent window, one or more encoded portions of content of the application being displayed in the first window, and displaying, by and in the transparent window, a decoded form of the one or more encoded portions of the content of the application displayed in the first window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Abhishek Chauhan
  • Patent number: 11451461
    Abstract: An Internet browsing monitoring system has a web server providing a web page in which some of the elements associated with the browsing monitoring are encoded in the web page by a CSS code, the web page includes a mechanism detecting interactions to be logged, and, when a type of interaction to be logged is detected, sends the CSS code associated with the considered element with at least one indicator of the detected interaction to an interaction logging server. The interaction logging server has an input memory receiving the CSS codes associated with a considered element and the at least one indicator of the detected interaction and an extractor analyzing each CSS code associated with a considered element and the at least one indicator of the detected interaction, split them into chunks, encode at least some of the chunks in the form of a number, and store the resulting sequence of numbers encoding the chunks in a database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Scalefast Inc.
    Inventor: Florent Defontis
  • Patent number: 11354015
    Abstract: Adaptive user interfaces and techniques therefor are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having a display: displaying a first user interface comprising a first affordance associated with a first function and a second affordance associated with a second function, and detecting a first event causing the device to transition from the first state to a second state, where the display is deactivated in the second state. The method also includes detecting, while the device is in the second state, a second event causing the device to transition from the second state to a third state, where the display is activated in the third state, and in response to detecting the second event, displaying a second user interface comprising the first affordance displayed in the second user interface at a second location different from the first location, and not comprising the second affordance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam P. Williams, Craig M. Federighi, Tamara L. Abell, Jonathan Cho, Jay Christopher Capela, Evan Torchin, Alexander C. Maclean, Per Lindgren, Gregory Vincent Gaudio
  • Patent number: 11290591
    Abstract: A dialing method and a mobile terminal are provided. The dialing method includes: receiving a first input by a user; displaying a preset dialing control area in response to the first input, and displaying a pre-copied first phone number in a phone number input area of the dialing control area; receiving a second input by the user on the dialing control area; and dialing the first phone number in response to the second input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Guanzhi Yuan
  • Patent number: 11256417
    Abstract: Display of a region for making a pointing operation valid or invalid is controlled in conjunction with a change to a display screen. A computer device (1) includes an application program execution processing section (31) configured to perform control such that at least one application window which accepts a pointing operation is displayed in a manner that allows the at least one application window to change in position or in size; and a region position control section (62) configured to generate an operation control region in such a manner that the operation control region is superimposed on the application window and is associated with the application window, the operation control region being a region for making a pointing operation valid or invalid, and to control a position of the operation control region such that the operation control region changes with a change to the associated application window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC JAPAN HOLDINGS LTD.
    Inventor: Osamu Keiya
  • Patent number: 11256855
    Abstract: Systems and methods for collating digital content are provided. A widget that remains visible may be displayed on a screen of a computing device. The computing device may be running multiple applications that are displaying digital content. A cursor on the screen may be configured to select, highlight, copy, and/or paste digital content. The pasting may be to an organized location in a target destination. The target destination, and/or the organized location, may be based at least in part on a color selected via the widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Zave IP, LLC
    Inventors: Andre Reichmann, Meir Simcha Bulua, Inessa Barkan
  • Patent number: 11222161
    Abstract: Various embodiments improve the legibility of a column of data, displayed at an initial size in a grid, by magnifying the column, while maintaining neighboring columns at their initial size, and maintaining the magnified column in the context of neighboring columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hexagon Technology Center GmbH
    Inventor: Keith D. Harvey
  • Patent number: 11132209
    Abstract: Integrated profile simulation techniques for dynamic content are disclosed. In some embodiments, integrated profile simulation for dynamic content includes providing an authoring tool for developing web content that varies based on a user context, and provides for the following: receiving a request to change from a first user profile to a second user profile without requirement for input of user credentials associated with the second user profile, and wherein the currently selected user profile is displayed; dynamically refreshing web content based on the second user profile; and displaying the dynamically refreshed web content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Capt, David Nuescheler
  • Patent number: 11119642
    Abstract: A value of a display property of an affordance changes based a value of the same display property of a portion of content over which the affordance is displayed. The value of the display property of the affordance is constrained to vary within a second value range smaller than a first value range over which the value of the display property of the content is permitted to vary. If the change in appearance of the content meets range-switching criteria, the value of the display property of the affordance is changed within a third value range. The third value range is different from the second value range and is smaller than the first value range. If the change in appearance of the content does not meet the range-switching criteria, the value of the display property of the affordance is changed within the second value range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Wan Si Wan, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Bartosz Ciechanowski, Benjamin E. Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11068137
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can provide one or more candidate stickers through a display screen of a computing device. A determination can be made that a user has selected a first sticker from the one or more candidate stickers. The first sticker can be inserted as a graphical overlay in a content item. The first sticker can reference first content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Christian Xavier Dalonzo
  • Patent number: 11010542
    Abstract: An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to instantiate and manage multiple windows on the interactive whiteboard appliance in a manner that allows information in multiple windows to be viewed concurrently by dynamically selecting and changing the opacity of one or more portions of a topmost window in response to one or more conditions. The one or more conditions may include one or more user actions made with respect to the topmost window or the one or more conditions may be related to a window other than the topmost window, such as detection of an audio signal in a non-topmost window. Opacity may be selectively changed on a region-by-region basis and graphical user interface controls may be provided to allow users to specify different opacity levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Steven A. Nelson
  • Patent number: 10983573
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus having a display is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a first main body having a first touch sensor; a second main body having a second touch sensor; a detecting unit that detects whether the second main body is in an open state or in a closed state; and a control unit that controls the first and second touch sensors. When the detecting unit has detected that the second main body is in the open state, the control unit enables the first touch sensor and disables the second touch sensor. When the detecting unit has detected that the second main body is in the closed state, the control unit enables the second touch sensor and disables the first touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventors: Limin Xiao, Hidetoshi Mori, Moriyuki Tsuchihashi
  • Patent number: 10936144
    Abstract: A terminal device for securely displaying information is provided. The terminal device includes a monitoring module configured to monitor a display position of a Digital Object Unique Identifier (DOI) and a display position of other information on a page displayed on the terminal device, and a processing module configured to hide at least a portion of the other information that overlaps the DOI to expose the DOI when it is detected that the display position of the other information overlaps the display position of the DOI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min Zhang
  • Patent number: 10880086
    Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user on an augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality platform are provided. Once the user is authenticated, advertisements, experiences, appless apps, and/or tools may be deployed to a user, such as transforming an object on gaze into an advertisement, experience, scripted or un-scripted 3D object, animated or still 2D image, appless app, and/or tool. Using augmented, mixed and/or virtual reality technology, when a user looks/gazes at a virtual object, the bubble may then pop, transitioning into a video screen. The video screen is not being augmented on the virtual object itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: PracticalVR Inc.
    Inventors: James-Micheal A. Reed, Terry L. Bennett, Volkan Seymen
  • Patent number: 10817071
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for displaying messages by reducing a reflectivity of a display. A display, such as a smart mirror, provides reflective properties and digital information. The reflectivity of some portions of the display may be altered such that the display provides the visual effect of steam. By varying the reflectivity in different portions of the display, messages may be provided via the display so as to appear written in the steam. Trigger actions, such as a user entering the vicinity, the detected sound of miming water, and/or the like, may cause the visual effect of steam or display of the message. A user may provide a message by a hand gesture, or writing the message in the air and see the message at is provided via a display. Users may transmit messages to other users, and may view received messages in the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Enrico Rantala, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Olli Alanen
  • Patent number: 10802274
    Abstract: A transparent display system including a transparent display and a computation module is provided. The computation module is coupled to the transparent display. The computation module determines whether a display image displayed on the transparent display can be recognized based on display information and background information. If it is determined that the recognizability of the display image is poor, the haze of the background image displayed on the transparent display is adjusted. An operation method of the transparent display system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, Intellectual Property Innovation Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Tang Tsai, Shin-Hong Kuo, Yi-Shou Tsai, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Wei-Lung Tsai, Kuan-Ting Chen
  • Patent number: 10698579
    Abstract: A method and device for displaying reference content, and a storage medium thereof are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes displaying a first interface in response to an operation of enabling the first interface; displaying multiple second interfaces on the first interface in a form of floating window in response to an operation of enabling reference content, the multiple second interfaces including different reference content respectively; and displaying, in response to an operation of selecting a second interface from the multiple second interfaces, the selected second interface on the first interface in an overlaying manner. The formation arranging efficiency and communication efficiency between game players and the reference content can be improved by the above technical solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Kunjie Zhang, Danning Wang, Jing Le, Shenping Xiong, Le Wang, Si Wu, Siquan Chen
  • Patent number: 10656895
    Abstract: A system for linking and controlling terminals is disclosed. A user terminal includes an image unit configured to output image data corresponding to a first image to be shared with a receiving terminal viewed by a user of the user terminal, and a signal unit configured to transmit the image data outputted from the image unit and position information of a touch input touching the user terminal to the receiving terminal. Here, the position information is position information of the touch input touching the user terminal at a preset pressure level or lower or with a preset contact area or smaller, and is displayed on the receiving terminal in an image form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: INDUSTRY—UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Chang-sik Yoo
  • Patent number: 10511972
    Abstract: [Object] To provide a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a program, each of which is capable of achieving both security and convenience of communication in transmission of information. [Solution] A communication apparatus, including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a position or external environment of the communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to control transmission of information containing first identification information of the communication apparatus in the case where the information acquired by the acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition. A communication method, including: acquiring information on a position or external environment of a communication apparatus; and controlling transmission of information containing first identification information of the communication apparatus in the case where the acquired information satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tatsuo Nagamatsu
  • Patent number: 10496831
    Abstract: A privacy filter for an electronic display (e.g., of a mobile device) may be dynamically applied based on multiple factors. The application of the privacy filter may include determining that data to be displayed on the electronic display is of a private nature. If so, a location context is then determined based on whether the location of the electronic display is public and therefore someone other than the user of mobile device might view the electronic display. If the location is public, boundaries associated with an area of the electronic display where the private data is to be displayed may be detected so that a privacy filter may generated dynamically based on the data, the location context and the boundaries. The privacy filter is configured to restrict the viewing angle of the entire electronic display or of a sub-area of the electronic display within the determined boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: German Lancioni, Mario L Bertogna, José Pablo Piccolotto, Tamir Damian Munafo
  • Patent number: 10416520
    Abstract: An example disclosed herein determines a setting to present a presentation on a transparent display layer of a display, adjusts a transparency of a first adjustable transparency layer of the display based on the first setting to present the presentation through the first adjustable transparency layer, and adjusts a transparency of a second adjustable transparency layer of the display based on the first setting to prevent the presentation from being presented through the second adjustable transparency layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Milorad Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 10261591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic device and a method of controlling the same. The present invention provides an electronic device and a method of controlling the same to efficiently perform multitasking through multiple windows by displaying a floating window having predetermined transparency such that the floating window overlaps with at least part of the multiple windows while the multiple windows are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeonchang Choi, Jaesuk Lee
  • Patent number: 10181204
    Abstract: Techniques of rendering user interface elements are described. An exemplary technique can include generating color values for a user interface element's pixels based on a relationship between the element's opacity and a characteristic feature of a background area for the element and rendering the user interface element using the generated color values. Other embodiments and/or techniques are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Mike Matas
  • Patent number: 10108991
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide instant customer service feedback during a communication session with the customer. The system initiate a video conference communication session between the customer and the business agent that comprises providing a multimedia interface between the agent and the customer that provides the agent and the customer with an audio and video feedback of one another. After initiating the video conference communication session, a customer feedback interface configured to receive feedback from the customer in real-time during the video conference communication session is presented on the display of the customers apparatus such that the system may receive, in real-time, feedback provided by the customer via the customer feedback interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Carrie Anne Hanson, Alicia C. Jones-McFadden, Craig Sobol, Brent Alan Shelkey, Kimberly Ya-chin Chang, Sarah Beth Gottfried, Wang Liang, Neha Rani Rathi, Anthony Scott Wong
  • Patent number: 10073670
    Abstract: Ambient noise sampled by a mobile device from a local environment is used to automatically trigger actions associated with content currently playing on the mobile device. In some implementations, subtitles or closed captions associated with the currently playing content are automatically invoked and displayed on a user interface based on a level of ambient noise. In some implementations, audio associated with the currently playing content is adjusted or muted. Actions can be automatically triggered based on a comparison of the sampled ambient noise, or an audio fingerprint of the sampled ambient noise, with reference data, such as a reference volume level or a reference audio fingerprint. In some implementations, a reference volume level can be learned on the mobile device based on ambient noise samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Joel Kraut
  • Patent number: 10043066
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for processing video data, including gesture masking in a video feed, are provided herein. The system can include a camera system interface to receive video data from a camera system; a gesture detection unit to determine a gesture within the video data, the gesture being performed by a user; a permission module to determine a masking permission associated with the gesture; and a video processor. The video processor can modify a portion of the video data associated with the gesture in accordance with the masking permission, and cause the portion of the video data to be displayed. The camera system includes a depth camera or an infrared camera. The gesture detection unit determines the gesture based on machine learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sean J. W. Lawrence
  • Patent number: 9959358
    Abstract: An example method for facilitating software navigation includes storing navigation history information pertaining to user interaction with software; displaying one or more representations of breadcrumbs in accordance with the navigation history information, resulting in displayed breadcrumbs; detecting when a number of breadcrumbs exceeds a threshold number of breadcrumbs; and replacing, in response to the detection, one or more of the breadcrumbs with a user interface control adapted to selectively display representations of the one or more breadcrumbs in response to user selection of the user interface control. Hence, certain breadcrumbs of a breadcrumb trail may be condensed or collapsed, e.g., into a drop-down menu control, when a breadcrumb trail would otherwise be too large to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Benson Lam
  • Patent number: 9886598
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for automatically adjusting a display to obscure application data. In an example, a computer-implemented method may include collecting eye data from a user, receiving the eye data collected from the user, analyzing the eye data, determining that eyesight of the user is on a display based on the eye data, providing data on the display to the user when the eyesight of the user is determined to be on the display, determining that the eyesight of the user is off the display, obscuring the data on the display in response to determining that the eyesight of the user is off the display, removing the obscuring applied to the data on the display when the eyesight of the user returns to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Ziaja, Bryant Genepang Luk, Christopher Diebold O'Toole, Jennifer T. Brenner, Robert He, Yu Tang, Ananya Das
  • Patent number: 9842434
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for reproducing an object in a 3D scene. The system comprises an object acquiring unit configured to simultaneously acquire at least two channels of video stream data in real time at different angles for an object to be displayed; an object recognizing unit configured to recognize a shape of the object varying in real time from the at least two channels of video stream data; an object tracking unit configured to obtain corresponding object motion trajectory according to the shape of the object varying in real time; and an object projecting unit configured to process the shape of the object varying in real time and the corresponding object motion trajectory into a 3D image and superposition-project the 3D image into the 3D scene in real time. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can reproduce the object in the 3D scene, and achieve the purpose of displaying the real object in the 3D scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Qingdao GoerTek Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maoshan Jiang, Xiangjun Zhang, Hongwei Zhou
  • Patent number: 9839000
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for forming an event picture in a mobile communication terminal. If an event such as call reception, alarm or message reception occurs while a service picture is displayed on a screen of the terminal, the current service picture is backed up, a command input through the buttons provided to the terminal is interrupted and the event picture is overlapped over the current service picture, thereby allowing a user to perceive the corresponding event. Accordingly, the terminal user can correctly perceive the event occurred during the service. In addition, when the event occurs, the command input through the buttons is interrupted, so that it is possible to prevent an unintended event processing or erroneous operation due to an erroneous button manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: GOLDPEAK INNOVATIONS INC
    Inventors: Sun Hyung Park, Min Jung Kwon
  • Patent number: 9817548
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing enhanced user interfaces are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may generate a user interface that presents a selectable control element. Subsequently, the computing device may receive input selecting the control element. In response to receiving the input selecting the control element, the computing device may update the user interface to present a ring that includes at least one band of icons. In addition, the ring may have a first portion that is visible and a second portion, different from the first portion, that is hidden. In some instances, the computing device then may receive a selection of an icon included in the at least one band of icons. In response to receiving the selection of the icon, the computing device may update the user interface to hide the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Citrix Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Jannie Lai, Lin Cao, Uday Gajendar
  • Patent number: 9720890
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for rendering an assessment item. A document encoded in a markup language is received. The document includes data that relates to at least one of an appearance and content of an assessment item, and the document includes a reference to a content file. The content file is retrieved, where the content file includes computer-executable instructions for generating an interactive graphical representation for display on a display device. The interactive graphical representation includes one or more features with which a user interacts to respond to the assessment item. The computer-executable instructions are executed based on the data of the document to generate the interactive graphical representation. Data generated based on user manipulation of the one or more features is received. The data generated from the user manipulation is processed to generate a modified graphical representation responsive to the assessment item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Educational Testing Service
    Inventors: Mankit Lee, Sherry Wang, Kenneth H. Berger, Jenny Gray
  • Patent number: 9715866
    Abstract: A method for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The method includes overlaying a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9704454
    Abstract: A display control device including: an input control unit which receives a scrolling start indication and a scrolling stop indication from a user; a scrolling control unit which, if the scrolling stop indication is received, decelerates a scroll rate by a predetermined function and pre-calculates a location of a displayed area when the scrolling of the displayed area stops; and a focus control unit which superimposes a focus on an object closest to a predetermined position within the displayed area at any time from when the location of the displayed area when the scrolling stops is determined to when the scrolling stops, the focus representing that the object is being selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nakaoka, Tatsuto Horibe
  • Patent number: 9703392
    Abstract: An information input device includes: a display unit configured to display a user interface for acknowledging user input information in a content including an input field displayed on a display, by accepting an operation on the display, the user interface being displayed transparently as superimposed in front of the content; and a transcription unit configured to provide, in the input field in the content, the user input information acknowledged in the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuya Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9697804
    Abstract: A system and computer program product for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The system overlays a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9613151
    Abstract: A breadcrumb method, system and computer program product for a website. In response to a request for visiting the website, a breadcrumb root node is generated in a tree structure. In response to receiving a request for visiting a first web task associated with the website, a first task node is generated in the tree structure at the breadcrumb root node. In response to sequentially receiving requests for multiple subtasks of the first web task, multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are sequentially established in the tree structure. The subtask nodes of the multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are sequentially connected to the first task node according to a sequential order of the sequentially received requests for the multiple subtasks of the first web task. The multiple subtask nodes of the first task node are processed based a policy of the first web task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Liu, Dikran S. Meliksetian, Yang Sun, Zhi Jun Wang
  • Patent number: 9507501
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing graphical user interfaces are described. Overlaid, information-bearing windows whose contents remain unchanged for a predetermined period of time become translucent. The translucency can be graduated so that, over time, if the window's contents remain unchanged, the window becomes more translucent. In addition to visual translucency, windows also have a manipulative translucent quality. Upon reaching a certain level of visual translucency, user input in the region of the window is interpreted as an operation on the underlying objects rather than the contents of the overlaying window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Bonura, Kim Silverman
  • Patent number: 9430990
    Abstract: A system and a computer program product for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The method includes overlaying a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9424806
    Abstract: A method for displaying data in a graphical overlay includes overlaying a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker
  • Patent number: 9389748
    Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product for visually navigating contextual semantic data in a graphical overlay. The method includes overlaying a first lens, corresponding to a first domain and oriented in a first position, on the graphical overlay. A set of semantic data is displayed within the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second position reconfigures the semantic data such that a modified set of semantic data is displayed within the first lens. The modified semantic data and a ghosted image of the set of semantic data may be simultaneously displayed. A rotational position of the first lens is associated with various context aspects. A second lens, corresponding to a second domain, fully overlaps the first lens. Responsive to separating the first and second lenses, a circumscribed region is preserved within each of the first and second lenses while concealing a non-circumscribed region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Milam, Eric W. Leong, Pamela A. Nesbitt, Jonathan W. Stoecker, Tricia Y. Garrett
  • Patent number: 9368081
    Abstract: A display device is provided that includes a transparent display unit, a setting unit that sets transparency of a first screen that is output in the foreground to the transparent display unit, and a controller that determines transparency of a background object that is seen through the transparent display unit, based on the transparency of the first screen that is set, such that the transparency of at least one of the background object and at least one region of the first screen is changed, based on a detected event that is associated with transparency control of the transparent display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hansu Kim
  • Patent number: 9367146
    Abstract: An input device includes a housing for supporting a user's hand and a displacement sensor, mounted in the housing, for providing a displacement signal. The input device also includes a first portion of the housing operable to receive a first digit of the user and a first solid-state touch sensor disposed in the first portion and operable to detect movement of the first digit along the first portion. The input device further includes a second portion on the housing operable to receive a second digit of the user and a second solid-state touch sensor disposed in the second portion and operable to detect movement of the second digit along the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Logiteh Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Julien Piot, Baptiste Merminod, Christophe Dayer, Niall White, Stephen Harvey, Frederic Fortin, Mathieu Meisser, Nicolas Ramond, Olivier Mathis, Regis Croisonnier
  • Patent number: 9274809
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus hibernation recovery setting method for an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes: assigning different priorities to multiple tasks in process before the electronic apparatus enters a hibernation state; storing multiple image files of the tasks; and first reading and loading the image file for the task having a highest priority when the electronic apparatus recovers from the hibernation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: MSTAR SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wei Cheng, Sheng-Yen Hong, Che-Wei Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang