Window Scrolling Patents (Class 715/784)
  • Patent number: 9395800
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for enabling instant handwriting input on a mobile computing device. According to one embodiment, while the mobile device is in an inactive state and identity-protected, an activation event associated with a writing tool operated by a user is detected. In response to the activation event, the mobile computing device is switched from the inactive state to a low power state in which the mobile computing device is configured to accept and store handwritten input while remaining identity-protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Eric Liu, Stefan J. Marti, Seung Wook Kim, Alison Wong, Edward Stanley Ott, IV
  • Patent number: 9395909
    Abstract: When a horizontal-coordinate value or a vertical-coordinate value of a current touch point with reference to a point of origin defined at a touch-start point at which a drag operation on a touch screen starts is less than a threshold value, an X-direction movement amount reset unit or a Y-direction movement amount reset unit resets an amount of horizontal movement or an amount of vertical movement in the drag operation to zero. A scroll control unit scrolls the screen in accordance with the amount of horizontal movement and the amount of vertical movement as processed by the X-direction movement amount reset unit and the Y-direction movement amount reset unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: You Asakura
  • Patent number: 9389746
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus comprising display unit configured to display a window, accepting unit configured to accept a resize instruction of the displayed window together with a scroll instruction indicating whether or not to scroll display contents within the window, and control unit configured to control a size of the window and a scrolling of the display contents within the window based on contents of the resize instruction and the scroll instruction, wherein when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and scrolls the display contents according to a change amount of the window, and when the scroll instruction indicates that the display contents are not to be scrolled, the control unit changes the window to a size indicated by the resize instruction, and suppresses a scrolling of the display contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiwamu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9354723
    Abstract: A control device includes: a receiver for receiving first information regarding the movement of a casing, and second information regarding whether to reflect the first information on the movement of coordinate values; a storage unit for storing a whole-screen region including a real-screen region, and a virtual-screen region set around the real-screen region; a generator for generating the coordinate values within the whole-screen region based on the first information; a switcher for switching a first state in which the coordinate values are movable, and a second state in which the coordinate values are immovable, based on the second information; a determining unit for determining which of the real-screen region or the virtual-screen region the coordinate values belong to; and a coordinate-value control unit for controlling the coordinate values so as to move the coordinate values within the virtual-screen region to the position of predetermined coordinate values within the real-screen region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kunihito Sawai, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9348612
    Abstract: A part of a content 61 is displayed on a display screen. If a user has designated a first area, a scrolling indicator 57 that indicates the part displayed on the display screen is displayed at a first timing. If the user has designated a second area, the scrolling indicator 57 that indicates the part displayed on the display screen is displayed at a second timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignees: NINTENDO CO., LTD., HAL LABORATORY INC.
    Inventors: Daiji Imai, Tsubasa Sakaguchi, Shohei Mizutani, Yumi Todo
  • Patent number: 9342168
    Abstract: An input apparatus, a display apparatus, a control method thereof and a display system are provided. The input apparatus includes: a communication unit which communicates with the display apparatus; a touch sensor which senses a touch input; a motion sensor which senses a motion of the input apparatus; and a controller which determines whether a value of a touch input, that sensed by the touch sensor when the input apparatus operates in a gesture mode according to the motion of the input apparatus, is greater than or equal to a first reference value, and changes an input mode of the input apparatus to a touch mode if it is determined that the value of the touch input greater than or equal to the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong-heon Lee, Yong-hwan Kwon
  • Patent number: 9292310
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying notifications received from multiple applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device can monitor notifications that are received from the multiple applications. Responsive to receiving the notifications, the electronic device can control the manner in which the notifications are displayed while the device is operating in a locked or an unlocked state. In some embodiments, the electronic device can allow users to customize how notifications are to be displayed while the device is in the locked and/or unlocked states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Eliza Block
  • Patent number: 9251124
    Abstract: A content containing message may be created by a user or multiple users, and may contain content items such as videos, images and hyperlinks. The messages may be sent and exchanged between users, as well as collected, liked or commented on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Inventor: Andrea Steinfl
  • Patent number: 9230516
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an information display device includes a display unit, a visual line detector, and a control unit. The display unit displays information in a scroll region, which is provided in at least a part of a screen of the display unit, while scrolling the information. The visual line detector detects a visual line position of an operator with respect to the scroll region. The control unit controls a scroll speed, at which the information is scrolled in the scroll region, based on the visual line position detected by the visual line detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kensaku Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9218111
    Abstract: When the user enters a request for moving a viewpoint, whether or not a displayed area is encompassed in a link area that is set for an active image is kept monitored. When the displayed area is encompassed, a corresponding link is determined to be valid, and an image of a link destination mapped to the link area is displayed. Whether or not the displayed area moves outside of a link area set for an image of a link origin is further monitored. If even a part of the displayed area moves outside of the link area, a corresponding link is determined to be invalid, and the display is switched back to the image of the link origin. If none of the above-stated conditions applies, the initial image continues to be displayed while moving the displayed area according to the movement of the viewpoint within the active image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Aritoki Kawai, Takayuki Shinohara, Hidehiko Morisada
  • Patent number: 9218435
    Abstract: System, computer implemented method and computer program product for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging. A system for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging includes a Web page that includes a plurality of Web messaging tags, and a selected data model that can be bound to the Web messaging tags, and at least one messaging client for accepting at least one message from a message server and for processing the accepted at least one message into the selected data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gerard John Buttner, Chitra Dorai, Ahmad-Sameh Afif Fakhouri, Daniel A. Gisolfi, Jianren Li
  • Patent number: 9213470
    Abstract: Various areas of a displayed document (e.g., text, image, etc.) may be selected and clipped as a separate document. In some arrangements, a user may wish to change the area of the clipped area without having to retrieve the displayed document again. Accordingly, the area of the clipped region may be modified by retrieving and storing the displayed document when the region is initially clipped. When the selected region is to be modified at a later time, the stored document may be used instead of having to retrieve the document from a source location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akiji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9201586
    Abstract: A mobile terminal provides a guide and feedback for a lock release operation to implement a gesture for a lock release operation at an arbitrary location and in various directions. A method of releasing a user interface lock state in a mobile terminal having a touch sensing display according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include setting the mobile terminal to a user interface lock state; detecting a contact with the touch sensing display at an arbitrary location on the touch sensing display; displaying a lock release region corresponding to the arbitrary location while maintaining a contact with the touch sensing display; displaying the movement of the contact in the lock release region; and switching the mobile terminal into a user interface lock release state when the movement of the contact in the lock release region satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Minsoo Park, Moonkyung Kim, Sangwoon Lee, Jihye Ham, Minjin Lee, Harim Jang, Taehoon Cho, Younghoon Lee, Inyong Hwang, Hyoungmi Kim
  • Patent number: 9191448
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods are provided for rendering a composite view at a client device. A system may allow communication and may render at a local client device a composite view including a local graphical user interface (GUI) and a remote view associated with a remote application running on a remote server is provided. The system may comprise a remote view module configured to generate the remote view of the remote application, and a local view module configured to generate the local GUI for controlling the remote application remotely, configured to control an area of the display output data of the remote application that is displayed in the remote view, and configured to keep track of coordinates and dimensions of the area. A composite view comprising the local GUI and the remote view may be provided to a local display at the local client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.
    Inventors: Babak Pahlavan, Nandakumar Sarun Madarakal, Daniel Ernesto Barreto
  • Patent number: 9191449
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods are provided for communicating events at a server to a remote client device. A method may comprise facilitating directing display output of an application when run on the server to the remote client device, receiving notification of the event at the server, determining an action, based on the event, to be performed by the remote client device on a remote view at the remote client device, wherein a portion of the display output is to be visible in the remote view, generating the message based on the determined action, wherein the message includes a command to perform the determined action, and facilitating directing the message to the remote client device. The action to be performed by the remote client device on the remote view comprises adjustment of the portion of the display output of the application that is to be visible in the remote view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Wyse Technology L.L.C.
    Inventors: Babak Pahlavan, Nandakumar Sarun Madarakal, Daniel Ernesto Barreto
  • Patent number: 9185172
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods are provided for facilitating rendering at a local client device a remote view associated with a remote application on a remote server. A method may comprise generating the remote view of the remote application based on display output data of the remote application, wherein a portion of the display output data is visible in the remote view, tracking coordinates and dimensions of the portion of the display output that is visible, receiving a message from the remote server comprising coordinates and dimensions of one of a window box, a dialog box and an object, comparing the coordinates and dimensions of the portion of the display output data that is visible with the coordinates and dimensions of the one of the window box, the dialog box and the object, and adjusting the portion of the display output data that is visible based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.
    Inventors: Babak Pahlavan, Nandakumar Sarun Madarakal, Daniel Ernesto Barreto
  • Patent number: 9176656
    Abstract: A system for navigating large bodies of content is provided. The system includes an interface component configured to generate a user interface for navigating a body of content on a display device, the interface comprising a display area, a scrollbar comprising a plurality of segments, a scroll box and an exit command widget attached to the scroll box. Each of the plurality of segments are associated with respective portions of the body of content and the scroll box is configured to move over the plurality of segments to navigate through the body content and cause a respective portion of the body of the content to be displayed in the display area when the scroll box is positioned over a segment associated with the respective portion, and wherein the scroll box is configured to move to the exit command widget directly from a segment to focus on the exit command widget.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Kathryn Bush
  • Patent number: 9165534
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus for improving operability when a content is scroll-displayed by an operation for scrolling such as a flick operation. The information processing apparatus displays a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area, and scroll-displays the contents according to an instruction to perform the scroll display. When a press of a button displayed outside the display area has been detected, processing corresponding to the pressed button is performed if the scroll display is not being performed, and is not performed if the scroll display is being performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yoshiteru Horiike
  • Patent number: 9146703
    Abstract: One of a plurality of areas is displayed as a display area on a display device, and based on an input from an input section, an object included in the display area is determined as a target to be moved, and when a predetermined movement is detected by a movement sensor, the currently displayed display area is switched to an area different from the currently displayed display area, and the area is displayed on the display device together with the object determined as a target to be moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yamada, Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Ryo Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9146664
    Abstract: A display application rotates content to provide a perspective view along the z-axis during a scroll action as a feedback to a user indicating a scroll action has reached a beginning or an end of available content. Determined direction and speed and/or acceleration of the scroll action is applied to move content and rotate it based on: a tilt angle proportional to the speed and/or acceleration and a rotation axis perpendicular to the direction. Additional content is displayed in the perspective view based on the tilt angle. And, the tilt angle is adjusted to rotate the content in response to reaching an end of the content during the scroll action or upon detecting a subsequent scroll action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jorge Pereira, Eric Brumer
  • Patent number: 9143807
    Abstract: An aircraft communications system includes at least one personal electronic device (PED) carried by an aircraft passenger, and an aircraft in-flight entertainment (IFE) system. The PED includes a PED display, a PED wireless transceiver, and a PED controller for generating a respective registration token image on the PED display. The aircraft IFE system includes an IFE video entertainment source, IFE passenger seat displays, a respective IFE optical sensor associated with each of the IFE passenger seat displays, an IFE wireless transceiver, and an IFE controller. The IFE controller is for selectively displaying video from the IFE entertainment source on the IFE passenger seat displays, and for communicating with the PED wireless transceiver via the IFE wireless transceiver based upon a respective IFE optical sensor sensing the registration token image on the PED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: LIVETV, LLC
    Inventors: R. Michael Keen, Jeffrey A. Frisco
  • Patent number: 9143738
    Abstract: A communications system for an aircraft includes at least one personal electronic device (PED) carried by an aircraft passenger, and an aircraft IFE system. The PED includes a PED display, a PED memory for storing an in-flight coupon to be redeemed by the passenger while in-flight, and a PED controller for displaying the stored in-flight coupon on the PED display. The in-flight coupon has an in-flight coupon token image associated therewith. The aircraft IFE system includes an IFE video entertainment source, IFE passenger seat displays, a respective IFE optical sensor associated with each IFE passenger seat display, and an IFE controller. The IFE controller selectively displays video from the IFE entertainment source on the IFE passenger seat displays, and receives the stored coupon for redemption based upon a respective IFE optical sensor sensing the displayed in-flight coupon token image associated therewith on the PED display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: LIVETV, LLC
    Inventors: R. Michael Keen, Jeffrey A. Frisco
  • Patent number: 9134883
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore any one of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Flipboard, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Hugo Ying, Marcos A. Weskamp, Michael S. McCue, Didier Hilhorst, Michael Johnston
  • Patent number: 9135892
    Abstract: A system and method for viewing content on a mobile device may include outputting, at a display coupled to a mobile computing device, content viewable at the display, and receiving a first gesture indicative of scroll input having a first velocity. The content may be scrolled at a first effective scroll rate based on the first velocity. A size of the content may be altered by a first zoom factor that is based on the first effective scroll rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Andrew Alexander Grieve
  • Patent number: 9122311
    Abstract: A method, including presenting, by a computer, a scrollable list of interactive items on a display driven by the computer, and receiving an input from a user of the computer. The list is scrolled at a speed indicated by the input, and the list is zoomed in response to the speed of the scrolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Micha Galor
  • Patent number: 9110586
    Abstract: A scrolling apparatus enables scrolling of display contents of a display unit and includes a load range determining unit that determines a load range of display data to be loaded from a primary storage unit to a secondary storage unit according to a movement starting position detected by a detecting unit; a loading unit that loads display data in the load range determined by the load range determining unit from the primary storage unit to the secondary storage unit; and a display control unit that displays on the display unit display data in a display range among the display data in the load range stored in the secondary storage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventor: Hideaki Yajima
  • Patent number: 9104262
    Abstract: Methods for displaying and moving data and systems using the same are provided. First, a first movement of an object on or near a touch-sensitive display unit is detected, and in response to the first movement, data displayed in the touch-sensitive display unit is moved in a first direction. In response to an edge of the data being reached while the data is moving in the first direction and the object is still detected on or near the touch-sensitive display unit, the movement of the data is stopped. Then, a second movement of the object on or near the touch-sensitive display unit is detected, and in response to the second movement, an area beyond the edge of the data is displayed in the touch-sensitive display unit. In response to detecting that the second movement of the object is no longer on or near the touch-sensitive display unit, the data is moved in a second direction until the area beyond the edge of the data is no longer displayed in the touch-sensitive display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventor: Shih-Yang Wang
  • Patent number: 9103658
    Abstract: Optical navigation modules and methods of operating the same to sense relative movement between the optical navigation module and a tracking surface are provided. In one embodiment, the optical navigation module comprises: (i) a light source to illuminate at least a portion of a surface relative to which the optical navigation module is moved; (ii) an integrated circuit (IC) including a photo-detector array (PDA) to detect a light pattern propagated onto the PDA from the surface, and a signal processor to translate changes in the light pattern propagated onto the PDA into data representing motion of the optical navigation module relative to the surface; and (iii) a substrate to which the light source and IC are mounted, the substrate including an aperture in a light path between the surface and the PDA. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Jinghui Mu, Brett Alan Spurlock, Yansun Xu, John Frame, KeCai Zeng, Brian Todoroff
  • Patent number: 9082348
    Abstract: Methods and devices for scrolling a display page are described. In one aspect, the present application describes a method implemented by a processor of an electronic device. The electronic device has a display and an input interface. The method includes: displaying a first portion of a display page on the display; receiving, via the input interface, a scrolling command to scroll the display page in a first direction; and, while receiving the scrolling command: determining that an edge of the display page is reached, and in response to determining that the edge of the display page is reached, maintaining the edge of the display page on the display and graphically tilting the display page inwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventor: Alexander John Ogle
  • Patent number: 9083933
    Abstract: An image processing device, and associated method and computer program product, includes a user interface control unit that causes respective appearance materials in an image portfolio to be displayed on a display. Respective appearance materials are displayed in a spatial relationship. The user interface display control unit changes respective relationship values between the respective appearance materials in response to a change in the spatial relationship received as input to the user interface display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sato, Masatomo Kurata, Makoto Murata, Naoki Shibuya
  • Patent number: 9082350
    Abstract: According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays information. The control unit determines a scrolling speed of the information in accordance with a speed of an operation, and changes a display size of the information to be scrolled on the display unit in accordance with the scrolling speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 9077925
    Abstract: An image-editing service system comprises a server, a user terminal, an administrator terminal, a worker terminal, and the server including a database for storing the image information sent from worker terminal, a first image generating section for generating a first image based on the image information stored in the database, a display section for displaying an image display frame so as to display the first image in a display window of the user terminal and displaying a window information so as to display a display condition of the first image which is allowed to be input, a second image generating section for generating a second image regard to the first image based on the display condition inputted by the user terminal and, a window information generating section for displaying the first image and the second image simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Marikawa, Shinji Murata, Tomoaki Tamura, Hideaki Haraga, Tsuyoshi Narumiya, Reiko Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9065872
    Abstract: Techniques are described for sharing service management on a computing system. The computing system includes a display device and one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine, based on a context associated with an object, a plurality of weighted probabilities including a respective weighted probability for each sharing service from a plurality of sharing services, wherein the context includes at least one of a characteristic of the object and a respective characteristic of at least a portion of sharing services from the plurality of sharing services, select, based on the respective weighted probabilities, a subset of sharing services, output, for display at the display device, an indication of each sharing service from the subset of sharing services, receive an indication of a user input corresponding to a selection of one of the subset of sharing services, and transmit, using the selected sharing service, an indication of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Matias Gonzalo Duarte, Daniel Marc Gatan Shiplacoff, Richard Eugene Fulcher, Jeremy Lyon, Adam William Powell
  • Publication number: 20150149956
    Abstract: A method may track a motion of a body part in a series of images captured by an imager that is associated with an electronic device, and detect in such motion a gesture of the body part that matches a pre-defined gesture. Upon such detection of the gesture, a function that is associated with the gesture is activated but only upon a contact or other input, such as a push of a button by a user. The combination of the ‘push to enable’ and the ‘gesture to activate the function’ may provide comfortable operation of the gesture activation of a function. A system and method of altering a zoom of an image displayed on an electronic device by detecting in a series of images a change in distance between the device and a viewer of the image, and zooming the image to correspond to such change in position. The captured images and detected change in distance may be interpreted by a processor as a zoom gesture that may trigger a zoom of the displayed image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Yitzchak Kempinski, Yair Barak, Tuvia Elbaum
  • Publication number: 20150149957
    Abstract: Disclosed is a screen display control method by radio of controlling screen display on an operation target device, by transmitting data based on an operation performed on an operation device to the operation target device through radio communication that comprises extracting touch position coordinates from operation events at intervals of a predetermined time N, the operation events generated by one flick operation on a touch panel of the operation device, and transmitting the extracted touch position coordinates to the operation target device and executing screen scroll display control by the operation target device based on the touch position coordinates received from the operation device at intervals of the predetermined time N. When touch position coordinates are not received at intervals of the predetermined time N, the operation target device predicts the missing touch position coordinates, based on previous received touch position coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Junya ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150143283
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a display control circuit configured to control a display to display content; and a user input circuit configured to receive a command from the user. The display control circuit is configured to modify scrolling of the content being automatically scrolled in a first direction based on the command from the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuro Noda, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Kenji Suzuki, Tetsuyuki Miyawaki
  • Publication number: 20150143282
    Abstract: A method and apparatus includes a user interface of a computing device for diagonal scrolling in a two-step selection process. The method includes presenting a main list and a sub-list substantially orthogonal to the main list, wherein the sub-list comprises elements associated with each element in the main list; receiving user input from a user to progress through the main list and/or the sub-list; and scrolling through the main list and/or the sub-list simultaneously responsive to the user input, wherein the main list and the sub-list are simultaneously scrolled responsive to a diagonal scrolling gesture as the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC
    Inventors: TRUPTI TELANG, ALEXANDER R SPIRO
  • Patent number: 9037995
    Abstract: A method that may be performed at an electronic device that has one or more processors, memory, and a touch-sensitive display. The method includes receiving a user input, the user input is one or more input points applied to a touch-sensitive display that is integrated with the data processing system. The method further includes creating an event object in response to the user input and determining whether the event object invokes a scroll or gesture operation by distinguishing between the user input being a single input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that is interpreted as the scroll operation and the user input being more than one input point applied to the touch-sensitive display that are interpreted as the gesture operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Platzer, Scott Herz
  • Publication number: 20150135132
    Abstract: Systems, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems and interfaces includes selection attractive movement as the selection protocol, where a selection object is used to discriminate between selectable objects and attract a target object toward the selection objects, where the direction and speed of the motion controls, discriminates, attracts, and activates the selected objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventor: Jonathan Josephson
  • Patent number: 9030419
    Abstract: Techniques for navigating through a user interface with a force-sensitive touch sensor are described. In some implementations, the force-sensitive touch sensor is also a display that presents the user interface. Touches on the force-sensitive touch sensor may be interpreted as indicating a vector direction based on the location of the touch and a vector magnitude based on the force of the touch. For instance, when a user navigates through a collection of photographs on a device having a force-sensitive touch sensor, the vector direction may determine if the user is scrolling forwards or backwards through the photographs and the vector magnitude may determine how rapidly the scrolling occurs. The user may also navigate through a hierarchy of folders and files using touch and force. Selection of a folder and application of force exceeding a threshold may result in display of the contents of a most commonly accessed subfolder or file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ian W. Freed
  • Patent number: 9032327
    Abstract: An approach is described for supplementing a scrolling region of an item user interface (UI) presentation with scrolling-region information. For example, the scrolling region can be enhanced by presented information regarding a flattened list of containers. The approach may also involve varying a representation of a collection of items displayed in an item presentation region of the item UI presentation based on at least one emphasis-related attribute associated with the collection of items. The various features of the item UI presentation facilitate a user's navigation through a large collection of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Shane F. Williams
  • Patent number: 9032338
    Abstract: An electronic device displays text of an electronic document on a display; displays an insertion marker at a first position in the text of the electronic document; detects a first horizontal gesture on a touch-sensitive surface; in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a first set of one or more predefined conditions: translates the electronic document on the display in accordance with a direction of the first horizontal gesture, and maintains the insertion marker at the first position in the text; and, in response to a determination that the first horizontal gesture satisfies a second set of one or more predefined conditions, moves the insertion marker by one character in the text from the first position to a second position in the text in accordance with the direction of the first horizontal gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Martin J. Murrett, Matthew Todd Schomer, Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, James Vernon Van Boxtel
  • Publication number: 20150128087
    Abstract: A method of displaying a page is provided, which includes sensing an input for moving a page; determining an available scroll distance according to the sensed input; and displaying a Graphic User Interface (GUI) based on the available scroll distance and a currently displayed position of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Doosuk KANG, Changho LEE, Saemee YIM, Jeehye JUNG
  • Publication number: 20150127674
    Abstract: An image information processing apparatus includes a memory, a list screen display, a detector, and a screen controller. The memory stores plural pieces of image information and plural pieces of related information related to the plural pieces of image information. The list screen display displays a list screen showing a list of the plural pieces of image information. The detector detects an indication operation having a direction, with a certain position on the screen being an origin. The screen controller performs, in accordance with a position and direction of the indication operation, control to switch between scrolling of the screen and display of a list of the plural pieces of related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yasuhiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20150121298
    Abstract: Accessing objects on a multi-touch screen includes presenting, on the multi-touch screen, a first set of items corresponding to a subset of the objects that is less than all of the objects, where the multi-touch screen has a first direction and has a second direction that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction and includes a user causing a second set of items, corresponding to a different subset of the objects than the first set, to become viewable on the multi-touch screen using gestures corresponding to the first and second directions, where at least some of the gestures corresponding to the first direction are different than gestures corresponding to the second direction. The items may correspond to at least one attribute of at least some of the objects. Presenting a first subset of items may include showing icons, windows, markers, and/or shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Helen Asuka Ma
  • Publication number: 20150113474
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to providing a user with an image navigation experience. In order to do so, a reference image may be identified. A set of potential target images for the reference image may also be identified. A drag vector for user input relative to the reference image is determined. For particular image of the set of target images an associated cost is determined based at least in part on a cost function and the drag vector. A target image is selected based on the determined associated costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: David Gallup, Liyong Chen, Shuchang Zhou, Steven Maxwell Seitz
  • Publication number: 20150106761
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus capable of displaying in a display area a partial range of a map image as a display range includes an object display means for displaying an object on the map image, an operation means for receiving an instruction corresponding to a user operation, and a display control means for moving, if an instruction for moving the display range of the map image is received by the operation means, the map image to an instructed direction to display thereof, wherein the instruction for moving the display range of the map image includes directional information, and wherein if the instruction for moving the display range of the map image received by the operation means satisfies a first condition, the display control means performs control to move the display range until an object is displayed, and then stop moving the display range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventor: Ikufumi Moriya
  • Patent number: 9009620
    Abstract: Scrollbar control is utilized for manually scanning for displayed/available information while controlling the amount of information that is actually materialized. In response to a drag and hold of the “thumb” to a beginning or end location of the scrollbar, additional records may be retrieved depending on a display order of data on the user interface. If the location corresponds to an end of records (whether at the beginning or at the end of the order), that may be indicated. Upon release, the thumb may be moved automatically to a predefined location to indicate additional available records at the source if that is the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Todd Lefor, Adrian Orth
  • Patent number: 9009610
    Abstract: A system and method for managing real estate data using a mobile device, such as a tablet computer. The data is displayed in a manner that facilitates quick analysis suing a mobile device. User interfaces, processing, and other features provide a mobile user with information required to make intelligent decisions on real estate transactions. A tour can be constructed based on a subset of data returned as a result of a database query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: CoStar Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew C. Florance, Bob Evatt, Scot Bohl, John Merritt
  • Patent number: 9007406
    Abstract: This invention provides a display control apparatus capable of more quickly displaying the next image while suppressing a decrease in viewability. The apparatus displays an image together with an added non-image area when displaying, in a display area of a display unit to be used to display an image, the image having an aspect ratio different from that of the display area. Upon accepting a scroll operation of instructing scroll display of the image displayed in the display area, the apparatus performs the scroll display in accordance with the scroll operation. At this time, the apparatus adjusts the non-image area to decrease the width of the non-image area in the moving direction of the scroll during execution of the scroll display as the operation amount of the accepted scroll operation increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kurumi Mori