Scroll Tool (e.g., Scroll Bar) Patents (Class 715/786)
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Publication number: 20150082238Abstract: A system and method is provided to display and interact with a plurality of items with text(s) and/or image(s) in a curve shaped area on a touch screen of an electronic device. In this invention, “finger” refers to either a human being finger or a stylus pen. Users may use a finger to vertically scroll through a curve items list to see all items that may not be once displayed on the touch screen with a limited size. Also, users may use a finger to tap a specific item to highlight and select it. Additionally, users may use a finger to swipe leftward or rightward a particular item. Furthermore, users may use 2 fingers to squeeze 2 different items, and all other items sandwiched by these 2 items if applicable, towards each other. Finally, the described technique can be used in an electronic device with keyboard and/or mouse, and users may use keyboard and/or mouse instead of finger to vertically scroll through a curve items list and select a specific item.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventor: Jianzhong Meng
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Patent number: 8984431Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon; while providing content with the electronic device: detecting a contact at a location that corresponds to the progress icon; detecting movement of the contact, wherein movement of the contact comprises a first component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to a first predefined direction and a second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and, while continuing to detect the contact on the touch-sensitive surface, moving the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein the scrubbing rate decreases as the second component of movement on the touch-sensitive surface increases.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2009Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Lucas C. Newman, Marcel van Os, Michael Matas, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill
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Patent number: 8984436Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface method includes displaying on a touch screen a portion of a large scale graphical space that is at least multiples larger than the device display, receiving from a user of the device an input to pan within the graphical space, automatically generating a pop up graphical panning control in response to receiving the user input, and receiving a user input to the panning control and providing panning in the graphical space, wherein movement of the panning control in a single selection is able to pan the display across a substantial portion of the large scale graphical space.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Erick Tseng, Amith Yamasani, Michael A. Cleron, Paul A. Dickinson
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Publication number: 20150074595Abstract: The electronic book apparatus includes an already-read information giving unit 15 configured to give already-read information for a viewed page and a page feeding processing unit 14 configured to perform page feeding processing within a range of pages to which the already-read information is given when page feeding operation is performed. Further, even when the user returns from the half-read page back to an already-read page to view the already-read page and then performs an operation to feed pages to an unread page beyond the original page, the feeding of the pages is stopped at the last page of the already-read pages, thereby preventing an unread page from being inadvertently displayed. The user may also return back to the original page without performing cumbersome operations to give and delete bookmark information to the half-read page.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Takashi Kashiwagi, Yu Sagi
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Patent number: 8977981Abstract: A display unit enables content to be displayed in a human readable form. The display unit displays a portion of the content to be displayed wherein some of the content to be displayed is non-viewable on the display unit. The display unit, in response to a user-originating directional content moving action, determines a location within the portion of the content being displayed the determined location corresponding to a directional characteristic of the user-originating directional content moving action. The display unit causes a visual indicia to be displayed at the determined location within the portion of the content being displayed, the visual indicia providing a user orientation marker for the portion of the content being displayed. The display unit causes the visual indicia to visually move in a direction corresponding to the directional movement of the content.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Keith L. Willis, Christopher F. Patterson
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Patent number: 8977980Abstract: A display scrolling method includes the steps of displaying first and second windows on a display screen of a display; displaying first information in a predetermined order in the first window; displaying second information in a predetermined order in the second window; and scrolling the first and second information in synchronization with each other, wherein the resolution of the scrolling of at least one of the first and second information is set at a magnitude corresponding to the unit of the classification of the information.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yuichi Abe, Yoichiro Sako, Itaru Kawakami, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 8977982Abstract: Techniques described and suggested herein include systems and methods for navigating content in the form of a scrollable information sets. In an embodiment, a portion of a scrollable information set is displayed on a user device. As the user navigates through the information set, one or more location indicators are modified. The location indicators each correspond to a position within the information set and are configured to facilitate user input for navigating to a corresponding position within the information set.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2010Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventor: Matthew Amacker
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Publication number: 20150067586Abstract: A display system that is configured to select one of multiple display regions as an active region and which can avoid complicated operations for selecting an icon is provided. In the display system, one of the display regions is selected as an active region by an input operation to an input screen, and an icon in the active region is selected by another input operation to the input screen. The display system stores a specific input operation in advance as a switching operation, and determines whether an input operation is the switching operation. When the input operation is determined as the switching operation, the display region corresponding to the switching operation is selected as the active region, and the icon in the active region is displayed in a selectable state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Shigeaki Nishihashi
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Patent number: 8972895Abstract: A web site user interface for an e-commerce retail company allows a user to easily browse or purchase products or services offered by the company. The web site user interface can include a dual horizontal navigation bar including a main navigation bar and subordinate navigation bar. The subordinate navigation bar can be actively and passively customized. Further, the subordinate navigation bar can include product shipment information in a user specific notification pane. The web site user interface can also include a drop-down logo from the dual parent navigation bar where the web page continues to include the drop-down logo as the user scrolls down to focus on web page content. Alternatively, the web site user interface can include a main navigation bar and secondary navigation bar where the main navigation bar includes fewer subcategories of products than the secondary navigation bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Target Brands Inc.Inventors: Michael F. Gonsalves, Gregory M. Nations, Chad R. Gourley, Patricia Korth-McDonnell, Troy Neidermire, Joe Stewart
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Patent number: 8970630Abstract: An information processing device includes: an operation recognition part that recognizes a user operation for a display screen of a display unit; a determination part that determines whether the user operation recognized by the operation recognition part is an operation starting from within a predetermined region of the display screen or not; and a control part that scrolls information being displayed on the display screen while changing a level of detail of the information if the determination part determines that the user operation is the operation starting from within the predetermined region in response to the user operation, and performs changing of the level of detail of the information or scrolling of the information if the determination part determines that the user operation is not the operation starting from within the predetermined region in response to the user operation.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Reiko Miyazaki
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Publication number: 20150058721Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for a reader application configured to run on a computing device. The scrolling reader application, when run on the computing device, causes the computing device to display a scrolling text stream field, a control panel configured to control the scrolling of the text stream, a status line including at least a page number and a line number, and several special-function elements including a table of content button, a current position button, and an index button. The scrolling reader application may further include a module to serialize a text document into a character array usable to form a text stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2013Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventor: Bob Wolter
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Patent number: 8966364Abstract: An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kumiko Ogino, Shinsaku Tohki
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Patent number: 8959432Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for visually emphasizing information displayed on a computing device. In one example, a method that includes receiving a first portion of a document for display by the computing device, the first portion of the document including multiple elements separated by one or more delimiters. The method further includes dividing the multiple elements into a first set of one or more elements, each of which is displayable in its entirety at a time of display of the first portion of the document, and a second set of at least one element, the at least one element not displayable in its entirety at the time of display of the first portion of the document. The method further includes generating for display the first portion of the document, including visually emphasizing the first set of elements with respect to the second set of elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Allen Sharkey
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Publication number: 20150046870Abstract: A context-sensitive viewing system is disclosed in which various data visualizations, also referred to a contextual views, of a common set of data may be viewed by a user on an electronic device. Data in the system may comprise data objects and associated properties and/or metadata, and may be stored in one or more electronic data stores. As a user of the system views and manipulates a first contextual view of a set of data objects, one or more other contextual views of the same set of data objects may be updated accordingly. Updates to the secondary contextual views may, in various embodiments, happen real-time. Further, the secondary contextual views may be visible to the user simultaneously with the primary contextual view. A user may switch from one view to another, and may manipulate data in any view, resulting in updates in the other views.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicant: Palantir Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Goldenberg, Brian Ngo, Bill Dwyer, Parvathy Menon, Gregory Martin, Zach Bush, Allen Chang, Mike Boland
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Patent number: 8949733Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for displaying a subset of a plurality of fields to a user. In use, a plurality of fields for receiving input from a user is retrieved. Additionally, the plurality of fields is displayed to the user in a first window of a display. Further, a subset of the plurality of fields is displayed to the user in a second window of the display separate from the first window, where the second window is positioned according to a span of vision and an angle of vision of the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Amdocs Software Systems LimitedInventors: Amit Kr. Gautam, Ajay Kr. Gautam
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Publication number: 20150031417Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a body having a front surface, side surfaces and a rear surface; a display unit having a first region arranged on the front surface, and a second region arranged on the side surfaces and extending from the first region; and a controller configured to output a notification icon to the second region when an event occurs from at least one application, the notification icon informing the occurrence of the event, and configured to display information on the event on the first region when a touch input is applied to the notification icon.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Haein LEE, Yoonji MOON, Egun JUNG, Yongkyoung SHIN, Jeehee PARK
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Patent number: 8943433Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thumbnails, enabling a user to select, from the thumbnail group, a segment of the media item, and enabling a user to transfer the selected segment to the project pane.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Randy Ubillos
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Patent number: 8935630Abstract: Systems and methods according to the present invention address these needs and others by providing a structure for navigating in a GUI with a handheld device, e.g., a 3D pointing device, which incorporates buttons and a scroll wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc.Inventor: Frank J. Wroblewski
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Publication number: 20150012877Abstract: A mobile terminal having a circle type display and a method for controlling the same is disclosed herein. A scroll bar is provided at an edge of the circle type display in response to a user input. The user may control the mobile terminal and the circle type display through touch inputs on the scroll bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Seonmi LEE, Sijin LIM, Yeonkyung KIM, Eunjin KIM
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Patent number: 8930835Abstract: A system and method for providing the dynamic display of content and related advertisements are provided. The advertisements are displayed based on predetermined customer types. A network resource, such as Web page, can include a plurality of dynamic content modules. Depending on the available display area and additional display criteria, each dynamic content module displays a subset content and related advertisements. Each dynamic content module corresponds to an integration of multiple layers of content, such as text, graphics and image rendering information.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Chi Ming Kan, Ares Sakamoto
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Patent number: 8930834Abstract: A graphical user interface system is described in which users can be located at any angle. Different application interfaces can be generated on the display to appear in different orientations, such that different users sitting at different positions around the periphery of a display surface may each have an interface that is readable and accessible. The location and orientation of a new interface may be specified by user request, or may be automatically determined based on a characteristic of the request, such as the location of a tap or the direction of a swipe gesture. Interfaces may be radial in nature, and may have a central origin on the display, or at corners of the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Derek E. Sunday, Chris Whytock, Dane Storrusten, Sabrina Boler, Nicole Coddington
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Patent number: 8914743Abstract: An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a portion of a list of identifiers. The list of identifiers are associated with: a first number of first content items associated with a first language, and a second number of second content items associated with a second language. The device concurrently displays a character selection element that includes: a first sub-element associated with the first content items and having a first size, and a second sub-element associated with the second content items and having a second size, the first size relative to the second size being based on the first number relative to the second number. In response to detecting an input on the second sub-element, the device displays a portion of the list of identifiers with identifiers associated with second content items.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Taido L. Nakajima, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr.
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Patent number: 8914406Abstract: This disclosure provides a network security architecture that permits installation of different software security products as virtual machines (VMs). By relying on a standardized data format and communication structure, a general architecture can be created and used to dynamically build and reconfigure interaction between both similar and dissimilar security products. Use of an integration scheme having defined message types and specified query response framework provides for real-time response and easy adaptation for cross-vendor communication. Examples are provided where an intrusion detection system (IDS) can be used to detect network threats based on distributed threat analytics, passing detected threats to other security products (e.g., products with different capabilities from different vendors) to trigger automatic, dynamically configured communication and reaction.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Vorstack, Inc.Inventors: Andreas Seip Haugsnes, Markus Hahn
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Patent number: 8910073Abstract: A visual indicator distinguishes between newly displayed content and previously displayed content during and/or after a scrolling operation. The newly displayed content is displayed in a different format, or with a different background, or with some other visual indication, as compared with content that was previously displayed and is still displayed after the scrolling operation. In this manner, the user is given a visual context for scrolling operations that provides an intuitive reference point when scrolling through a document. A user can easily determine where the newly displayed content picks up from where the previously displayed content left off. The visual indicator can be transitory if desired, so that it gradually fades after some period of time.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2007Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Paul Mercer
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Patent number: 8904306Abstract: A method, system, and medium are provided for allowing a user to scroll through a list of items on a display, such as contacts, pictures, or other files, at variable speeds, which provides for fast, yet accurate scrolling. The user provides an indication to scroll through the list of items, such as pressing and dragging or flicking through the list. This indication may include a starting point and ending point at a certain location on the display. Depending on where the user provides this indication on the display, a scroll speed is determined at which to scroll through the list of items. As the indication of a scroll action progresses from one side of a display to the other, the scrolling speed increases such that the exact same scroll action corresponds to differing scrolling speeds, depending on the position of the user's indication of a scroll action on the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2008Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Jason K. Whitney, Michael T. Lundy, Yat-Sang Hung
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Patent number: 8893036Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide for a Region Scroller. The Region Scroller renders a view of at least a portion of a set of headers, where each header is associated with a respective, expandable-collapsible (E-C) display region The Region Scroller identifies a newly-selected header based on an extent of directional input and modifies the view to include concurrent presentation of (i) the newly-selected header and (ii) an E-C display region in an expanded state, where the E-C display region is associated with the newly-selected header.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventor: Daniel A. Wabyick
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Patent number: 8887037Abstract: A scroll-free user interface comprises a display area; an interface panel included within the display area; and a data panel. The data panel includes a portion of a set of data items. The size and number of data items in the portion of the set of items is based on the size of the data panel. A user interface comprises a display area; an interface panel included within the display area; a first user interface control; and a layered user interface element. Web pages are analyzed to identify associated electronic documents. A retrieved web page is analyzed to identify at least one dynamic element. The dynamic element is analyzed to determine a network location of at least one associated electronic document. The dynamic element may be analyzed by applying a pattern matching or by executing the dynamic element to identify the network location of at least one associated electronic document.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Inventor: Douglas Cook
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Patent number: 8887086Abstract: A method includes displaying information on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device, rendering a continuous scroll indicator in response to receipt of a continuous scroll input at the portable electronic device, detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, a touch associated with the continuous scroll indicator, and scrolling the information based on a direction of the change, when a change in touch location is determined.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Jeffrey Charles Bos, Kem-Laurin Kramer
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Patent number: 8887085Abstract: Content displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI) such as a Web browser can be dynamically managed based on factors such as a current view or focus position, allowing a user to view information in a list of objects without having to load all the objects at one time, which could slow down operation of the GUI. Where a number of objects to be displayed is known, a page size can be set so that navigational elements of the GUI function as if all the objects are loaded, even though only a portion might be loaded at any given time. A background image can provide information where an object has not yet been loaded, providing a type of temporary content for the entire page without slowing down operation of the GUI.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daniel P. Cox, Jeffrey M. Scherpelz, Kevin Janhuan Lee, Peter V. Commons
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Patent number: 8878799Abstract: A method for coarsely and finely controlling contents via respective main and auxiliary sliders, and a portable terminal supporting the same are provided. The portable terminal includes: a display unit displaying a main slider including a slidable path of a predetermined length for designating a predetermined region of contents and an auxiliary slider extending at least a part of a slidable path of the main slider; a touch screen detecting a signal for selectively displaying the auxiliary slider; and a controller for performing a control operation to display the auxiliary slider according to generation of the signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: John Lee, Su Jung Youn, Sang Ki Lee, Su Mi Shim, Wan Soo Lim
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Publication number: 20140325429Abstract: A method for controlling the display of a document shown on a touch device has the steps of recognizing a triggering gesture performed on a touch device, displaying a control object on the touch device when the triggering gesture is recognized, and changing a displaying level of detail of a selected document through the control object. The control object allows a user to directly adjust the level of detail of the selected document by zooming in or out with a simple gesture such as a drag or a tapping performed on the touch device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventor: Hung-Sen CHANG
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Patent number: 8874503Abstract: A system and method are provided for organizing information that can be shared among multiple individuals. The information is structured and categorized according to areas of concern, sub-areas of concern, concerns, outcomes, commitments, and occasions. Multiple disparate individuals may be associated with one or more areas of concern, concerns, outcomes, commitments, and/or occasions. If one individual fails to achieve an outcome, the remaining individuals may be notified automatically, enabling corrective action to be taken. New areas of concern, and their associated concerns, outcomes, and occasions may be added for one or more individuals. Additional features, such as calendars, to-do lists, and other features may be integrated with the present invention. Web-based and/or client-server interfaces can be used to review and/or update system information. Messages and conversations can be associated with particular nodes within the concern cascade.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: JMW Productivity, LLCInventors: Allan Lee Scherr, Werner Hans Erhard, Miriam Zivia Diesendruck
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Patent number: 8875046Abstract: A computer-implemented user interface method includes displaying content in a first window on a display of a computing device, receiving a dragging user input on an element at a periphery of the window, and in response to receiving the dragging input, generating and displaying a second window on the display of the computing device and displaying the first window simultaneously with the second window.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: John Nicholas Jitkoff
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Patent number: 8875044Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image display element, an instruction position detection unit for accepting an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detecting and outputting an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face, a storage unit for storing and holding image data of images, and a display control unit for performing a control for displaying an image in accordance with the stored and held image data on the image display element, in which when the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control unit performs a control for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Ozawa, Nobuki Furue, Satoshi Akagawa, Ayako Iwase
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Patent number: 8875045Abstract: A display control device includes a display control unit and an input unit. The display control unit is configured to display, on a display screen, a first selection area displaying a list of a plurality of first data items, a first scroll bar corresponding to the first selection area, a second selection area displaying a list of a plurality of second data items, and a second scroll bar corresponding to the second selection area. The input unit is configured to receive a selection operation for selecting at least one item from the first data items displayed in the list in the first selection area. In conjunction with the selection operation of the first data item, the display control unit changes the second data items displayed in the list in the second selection area and the display mode of the second scroll bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Shinichi Nozaki
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Publication number: 20140317558Abstract: A method and apparatus for adding segment marks in a web page are proposed. The method includes: acquiring an information attribute of an information piece displayed by a web browser, and grouping information pieces having a same information attribute into a same information segment; acquiring ratios of the number of information pieces within every information segment to the total number of information pieces displayed by the web browser; setting segment marks at particular locations of a scroll bar of the web browser in accordance with the ratios; and displaying the segment marks. The method can inform a user of information amounts of other pages and the reading progress of the user when the user is reading a current page.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventor: Heng WANG
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Patent number: 8860674Abstract: A mobile terminal having a circle type display and a method for controlling the same is disclosed herein. A scroll bar is provided at an edge of the circle type display in response to a user input. The user may control the mobile terminal and the circle type display through touch inputs on the scroll bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seonmi Lee, Sijin Lim, Yeonkyung Kim, Eunjin Kim
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Patent number: 8856677Abstract: An electronic text viewing apparatus includes a viewing application unit that outputs viewing data for displaying a text in a viewable manner, a display unit that displays the viewing data and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for the viewing data, a viewing data requesting unit that issues a request for acquirement of the viewing data to the viewing application unit, and acquires the viewing data to be viewed, a setting data storage unit that stores setting data for the acquired viewing data, and a fast reading viewer control unit that, when the fast reading button is pressed, converts the viewing data into fast reading viewer data by performing display format conversion, display speed control and scroll control of the viewing data, and displays the fast reading viewer data and a return button for converting the fast reading viewer data to the viewing data.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2008Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Takahiro Kurose
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Patent number: 8850353Abstract: A reading aid is provided for large documents or images on space-constrained touch-sensitive screens of devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). A visual scrolling reference pattern such as a grid is projected over a document during scrolling operations on a touch screen. The scrolling reference pattern correlates information presented in different parts of large documents that are not visible at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Christoph Wienands, Christoph Kuhmuench
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Patent number: 8842131Abstract: A method and system for framework clipping are disclosed. A user interface tree of widgets corresponding to widgets requiring clipping is traversed. For each encountered widget, layer allocation operations are performed which include selecting a current, previous, or next layer to which to allocate the widget and determining whether the selected layer can accommodate the widget, where a determination that the selected layer cannot accommodate the widget results in a bit from a stencil buffer being allocated to the selected layer. A value of the selected layer is incremented to account for the widget being allocated to the selected layer A stencil test mask is generated as a combination of value of the layers previous to a current layer. The stencil test mask is written to the stencil buffer, and the layer allocation operations are repeated for each remaining widget.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2012Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Fanhattan LLCInventor: Olivier Chalouhi
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Patent number: 8842070Abstract: A method for navigating information displayed on a display of a computer system includes determining movement of the computer system. The movement of the computer system is sensed by a movement sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Nicholas W. Oakley, Achod M. Goganian
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Publication number: 20140282227Abstract: A data modeling studio provides a structured environment for graphically creating and executing models which may be configured for diagnosis, prognosis, analysis, identifying relationships, etc., within a process plant. The data modeling studio includes a configuration engine for generating user interface elements to facilitate graphical construction of a model and a runtime engine for executing data models in, for example, an offline or an on-line environment. The configuration engine includes an interface routine that generates user interface elements, a plurality of templates stored in memory that serve as the building blocks of the model and a model compiler that converts the graphical model into a data format executable by the run-time engine. The run time engine executes the model to produce the desired output and may include a retrieval routine for retrieving data corresponding to the templates from memory and a modeling routine for executing the executable model.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: MARK J. NIXON, TERRENCE L. BLEVINS, DANIEL DEAN CHRISTENSEN, PAUL RICHARD MUSTON, KEN BEOUGHTER
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Publication number: 20140258920Abstract: A solution for managing a graphical user interface including a panel area is provided. Content included in the graphical user interface can be generated for presentation to a user. The generating can include determining the content to be displayed using the panel area cannot be displayed completely within the panel area using a set of display settings. In response, data corresponding to a visible portion of the content can be added for display in the panel area and a graphical user interface scroll control can be provided for the panel area. The graphical user interface scroll control can enable a user to adjust the portion of the content displayed in the panel area in a first direction by manipulating the graphical user interface scroll control in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
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Publication number: 20140258921Abstract: A method includes the steps of: providing a computer readable code configured to run on a local computer and configured to perform a process keep a reference point of an item in a substantially fixed position on a computer display while the item is being edited; running the computer readable code on the local computer; detecting by computer a user edit; recording by computer a position of the reference point of the item on the computer display and a value of a scroll bar; calculating by computer a new point of the reference point of the item and a new value of the scroll bar such that following the user edit, the reference of the item remains at the substantially fixed position on the computer display; and redrawing the item near the substantially fixed position on the computer display. A system to perform the method is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Corel CorporationInventor: Claude Peloquin
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Publication number: 20140258922Abstract: A method of controlling an electronic apparatus that displays representative information is provided. The method includes displaying the content on a display unit, detecting a gesture for scrolling the content, scrolling the content upon the gesture being detected, extracting representative information of the content, displaying the representative information of the content, and stopping the scrolling of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae-Myoung LEE, Chul-Ho JANG, Hyung-Joo JIN
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Patent number: 8832591Abstract: A grid display device and a grid display method in a mobile terminal are provided. The grid display device in a mobile terminal includes a scroll control unit that displays a grid to be displayed on a screen of a display unit of the mobile terminal using a scroll bar when the grid is larger than the screen and a grid display unit that displays meshes of the grid on the screen and changes contents to be displayed in the fixed mesh of the grid in correspondence with a changed position of the scroll bar. According to the grid display device in a mobile terminal, it is possible to control a display of a grid so that the grid used in the mobile terminal having relatively low performance can rapidly operate.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Inswave Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wooglae Kim, Woong Park
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Patent number: 8832569Abstract: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for enabling users to view a plurality of instant messaging chat conversations and respond quickly and easily a selected conversation, while minimizing the impact on the users' other activities. Users are also provided with the option of choosing which instant messaging conversations to monitor and which responses from particular people or topics to display. Multiple instant messaging chat conversations are provided to a user via a scrolling chat window, wherein the scrolling chat window allows the user to scroll through and monitor the multiple instant messaging chat conversations. When user input is received for a selected instant messaging chat conversation, the selected instant messaging chat conversation is loaded and displayed into an instant messaging chat window to allow the user to respond to the selected instant messaging chat conversation.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2006Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yen-Fu Chen, John Hans Handy-Bosma, Mei Yang Selvage, Keith Raymond Walker
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Patent number: 8819697Abstract: A computer-implemented method for managing events that have no end events includes: determining that a first event has been generated that corresponds to a continuous action having no defined end event, the first event having an event type and being initiated by a user; determining whether at least a second event of the event type is initiated by the user within a specified time from initiation of the first event; and performing a functionality of the continuous action only if the second event is not initiated within the specified time, wherein the functionality is not performed until the specified time passes after a last initiated event of the event type.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: SAP AGInventors: Dmitry Bakaleinik, Carmit Pinto
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Publication number: 20140237418Abstract: The display of a scrollable list of items is described. In one disclosed embodiment, a list of items may be displayed on a scrollable computing device display in such a manner that, upon receiving an input requesting movement of a select indicator to a different list item, the select indicator is moved on the display toward the different list item and the list is scrolled on the display in an opposing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: David R. Brinda, Robert C.J. Pengelly
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Publication number: 20140229890Abstract: Provided is a technology that supports a user in easily selecting an image of interest from among a large quantity of continuous images while making the best use of characteristics of a scroll function. The technology prepares a first scroll area that receives an indication for sequentially scrolling images to be displayed on a display screen among the large quantity of continuous images by a predetermined first amount of a scroll; and a second scroll area that receives an indication for sequentially scrolling the images by the amount of a scroll smaller than the first amount of a scroll, in a case where the number of the continuous images is greater than the maximum number of designatable positions of the first scroll area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Inventors: Tatsuya Tokunaga, Hiroki Taniguchi