Scroll Tool (e.g., Scroll Bar) Patents (Class 715/786)
  • Patent number: 8806380
    Abstract: A digital device and a UI control method thereof are provided. A user interface (UI) generator generates a UI, a controller controls the UI generator to generate a UI which includes a menu area to display a list of contents for a sub-category from one or more sub-categories and a scroll bar to display information on the respective sub-categories, and a display unit displays the generated UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-jeong Moon, Young-mi Kang, Young-sun Kim, Joon-kyu Seo, Yoon-ji Kim
  • Publication number: 20140223358
    Abstract: A digital device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed, in which a scroll bar different from that provided when a user input for a front side is detected is provided to control the front side if a digital device, which enables double-sided touch recognition, detects a user input for a rear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Hyorim PARK
  • Publication number: 20140215385
    Abstract: A system and method for displaying a scroll-bar or toggle-button-set to control a display of data of an individual column and/or row. A table of intersecting columns and rows is displayed, each intersection forming a cell, and a scroll-bar or toggle-button-set is displayed for an individual column and/or row if a cell of the column and/or row contains data, the display settings of the data requiring for a display of the data an area that is larger than an area allotted to the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventor: Volker Sauermann
  • Patent number: 8791911
    Abstract: Multichannel device controllers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a multichannel device controller includes a plurality of user selectable control modes for controlling a multichannel device and a plurality of user configurable settings for adjusting parameters associated with the plurality of user selectable control modes. A touchscreen displays a user interface corresponding to a selected one of plurality of user selectable control modes and receives user input indicative of a command to send to the multichannel device. A processor generates the command to send to the multichannel device based at least in part on the user input and the plurality of user configurable settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Robotzone, LLC
    Inventors: Brian T. Pettey, Christopher L. Holt
  • Patent number: 8791956
    Abstract: A navigation device that obtains the current position based on information from a satellite, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image includes: a display unit that displays the map image; a touch sensor unit that is arranged on the front surface of the display unit; an icon generation unit that generates a smooth scroll operation icon which is available for continuous performs smooth scroll processing for the map image and displays the smooth scroll operation icon on the map image; and a scroll control unit that executes the smooth scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated, and executes a predetermined scroll processing when the touch sensor unit detects that a region other than the smooth scroll operation icon is touched to be operated on the screen of the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Ando, Satoshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8793619
    Abstract: A user control is provided for use with a multidimensional dataset that allows a user to graphically set the bounds for one or more of the dimensions of data selected from the dataset. The graphical user control includes a wireframe cube representing the extent of data in the dataset and a selector box within the data cube. A user can indicate a selected perspective and orientation of the data by selecting a portion of an edge of the selector box, and a visual indication of the selected perspective and orientation is provided. The user further can select a desired portion of the data by changing a size and/or a position of the selector box within the data cube. The graphical user control further includes a visual indicator representing the fourth dimension of the dataset which allows the user to identify and select a further subset of the data defined by the selector box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Marvin W. Roe, Geary J. Layne
  • Patent number: 8791918
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a character input device includes a touch panel, a vibrating unit, and a control unit. The touch panel displays a plurality of buttons each of which corresponds to a character, and detects a contact operation. The vibrating unit vibrates the touch panel. When the contact operation by a contact is detected by the touch panel while the contact on the touch panel is continued since a start of the contact at a first position on the touch panel on which the plurality of buttons are displayed, the control unit receives a character corresponding to a button, as an input, displayed at the position where the contact operation is detected. The control unit causes the vibrating unit to change a vibration behavior of the touch panel when the contact operation is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro Sudo
  • Patent number: 8788965
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for displaying data, which relate to computer technologies. The method includes: determining a location where a scroll box is located; updating a data block displayed on at least one control through moving data blocks according to the location where the scroll box is located; and for each of the at least one control, adjusting the size of the control according to the size of the data block displayed on the control. Through adjusting the size of the control according to the size of the data blocks, the number of the control is adjusted, thus resources can be saved and calculation efforts can be reduced. In addition, since the height of the control is adjusted according to the size of the data block, diversified data services can be supported so as to meet the requirements of practical services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Xiuxing Du, Bin Li, Chungpeng Wang, Xinqiu Xie, Wei Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140201677
    Abstract: A method of displaying scrolling information in an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying content, when a size of the content is greater than a screen size, displaying a scroll bar in a specific area of a screen, detecting a gesture that adjusts a size of the scroll bar, and when the gesture is detected, scrolling the content in a direction corresponding to a direction of the gesture and in correspondence to a size of the adjusted scroll bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeong-Gyu JIN
  • Patent number: 8780091
    Abstract: A vehicle instrument system is described. The vehicle instrument system includes an input device configured to receive an input command, a display screen configured to display information, and a processing device coupled to the input device and the display screen. The processing device is configured to determine at least one parameter limit, receive at least one input signal from the input device that corresponds to a manual adjustment of the at least one parameter limit from a first limit value to a second limit value, and provide the second limit value to the display screen for display on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sharon Ann Green, Andrew Thomas Schrauben
  • Publication number: 20140195966
    Abstract: A method is provided for validating a selection of entries from a user through a user interface displayed on an electronic device. The method includes the steps of displaying on the user interface the plurality of entries through a first and at least a second list both movable separately along a first direction of the user interface, capturing a user input on the first list to move the first list from a first to a second position in the first direction, detecting a user sliding input from a first entry of the first list in the second position in a second direction distinct from the first direction and towards the at least second list, and selecting the first entry and a second entry of the at least second list in the direction of the user sliding input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Vivien Collignon, Rudy De Belgeonne
  • Patent number: 8769430
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system for scrolling in a document having multiple columns. A method for scrolling in a page of a document having multiple columns, includes: displaying a plurality of the columns in a display window; associating a different scrollbar with each of the plurality of displayed columns; and selectively enabling a synchronous or independent operation of each of the scrollbars; wherein in synchronous operation, a use of any of the scrollbars results in a corresponding scrolling of the page within the display window, and wherein in independent operation, a use of a selected one of the scrollbars results only in a corresponding scrolling of the column of the page associated with that scrollbar within the display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven M. Miller, Lloyd W. Allen, Jr., Jana H. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 8769438
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an air fan turbine positioned horizontally or vertically in close proximity to the exhaust fan system of air handler systems. These turbine units catch the exhausted air flow from the exhaust ports of these air handler units to drive the turbine blades which are attached to a generator. As the propellor blades spin, they generate electricity. Thus, the man made air flow known as exhaust from the air handler systems is used to produce electricity. This invention not only uses man made air flow, but also repositions the air turbine 90° from a horizontal position to a vertical position to receive wind air from the atmosphere. When the air handler unit is turned off, a signal is sent to mechanically move the air turbine to the vertical position to redirect itself to then catch natural wind airflow on both roof top and ground mounted units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Mangum, Josh Bryant
  • Publication number: 20140181734
    Abstract: A method for displaying a screen of an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture, moving a content according to the first gesture so that part of the content corresponding to a first particular region of the screen is placed at a center of the screen, displaying an aspect ratio scroll in a second particular region of the screen, detecting a second gesture for controlling the aspect ratio scroll, and magnifying or demagnifying the content based on the center of the screen, according to the second gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jeong-Gyu JIN
  • Publication number: 20140181735
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a location of a tooltip of a user interface, the user interface is displayed on a display screen of an electronic device, and the tooltip is displayed in a display location of the display screen when a target item is selected from the user interface. The method calculates a shortest distance between the tooltip and the target item displayed on the display screen when the target item is fully presented on the display screen, and scrolls a scrollbar of the user interface within the shortest distance for displaying the tooltip presented on the display screen. The method triggers scrolls the scrollbar to display the tooltip beside the target item when there is a spare space beside the target item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUNG-I LEE, CHIEN-FA YEH, CHENG-FENG TSAI
  • Patent number: 8762841
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to alert bubbles for alert management and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for contextual alerts for alert management. In an embodiment of the invention, an alert management data processing system can be provided. The system can include an alert bubble configured to display alert text for an associated alert, and contextual information disposed in the alert bubble interface along with the alert text. In particular, the contextual information can provide context for the associated alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin T. Moore, Werner Geyer, Michael Muller, Shilad W. Sen, Michael C. Wu
  • Patent number: 8762896
    Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises a first touch screen and a controller. The controller provides the first touch screen with an information region that includes at least one information item and first and second control regions for controlling a display of the information region. The controller also controls a viewing perspective of the information region in response to a first touch input for the first control region, and controls at least one of the number or type of the at least one information item in response to a second touch input for the second control region. The controller may also control the information region to have a two-dimensional or three-dimensional viewing perspective in response to the first touch input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongdeok Lee, Jungwoo Kim, Kwonhan Bae, Hyesang Ahn
  • Publication number: 20140173506
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for utilizing scrolling fixation. An amount of time a user spends on a portion of a page based on scroll bar usage by the user is monitored. The amount of time the user spends on the portion of the page is aggregated with an amount of time at least one other user spent on that portion of the page based on scroll bar usage by the at least one other user. A scroll bar is displayed with at least one indicator, wherein the at least one indicator represents an aggregated amount of time spent on an associated portion of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Robert R. Peterson
  • Patent number: 8756506
    Abstract: In an image reproduction window, an image reproduction area in which images are reproduced, and an operating area in which a slide bar is displayed are provided. When a slider of the slide bar is moved, the number of images to be displayed in one frame in the image reproduction area is increased or decreased in accordance with a position of the slider. The number of images in one frame increases as a displacement amount of the slider increases. When the slider is moved within a range in which the number of images to be displayed in one frame does not change, only a frame change interval is changed while the number of images in one frame is unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiro Terada
  • Patent number: 8754890
    Abstract: A computer-readable medium, computer-implemented method, and system for generating a user interface is provided. One or more data presence indicators are generated which allows users to locate data on a graph displayed in the user interface by indicating where data is present, even when the data itself is not visible in the user interface. The system can modify the format of the data presence indicator depending on the location of the data. In one embodiment of the invention, the system can update the data presence indicators in response to a user modification of the magnification or scroll position of the user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nina Gilmore, Chloe Schulze, Daniel Workman
  • Patent number: 8751954
    Abstract: Displaying information in a column of a user interface (UI) on a display screen is enhanced by a column scroll control that displays information that is otherwise truncated from display in the space allocated to the column. The control is sensitive to a threshold limited scrolling input from a user to activate the display of the information ticker style. The display of the remainder of the user interface may be maintained while the column is scrolled. The controls are advantageous for trackball and similar pointing devices especially those used with handheld wireless communication devices (cellular phones, PDAs, smart phones, etc.) where one handed operation is desirable and where display screen sizes and resolutions often require truncation of information in a particular column entry or entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Philip Luk, Matthew Lee
  • Patent number: 8751966
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to display of filtered data via ordered values. One embodiment provides for filtering a collection of items via a range of ordered values associated with a rule user interface object. Upon receiving an adjustment to the rule interface object which changes the range, the collection is filtered to display selected items corresponding to that updated range. Further, based on a comparison between the updated range and a threshold, display of the rule may be updated to display values associated with a different granularity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Weir
  • Patent number: 8751945
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide tools and methods for the development and specification of a responsive graphical design. A graphical user interface allows a user to specify a design. The graphical user interface has an area for displaying a rendering of the design according to a first dimension specification. The system also has a dimension specification interface that allows the user to set a second dimension specification. The system also has a widget interface that allows the user to (i) add a widget to said design, (ii) specify a first state for the widget when the design is rendered according to the first dimension specification, and (iii) specify a second state for the widget when the design is rendered according to the second dimension specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Axure Software Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Hsu, Martin Smith, Ian Gardner, Ben Fraser
  • Patent number: 8751956
    Abstract: Embodiments of a variable rate scrollbar are described. In various embodiments, media items, such as email messages, text messages, digital photos, or song selections are grouped by a page, a day, a week, or a month that corresponds to a date associated with a media item. A list of the media items is displayed from one of the groups, and the media items that are displayed are selectable from the list. A variable rate scrollbar is displayed and configured for selection to navigate the media items at variable rates according to the groups of the media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Weerapan Wilairat
  • Patent number: 8751955
    Abstract: Two sliding user interactions along a display surface of a multitouch input display device are detected in approximately opposite directions proximate to a display location of a scroll element displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) of the device. Available content displayed within the GUI is automatically zoomed based upon the detected two sliding user interactions along the display surface. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Travis M. Grigsby, Frank Lawrence Jania
  • Publication number: 20140157190
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Inswave Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wooglae KIM, Woong PARK
  • Patent number: 8745524
    Abstract: A display method is disclosed. The display method includes the following steps. Capture a facial feature of a user to obtain an image. Process the image to obtain a viewing angle of the user. Scroll page content displayed by a display element according to the viewing angle of the user. A display device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Wistron Corp.
    Inventors: Hung-Young Hsu, Pei-Ling Lai, Chia-Hsien Li, Li-Hsuan Chen
  • Patent number: 8745534
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a display panel for displaying display items belonging to a predetermined layer among display items divided into a plurality of layers, a manipulating body detection unit for detecting the number of manipulating bodies moving on a touch panel along with a movement direction and a movement amount of the manipulating body, and a display control unit for performing display control so that display items belonging to the predetermined layer are scroll-displayed on the basis of detection results of the movement direction and the movement amount if a movement of manipulating bodies whose number corresponds to the predetermined layer is detected, display items belonging to another layer are displayed if a movement of manipulating bodies whose number corresponds to the other layer is detected, and the display items belonging to the other layer are scroll-displayed on the basis of detection results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Kawana, Tetsuo Ikeda, Hiroshi Ueno, Ryu Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20140149924
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for logged event frequency visualization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for logged event frequency visualization is provided. The method includes loading into memory of a computer system a set of logged data entries and associated time stamps from a data store of log entries and computing in the computer system a frequency of logging for each of the logged data entries. The method additionally includes concurrently displaying in a log viewer both the logged data entries and also a visualization of the frequency of logging for each of the logged data entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kathleen Sharp, Grant J. Shayler, John D. Taylor, Joe Winchester
  • Publication number: 20140149925
    Abstract: A displaying system with a navigation function and displaying method thereof produce a navigation element with at least one link block in a displaying block. Each of the link blocks corresponds to a function element. When a click operation is detected on one link block, the scroll element is triggered for displaying the function element corresponding to the clicked link block in a viewable area of the displaying block. The mechanism helps improve browsing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicants: INVENTEC CORPORATION, INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Long Chen
  • Patent number: 8739060
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an image display plan is provided. In one embodiment, a planning system allows a user to create a display plan that specifies a sequence of images that are to be displayed and how the images are to be displayed. The planning system allows a user to specify different versions of the plan for different aspect ratios. When displaying the image, the planning system may display multiple viewports simultaneously on the image, one for each of the different aspect ratios. The planning system may allow the multiple viewports to be moved around and resized as a unit maintaining a common center point for the viewports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Eqapez Foundation, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Scott E. Lipsky, Paul Brownlow
  • Patent number: 8737821
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves a method of managing media playback. The method includes displaying a media program on a touch screen of an electronic device. The method includes detecting, via the touch screen, an input from a user indicating that the user wishes to fast forward or rewind the media program. The method includes triggering, in response to the detected input from the user, an appearance of a scroll bar including an indicator on the touch screen. The indicator is configured to be moved along the scroll bar. A length of the scroll bar represents a predefined amount of time that is a fraction of a total duration of the media program. A position of the indicator relative to the scroll bar corresponds to a time location of the media program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Inventor: Eric Qing Li
  • Patent number: 8732609
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a visual scrollbar position indicator whereby data included in a defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in a list of entries is selected for display and as the list of entries is being scrolled through, the data included in the defined data field, or other data, associated with each entry in the list of entries selected for display is displayed to the user as each entry is passed, i.e., scrolled through, and as the scrolling is in progress, i.e., while the scrolling function is still activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell D. Bayersdorfer, George A. Hansen
  • Publication number: 20140137035
    Abstract: A window operation method for use in an electronic device (10) comprises a touch-sensitive screen (20), a storage unit and a processing module, wherein pointers to slides of a graphical presentation are stored in a database within the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Inventors: Mert YENTÜR, Alexandra SABELNIKOVA
  • Patent number: 8713471
    Abstract: A system and method for providing an intelligent visual data scrollbar position indicator whereby data is organized into a data table of two or more data entries with each data entry having one or more data fields. The data table is displayed to a user in a data table user interface display and a scrolling capability is provided whereby a user can scroll through the data entries in the data table via the data table user interface display and one or more user interface devices. At least one data field of the one or more data fields associated with the two or more data entries is selected as a “data display field” and a portion of the data in the selected data display field is selected as “display data” based, at least in part, on the data display field selected and the rate of change of the data in the selected data display field. Then as the data entries are being scrolled through, the selected display data for each data entry is displayed to the user as each data entry is scrolled through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel S. Rowley, Leigh Chapman
  • Publication number: 20140108999
    Abstract: A touchpad includes a controller connected to a touch sensor. The controller detects the fingers touching on the touch sensor to determine to start up and terminate a scroll bar control function. In the scroll bar control function, the movement of the finger or fingers touching on the touch sensor is detected for scrolling on a window, and the vertical distance and the horizontal distance of the movement are evaluated for determining the scrolling amount of a vertical scroll bar or a horizontal scroll bar of the window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yen-Chang CHIU, Yung-Lieh CHIEN, Zhi-Long WU
  • Patent number: 8701037
    Abstract: Described is a scrolling technology including a turbo-scroll mode that is automatically entered to increase the rate of scrolling through a set of items, (e.g., media content). The turbo-scroll mode may be triggered by holding down a scroll button for a period of time. In the turbo-scroll mode, visual cues are provided to assist the user in knowing a current relative position within the set of items. The visual cues may correspond to text metadata, such as letters indicative of an alphabetic position of scrolling, displaying a list or filtered sub-list of label data for items proximate the scroll position, a graphical position indicator, a channel indicator or time indicator for an electronic program guide, fading the electronic program guide into a background representation thereof, and/or providing at least two letters indicative of an alphabetic position of scrolling through the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kristina M. Voros, Suzan Marashi, Veronica Y. Law, Marc S. Oshiro, Christen E. Coomer, Frederic Azera
  • Publication number: 20140096055
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a selection and/or execution of an application can be designated using a list of applications currently executed in a multitasking environment. The present invention includes a display unit, a user input unit configured to receive an input of a command from a user, and a controller, when a plurality of applications are being executed, if there is a first input via the user input unit, controlling a list of a plurality of the currently executed applications to be displayed on a first region, the controller, if one of at least one or more applications running in the background in the list is selected by a second input via the user input unit, controlling the selected application to be displayed on a second region of the display unit by having a prescribed visual effect applied thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jong Cheol JUNG, Hong Joo KIM, Jae Woong YUN
  • Patent number: 8689132
    Abstract: In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar are displayed on top of the displayed portion. The vertical bar has a vertical position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the vertical position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. The horizontal bar has a horizontal position on top of the displayed portion that corresponds to the horizontal position in the electronic document of the displayed portion. After a predetermined condition is met, display of the vertical bar and of the horizontal bar is ceased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Henri C. Lamiraux, Andrew Emilio Platzer, Michael Matas, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 8683385
    Abstract: A mobile terminal and a method of displaying a menu thereof are provided. The method includes displaying a list of upper-level menus in an order on a display screen, displaying a first upper-level menu at an upper end of the display panel, a second upper-level menu that is next to the first upper-level menu in the order at a lower end of the display screen, and lower-level menus of the first upper-level menu in a list between the first upper-level menu and the second upper-level menu in response to selection of the first upper-level menu from the list of upper-level menus, and executing a selected lower-level menu in response to selection of one of the lower-level menus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won Joo Park, Hyung Min Yook, Min Suk Jang, Mi Jung Park, Keun Young Kim
  • Patent number: 8681111
    Abstract: An device and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, an information processing device includes a detection unit configured to detect a speed of selection of information. The information processing device also includes a generation unit configured to generate a signal specifying a display format, based on the speed of information selection, and a display unit configured to display the selection of information according to the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Shunichi Kasahara
  • Patent number: 8683378
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving the scrolling of user interfaces of electronic devices are provided. For example, a user interface may provide various visual, aural, and tactile enhancements for increasing the ease and speed with which a user may scroll through a list of listings to highlight a particular listing. Each listing may be associated with a particular entry in a media library. Moreover, each listing may be associated with one of multiple sublists in the list of listings, and each sublist may be defined based on a characteristic of a first piece of metadata associated with each entry in the media library. The various visual, aural, and tactile enhancements may be provided based on a relationship between a previously highlighted listing and a currently highlighted listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: William Bull, Kourtny Minh Hicks, Policarpo Wood, Eric James Hope
  • Patent number: 8683377
    Abstract: Embodiments herein include a scroll manager that provides a mechanism for scrolling that includes automatic zooming or resizing during a scrolling operation. In response to receiving a scroll input, the scroll manager automatically reduces a graphical display size of electronic content to a second graphical display size while simultaneously moving the electronic content across a display area in a given direction. An initial layout of the electronic content is maintained during scrolling operations. By using less vertical space a given page or document containing the content does not need to travel as far vertically on the display screen to display more content. Because the display difference is a shorter linear display distance, this scrolling functionality provides a finer-grained control when scrolling more electronic content. Location during scrolling operations can be identified by visual context, thereby improving scroll navigation efficiency and control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Dave Zuverink, Scott Amaya
  • Patent number: 8677264
    Abstract: Content is displayed in an active display region of a terminal apparatus, and information relating to the display of said content when the content scrolls in accordance with a scrolling operation performed by a user and content identifying information for identifying the content are obtained from the terminal apparatus and it is determined whether or not the user of the terminal apparatus is interested in the content identified by the content identifying information that is extracted in accordance with the information relating to the display of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Rakuten, Inc.
    Inventor: Shinya Takami
  • Patent number: 8671359
    Abstract: A scroll display control device is provided, which is capable of scroll-displaying a text corresponding to a picture in such manner that the text can be easily understood. The scroll display control device scroll-displays, in synchronism with reproduction of the picture correlated to text information (TI), the corresponding text information (TI) on a text display screen (TW). A scroll speed calculation unit (102) dynamically calculates a text scroll speed (v) on the basis of a time length of a picture section presently under reproduction, a text quantity of the corresponding text section and text display setting information. A picture text control unit (104) scroll-displays text of the text section at a predetermined reference position of the text display screen (TW) according to the scroll speed (v). By displaying preceding and succeeding texts with respect to the text corresponding to the picture section presently under reproduction, it is possible to read back and pre-read.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hirokazu Koizumi, Naohiro Takeda, Makoto Iwata, Ryoma Oami
  • Patent number: 8661368
    Abstract: In a main area of a display device, buttons and a map display area where a map is scrolled are provided. A cursor can be moved to an arbitrary position of the main area according to directional input received from an input device. When a decision input is performed with the input device when the cursor points to each button, processing assigned to the button to which the cursor points is performed. When a user inputs a direction and a special input button is not selected, the cursor is moved throughout the main area. When the user inputs a direction while the special input button is selected, the cursor is moved only within the map display area and the map is scrolled as required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Square Enix
    Inventors: Kazutoyo Maehiro, Tadashi Tsushima, Koji Aoyama, Mitsuo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 8659625
    Abstract: A method and terminal for adjusting menu bar softkey display dynamically are provided by the present invention. The method includes the following steps: obtaining the total display length of the menu bar and the respective corresponding character string length value and the location information of all the softkeys on the menu bar; setting the softkey of which the character string length value is non-zero on the menu bar as the non-zero softkey; assigning the display location and display length of each non-zero softkey according to the number of the non-zero softkeys and location information of each non-zero softkey; and displaying each non-zero softkey according to the assigned display location and display length. The method and terminal of the present invention overcomes the current defect that currently the fixed value is adopted to display the softkey of the bottom bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Xue Zhang
  • Patent number: 8650506
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating a manufacturing-usable easily modifiable product order document is presented. An object collection of objects that describe features of components of a product is created. A view database that describes a logical relationship among components in the object collection is also created. A single document that includes the object collection and the view database is then generated. This single document can be updated according to technical requirements for a product being manufactured according to a product description created from the single document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven C. Erickson, Barry A. Kritt, Thomas S. Mazzeo, Kenneth W. Roberson, William R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 8650502
    Abstract: Disclosed is a scrolling system with adjustable granularity. The system includes a user interface that displays data on a display device. The scrolling system further includes a system for scrolling through data. The system detects a scroll command in a first direction from a user interface. A display area is configured to shift in the first direction when a user issues the scroll command. The system also detects a granularity setting command in a second direction. A scroll bar is configured to shift in the second direction when the user issues the granularity setting command. The system is configured to adjust a granularity setting corresponding to a position of the scroll bar on the display when the scroll bar crosses a threshold point. The granularity setting corresponds to various levels of response sensitivity to the scroll command. Other embodiments of the system and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James L. Lentz, David R. Schwartz
  • Patent number: 8645859
    Abstract: A method generating section dividers that remain visible when the section to which they correspond has been scrolled off the display is provided. In a region displaying scrollable content, section dividers scroll with their corresponding section until the section divider reaches an edge of the display region. The section divider then becomes the new edge of the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jade F. Rauenzahn, Katherine Long, Jeffrey D. Tyson