Selection Or Confirmation Emphasis Patents (Class 715/823)
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Patent number: 12175072Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided. The method includes identifying UI controls in a GUI for display on a screen of a computing device. The method further includes determining a position relationship of the UI controls. The method further includes mapping the UI controls to keyboard areas such that a position relationship of the keyboard areas corresponds with the position relationship of the UI controls. One or more keys within the individual areas are associated with the UI controls that are mapped to the respective keyboard areas.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Lu Fu, Jin Shi, Jie Jiang, Wen Juan Nie, Ke Huan Yin
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Patent number: 12143688Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant Machine Language (ML) personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja, Mehul Sanghavi
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Patent number: 12128307Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, devices, and storage medium for displaying an azimuth in a virtual scene, which belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes obtaining, by a device, an orientation azimuth of a virtual object in a virtual scene. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes obtaining, by the device, a plurality of azimuths, angles between the plurality of azimuths and the orientation azimuth being no larger than a preset angle, the plurality of azimuths comprising first azimuths and second azimuths. The method also includes symmetrically distributing, by the device, the first azimuths and the second azimuths centered and on two sides of the orientation azimuth to obtain a target horizontal bar dial; and displaying, by the device, the target horizontal bar dial in a visual field image of the virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventor: Han Wang
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Patent number: 12088870Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a video playing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in a first page, a column direction being consistent with a slide direction supported by the page; determining a first target video reaching a corresponding predetermined control line of predetermined control lines among videos in a to-be-played row in response to a trigger operation, the predetermined control lines being in correspondence with the columns in the first page, the predetermined control lines being arranged at intervals along the column direction; and stopping playing of a second target video that is being played in the first page, and playing the first target video in the first page.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shuna Wu, Dong An, Hao Qiu
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Patent number: 12079087Abstract: This patent document describes failure recovery technologies for the processing of streaming data, also referred to as pipelined data. The technologies described herein have particular applicability in distributed computing systems that are required to process streams of data and provide at-most-once and/or exactly-once service levels. In a preferred embodiment, a system comprises many nodes configured in a network topology, such as a hierarchical tree structure. Data is generated at leaf nodes. Intermediate nodes process the streaming data in a pipelined fashion, sending towards the root aggregated or otherwise combined data from the source data streams towards. To reduce overhead and provide locally handled failure recovery, system nodes transfer data using a protocol that controls which node owns the data for purposes of failure recovery as it moves through the network.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aniruddha Bohra, Florin Sultan, Umberto Boscolo Bragadin, James Lee, Solomon Lifshits
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Patent number: 12045981Abstract: Methods for co-registering images of different imaging modalities include obtaining a photograph and a medical image, maximizing mutual information between the photograph and the medical image, automatically locating features common to both the photograph and the medical image based on maximized mutual information between the photograph and the medical image, and automatically highlighting the located features within the photograph or medical image.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: CAMERAD TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Carson A. Wick, Srini Tridandapani
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Patent number: 11989385Abstract: This application provides a cursor display method and an electronic device. The method includes: a cursor system may display a cursor on a display interface and move the cursor on the display interface based on a user operation. When the cursor moves to a control, a view system may redraw and display the cursor in the control to implement an adsorption feedback effect of the cursor, so that a user may determine that an actual position of the cursor has moved to the control.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Honor Device Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jie Ren, Liwei Huang, Wenjie Chen
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Patent number: 11922542Abstract: Computer-implemented systems and methods for rendering a visual effect on a graphical element, including: generating an initial visual effect based on the graphical element; computing a mask shape based on the graphical element; generating a mask based on the mask shape from the graphical element; masking the initial visual effect based on the mask to generate a masked visual effect; and combining the masked visual effect with the graphical element into a combined graphical element and visual effect.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Andrew Hawker, Christopher Recarlo Blackman, Xin Liu
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Patent number: 11922592Abstract: Examples herein describe systems and methods for aligning elements, such as conduit, ductwork, and plumbing within a computer-aided design (“CAD”) application. A plugin can provide an element alignment option on a graphical user interface (“GUI”) of the CAD program. An anchor point from which to align elements is selected in the GUI so that the plugin can choose locations within a structure to run multiple elements in parallel alignment. The system can recommend an alignment plane based on the slopes of the selected multiple elements and provide a direction for a run of the multiple elements. The systems retrieve the specifications and parameters of each individual element to determine its spacing among the run of multiple elements. The run of multiple elements is displayed and manipulated by the plugin via the GUI.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: EVOLVE MEP, LLCInventors: Paul Anthony Homier, III, Adam Heon
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Patent number: 11914928Abstract: Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional model of an object in a two-dimensional environment. The method may include moving and aligning the three-dimensional model of the object along a plane in the two-dimensional environment.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: West Texas Technology Partners, LLCInventor: Milos Jovanovic
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Patent number: 11909453Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a method for receiving a near-field radio wave, the wave being received using electromagnetic-wave conduction capacities of the body of a user who is able to make a validation gesture that modifies characteristics of the radio wave. The method includes detecting a first modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the first modification being resultant from a start of the gesture, and detecting a second modification of a characteristic of the radio wave, the second modification being resultant from an end of the gesture, where the acquisition of a right for the user is dependent on the first modification and the second modification.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ORANGEInventors: Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Philippe Dussaume
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Patent number: 11809683Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display method, a display device, and a storage medium, which are used to solve the technical problem that contents of only one application can be displayed on a same interface in related technologies. The display method can include receiving a content viewing instruction, acquiring content data of a plurality of content providers in response to the content viewing instruction, and displaying the content data of the plurality of content providers on an interface in a form of stitched segments.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Yizhan Lu, Xiaoyong Xi, Yiwei Huang
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Patent number: 11754418Abstract: An electrical metering system capable of performing multiple metering functions, collecting data, and wirelessly provides the collected metering data to a utility operator. In the electrical metering system, at least one computing device for initiating a request for data. A first modem connects the computing device to an infrastructure. A wireless embedded modem for wirelessly connects an electric meter to an infrastructure, and the wireless electric modem receives a request from the computing device and wirelessly transmits the metering data to the computing device, thereby initiating the request.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: EI ELECTRONICS LLCInventors: Wei Wang, Erran Kagan
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Patent number: 11755175Abstract: Provided is a keyboard navigation menu which provides navigation within a software application using keyboard commands instead of mouse/cursor based inputs. The keyboard activation menu can improve upon traditional mouse-based menus which often include hidden tabs or require multiple mouse inputs. In one example, the method may include displaying, via a user interface, a keyboard navigation menu comprising a plurality of different keyboard inputs that when pressed navigate a view of the user interface to a plurality of pages of a software application, respectively, detecting a keyboard input from among the plurality of different keyboard inputs which corresponds to a second page from among the plurality of pages of the software application, and changing a view of the user interface from the first page to the second page of the software application that corresponds to the detected keyboard input.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: SAP SEInventor: Patrick Simon
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Patent number: 11750896Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant Machine Language (ML) personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: ROKU, INC.Inventors: Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja, Mehul Sanghavi
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Patent number: 11650331Abstract: Integrated Visual Geo-referencing Target Unit ABSTRACT A georeferencing target unit including: a generally planar top surface including a visual marker structure on the top surface, dimensioned to be observable at a distance by a remote visual capture device; an internal GPS tracking unit tracking the current position of the target unit; a microcontroller and storage means for storing GPS tracking data; and wireless network interconnection unit for interconnecting wirelessly with an external network for the downloading of stored GPS tracking data; a power supply for driving the GPS tracking unit, microcontroller, storage and wireless network interconnection unit, a user interface including an activation mechanism for activating the internal GPS tracking unit to track the current position of the target unit over an extended time frame and store the tracked GPS tracking data in the storage means.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Propeller Aerobotics Pty LtdInventors: Rory Leon San Miguel, Frederick James Greer
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Patent number: 11630571Abstract: A graphic display method and apparatus are provided. In the graphic display method, a terminal may detect a touch operation on a screen when there is a to-be-processed event; obtain touch point coordinates of the touch operation; display, in a position indicated by the touch point coordinates, a touch graphic used to indicate the touch operation, and display, on the screen based on the touch point coordinates, an operation indication graphic corresponding to the to-be-processed event. The touch graphic and the operation indication graphic are displayed on the screen to enable a user to see a current to-be-processed event in a more intuitive and vivid manner, thereby reducing a misoperation rate of a touch operation and improving operation experience of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Simon Ekstrand, Fredrik Andreasson, Johan Larsby, Xueyan Huang, Bo Liu
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Patent number: 11623147Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, devices, and storage medium for displaying an azimuth in a virtual scene, which belongs to the field of computer technologies. The method includes obtaining, by a device, an orientation azimuth of a virtual object in a virtual scene. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes obtaining, by the device, a plurality of azimuths, angles between the plurality of azimuths and the orientation azimuth being no larger than a preset angle, the plurality of azimuths comprising first azimuths and second azimuths. The method also includes symmetrically distributing, by the device, the first azimuths and the second azimuths centered and on two sides of the orientation azimuth to obtain a target horizontal bar dial; and displaying, by the device, the target horizontal bar dial in a visual field image of the virtual object.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Han Wang
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Patent number: 11607109Abstract: There are provided an endoscopic image processing device, an endoscopic image processing method, an endoscopic image processing program, and an endoscope system that appropriately notify region-of-interest information about a region of interest included in an endoscopic image according to an endoscope operator's action. An endoscope operator's action on a portion to be observed of an endoscopic image is recognized from endoscopic images, and first emphasis display where region-of-interest information is displayed in the endoscopic image at a first emphasis level and second emphasis display where the region-of-interest information is displayed at a second emphasis level relatively lower than the first emphasis level are switched according to a recognition result.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Toshihiro Usuda
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Patent number: 11500523Abstract: A message processing method includes: acquiring a mark adding operation for at least a part of a target message; acquiring an input remarking message according to the mark adding operation; and outputting a marking identification for the remarking message. The marking identification can include the remarking message and an associative identification for associating the remarking message with the target message.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Xi Wang
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Patent number: 11467707Abstract: The disclosed method may include (i) aggregating, within a group network application, program user accounts registered to perform a respective task defined in a database of the group network application with resource user accounts registered as sources to provide resources for performance of the respective task, (ii) provisioning a program application subcomponent within the group network application that enables a specific program user account to complete a program data structure that defines the respective task, (iii) provisioning a metadata application subcomponent within the group network application that enables the specific program user account to enter rich network data that describes the respective task defined in the database, and (iv) linking, within the database of the group network application, and in response to user instruction, the program data structure completed through the program application subcomponent with the rich network data entered through the metadata application subcomponent.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Exempt Me Now, Inc.Inventors: Sevetri Wilson, Blue Thomas, Brett Grau, Dinesh Nadar, Rebecca Larson
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Patent number: 11442611Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-hyuk Kim, Seung-hyun Moon, Dae-hyun Jang
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Patent number: 11409380Abstract: A human machine interface system for controlling a device comprising: a housing; a human digit activatable physical element; a processor in communication with the element, the processor to receive and process an input from the element; a communicator to communicate an output from the processor wherein the output comprises a command intended for the device; wherein the element, the processor and the communicator are all disposed about or within the housing or connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Kordtech PTY LTDInventors: William Boettcher, Bruce MacDonald
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Patent number: 11379113Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selecting text. An example method includes displaying, a focus indicator at a first location; while displaying the focus indicator, detecting a gesture at a first touch location that corresponds to the focus indicator; while detecting the gesture, detecting movement of the gesture to a second touch location; in response to detecting movement of the gesture to the second touch location: in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a first direction, moving the focus indicator to a second indicator location; in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a second direction, moving the focus indicator to a third location; while the focus indicator is at a fourth location, detecting liftoff of the gesture; and in response to detecting the liftoff, maintaining display of the focus indicator at the fourth location.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Morgan Winer, Patrick L. Coffman, Dylan Ross Edwards, Stephen O. Lemay, Toby Paterson, Marcos Alonso
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Patent number: 11314784Abstract: Relating data in various distributed data sources for use in data analysis is described. The data sources are generally related by first generating a keyword model for a plurality of data sources, which includes a plurality of weighted keywords, and providing a visual representation of the keyword model, such as a word cloud, to a user. The user interacts with the visual representation to modify, update, and select various aspects of the visual representation. The user also identifies keywords and data sources of interest such that a plurality of relational models are generated based on the user interest. Relating the data sources also includes providing the plurality of relational models to the user, receiving a user selection of the plurality of relational models, and generating a combined dataset model which relates one or more of the data sources according to the selected relational models.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shaobo Wang, Rebekah Lien, Ilse M Breedvelt-Schouten
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Patent number: 11308548Abstract: An information processing method and device based on clothes trying on are disclosed. The method includes the following. Clothes is displayed by a dressing mirror based on clothes information. A user operation is detected by the dressing mirror during displaying the clothes. In a case of detecting that a user operation is a photographing operation, in response to the photographing operation, an image is captured and the captured image is transmitted to a first client through a server. In a case that the server generates recommendation information based on the captured image, the recommendation information is acquired by the dressing mirror from the server and the clothes is displayed based on the recommendation information.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: HONG KONG LIVEME CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Yandan He
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Patent number: 11237705Abstract: Disclosed is a method of displaying a user interface, the method includes defining a template for the user interface, the template including a plurality of display areas, defining a plurality of components, each of the components configured to perform an associated user interface function, each of the plurality of components being associated with one of the display areas, defining a plurality of states, each of the plurality of states including one or more of the plurality of components, each of the plurality of states defining a configuration of the user interface, defining a table, the table defining a plurality events associated with transitioning between states; and triggering a transition between states based on look-up of the table with a received event.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.Inventors: David T. Sulcer, Elaine Tang, Dinesh Elaprolu
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Patent number: 11226977Abstract: A facility for defining an event subtype using examples is described. The facility displays events identified among machine-generated data. The facility receives user input selecting a first subset of the events as examples of an event subtype. In response to receiving the user input, the facility displays a second subset of the events predicted to belong to the event subtype on the basis of the examples of the event subtype.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventors: Cory Eugene Burke, Jacob Barton Leverich, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd, Adam Jamison Oliner, Marc Vincent Robichaud, Jesse Miller
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Patent number: 11061644Abstract: A system capable of generating and storing progress data associated with third party services. A voice enabled device may receive voice commands and the system may perform natural language understanding (NLU) to interpret the voice commands, determine a corresponding process and send instructions to a third party server associated with the process. In order to resume the process after the process is interrupted, the system may save and/or cause the third party server to save progress data and/or a checkpoint corresponding to a status of the process at the time that the process is interrupted. The system may use the progress data to resume the process at a later point based on the status. In addition, the system may track processes associated with saved progress data/checkpoints and may interpret incoming voice commands based on the tracked processes.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Kelly, Kevin Utter
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Patent number: 11039073Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs first type processing or second type processing based on whether or not a predetermined touch operation that does not include a shift of a touch position onto an operation surface is detected after a touch on the operation surface is detected. The first type processing is processing of displaying an item on a display at a position which has shifted in accordance with an amount of a shift of the touch position from a position where the item was displayed before detection of the shift of the touch position without displaying, at a position corresponding to a touch start position, the item. The second type processing is processing of displaying the item at a position that is not based on the position where the item was displayed before detection of the touch operation.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kenichiro Sasai
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Patent number: 11004452Abstract: A method and a system for multimodal interaction with a sound device connected to a network are provided. The method for multimodal interaction comprises the steps of: outputting audio information for playing content through a voice-based interface included in an electronic device; receiving a speaker's voice input associated with the outputted audio information through the voice-based interface; generating location information associated with the speaker's voice input; and determining an operation associated with the playing of the content by using the voice input and the location information associated with the voice input.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignees: NAVER CORPORATION, LINE CORPORATIONInventors: Hyeoncheol Lee, Jin Young Park
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Patent number: 10976841Abstract: A human machine interface system for controlling a device comprising: a housing; a human digit activatable physical element; a processor in communication with the element, the processor to receive and process an input from the element; a communicator to communicate an output from the processor wherein the output comprises a command intended for the device; wherein the element, the processor and the communicator are all disposed about or within the housing or connected thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: KORDTECH PTY LTDInventors: Bruce MacDonald, William Boettcher
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Patent number: 10917533Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a screen and a display control unit that, if an operator selects one of a predetermined number of setting items displayed in a first display part of the screen, displays the predetermined number of setting items other than the setting item selected by the operator in the first display part and setting information corresponding to the setting item selected by the operator in a second display part of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshihiro Sekine
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Patent number: 10893124Abstract: An electronic device includes display, radio communication circuit configured to perform radio communication, at least one processor operatively connected to display and radio communication circuit, and memory operatively connected to the at least one processor and configured to store a first application program including a first user interface and to store instructions, executable by the at least one processor, for establishing a connection to an external server including a second application program executable in place of at least part of operations of a first application program via the radio communication circuit, executing, upon receipt of a first user input associated with the first application program, the first application program, displaying a first user interface of the first application program on the display, and displaying, upon receipt of a second user input associated with the first application program, a second user interface associated with the second application program on the display.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Kiyoung Lim, Wonsuk Lee, Jungkih Hong
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Patent number: 10877565Abstract: Provided is a method and system for controlling play of multimedia content. A user interface method includes determining a user gesture for a single object configured as a user interface on a user interface screen for controlling play of content; and changing a previous function specified for the object with a function corresponding to the user gesture.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: NAVER CorporationInventor: Dae Hwang Kim
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Patent number: 10824308Abstract: A first communication endpoint determines that a co-browsing session has been established. The first communication endpoint sends contents of a displayed web page in a first browser to a second browser, which has a different display size and/or layout. The first communication endpoint detects a movement of a first cursor in the displayed web page and identifies a first user interface element that the first cursor is currently over. The first communication endpoint determines a ratio of coordinates of the first cursor in relation to a size of the first user interface element. The first communication endpoint sends an identifier for the first user interface element and the determined ratio of coordinates to the second browser. The second browser uses the determined ratio of coordinates to calculate a position of a second cursor over the first user interface element displayed in the second browser.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Avaya Inc.Inventors: Avinash Anand, Divakar Ray, Anjum Siddique
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Patent number: 10785441Abstract: A TV without a touch screen can nonetheless execute applications designed for mobile devices that assume a touch screen user interface (UI) by a “dumb” remote control with up/down, left/right, select buttons, or by a remote control with a touch pad, or by a remote control application running on a mobile device with a touch-screen that communicates with the TV. In all three scenarios, the TV recognizes that it is running in a special remote control mode and with a corresponding remote control application running on the TV that is able to intercept key presses and finger swipes and translate them to touch screen commands that are input to a touch screen-enabled software application running on the TV.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Brant Candelore, Graham Clift
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Patent number: 10719233Abstract: Techniques for providing an arc layout for a soft input panel are described. In some examples, an electronic device can transition from providing a substantially straight and/or horizontal layout for the soft input panel to an arc layout for the soft input panel. The electronic device can display a graphical element at a location on the soft input panel. The electronic device can receive input corresponding to, for example, a swipe of the graphical element in a curved manner across the soft input panel. Based on the input, the electronic device can transition from displaying the soft input panel using the substantially straight layout to displaying the soft input panel using the arc layout.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Timothy S. Paek, Dmitry Rudchenko, Zach Oligschlaeger, Asela J. Gunawardana
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Patent number: 10678504Abstract: A system capable of generating and storing progress data associated with third party services. A voice enabled device may receive voice commands and the system may perform natural language understanding (NLU) to interpret the voice commands, determine a corresponding process and send instructions to a third party server associated with the process. In order to resume the process after the process is interrupted, the system may save and/or cause the third party server to save progress data and/or a checkpoint corresponding to a status of the process at the time that the process is interrupted. The system may use the progress data to resume the process at a later point based on the status. In addition, the system may track processes associated with saved progress data/checkpoints and may interpret incoming voice commands based on the tracked processes.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Kelly, Kevin Utter
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Patent number: 10656791Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for navigating a user interface with a toolbar are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Alan Joyce, Marshall Bock, Kristofer Chiao, Jason Robert Sao Bento, Jonathan Terleski
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Patent number: 10635233Abstract: An information display device displays a sub-screen in a main screen and stores display information including the display position of the sub-screen and information on a near-field region. A position input device acquires information on a touched position, stores touch history information including information on a plurality of touched positions acquired, and includes a touched position determination section that determines whether a newly-acquired touched position is present in the near-field region and a display position determination section that, in a case where it has been determined that the newly-acquired touched position is present in the near-field region, utilizes the touch history information to determine a position to which the sub-screen is reduced or moved. In a case where the sub-screen has not been reduced, the sub-screen is reduced to the determined position. In a case where the sub-screen has been reduced, the sub-screen is moved to the determined position.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Teppei Hosokawa
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Patent number: 10635732Abstract: To increase the likelihood of a user viewing content items previously identified for presentation but not viewed by the user, a social networking system accesses a view state associated with the user that identifies content items provided to the user and provided content items viewed by the user. Based on the view state, content items previously provided to the user but not viewed by the user are identified. Additional content items whose state has changed since presentation of the content items to the user are also identified. Content items previously presented to the user but not viewed with at least a threshold relevance to the user are ranked along with the additional content items. Based on the ranking, content items are selected for presentation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Hong Ge, Lars Seren Backstrom
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Patent number: 10551990Abstract: Various embodiments utilize context positioning of an input mechanism to convey at least one action associated with the input mechanism. At times, the input mechanism is associated with multiple actions. Input received via at the input mechanism can be analyzed to determine which action of the multiple actions to perform. In some embodiments, the input mechanism can be physically and/or visually moved to a different location based upon the determined action.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ritika Kapadia, Michael John Patten, Sean Obafemi Lyndersay, Melissa S. Kerr, Sean Gary Nordberg, Marty Joseph Hall, Mark Yalovsky, Paula J. Chuchro
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Patent number: 10545615Abstract: A touch device including a touch screen, a first input device and a processor is provided. At a first start time, when the first input device touches on the touch screen with a first touch area at a first position, the touch screen generates a first event, and the first input device transmits a first signal to the touch screen. The processor is coupled to the touch screen. When the touch screen receives the first signal during a pre-determined period from the first start time and the first touch area is larger than a first area threshold, the processor determines that the first event belongs to the first input device and that the first position is a start position of the first input device.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Qisda CorporationInventors: Chang-Cheng Chen, Wei-Jou Chen
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Patent number: 10460260Abstract: A method and system for providing an overlay window for an application to display augmentation data over the user interface of the application is provided. An overlay system includes an overlay component and an engine component that interface with the application and a presentation manager used by the application to provide the application window. When the overlay system starts up, it initializes the overlay component and the engine component. The overlay component tracks the portion of the application that is currently visible and displays augmentation data in an overlay window over the application window. The engine component provides augmentation functionality that generates the augmentation data and generates the overlay window based on the augmentation data. When the visible portion of the application data changes, the overlay component requests the engine component to generate the overlay window for the currently visible application data.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Incisive Software CorporationInventor: Andrew Yip
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Patent number: 10359908Abstract: One embodiment of a graphical user interface for providing a menu to a user, wherein the menu comprises a plurality of executable actions, includes a plurality of petals, wherein each of the plurality of petals is associated with one of the plurality of executable actions, and a common central point at which all of the plurality of petals meet.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: OATH INC.Inventors: Robin Raszka, Nicholas D'Aloisio-Montilla, Bart K. Swanson
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Patent number: 10312963Abstract: A system comprises a transmitter configured to receive at least one message that corresponds to at least one set of data received from at least one user. The transmitter includes a modulating device that is configured to generate at least one signal that corresponds to the received message, wherein the signal includes at least one sequence of a plurality of hopping patterns. A receiver is coupled to the transmitter, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the signal. The receiver includes a demodulating device that is configured to identify the sequence of the hopping patterns and to determine at least one variable that corresponds to the sequence of the hopping patterns. The demodulating device is further configured to generate at least one output that is based on the determined variable, wherein the output is displayed such that at least one other user is enabled to view the output.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: The Aerospace CorporationInventors: Masahiro Sayano, Michael S. Cheung, Oliver D. Ambrosia, David M. Schwartz
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Patent number: 10275528Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit which displays information in a first display state of the information processing apparatus itself and displays a search result obtained by using at least a part of the information as a search key in a second display state of another information processing apparatus of a different type from the information processing apparatus itself.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Sugihara, Yasutaka Fujii, Kentaro Maruyama, Keisuke Tanaka, Fumitaka Ozaki
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Patent number: 10025564Abstract: A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product generates and implements intuitively comfortable frames of task appropriate frames of reference for multiple dimensions of context constraints for related sets of objects within an integrated development environment (IDE). One or more processors identify a hierarchical set of context constraints for an object, and depict the hierarchical set of context constraints for the object on an IDE using a visual metaphor selected by a user. The processor(s) receive a zoom-in input for a first context constraint in the hierarchical set of context constraints, and place the IDE in mention mode, such that use of the hierarchical set of context constraints against the object is disabled. In response to the IDE being placed in mention mode, the processor(s) display detail of the first context constraint on the IDE, and receive changes to the first context constraint to create a modified first context constraint.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert R. Friedlander, John K. Gerken, III, James R. Kraemer, David M. Ungar
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Patent number: 9911173Abstract: A method for displaying a plurality of images is provided. The method includes: obtaining one or more image sets based on the plurality of images, wherein a similarity degree between each pair of images in each image set is greater than a similarity threshold; identifying an operation instruction triggered on at least one of the image sets; if the operation instruction triggered on the at least one of the image sets satisfies a predetermined updating condition, updating the similarity threshold; and displaying the plurality of images based on the updated similarity threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.Inventors: Zhijun Chen, Fei Long, Yayong Guan