Slider Control Patents (Class 715/833)
  • Publication number: 20140281993
    Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include displaying a selection graphical user interface (GUI) for selecting a level of access for accessing content from a plurality of graduated levels of access for accessing the content, the plurality of graduated levels of access for accessing the content being for accessing the content with varying amounts of latencies and for varying amounts of corresponding fees, receiving a selection of the level of access for accessing the content from the plurality of graduated levels of access to the content; and providing access to the content in accordance with the selected level of access. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, Royce A. Levien, Richard T. Lord, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, Tony S. Pan, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
  • Publication number: 20140282253
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technology field of touch screen device, and provides a method and apparatus for multi-image batch selection. The method comprise: detecting slide touching event under an image editing mode; acquiring a slide track of the slide touching event; and setting unselected images within image display areas that the slide track passes through as being selected. The invention achieves the flexible batch selection of multi-image that are displayed continuously or uncontinuously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liang ZENG, Lei CHEN
  • Publication number: 20140281992
    Abstract: Computationally implemented methods and systems include displaying a selection graphical user interface (GUI) for selecting a level of access for accessing content from a plurality of graduated levels of access for accessing the content, the plurality of graduated levels of access for accessing the content being for accessing the content with varying amounts of latencies and for varying amounts of corresponding fees, receiving a selection of the level of access for accessing the content from the plurality of graduated levels of access to the content; and providing access to the content in accordance with the selected level of access. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventor: Elwha LLC
  • Publication number: 20140258935
    Abstract: A touch panel device (11) includes a hardware key (22), a display unit (21), a detector, and a controller. The display unit (21) displays an image on a display screen. The detector detects a position of a touch operation performed on the display screen. The controller performs setting-value change processing of changing a setting value of an object displayed at the touched position, when the hardware key (22) is operated while the touch operation on the display screen is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Nishida, Hiroki Okubo
  • Publication number: 20140237428
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a display device; a touch panel for sensing movement of an input object; a storage storing data representating images; and a controller. Images are displayed on the display device so as to be arranged in an arrangement order. The controller calculates a moving amount for moving the images, in response to movement of the input object. When the images are movable by the calculated moving amount in a moving direction commanded, the controller moves the images displayed on the display device, by the calculated moving amount in the moving direction. When the images are not movable in the moving direction by the calculated moving amount, the controller changes a display manner of the images and display the images in the changed display manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sadaaki MIYAZAKI, Dai KADOTA, Yuki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20140229897
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for varying a parameter graphically represented by a first control button on a display. The first control button is pressed either by contacting a touch screen or via a cursor control. Symbology is then generated on the display graphically representative of a slide control, which is dragged to vary the parameter to a desired value. Contact with the display, either by means of touch or cursor control, as the case may be, is then terminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Pulkit Kumar Agrawal, Saravanakumar Gurusamy
  • Patent number: 8806339
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) on a first device for controlling application of color corrections to a media item by a media editing application on a second device. The method provides a display area that includes several different locations. Each location in the display area corresponds to a set of values. The method provides several user interface (UI) items that are each for (1) moving in the display area and (2) specifying a set of values for a color correction operation that the media editing application applies to the media item. The set of values for the color correction operation specified by each UI item is the set of values is associated with the location at which the UI item is positioned in the display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hans H. Kim, Andrew Bryant, Adriana Dumitras
  • Publication number: 20140223344
    Abstract: A method comprising determining to provide for adjustment of a first setting, causing display of a first curvilinear slider interface element that relates to a value of the first setting, receiving an indication of a drag input associated with the first curvilinear slider interface element, causing adjustment movement of the selection point relative to the curvilinear slider interface element in proportion to the drag input, and determining a value of the first setting is based, at least in part, on a position of the first selection point relative to curvilinear slider interface element is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Tomi Petri TARVAINEN, Janne Pekko KAASALAINEN, Tero Tapio TIITTANEN, Jung Chen HUNG, Shahil SONI, Ari Pekka LIUSAARI, Marcus Carl Johan OLSSON, Juha Heikki ALAKARHU, Sami Pekka LAAKSO
  • Publication number: 20140223375
    Abstract: A method comprising determining to provide for adjustment of a first setting, causing display of a first curvilinear slider interface element that relates to a value of the first setting, receiving an indication of a drag input associated with the first curvilinear slider interface element, causing adjustment movement of the selection point relative to the curvilinear slider interface element in proportion to the drag input, and determining a value of the first setting is based, at least in part, on a position of the first selection point relative to curvilinear slider interface element is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Tomi Petri TARVAINEN, Janne Pekko KAASALAINEN, Tero Tapio TIITTANEN, Jung Chen HUNG, Shahil SONI, Ari Pekka LIUSAARI, Marcus Carl Johan OLSSON, Juha Heikki ALAKARHU, Sami Pekka LAAKSO
  • Publication number: 20140223376
    Abstract: A method comprising determining to provide for adjustment of a first setting, causing display of a first curvilinear slider interface element that relates to a value of the first setting, receiving an indication of a drag input associated with the first curvilinear slider interface element, causing adjustment movement of the selection point relative to the curvilinear slider interface element in proportion to the drag input, and determining a value of the first setting is based, at least in part, on a position of the first selection point relative to curvilinear slider interface element is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Tomi Petri TARVAINEN, Janne Pekko KAASALAINEN, Tero Tapio TIITTANEN, Jung Chen HUNG, Shahil SONI, Ari Pekka LIUSAARI, Marcus Carl Johan OLSSON, Juha Heikki ALAKARHU, Sami Pekka LAAKSO
  • Patent number: 8799819
    Abstract: A multi-tap delay has a graphical user interface in which each delay tap is represented by a bar on a time line. The bars are oriented across the time line, the position of each bar on the time line specifying the amount of delay time of the represented delay tap. The length of each bar specifies the value of another parameter of the represented delay tap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Sauer, Stefan Gretscher
  • Patent number: 8799811
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a system for browsing medical thumbnail objects to be displayed on a window on a monitor before loading the medical objects. It is possible to load only those images which indeed are relevant for a user and thus to save transmission time. A display pattern for displaying the thumbnail objects is user-selectable and includes a number of objects to be displayed and advantageously the arrangement or pattern remains constant, even in case a window size has been modified. Using a fixed but user-selectable layout pattern supports selection of relevant images during browsing. The window size is also user-selectable. After having determined the display pattern and the window size the size of the thumbnail objects is calculated automatically according to the determined display pattern and the determined window size. The thumbnail objects are displayed in the calculated object size, which favorably simplifies browsing of complex medical images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Braun, Martin Kessner, Petra Rummel
  • 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: 8788979
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable notifications to be generated in both touch and non-touch environments. In at least some embodiments, a notification window is presented and a drag operation can reveal one or more secondary actions that can be performed. In at least some embodiments, selection of one or more of the secondary actions can occur independent of, and without utilizing additional special affordances, such as buttons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Heiwad Hamidy Osman, Holger Kuehnle, Saurabh Wagh
  • Patent number: 8786565
    Abstract: A cellular phone 1 includes displays 11 and 12, touch sensors 12 and 22 which receives an operation on the displays 11 and 12, an external speaker 308 which performs a notification action, and a CPU 100 which controls the displays 11, 12 and the external speaker 308. Here, the CPU 100 displays a snooze button B6 and a dismiss button B7, which are a target of the operation, on the display 11 or 21 during the notification action. If an operation on the snooze button B6 is a confirmation flick, the CPU 100 stops the notification action and furthermore resumes the notification action if standby time elapses after the notification action stops. In contrast, if an operation on the dismiss button B7 is a confirmation flick, the CPU 100 stops the notification action and furthermore cancels a setting of the notification action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20140195976
    Abstract: A media management system configured provides functionality to store, organize, and share digital media. The media management system may capture media in one or more media capture sessions and organize the media according to the time at which it was created or captured. An adaptable media grouping system is included to allow desired media to be quickly and easily located through coarse and fine groupings. The media management system may also manage and share URLs. The media management system may be implemented on various hardware devices, including mobile, desktop, and other computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Duvon Corporation
    Inventors: Benedict Ow, Andrew Platter, Dmitry Kogosov, Richard Stiles
  • Publication number: 20140195977
    Abstract: A user interface content personalization system is described. An apparatus may comprise a content personalization application operative on a processor circuit to present personalized content on a user interface. The content personalization application may comprise a content descriptor component operative to associate content with one or more content descriptors; a content search component operative to present search results on a user interface, the search results being selected from the content based on one or more search terms; a descriptor selection component operative to receive, by the transceiver, a descriptor selection enabled by a graphical user interface element accessible from the user interface; and a search results personalization component operative to generate personalized search results based on the descriptor selection, the search results personalization component to provide personalized search results on the user interface without re-entry of the one or more search terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Sherry S. Chang, Jon M. McDermott, David W. Stone
  • Publication number: 20140195978
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) element permits a user to control an application in both a coarse manner and a fine manner. When a cursor is moved to coincide or overlap the displayed GUI element, parameter adjustment is made at a first (coarse) granularity so that rapid changes to the target parameter can be made (e.g., displayed zoom level, image rotation or playback volume). As the cursor is moved away from the displayed GUI element, parameter adjustment is made at a second (fine) granularity so that fine changes to the target parameter can be made. In one embodiment, the further the cursor is moved from the displayed GUI element, the finer the control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Frank Doepke, Hans-Werner Neubrand
  • Patent number: 8776095
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a screen locking method and a mobile terminal, wherein the screen locking method comprises the steps that: a mobile terminal enters into a screen locked state; an interface identifier (ID) of an application interface of an application service set in the mobile terminal is obtained; the application interface indicated by the interface ID is called as a screen locked interface. By the invention, the requirements of a user for the richness and diversity of screen locked interface is satisfied, the availability and friendliness of the mobile terminal device in terms of the screen locked interface is improved and the user experience is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Qinbo Huang, Benquan Zhang, Xin Yu
  • Patent number: 8775972
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes allowing a user to access a user-controlled social network profile page with posts in a specified order. A user is permitted to traverse an interface element across the specified order to establish a set position for the interface element. Access to posts is provided on a first side of the set position to define a viewable profile. Access to posts is blocked on a second side of the set position to define a non-viewable profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: SnapChat, Inc.
    Inventor: Evan Thomas Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20140189574
    Abstract: An exemplary method includes a user computing device 1) executing a software application having primary, secondary, and tertiary menu levels, and 2) providing, for display as directed by the software application, a graphical user interface view that includes a first navigation control section in the form of a footer bar mapped to the primary menu level, a second navigation control section in the form of a header bar mapped to the secondary menu level, and a third navigation control section positioned between the footer bar and the header bar and mapped to the tertiary menu level. In some embodiments, the footer bar includes a slidable segment associated with selectable menu options included in a primary menu level application menu, and a fixed segment associated with a persistent selectable link to an additional software application included in a suite of software applications. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Heath Stallings, Nathan J. Maxfield
  • Publication number: 20140189584
    Abstract: A method for switching applications in a user interface and an electronic apparatus using the same are disclosed herein. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, execute a first application after being unlocked, and detect a sliding operation. Next, determine whether the sliding operation matches a first direction or a second direction. If yes, correspondingly displaying an icon page of a second application. Afterwards, determine whether the sliding operation matching the first direction or the second direction is detected again in a predetermined time. If no, executing the second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: COMPAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Ming-Che Weng, Chieh-Yu Chan, Hsiu-Hang Lin, Ming-Yuan Weng, Yen-Hui Li, Yung-Ching Tien
  • Patent number: 8767255
    Abstract: A control method of an image forming apparatus which is connected to an external apparatus, supports a resource saving mode, and outputs document data is provided. The control method includes: selecting the document data to be output, selecting an output option to be applied to the selected document data, comparing a resource saving value corresponding to the output option to be applied to the document data and a resource saving set value which is pre-set in the image forming apparatus, displaying at least one suggestion option to save resources of the document data according to a result of comparison, and selecting one of the displayed suggestion option and outputting the document data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwang-Soo Ha, Sung-Jae Chung, Bong-Gun Kim, Sang-Su Lee, Sung-Man Shin
  • Patent number: 8769408
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for intelligent navigation of sequential media content are disclosed. The intelligent navigation is well suited to enable users to better control media playback with regards to a media playback application operating on a computing device. One embodiment of a method for playing sequential media content by a media playback application operating on a computing device includes at least the acts of: initiating playing of the sequential media content by the media playback application; receiving a user input requesting to start playing at a new position in the sequential media content; marking a current position in the sequential media content; thereafter initiating playing of the sequential media content at the new position; receiving a user input requesting to reset playing to the marked current position; and subsequently initiating playing of the sequential media content at the marked current position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Madden, Eric Seymour, Scott Forstall, Celia Vigil, Imran Chaudhri
  • Patent number: 8762844
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an image display apparatus including: a selecting unit receiving instructions for selecting progress bars; a storage unit storing information on the progress bars including marks for helping a user to search predetermined scenes of content; and a control unit extracting a scene corresponding to the mark of the selected progress bar from the storage unit, and displaying the extracted scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sin-Ae Kim, Hyun-Mi Park, Deok-Hee Jeong, Joo-Kyung Woo
  • Patent number: 8760674
    Abstract: A printing apparatus/method includes at least one processor, at least one printing engine, and at least one graphic user interface all operatively (directly or indirectly) connected to each other. The graphic user interface has at least one display and at least one user input device. The display provides at least one menu having at least one user selectable parameter of the printing engine. The display provides at least one linear scale bar representing a range of values to which the selectable parameter can be set. The display provides at least two different graphic icons along the linear scale. The graphic icons conceptually represent different performance characteristics that the printing apparatus will have when the selectable parameter is set to different values along the range of values represented on the linear scale. The display can also provide numerical performance values adjacent each of the different graphic icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Trevor J. Snyder, Jennifer Misae Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8762851
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for creating a voice application, the method being implemented by a computer system and comprising generating a graphical user interface comprising a text-to-topic button; receiving first input identifying a location of a text file; receiving second input selecting the text-to-topic button; partitioning content associated with the text file into subjects in response to receiving the second input; and storing information on the partitioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: West Interactive Corporation II
    Inventors: Askok Mitter Khosla, Steven Samuel Pollock
  • Publication number: 20140173518
    Abstract: A menu displaying method applied to an electronic device to control the electronic device to display menu icons. The menu icons are arranged on a first path and a second part intersecting at a selection position. The menu icons are arranged on the first path circularly slide on the first path, and the menu icons are arranged on the second path circularly slide on the second path according to a manual operation. The menu icons that are arranged on the selection position is selected in response to the manual operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: CHIH-CHUN CHANG
  • Publication number: 20140173519
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a processor and memory including computer program code, the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to: display a user interface for an audio equalizer, the user interface comprising a predefined region associated with a particular category of audio equalization; detect the position of a user input within the predefined region; and control the relative amplitudes of one or more frequency bandwidths of an audio signal to be output based on the detected position within the predefined region to produce a specific audio output having audio characteristics associated with that particular audio equalization category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Antti Heikki Tapio Sassi
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 8751967
    Abstract: A method of selecting files and a portable electronic device configured to perform the method are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of selecting one or more files on a portable electronic device, comprising: displaying a file selection user interface screen on a display of the portable electronic device, the file selection user interface screen comprising a slider comprising a reference bar and an indicator moveable within the reference bar; selecting one or more files in accordance with a position of the indicator; and attaching the selected files to an electronic message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Thanh Vinh Vuong
  • Publication number: 20140157199
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, an information processing system transmits, to a mobile device having a window, question data representative of a question. For an application program, in this example, the mobile device displays the question in the window. For the application program, the information processing system may receive, from the mobile device, answer data representative of an answer to the question. Based on the answer data representative of the answer to the question, the information processing system selects advertisement data representative of an advertisement. In response to the advertisement data being selected, the information processing system transmits, to the mobile device, the advertisement data representative of the first advertisement. For the application program, the mobile device displays the advertisement in a second window of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: QRIOUSLY, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Kahler, Abraham Mueller, Gerald Mueller
  • Publication number: 20140149938
    Abstract: The display device is composed of at least a data processor and a display. The blood analyzer is composed of the display device. The display method is performed using the display device. The data processor is composed to define a display-condition range corresponding to the range between the lowest frequency and the highest frequency in the frequencies of respective dots in the data set, so that a user can input a display-condition value through an input means. Then, a dot having a frequency not less than a frequency corresponding to the input display-condition value is displayed as a scattergram on the display. As a result, the user can freely change the display-condition value through the input means, and change the dot display range of the scattergram accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nishimori, Kyosuke Nakajima, Shingo Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8739069
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus including a slider display unit configured to display, on a slider bar, a slider used to change an adjustment value used upon execution of image processing of image data, a thumbnail display unit configured to display a plurality of thumbnail images which respectively indicate results of image processing of the image data using a plurality of different target values, a selection unit configured to select at least one of the plurality of thumbnail images, and a target value display unit configured to display a position indicating the target value corresponding to the thumbnail image on the slider bar to be discriminated from the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kanako Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8732613
    Abstract: In one example, a computing device executes a plurality of application processes, each of which has an associated graphical user interface element. The computing device renders a common graphical user interface on a presence-sensitive screen. The common graphical user interface includes a currently rendered graphical user interface element associated with a currently selected application process from among the plurality of application processes; a tab row comprising a plurality of tabs, wherein each of the graphical user interface elements corresponds to one of the plurality of tabs; and a slide bar positioned proximate to the tab row. The computing device renders a first tab in the tab row with a larger size than other graphical tabs in the plurality of tabs responsive to receipt by the presence-sensitive screen of a gesture input associated with a region of the slide bar that is closest to the first tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Zhiwei Guan
  • Publication number: 20140123066
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for specifying interval data includes displaying, via a user interface, a slider row of user select buttons, the slider row being configured to support selection of a range term of the interval data, receiving first data indicative of a first touch input via the user interface directed to a respective one of the user select buttons to specify a value for the range term, displaying, via the user interface, a plurality of user select range composition buttons, receiving second data indicative of a second touch input via the user interface directed to a respective one of the plurality of user select range composition buttons to determine whether the interval data includes a further range term to be specified, and storing, with a processor, the interval data in a memory in accordance with the first data and the second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nigel Christopher William Wolters, Adam Smolinski, Xue Song
  • Patent number: 8704782
    Abstract: An electronic device, a method for viewing a desktop thereof, and a computer-readable medium are provided. One of n continuous areas of the desktop and a navigation bar are displayed in a touch screen of the electronic device. The navigation bar includes an indicator and n indexes, wherein the n indexes are respectively corresponding to the n areas, and the indicator points to the index corresponding to the area currently displayed in the touch screen. When a sliding operation applied to the indicator is detected on the navigation bar, the desktop and the indicator are moved according to the sliding operation. When the sliding operation terminates, an index closest to the indicator is selected from the n indexes as a target index. Finally, the indicator is controlled to point to the target index, and a target area corresponding to the target index is displayed in the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Drew Bamford, David Brinda
  • Patent number: 8698833
    Abstract: A color designation control device includes: an image acquisition section that acquires a color image; and a display control section that displays a user interface screen, which includes at least a preview image of the acquired color image and a hue scale representing a change in hue, on a predetermined display while accepting designation of a position or a region within the preview image, acquiring a hue at the designated position or in the designated region from the preview image, and adding a specific indication for a range within the hue scale corresponding to the acquired hue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo Anazawa
  • Patent number: 8701009
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing time for a slide presentation that permits a speaker to coordinate available time with the number of slides to be shown and a method of operating the same is described. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a time allocation tool enabling a user to establish a presentation time with respect to at least one slide in the slide presentation and allocate any remaining presentation time to each remaining slide on a pro-rata basis and (2) a monitoring module associated with the time allocation tool to monitor the progress of the slide presentation and display a time status for the slide presentation as well as a slide number and a time status for a currently displayed slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Fabrice Dantec, Jerome Elleouet
  • Patent number: 8689128
    Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon; detecting a contact at a location that corresponds to the progress icon; detecting contact movement that comprises a first component in a direction corresponding to movement on the display parallel to a first predefined direction and a second component in a direction corresponding to movement on the display perpendicular to the first predefined direction; and, while detecting movement of the contact: determining a current offset distance; and, in response to detecting a current first component of movement of the contact, moving the current position within the content at a scrubbing rate, wherein: the scrubbing rate decreases as the current offset distance increases, and the direction of movement of the current position within the content is in accordance with the direction of the current first component of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Lucas C. Newman, Marcel van Os, Michael Matas, Elizabeth Caroline Furches
  • Patent number: 8689141
    Abstract: In one example, a computing device executes a plurality of application processes, each of which has an associated graphical user interface element. The computing device renders a common graphical user interface on a presence-sensitive screen. The common graphical user interface includes a currently rendered graphical user interface element associated with a currently selected application process from among the plurality of application processes; a tab row comprising a plurality of tabs, wherein each of the graphical user interface elements corresponds to one of the plurality of tabs; and a slide bar positioned proximate to the tab row. The computing device renders a first tab in the tab row with a larger size than other graphical tabs in the plurality of tabs responsive to receipt by the presence-sensitive screen of a gesture input associated with a region of the slide bar that is closest to the first tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Li, Zhiwei Guan
  • Publication number: 20140082500
    Abstract: Natural language and user interface control techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a natural language input is received that is indicative of an operation to be performed by one or more modules of a computing device. Responsive to determining that the operation is associated with a degree to which the operation is performable, a user interface control is output that is manipulable by a user to control the degree to which the operation is to be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregg D. Wilensky, Walter W. Chang, Lubomira A. Dontcheva, Gierad P. Laput, Aseem O. Agarwala
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20140075387
    Abstract: The slide bar display control device according to the present invention includes, a display means which indicates a first slide bar including a first slider and a first bar, an input means which can select an arbitrary part of the first slide bar shown on the display means based on touch operation, and a control means which controls the display means and the input means, wherein, when the control means detects that a first operation has been performed in a state that the first slider shown on the display means is being touched in the input means, the display means indicates a second slide bar including a second slider and a second bar, and wherein the second slider is a slider different in a variation amount of a set value per unit moving distance from the first slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: TOSHIHIKO FUJIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140068476
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an icon operating device. The icon operating device includes: a memory that stores data concerning a plurality of icons that associates information indicating what operation can be made for the device to be operated by touching which part of a user's body with operation contents of the device to be operated; an acquiring unit that acquires a range image of the user; a grasping unit that grasps a shape of the user's body based on the range image data; an identifying unit that identifies, based on a position of a user's finger, an operating position indicating which part of the body the user has touched; and a determining unit that determines selection of the icon and the content of operation for the device to be operated based on the shape of the user's body and the operating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventor: Masanori KOSAKI
  • Publication number: 20140047388
    Abstract: The slide bar display control device according to the present invention includes, a display means which indicates a first slide bar including a first slider and a first bar, an input means which can select an arbitrary part of the first slide bar shown on the display means based on touch operation, and a control means which controls the display means and the input means, wherein, when the control means detects that a first operation has been performed in a state that the first slider shown on the display means is being touched in the input means, the display means indicates a second slide bar including a second slider and a second bar, and wherein the second slider is a slider different in a variation amount of a set value per unit moving distance from the first slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: TOSHIHIKO FUJIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140033126
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and related computer program products for processing and displaying computer-aided detection (CAD) information associated with medical breast x-ray images, such as breast x-ray tomosynthesis volumes, are described. An interactive graphical user interface for displaying a tomosynthesis data volume is described that includes a display of a two-dimensional composited image having slabbed sub-images spatially localized to marked CAD findings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: HOLOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Kreeger, Julian Marshall, Georgia K. Hitzke, Haili Chui
  • Patent number: 8627232
    Abstract: This disclosure describes, generally, tools to allow more intuitive display and/or definition of ranges in software applications. Merely by way of example, a software application might include a user interface that has a graphical element (such as a line, a bar, and/or the like) that represents a spectrum of values. The application might further include one or more markers that serve to define boundaries of one or more ranges within the spectrum. By allowing a user to move the markers (through manipulation of the markers using a mouse, typing values for the markers, and/or the like), the interface can allow the user to quickly and easily define different ranges of values and/or to view defined ranges. In an aspect, a marker (and/or an accompanying indicator) may be configured to indicate to the user whether the value represented by the marker falls within or outside the range bounded by the marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Stiso, Alan B. Ashby