Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
715864000 | For a small display screen (e.g., personal digital assistant, palm-top) | 20 |
20080244469 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING THE DISPLAYING OF IMAGE MEDIA ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE - A method of displaying image media on a display of a wireless communications device entails displaying a hybrid view of the image media by presenting a list of folders containing image media and by concurrently presenting thumbnail images of the image media corresponding to at least one of the folders. The thumbnail images can be scaled-down images of digital pictures or scaled-down frames of digital video. Optionally, when the user selects one of the thumbnail images, the display presents the file name and file size. | 10-02-2008 |
20090044153 | USER INTERFACE - It is presented a portable apparatus including a first element including a display; a second element, the first and second elements being rotatable in relation to each other around a longitudinal axis and a controller. The controller is configured to, when detecting a rotational user input including a rotational movement between the first element and the second element around the longitudinal axis, scroll content of the display such that the content is displayed at a position being fixed, within an interval of acceptance, in relation to the second element. Corresponding method, computer program product, user interface and system are also presented. | 02-12-2009 |
20090064056 | Graphical User Interface with Location-Specific Interface Elements - Improved approaches to allow a portable electronic device to dynamically present location-specific information while the portable electronic device is at a predetermined location are disclosed. In one embodiment, the portable electronic device has a display that can display the location-specific information and has wireless capabilities for use in receiving the location-specific information from the server. The location-specific information can, for example, augment other information that is to be presented on the display. In one embodiment, the location-specific information can be information pertaining to a media item being played in an establishment, such as a store, where the portable electronic device is located. | 03-05-2009 |
20090064057 | Graphical User Interface for Mobile Electronic Device - Improved approaches to display information on a portable computing device having a display with limited display area are disclosed. The information displayed can, for example, assist a user in navigating a hierarchical menu system operable on the portable computing device to browse, search or play media items. The information displayed can include a menu of the hierarchical menu system along with other information. The menu can include selectable media items. The other information can be related to the menu being displayed. In one embodiment, the invention can use a display screen having at least first and second portions, with the first portion displaying selectable media items (e.g., menu) and with the second portion displaying media information (e.g., graphical image) that is dependent on media items in the first portion or resident on the portable electronic device. | 03-05-2009 |
20090300555 | WEB PAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND WEB PAGE DISPLAY METHOD - A Web page display apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a Web page; a generation unit for generating a reduced Web page by reducing the Web page so that the particular element has a width smaller than that of the display size when a user-specified particular element in a plurality of elements constituting the Web page has a width greater than that of display size of a display unit; and a display control unit for controlling the display unit to display a particular reduced element of the reduced Web page corresponding to the particular element when the particular element has a width greater than that of the display size. | 12-03-2009 |
20090327979 | USER INTERFACE FOR A PERIPHERAL DEVICE - A system and method that includes detecting an activation of an input application control key of a peripheral device, the peripheral device having a single application control input key, to open a initial application, the initial application becoming an active application, providing an identifier of the open application, and detecting a speech prompt to activate at least one function related to the active application. | 12-31-2009 |
20100037186 | HOST SCREEN TRANSFORMATION FOR MOBILE DEVICES HAVING A REDUCED DISPLAY SIZE - The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for improved display of host terminal applications on data processing systems having a small display size. In one embodiment, a host application translator reads characters stored in a character buffer and character attributes stored in an attribute buffer of a computer host terminal application that is displayed to a user as lines of characters. The host application translator performs component recognition on the characters and the character attributes to identify essential characters. Essential characters are characters that are required to be displayed to a user for the user to be able to interact with the computer host terminal application. The host application translator generates hypertext markup language code (HTML) for reconfiguring the characters for display on a portable data processing system having a small display size. | 02-11-2010 |
20100125818 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR BROWSING INFORMATION ON A DISPLAY - In one embodiment, a method and program for browsing information on a hand-held device having a display is provided. The device includes (1) showing on the display a portion of the page residing around the predefined point and having a shape similar to the shape of the display, (2) generating a mirror line by mirroring the reference line in relation to a line that is perpendicular to the display surface and travels via the reference point in response to tilting of the hand-held device in relation to the spatial initial state, (3) defining a hit point (xn,yn) where the mirror line hits the virtual surface and the page containing information, and (4) showing on the display at least a portion of the page around the hit point, said portion to have a shape similar to the shape of the display, the position of the hit point on the page to correspond to the position of the reference point on the display. | 05-20-2010 |
20100153891 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR BROWSING INFORMATION ON A DISPLAY - In one embodiment, a program is provided for browsing information on a hand-held device having a display. The program includes ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100281441 | Portable Electronic Apparatus - A portable electronic apparatus comprising a first part with a first user interface, the first user interface extending along a first plane, and a second part with a second user interface, the second user interface extending along a second plane, the first and second parts arranged to be movable with respect to one another along an axis to provide second user interface retracted and in-use configurations, wherein the apparatus is arranged such that relative movement of the first and second parts along the axis provides the second user interface in the retracted configuration in which the second user interface is stowed away from use, the second user interface plane being in a different plane away from the first plane, and relative movement of the first and second parts along the axis provides the second user interface in the in-use configuration in which the second user interface has been moved from the stowed away position into an in-use position in which the second user interface plane has been moved relatively towards the first plane. | 11-04-2010 |
20100293511 | COMPUTERIZED EVENT TRACKING WITH AMBIENT GRAPHICAL INDICATOR - Systems and methods for displaying a graphical indication of events on a display of a portable computing device are provided. The system may include an event detector module to receive a series of event notifications over time for one or more predetermined event types, and to process properties of each event notification to determine an intensity value for each event notification. The computing system may further include a graphical user interface engine to present one or more passive tracking indicators corresponding to a predetermined event type, in a location that is visible irrespective of other content displayed on the display. The graphical user interface engine is further configured to, for each event notification, adjust the appearance of the corresponding passive tracking indicator in response to the determined intensity value, such that the appearance of the passive tracking indicator changes over time according to the determined intensity values. | 11-18-2010 |
20110167392 | Methods And Apparatus For Retrieving And Displaying Map-Related Data For Visually Displayed Maps Of Mobile Communication Devices - A cellular telephony device operatives to receive map data via a cellular network map data, and causes a region of a map having one or more selectable map elements to be displayed in a display in accordance with the map data. The cellular telephony device then causes selectable map element information to be displayed in the display in response to detecting a selection of one of the selectable map elements. In response to detecting a selection of the selectable map element information, the cellular telephony device sends, to a private network file server via the cellular network, a request for an electronic file document associated with the selectable map element information. The cellular telephony device then receives, via the cellular network, the file contents information corresponding to the request for the electronic file document, and causes at least a portion of the electronic file document to be displayed in the display. | 07-07-2011 |
20110167393 | PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal displays a menu screen in which small screens respectively corresponding to categories are shown on display positions of a display unit, wherein the display positions respectively correspond to operation positions of an operation panel. | 07-07-2011 |
20110252384 | WIRELESS DISPLAY APPLICATION - Systems and methods are illustrated that relate to displaying an output screen from a mobile device on a monitor in communication with a computer through a wireless network. The systems and methods may include the steps of: connecting the mobile device to the computer via a network, converting an output screen from the mobile device into a transferrable command, sending the transferrable command to the computer via the network, receiving the transferrable command from the mobile device, translating the transferrable command into one of a plurality of monitor display screens, sending the one of the plurality of monitor display screens to a monitor in communication with the computer, and/or displaying the one of a plurality of monitor display screens on the monitor. | 10-13-2011 |
20120240085 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER - An electronic book reader, the electronic book reader comprising: a reading interface for accessing an electronic book; a display for displaying the electronic book; a network interface for forming a communication connection between the electronic book reader and a device through a server, the server being connected to data storage comprising data of one or more user accounts associated with the electronic book; and a communication interface for facilitating exchange of multimedia messages between the electronic book reader and the device across the communication connection, wherein the communication connection being formed upon activation of the communication interface and upon both the electronic book and the device being logged in to the server via one of the one or more user accounts associated with the electronic book. | 09-20-2012 |
20130111415 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND METHODS | 05-02-2013 |
20130198694 | DETERMINATIVE PROCESSES FOR WEARABLE DEVICES - Determinative processes for wearable devices are described, including receiving data associated with an event, the data being transformed from an input received using a sensor in data communication with a wearable device, evaluating the data to determine a state associated with the wearable device, and generating a recommendation based on the state, the recommendation being presented at a user interface while the wearable device is being used. | 08-01-2013 |
20130326433 | ADAPTIVE DESIGN EDITOR FOR WEB APPLICATIONS - According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to receive an application type and a platform environment type. An application based on the received application type and the platform environment type is created. The application comprises an instantiation of the received application type configured for the received environment type. | 12-05-2013 |
20140337808 | Space Constrained Small Format Visual Analytic Labeling - Systems and methods for automated rule-based labeling of space constrained small format visual analytics are disclosed. A label engine receives visual analytic data and metadata. Using default or specific rules, the label engine analyzes the metadata to determine a number of measures and dimensions of the visual analytic data. The label engine then analyzes the measures, dimensions, and other metadata according to the rules to generate a set of labels, and a set of locations within the visual analytic into which to insert the set of labels. Placement of the labels can be based on the size and format of the visual analytic. In addition, the placement of the labels can be based on a dashboard framework in which the visual analytic is disposed. Any labels that are redundant with the information in the context of the dashboard framework can be omitted from visual analytic. | 11-13-2014 |
20180024798 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BLACK AND WHITE SCREEN DISPLAY BASED ON ANDROID PLATFORM, AND SMART TERMINAL | 01-25-2018 |