13th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160091992 | Executing Gestures with Active Stylus - In one embodiment, a stylus with one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for transmitting signals wirelessly to a device through a touch sensor of the device has one or more sensors for detecting movement of the stylus. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091993 | Executing Gestures with Active Stylus - In one embodiment, a stylus has one or more sensors that detect the movement of the stylus, such as an accelerometer, a gyroscope, or a magnetometer. The stylus wirelessly transmits signals to a device based on the movement of the stylus. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091994 | USER INTERFACE FOR CONTROLLING A SOURCE PARAMETER AND CORRELATING A MEASUREMENT IN REAL-TIME - A method including displaying an orthogonal grid on a touchscreen display. The touchscreen display is in communication with a test and measurement instrument. The orthogonal grid has an axis that is associated with a controlled output parameter of the test and measurement instrument. The method also includes detecting a touch input at the touchscreen display. The touch input includes a continuous slide gesture made by a user substantially along the axis of the orthogonal grid. The slide gesture begins at a first location on the axis and ends at a second location on the axis. Also, the method includes adjusting the controlled output parameter of the test and measurement instrument from an initial value to an adjusted value. The initial value corresponds to the first location of the slide gesture and the adjusted value corresponds to the second location of the slide gesture. Systems are also disclosed. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091995 | TOUCH SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DETECTING TOUCH INPUT - A method and apparatus for detecting touch input at a touch sensor is provided. The touch sensor comprises a plurality of row traces, a plurality of column traces and an intersection corresponding to an identified row trace of the plurality of row traces and an identified column trace of the plurality of column traces. The touch sensor also includes at least one driver for driving the plurality of column traces and at least one reader for reading the plurality of row traces. The drivers and the readers scan the identified intersection by entering into a with-floating scan state, reading a first value for the identified row trace, entering into a without-floating scan state and reading a second value for the identified row trace. The presence of a touch input is accordingly determined based on the first and second values. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091996 | LIFTOFF INPUT DETECTION - An electronic device including one or more processors, a touch-sensitive surface, and memory detects a contact area of a set of one or more contacts on the touch-sensitive surface. A plurality of changes in the contact area are mapped to corresponding predefined responses. After detecting the contact area, a change in the contact area that includes a liftoff of at least a portion of the set of one or more contacts from the touch-sensitive surface is detected. In response to detecting the change in the contact area, in accordance with a determination that the change is a first change in the contact area, a first predefined response is performed. In accordance with a determination that the change is a second change in the contact area, a second predefined response that is different from the first predefined response is performed. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091997 | TOUCH PANEL HAVING RELATIVELY NARROW TRACE AREA AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Configurations of a touch panel having a relatively narrow trace area and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. In the proposed touch panel, the trace area includes a grounding layer, a first insulating layer configured on the grounding layer, and a first sensor trace configured on the first insulating layer. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091998 | METHOD OF DESIGNING A CONDUCTIVE PATTERN WITH REDUCED CHANNEL BREAK VISIBILITY - A method of designing a conductive pattern with reduced channel break visibility includes generating a representation of the conductive pattern in a software application and placing a plurality of non-linear channel break voids that partition the conductive pattern into a plurality of channels. Each non-linear channel break isolates adjacent channels. | 2016-03-31 |
20160091999 | CURRENT FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES FOR CAPACITIVE SENSING - Examples of the present disclosure generally provide current feedback techniques for capacitive sensing with an input device. A processing system for an input device includes an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input, an inverting input, and an output. A voltage source is coupled to the non-inverting input. A first voltage-controlled current source is coupled between the output and the inverting input to form a feedback path. A second voltage-controlled current source is coupled to the output and configured for modifying a charge on a capacitor based on a control voltage at the output. A determination module is coupled to the capacitor and configured for determining a capacitance measurement at the inverting input based on the charge on the capacitor. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092000 | COMBINING SENSOR ELECTRODES IN A MATRIX SENSOR - A display device having a capacitive sensing device, a processing system, and a method are provided for detecting presence of an input object using a capacitive sensing device having a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged in a matrix. The described technique programmatically combines multiple sensor electrodes into a larger sensor electrode for absolute capacitive sensing. The sets of sensor electrodes that are combined may be selectively coupled based a window size and a step size associated with a number of sensor electrodes in common between the sets. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092001 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A TOUCH UNIT - A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed above the first substrate. A touch unit is disposed on the second substrate. A window is disposed on the touch unit. The window covers the first and second substrates. A touch printed circuit board is disposed on the second substrate. The touch printed circuit board is coupled to the touch unit. An adhesive layer is disposed between the first substrate and the window. A plurality of spacers are disposed between the touch printed circuit board and the window. Each of the plurality of spacers is spaced apart from each other. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092002 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE - A touch sensing device for detecting approach of a detection target to a detection area of a sensing face, including a base, detection electrodes, and a controller. The base includes a counterpart area corresponding to the detection area and being located on a deeper side in the touch sensing device relative to the detection area. The detection electrodes are arranged at intervals in the counterpart area, and an electrostatic capacitance between at least one of the detection electrodes and the detection target changes in response to an approach of the detection target to the detection electrode so as to change an output signal from the detection electrode. The controller detects that the detection target approaches the detection area corresponding to the counterpart area when an output signal or signals from a predetermined number, being at least one, of the detection electrode or electrodes in the counterpart area has changed. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092003 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL HAVING SINGLE-LAYER TOUCH SENSOR - A capacitive touch panel is disclosed. The capacitive touch panel includes a laminated structure. The laminated structure includes a liquid crystal displaying module, a single-layer touch sensor, and a polarizing module. The single-layer touch sensor is disposed on the liquid crystal displaying module. The polarizing module is disposed on the single-layer touch sensor. The single-layer touch sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are configured in an asymmetric electrode arranging way, so that one of the first electrodes will be arranged corresponding to at least two of the second electrodes. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092004 | CONDUCTIVE PATTERN AND ELECTRODE PATTERN OF SINGLE-LAYER CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN - Provided is a conductive pattern which has low visibility, has a high light transmittance, and hardly produces moire, and therefore is suitable as an optically transparent electrode for a capacitive touchscreen. The conductive pattern has a row of unit graphics formed of a conductive metal thin line or a metal thin line having line breaks, the unit graphic is selected from a concave hexagon and the congruent figures thereof, the concave hexagon has one inner angle greater than 180° (Angle A) and five inner angles each smaller than 180° with the proviso that the total of Angle A and the third angle from Angle A (Angle B) is 360°, the unit graphics adjoiningly line up in the row, and the row of the unit graphics extends in a direction of the bisector of an angle formed by the bisector of Angle A and the bisector of Angle B. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092005 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH A CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - Disclosed is a display device with a capacitive touch panel including a laminate between a display panel and a cover layer, the laminate having a viewing-side polarizing plate, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a substrate, in which the substrate has an optical film with a phase difference of (2n−1)λ/4, where n is a positive integer, the viewing-side polarizing plate has a polarizing film, and a slow axis of the optical film intersects a transmission axis of the polarizing film at an angle of about 45° as viewed in the stacking direction. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092006 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel in which warpage due to a difference in the linear expansion coefficient between resin layers is reduced while achieving reduction in thickness and weight by using a multi-layered resin base material. A capacitive touch panel includes a transparent resin base material; a transparent resin layer formed on the front surface of the transparent resin base material; a decorative printed layer formed on an outer edge of the back surface of the transparent resin base material; and a warp prevention layer formed so as to extend and cover over the back surface of the transparent resin base material and the decorative printed layer. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092007 | TOUCH PANEL CONTROLLER, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A driving unit ( | 2016-03-31 |
20160092008 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes: an upper transparent substrate having an upper transparent electrode film; a lower transparent substrate having a lower transparent electrode film; a first electric wiring formed on the upper transparent electrode film; a second electric wiring formed on the lower transparent electrode film; an insulator formed between the first electric wiring and the second electric wiring, the insulator being made of a material with a light shielding effect; and a decoration layer formed on the upper transparent substrate so as to cover the first electric wiring, the second electric wiring and the insulator. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092009 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENSING WATER, DEBRIS OR OTHER EXTRANEOUS OBJECTS ON A DISPLAY SCREEN - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable and a set of touch sensors are provided with the display assembly. A processor is provided within the housing to detect a plurality of interactions with the set of touch sensors. The processor further determines, based on the plurality of interactions, a presence of extraneous objects on a surface of the screen of the display assembly. More specifically, the processor may determine that the screen is wet if three or more interactions are detected, concurrently, via the set of touch sensors and/or a contact duration associated with each of the plurality of interactions exceeds a threshold duration. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092010 | TOUCH, PEN AND FORCE SENSOR OPERATION WITH VARIABLE REFRESH DISPLAYS - Synchronization of display functions and various touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions for devices including a variable refresh rate (VRR) display is disclosed. In some examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display frames. In other examples, touch, stylus and/or force sensing functions can be synchronized with display sub-frames and a display refresh rate can be adjusted by extended blanking of the display for one or more display sub-frames. Pre-warning synchronization signals can be generated to prepare one or more scan controllers to implement the appropriate scan events during and after extended blanking periods. Latency between the scan results and the corresponding image on the display can be corrected in software and/or firmware by time-stamping scan results or by dropping scan results from uncompleted scans. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092011 | DISPLAY PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided is a display panel including a loop-shaped conductive path which is manufactured by performing a conductive ink jetting process and a high-degree vacuum removal process to effectively vaporizing a solvent in a conductive ink line at lower temperature than the boiling point at atmospheric pressure of the solvent. The conductive path manufactured as such does not allow a stain or a trace, such as a pull-back region, to be left around the conductive path. Thus, it is possible to obtain the loop-shaped conductive path having an initially intended design without being damaged during a process. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092012 | CONDUCTIVE FILM, DISPLAY DEVICE PROVIDED WITH SAME, AND EVALUATION AND DETERMINATION METHOD FOR CONDUCTIVE FILM WIRING PATTERN - For the frequencies and intensities of moire obtained by applying the human visual response characteristics to the frequency information and intensity information of moire which are respectively calculated from the peak frequencies and peak intensities of a two-dimensional Fourier spectrum of the transmittance image data of a wiring pattern and the peak frequencies and peak intensities of a two-dimensional Fourier spectrum of the transmittance image data of a pixel array pattern, the sum of the intensities of moire with frequencies which are within a predetermined frequency range that is determined according to the visual response characteristics is equal to or less than a predetermined value. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092013 | TOUCH-SENSING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL - The present invention provides a touch-sensing panel including a polarization plate and a patterned sensing electrode layer. The polarization plate has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface and the second surface are disposed opposite to each other. The first patterned sensing electrode layer is disposed on the first surface, and the first patterned sensing electrode layer is directly attached on the first surface of the polarization plate. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092014 | TOUCH PANEL AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME - A touch panel is provided. The touch panel includes: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a viewing region and a border region at an edge of the viewing region; a patterned transparent conductive layer formed on the substrate, wherein the patterned transparent conductive layer is formed on the viewing region and the border region, and the patterned transparent conductive layer has a touch sensitive function; and a patterned metal layer formed on the border region, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a contact region and a trace region connecting to the contact region, and at least a portion of the contact region overlaps with the patterned transparent conductive layer, wherein a shift range between the contact region and the patterned transparent conductive layer disposed on the border region adjacent to the contact region is smaller than about 150 μm. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092015 | INTEGRATED TOUCH SENSOR AND FORCE SENSOR FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Systems and method of performing touch and force sensing in an electronic device. The device includes a cover and an array of touch-sensor electrodes disposed below the cover. The first array of electrodes may be configured to sense a touch on the cover using a capacitive sensing scheme. The device also includes a force-sensor drive electrode disposed below the first array of electrodes and a force-sensor sense electrode disposed below the force-sensor drive electrode. The force-sensor drive and sense electrode may be configured to sense a force on the cover. The device also includes a shared drive circuit having an output that is operatively coupled to the array of touch-sensor electrodes and the force-sensor drive electrode. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092016 | PRESSURE DETECTING DEVICE AND TOUCH PANEL - The invention provides a pressure detecting device containing a pressurized member having a contact surface that is subjected to pressure due to contact with a pressurizing means; and a piezoelectric member that is arranged facing the pressurized member and that includes a polymeric piezoelectric material having a piezoelectric constant d | 2016-03-31 |
20160092017 | Enlarging a Selection Region Associated with Selected Information in a Document Displayed on a Screen of a Computing Device - A mechanism is provided for enhancing a selection region for select information associated within a document. A document is analyzed to determine one or more pieces of information in the document that are likely to be selected by the user, wherein the one or more pieces of information are less than all of the information in the document. Responsive to the document failing to have been analyzed before, a selection region associated with each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is enlarged by a first predetermined size amount thereby forming a respective region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information. The region enlargement value for each piece of information in the one or more pieces of information is then recorded. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092018 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN FOR FINGERPRINT RECOGNITION - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a touch screen having a sensing array with a plurality of sensors and a display panel having a displaying area; and a processor. The sensing area of the sensing array is smaller than or equal to the displaying area. The processor determines whether a user's finger touches an icon displayed on the display panel, wherein the icon corresponds to an application. When the processor determines that the user's finger touches the icon, the electronic device controls a first sensing area of the sensing array corresponding to a first displaying area of the icon to enter a fingerprint sensing mode to capture a fingerprint image of the user's finger for fingerprint recognition. When the processor determines that fingerprint recognition is approved, the processor activates the application corresponding to the icon. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092019 | SCANNING METHOD AND DEVICE OF A SINGLE LAYER CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A scanning method and device of a single layer capacitive touch panel has a self and mutual capacitive scanning procedures. The single layer capacitive touch panel has multiple electrode groups and shielding units respectively formed between the two corresponding adjacent electrode groups. When the self capacitive scanning procedure is executed, a first driving signal is outputted to each of the electrode groups and each of the shielding units. A self capacitive sensing signal of the driven electrode group is received after then. When the mutual capacitive scanning procedure is executed, a second driving signal is outputted to each of the electrode group and each of the shielding unit is connected to a ground. A mutual capacitive sensing signal from each of the driven electrode groups is received after then. Therefore, the self capacitance value of the self capacitive sensing signal is not increased greatly since the shielding units are not connected to the ground. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092020 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a switching element SW which is connected to the gate line and the source line, and a pixel electrode which is connected to the switching element SW. The first substrate includes a common electrode which is opposed to the pixel electrode, and a detection electrode element Tx necessary for sensing a state of closeness of a conductor brought externally, that extends parallel to the common electrode and is formed of a metallic material. By this structure, power consumption of a drive electrode of an input sensor can be reduced, and improvement of a drive frequency can be obtained. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092021 | WET INK PREDICTOR - Systems and methods are provided for improving the latency for display of ink during user creation of ink content with an object, such as a stylus, mouse, finger (or other touch input), or other drawing device. In order to reduce or minimize the time for display of ink content created by a user, aspects of the technology described herein generate predictive wet ink that can be displayed with actual wet ink. The predictive wet ink is calculated by extending an active ink segment a predictive distance. The predictive distance is intended to be a distance between a termination ink point for an active wet ink segment and a tip of the writing object. In one aspect, the predictive distance is calculated by determining the current latency period on a touch device and the velocity of the writing object. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092022 | METHOD FOR REDUCING GHOST TOUCH AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for reducing a ghost touch in an electronic device. According to various embodiments, the electronic device includes a touch screen, and at least one processor implementing the method, which includes detecting touches to the touch screen, and detecting a ghost touch based on at least two of: a time interval between the touches detected through the touch screen, a distance between the touches, and a touch area of the touches. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092023 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING TOUCH POSITION COORDINATE OF TOUCH PANEL - Disclosed is a touch panel device having a plurality of touch sensors for detecting a touch position that includes a coordinate calculation unit that calculates a touch coordinate from an output value of at least one of the plurality of touch sensors; and a coordinate correction unit that receives a calculated touch coordinate from the coordinate calculation unit, includes a lookup table that stores a correspondence relationship between a plurality of real touch position coordinates and a plurality of calculated touch coordinates, and extracts one of the plurality of real touch position coordinates as a corrected touch coordinate that corresponds to the calculated touch coordinate. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092024 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DEFINING RESTRICTED AREA WITHIN TOUCH PANEL - A portable phone device includes a display, a touch panel superimposed on the display and configured to detect a touch operation, an area defining module configured to define within the touch panel a restricted area in which acceptance of the touch operation is restricted, and a determination module configured to determine whether or not a screen being displayed on the display is a target screen for defining the restricted area. The area defining module defines the restricted area based on that the screen being displayed on the display is determined to be a target screen by the determination module. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092025 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE SPLASH MODE OPERATION AND TRANSITION THERETO - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable and a set of touch sensors are provided with the display assembly. A processor is provided within the housing to detect a gesture via the set of touch sensors, and to interpret the gesture as one of a plurality of user inputs. The processor further detects a presence of extraneous objects on a surface the screen of the display assembly, and adjusts one or more settings of the computing device in response to detecting the presence of extraneous objects. For example, the processor may adjust the one or more settings by reconfiguring a set of actions to be performed in response to the plurality of user inputs. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092026 | REAL-TIME SPECTRAL NOISE MONITORING FOR PROXIMITY SENSING DEVICE - Techniques for detecting noise with a capacitive sensing device. The includes driving a set of one or more sensor electrodes of a plurality of sensor electrodes with a sensing signal at a first frequency, receiving resulting signals based on the sensing signal for each of the one or more sensor electrodes driven, probing the set of one or more sensor electrodes to obtain a set of probing signals, and summing the probing signals of the set of probing signals to generate a noise-analysis signal. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092027 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch sensing device includes a panel including pixels disposed in a matrix form defined by data lines and gate lines, the pixels including thin film transistors (TFTs). The touch sensing device includes at least one touch sensor having a mutual capacitance and a sensor driving circuit configured to receive an electric charge from the mutual capacitance. The touch sensing device further includes a display driving circuit configured to supply a first parasitic capacitance suppressing signal to the data lines and a second parasitic capacitance suppressing signal to the gate lines during a touch sensor driving period. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092028 | NOISE FILTERING DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPACITANCE SENSING DEVICES - A capacitance sensing system can filter noise that presents in a subset of electrodes in the proximity of a sense object (i.e., finger). A capacitance sensing system can include a sense network comprising a plurality of electrodes for generating sense values; a noise listening circuit configured to detect noise on a plurality of the electrodes; and a filtering circuit that enables a filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are above one level, and disables the filtering for localized noise events when detected noise values are below the one level. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092029 | TOUCH SENSING SYSTEM - A touch sensing system includes a charge distributor, a pre-amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a temperature compensating device. The temperature compensating device varies one or more of a first reference voltage supplied to the charge distributor, a second reference voltage supplied to the pre-amplifier, and the capacitance of the charge distributor, in response to temperature data from a temperature sensor. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092030 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device may include a display panel, at least one light source disposed on one side of the display panel, a circuit board to drive the light source, a light guide plate in which light emitted from the light source is incident into a surface and is emitted to another surface, and a lower frame to support the display panel and to accommodate the light source and the light guide plate. The lower frame may include a base substrate, a digitizer disposed on the base substrate, and a dummy digitizer pattern disposed on the base substrate and spaced apart from the digitizer. The circuit board may be disposed between the digitizer and the dummy digitizer pattern, and the lower frame may be bent and extend around the light source. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092031 | VIRTUAL TWO-DIMENSIONAL POSITIONING MODULE OF INPUT DEVICE AND VIRTUAL DEVICE WITH THE SAME - A virtual two-dimensional positioning module of an input device and a virtual input device with the same are revealed. The module set on a plane in use includes an infrared (IR) laser light source, at least two line sensors and a controller. The IR laser light source is for projecting a horizontal IR laser to form a two-dimensional light curtain over and parallel to the plane. The line sensors are arranged separately and used for detecting reflected light caused by a user-controlled object entered into the two-dimensional light curtain to generate a linear position signal respectively. The controller is used to receive the linear position signals from the line sensors and perform processing to get position of the user-controlled object in a two-dimensional coordinate system of the two-dimensional light curtain. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092032 | OPTICAL TOUCH SCREEN SYSTEM AND COMPUTING METHOD THEREOF - An optical touch screen system includes a sensing device and a processing unit. The sensing device includes first and second sensors, each generating an image. The images include the image information of a plurality of objects. The processing unit generates a plurality of candidate coordinates according to the image information and selects a portion of the candidate coordinates as output coordinates according to an optical feature of the image information. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092033 | Three-Dimensional Object Sculpting and Deformation On a Mobile Device - There are provided systems and methods for three-dimensional object sculpting and deformation on a mobile device. The system including a display, a memory storing a sculpting software application, and a processor configured to execute the sculpting software application to present an object to the user on the display, receive a first user input from the user for deforming the object, deform the object based on the first user input to generate a deformed object, receive a second user input from the user for squishing the deformed object using a squishing machine, and re-present the deformed object on the display next to the squishing machine. Squishing the deformed object may include breaking the deformed object in a blending machine, melting the deformed object with a heating machine, blowing the deformed object up with a pump, or breaking the deformed object up within a bubble. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092034 | Kiosk Providing High Speed Data Transfer - This disclosure is directed at least partly to a kiosk that provides innovative user interfaces to engage a user and provide high speed data transfer of content to a user device associated with the user. The kiosk may be located in frequently visited locations such as airports. The kiosks may advertise content and provide instructions to users about how to receive some of the content on user devices via a high speed data transfer. The high speed data transfer may use high speed data transfer protocols that enable download of a standard definition full length movie (e.g., less than 1 GB of data) in less than a couple of seconds or download of a high definition full length movie (e.g., 2-3 GB of data) in a few seconds. Besides, movies, other content may be downloaded such as electronic documents, music, games, and other electronic media available from an electronic catalog. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092035 | Gameplay in a Chat Thread - There is provided a system and method for user generated gameplay in chat. The system including a memory storing a text and multimedia messaging software application, and a processor configured to execute the text and multimedia messaging software application to initiate a message exchange session with a remote mobile device, in response to a request received from a user of the mobile device, the message exchange session displaying a user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, provide a plurality of games for selection by the user to be played during the message exchange session and within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, receive a selection of one of the plurality of games by the user after initiating the message exchange session, and initiate the one of the plurality of games for playing within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092036 | RECASTING A FORM-BASED USER INTERFACE INTO A MOBILE DEVICE USER INTERFACE USING COMMON DATA - A method, system, and computer program product for mobile device interface generation. Embodiments commence upon receiving electronic communication comprising form metadata describing a user interface form. The form metadata comprises one or more field identifiers, which fields of the user interface form are bound to JSON messages (e.g., to receive field data). The form metadata further describes data types pertaining to the form fields, and the data types pertaining to the fields are used to select one or more user interface screen devices from a repository. One or more of the user interface screen devices are associated (e.g., bound) to occurrences of the same JSON message as were bound to fields of the user interface form. The selected one or more interface screen devices are output in a format of data that describes the selected interface screen devices in a manner for deployment on corresponding a mobile device or devices. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092037 | Computer-Implemented Methods, Computer Readable Media, And Systems For Distributed Processing - A server system receives requests for content from a computing device, retrieves the content, and renders the content in a virtual client, e.g. virtual browser, and transmits the rendering to the computing device. The capabilities of the computing device are evaluated. Some content, such as video content may be transmitted directly to the computing device rather than rendered in the virtual client. The capabilities of the computing device may include processing speed and available bandwidth. Content may also be reformatted by the server system before transmitting to the computing device. Co-use, e.g. co-browsing, of the content may be performed by transmitting images of a virtual screen of the virtual client to multiple computing devices and processing inputs from the multiple computing devices in the virtual client. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092038 | SEMI-MODAL INTERACTION BLOCKER - Embodiments can provide interactivity to one or more components (e.g., windows, dialog boxes, tool bar, etc.) in a visual analyzer application while blocking interactivity for other components displayed on a GUI of the application. A contribution mechanism can be leveraged where a broadcast message can be sent to various components displayed on the GUI of the application. The various components within the application can then indicate whether they would like to be kept interactive during a triggering event (e.g., upon selection of a certain component). Upon receiving the indication that the components would like to remain interactive, the application allows those components to remain interactive while preventing access to other components in the GUI. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092039 | Predictive Determination of Actions - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for predictive determination of actions. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a user device can receive input via a user input interface. The user input interface is application agnostic. The user device can analyze the input to determine an action option. The action option can include an action to be performed by the user device if selected. The user device also can present the action option for selection. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092040 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH CONTACT INFORMATION INFERENCE - Communication devices and/or systems are provided for inferring additional information about the contact information maintained in a user's electronic address book. In particular, the additional information may include relationship information or context information inferred based on location and/or correspondence between the user and the others. In an embodiment, the system may identify and analyze communications, such as emails, text messages, or the like, between the user and other users to determine or infer context and relationship between the user and the other users. Communication history between the user and other users also may be used to provide context and relationship history between the user and other users listed in the user's contact list. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092041 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE MATERIAL SELECTION FOR A THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING OBJECT - The present disclosure relates to a system configured to facilitate material selection for a physical three dimensional object to be manufactured by additive manufacturing. In some implementations, the system may comprise one or more of a processor, a user interface, external resources, electronic storage, and/or other components. The system may be configured such that users may upload an electronic three-dimensional representation of the object that is to be manufactured, receive specified material properties for the (eventually) manufactured object from the user, present the user with a virtual model of the object, facilitate interaction with the virtual model of the object to simulate real world use of the object, and determine one or more materials for use during manufacturing of the physical object. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092042 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MENU-BASED NAVIGATION - A system and method for menu-based navigation to view audio and/or visual media is disclosed. A user can navigate through a menu system by moving a cursor between various categories listed in a menu in a first display area. When the user selects a category, the menu changes to display sub-categories within the category, with the chosen category listed in a home position of the first display area. A second display area can display available selections within a selected category or sub-category. A third display area can display additional information about the selected media item. There also can be a display area where a user can create a filter within a selected category or sub-category. The menu selections can contain representations of categories. The categories can be genres or lists of movies or music. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092043 | Timeline View of Recently Opened Documents - Some embodiments provide a method for displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for an electronic device. The method receives input to display files recently opened on the electronic device. In response to the input, the method displays a chronologically-arranged graphical representation of files recently opened on the electronic device from two or more applications that operate on the electronic device. The files are arranged in several groups based on when the files were open on the electronic device. A first group of the several groups is selectable to initiate opening of several files in the first group so that the files in the first group are open concurrently. A second group of the several groups is selectable to initiate opening of several files in the second group so that the files in the second group are open concurrently. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092044 | Method and System for Editing Event Categories - An electronic device with a display, processor(s), and memory displays a video monitoring user interface on the display with a plurality of user interface elements associated one or more recognized activities. The electronic device detects a user input selecting a respective user interface element from the plurality of user interface elements in the video monitoring user interface, the respective user interface element being associated with a respective event category of the one or more recognized event categories. In response to detecting the user input, the electronic device displays an editing user interface for the respective event category on the display with a plurality of animated representations in a first region of the editing user interface, where the plurality of animated representations correspond to a plurality of previously captured motion events assigned to the respective event category. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092045 | Event View Selector - An event view selector for a search user interface is described. In one or more implementations, a service may operate to collect and store data as events and apply a late binding schema to extract events that match the search criteria and provide search results for display via the search user interface. The search user interface exposes an event view selector operable to enable transitions between multiple different views of the events associated with different levels of detail. The views may include at least a raw view, a list view, and a table view. Responsive to receiving an indication of a view selected via the event view selector, the selected view may be exposed via the search user interface. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092046 | TASK FLOW PIN FOR A PORTAL WEB SITE - A system that defines, on a user interface, a task flow for a portal web site, provides a first plurality of selections of a display type for the task flow, where each of the first selections displays the display type on the user interface in substantially an identical manner as the display type is displayed on the portal web site. The system provides a second plurality of selections of a content of display for the task flow, where each of the second selections displays the content of display on the user interface in substantially an identical manner as the content of display is displayed on the portal web site. The system receives one of the first plurality of selections of the display type for the task flow and one of the second plurality of selections of the content of display for the task flow. Based on the received selections of the display type and content of display, the system then generates pin data, where the pin data represents the received selections. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092047 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A SCREEN IN DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus and a method for displaying a screen in a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus and method of displaying a screen in a display apparatus includes setting an area of a display screen as a user designated area through an area designation user interface (UI) and when a preset event is generated, displaying at least one of a graphical user interface (GUI) and a portion of the display screen in the set user designated area, depending on the generated event type. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092048 | DISPLAY OF HIERARCHICAL DATASETS USING HIGH-WATER MARK SCROLLING - Techniques are disclosed for the efficient display of hierarchical datasets using high-water mark scrolling. Certain techniques allow for the creation of simple, intuitive, and computationally inexpensive user interfaces for displaying hierarchical data sets. According to some embodiments, a defined number of items of a hierarchical list are presented in a hierarchical user interface module. This defined number of items may be referred to as a “high-water mark” value. When one of the items having associated child items (that are not currently displayed) is selected, one or more presented items in the hierarchical list are replaced with a corresponding one or more of the child items, thus maintaining a same number of displayed list items (i.e., the high-water mark number of displayed list items). | 2016-03-31 |
20160092049 | GENERIC EDITOR LAYOUT USING INTRINSIC PERSISTENCE METADATA - The present disclosure relates generally to a data integration system that may dynamically generate a GUI for an object model of arbitrary complexity while maintaining GUI usability. In some embodiments, the dynamically generated GUI may be generated from an object model definition received from a user. In some embodiments, the object model may be derived from the user's code and then the GUI may be dynamically generated based on the derived object model. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092050 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING AN INVERSE SLIDING MENU FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - A method for displaying a menu on an electronic device, the method including the steps of generating a menu icon in the graphical user interface, receiving first touch information indicating that a first location associated with a surface area of the menu icon has been touched on the display, displaying a menu that is associated with the menu icon to show a plurality of menu items in the graphical user interface after receiving the first touch information, the menu being displayed at a first screen position, receiving second touch information that is different from the first touch information, the second touch information indicating that a second location has been touched on the display by a finger movement away from the first location, moving the menu in a direction that is inverse to a direction that points from the first touch position to the second touch position to reposition the menu at a second screen position, determining whether one menu item of the plurality of menu items lies at the first location, and highlighting the one menu item from the plurality of menu items based on a result of said determining. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092051 | MULTI-PAGE VIEWING WITH CHAPTER AND PAGE SCROLLING - A processor selectively operates in one of multiple operational modes, including a page mode to singularly display pages of the e-book in a content region of the display screen, and a multi-page mode to display at least portions of a set of multiple pages of the e-book at one time. When the processor operates in the multi-page mode, the processor responds to (i) receiving a page transition input by determining the current page based on the page transition input, and (ii) receiving a chapter transition input by determining the current page to be a page of a chapter that is determined based on the chapter transition input. In response to determining the current page, the processor displays at least portions of the set of multiple pages, including the current page and portions of one or more of a previous page or next page. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092052 | SYNCRONIZING AUDIO PLAYBACK IN COORDINATION WITH EXTERNAL VIDEO PLAYBACK WITH AUTO-DIMMING - Embodiments of the invention provide for tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery. A method of tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery includes selecting a film from amongst a set of films in a user interface to a mobile device and downloading into persistent storage of the mobile device, an audio file associated with the selected film. The method also includes initiating playback of the audio file through the mobile device and presenting one or more selectable fine tune controls in the user interface of the mobile device. In this regard, the controls respond to a selection thereof by skipping playback of the audio file by a predetermined period of time. Finally, the method includes responding to a selection of one of the controls in the user interface, by skipping playback of the audio file by the predetermined period of time. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092053 | CONTROLLING REMOTE PRESENTATIONS THROUGH A WEARABLE DEVICE - A system and method for controlling and modifying a live presentation with a wearable computing device are disclosed. A server system receives a request to begin a presentation from a wearable computer system. The server system then transmits presentation data to a presentation device for display. While transmitting the presentation data to the presentation device for display, the system receives one or more presentation interactions. The system then transmits each interaction stored in the interaction queue to the presentation device. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092054 | LAYOUT CREATION SYSTEM, SERVER, CLIENT, LAYOUT CREATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A layout creation system is for jointly creating order data that determines a layout of a photo book by two or more users of two or more clients connected to a server via a network, and the system retains one piece of joint order data jointly created by the two or more users; receives an instruction to divide the joint order data as input by a relevant user; creates divided order data having the same layout as the joint order data in accordance with the instruction to divide the joint order data; and associates the divided order data with sharing users sharing the divided order data. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING USER INTERFACE - Apparatus and method are disclosed for adaptively adjusting a user interface of an intelligent terminal device. The method may include acquiring a posture parameter of the intelligent terminal device. The method may also include determining dominant hand information of a user of the intelligent terminal device based on the posture parameter. In addition, the method may include adjusting a user interface of the intelligent terminal device based on the dominant hand information of the user. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092056 | METHOD OF SWITCHING VIDEO IMAGES AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM - The disclosure provides a method of switching video images and a surveillance system. The method includes the following steps. A first video image is displayed under a first display mode in a monitoring interface. Whether a target object in the first video image enters into a designated region in the first video image is determined. Whether a ratio of the targeted object to the first video image is smaller than or equal to a first threshold is determined when the target object enters into the designated region. When the ratio is smaller than or equal to the first threshold, a second video image is displayed under the first display mode in the monitoring interface. The designated region in the first video image is related to a geographic position, and the second video image is a video image related to the geographic position. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092057 | E-READING DEVICE TO ENABLE INPUT ACTIONS FOR PANNING AND SNAPBACK VIEWING OF E-BOOKS - An e-reading device is operable to enable a user to pan a content segment (e.g., page or set of pages for a periodical). The user can specify a designated input action in order to enable the paying to be temporary, so as to automatically return that the e-reading device automatically returns to displaying the portion of the content segment that is marked as an origin or point of return. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092058 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touchscreen; and a controller configured to display a content screen on the touchscreen, receive a touch input to a first point on the touchscreen, held over a prescribed time, and then released from a second point, scroll the content screen by a prescribed scroll distance corresponding to a distance between the first point and the second point, and display a preview image for content at a scrolled point while the touch input is held. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092059 | WEB-BASED USER INTERFACE DATAFLOW EDITOR - According to some embodiments, a first drag-and-drop action may be received from a user via a web-based graphical user interface platform to place a first node in a visual dataflow. Similarly, a second drag-and-drop action may be received from the user via the web-based graphical user interface platform to place a second node in the visual dataflow, the second node being directionally connected to the first node. A dataflow creator may then, responsive to said user actions, automatically create a data moving process to move information from a source data repository to a cloud-based destination data repository in accordance with the first and second nodes. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092060 | META GUIDING INTERFACE FOR AN E-READING DEVICE - A meta guiding mode can be implemented on a computing device to alter or disable touch inputs that the computing device otherwise recognizes as input. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092061 | METHOD FOR SELECTING TARGET AT TOUCH POINT ON TOUCH SCREEN OF MOBILE DEVICE - A method for selecting a user's desired target from among a plurality of targets, at a touch point on a touch screen of a mobile device is provided. The method includes displaying a web page; checking a touch input at a touch point is received on the touch screen, a number of hyperlinks overlapped with the touch point in the displayed web page; enlarging, if at least two hyperlinks are overlapped with the touch point, defining a target area around the touch point, the target area, and displaying the enlarged target area; and selecting and visually emphasizing, if only a single one of the hyperlinks in the enlarged target area is overlapped with the touch point, the single hyperlink among the hyperlinks. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092062 | INPUT SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD OF INPUT SUPPORT, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An object is to provide an input support apparatus, a method of input support, and a computer program that can appropriately perform feedback to a user when a noncontact operation is performed without using a controller. The present invention continuously acquires space coordinates of a certain part of a user via a detector and, based on the updated space coordinates, performs display control to move a marker to a corresponding position on a display screen of a display unit, where an initial shape of the marker includes a plurality of shapes obtained by dividing any desired shape, and display control is performed that separates the shapes more widely from each other from the corresponding position on the display screen as a distance of the space coordinates to a certain plane in a coordinate system of the space coordinates is longer and brings the shapes closer to each other to the corresponding position on the display screen as the distance is shorter. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092063 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANAGING A PLURALITY OF OBJECTS DISPLAYED ON TOUCH SCREEN - A method and an apparatus of managing a plurality of objects displayed on a touch screen are provided. The method includes determining whether at least two objects of the plurality of objects have been touched simultaneously on the touch screen, determining whether at least one of the at least two objects has moved on the touch screen, if the at least two objects have been touched simultaneously, determining the distance between the touched at least two objects, if the at least one of the at least two objects has moved on the touch screen, combining the touched at least two objects into a set, if the distance between the touched at least two objects is less than a predetermined value, and displaying the set on the touch screen. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092064 | Method and Apparatus for Displaying Application Interface, and Electronic Device - The present disclosure discloses a method and an electronic device for displaying an application interface. The method includes: acquiring, by an electronic device when displaying an interface corresponding to a first application, a first input operation of a user; and simultaneously displaying, according to preset correlation information when the first input operation is a first preset operation, the interface corresponding to the first application and an interface corresponding to a second application, where the correlation information is used to indicate that the second application is an application that correlates with the first application. A corresponding electronic device is further provided. By adopting the present disclosure, interfaces respectively corresponding to multiple applications are simultaneously displayed on a display device, which may enhance user experience. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092065 | USER INTERFACE FEATURES IN A SYSTEM OF CONCURRENT GAMES - A video gaming system is disclosed that includes one or more game processors, one or more video displays, an apparatus for a player to control the play of the game, and a memory device. The memory device stores a set of fixed instructions to control the game processor and is configured to: enable the player to interact with the game interface to select a game from a list of games offered by the video gaming machine, wherein the game is represented by a game bubble floating in the game interface; display a game selection interface to enable the player to select the game and add the game in a control panel, wherein the control panel is configured to display multiple games selected by the player; and enable the player to switch among the plurality of games and control a game play of the plurality of games concurrently. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092066 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING UI, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UI OF DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a display; a transceiver configured to perform communication with a plurality of electronic devices so as to receive information on a usage of the plurality of electronic devices; a storage configured to classify and store information on a pattern of usage generated according to the information on the usage of the plurality of electronic devices and information on a time period of the usage of the plurality of electronic devices; and a controller configured to detect the pattern of usage corresponding to an arbitrary event when the arbitrary event occurs and configure a variable user interface (UI) screen to be displayed on the display based on the pattern of usage. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092067 | E-MAIL INTERFACE HAVING AN INFORMATIONAL TOOL TIP - An interface enables perception of information regarding e-mail communications. The interface includes an e-mail application user interface that enables perception of e-mail message information for one or more e-mails received by an e-mail participant and that enables active display of one or more of the received e-mails selected by the e-mail participant, The interface also includes a mechanism that determines a request for e-mail message information for one of the e-mails from within a desired e-mail message that is not actively displayed. The interface further includes an informational tool tip that provides a temporary perceivable indication to the e-mail participant of at least a portion of the requested information for the desired e-mail message while maintaining active display of the one or more selected e-mails. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092068 | VISUALIZATION OF ADDRESSES - Provided are techniques for visualization of addresses. Search criteria for an entity is received. One or more addresses for the entity are identified based on the search criteria. For each of the one or more addresses, a floor associated with the entity at that address is identified, related information for the floor that includes photographs of views seen from that floor are identified, and, on a 2-dimensional (2-D) electronic map, a 3-dimensional (3-D) structure that indicates the floor and provides access to the related information is plotted. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092069 | MODIFYING WAGERING GAME GRAPHICS - A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include intercepting video data from a graphics controller of a wagering game machine. In some instances, the video data depicts wagering game content for a wagering game. In some examples, a first content controller, associated with the wagering game, is configured to cause the graphics controller to generate the video data. The operations can further include performing a graphical analysis of the video data via a second content controller independent from the first content controller. The operations can further include after performing the graphical analysis, modifying the video data via the second content controller. In some examples modifying the video data modifies an appearance of a first portion of the wagering game content without modifying an appearance of a second portion of the wagering game content. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092070 | LOCATION DISPLAY METHOD, PORTABLE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING THE METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE METHOD - A location display method, a portable communication apparatus using the method, and a recording medium using the method are provided. The method is adapted for the portable communication apparatus having a positioning unit and a touch screen. In the method, the portable communication apparatus is positioned to obtain first location information by using the positioning unit. Next, a communication interface is displayed on the touch screen to proceed a call, in which the communication interface displays the first location information. Furthermore, a location sharing key may also be displayed in the communication interface, and a selecting operation performed on the location sharing key is received by using the touch screen, and according to contact information of an opposite party of the call, the first location information is sent to the opposite party and/or second location information sent by the opposite party is received. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092071 | GENERATE PREVIEW OF CONTENT - In an implementation a display component can display a user interface. An input component can detect an input to the user interface. A controller can render an icon to launch an application and to generate a preview of the content related to the application. If a first input is detected by the input component the application is launched. If a second input is detected by the input component additional content related to the application is rendered. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092072 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display configured to display a plurality of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) corresponding to a plurality of speakers; a communicator configured to communicate with the plurality of speakers; and a processor configured to control a content output in at least one speaker of the plurality of speakers to be output in another speaker according to a touch interaction with respect to at least one GUI of the plurality of GUIs. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092073 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING SYSTEM - In an information processing device, a storage unit stores format information and an option value to be used in a recording process. A communication unit is configured to perform wireless communication with a service providing device and an image recording device configured to perform the recording process. A control unit executes: receiving layout definition data including layout information representing a layout of a content image icon; displaying a layout image in which the content image icon is disposed according to the layout information; receiving content data from the service providing device; displaying a preview image representing a result of the recording process when the user's touch operation is received on a location of the content image icon; and transmitting recording instruction when the user's operation for instructing the image recording device to perform the recording process is received. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092074 | MULTI-MODAL FUSION ENGINE - An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an electronic device, a command input using a first modality; detecting, at the electronic device, a selecting input using a different modality; combining, using a processor, the command input and the selecting input into an application formatted command; and providing the application formatted command to an application running on the electronic device for execution. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092075 | Displaying Data Related to Media Content - Examples described herein may include a computing device of a media playback system receiving a display map corresponding to a media service provider. The display map may associate a data field with a location within a display of the computing device. The computing device may further receive a data item associated with a media item of the media service provider. The received data item may correspond to the data field. The computing device may display an indication of the received data item at the location in accordance with the display map. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092076 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MENU-BASED NAVIGATION FEATURING SHOWCASES - A system and method for menu-based navigation to view audio and/or visual media is disclosed. A user can navigate through a menu system by moving a cursor between various showcases listed in a second display area of a screen. When the user selects a category, the menu changes to display sub-categories within the category in a first area of the screen. The second display area can display information about available media items within a selected category or sub-category. A third display area can display additional information about the selected media item. There can also be a display area where a user can create a filter within a selected category or sub-category. The menu selections can contain images representative of categories. The categories can be genres of movies or music. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092077 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIVE BOUNDARY MAPPING - Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating interactive boundaries of service sites for a selected geographic location. In one implementation, a primary boundary enclosing a geographical region is determined. A primary layer is generated based on the primary boundary. One or more secondary layers are generated, and each secondary layer has a plurality of secondary boundaries each defined based on a service location. A union layer is generated based on the primary layer and the one or more secondary layers. The union layer has a plurality of union boundaries corresponding to a subset of the service sites. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092078 | METHOD FOR SELECTING A RECORDING AREA AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A RECORDING AREA - In a 3D image of a patient supported on a patient table, the 3D image incorporates depth information about the outline of the patient. The 3D image is received and image information based on the 3D image is displayed on a screen, embedded into a graphical user interface. A first recording area is selectable particularly precisely by the selection being based on the inputting of a first start position and also a first end position in the displayed image information via the graphical user interface. The first recording area is displayed as a graphically highlighted first zone. Furthermore, a first position of the first recording area is determined relative to a recording unit based on the depth information and also based on the selection of the first recording area. This results in the first position being determined rapidly and particularly reliably, in particular in the vertical direction. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092079 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit that displays a drawing indicating a search word or an attribute of the search word on a trajectory at one corner of four corners of a screen in a selectable state, moves the drawing along the trajectory in response to an operation of a user, and selects the drawing to select the search word with the attribute attached thereto or the attribute of the search word, and a search unit that performs a search using the search word or the attribute of the search word that is selected by the selection unit, wherein the selection unit displays a plurality of trajectories, each of which an attribute is associated with and the drawing is arranged on. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092080 | TOUCH INTERFACE FOR PRECISE ROTATION OF AN OBJECT - Systems, methods, and computer program products to rotate virtual objects within a virtual environment being displayed on a touch screen display, by, upon receiving a selection of a first virtual object using the touch screen display, rendering one or more frames depicting a rotation tool in a predefined location relative to the first virtual object and having a first orientation to the first virtual object, responsive to receiving input from the touch screen display, moving the rotation tool from a first location to a second location on the touch screen display as specified by the received input, and responsive to the movement of the rotation tool, rotating the first virtual object within the virtual environment based on the movement of the rotation tool, wherein the first virtual object substantially maintains the first orientation to the rotation tool throughout the movement. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092081 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR GENERATING A VISUAL OVERLAY - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for generating a visual overlay are disclosed. According to one exemplary method for generating a visual overlay, the method includes providing a graphical user interface (GUI) window including one or more user interface (UI) elements. The method also includes receiving user input via interaction with the UI elements. The method further includes in response to receiving the user input, generating and displaying a visual overlay in at least a portion of the GUI window, wherein the visual overlay includes at least one dynamic UI element that includes one or more characteristics determined using the user input. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092082 | Visualizing Relationships Between Entities in Content Items - Some embodiments provide a method for displaying relationships in content. From several entities that appear in a set of content items and for which representations are displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI), the method receives a selection of one or more of the entities through the representations in the GUI. For each non-selected entity of a set of non-selected entities of the several entities, the method determines a count of content items in the set of content items in which the one or more selected entities and the non-selected entity appear. The method displays in the GUI a visualization of the representations of the several entities that indicates which of the entities are selected and the counts for each of the set of non-selected entities. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092083 | UNLIMITED ICON OVERLAYS - A computerized method for modifying an icon image, comprising retrieving an original icon image of an operating system, combining the original icon image with sub-images thus forming a combined icon image, and replacing the original icon image with the combined icon image, wherein the method is performed on an at least one computerized apparatus configured to perform the method. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092084 | CANVAS LAYOUT ALGORITHM - Embodiments are directed to automatic layout organization where various visualizations within a canvas layout can be dynamically rearranged or modified in dimension upon a user specified modification to maximize usability. Some embodiments display a graphical user interface (GUI) including multiple components in a display area, where each component has one or more initial dimensions. In response to an event, embodiments can determine an edge corresponding to the event. Some embodiments determine a box based on the edge, the box enclosing a portion of the display area that is less than the entire display area. Certain embodiments determine a set of components corresponding to the box, the set of components being fewer than all of the components. Embodiments may redraw the GUI such that the set of components is redrawn, where a dimension of each component of the set of components is different from an initial dimension of the component. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092085 | SELECTIVE ACCESS TO INTERACTIVE DEVICE FEATURES - Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing access to interactive features to a user of a computing device are described. The computing device may determine a level of interactive facility for the user and to selectively provide access to one or more interactive features. The computing device may determine new levels of interactive facility, such as through an evaluation of the user and/or based on various interactions with the computing device. The computing device may identify requests for interactive features and/or levels of frustration or comfort to determine levels of interactive facility with the computing device. The computing device may selectively hiding or making available interactive features to the user. The computing device may announce when features are made available such as through visual or auditory announcements. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092086 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SETTING MENU ACCESS METHOD OF THE SAME - A handheld electronic device is provided. The handheld electronic device includes a storage unit, a touch display unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores pieces of associating data each associating one of applications with corresponding setting options. The touch display unit receives a setting menu accessing command. The processing unit executes an active application of the applications, retrieves one piece of the associating data related to the active application in response to the setting menu accessing command and control the touch display unit to display a setting menu including only the corresponding setting options associated with the active application. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092087 | MULTI-STATE SLIDER FEATURE FOR TRANSITIONING THROUGH AN E-BOOK - Examples described herein provide for a multi-state slider feature for enabling page and/or chapter transitions through an e-book. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092088 | COMPUTING SYSTEM FACILITATING INTER-USER COMMUNICATION - Techniques and constructs can provide user communication with reduced bandwidth load. An indication of an item of user-linked content can be received. A confirmation view can be displayed and a confirmation received. An available one of a predetermined number of content slots can be determined. An association between the item of user-linked content and the available content slot can then be recorded in a computer storage medium. An example apparatus can include an insertion module responsive to a user-operable input device to insert a user-linked content item corresponding to a visual representation into one of the content slots. An example apparatus can include a summary module configured to present a summary visual representation of a plurality of items of user-linked content via the display. At least one of the items can include a gameplay video or an in-game collateral item. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092089 | Display Control Method And Electronic Apparatus - A display method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes: displaying a first display page via a display device, where the first display page includes a first region; detecting a first sliding operation and a second sliding operation on the display device with respect to the first display page; determining whether the first sliding operation and the second sliding operation satisfy a set of predetermined conditions; and controlling a display size of the first region according to the first sliding direction or the second sliding direction, if the first sliding operation and the second sliding operation satisfy the set of predetermined conditions. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092090 | DYNAMIC VISUAL PROFILING AND VISUALIZATION OF HIGH VOLUME DATASETS AND REAL-TIME SMART SAMPLING AND STATISTICAL PROFILING OF EXTREMELY LARGE DATASETS - The present disclosure relates generally to a data enrichment service that automatically profiles data sets and provides visualizations of the profiles using a visual-interactive model within a client application (such as a web browser or mobile app). The visual profiling can be refined through end user interaction with the visualization objects and guide exploratory data visualization and discovery. Additionally, data sampling of heterogeneous data streams can be performed during ingestion to extract statistical attributes from multi-columnar data (e.g., standard deviation, median, mode, correlation coefficient, histogram, etc.). Data sampling can continue in real-time as data sources are updated. | 2016-03-31 |
20160092091 | ADJUSTING PAGE LAYOUTS - A group of files are presented on a graphical user interface using a template. The presentation is controlled by a rule associated with the template. A user input for adjusting a layout parameter of a selected file of the group of files is received. In response, the rule is examined and the layout parameter of the selected file is adjusted based on the rule. One or more next files in the group of files are evaluated to determine if the rule is satisfied following adjusting the layout parameter of the selected file. Based on determining that the rule is violated, layout parameters of the one or more next files are recursively adjusted until the rule is satisfied. The presentation of the group of files using the template is updated based on recursively adjusting the layout parameters of the one or more next files. | 2016-03-31 |