| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 715232000 | Positioning of annotation | 45 |
| 20080215962 | PC-METADATA ON BACKSIDE OF PHOTOGRAPH - A method including selectively displaying a content side or a backside, respectively, of a digital media content, wherein the backside includes an area for notes; and storing notes of the area as meta data to the digital media content is disclosed. A corresponding apparatus, user interface, and computer program is also disclosed. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20090158136 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO MESSAGING - Methods and systems for managing messaging are described. In an illustrative embodiment, widget code is transmitted from a server to a user terminal, wherein the widget code, when executed is configured to display a playlist. A message management system receives from the widget a user request to transmit at least one selected video from the video playlist to a recipient and user text to be transmitted to the recipient in conjunction with the selected video. The transmission of the video message and the user text to the recipient is initiated. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090217150 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE ANNOTATION - A method (and corresponding system and computer program product) that enables users to collaboratively annotate images and selectively review user annotations online is described. Images and annotation tools are made available in web pages. Users can initiate the collaborative annotation process by annotating the images using the annotation tools embedded in the web pages. The images, the related user annotations, and the annotation tools are made available in web pages. Users can retrieve the web pages and make further annotations and/or selectively review the related annotations using the annotation tools. The subsequent annotations are recorded and added to the web pages for further review and additional annotations. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090259933 | System for Displaying an Annotated Programming File - A system includes a display, a processor executing an application program for displaying an annotation file, and memory storing program instructions of the application program. The processor associates an annotation with a programming module of a baseline file to display, in an unsegmented window of a graphical user interface, the baseline file as a hierarchical structure having nodes. Each node represents a programming module of the baseline file. Displayed is an annotation in the unsegmented window of the GUI proximate to the node that represents the programming module with which the annotation is associated. The displayed annotation includes selectable messages displayed proximate to each other to facilitate visual comparison. Each selectable message describes a modification made to the baseline file by a different contributor. The annotation indicates that the modifications produce a conflict. The conflict is resolvable within the unsegmented window by a selection of one of the selectable messages. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100011281 | SYSTEMS AND MEHTODS FOR ANNOTATING PAGES OF A 3D ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - To annotate a three-dimensional electronic document, a user specifies, on a two-dimensional screen, a portion of a page of a three-dimensional document as a specified page area to be annotated by making a stroke. The annotation may be displayed to the user by a hybrid technique where the annotation is displayed by a 3D polyline segment placed behind the near clipping plane of a virtual camera frustum. At the same time, previous annotations are displayed by another technique, such as, for example, the texture coloring technique. During the intermittent time between the stroke and another stroke the 3D polyline segment is removed from behind the near clipping plane and the page texture is updated with the annotation data. The display techniques support highlighting annotations, free-form annotations, and text annotations. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100023851 | PRESENTING ANNOTATIONS IN HIERARCHICAL MANNER - Ambient displays and electronic whiteboards are commonly used to present information during meeting or other appropriate settings. Many times graphical objects are displayed on ambient displays where users of the ambient display will create annotations to the graphical object to provide further comments, meaning, and/or context. Annotations on the ambient display may be recorded for later review. An effective way to present recorded annotations is through a hierarchical system that provides context to the annotations. Annotations may be defined as sets of annotations based upon a logical grouping (e.g. spatial density, temporal density, etc.). These sets can be displayed to users as annotation branches. One method for displaying annotations branches is with a timeline. Depending on where along the timeline a user is, different annotations and/or annotation branches are displayed in relation to one another (e.g. annotation branches that derive from another annotation branch are displayed in a hierarchical manner). | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100077292 | Automated feature-based to do list - A picture is used as a to do list. The picture is obtained either as a still image, or as a frame of the video. Once obtained, the picture can be annotated in various ways to indicate information about the image that made it interesting to the user. Various information about the image is also stored. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100107050 | DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME WITH ANNOTATION FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - A digital photo frame (DPF) with annotation function and a method thereof are provided. The method includes steps of: reading a to-be-displayed original photo; displaying the read original photo; receiving touch operations on the touch screen; generating an annotation interface on the original photo in response to the touch operations, identifying an annotations corresponding to the touch operations, and displaying the annotations on the annotation interface; making the annotations overlaying on the original photo; displaying the overlaid photo. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100125780 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH ANNOTATION FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device with annotation function and a method thereof are provided. The method includes steps of: reading a to-be-displayed original photo; receiving touch operations on a touch screen; generating an annotation interface on the original photo in response to the touch operations, identifying an annotations corresponding to the touch operations, and displaying the annotations on the annotation interface; making the annotations overlaying on the original photo; displaying the overlaid photo; generating a parameter file which includes parameters corresponding to the annotations on the annotation interface; storing the generated parameter file; establishing a relationship between the original photo and the parameter file. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20110209044 | DOCUMENT IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT IMAGE GENERATING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - It is expected to provide a document image generating apparatus, a document image generating method and a computer program that can keep a layout of original text present in the original text image and then can improve the readability of original text and the readability annotation corresponding to the original text (e.g., translation). | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110289401 | MULTIPLE GRAPHICAL ANNOTATIONS OF DOCUMENTS USING OVERLAYS - Systems and methods for sharing document annotations. A document is displayed on a graphical user interface and first annotation information for the document is created by a first user, the annotation information including first annotations and positioning information for positioning a first overlay window relative to the document. The first overlay window with the first annotations is displayed over the document wherein the document is visible through the first overlay window. The annotation information is sharable with other users, whereby a different user is able to display the overlay with annotations made by the first user over the document on a different system, and the annotations do not modify the underlying document. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120042235 | DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING DESIGN SUPPORT PROGRAM - A design support apparatus includes a search unit configured to refer to a first database including annotation information pieces added to a first product model and site identification information pieces associated with the annotation information pieces, respectively, and to search, in a second product model, a second site corresponding to a first site identified by the site identification information piece. Each of the site identification information pieces is for identifying the first site to which the associated annotation information piece is added in the first product model. The apparatus further includes a placement unit configured to place the annotation information piece associated with the corresponding site identification information piece at the second site when the search unit determines that the second site exists in the second product model. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120066581 | ANNOTATING E-BOOKS / E-MAGAZINES WITH APPLICATION RESULTS - A device receives and displays an electronic book or electronic magazine, and receives user selection of a portion of content of the electronic book or electronic magazine. The device executes an application that obtains items of data related to the selected portion of content, receives selection of one or more items of the data, and attaches the one or more items of data to the selected portion of the content in a bookmark fashion to annotate the e-book or e-magazine. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120221938 | Electronic Book Interface Systems and Methods - An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120284606 | System And Methodology For Collaboration Utilizing Combined Display With Evolving Common Shared Underlying Image - A system and methodology for collaborating. The system as illustrated is comprised of at least two computing appliances, each of the computing appliances for use by a respective user. Each of the computing appliances is comprised of a processor, memory, communications interface, input apparatus, and display apparatus. Each said display apparatus provides a respective display presentation of a common shared underlying image. The respective input apparatus is responsive to input by the respective user to provide annotation data representative of a display image of annotations associated with the respective user. Thereafter, a respective user at each of the at least two of the computing appliances provides a combined display presentation comprised of a combination of the display image of the annotations associated with the respective user, shown as comprised of the display image of the annotations for the at least one of the respective users, which are aligned to and overlaid atop of the common shared underlying image in the combined display presentation. In one embodiment, the system is further comprised of communications apparatus providing voice (and/or video) communications between said respective users at least two of said respective computing appliances while also providing the display presentation at said at least two computing appliances. In an alternate embodiment, the display presentation starts as displaying only the base core image, and evolves at each subsequent finite point in time to provide a display presentation of an evolved combined image at each said subsequent finite point in time. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120317471 | Method for making mark in electronic book and mobile terminal - The disclosure provides a method for making a mark in an electronic book and a mobile terminal. In the method, coordinates of a starting point and an ending point that a user has intended to mark are obtained; the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point are transformed to a starting character offset and an ending character offset respectively; characters from a character corresponding to the starting character offset to a character corresponding to the ending character offset are marked in a preset marking manner, the marks are displayed, and the starting character offset and the ending character offset are stored. The method for making a mark in an electronic book and the mobile terminal provided by the disclosure implement the marking function of an electronic book by obtaining and storing a starting character offset and an ending character offset, thereby meeting the marking requirement of a user in using an electronic book and improving the user's experience of usage. Moreover, the disclosure is simple to design and easy to implement. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120324330 | INFORMATION SHARING SUPPORT SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTER CONTROLLING METHOD - An information sharing support system includes a first information processor connected to a projector that projects an image on a projection area including an object, and to an image pick-up device for picking up an image of the projection area; an inputting unit that inputs an event in a first layer, inputs a second annotation image as a part of a first annotation image associated with the event to a second layer, inputs a third annotation image to a third layer, and inputs a document to a fourth layer; a transmitter that transmits the second annotation image to the projector device; a receiving unit that receives a picked-up image; and a second information processing device that allocates the picked-up image to the second layer, and includes a display that displays the third annotation image and the document in an overlapping fashion. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20130061125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANNOTATING AND SENDING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - According to one embodiment, a method is provided that can comprise receiving, by a server computer system from a user operating a client computing device, an electronic document and user input for adding one or more electronic annotations to the electronic document. The method can further comprise generating, by the server computer system, an annotated version of the electronic document that includes the one or more electronic annotations based on the user input. The server computer system can then send the annotated version of the electronic document to a recipient designated by the user. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130080873 | PACKAGING, PRESENTATION, AND UPDATING OF MULTIPLE TIME-BASED MEDIA ELEMENTS IN REAL TIME - The present invention provides a graphical user interface for displaying content. The user interface comprises a list of display areas, including a first display area arranged to display' a primary time based media element. The at least one second display area is arranged to display at least one secondary media element that is temporally associated with the primary time based media element. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130124967 | Collaborative Commenting in a Drawing Tool - Methods and systems providing for collaborative commenting in a drawing tool are provided. One example method includes receiving a shape on a drawing canvas, and receiving a comment associated with the shape, the comment including a name of a commenting user. The method also includes receiving an indication of a movement of the shape from the first position to a second position, and, in response to the indication of the movement of the shape, automatically moving the comment closer to the second position of the shape. In some cases, the commenting user can be a user other than the user adding the shape to the document, and can be performed by a concurrent editor of the document. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20140173409 | PICTURE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for processing pictures comprises steps. Generate a request signal for adding annotation information about the picture in response to an input operation to a displayed picture. Generate an input box and display the input box on the displayed picture to allow user to input annotation information. Recognize the annotation information input in the input box. Determine a position the annotation information labeled. Generate a mark to mark the position and display the mark on the position. Establish a relationship between the picture, the annotation information, the position of the annotation information, and the mark. Store the generated relationship. Generate a request signal for browsing annotation information about the picture in response to a input operation. Obtain the annotation information of the picture. Display the obtained annotation information of the picture. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140181630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADDING ANNOTATIONS TO AN IMAGE - A method comprising the steps of:
| 06-26-2014 |
| 20140189486 | Non-Transitory Computer Readable Medium Storing Document Sharing Program, Terminal Device and Document Sharing Method - A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions executed by a processor of a terminal device to perform following processes. The processor acquires data indicating a document shared between a plurality of terminal devices, and displays, on a display device of the terminal device, a display range indicating at least a portion of the document. The processor receives annotation data indicating an annotation superimposed on the document in another terminal device, and determines whether the annotation is inside the display range in the document. If the annotation is not inside the display range, the processor displays a marker indicating that the annotation data has been received. The processor determines whether operation information acquired from an operation device of the terminal device indicates an operation targeting the marker. If the acquired operation information indicates the operation targeting the marker, the processor changes the display range to include the annotation inside the display range. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140245123 | SYNCHRONIZING ANNOTATIONS BETWEEN PRINTED DOCUMENTS AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - An image of a printed document portion is provided to a synchronizer. The synchronizer retrieves an electronic version of the printed document and identifies an electronic text portion that is textually similar to a printed text portion. The synchronizer detects an annotation in the printed document portion and inserts a corresponding digital annotation into the electronic document. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140281878 | Aligning Annotation of Fields of Documents - Methods and systems of aligning annotation of fields of documents are provided. Training information that includes first measurement information pertaining to features of each of a plurality of fields associated with training clusters for documents of a document type is accessed. A first training cluster is annotated with a first name and the second training cluster is annotated with a second name. An electronic classification model is generated based on the training information. Second measurement information for features of fields associated with new clusters of a new document is accessed. Each of the new clusters is automatically annotated based on the second measurement information using the classification model. For example, a first new cluster that has fields of the first field type is annotated with the first name and a second new cluster that has fields of the second field type is annotated with the second name. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289605 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE IMAGE ANNOTATION | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140298153 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit obtaining data of an image of an object and data of a plurality of annotations attached to the image, an input unit receiving a designation of a display magnification for enlarging or reducing the image, and a generation unit generating display data with which the annotations are displayed in such a way as to be superimposed on the image enlarged at the designated display magnification, wherein the data of the plurality of annotations includes position information indicating a position in the image at which each annotation is attached and information about the display magnification of the image at the time of attachment of each annotation, and the generation unit generates display data with which display modes of annotations are made different between annotations of which the display magnifications of the image at the time of attachment thereof are different. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140310586 | Systems and Methods for Displaying Annotated Video Content by Mobile Computing Devices - Systems and methods for displaying annotated video content by mobile computing devices. An example method may comprise: presenting, on a display of a mobile computing device, a video stream including a plurality of video frames; presenting a video annotation overlaid over a frame of the plurality of video frames; receiving a user interface command via a user input interface of the mobile computing device; and performing an action related to the video annotation, the action defined by the user interface command. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20150067469 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY CONTROL - According to at least one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an input module and a display processor. The input module receives data of a document, the document including elements and an annotation, wherein if the document is displayed on a first screen, the elements are arranged in a first layout and the annotation is arranged on at least a part of a first element of the elements. The display processor displays the document on a second screen differing in size from the first screen, using the data, wherein if the document is displayed on the second screen, the elements are arranged in a second layout and the annotation is arranged on at least a part of the first element of the elements in the second layout. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067470 | MOBILE TERMINAL SUPPORTING NOTE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for controlling a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes displaying respective notes, upon execution of a note function, determining whether a user input for selecting one of the notes has been received, and transforming and displaying a selected note based on a first attribute of the selected note and the received user input. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150082143 | VESSEL ANNOTATOR - The present invention relates to annotating a medical image. For an improved manual insertion of information in a medical image, it is provided to display an image ( | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150100874 | UI TECHNIQUES FOR REVEALING EXTRA MARGIN AREA FOR PAGINATED DIGITAL CONTENT - Techniques are disclosed for revealing extra margin area for paginated digital content, referred to herein as an extra margins mode. For example, the extra margins mode may be used to reveal/expose extra margin area (galley area) at the perimeter of one or more pages of an eBook or a photo of a photo album. Once galley area is exposed, a user can add content to the galley area, such as annotations using a stylus. In some cases, the extra margins mode may be configured to expose galley area for one or more pages in response to a reveal command input, such as a pinch gesture, a drag gesture, or an inward flick gesture from near the edge of a page using a stylus. The extra margins mode may also be configured to hide exposed galley areas in response to a hide command input, such as spread gesture. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100875 | DISPLAY OF SPATIALLY-RELATED ANNOTATION FOR WRITTEN CONTENT - Examples disclose a computing device comprising a processor to receive handwriting data from an electronic writing instrument describing written content provided on a surface off-screen from a display. Further, the examples provide the processor to analyze the handwriting data to determine an annotation corresponding to a portion of the written content. Additionally, the examples also disclose a display on the computing device to render the annotation at a position spatially related to a position of the portion of written content on the writing surface. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150135055 | RIB LABELING FOR 2D IMAGES - In at least one embodiment of the invention, a method of rib labeling for 2D images is disclosed. In at least one embodiment a corresponding computation unit, a system including a computation unit and a displaying unit, a medical imaging device, and a computer program are also disclosed. According to a first embodiment of the invention, the method of rib labeling includes receiving a plurality of 2D images representing cross sections of a rib cage, each 2D image comprising cross sections of a plurality of ribs; and generating an anatomical label for each of the ribs in each of the 2D images, each anatomical label being placed radially outside the rib cage. Each anatomical label is placed in the vicinity of the cross section of the respective rib to provide a simple identification of the respective rib. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150149883 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing device capable of displaying an annotation in an appropriate position. An image obtaining unit obtains an image. An annotation target information obtaining unit obtains annotation target information for indicating an annotation target to which to add an annotation, the annotation target being including in the image. An annotation information obtaining unit obtains annotation information indicating an annotation. A display position determination unit determines a display position of the annotation based on the position or the area of the annotation target. A data output unit outputs data on the image with the annotation displayed in the display position determined by the display position determination unit. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150356063 | PLACE-BASED INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Methods and apparatuses for place-based information processing are disclosed. The method includes receiving annotation information inputted by a user; acquiring geographical location information of a mobile terminal device; sending the annotation information and the geographical location information to a server so that the server determines place information of where the user is located according to the geographical location information, establishes and stores a correspondence between the annotation information and the place information to provide the annotation information to a querying user in the place. In the present disclosure, “traces” of the user may be kept in the place and are not subject to an actual condition in the place, which do not need real paper and pen, and do not affect the actual scenery of the place. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160034439 | Optimizing the Placement of Clustered Textural Annotations - A processor receives a command to optimize the placement of a plurality of annotations along a polyline displayed on a graphical user interface. The plurality of annotations has a plurality of font sizes and each font size has a height. A plurality of annotation slot size candidates is selected for logical annotation slots along the polyline. An annotation slot size is selected from among the plurality of annotation slot size candidates, wherein the chosen annotation slot size is smaller than largest of the font sizes. The polyline is divided into logical annotation slots having the chosen annotation slot size. The plurality of annotations is distributed among the logical annotation slots. The polyline and the distributed plurality of annotations is displayed on the graphical user interface. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160048987 | GROUPING IMAGE ANNOTATIONS - A system for grouping image annotations is disclosed. A display unit ( | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160070687 | CREATING AN ANNOTATION PANE FOR A DOCUMENT BY AUGMENTING THE DOCUMENT - Annotation methods and systems for supporting the annotation of documents in the format of a rendering engine are provided. The annotation system allows for the adding of annotations to documents, the displaying of annotations over content of the documents, and the displaying of annotations in an annotation pane. To provide annotation support for a document, the annotation system augments the document with elements including an element with annotation engine code and elements to support the collecting and displaying of annotations. When the rendering engine renders the document, it executes the annotation engine code to effect the collecting and displaying of the annotations. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160070688 | DISPLAYING ANNOTATIONS OF A DOCUMENT BY AUGMENTING THE DOCUMENT - Annotation methods and systems for supporting the annotation of documents in the format of a rendering engine are provided. The annotation system allows for the adding of annotations to documents, the displaying of annotations over content of the documents, and the displaying of annotations in an annotation pane. To provide annotation support for a document, the annotation system augments the document with elements including an element with annotation engine code and elements to support the collecting and displaying of annotations. When the rendering engine renders the document, it executes the annotation engine code to effect the collecting and displaying of the annotations. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160085736 | DOCUMENT BROWSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DOCUMENT BROWSING DEVICE - A document browsing device causes a display portion to display a row specifying image which specifies one row in a page image, and detects a change in a gazing direction of a viewer. Further, when the gazing direction has shown a predetermined change along a row direction of character strings in the page image, the document browsing device updates a display state of the row specifying image on the display portion to a state to specify a row next to a row to be specified at a point of time of the satisfaction. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160103817 | Method, device and system for electronic stamping - A method for electronic stamping comprises: receiving a touching event of a touchscreen and position information indicating a position on the touchscreen where the touching event occurs; receiving a stamping event of an electronic stamping device; retrieving a stamp image and electronic stamping authentication information from the electronic stamping device after receiving, in a predefined time period, the touching event of the touchscreen and the stamping event of the electronic stamping device; and determining a stamping position based on the position information indicating the position on the touchscreen where the touching event occurs, and executing electronic stamping at the determined stamping position based on the stamp image and the electronic stamping authentication information. An electronic stamping device and a stamping apparatus are also disclosed. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160124927 | INCORPORATING CONTENT ANALYTICS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING INTO INTERNET WEB BROWSERS - Techniques disclosed herein describe generating annotations for text content rendered on a web browser. The web browser is configured with a content analytics plug-in configured to receive content to render in the web browser. The content itself includes unstructured text. The content analytics plug-in evaluates the unstructured text using content analytics and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to characterize the meaning of one or more passages in the unstructured text. The content analytics plug-in then generates annotations based on the characterizations to display when the web browser renders the content. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160154547 | TASK SUPPORT TERMINAL APPARATUS, TASK SUPPORT METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160196253 | ANNOTATION SHARING METHOD, ANNOTATION SHARING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | 07-07-2016 |
