| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 715233000 | Annotation by other than text (e.g., image, etc.) | 39 |
| 20080229186 | Persisting digital ink annotations as image metadata - Techniques are described for storing data about a displayed image. Image data corresponding to the displayed image is received. One or more ink annotations associated with the displayed image are received. The image data is stored to a first portion of the image file. A representation of the ink annotations are stored in a second portion of the image file. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090044097 | REDLINED OUTPUTTING OPTIONS FOR PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing improved user interfaces for productivity applications are provided. In some embodiments, a user can output a clean copy of a document that has been edited using redlines while preserving the redlines in the open document. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090055724 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATION - A method and computer program product for generating a data visualization based, at least in part, upon a data set. A first user is allowed to add an annotation to at least a portion of the data visualization. A determination is made concerning whether the annotation is associatable with any portion of the data set. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090228779 | USE OF REMOTE SERVICES BY A LOCAL WIRELESS ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure generally relates to enabling web applications to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to display content on a mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the APIs can include services to enable web applications to simulate a native application that runs natively on the mobile computing device. In some embodiments, the APIs can include services to annotate a map with an overlay on the display of the mobile computing device. In some embodiments, a caching module is provided for caching resources associated with a web application on the mobile computing device. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090235155 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM OF INFORMATION PROCESSOR - A client terminal acquires from a server terminal one or more document information which includes at least a thumbnail image and document identification information for identifying document data corresponding to the thumbnail image, and includes first annotation data and/or second annotation data associated with the document identification information. If first annotation data is included in respective acquired document information, the client terminal displays a thumbnail image with which the first annotation data is combined, as a list with thumbnail view, on a display unit. If the second annotation data is included in specified document data, the client terminal individually displays specified document data with which the second annotation data is combined, on a display unit. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20090265607 | Method, system and computer readable product for management, personalization and sharing of web content - A computerized system and method for managing, annotating and sharing web pages comprising: a system server comprising a server application and a www server, the system server communicating over the internet with one or more client computers, each S comprising a www browser and a client application, the system server storing, for each the client computers, a plurality of web-project folders, each web-project comprising links to web-pages accessed by the client computer's user and annotations added by the user to the web-pages, the server application comprising means for managing the stored data, each client application comprising means for viewing the stored server data; means for managing the stored server data; means for selecting a web project; means for selecting a web-page for display; means for selecting an annotation for display; means for annotating the displayed web-page and means for saving the web projects, the web-pages and the annotations on the server. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100011282 | ANNOTATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A variety of technologies can be used to annotate electronic documents. In one embodiment, an annotation module is provided on a client machine as a plugin for a web browser application. The annotation module provides a user interface which allows the user to interact with the web browser application to annotate a document displayed using the browser application. Other embodiments are described. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100122154 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND UTILIZING PERSISTENT ELECTRONIC TICK MARKS - Consistent with embodiments of the invention, computer-based systems and methods for annotating documents with a special type of graphical icon—referred to herein as a tick mark—are provided. Accordingly, utilizing a document annotation tool consistent with one embodiment of the invention, a user can quickly and easily place a tick mark next to an element of a document (e.g., a word, sentence, paragraph, number, chart, graph or figure) being displayed to visually convey some information about that particular element of the document. A second user, who is viewing the same document subsequent to the first user placing the tick mark, will immediately recognize and appreciate the information conveyed by the placement of the tick mark. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100241947 | ADVANCED FEATURES, SERVICE AND DISPLAYS OF LEGAL AND REGULATORY INFORMATION - Systems and techniques are disclosed that allow a user to enter a query in a query input region of a graphical user interface and respond to the query by automatically directing it to an appropriate database, saving a user from having to choose among the myriad databases within the system. The system provides shareable folders for not only selected documents or excerpts from documents, but also for annotations and markups associated with documents. The system also enables a user to set permissions as to whether to allow documents, as well annotations and markups, private or publicly available to other users. Further, the system allows a user to specify an action that is to occur once a particular event occurs affecting a document, annotation or markup. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110029855 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS - An information terminal apparatus includes: an electronic pen in which a sticky-note management table is stored, the sticky-note management table containing messages and pieces of sticky-note type information, the messages being respectively associated with the pieces of sticky-note type information, each piece of the sticky-note type information indicating a type of sticky-note image; and a terminal body that includes a display that displays an image, a terminal communicating section that acquires the sticky-note management table from the electronic pen, a management table storing section that stores the acquired sticky-note management table, a tablet that is operated with the use of the electronic pen, and a controlling section that reads the messages that are respectively associated with the pieces of sticky-note type information out of the sticky-note management table stored in the management table storing section and causes the display to display the read messages. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110087956 | READING AND INFORMATION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending upon reader access information or characteristics (e.g., age, grade, proficiency, or position within the work or any other identifiable reader characteristic or access limitation), any request for reference material, definitions, explanations, translations, or other material provided in the associated software capability is automatically limited by system acknowledgement of the reader access information or characteristics. As the reader's access information or characteristics change, the quality and/or quantity and/or format of requested information with respect to a work changes. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110145693 | TRANSFER OF DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGES AND DATA - A system for distributing images creates a self-sufficient, self-consistent medical imaging and other medical information transfer file that contains image files and corresponding data sets that are bundled with an image viewer application. The medical image and data transfer file is prepared using object serialization and contains a deserialization application. The transfer file is created at an origination location and transmitted to a destination device as a packaged file over a computer network. The destination device receives the packaged file from the origination location and executes the viewer application with the image files and the data sets by opening the packaged file alone, without the need to run any other imaging/viewer application at the destination device. The viewer application has image viewing panes, an annotation tool, and image manipulation tools. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110154180 | USER-SPECIFIC DIGITAL DOCUMENT ANNOTATIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE REVIEW PROCESS - A reviewer opens or imports a document into a document viewer. The reviewer can then create various annotations to the document. The reviewer then has the option of assigning each annotation to a specific recipient or group of recipients. The document viewer can be implemented as a centralized application where recipients to whom annotations have been assigned are notified that a document is available for viewing. Upon receipt of this notification, recipients can log on to the document viewer to view the document containing the annotations specific to each recipient. Alternatively, the document viewer can be implemented as a stand-alone application where recipients to whom annotations have been assigned are sent the document showing only those annotations intended for each specific recipient. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110167331 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS USING AN INDEPENDENT ANNOTATION REPOSITORY - A method and system for generating workflow messages based on adding annotations to a file repository or database independent of an original document that they annotate. By separately storing the annotations in a searchable annotation repository, original documents can be preserved unchanged while still providing the ability to comment on the original document. By generating workflow messages, a system can track who has reviewed a document, whose proposed changes and/or comments require action by another person, and if everyone has reviewed the documents within the time constraints established. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20120030558 | Electronic Book and Method for Displaying Annotation Thereof - This disclosure provides an electronic book and a method for displaying an annotation used for displaying an annotation image at an electronic book. The annotation image is located at an annotation position of an electronic book document and is capable of being displayed on a screen of the electronic book when the electronic book document is displayed in a pre-set font size. The method includes the following steps. When the electronic book document is displayed in another font size and the annotation position is within a current displaying range of the screen, an annotation reminder is displayed; the electronic book document is displayed in the pre-set font size and the annotation image is displayed at the annotation position as well according to an annotation activating signal. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120084634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANNOTATING TEXT - Methods and apparatus are provided for annotating text displayed by an electronic reader application. In one embodiment a method includes detecting user selection of a graphical representation of text displayed by a device, displaying a window based on the user selection, the window including a selectable element for the user to annotate displayed text associated with the user selection. The method may further include detecting a user selection of a selectable element to record audio data based on the window, initiating audio recording based on the user selection to record audio data, and storing recorded audio data by the device as an annotation to the user selected text. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120110432 | Tool for Automated Online Blog Generation - Techniques for the design and operation of a blogging tool for automated blog creation and automated upload to a server are described herein. A content capturing process may obtain a plurality of images, including still images or video, as well as audio capture of voices and other sound, according to direction of a user operating an image-capture device. One or more of the images may be annotated with metadata or with text, which may be derived from verbal content provided by the user. A template may be selected in either an automated or user-controlled manner. The images and other content may be assembled into the template to form a blog entry. The blog entry may be uploaded to a server or otherwise shared. In one example, the uploading may be in response to a single user command, obtained by operation of a physical user interface or from verbal user input. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120131436 | AUTOMATED REPORT GENERATION WITH LINKS - An example method for image review and reporting includes providing access to a report including one or more entries associated with image content. The method includes facilitating user selection of an entry in the report. The method includes displaying one or more images and image annotations associated with the entry in a viewer for the user. The method includes configuring the viewer according to a presentation state and workflow associated with the entry. The method includes enabling user continuation of the workflow with respect to the presentation state and the one or more images and image annotations associated with the entry. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120297284 | MEDIA PRESENTATION PLAYBACK ANNOTATION - Annotations can be automatically added to a media presentation during playback of the presentation without a user having to manually interact with the playback device. The playback device determines whether an annotation is to be added to the media presentation based on characteristics of voice input received at the device, such as voice input signal strength or variances in the voice input signal strength. Characteristics of video input received at the device can be used to determine whether a user is speaking to the computing device as well. The device can handle a new annotation overlapping an existing annotation by either removing the existing annotation or by shifting the existing annotation until there is no more overlap. A media presentation can comprise multiple annotation tracks. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20130073942 | Method, System, and Computer-Readable Medium To Uniformly Render Document Annotation Across Different Comuter Platforms - A computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable medium to uniformly display electronic annotations of a document across differing computer platforms of an imaging system where documents are stored as images on an image file server. An exemplary method comprises a user producing a textual representation of a document annotation, generating an image and associated attributes (e.g., size, location, color, etc.) of the annotation, storing the annotation image in a record of an annotation file, and accessing the annotation file record to retrieve the annotation image in a standard universal format whereby to render a combined image representation of the document overlaid with the annotation image according to the attributes. Standard formats include jpeg, gif, tiff, or Windows metafile. Instead of storing the annotation image in the record, a pointer may be stored in the record to enable retrieval of the annotation image from another memory location. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130104023 | MOBILE DATA AND HANDWRITING SCREEN CAPTURE AND FORWARDING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device. An interface component can receive annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device. An annotation component can append a screen shot corresponding to the display with the annotated data to create an annotated screen shot. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130198602 | NARRATIVE-BASED MEDIA ORGANIZING SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING DIGITALMEDIA INTO PERSONAL STORY - A computer system for a narrational media organizer for transforming digital media into a personal, memorable story with minimal user input having a processor and storage with instructions for creating a narrational media organizer (NMO) environment, where a user can annotate one or more than one digital media file or graphical representations of the digital media files using a user interface; and an NMO data structure for storing the digital media and annotations of the NMO environment. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130318427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIEWING AND MARKING MAPS - The present invention is directed to a method and device for obtaining, viewing and marking maps in real time. Maps are obtained from a list of maps, the maps are then viewed on interactive tabletop displays allowing a user to visualize a mapped location and “markup” points on the map. The markup data is captured as a small file and sent out to responders via rapid transmission in both real time as it is developed or as final actionable information. The maps employed in the present invention include land maps or building floor plans that are either in paper or digital formats. This invention empowers emergency management personnel to leverage all available information and create actionable plans that can be shared with tactical teams at a low cost. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140033015 | COMMENT PRESENTATION IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to present a comment object in an electronic document, receive an indication that the comment object is selected, determine content in the electronic document that corresponds with the selected comment object, and apply a mask to obscure portions of the content that do not correspond to the comment object. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140047316 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CREATE A PERSONAL PRIORITY GRAPH - A priority associated with a user and event data associated with the user are identified. An experience annotation for an event is obtained. The experience annotation includes an emotional measure of the event. A priority graph unit is created based on the event data associated with the user and the experience annotation for the event. A personal priority graph for the user is created based on the priority graph unit. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140059419 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SEARCHING COMPOSITE WEB PAGE ELEMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS PRESENTED BY AN ANNOTATING PROXY SERVER - In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes searching a database of annotations associated with an annotating proxy server. An annotated web page is obtained. The annotated web page can include an annotated web-page element. An annotation of the annotated web-page element can be included in the annotated web page by an annotating proxy server. The annotation can be stored in a database of web page annotations. The annotated web page can be annotated with a query field. A user-generated search query can be received in the query field. The database of web page annotations can be searched according to the user-generated search query. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140164901 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANNOTATING AND SHARING A DIGITAL OBJECT WITH MULTIPLE OTHER DIGITAL OBJECTS - This disclosure describes a method and apparatus for annotating and sharing a digital object with multiple other digital objects. The invention presented addresses these deficiencies by defining a mechanism and apparatus for taking a digital object, be it a text document, still image, or other object, and allowing annotations associated with that digital object to be both authored and consumed by multiple sources in a collaborative environment. Further, the invention provides mechanisms for controlled consumption of the annotation, and the solicitation and reservation of annotation between multiple users. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140173410 | DRAWING NOTES MANAGER - Embodiments are directed to processing, by a computing device comprising a processor, a drawing sheet in accordance with a file structure, wherein the drawing sheet comprises a note including a graphic, extracting, by the computing device, data from the drawing sheet based on the processing, the data comprising a representation of the graphic included in the note, and loading, by the computing device, the data into at least one of a product lifecycle management tool and a product data management tool. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140201613 | Converting Text Content to a Set of Graphical Icons - A method, system and program product for analyzing textual information and providing a visual representative of a summary of such textual information in the form of a ranked list of icons. A text to icon engine is used that takes as input a textual document. A plurality of icons are each associated to a specific rule such that when the text to icon engine processes textual input, it will apply the rules associated with the icons and return a value that represents how much the text belongs to a specific icon. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140201614 | ANNOTATING SEARCH RESULTS WITH IMAGES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for annotating search results. Images associated with a plurality of different websites are obtained and associated with respective domains of the websites. Search results are then annotated with the obtained images according to their domains. User selection of an annotated search result's image will cause a local search of the website associated with the image based on the query. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140223279 | DATA AUGMENTATION WITH REAL-TIME ANNOTATIONS - A system for augmenting a user experience viewing a scene or listening to an audio is disclosed. The system provides the user with real time annotations for the part of the scene s/he is viewing it or the part of the audio s/he is listening to it. The scene may include text, objects, human faces or bodies. The audio may include vocal information or musical themes. The annotations include a list of users who are simultaneously viewing similar scenes or simultaneously listening to similar audios. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140258831 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF CREATION AND REVIEW OF MEDIA ANNOTATIONS - A method for creation and review of media annotations allows creators to create different types of annotations to one or more media files of different types. Annotations are created in such a way that annotator's commands in making the annotations are also captured. Multiple creators may create annotations simultaneously and reviewers may review all the annotations in real time. Alternatively, multiple people may create annotations one by one and reviewers may review all the annotations created. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140310587 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING ADDITIONAL MEDIA INFORMATION - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for processing additional media information, including an acquisition unit to acquire, from a database, when media data is input through an interface, a pattern corresponding to the input media data and a processor to determine a sensory effect corresponding to the acquired pattern and generate a first annotation of the determined sensory effect. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140325334 | Active Overlay System and Method for Accessing and Manipulating Imaging Displays - The present invention is directed in general to imaging technologies and more particularly to medical imaging and picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) having an image display wherein system features and functions are provided to a user via active overlays located over displayed images. A system and method are provided to imbed an ability to interact with an image by activating traditional annotations that are displayed in conjunction with an image in a PACS. Users are able to access program functionalities in an improved, quicker, accurate and more intuitive means. More specifically, the present invention relates to providing the capability to customize multiple context menus, and flatten the command hierarchy of an imaging system. The present invention also provides the ability to “overload” current text and graphic annotations that are already displayed within an image of interest. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20150067471 | CORRELATING IMAGE ANNOTATIONS WITH FOREGROUND FEATURES - A machine may be configured to execute a machine-learning process for identifying and understanding fine properties of various items of various types by using images and associated corresponding annotations, such as titles, captions, tags, keywords, or other textual information applied to these images. By use of a machine-learning process, the machine may perform property identification accurately and without human intervention. These item properties may be used as annotations for other images that have similar features. Accordingly, the machine may answer user-submitted questions, such as “What do rustic items look like?,” and items or images depicting items that are deemed to be rustic can be readily identified, classified, ranked, or any suitable combination thereof. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150100876 | ANNOTATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT VIA SELECTIVE FIXED FORMATTING - Techniques are disclosed for providing a fixed format viewing mode in electronic computing devices. The fixed format viewing mode may be engaged upon receiving virtual ink annotations at the touch screen of the electronic device. The annotations may be input using an active stylus. Upon receiving virtual ink annotations, the current page of digital content may be converted into a fixed format page wherein the formatting characteristics are held constant and the annotations remain in the same location with respect to the underlying digital content. Formatting characteristics for other pages of the digital content may be altered, however the fixed format page maintains the same format as when the annotations were added. The user may hide and/or edit virtual ink annotations, and when the annotations are hidden the content of the fixed format page may flow normally and match the formatting characteristics of the rest of the digital content. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20160048492 | Platform for internet based graphical communication - Currently opinion on the internet is expressed in either lengthy text based content or non-specific and non-unified rating systems such as star ratings and other non-descript and vague rating systems. The present invention called the “Emoji 3.0 Platform” is a system for users to quickly, graphically share opinion and ideas regarding any product, service, person or place, thing or concept throughout the internet. The Emoji 3.0 Platform offers users a graphical and structured way to express their opinion and to also see the graphically represented opinions of others at a glance. Users can quickly identify specific key elements of the page content, by viewing aggregated graphical community opinion and ideas that have been previously tagged to the subject matter of the page. Additionally, users can search the internet for specific subject matter that has been graphically tagged with other users opinions, ideas, or views. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160062970 | Method and System for Dynamic Speech Recognition and Tracking of Prewritten Script - A computer-implemented method for dynamically presenting a prewritten text in a graphical user interface is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a text artifact, storing the text artifact in a memory device of a computer, retrieving the text artifact, displaying the text artifact on the display screen of the computer, receiving a vocal input, generating a text file representing the words spoken in the vocal input, comparing a predetermined number of the hypothesis words to a predetermined number of the artifact words, determining a match location in the text artifact where a specific number of the predetermined number of hypothesis words match a specific number of the predetermined number of artifact words, and altering the display on the display screen to display the match location on the display screen of the computer. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160170950 | DIGITAL TRANSACTION WORKSPACE WITH INTELLIGENT NOTIFICATION | 06-16-2016 |
