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20090031248 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction input by a user; a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display a plurality of windows in a display area of the display unit; and a window control unit configured to control a size or position of a window displayed on the display unit in response to the instruction received, the window control unit being configured to control, if the receiving unit receives an instruction to expand a first window and the expanded first window overlaps a second window, a size or position of the second window in response to a positional relationship between the first window and the second window. | 01-29-2009 |
20090070709 | IMPROVEMENT TO INSTRUMENTATION - Methods and multi-component displays for displaying graphical objects are disclosed. A method includes displaying a graphical object on a first display screen of the multi-component display. In response to an event, the graphical object is displayed on a second display screen of the multi-component display, wherein the first and second display screens overlap, and wherein the displaying the graphical object on the second display screen is operable to provide a visual indication of the event. Another method includes displaying a first graphical object on a first display screen of the multi-component display and displaying a second graphical object on a second display screen of the multi-component display. In response to an overlap of the first and second graphical objects, the overlapping portion of the first and second graphical objects is displayed with a visual attribute distinct from respective visual attributes of the first and second graphical objects. | 03-12-2009 |
20090106690 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING SCREEN BETWEEN APPLICATIONS BASED ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF GRAPHIC SYSTEMS - Provided are a method and apparatus for sharing a screen between applications based on different kinds of graphic systems when the applications are shown or hidden. The method includes the operations of setting a default graphic system, and controlling an operation of showing or hiding the applications based on different kinds of graphic systems, using the default graphic system. | 04-23-2009 |
20090158205 | SYSTEM FOR OVERLAYING HELP, TRAINING, DOCUMENTATION, OR TRANSLATION OVER AN EXISTING APPLICATION - A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system provide overlays to an application. An application state of the application is identified. Responsive to identifying the application state, an appropriate overlay corresponding to the application state is identified. Responsive to identifying the appropriate overlay, the appropriate overlay is overlain onto the application. The appropriate overlay is then displayed in real time in a user interface, with the appropriate overlay overlain in the user interface of the application. | 06-18-2009 |
20090193355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage unit which stores a first program for playing back video data and a second program different from the first program, an execution unit which executes the first program and the second program, a display unit which displays, on a display device, a window generated by the first program and a window generated by the second program, and a change unit which, upon detecting a predetermined scene in a video picture played back by the first program, causes the display unit to display the window of the first program with higher priority over the window of the second program. | 07-30-2009 |
20090282363 | EFFICIENT NAVIGATION OF SEARCH RESULTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for navigating search results are provided. In response to receiving a search query, at least one individual search result is presented in an overlay window, the overlay window being configured to overlay at least a portion of a document viewing window. Navigation between the overlay window and the document viewing window may be performed in response to receiving input of at least one pre-determined command. Content associated with a selected individual search result (or other document identifier) may be presented in the document viewing window and, substantially simultaneously, the overlay window may be hidden from view. Subsequently, in response to receiving at least one pre-determined command, the overlay window may be re-presented such that it again overlays at least a portion of the document viewing window. | 11-12-2009 |
20090313578 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A control device which controls a device is disclosed. The control device can be connected to at least one external device, and includes a display unit which generates and displays a frame; and a control unit which controls the display unit to add at least one frame corresponding to each of the at least one external device or to pre-installed applications. The control unit further controls the display unit to display corresponding content in each frame. | 12-17-2009 |
20100088633 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a display unit | 04-08-2010 |
20100095241 | Display system, network interactive display device, terminal, and control program - A technique for presenting display screens of a plurality terminals connected to a network on a multi-window screen of a display screen of a display device. A communication unit receives image data captured and then sent by each terminal having a screen capture function. A display control unit controls an image synthesizer to synthesize the captured image data into single screen multi-window format data. A multi-window screen is thus presented. | 04-15-2010 |
20100107117 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING METADATA IN MEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus, system and method for displaying and browsing metadata in video media is provided including a media timeline and a plurality of individual graphical bars configured for displaying the location and range of individual metadata items along the media timeline. Visual indicators in the graphical bars are provided for indicating and distinguishing at least a location, range and level of overlapping regions of metadata items along the media timeline. Such visual indicators can include, e.g., different degrees of shading or coloring to distinguish between non-overlapping regions and/or various levels of overlap and the like. | 04-29-2010 |
20100115461 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM - [Problem] To make it possible to switch display of plural windows depending on a situation such as a time and a place. | 05-06-2010 |
20100185977 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A game apparatus includes an LCD, and a touch panel is provided on the LCD. On the LCD, a game screen of a tramp game is displayed. When a player performs a touch-on operation on a card object displayed on the game screen, if another card is overlapped with the touched card object, and the overlapping is large, this another card object is moved. Accordingly, a mark and a character (numeric or alphabetic character) of the card object on which the player performs a touch-on operation are displayed to be visually identifiable. | 07-22-2010 |
20100251168 | MIXER DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING WINDOWS OF MIXER DEVICE, AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING WINDOWS OF MIXER DEVICE - A method is designed for controlling windows of a mixer device including a processing unit, an operating panel, and a touch panel provided on the operating panel, the touch panel functioning as both a display part for displaying windows and an input part for inputting instructions. The method is performed by the processing unit as follows. First, a determining step determines whether or not any window has already been displayed on the touch panel when an instruction to display a new window is made. Then, a first displaying step displays the new window when no window has already been displayed, and otherwise displays, when a window has already been displayed, the new window at foreground while displaying at least a title bar of a window that has already been displayed. Further, a second displaying step displays a close button only on a foreground window among windows displayed on the touch panel and deactivates display of a close button for each window behind the foreground window. | 09-30-2010 |
20100281422 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND PROGRAM - A communication terminal stores charge information representing the charge schemes (usage-based billing, flat-rate billing, etc.) of the terminal. In addition, for each charge information item, the communication terminal stores priority information representing the display priority of the windows. The communication terminal identifies the charge schemes by reading the charge information (Sa | 11-04-2010 |
20100287494 | User Interface Presentation of Information in Reconfigured or Overlapping Containers - A graphical user interface provides a display of multiple items of information in a manner such that the user can comprehend the relationship of various items to one another over a wide span. To achieve this result, at least some information containers are allocated a reduced amount of area in which to be viewed by the user. At least one container continues to be displayed in full view, however. In one embodiment, the containers are displayed in an overlapping arrangement. In a column view, for instance, the column containing the object that was last clicked upon, and the column showing the contents of the selected object, can be displayed in full view. The other columns may be only partially visible, due to the overlapping arrangement. However, the user is presented with enough information to comprehend the relationship of objects at different levels. When the user moves a cursor over a container with a reduced viewing area, the display changes to show that container in full view. | 11-11-2010 |
20100325576 | DISTRIBUTING MULTIPLE CLIENT WINDOWS USING A DISPLAY SERVER - Displaying overlapping windows from a client device. Windows are displayed at a client device with a first window overlapping a second window on a single display. The first window is a current window. The current window is based on front to back ordering of windows displayed at the client device. Pixels in a region of the first window are captured and sent to a display server. At the display server, the first window is displayed on a first display region. The second window becomes the current window, resulting in capturing and sending pixels in a region of the second window to the display server. At the display server, the second window is displayed on a second display region. At the display server, the first and second windows are displayed in a non-overlapping fashion by displaying the first window and the second window on separate display regions | 12-23-2010 |
20110004843 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - To simplify an operation for displaying or hiding windows, depending on a user or usage by the user. An information-processing device, according to the present invention, stores for each window, a time during which the window has been displayed together with another window (simultaneous display time), as a relevance table. The information-processing device, when receiving an instruction to display a window (subject window), refers to a relevance table for the subject window to identify a window whose simultaneous display time is the longest (simultaneous display window), and displays the subject window and the simultaneous display window. Also, the information-processing device, when receiving an instruction to hide a subject window, hides the subject window and a simultaneous display window. | 01-06-2011 |
20110010660 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD HAVING TABBED USER INTERFACE FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM - A display apparatus for a control unit in an environmental control system; the display apparatus including: a display area presenting a plurality of first loci, a plurality of second loci and at least one third locus; each respective first locus of the plurality of first loci being responsive to pressure for effecting a respective response; each respective second locus of the plurality of second loci presenting information using a fixed segment data format; at least one third locus of the at least one third locus presenting information using a dot matrix data format; at least some of the loci cooperating to form a tabbed user interface. | 01-13-2011 |
20110061019 | Portable Electronic Device for Providing a Visual Representation of a Widget - There is disclosed a portable electronic device comprising a display providing a visual representation of a widget. For one embodiment, the visual representation comprises a first window including a textual content and a second window including a graphical content. The first and second windows are situated within a periphery of the visual representation such that the first window overlaps part of the second window and a portion of the graphical content of the second window is obscured by the first window. For other embodiments, the visual representation comprises first window including a peripheral boundary surrounding a textual content and a second window including a textual heading or graphical content, and a graphical icon overlaying a part of the graphical content. A portion of the peripheral border of the first window includes an outwardly protruding section directed towards the graphical icon of the second window. | 03-10-2011 |
20110061020 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - An image processing apparatus and a controlling method of the same are provided. The method includes displaying a first screen corresponding to a first application; displaying a second screen corresponding to a second application above the first screen such that the second screen overlaps at least a portion of the first screen; and displaying at least a portion of the second screen that overlaps the portion of the first screen, while controlling the first application. | 03-10-2011 |
20110083100 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INVOKING A FUNCTION BASED ON A GESTURE INPUT - An electronic apparatus is provided including an input assembly. The input assembly includes a graphic display layer, a masking layer, and an input device. The graphic display layer includes a plurality of function icons. The masking layer includes a plurality of function icon windows for displaying functions icons associated with a particular application. Each of the displayed function icons corresponds to a function of the particular application. The input device includes a plurality of input device sections for receiving a gesture input. The graphic display layer is moveable relative to the masking layer such that, based on the relative positioning between the graphic display layer and the masking layer, function icons associated with a particular application are displayed through the function icon windows and the other function icons are at least obscured by the masking layer. The receiving of the gesture input by a one of the plurality of input device sections corresponding to a one of the displayed function icons invokes the function corresponding to the one of the displayed function icons. | 04-07-2011 |
20110099512 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WINDOWS - A method for displaying a plurality of windows includes dividing a display screen into first and second display areas. The plurality of windows may be rearranged in the first and second display areas and new windows may be displayed in the first and second display areas based on prior windows displayed. | 04-28-2011 |
20110099513 | Multi-Touch Graphical User Interface for Interacting with Menus on a Handheld Device - A computer-implemented method for interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a multi-touch surface. The method includes segmenting the GUI into a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion and second portion do not overlap, causing an activation area to be displayed that overlaps at least a portion of the GUI, determining that a user input is selecting the activation area based on a first user input and, in response, causing a first GUI menu strip to be displayed that overlaps the second portion of the GUI. | 04-28-2011 |
20110173565 | VIEWING MEDIA IN THE CONTEXT OF STREET-LEVEL IMAGES - A system for displaying hybrid image data produced by embedding additional media objects within street-level panoramic images includes a user interface through which a user may view, search for, and/or navigate through additional media objects in the context of browsing a virtual environment of a location at street level. In response to user input indicating a request to view a geographic location and/or an additional media object, street-level panoramic image data associated with the geographic location, in which one or more additional media objects also associated with the geographic location have been embedded, may be provided for display through the user interface. The user interface may be provided by a client device including one or more processors that receive hybrid image data produced by one or more processors of a server and display the image data to the user. | 07-14-2011 |
20110179383 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING OBJECTS IN A PLURALITY OF OBJECTS - Methods and systems are described for automatically selecting objects in a plurality of objects. In one aspect, a method and system receives, based on a user input detected by an input device, an iterate indicator for automatically iterating through a plurality of objects; determines a target application, wherein the target application is configured to present the plurality of objects on a display device; and in response to receiving the iterate indicator, instructs the target application to automatically present sequentially in time each object, in the plurality, as selected. | 07-21-2011 |
20110202872 | Apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking - Disclosed is an apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking, and more particularly to a multi-tasking performance apparatus and method which easily enable a shift between a plurality of applications being executed and a shift into an initial application. A currently operating application window is simultaneously displayed, with at least one executed application window by overlapping the executed application window on the currently operating application window according to a predetermined format. | 08-18-2011 |
20110225541 | INTERACTIVE REPRESENTATION OF CLUSTERS OF GEOGRAPHICAL ENTITIES - Various embodiments enable, in a mapping context, various visual entities to be clustered into groups that do not occlude one another. In at least some embodiments, individual clusters are represented on a map by a puddle defined by a computed contour line. Users can interact with the puddle to acquire more information about the puddle's content. In at least some embodiments, user interaction can include zooming operations, clicking operations, hovering operations and the like. | 09-15-2011 |
20110246933 | Information processing apparatus, information processing program, storage medium storing an information processing program and window controlling method - An information processing apparatus ( | 10-06-2011 |
20110252364 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigation of Multiple Applications - A method a multifunction device with a touch-sensitive display includes: detecting a first user input on a first application icon on the display; in response to detecting the first user input: activating and displaying a first application associated with the first application icon in a first region of the display and displaying a partial view of a second application in a second region of the display without activating the second application; detecting a second user input on the partial view of the second application on the display; in response to detecting the second user input: suspending the first application and activating a full view of the second application on the display; detecting a third user input to deactivate the second application; and, in response to detecting the third user input: deactivating the second application and resuming the first application on the display. | 10-13-2011 |
20110265030 | REPRESENTATION OF OVERLAPPING VISUAL ENTITIES - Various embodiments present a combined visual entity that represents overlapping visual entities. The combined visual entity can include a primary visualization that represents one of the overlapping visual entities and annotations that represent others of the overlapping visual entities. For example, a map view can include multiple geographical entities that overlap. A primary visualization can be rendered that represents one of the multiple geographical entities. The primary visualization can be visually annotated (e.g., with symbols, letters, or other visual indicators) to indicate others of the multiple geographical entities. In some embodiments, a zoom operation can cause visual entities to be added and/or removed from the combined visual entity. | 10-27-2011 |
20110265031 | Multi-layer window display system and method for real-time translation - A multi-layer window display system for real-time translation and the method thereof show the contents for multiple windows in alternating directions. The user can see more contents in a limited screen. Moreover, the invention reduces user's mouse motion during the operation. Therefore, the invention has the advantages of using limited screen space to show more contents and making user's operations more convenient. | 10-27-2011 |
20110296342 | TRANSLATING OVERLAPPING STATES INTO REPRESENTATIVE STATES - A computer application program can comprise multiple overlapping states associated with functionality or components of the application program. Simultaneous output of all such states can be impractical. Representative states can be defined in terms of the statuses of individual states relevant to a particular representative state. Additionally, representative states can be ranked, where multiple representative states that share the same ranking can overlap with each other, but not with other representative states. To avoid transitioning between states too quickly, and presenting output for too short a time, hysteresis mechanisms can be applied in the form of a set delay, a reset delay or a combination thereof. The duration of the set and reset delay can be established independently of each other and independently for each state. The output can be in accordance with the representative state associated with the current statuses of individual states, accounting for selected hysteresis mechanisms. | 12-01-2011 |
20120084714 | WINDOW STACK MODELS FOR MULTI-SCREEN DISPLAYS - Systems and methods are provides for creating a window stack for a multi-screen device. The stack is an arrangement of an active window and at least one other active or inactive window for at least one of the two displays. The system can receive activation of a window in the device. Upon activation of the window, the system can determine a display associated with the active window and can determine a position in the window stack for the active window. Then, the system can generate a logic data structure for the active window to describe the position of the active window in the window stack. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084715 | REPOSITIONING APPLICATIONS IN A STACK - A dual-screen user device and methods for revealing a combination of desktops on single and multiple screens are disclosed. A number of desktops and/or running applications can be selectively displayed on dual screen displays conditioned upon inputs received and the state of the device Desktop displays and applications can be selectively shifted between the screens by user gestures or moved off of the screens by other user gestures and therefore hidden. The hidden desktops and screens however can be re-displayed by yet another gesture. The user gestures prevent the user from having to open and close the running desktops and applications, or to execute other user commands that otherwise result in a laborious effort by the user to manage the multiple desktops and applications. One user gesture or input enables a user to change an order of the window stack by simply re-launching a selected desktop or application. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084716 | CHANGING THE SCREEN STACK UPON DESKTOP REVEAL - Systems and methods are provides for revealing a desktop in a window stack for a multi-screen device. The window stack can change based on the revealing of a desktop. The system can receive a gesture indicating an application with the desktop, which was previously created in the stack, is to be revealed on the display of the device. Upon receiving the gesture, the system determines that the desktop is to occupy substantially all of a composite display that spans substantially all of the two or more touch sensitive displays of the device. Then, the system can determine that the desktop is to be associated with the composite display and change a logic data structure associated with the desktop to describe the position of the desktop on the top of the window stack. | 04-05-2012 |
20120096394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMMERSIVE PROCESS DESIGN COLLABORATION ON MOBILE DEVICES - Embodiments of the present invention may provide a method for presenting a design model on a computing device. The method may comprise using a computer processor to identify relationships among a plurality of model entities of the design model, to present a model view area to display a selected view of the design model on a display area of the computing device; and to present a view switch containing a plurality of view options. The plurality of view options may include a shape flow view. In the shape flow view, the model view area may display a detailed view of a model entity currently in focus and symbol(s) representing neighboring model entities in horizontal and/or vertical directions. | 04-19-2012 |
20120096395 | Managing Workspaces in a User Interface - Providing a bridge interface for managing virtual workspaces is disclosed. A plurality of workspace images is presented in a user interface, each workspace image corresponding to a different virtual workspace available to a user of a computer system. A plurality of application windows associated with one of the virtual workspaces is presented. The presented application windows are visually grouped into one or more clusters, at least one cluster including a set of application windows, and at least a first of the application windows in the set of application windows visually overlaps a second application window in the set of application windows. User input indicating a movement of the application windows in the at least one cluster is received. The presentation of the at least one cluster is modified to make the second application window appear more visible to the user. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102431 | DIGITAL MEDIA FRAME PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT - A digital image display device for displaying a collection of digital media assets, comprising: a display screen; a processor; a real-time clock providing a date and time; an interface for accessing a collection of digital media assets stored on a processor-accessible asset memory, wherein at least some of the digital media assets are associated with one or more specified ranges of dates; and a processor-accessible program memory. The processor-accessible program memory stores executable instructions for causing the processor to execute the steps of determining a date from the real-time clock; identifying one or more digital media assets associated with a range of dates including the determined date; and preferentially displaying the identified one or more digital media assets on the display screen. | 04-26-2012 |
20120159384 | MULTI-LEVEL IMAGE VIEWING - An image viewing system may display multiple levels of images, where images with different data or other information may be presented at each level. The levels may represent different information derived from or related to the data from which the images were derived. Within each level, different levels of resolutions of the images may be presented to allow a user to zoom into and out from the data. Some embodiments may present two or more levels of images on the same display, where one level may represent data zoomed into from a higher level, and where the views of the images may be coordinated with each other. In some embodiments, the images may be pre-processed images, while other embodiments may have dynamically generated images. | 06-21-2012 |
20120174028 | OPENING CHILD WINDOWS IN DUAL DISPLAY COMMUNICATION DEVICES - The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling maximizing and minimizing of hierarchically related windows. | 07-05-2012 |
20120210273 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE IN MOBILE TERMINAL - A method for providing a Graphic User Interface (GUI) associated with execution of an application in a mobile terminal supporting a multi-tasking function, and an apparatus implementing the same. The method for providing (GUI) in a mobile terminal, preferably includes: displaying an application execution icon region and application execution screen region configured by one or more application execution icons; receiving selection of one from the one or more application execution icons; and displaying a reduction mode execution screen of an application corresponding to the selected application execution icon on the application execution screen region. When using a multi-tasking function of a mobile terminal, the user can view a plurality of application execution screens on one screen, and input an operating command for a plurality of applications on one screen. | 08-16-2012 |
20120246594 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MANAGING ITEMS ON CLIPBOARD OF PORTABLE TERMINAL - A portable terminal and a method for managing items on a clipboard of the portable terminal are provided for a user to copy text and data items simultaneously onto the clipboard and paste the copied items individually where the user desires. The portable terminal of the present invention includes a touchscreen and a control unit which controls presenting a display region showing a screen corresponding to user command on the touchscreen in response to an execution of at least one application, presenting a clipboard region at a part of the touchscreen in response to a user command, and displaying clip data selected by the user among at least one clip data appearing in the clipboard region on the display region. | 09-27-2012 |
20120278756 | MOBILE BROWSER CONTEXT SWITCHING - Methods and systems for processing and displaying content are disclosed. An example method of operation may include initializing two or more windows on a mobile device, and displaying a first window of the two or more windows on the mobile device. The method may also include receiving an on-screen switcher indication causing a display view change from the first window being displayed to a combination of the first window and at least one more additional windows being displayed. The method may also include determining a space amount for each of the two or more windows, adjusting a size of each of the two or more windows based on the space amount. The method may further include displaying a frame around each of the two or more windows with the respective adjusted size, and displaying each frame overlaid on top of one another. The example method provides multiple web pages to be concurrently active in a common viewing area of a mobile display device. | 11-01-2012 |
20120278757 | Mobile Browser Context Switching - Methods and systems for processing and displaying content are disclosed. An example method of operation may include initializing two or more windows on a mobile device, and displaying a first window of the two or more windows on the mobile device. The method may also include receiving an on-screen switcher indication causing a display view change from the first window being displayed to a combination of the first window and at least one more additional windows being displayed. The method may also include determining a space amount for each of the two or more windows, adjusting a size of each of the two or more windows based on the space amount. The method may further include displaying a frame around each of the two or more windows with the respective adjusted size, and displaying each frame overlaid on top of one another. | 11-01-2012 |
20130007655 | FLATTENING A SUBSET OF CONFIGURATION USER INTERFACE (UI) PANELS IN A HIERARCHY OF UI PANELS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for flattening a subset of configuration UI panels in a hierarchy of UI panels. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for flattening a subset of configuration UI panels in a hierarchy of UI panels has been provided. The method includes executing a query against an index of artifacts for which configuration parameter values are receivable in a corresponding panel disposed within a hierarchy of panels of an application. The method additionally includes receiving a result set of artifacts from the index for the query and identifying panels in the hierarchy corresponding to artifacts in the result set. Finally, the method includes displaying a single window in the application with an arrangement of the identified panels. Of note, the method also can include receiving configuration parameter values for the artifacts of the result set through the identified panels in the single window and applying the received configuration parameter values for the artifacts of the result set. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007656 | CONTENT AND WINDOW OVERLAY AND CONFIGURATION - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to selecting an area of a first window, which contains first content, in response to user input, generating a second window that contains second content that is substantially similar to a portion of the first content contained within the area of the first window, and superimposing the second window over a target window. The target window can be the first window or a third window. Some embodiments are further directed to affixing the second window to remain stationary and above the target window when the target window is active or in focus. Some embodiments are further directed to modifying target content in the target window in response to the activation of the second content (e.g., sorting target content based on activation of a sorting control within the second window, modifying number values in the target window based on number values of the second content, etc.). | 01-03-2013 |
20130024810 | USER INTERFACE OVERLAY SYSTEM - A method and system for providing an overlay window for an application to display augmentation data over the user interface of the application is provided. An overlay system includes an overlay component and an engine component that interface with the application and a presentation manager used by the application to provide the application window. When the overlay system starts up, it initializes the overlay component and the engine component. The overlay component tracks the portion of the application that is currently visible and displays augmentation data in an overlay window over the application window. The engine component provides augmentation functionality that generates the augmentation data and generates the overlay window based on the augmentation data. When the visible portion of the application data changes, the overlay component requests the engine component to generate the overlay window for the currently visible application data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130047118 | METHOD FOR MANAGING NON-OVERLAPPING WINDOWS - A method of editing a graphical user interface is disclosed. The method includes detecting a user command to adjust a first window to at least partially overlap with a second window, modifying the second window to prevent the overlap, and adjusting the first window as directed by the user command. | 02-21-2013 |
20130080970 | SMARTPAD - STACKING - A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad. | 03-28-2013 |
20130097556 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Controlling Display of Application Windows - An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a plurality of windows on the display. The plurality of windows includes a first window for a first application displayed in a frontmost position on the display and a second window displayed in a lower position than the frontmost position. The device detects a first gesture moving in a first direction on the touch sensitive surface, the first direction on the touch sensitive surface corresponding to a first direction on the display; and, in response to detecting the first gesture moving in the first direction on the touch sensitive surface: moves the first window across the display in the first direction on the display until the first window is moved partially or fully off the display; and displays the second window in the frontmost position on the display. | 04-18-2013 |
20130117710 | System and Method of Viewing Updating for Planning Item Assemblies - A system and method of displaying item lists and item views for a product assembly process. The method includes storing item data and visualization data, displaying the item data, receiving a first user input that selects a subset of the item data, receiving a second user input that selects a viewing mode, and, in response to a third user input, reading a subset of the visualization data that corresponds to the first user input and displaying the subset of the visualization data according to the viewing mode. In this manner, downloading time and display processing time is saved as compared to other systems. | 05-09-2013 |
20130125046 | Dynamic non-interruptive visual image isolation - Dynamic non-interruptive visual image isolation is described, including providing an overlay window over an interface displaying the image, the interface being configured to display the image and the overlay window being configured to have a cutout disposed over the image, receiving dimming input, the dimming input being associated with an application, and adjusting transparency of the overlay window in response to the dimming input, the transparency being determined without affecting the application. | 05-16-2013 |
20130125047 | MULTI-PANE INTERFACE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting content. In one aspect, a method includes determining that user interaction with a search result has occurred, where the search result was presented in a results pane of a display. A browsing pane is generated in which a landing page for the search result is presented. The browsing pane is presented over a portion of the results pane. The portion of the results pane is bounded by an edge of the display and a pane edge of the browsing pane, where the pane edge is located at an initial display location. A user swipe is determined to have occurred, and in response to the user swipe the pane edge is relocated to a target display location. | 05-16-2013 |
20130159923 | PREVIEWING WEB PAGES ASSOCIATED WITH SEARCH RESULTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for previewing search results determined in response to search queries input into a browser toolbar search box are provided. Descriptors of search results determined to match the input search query are presented in a search results window that overlays a first portion of the browser web page. Upon receiving an indication that the user desires to view one of the presented search results, a preview of a web page associated with the indicated search result is presented overlaying a second portion of the browser page. If the user determines from the preview that the indicated search result does not provide the desired information, s/he may move the mouse pointer to a different search result. In response, a web page associated with the second indicated search result is presented overlaying the second portion of the browser page for the user to preview. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT SPATIAL FEATURE ANALYSIS | 06-20-2013 |
20130167072 | Smart and Flexible Layout Context Manager - The present disclosure involves computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for intuitive widget ordering in a workspace. A computer-implemented method includes receiving, using at least one computer, a message associated with a first widget of a plurality of widgets within a container widget, gathering information associated with the plurality of widgets, determining whether the first widget of the plurality of widgets is overlapping at least a second widget of the plurality of widgets, determining overlapped widgets of the plurality of widgets to reposition, and recalculating positions of the plurality of widgets. | 06-27-2013 |
20130185673 | Electronic Device, Displaying Method And File Saving Method - An electronic device, a displaying method and a file saving method are described. The electronic device is in a first state and has a display area. The displaying method includes obtaining an image; obtaining an information entry; displaying the image in the display area; and displaying a first type information entry from the information entry in a first region of the display area with a first display effect, and displaying a second type information entry from the information entry in a second region of the display area with a second display effect; wherein the first type information entry is different from the second type information entry. | 07-18-2013 |
20130227470 | Method and Apparatus for Adjusting a User Interface to Reduce Obscuration - A computer-implemented method comprising, at an electronic device having a display and means for receiving user input, said method comprises: displaying on the display, while maintaining at least a portion of the graphical user interface on the display, a menu containing one or more functions selectable by the user; and further comprising, altering at least a portion of the graphical user interface on the display so as to reduce the obscuration of the graphical user interface by the menu. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227471 | METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF - A method of providing information, performed by a mobile terminal, is provided. The method includes sensing a user's gesture requesting a panel, and causing the panel to appear from at least one from among a left side, a right side, and a bottom side of a screen and then displaying the panel on the screen, according to the user's gesture requesting the panel. The panel includes at least one from among a share panel including a list of identification information of one or more external devices, a capture panel including a list of capture data, and a recommending panel including recommend contents. | 08-29-2013 |
20130232445 | COMPUTER INTERFACE HAVING A VIRTUAL SINGLE-LAYER MODE FOR VIEWING OVERLAPPING OBJECTS - A computer-human interface provides a mechanism to manage the available space of a computer display in a manner that facilitates navigation, among multiple windows that are overlaid upon one another. The interface includes a user-selectable mode in which the windows are rearranged, and resized if necessary, so that all open windows can be simultaneously viewed within the area of the display, thereby enabling any one of the windows to be easily selected for access. In effect, the presentation of the windows is “flattened” so that all windows appear at the same virtual depth, rather than overlapping one another. With this approach, there is no need to minimize windows in order to access one that is overlaid by another, thereby enabling the user to keep the content of all windows visible and accessible. Subsets of windows can be repositioned in the same manner, or all windows can be removed from the display area for access to desktop objects. | 09-05-2013 |
20130263047 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL VIEW OF DIGITAL CONTENT - A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor to define a set of indicators encoding a set of content segments from the set of content segments. The processor further defines, for each content segment, a first link between that content segment and an indicator from the set of indicators, such that the first link associates a center component of the content segment to that indicator. The processor also defines, for each content segment, a second link between that content segment and an adjacent content segment within the sequence of content segments, such that the second link associates an edge component of that content segment to an edge component of the adjacent content segment. The processor also defines a presentation of the set of content segments based on the first link and the second link, for each content segment. | 10-03-2013 |
20140019907 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The present disclosure discloses an information processing method and an electronic device, and relates to the field of electronic device application. The disclosure is made to enable a user to perform image information processing while clearly viewing image information. The method comprises analyzing image information of a to-be-displayed image and/or a captured image; determining a display position of an interaction interface based on the result of analyzing; and displaying the interaction interface on a displaying unit based on the display position. The disclosure is mainly used in the process of taking phones by a mobile phone. | 01-16-2014 |
20140053099 | User Initiated Discovery of Content Through an Augmented Reality Service Provisioning System - Methods for enabling discovery of content through an augmented reality service provisioning system. A first augmented reality client running on user equipment is provided, wherein the first augmented reality client is embedded in a third-party application, and is configured to allow a user to view at least part of the content offered by the augmented reality service provisioning system. A first input is received from a user through a user interface provided by the user equipment, wherein said first input indicates the user's interest to discover other content. In response to receiving the first input, a request is transmitted to a server in the augmented reality service provisioning system to retrieve relevant content from the other content; wherein the other content is content that the first augmented reality client is not configured to view. | 02-20-2014 |
20140053100 | Data Displaying Method and Apparatus - A data displaying method and apparatus is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a touch action coordinate triggered in a displaying page by a user; intercepting a first region from the displaying page, wherein the center of the first region is the touch action coordinate and the size of the first region is a predefined value that is determined by the size of a magnifier to be drawn; magnifying the first region, and taking the magnified first region as a brush pattern, wherein the magnification of the first region is determined by the magnification of the magnifier; and calculating a second region for drawing the magnifier in the displaying page, and drawing and displaying the magnifier in the second region by using the brush pattern. By the method and apparatus, a magnifier function can be realized on a Symbian platform, and the user can accurately select wanted characters. | 02-20-2014 |
20140068503 | SCREEN RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS IN TERMINAL - A screen recording method and apparatus, and a recording medium for storing program sources for the method are provided. The screen recording method in a terminal includes generating a first layer to display a user interface for screen recording at a request of a user while a screen made up of at least one layer is displayed; displaying a screen resulting from combination of the at least one layer and the first layer in a predetermined display area; and recording the screen made up of the at least one layer upon request to start screen recording through the user interface. | 03-06-2014 |
20140101603 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a display control section for displaying a window showing a first icon and a second icon of a predetermined display size on a display screen. The display control section reduces the display size of at least either the first icon or the second icon so as not to overlap with each other if it determines that the icons overlap with each other when it alters a display area of the window being displayed on the display screen. | 04-10-2014 |
20140115531 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RENDERING OVERLAPPED OBJECTS - A method and apparatus for rendering overlapped objects are provided. In the method, multiple objects are sorted according to rendering properties thereof and placed into a source chain. As for a target object in the source chain, an object first overlapped with the target object is successively searched. If no overlapped object is found, the target object is moved to a target chain. Otherwise, a blending object is generated by blending an overlapping area of the target object and overlapped object according to an alpha-blending property thereof and the blending object and all non-overlapping areas of the target object and overlapped object are inserted respectively as a new object into the source chain. The above steps are repeated until all objects in the source chain are moved to the target chain. Finally, the objects in the target chain are rendered on an electronic device. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115532 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION-PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An exemplary information-processing device includes: an operation receiving unit that receives an operational input made by a user for moving a display area that has area that overlaps with a predetermined area; a display controlling unit that controls a display unit to display a graphic in the display area; a determining unit that determines a velocity of movement of the display area in accordance with a value derived from the operational input, and; an area managing unit that manages the display area to move the display area at the velocity of movement under a condition that, when a portion of the display area moves outside a predetermined portion of the predetermined area, a distance between the display area and the predetermined area does not exceed a threshold. | 04-24-2014 |
20140123059 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - The disclosed technology includes controlling the differentiation of gestures in a graphical user interface (GUI). In one implementation, a GUI has a first region including a first interactive user interface object, a second region including a second interactive user interface object, and a third region without any interactive user interface objects. The method can include receiving an indication of a first input at the first user interface object within the first region, and increasing, in response and for a dwell time, a size of the third region, wherein the resized third region overlays a portion of the second region. After resizing, the GUI may decline to perform an action associated with the second user interface object in the second region when a second input is received near the second user interface object and within the resized third region. | 05-01-2014 |
20140164988 | IMMERSIVE VIEW NAVIGATION - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for immersive navigation between one or more views. That is, an immersive user interface may display a first view (e.g., an image) depicting one or more entities (e.g., a person, a location, an object, a building, etc.). Responsive to a user expressing interest in (e.g., selecting) a first entity depicted within the first view, the immersive user interface may display one or more views depicting the first entity without removing the user from an immersive experience (e.g., the immersive user interface may remain in a substantially full-screen view mode, a substantially edge-to-edge view mode, a | 06-12-2014 |
20140164989 | DISPLAYING WINDOWS ON A TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - A system and machine-implemented method for displaying windows on a touchscreen device. Plural graphical objects are displayed on a touchscreen of the touchscreen device, each graphical object being associated with an application. Multiple touch presses that are at least partially overlapping in time are detected on the touchscreen, each touch press corresponding to a respective one of the plural graphical objects. The applications associated with the graphical objects corresponding to the multiple touch presses are identified. A release of the multiple touch presses is detected. In response to detecting the release, a display arrangement to reduce overlapping of windows for the identified applications is determined. The windows for the identified applications are displayed on the touchscreen based on the determined display arrangement. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164990 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a display device that includes a touch screen is provided. The method includes establishing a plurality of window display spaces in the touch screen, wherein each of the plurality of window display spaces displays a window for running an application, displaying a launcher application in one of the plurality of window display spaces, the launcher application presenting at least one icon to run at least one application, receiving in the launcher application a new application run command to run a new application, and displaying a new window for running the new application in one of the other window display spaces than the window display space where the launcher application is displayed, in response to the new application run command. | 06-12-2014 |
20140201679 | PROVIDING USER INTERFACES AND WINDOW PREVIEWS FOR HOSTED APPLICATIONS - A local computing device may use a remote computing device to host various resources on behalf of the local computing device. The local computing device may receive data related to a graphical window of the remotely hosted resource and generate a graphical window on the local desktop environment for the remotely hosted resource. The local computing device may also update a taskbar to include the remote hosted resource. Window previews may also be generated by the local computing device and the window previews may include snapshots or dynamic images of the graphical window for the remotely hosted resource. In some instances, the snapshots may be provided to the local computing device from the remote computing device. | 07-17-2014 |
20140237420 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present disclosure includes a touchscreen configured to display a window of an application and a controller, when the window is shifted into a specific region of the touchscreen, reducing and transforming the window into an icon and controlling the touchscreen to display the icon within the specific region. Accordingly, after a window of an application has been displayed on a screen, when the window is shifted into a specific region within the screen, the screen is displayed in a manner of being reduced and transformed into an icon. | 08-21-2014 |
20140250409 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION WINDOWS - An apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to facilitate providing a first application window for display. The instruction may facilitate receiving a switching input. The instructions may facilitate, in response to the switching input, providing a plurality of application windows for concurrent display. The providing a plurality of application windows may include changing a display view from the first application window to the plurality of application windows. The plurality of application windows include the first application window and one or more additional application windows. The instructions may facilitate touching and sliding, off the display view, one of the plurality of application windows. The sliding may cause permanently removing the one of the plurality of application windows from application windows available for display. Methods for displaying windows and machine-readable storage medium are also disclosed. | 09-04-2014 |
20140282230 | USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATON - A user interface for providing supplemental information is disclosed. Working content may be caused to be displayed in a display zone of a graphical user interface of a device. The working content may comprise a plurality of graphical objects. A data overlay may be caused to be displayed in the display zone. The data overlay may overlay and at least partially obscure a corresponding portion of the working content. The data overlay may include unchanged graphical objects and at least one additional graphical object. The unchanged graphical objects in the data overlay may be aligned with and overlay corresponding graphical objects of the plurality of graphical objects in the corresponding portion of the working content. The additional graphical object(s) may represent a modification to the corresponding portion of the working content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140298253 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING EXECUTION RESULT OF APPLICATION - Provided are a device and method for displaying an execution result of an application. A method of displaying an execution result of an application includes: in response to a user input, displaying execution results of a plurality of applications, which are being executed in the device, in a plurality of windows that are displayed in at least two display modes; arranging the plurality of windows, which show execution results of the plurality of windows, to be adjacent to each other and displaying the plurality of windows on a display; receiving a user input when the plurality of windows are displayed on the display; and scrolling the plurality of windows in response to the user input. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304646 | SLIDING SIDE MENU GUI WITH MENU ITEMS DISPLAYING INDICIA OF UPDATED CONTENT - A sliding side menu GUI interface for computerized devices that shows indicia of updated content on at least some of its various menu items. These indicia can include icons representing graphics or thumbnail images representing individuals that caused the updated content, type of updated content, amount of updated content, or other useful information. This enables the user, while operating an original application screen, while still retaining the original screen in short term human memory, to quickly call up the sliding side menu, look for indicia of updated content or interesting new content, and if there is no such content return to the original screen without significant human short term memory loss of the original screen. The method may be implemented by server software, device software, or combination of server and device software. The method is well suited for small touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets. | 10-09-2014 |
20140325434 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CONTROLLING METHOD - An electronic apparatus controlling method, applied to an electronic apparatus displaying a first window and second window thereon. The electronic apparatus controlling method comprises: (a) determining one of the first window and the second window as a target window; and (b) displaying an input window on the electronic apparatus if the electronic apparatus receives an input triggering signal; wherein the input window does not substantially overlap any part of the target window. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325435 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - A user terminal device is disclosed. The user terminal device includes a display, an inputter configured to receive a user drawing manipulation, a storage configured to store an image generated by the user drawing manipulation and information of a control operation matched with at least one part of the image, and a controller configured to display a home screen composed of a plurality of display layers sequentially overlaid on the display, and display the image on at least one display layer from among the plurality of display layers. The controller may be further configured to, in response to one part of the image being selected, perform the control operation matched with the selected part. Accordingly, a user's own home screen can be displayed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140325436 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR DISPLAYING EVENT-HANDLING VIEW ON SPLIT SCREEN AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a mobile communication terminal for displaying an event-handling view. The mobile communication terminal includes a touch screen, and a controller configured to generate, if an event requiring display on the touch screen occurs while a first window in which a first application is executed is displayed on the touch screen, an event-handling view corresponding to the event in a second window, and display the second window overlapped on the first window. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331171 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING APPLICATION WINDOWS - An apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to facilitate providing a first window for display while hiding from display one or more additional windows. The instructions may facilitate receiving a switching input. The instructions may facilitate, in response to the switching input, providing a plurality of windows for display. The providing a plurality of windows may include changing a display view from the first window to the plurality of windows. The instructions may facilitate selecting one of the plurality of windows. The selecting one of the plurality of windows may include changing the display view from the plurality of windows to the selected one of the plurality of windows while hiding from display one or more other windows. Methods for displaying windows and machine-readable storage medium are also disclosed. | 11-06-2014 |
20140344750 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - Provided is a display device with which it is possible for a plurality of users to comfortably carry out different window manipulations without a screen being partitioned. This device ( | 11-20-2014 |
20140365957 | USER INTERFACES FOR MULTIPLE DISPLAYS - A set of user interfaces for a data processing system that operates with two or more display devices coupled to the system. In one embodiment, in response to moving a first window between two displays, the first window is displayed, as it straddles the two displays, differently on the two displays. For example, while a reference point (e.g. a cursor) on the window remains on a first display, a first portion of the window on the first display is displayed normally while a second portion on the second display is displayed with more translucence (more transparency) than the first portion; when the references point crosses to the second display, the first portion becomes more translucent than the second portion. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365958 | OBJECT EDITING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method and apparatus for editing an object of an electronic device are provided. The object editing method of the electronic device includes determining whether an area for editing an object overlaps the another area for editing the object, and if the area for editing the object overlaps the another area for editing the object, enlarging the area for editing the object. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365959 | ANIMATION EMULATING LIVE WEB PAGE CONTENT RESIZING - The embodiments disclosed herein describe ways that a browser application can smoothly animate changing (i.e., decreasing, increasing) web page content width upon opening or closing of a sidebar. Methods include the browser analyzing the web page layout to identify a dominant page portion or to determine whether a centered portion layout exists, temporarily obscuring the web page with a snapshot of the page, identifying the location and size of the dominant or centered portion on the web page, and using the information to make changes to the web page in a layer hidden behind the snapshot. | 12-11-2014 |
20150020023 | INFORMATION CROSS-REFERENCE INPUTTING METHOD BASED ON A MOBILE TERMINAL AND THE MOBILE TERMINAL - An information cross-reference inputting method based on a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps of defining an information region for cross-reference input as a region to be topped, receiving an operation instruction from a user by the mobile terminal to select the region to be topped, and saving the selected region to be topped; topping the region to be topped in a current display interface, and saving data of a region overlaid by the topped region; and receiving an operation instruction from the user by the mobile terminal to drag the topped region so that displaying of the data of the originally overlaid region is recovered. Therefore, the method is very convenient for the user to achieve the information cross-reference inputting without having to remember the related content or frequently switch between two windows. | 01-15-2015 |
20150052475 | PROJECTIONS TO FIX POSE OF PANORAMIC PHOTOS - Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to adding or correcting orientation and/or location information for panoramic images. For example, some panoramic images may be associated with inaccurate orientation (or location) information or simply no orientation information at all. In this regard, a user may be provided with the ability to add or adjust the orientation of a panoramic image. The panoramic image can be projected onto a plane using stereographic projection and displayed relative to its location (and orientation, if available) on a map. This can allow a user to quickly identify inaccuracies and to make adjustments or corrections. | 02-19-2015 |
20150067588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANGING SCREEN IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and an apparatus for changing a screen in an electronic device that provides a plurality of windows are provided. The method includes providing, by an electronic device, a plurality of windows functionally connected to the electronic device, selecting at least one window displaying a first application among the plurality of windows, obtaining an input related to a second application being executed in the selected at least one window, and displaying the second application through the at least one window, based on the obtained input. The present disclosure is not limited to a specific embodiment, but various embodiments based on a technical spirit of the present disclosure may be implemented. | 03-05-2015 |
20150121300 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a triggering instruction for starting a first application program of the M application programs; executing the triggering instruction, and obtaining a first parameter; generating a first window interface of the first application program based on the first parameter; and displaying the first window interface, where a display area of the first window interface is less than a full-screen display area of the first application program on the display region. | 04-30-2015 |
20150121301 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An information processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: initiating an application of the M applications in a non-full-screen window, obtaining a first parameter, and transforming a first window of the application into a second window of the application by using the first parameter, wherein the first window is a full-screen window, and a display region of the second window is smaller than a display region of the full-screen window of the application; presenting the second window of the application in the display region; detecting a first operation of a user to obtain a first event; and in response to the first event, determining a target window from the M windows according to a preset rule, distributing the first event to the target window, where an application corresponding to the target window responds to the first operation. | 04-30-2015 |
20150143284 | Navigable Layering Of Viewable Areas For Hierarchical Content - Exemplary embodiments are generally directed to navigable layering of viewable areas corresponding to a hierarchical structure of computer-readable content. In exemplary embodiments, a stack of viewable areas including a first viewable area and a second viewable area can be rendered on a display within a footprint area. An order of the viewable areas in the stack can correspond to a hierarchical relationship of computer-readable content and the viewable areas can include information associated with the hierarchical relationship. The second viewable area in the stack can be adjusted, for example, by resizing and/or repositioning the second viewable area, based on a compression criteria to accommodate the viewable areas of the stack within the footprint. | 05-21-2015 |
20160019358 | MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - An item name display region where item names of a plurality of items included in the medical information of a patient are displayed and a content display region where a graph for each item is displayed are provided on a display screen of a medical assistance client. On the display screen, a display/non-display setting of the graph for each item is possible in the content display region by a first operation including a mouse click operation. The graph of a non-display setting item can be temporarily displayed by a mouse-over operation not including the click operation. The mouse-over operation is an operation of just overlapping a pointer on the item name display region. | 01-21-2016 |
20160034113 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM - The display apparatus having a touch panel allows increased operability when performing a plurality of touch operations. The display apparatus having a touch panel includes: a display screen capable of displaying information in accordance with the touch operation, a first display region, a second display region, and a display controller. The first display region is displayed on the display screen, and displays the information in accordance with touch information acquired by an OS. The second display region is displayed on the display screen along with the first display region, and displays the information in accordance with the touch information acquired by a predetermined application without via the OS. The display controller performs a display such that the second display region does not overlap with the first display region on a periphery of the display screen. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041710 | Application Reporting in an Application-Selectable User Interface - This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041711 | Application Reporting in an Application-Selectable User Interface - This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface. | 02-11-2016 |
20160085436 | USER INTERFACE FOR MULTIPLE DISPLAY REGIONS - User interfaces for multiple display regions are described. One embodiment provides an array of non-overlapping windows that are created from a set of overlapping windows, and a user can select one of the non-overlapping windows to obtain an enlarged view of that selected window while keeping the other windows in their non-overlapping state. In one embodiment, the array of non-overlapping windows can include minimized windows or windows in other virtual desktops (e.g. windows in other “Spaces”) or both. In one embodiment, only windows of a selected application are shown in non-overlapping mode while opened windows of other applications are not shown. | 03-24-2016 |
20160110084 | COMPUTER INTERFACE HAVING A VIRTUAL SINGLE-LAYER MODE FOR VIEWING OVERLAPPING OBJECTS - A computer-human interface provides a mechanism to manage the available space of a computer display in a manner that facilitates navigation among multiple windows that are overlaid upon one another. The interface includes a user-selectable mode in winch the windows are rearranged, and resized if necessary, so that all open windows can be simultaneously viewed within the area of the display, thereby enabling any one of the windows to be easily selected for access. In effect, the presentation of the windows is “flattened” so that all windows appear at the same virtual depth, rather than overlapping one another. With this approach, there is no need to minimize windows in order to access one that is overlaid by another, thereby enabling the user to keep the content of all windows visible and accessible. Subsets of windows can be repositioned in the same manner, or all windows can be removed from the display area for access to desktop objects. | 04-21-2016 |
20160124618 | MANAGING CONTENT DISPLAYED ON A TOUCH SCREEN ENABLED DEVICE - Approaches are provided for managing content displayed on a touch screen enabled device. An approach includes collecting data regarding contents of an electronic document that is opened on a device. The approach further includes separating the contents into individual layers and determining a position of each of the contents within the electronic document. The approach further includes detecting a manipulation of a first piece of content of the contents on the device, and determining the manipulation of the first piece of content has created an obstruction of readability or viewability of at least a portion of a second piece of content of the contents. The approach further includes adjusting the second piece of content such that the readability or viewability of the portion of the second piece of content is not obstructed by the first piece of content. | 05-05-2016 |
20160139765 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - An electronic device for outputting a screen and a method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor, wherein the processor outputs first and second execution screens by considering a shape of the second execution screen such that the first execution screen and the second execution screen do not overlap with each other. | 05-19-2016 |
20160188141 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING TARGET OBJECT THEREOF - An electronic device and a method for displaying a target object thereof are provided. The method includes following steps. Relative position information between the target object and the electronic device is detected. An object display region is calculated according to the relative position information. Whether the object display region overlaps with at least part of a display region on a display unit is determined to obtain a determined result. Tag information of the target object is displayed on a region overlapped by the display region on the display unit and the object display region. | 06-30-2016 |
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20160378280 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel, a display control unit configured to perform control so that a moving object and a different object from the moving object are displayed on a display screen of the touch panel, wherein a display position of the moving object can be moved, and a control unit configured to set a response region for receiving a touch operation with respect to the moving object, wherein, in a case where the moving object overlaps the different object, the control unit reduces the response region of the moving object. | 12-29-2016 |