45th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 68 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130297983 | Data Processing System with Failure Recovery - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for a data processing system with failure recovery. For example, a data processing system is disclosed that includes a data processing circuit operable to process a block of data from an input and to yield a plurality of possible results based on the block of data, and an error detection circuit operable to test the plurality of possible results for errors and to report to the data processing circuit whether the plurality of possible results contain errors. The data processing system is operable to output any of the possible results in which the error detection circuit found no errors. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297984 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND ERROR CORRECTION SYSTEM - A semiconductor storage device, a method of controlling the same, and an error correction system allow reduction in power consumption and circuit scale without detriment to error correction capability. An error correction code (ECC) circuit of a solid state drive (SSD) performs first error correction on read data using a first error correction code (Hamming code), and further performs second error correction on the result of the first error correction using a second error correction code (BHC code). | 2013-11-07 |
20130297985 | DATA RECOVERY IN SOLID STATE MEMORY DEVICES - Embodiments herein provide data recovery techniques and configurations for solid state memory devices. For example, a method includes identifying a hard error associated with a cell of a solid state memory device, providing a location of the cell having the identified hard error to a decoder to recover data originally programmed to the cell, and recovering the data originally programmed to the cell using the decoder. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297986 | ZERO-ONE BALANCE MANAGEMENT IN A SOLID-STATE DISK CONTROLLER - An SSD controller maintains a zero count and a one count, and/or in some embodiments a zero/one disparity count, for each read unit read from an SLC NVM (or the lower pages of an MLC). In an event that the read unit is uncorrectable in part due to a shift in the threshold voltage distributions away from their nominal distributions, the maintained counts enable a determination of a direction and/or a magnitude to adjust a read threshold to track the threshold voltage shift and restore the read data zero/one balance. In various embodiments, the adjusted read threshold is determined in a variety of described ways (counts, percentages) that are based on a number of described factors (determined threshold voltage distributions, known stored values, past NVM operating events). Extensions of the forgoing techniques are described for MLC memories. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297987 | Method and Apparatus for Reading NAND Flash Memory - A page buffer for a NAND memory array has a data register and a cache register that are suitably organized and operated to eliminate gaps and discontinuities in the output data during a continuous page read. The cache register may be organized in two portions, and the page data in the cache may be output from the cache portions in alternation. ECC delay may be eliminated from the output by performing the ECC computation on one cache portion while the other is being output. The data register may also be organized in two portions corresponding to the cache portions, so that data may be transferred to one cache portion while the other is being output. In a variation, the continuous page read may be done without ECC. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297988 | LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK DECODER DISPARITY PREPROCESSING - Described embodiments provide a media controller that performs error correction on data read from a solid-state media. The media controller receives a read operation from a host device to read one or more given read units of the solid-state media. The media controller reads the data for the corresponding read units from the solid-state media employing initial values for one or more read threshold voltages. Only if a disparity between an actual number of bits at a given logic level included in the read data and an expected number of bits at the given logic level included in the read data has not reached a predetermined threshold, the media controller decodes the read data and provides the decoded data to the host device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297989 | Memory Device Readout Using Multiple Sense Times - A method for data storage includes storing data in a group of analog memory cells by writing respective storage values into the memory cells in the group. One or more of the memory cells in the group are read using a first readout operation that senses the memory cells with a first sense time. At least one of the memory cells in the group is read using a second readout operation that senses the memory cells with a second sense time, longer than the first sense time. The data stored in the group of memory cells is reconstructed based on readout results of the first and second readout operations. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297990 | DISTRIBUTED REED-SOLOMON CODES FOR SIMPLE MULTIPLE ACCESS NETWORKS - A computer-based distributed error correction scheme with an efficient decoding algorithm is disclosed. The efficiency of the corresponding decoding algorithm, based on standard single source Reed-Solomon error correcting codes, makes the practical employment of the DECC feasible. Various implementation examples are also provided. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297991 | FEC (forward error correction) decoder with dynamic parameters - FEC (Forward Error Correction) decoder with dynamic parameters. A novel means by which FEC parameters may be encoded into, and subsequently extracted from, a signal stream to allow for adaptive changing of any 1 or more operational parameters that govern communications across a communication channel. FEC parameters are encoded directly into a data frame such that the data frame is treated identical to all other data frames within the signal stream. When the data frame actually includes FEC parameters, it is characterized as a CP (Control Packet) type. For example, when decoding an MPEG stream, an MPEG block that includes FEC parameters, that MPEG block is characterized as a CP MPEG block. The means by which FEC parameters are encoded and extracted from the signal stream allows for much easier adaptive modification of the manner by which signal are encoded, modulated, and processed within a communication system. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297992 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A data processing device and a data processing method capable of improving resistance to error of data. An LDPC encoder encodes by an LDPC code whose code length is 16200 bits and code rate is 4/15, 7/15, or 8/15. A parity check matrix of the LDPC code is composed by arrangement of an element of an information matrix determined by a parity check matrix initial value table indicating a position of the element of the information matrix corresponding to an information length corresponding to the code length and the code rate for each 360 columns of the parity check matrix with a period of 360 columns in a column direction. The parity check matrix initial value table is for digital broadcasting for a mobile terminal, for example. This technology may be applied to a case in which LDPC encoding and LDPC decoding are performed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297993 | ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING METHOD - An encoding method generates an encoded sequence by performing encoding of a given coding rate according to a predetermined parity check matrix. The predetermined parity check matrix is a first parity check matrix or a second parity check matrix. The first parity check matrix corresponds to a low-density parity check (LDPC) convolutional code using a plurality of parity check polynomials. The second parity check matrix is generated by performing at least one of row permutation and column permutation with respect to the first parity check matrix. An eth parity check polynomial that satisfies zero, of the LDPC convolutional code, is expressible by using a predetermined mathematical formula. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297994 | SETS OF RATE-COMPATIBLE UNIVERSAL TURBO CODES NEARLY OPTIMIZED OVER VARIOUS RATES AND INTERLEAVER SIZES - A method and apparatus for Turbo encoding uses a set of rate-compatible Turbo Codes optimized at high code rates and derived from a universal constituent code. The Turbo Codes have rate-compatible puncturing patterns. The method comprises: encoding a signal at a first and second encoder using a best rate ½ constituent code universal with higher code rates, the first encoder and the second encoder each producing a respective plurality of parity bits for each information bit; puncturing the respective plurality of parity bits at each encoder with a higher rate best puncturing patterns; and puncturing the respective plurality of parity bits at each encoder with a lower rate best puncturing pattern. In a variation, the best rate ½ constituent code represents a concatenated of polynomials 1+D | 2013-11-07 |
20130297995 | Data Recording Apparatus, Data Recording System, Data Recording Method, And Program - A data recording apparatus includes a storage unit, a control unit, and a card interface unit. The storage unit stores master data being original data of data to be recorded on a card-type medium. The control unit reads out the master data from the storage unit and executes a recording processing control of the read-out master data with respect to the card-type medium. The card interface unit installs the card-type medium therein and executes data recording processing. Further, the control unit executes, in parallel to recording processing of the master data with respect to the card-type medium, error verification processing of the master data to which the verification value stored in the storage unit is applied, and performs a control of stopping the recording processing of the master data with respect to the card-type medium when an error is detected. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297996 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for intelligently reducing the number of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) stored in memory of a wireless communication device are described herein. In one aspect, the systems and methods described herein relate to selecting LLRs for storage based on a quality metric. In another aspect, the systems and methods described herein relate to improving communication quality in response to available memory capacity. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297997 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT FOR PRODUCING USER INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method of operating a computer system to convert non-interactive digital documents, such as electronic text and image files into interactive digital worksheets is provided. The method includes operating the computer system to prompt a user, such as a teacher for example, to identify a Base Document file accessible to the computer system. The computer system processes the Base Document to produce a corresponding dynamic document which allows the user to overlay data input fields overlaid. The user's overlays are recorded in a database along with meta-data that has been input by the user and which is associated with the overlaid data input fields. The meta-data that is recorded includes instructions determining the manner in which a further computational device, for example a student's PC, smartphone or tablet, interactively presents information of the base document to an end user, such as a student. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297998 | PROCESSING OF DISPLAYED CONTENT TO AUGMENT VIEWING - Methods and apparatus for augmenting a viewing experience are disclosed. In one mode of operation, a method includes capturing, with a camera system of a mobile communication device, an image of a video display that includes a plurality of objects, and extracting at least one object of the plurality of objects from the captured image. The extracted object is associated with an address that is associated with additional content, and a webpage is created that includes the extracted object in connection with a hyperlink to the address. The webpage is then displayed on a display of the mobile communication device, and responsive to a user selecting the hyperlink to the address, the user is connected to the address to enable the user to access the additional content. | 2013-11-07 |
20130297999 | Document Text Processing Using Edge Detection - A document is received that has a plurality of lines with text. This document includes text associated with at least one topic of interest and text not associated with the at least one topic of interest. Thereafter, it is determined, for each line in the document, a length of the line and a number of off-topic indicators with the off-topic indicators characterizing portions of the document as likely being not being associated with the at least one topic of interest. Thereafter, a density for each line can be determined based on the determined line length and the determined number of off-topic indicators. The determined densities for each line are used to identify portions of the documents likely associated with the at least one topic of interest so that data characterizing the identified portions of the document can be provided. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298000 | SOCIALLY RELEVANT CONTENT IN A NEWS DOMAIN - The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method for providing socially relevant content in a news domain. The methods includes a steop for receiving a request from a user for a news aggregator page related to a news story. The method also includes a step for retrieving social contents items related to the news story. The method also includes a step for providing the news aggregator page for display, wherein the news aggregator page includes multiple links to news content items related to the news story, and the retrieved social content items related to the news story. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298001 | PRESENTING ACTIONABLE ELEMENTS ON A DEVICE RELATING TO AN OBJECT - A computing device, method and system is described for displaying actionable elements related to a multi-page printed piece. The device includes an input device, a transceiver circuit and a processing circuit. The input device is configured to receive input data which identifies the multi-page printed piece. The transceiver circuit is configured to transmit a request for data based on the received input data and to receive response data. The processing circuit is configured to generate, based on the response data, actionable elements for each of a plurality of different pages in the multi-page printed piece for display, the actionable elements being selectable by a user to interact with the additional content related to the selected actionable element. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298002 | STRUCTURING AND EDITING A RECURSIVELY MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPREADSHEET - Methods for structuring electronic documents having an ordered set of cells (e.g., spreadsheets or web documents) are provided. In general, the methods provide for multidimensionality by allowing cells to be split by splitting operators, thus allowing cells to contain additional groups of cells, and recursively so. Disclosed are tools and operations for building and modifying various multi-dimensional structures and for interacting with them. Splitting operators provide a two-dimensional equivalent of lexical scopes and iterators in programming languages and allow a direct mapping to external data structures. With these features, the disclosed methods are able to combine the flexibility and unstructured nature of traditional spreadsheet with the structuring capabilities of online analytic processing (OLAP)-based tools. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298003 | AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION OF CONTENT - Generally described is auto annotation of content. A network service can receive at least partly textual content. The content can be automatically annotated to generate varying sets of the content. The varying sets of content can include varying levels of annotation to better meet user preferences or device capabilities. One or more of the varying sets of content can be output to a content browser, allowing a user of the content browser to see an annotated version of the content. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298004 | Drawing HTML Elements - In embodiments of drawing HTML elements, an HTML drawing application ( | 2013-11-07 |
20130298005 | Drawing HTML Elements - In embodiments of drawing HTML elements, an HTML drawing application ( | 2013-11-07 |
20130298006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SOFTWARE TOOLS WITHIN AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ORGANIZING GROUPS AND COMMUNICATING WITH MEMBER CLIENTS OF GROUP - A system and method for providing software tools within an online platform for organizing groups and facilitating communications among member clients of the groups are disclosed. Sub-groups can be created hierarchically below an umbrella group, where information associated with a sub-group is automatically shared with the umbrella group. A standardized set of tools is provided to facilitate philanthropic efforts by volunteer organizations, groups, companies, schools, and individuals. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298007 | DETERMINING PAGE LOADING OF USER INTERFACES OF WEB APPLICATIONS - Embodiments relate to determining page loading of user interfaces of web applications. An aspect includes loading a web page at a browser of a client, the web page comprising a plurality of scripting codes. Another aspect includes providing a wrapper function for an existing function in the browser. Another aspect includes determining one or more scripting codes that waiting to run in the web page, and incrementing a counter value for each of the one or more scripting codes that waiting to run in the web page. Another aspect includes determining one or more scripting codes that have that have started execution or completed execution, and decrementing the counter value for each of the one or more scripting codes that complete execution or started execution. Another aspect includes based on determining that the counter value returns to a zero count, determining that the web page is loaded in the browser. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298008 | HOST APPARATUS CONNECTED TO IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND WEB PAGE PRINTING METHOD THEREOF - A host apparatus connected with an image forming apparatus and a web page printing method thereof. The method of printing a displayed web page includes capturing at least one area on the displayed web page, displaying the at least one captured area in a first area disposed adjacent to the displayed web page, editing the at least one captured area displayed in the first area, and executing the at least one captured and edited area. With this, it is convenient for a user to select, edit and print a desired area from a web page. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298009 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide an electronic marketplace that matches units of content from secondary content providers with suitable vacancies from primary content providers. Vacancies may constitute, or be included in, any digital transmission containers, such as a television or radio programming, web pages, and the like. Specifically, the electronic marketplace automatically matches content offered by secondary content providers with vacancies offered by primary content providers thus filling the vacancies in these containers through a real-time content trading, placement, and distribution system. To do so, attributes associated with the vacancies and with units of secondary content are used to trade and match suitable vacancies with suitable content. This invention enables both secondary content owners and vacancy owners (primary content providers) to obtain the full commercial benefit of their secondary content and containers. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298010 | Retaining Style Information when Copying Content - An illustrative implementation is described for copying an identified portion of source content along with style information associated with the portion. The implementation allows the identified portion to be pasted into target content. By virtue of the extraction and retention of style information, the identified portion that is pasted into the target content visually resembles the identified portion as it appears in the source content. The implementation can identify relevant style information to be preserved based on a contextual analysis of style information applied to the source content. In one illustrative case, some of the style information may be revealed by parts of the content that are not directly demarcated by the identified portion. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298011 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM, RECEIVER DEVICE, METHODS THEREOF, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF - A presentation method comprises: a sender device capturing screen frames and transmitting the screen frames to a receiver device; the receiver device receiving the screen frames transmitted by the sender device and outputting the screen frames to a display device for displaying the screen frames; establishing a webpage server in the receiver device; and the receiver device storing the screen frames as web pages. Thereby, the audiences can use the browsers of mobile Internet devices to link with the webpage server and browse the web pages containing the presentation contents. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298012 | Document Design Capture and Reuse System | 2013-11-07 |
20130298013 | System and Method for Generation of a Layout of Document Elements | 2013-11-07 |
20130298014 | User Interface for Reordering Thumbnails - There is disclosed a method and apparatus for reordering thumbnails. The method includes displaying a visual representation of an electronic document including a first page and a second page in an original order on a user interface generated on a touchscreen display, receiving movement data indicating that the touch has moved in a horizontal direction relative to the user interface, toward the second page. The method also includes altering the visual representation in response to release data such that the first page and the second page are presented in an altered order in the electronic document. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298015 | DOCUMENT IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A document image is viewed by scrolling along only one axis. To achieve this, a document is imaged to obtain a document image. A document image having a width identical with that of a display area is generated. When such a document image is generated, character images are extracted. These character images represent characters, which are contained in the document image, in the form of images. The extracted character images are re-arrayed in accordance with the flow of characters to thereby generate a document image. Since this document image has a width the same as that of the display area, it can be viewed merely by scrolling up and down. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298016 | MULTI-CURSOR TRANSCRIPTION EDITING - A device, for use by a transcriptionist in a transcription editing system for editing transcriptions dictated by speakers, includes, in combination, a monitor configured to display visual text of transcribed dictations, an audio mechanism configured to cause playback of portions of an audio file associated with a dictation, and a cursor-control module coupled to the audio mechanism and to the monitor and configured to cause the monitor to display multiple cursors in the text. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298017 | Transforming a Tactually Selected User Input into an Audio Output - A contextual input device includes a plurality of tactually discernable keys disposed in a predetermined configuration which replicates a particular relationship among a plurality of items associated with a known physical object. The tactually discernable keys are typically labeled with Braille type. The known physical object is typically a collection of related items grouped together by some common relationship. A computer-implemented process determines whether an input signal represents a selection of an item from among a plurality of items or an attribute pertaining to an item among the plurality of items. Once the selected item or attribute pertaining to an item is determined, the computer-implemented process transforms a user's selection from the input signal into an analog audio signal which is then audibly output as human speech with an electro-acoustic transducer. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298018 | USING SOFTWARE INTERACTION INFORMATION - Example embodiments of the present disclosure include one or more of a method, computing device, computer-readable medium, and system for using software interaction information. An example embodiment of a method may include providing a domain object using software operating on a computing device; and storing, in an interaction object provided by the software, user interaction information related to a user interaction relating to the domain object. The user interaction information may be analyzed, and feedback may be provided to a user based upon analyzing the user interaction information. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298019 | User Interface (UI) Mechanism for Changing Difficulty Levels within an Exercise Application Delivered Via the Internet - Systems and methods for enabling an end-user of an online exercise application to change exercise difficulty levels by interacting with a control panel on the application graphical user interface. The end-user may cause the application to retrieve an easier or harder exercise video in order to achieve an adaptable, personalized level of difficulty. For example, if an end user begins watching an exercise of a given difficulty level within a module, the use may input a command to transition to a more (or less) difficult exercise within that module. The application will retrieve a new exercise and present the newly retrieved exercise to the end user. A “storyboard” depicting each of the exercises in the program may be depicted in a small row of tiles below a video player. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298020 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING INTERACTIVE MEDIA CONTENT REQUESTS USING MULTIPLE MEDIA MANAGERS - A media selection and playback system includes a master media manager controller disposed in communication with at least one location media server which is disposed communication with at least one audio-visual playback device. At least one or a plurality of virtual mobile media manager controllers are disposed in data communication with the master controller and are coupled to one or more location media server s, each of which communicates with one or more audio-visual devices. A user request is routed through the media manager controllers and the location media server s to determine which one can handle the user request to forward the media selected in the user request to the selected one of the audio-visual devices specified in the user request. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298021 | METHOD OF EXPANSIVELY SEARCHING MULTIMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA EXECUTING APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method and an apparatus are disclosed for moving an execution point of a multimedia file through an expansive search of a multimedia file being executed by the multimedia executing apparatus. When the multimedia executing apparatus enters into an expansive search mode during a display of a progress bar having an execution point for execution of a multimedia file on a screen according to the execution of the multimedia file, an enlarged progress bar representing an enlarged section of the progress bar including the execution point is displayed on the screen. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298022 | Integrated Media User Interface - An integrated media user interface is described. In an implementation, a user interface is output that includes a plurality of representations of media, each of the media rendered by the mobile device through execution of a respective one of a plurality of applications. Responsive to selection of at least one of the representations, a corresponding application is located to render the media represented by the at least one said representation. The media represented by the selected representation is rendered through execution of the located application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298023 | INTERACTIVE WEB COLLABORATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A topic room is provided in which one or more individuals or other entities may collaborate on topics of mutual interest. Multiple individuals or participants may use the topic room to communicate in real or non-real time and may work together to create, browse, modify, comment on, and perform any other suitable action on content. A chat room within the topic room receives, records, and transmits the communications and all activity in the topic room to all participants as messages. Client processes at a participant's user equipment may listen to the messages and take particular actions. For example, one participant can follow another participant as that participant browses through material by using the messages received from that participant. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298024 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE SAME - Disclosed are an information display device and a method for the same, which can unlock a touch screen quickly and effectively when the touch screen is in a locking state. The information display device comprises a display module including a touch screen; a controller displaying a lock image in the display module when the touch screen is in a locking state, and displaying a first icon indicating the locking state of the touch screen on the lock image, a first region for releasing the locking state of the touch screen on the lock image, and a second region indicating a second icon linked to an application program on the lock image. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298025 | Interactive Oral Presentation Display System - A computer implemented interactive oral presentation display system provides server computers allowing one or more client devices and one or more administrator devices access to an oral presentation display application which provides client user interfaces having a first image display area and a second image display area concurrently displayed on a display surface allowing the client user to control presentation of streaming media in the first image display area and selection of one or more images for serial display in the second image display area, each of which can be coupled in timed synchronized relation with the streaming media. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298026 | SEQUENCING CONTENT - Several implementations provide a system for sequencing, or cueing, content for presentation to an audience. One such implementation provides a low bit-rate system for use with, for example, a tablet. One particular implementation constructs a display plane including a first content source window indicating content from a first content source, and a timeline for sequencing the first content source into a presentation for a presentation device. The display plane is provided to a remote device, and command information is received from the remote device. The command information is for modifying the display plane. The display plane is modified based on the received command information. Another particular implementation receives the display plane, determines command information for modifying the display plane, and provides the command information to the remote device for modifying the display plane. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298027 | VOICE OUTPUT DEVICE, INFORMATION INPUT DEVICE, FILE SELECTION DEVICE, TELEPHONE SET, AND PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM OF THE SAME - A device, computer program and method for outputting linguistic information. The voice output device, for example, includes an output information acquisition unit acquiring linguistic information and attribute information. Attribute information includes an attribute added to each linguistic element included in the linguistic information. A tactile pattern storage unit stores a predetermined tactile pattern corresponding to each linguistic element. A tactile pattern acquisition unit acquires the tactile pattern from the tactile pattern storage unit. A voice output unit reads aloud the linguistic elements and a tactile pattern output unit outputs, in parallel with reading aloud each linguistic element, the tactile pattern corresponding to the attribute added to the linguistic element, thereby allowing a user to sense the tactile pattern by the sense of touch. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298028 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL INPUT DEVICE - A system and method for interacting with a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display means of a computing device. The system includes a multifunctional input device configured to interact with a simplified graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device. The multifunctional input device is configured to provide improved accessibility to the computing device for users having limited computing knowledge and/or skills, as well as limited physical and/or cognitive abilities. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298029 | IMAGE PROJECTOR DEVICE - An image projector device includes a projection optical unit through which an image is projected and displayed, a recognition unit that recognizes a user's action related to processing of the image, and a control unit that generates and/or edits a drawing image based on the user's action recognized by the recognition unit and projects and displays the drawing image being generated and/or edited as a projected, displayed image through the projection optical unit. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298030 | System, methods and computer readable medium for Augmented Personalized Social Network - A non-transitory computer readable medium for displaying augmented personalized information to a user, the non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions for: collecting collected information from a plurality of information sources out of social networks, sensors, factual static sources, geolocation sources, real time sources, user provided information; detecting, out of the collected information, relevant information that is relevant to a user based upon a profile of the user, a relevant point of time and a relevant location; processing the relevant information through a structuring content process to provide specific augmented personalized information that is compatible to an augmented personalized dynamic space of the user; and transmitting to a device of the user the specific augmented personalized information, the specific augmented personalized information causes to the device of the user to display to the user the specific augmented personalized information within the augmented personalized dynamic space of the user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298031 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM - At a communication terminal, visual information reflecting an operation state of a candidate counterpart terminal and a graphical image that allows the communication terminal to switch from a first communications protocol to a second communications protocol, is displayed, respectively, when the communication terminal activates the first communications protocol. In response to a user instruction for selecting the graphical image, the communication terminal activates the second communications protocol to cause the communication terminal to communicate using the second communications protocol. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298032 | OPERATOR SYSTEM, REMOTE SUPPORT METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE OPERATOR SYSTEM - An operator system, an operator server, and a remote support method, and a program for the operator system are provided, which are capable of receiving input of user action for ongoing support operation. While an operator is carrying out support operation for an electric appliance | 2013-11-07 |
20130298033 | SPEECH RECOGNITION SUPPORT FOR REMOTE APPLICATIONS AND DESKTOPS - An application may be hosted for utilization by a remote computing platform. User interface (UI) elements of a UI generated by the hosted application may be identified. Proxy UI elements may be generated. Each of the proxy UI elements may correspond to one or more of the identified UI elements. A transcript of an audio sample may be processed. The audio sample may comprise an utterance of a user of the remote computing platform. The transcript of the audio sample may comprise at least one word corresponding to one or more of the proxy UI elements. A functionality of the hosted application may be invoked. The invoked functionality may correspond to one or more of the UI elements corresponding to the one or more of the proxy UI elements. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298034 | DELAYED COMMAND SERVICING IN AN APPLICATION EXECUTED ON A NETWORK ACCESSIBLE DEVICE - Apparatus and method for managing applications in a network accessible device. In accordance with some embodiments, an application stored in a local memory of a network accessible device is executed to provide an interactive display for a user of the device. An interactive content item is presented to the user on the display during the execution of the application. An interaction command is cached in a memory responsive to selection of the interactive content item by the user. The stored command is thereafter executed responsive to receipt of an indication that the user has terminated execution of the application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298035 | USER INTERFACE METHOD FOR CREATING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A user interface method for creating a multimedia message of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed in which menu fields for creating a multimedia message are displayed in one screen, and when inputting content for each menu field is completed, it is automatically switched to a multimedia message-creating screen in which a selecting bar is positioned at the next field. In addition, while a user is using a multimedia function, a current image can be switched to the multimedia message-creating screen according to a user's need. Thus, the number of user's key manipulations can be reduced in creating the multimedia message, thereby enhancing a user's convenience. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298036 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to a Contextual Response to a Selected Content Item - A control circuit detects a selection of a particular content item and responsively automatically opens a chat window in context with the selected particular content item. Upon receiving user input in that chat window and in response to the closing of that chat window, the user information is then transmitted to a contact. By way of example, the foregoing particular content item can comprise an available status update. By one approach, the foregoing transmission of the user input automatically includes context information that corresponds to the selected status update. This can include, for example, including content from the status update message. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298037 | HUB COORDINATION SERVICE - In implementations of a hub coordination service, a device includes a communication interface for communication coordination with one or more associated devices of the device, and the associated devices correspond to hub members. A hub manager is implemented to receive a task input to create a task for one or more of the hub members to complete. The hub manager can register the task in a hub that is a private, shared space of the hub members, and then initiate communication of the task to respective associated devices of the one or more hub members for notification of the task to be completed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298038 | TRENDING OF AGGREGATED PERSONALIZED INFORMATION STREAMS AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GRAPHICAL DEPICTION THEREOF - A system and a method for trending of aggregated personalized information streams and multi-dimensional graphical depiction thereof are disclosed. The method, which may be embodied on a system, includes retrieving a plurality of social media objects that relates to a focused social media object from social media sites; determining relationships between the social media objects; and/or presenting, at a graphic interface, a network diagram including nodes and lines. In one embodiment, each individual node of the nodes represents one of the social media objects. Each individual line of the lines represents one of the relationships between two of the social media objects that are represented by two of the nodes being connected by the individual line. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298039 | MESSAGING DEVICE - A portable messaging device is provided that can display visual messages and communicate with additional messaging devices via a local area network. The portable messaging device can include a display panel having an LED array, and a control unit. Lateral side walls, and the inner surface of the display panel can define at least part of a recessed opening configured to receive an electronic device such as a smartphone. The control unit can receive input via a user interface of the portable messaging device and, responsive to the input, provide a visual message to the LED array for display from the outer surface of the display panel. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298040 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Programs for Providing Simultaneous Online Conferences - Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing simultaneous online conferences via a conference user interface. One embodiment is a method comprising: a conferencing system establishing a first online conference with a first set of participants and a second online conference with a second set of participants, the first and second sets of participants having a common participant simultaneously participating in both; the conferencing system simultaneously presenting to a client device associated with the common participant a first conference user interface and a second conference user interface, the first conference user interface for providing the first online conference and the second conference user interface for providing the second online conference; and the conferencing system enabling the common participant to selectively designate one of the first and second conference user interfaces as a primary display and the other as a secondary display. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298041 | Portable Collaborative Interactions - The present system allows for online collaborative interaction(s) of various engagement types, without the need for all collaborators to necessarily be registered to or using an identical collaboration application. An interface for engaging in a collaborative environment may allow for identical functionality or a reduced set of functionality that ensures the ability to engage in fundamental online collaborative activities related to the environment. The shared collaborative environment may be accessed from a variety of different computing devices, including various mobile devices. The entire shared collaborative environment may also be embedded an a variety of other platforms and applications that benefit from the added functionality and benefits that the invention provides. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298042 | PROVIDING A REQUISITE LEVEL OF SERVICE FOR AN ELECTRONIC MEETING - Providing a requisite level of service for an electronic meeting. An embodiment can include receiving a request to schedule a first electronic meeting in a time slot, identifying an electronic meeting system to host the first electronic meeting, identifying a second electronic meeting scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, determining an estimate of resource usage within the electronic meeting system during the time slot at least based on the second electronic meeting being scheduled to be hosted by the electronic meeting system in the time slot, comparing the estimate of resource usage with a threshold value, responsive to determining that the estimate of resource usage exceeds the threshold value, providing the requisite level of service to the first electronic meeting in the time slot by reducing anticipated resource usage of the electronic meeting system by the second electronic meeting. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298043 | System and Method for Arranging a Group Outing or Activity - What is provided is a computer implemented method, system, article and tool for generating an event. The tool allows an organizer to select invitee(s) and propose an event and its details and communicate event information to the invitees over a network. The system is capable of accepting invitee proposed additional invitees and/or input event suggestions, such as but not limited to, changes to the event (optionally up to a deadline for proposing changes), where the proposals from the invitees may either be accepted by the organizer and/or sent out for a vote by the other invitees to modify the event and/or its participants (the invitees). The system is capable of receiving invitee(s) attendance responses. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298044 | MOOD-BASED ORGANIZATION AND DISPLAY OF CO-USER LISTS - A mood state may be modeled using mood information for a content selection (e.g., a digitally-encoded song) and/or by using mood information determined by how a user is interacting with a media player. For example, a playlist engine on a host may determine that a particular song is associated with an uplifting mood, thus determining that a user who has selected that particular song currently is in an uplifting mood, and correspondingly may select additional songs and advertisements consistent with, or responsive to, the uplifting mood. Mood information also may be used to present a mood state of users (e.g., co-users) in a network for display in a graphical user interface (GUI). For example, a user's screen name appearing in an America Online (AOL) Instant Messenger's Buddy List may indicate a determined user's mood, such as “happy”, “sad”, “silly”, or “angry.” | 2013-11-07 |
20130298045 | COLLABORATIVE WORKBENCH FOR MANAGING DATA FROM HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES - Disclosed is an exemplary computer program application, system and method for a unified approach to managing data from heterogeneous sources. The system includes a central, semantic data storage basing on a directed labeled graph model, a module for accessing data sources by drawing access and mapping configuration from the data storage and loading the resulting data into the data storage and a unified user interface that treats each graph node in the data storage as a separate term, visualizes and modified the term's context in the data graph using configurable user interface widgets. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298046 | CONTACT LIST DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A technique for contact list aggregation across networks involves logging into low level networks through a high level network. A system constructed according to the technique may include a network interface coupled to the different low level networks. The system may further include a contact aggregation engine coupled to the network interface and a network contacts database. In operation the system logs into one or more of the low level networks (or facilitates login for a user). To the extent that the data in the network contacts database is not current, the contact aggregation engine updates the networks contacts database contact information, then provides an aggregated contact list including the contact information to a display device. A method according to the technique may include logging into a high level network and displaying contacts from the one or more low level networks in an aggregated contact list. The method may further include logging into the one or more low level networks. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298047 | Previewing and Editing Web Sites with a Different User Roles, Identifiers and Authorization Level - Methods and systems may involve establishing a web portal session with a user of a web content management tool, and generating a user interface in the web content management tool during the web portal session. In one example, the user interface includes a page view and a content editing view. Additionally, the user interface may be transitioned between a page edit state and a page preview state while maintaining the web portal session with the user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298048 | MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DESTINATION DATA TRANSFERS - Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for multi-source, multi-destination data transfers that include identifying a plurality of destination points having destination contexts in one or more destination objects; selecting source content for transfer; displaying destination contexts for the destination points; and directing source content to at least one destination point in dependence upon the displayed destination contexts. In typical embodiments, identifying destination points includes recording each identified destination point and storing in association with each recorded destination point a copy of a destination context for each recorded destination point. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298049 | SWITCHING SEARCH PROVIDERS WITHIN AN APPLICATION SEARCH BOX - An application provides a search box that is configured to enable a user to enter searchable text. The application provides a quick pick search provider menu that is configured to include different sections that provide suggestions as text is entered into the search box. At least some of the suggestions are locally maintained, and at least some other of the suggestions are received from one or more remote search providers. In some embodiments, the application can comprise a web browser. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298050 | GENERATING VISUALIZATIONS OF FACET VALUES FOR FACETS DEFINED OVER A COLLECTION OF OBJECTS - Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating visualizations of facet values for facets defined over a collection of objects. The objects are processed to determine facet values for the objects for a specified facet. A first visualization is generated of representations of the determined facet values for the objects. User selection is received of one of the facet values represented in the generated first visualization. A determination is made of objects having the user selected facet value and a determination is made of at least one facet value for the specified facet for each of the determined objects having the selected facet value. A second visualization of representations of the determined at least one facet value is generated. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298051 | Collection User Interface - Collection user interface techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a plurality of inputs are recognized as gestures received via interaction with a user interface to navigate through a file system of a computing device and select representations of objects managed by file system of the computing device, at least two of which are accessible via different devices. In response, copies of the representations are displayed by the computing device in a collection portion of the user interface. An option is output in conjunction with the collection portion by the computing device that is selectable to initiate a command to be performed using the objects that have corresponding representations included in the collection portion. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298052 | In-Car Information System, Information Terminal, And Application Execution Method - An in-car information system includes a portable information terminal and an in-car device. The information terminal identifies a specific application being executed in the foreground and transmits restriction information pertaining to the particular application to the in-car device. The in-car device either allows or disallows, based upon the restriction information transmitted from the information terminal, image display corresponding to the application being executed in the foreground and transmission of operation information corresponding to an input operation. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298053 | SCOREBOARD MODELING - Various embodiments illustrated and described herein include at least one of systems, methods, and software to generate one or both of scoreboard illustrations and functional and renderable scoreboard animation via scoreboard modeling. The various embodiments illustrated and described herein may operate on single, stand-alone computing devices, as network or “cloud”-based solutions accessible via a network such as the Internet, or a mixture of both. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298054 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME, AND PROGRAM - A portable electronic device capable of more easily selecting a desired text input application, a method of controlling the same, and a program are provided. In a state in which characters or an image is displayed on a display of a portable telephone, an instruction is given such that either the image or at least one of the characters (for example, the characters “a”, “i”, “u”, and “e” on a region is selected and then the character or the image is moved to an end region (for example, the right side of an end region. Consequently, the portable telephone starts a text input application storing the character associated with the end region (for example, a notepad application) and the selected character or image is input. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298055 | METHOD FOR OPERATING USER INTERFACE AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM APPLYING THE SAME - A method for operating a user interface and a recording medium for storing a program applying the same are provided. The method includes following steps. First, a touch generated by touching a touch display using an input tool is detected. Then, whether or not the touch is generated on a specific area of the touch display is determined. Next, whether the position of the touch is changed is determined if the touch is generated on the specific area. The user interface is activated or switched if the position of the touch is changed. Accordingly, a more convenient and intuitive method for operating the user interface is provided and the convenience in using the electronic device is increased. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298056 | PAINTING USER CONTROLS - The described implementations relate to dynamically painting user-controls. One method dynamically determines a highlight color of a user-control under a cursor on a graphical user-interface. The method also paints at least a portion of the user-control with the highlight color. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298057 | NAVIGATING AMONG ACTIVITIES IN A COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device runs multiple activities concurrently and provides at least two modes for interacting with the activities. The user may toggle between the modes as desired. In a full-screen mode, one activity occupies substantially an entire display screen. In a windowed mode, the activity is visible within a window, and a portion of at least one other window is also visible. In the windowed mode, the user can cause windows to move, thereby changing focus from one activity to another. For example, the window having focus can be moved off the screen, to be replaced by a new window that is then given focus. The windows are ordered in a sequence and move in concert with one another; pushing one window off one edge of the screen causes a new window to appear at the opposite edge. A persistent positional relationship can be established among windows. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298058 | Creating and Maintaining a Singular Uninterrupted Focus While Transitioning Through a Graduated User Interface - A mechanism for displaying a single focus on a device is provided. A piece of content is displayed in a first application on a display of the device. The piece of content is enlarged to create a single focus on the piece of content on the display. Parameters of the piece of content are passed to a second application. The piece of content is duplicated as an identical piece of content in the second application, and the identical piece of content is visually exactly positioned behind the piece of content on the display. The piece of content is seamlessly swapped with the identical piece of content of the second application, so that the identical piece of content is visually positioned to be viewable by the user. Tools of the second application are visually presented in an incremental transition until the tools are viewable and available to the user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298059 | INDICATING POTENTIAL FOCUS IN A USER INTERFACE - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for an integrated user interface an interface that receives user input through the user interface. Output is provided through the user interface, and all user input received through the user interface is interpreted as explicitly being separated input into one of three classes, namely, pointing input, content input, and command input. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298060 | DRAG AND DROP INTERACTION PARADIGM WITH IMAGE SWAP - A software application assists users of a computing device to manipulate a data object displayed on a user interface. The software application may be implemented as a method that may comprise receiving a touch-and-hold operation directed to the data object, and responsive to the touch-and-hold operation, determining whether a time period since beginning of the touch-and-hold operation reaches a predetermined threshold value, when the time period reaches the predetermined threshold value, creating an image of the data object and hovering the image of the data object on top of the data object to indicate it is draggable, and responsive to the image of the data object being dragged into a droppable display area on the user interface, swapping the image of the data object with a user guidance indicating what the image of the data object will look like if released in the droppable display area. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298061 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT MANAGEMENT - A content management system and method work as a companion to other applications that control the system. The system and method draw information from the operations or structure of the controlling application to display and manage the content objects relevant to a record displayed by a user of the controlling application and stored in the content management system. The system and method operate in conjunction with the controlling application so that this management and display of content objects is dynamic, real-time, and context-sensitive for the user. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298062 | METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZATION OF USER INTERFACE OF A MEDICAL APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPORAL BLOOD TREATMENT; MEDICAL APPARATUS FOR EXTRACORPORAL BLOOD TREATMENT - Methods for customization of a user interface of a microprocessor controlled medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment are disclosed, whereby the medical apparatus comprises a software component driving the user interface on a touch screen of the medical apparatus, and the software component has a technical support and maintenance mode and a treatment mode. At least one target window is displayed on the touch screen during therapy in the treatment mode, and such target window shows at least data regarding measured and/or set values of the therapy, whereby at least the appearance of one target window is modified by a customization procedure that is performed within the target window in the treatment mode. The invention further relates to a medical apparatus for extracorporal blood treatment that uses the method. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298063 | Active Overlay of Diabetes Management Information on a Display - The present invention describes an active overlay of real-time glucose and/or insulin information on a display for convenient monitoring and control of information for the management of diabetes. The superimposed images on display can be varied based on automated and/or programmable processes and/or alerts of the system. In various embodiments, the system can include a console and/or remote control to allow the user to control the overlay display. In specific embodiments, the system can communicate with a glucose sensor and/or insulin infusion device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298064 | VIRTUAL KEYBOARD FOR INPUTTING SUPPLEMENTARY CHARACTER AND SUPPLEMENTARY CHARACTER INPUTTING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - A virtual keyboard, an apparatus, and method using the virtual keyboard provide supplementary character input. The virtual keyboard includes basic character keys which correspond to basic characters of a basic character set corresponding to a currently set input language, respectively, and at least one character function keys. If the character function key is input, basic character keys corresponding to basic characters to which supplementary characters of at least one supplementary character sets corresponding to the input language are mapped respectively are switched to supplementary character keys of a supplementary character set which is set to correspond to the input character function key. Virtual key stamps of the corresponding basic characters are displayed on the basic character keys. Virtual key stamps of the corresponding supplementary characters are displayed on the supplementary character keys. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298065 | Representing Geological Objects Specified Through Time In A Spatial Geology Modeling Framework - A method can include providing a geological time data structure configured to link objects of a reservoir model to geological times; linking one of the objects of the reservoir model to one of the geological times; generating simulation results for the reservoir model; and, based at least in part on the geological time data structure, outputting at least some of the simulation results along a geological time axis. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298066 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURING KEYBOARD FOR WEB BROWSER - A method for configuring a keyboard for a web browser in a terminal includes analyzing a received application protocol response message; determining a key combination suitable for a selected input field based on the analysis results, if the input field for key input is selected by a user; and configuring a keyboard to include the determined key combination and displaying the configured keyboard. As a result, a keyboard suitable for an input field selected by a user may be automatically displayed, thereby preventing the user from switching the keyboard to access desired key buttons to be displayed. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298067 | Thumbmarking in an E-Book Reader with Multitouch - Embodiments disclosed relate to navigation through pages of an electronic book. A user may wish to bookmark a particular page of a book using her thumb to quickly reference a page. After bookmarking a page, the user may navigate to other pages of the electronic book. Using a tilt gesture or swipe gesture, the user may quickly return to the bookmarked page. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298068 | CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method and a mobile terminal for displaying contents are provided. The method of displaying contents for pages of a mobile terminal including a display unit in which a touch panel is installed, includes: displaying a page; detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page; and displaying the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped in response to the movement of the touch input device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298069 | VIRTUAL PAGE TURN - One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-flipping gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page flip is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page flip turns successive pages to a landing page. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298070 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING DISPLAY INTERFACES - A method for switching display interfaces includes a touch display device utilizing a first display interface for displaying open images of a plurality of data objects when being opened; touching a predetermined display area of the touch display device; and the touch display device switching the first display interface to a second display interface different from the first display interface for displaying the open images of the plurality of data objects when being opened. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298071 | FINGER TEXT-ENTRY OVERLAY - Systems and methods for providing text entry on a limited-display device, such as a mobile device or in-vehicle device. In an embodiment, a partially transparent virtual overlay is generated and rendered on a display of the device on top of a user interface. Finger-written characters or character strings are received through the virtual overlay via a touch-screen of the device. The recognized characters or character strings are displayed in an input field of the user interface, such that the characters or character strings are visible through the partially transparent virtual overlay. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENTERING TEXT IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for entering text in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes focusing on a selected text field and displaying a SIP, when the predefined text field is selected from among text fields, scroll-displaying the text fields in a display area in response to a requested scroll, when a user requests the scroll of the display area of the text fields, and identifying, from a result of the scroll display, whether the selected text field is being displayed in the display area, and determining whether text is to be entered into the selected text field. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298073 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a method for inputting information through touch input device of an electronic device is provided. The method inputs information including at least one of symbols and characters through touching of a screen displayed on the touch input device, and executes a specific application capable of processing the input information. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298074 | Method and Apparatus Pertaining to the Sharing of Content - A control circuit co-displays a share-content selection opportunity (such as, but not limited to, a user-selectable icon button) when also displaying shareable content. Upon detecting selection of this share-content selection opportunity, the control circuit displays a plurality of different selectable content-sharing services. By one approach these different selectable content-sharing services are displayed in a window that partially, but not fully, overlies the shareable content. These teachings also provide for displaying a preselected service window for a given one of the plurality of different selectable content-sharing services. The preselected service can be selected, for example, on the basis of having been a most-recently selected one of the different selectable content-sharing services (either in general or in conjunction with the particular application as corresponds to the shareable content). | 2013-11-07 |
20130298075 | ADDRESS BAR USER INTERFACE CONTROL - An address bar user interface control includes one or more interactive segments. A segment may include one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. In some instances, a segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined for selecting content. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298076 | CONTROLLING A COMPUTING DEVICE - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for controlling a computing device comprising a touch-screen user interface. A status of one or more applications having access to the touch-screen user interface of the computing device is monitored. In response to the monitoring indicating that a predetermined application is displaying a screen on the touch-screen user interface, at least one overlay portion is configured over a part of the displayed screen. Hence, an augmented user interface experience is provided which allows display of information to a user via an overlay displayed on top of information associated with a predetermined application already being presented to the user. No interaction by the user with the touch-screen user interface is required in order to navigate away from or back to the predetermined application. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298077 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS CAPABLE OF PLACING OBJECTS ON SCREEN ACCORDING TO POSITION ATTRIBUTES OF THE OBJECTS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A display control apparatus which is capable of accurately designating a reference point, which is to be a reference for scaling to a desired one, on a map screen without burdening a user. One or more objects, with which position information is associated, are displayed at positions based on the position information on a map image in a display area. At least one of the one or more objects displayed in the display area is specified as a reference object. When an instruction for enlarging a display range of the map image is received, a display range of the map image after scaling is controlled so that the reference object can be displayed within the display area even after scaling. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298078 | User Interface for Navigation - A user interface comprising a navigation pane including a plurality of selectable items, the navigation pane displayable in a first region of a display at a display device; and a column explorer display area selectively displayable in a second region of the display at the display device, the second region distinct from the first region; wherein a first link to a most recently used data item in a first column of the column explorer display area is displayed in a first location in the navigation pane, the first link associated with a first data item in the navigation pane, and wherein the navigation pane, the first link, and the column explorer display area are displayed concurrently. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298079 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UNLOCKING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for controlling an unlocking operation includes detecting an unlocking event, displaying a virtual control mechanism for performing the unlocking operation, detecting a touch input on a touch screen of an electronic device, determining whether the touch input is an unlocking touch input, and unlocking a component of the electronic device. An electronic device includes a touch screen to receive a touch input, and to display a virtual control mechanism, and an unlocking unit to detect an unlocking event, to determine whether the touch input is an unlocking touch input, and to unlock a component of the electronic device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298080 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR SELECTING ELEMENTS FROM A LIST - A mobile electronic device for selecting elements from a list is provided. The mobile electronic device comprises a communication interface enabled to communicate with an output device, the output device enabled to provide feedback for selecting elements from a list; a first input element which, when actuated, causes the communication interface to transmit a coarse selection of the elements of the list, the coarse selection provided at the output device; and a second input element which, when actuated, causes the communication interface to transmit a fine selection of the elements of the list, the fine selection provided at the output device. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298081 | DISPLAY METHOD AND PORTABLE DEVICE - A display method and a portable device are provided. The portable device has a touch screen, and a plurality of application programs is installed in the portable device. The touch screen displays a menu interface and a object corresponding to each application program. When the object corresponding to each application program is displayed, a display format supported by the application program is obtained, and whether the display format supported by the application program matches a first display format of the touch screen of the portable device is determined. When the display format supported by the application program does not match the first display format of the touch screen, a first annotation message is shown on the object corresponding to the application program. | 2013-11-07 |
20130298082 | CLINICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDKEEPING SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A clinical photographic recordkeeping system includes a remote storage device and at least one portable electronic device. The remote storage device stores a patient list and patient photos. The portable electronic device includes a clinical photographic recordkeeping application. Execution of the application displays the patient list from the remote storage device based on a user logging into the application, selects a patient from the patient list based on a first user input, and displays an image showing a highlighted area of the selected patient to be photographed. The image includes a flag indicating that the patient has an existing photo on the remote storage device of the highlighted area to be photographed. A camera takes a new photo of the highlighted area of the patient based on a second user input. | 2013-11-07 |