52nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 70 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140380159 | Intelligent Amplifier Activation - Embodiments are provided for intelligently activating an amplifier in a playback device based on proximity detection. The playback device may be in a quasi-idle state when the playback device is not rendering media content. The quasi-idle state of the playback device may involve an amplifier in the playback device being inactive, while some other components or modules of the playback devices remain active. The playback device may include a proximity sensor configured to detect movement relative to the playback device. If movement is detected indicating that a user input to cause the playback device to render media content is anticipated, the amplifier may be pre-emptively activated such that the playback device enters an active state from the quasi-idle state. In some cases, the playback device may send a message to one or more other playback devices to cause the other playback devices to enter an active state. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380160 | PATTERN BASED VIDEO FRAME NAVIGATION AID - Recommending and graphically displaying viewed video data sensitive to the viewing pattern of a user. Responsive to viewing a plurality of video frames of a video file, a navigation profile is captured to document the viewing pattern of the video frames. Specifically, attributes of the video frames are documented such as the frequency of plays of the video frames. Where multiple navigation profiles are captured, the navigation profiles are stored, aggregated, and represented graphically on a display. Additional video may be recommended based on the aggregated data. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit that is capable of communicating with a communication apparatus through a communication network, and a control unit configured to perform control to place, in a virtual space, a communication-apparatus image that represents the communication apparatus and content being executed by the communication apparatus, and to display the virtual space. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380162 | VARIABLE AUDIOVISUAL PLAYING METHOD - A variable audiovisual playing method is performed in a player. The method firstly provides a first information segment, a second information segment, to a n-th information segment. Each information segment has one or multiple different content clips. Secondly, the player sequentially plays the first information segment, the second information segment, to the n-th information segment. The content clip in each information segment for being played is randomly selected from the information segments or designated according to operation commands. The combination of the content clips for being played is different in each play. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380163 | Video Obtaining Method, Device, and System - A video obtaining method, device, and system. The video obtaining method includes obtaining a visual interface from a management server, where the visual interface includes a geographic information system (GIS) map, and a plurality of camera resource points and a monitoring range corresponding to each of the camera resource points are displayed on the GIS map; and detecting a user clicking action, obtaining a coordinate parameter of the user clicking action, and if the coordinate parameter is within a monitoring range, sending the coordinate parameter to the management server, so as to obtain a real-time video of a position corresponding to the coordinate parameter. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380164 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING WEBSITE CONTENT - A machine-executable method for displaying webpage media content comprises a network device receiving an input from a computing system. The network device verifies whether a user associated with the computing system is a logged-in member. If the user is a logged-in member, display or playback of the media content immediately begins on a display device or a webpage display application of the computing system, without receiving any further input from the computing system. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380165 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPOSING A MENU - Multimedia content of exchangeable storage media, such as optical discs, may be extended by bonus content that is downloaded via Internet connection and stored on a local storage device. An improved method for integration of different menu items relating to on-disc content and downloaded content provides flexibility and a simple, low cost solution. The method for integration of downloaded bonus content into a menu comprises defining one or more placeholders within a menu, determining a storage location or naming convention for bonus content, declaring for each placeholder an attribute providing a unique association to a specific type of bonus content, providing a button image, detecting presence of bonus content data, replacing the associated placeholder by the associated button image and enabling an associated action to be taken when said button is selected. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380166 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPOSING A MENU - Multimedia content of exchangeable storage media, such as optical discs, may be extended by bonus content that is downloaded via Internet connection and stored on a local storage device. An improved method for integration of different menu items relating to on-disc content and downloaded content provides flexibility and a simple, low cost solution. The method for integration of downloaded bonus content into a menu comprises defining one or more placeholders within a menu, determining a storage location or naming convention for bonus content, declaring for each placeholder an attribute providing a unique association to a specific type of bonus content, providing a button image, detecting presence of bonus content data, replacing the associated placeholder by the associated button image and enabling an associated action to be taken when said button is selected. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380167 | Systems and methods for multiple device interaction with selectably presentable media streams - A system for multiple device interaction with selectably presentable multimedia content includes an output engine, an input engine, a manager, and a memory that stores selectably presentable multimedia content segments. Each content segment represents a predefined portion of one or more content paths. The output engine, executing on a first device, receives a subset of the content segments, assembles them into a seamless multimedia presentation that is one of the content paths, and plays the assembled multimedia presentation. The input engine, executing on a second device, receives user interactions associated with the multimedia presentation, and the manager coordinates the multimedia presentation among multiple devices based on the user interactions. A method implementing the above steps is also included. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380168 | Method of Editing a Video with Video Editing Software Executed on a Computing Device - A method of editing a video with video editing software executed on a computing device includes loading a video clip into the video editing software, the video clip being displayed in a linear video editing frame, displaying a first control icon above or below a beginning portion of the video clip, the first control icon being a first variable icon, and displaying a second control icon above or below an ending portion of the video clip, the second control icon being a second variable icon. The method further includes dragging the first variable icon to modify contents of the beginning portion of the video clip or dragging the second variable icon to modify contents of the ending portion of the video clip. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380169 | LANGUAGE INPUT METHOD EDITOR TO DISAMBIGUATE AMBIGUOUS PHRASES VIA DIACRITICIZATION - Disclosed are methods for disambiguating an input phrase or group of words. An implementation may include receiving a phrase as an input to a processor. The received phrase may be presented on a display device. The received phrase may be determined to be ambiguous based on a threshold uncertainty in either a definition or a pronunciation related to the phrase. An indication may be provided that a word in the phrase is the cause of the ambiguity. A menu of words with each word incorporating at least one diacritic mark to a word in the received phrase to disambiguate the received phrase may be presented. A word from the menu of words may be selected and presented on the display device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380170 | Location-Based Responses to Telephone Requests - A method for receiving processed information at a remote device is described. The method includes transmitting from the remote device a verbal request to a first information provider and receiving a digital message from the first information provider in response to the transmitted verbal request. The digital message includes a symbolic representation indicator associated with a symbolic representation of the verbal request and data used to control an application. The method also includes transmitting, using the application, the symbolic representation indicator to a second information provider for generating results to be displayed on the remote device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380171 | AUTOMATIC PRESENTATION OF SLIDE DESIGN SUGGESTIONS - A method and system for organizing slides by analyzing content and offering alternative solutions for placing content on the slides in an effective and visually interesting organization is provided. The presentation application automatically generates alternative design suggestions for the provided content that effectively utilize the slide space pursuant to analytics performed on the content. Providing alternative design suggestions for organizing content on a slide assists in quickly and easily creating presentations that effectively utilize slide space. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380172 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A terminal apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The controlling method, according to an exemplary embodiment, includes displaying a plurality of messages which are transmitted/received to/from another terminal apparatus, when one of a plurality of the displayed message is selected, displaying an input window to generate a response message of the selected message, when a transmission command is input after a response message is input on the input window, transmitting identification information of the selected message and the response message to the another terminal apparatus, and displaying the response message around the selected message. Accordingly, the terminal apparatus may clarify correlation between messages which are transmitted/received by controlling each of a plurality of messages which are transmitted/received to/from other terminal apparatuses independently, thereby helping produce clear communication between users through those transmitted/received messages. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380173 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB PAGE COMMENTING, BROWSER AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a method and a system for web page commenting, a browser and a storage medium, and the method comprises: displaying a web page content and providing a comment control used for adding a comment containing a comment content on the web page content; detecting a comment adding instruction generated by the comment control; and sending the comment content and a web page identifier corresponding to the web page content to a server storing comments, if the comment adding instruction is detected. By the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the disclosure, a user is allowed to view the comments made by other users on the web page content, and make a comment on the web page content. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380174 | OPTIMIZING A CLUSTERED VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing a clustered virtual computing environment. In exemplary embodiments, performance attributes are identified for a set of operating devices within the clustered virtual computing environment. Historical data of the identified performance attributes is obtained to create a historical data repository. A rulebase is developed using the historical data repository and input from user. A combined correlation pattern repository is generated using a first correlation pattern, a second correlation pattern and a scale-time invariant weight fraction. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380175 | USER DEFINED ARRANGEMENT OF RESOURCES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - A device, of a cloud computing environment, receives user requirements for the cloud computing environment from user device(s). Each of the user requirements is associated with a corresponding one of the user device(s). The device receives system requirements associated with the cloud computing environment. The system requirements include quality of service (QoS) requirements for computing resources of the cloud computing environment. The device generates proposed arrangement(s) of sets of computing resources, from the computing resources of the cloud computing environment, based on the user requirements and the system requirements. Each of the proposed arrangements is associated with a corresponding one of the user devices. The device provides information associated with the proposed arrangements to the user devices. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380176 | Method and System for Generating a Network Monitoring Display with Animated Utilization Information - A method for displaying storage network information in a user interface. The method includes identifying a topology map for a storage network and gathering operating information, which is processed to determine a performance parameter, such as utilization. A performance monitoring display is generated including a topology map and a graphical representation of the performance parameter, which is positioned in the display relative to the components for which the parameter applies. The graphical representation can be a pair of parallel dashed lines between communicating components. The dashes in the lines are moved using a speed coding scheme representative of the performance parameter, e.g., with faster speeds used to show higher ranges of utilization, and the direction of movement matches data flow. The dashed lines are colored using a color coding scheme and the line segment lengths vary in association with the performance value. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT OF AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT - An exemplary system and method for displaying technical equipment of an industrial plant includes a graphical display unit and a user interface for receiving image handling parameters. A data storing unit provides data relating to the technical equipment in the form of device data and network data describing a communication network of the industrial plant. The device data describes network devices which are all connected to the communication network and belong to the industrial plant, and the network data describes all the communication connections between the network devices. A data processing unit is arranged for retrieving the provided data, transforming all the device data and all the network data into displayable information, and providing the image representations together with other displayable information to the graphical display unit. The graphical display unit is arranged to display the image representations and other displayable information according to the image handling parameters. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380178 | DISPLAYING INTERACTIVE CHARTS ON DEVICES WITH LIMITED RESOURCES - A server provided according to an aspect of the present disclosure receives as input, data values to be displayed in the form of a chart. The server renders the chart based on the received data values and also generates a static image for the rendered chart. The server, in addition, creates an area map indicating the portions of the static image, which correspond to the respective data values, and are interactive. The static image and the area map are served to devices, which are able to display the chart for interaction, with minimal resources in view of the availability of the static image as well as the area map. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380179 | System and Method for Facilitating an Interactive Engagement of a User with an Online Application - System and method for facilitating an interactive engagement of a user with an online application is disclosed. The method comprises presenting one or more first questions, to the user, associated with the online application. For the one or more first questions, a first response is received from the user. The first response indicates behavioural characteristics of the user. The method comprises assigning a first engagement metric based on the first response. Further, one or more second questions are presented, to the user, associated with the online application. The one or more second questions are dynamically restructured based on the first engagement metric. The method comprises receiving a second response corresponding to the one or more second questions. The method further comprises modifying the first engagement metric into a second engagement metric based on the second response. The method further comprises calculating a score based on the second engagement metric. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380180 | SERVICE CLOUD CONSOLE - Various embodiments described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for providing contextual information regarding database records via a user interface. A user interface is provided in a browser in accordance with information received from one or more servers in communication with a database system storing records and contextual information. The user interface comprises a first component and a second component, the first component comprising data of a record stored in the database system, the second component comprising contextual information related to the record data. A modification to the record data is received. A request for updated contextual information is transmitted to the one or more servers, the request identifying at least a portion of the modification. The updated contextual information is received from the one or more servers and displayed in the second component without reloading the user interface. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380181 | PRESENTING INFORMATION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Techniques for presenting information on a mobile communication device to an employee of an organization include receiving an indication to present information associated with an organization to an employee of the organization; in response to receiving the indication, determining a current geographic location of the employee; identifying a facility of a plurality of facilities associated with the organization based on the determined current geographic location of the employee; retrieving information associated with the identified facility from a local memory of the mobile communication device; and presenting the retrieved information to the employee. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380182 | MULTI-TOUCH MULTI-USER INTERACTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM USING MOBILE DEVICES - A method for providing multi-touch, multi-user interactive control system using mobile devices. The method includes establishing socket connections with the mobile devices and receiving messages representing multi-touch user actions from the mobile devices through the socket connections. The messages are translated into predetermined parameters, and transmitted to an application for performing actions corresponding to the multi-touch user actions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380183 | Method, Electronic Device, and Computer Program Product - According to one embodiment, a method is configured to be used for controlling an electronic device configured to operate an other electronic device, byway of example. The method includes displaying an operational interface for operating the other electronic device on a locked screen displayed in a display of the electronic device under a lock condition configured to restrict at least part of an operation on the electronic device, if it is determined that the electronic device has been connected to a first network corresponding to the other electronic device and the display of the electronic device is activated by an operation of a user. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380184 | REMOTE BROWSING SESSION MANAGEMENT - A remote browsing process is directed to the generation and management of a remote browse session at a network computing and storage provider. A client computing device requests a remote browse session instance at a network computing and storage provider. The browse session instance may correspond to one or more requested network resources. The network computing and storage provider instantiates the browse session instance and retrieves the requested content. The network computing and storage provider processes the requested content for display, and provides display data corresponding to a processed representation of the requested content to the client computing device in accordance with a display protocol configuration. The client computing device may display the representation of the requested content in a browser, and may send user interaction data based on user interactions with the representation to the network computing and storage provider for processing. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380185 | HANDHELD DEVICE WITH RECONFIGURING TOUCH CONTROLS - Embodiments of the invention provide a system for reconfiguring touch controls on a device, such as a cell phone, in reaction to a user's changing mode of operation. For example, a standard display of icons that works well in two-handed operation may not work as well for one-handed operation where the user tries to operate the controls with a thumb of the holding hand. In such a case, a device can detect that the user is trying to operate the controls with a thumb of the holding hand and the controls can be reconfigured to be more suitable for thumb operation. Reconfiguration can also occur in other modes of operation, such as when the user is using a stylus, multiple fingers of a second (non-holding hand), fingers on both hands, etc. In some embodiments, detection of the mode of operation can be automatic such as where a camera takes an image to determine the mode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380186 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING FLEXIBLE DISPLAY AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device having a flexible display and method of providing the same are disclosed herein. A flexible display is disposed on at least a portion of an area of the electronic device and configured to egress or ingress from at least one housing of the electronic device to alter an exposed area of the flexible display. At least one processor operatively coupled to the flexible display is configured to detect the exposed area of the flexible display altered by egress or ingress of the flexible display from the housing, detect a setting mode based on the altered exposed area of the flexible display; and execute at least one of changing a resolution setting, changing an operation mode, and changing a user interface setting of the flexible display based on the detected setting mode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380187 | Devices and Methods for Establishing a Communicative Coupling in Response to a Gesture - A method and a device are disclosed, whereby the device can be a first electronic device. The first electronic device is adapted to be coupled to a second electronic device. The method comprises outputting, with the first device, a request to communicatively couple with a second device in response to a gesture performed with the first device. The second electronic device and method of operating it are also disclosed. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380188 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A processor of an information processing apparatus sets an enlargement target region in a system screen based on coordinates inputted in a coordinate input unit, superimposes and displays an enlarged image obtained by enlarging the enlargement target region, on the system screen, monitors whether or not the input in the coordinate input unit in the state where the enlarged image is displayed is performed through a drag operation of which starting coordinates are in the enlarged image. When the input in the coordinate input unit in the state where the enlarged image is displayed is performed through a drag operation of which starting coordinates are within the enlarged image, the processor monitors coordinates while the drag operation is performed. When the coordinates while the drag operation is performed come to be present within a predetermined range defined by the edge of the enlarged image, the processor erases the enlarged image. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380189 | MOBILE DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A mobile device comprising a first touch panel and a second touch panel for displaying images is disclosure. A decision module is operable to indicate a touch condition, if a touch position on a first touch panel is changed to a predefined direction toward a second touch panel, and if a touch is detected on both the first touch panel and the second touch panel. A display control module is operable to display at least some of an image displayed on the second touch panel on the first touch panel in response to the touch condition. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380190 | INTEGRATING CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TO COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - Customer relationship management (CRM) information is integrated with communication sessions. A unified communication (UC) client application initiates a call with a contact in response to a request by a CRM application presenting an opportunity associated with the contact. The UC application receives contextual information and documents associated with the opportunity. The contextual information includes attributes and relationship information associated with the opportunity and the contact. Contacts associated with the opportunity is displayed within a user interface (UI) such as a people view. The application provides controls to manage contextual information of the contacts associated with the opportunity. Documents associated with the opportunity are also presented within another UI such as a documents view. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380191 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DESIGN REVIEW COLLABORATION ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS - A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to comment on a graphic design. A graphic design is obtained. A comment is accepted from an author commenting on the graphic design. The comment includes contextual metadata. The contextual metadata provides an identification of a location in the graphic design, a date and time the comment was accepted, an author identification, and searchable text. The comment is then displayed. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380192 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING APPLICATION DISCOVERY BY AUTOMATION NEEDS - This invention generally relates to a process, system and computer code for identifying one or more data relationships that exist between and utilized by one or more applications; determining for each data relationship a respective rank based on specific data that associates the two or more user applications; finding applications based on the degree a respective rank has to one or more user applications; categorizing each relationship based on a criteria of the interaction; creating an application wall containing status updates and links to and from other applications related to the one of the one or more user applications; constructing a automation map from the links between the one or more user applications and other applications. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380193 | SHOWING INTERACTIONS AS THEY OCCUR ON A WHITEBOARD - Real-time interactions made by a client on a whiteboard are shown on remote client(s) currently viewing the whiteboard. The real-time interactions that are shown on the remote clients can include a variety of different interactions. For example, the location(s) of where a remote client is touching the whiteboard or interacting with the whiteboard using a stylus may be viewed. A current inking stroke of a remote user may also be viewed as it is occurring. Interactions on the whiteboard may be shown differently depending on the remote user performing the interaction. The whiteboard may also show a location on the whiteboard where each of the remote users are currently viewing. A user may also track the actions of another user. When a change is committed to the whiteboard, the remote clients update the display to reflect the committed state. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380194 | CONTENTS SHARING SERVICE - A method and device for sharing content on an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to display content on the display, display input of at least one of an image and text to the display, at least one of the image and the text being overlapped with at least a portion of the content, and transmit information representing the input along with information representing the content. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380195 | Displaying News Ticker Content in a Social Networking System - A social networking system displays raw stories about a user's friends' actions in a news ticker as those actions occur. The social networking system is monitored for actions associated with users connected with the target user. The social networking system may be continually monitored such that actions are identified in real-time as they are performed. The news ticker is updated such that stories including the identified actions and the associated connected users are displayed within a news ticker interface. The news ticker interface may be a dedicated portion of the social networking system interface, for example in a column next to a newsfeed. The news ticker interface may be updated in real time as actions associated with connected users are performed. The target user may select a displayed story in the news ticker, and additional information related to the selected story may be displayed, for instance in a separate interface. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380196 | Creation and Prioritization of Multiple Virtual Universe Teleports in Response to an Event - Useful work or services can be automated or otherwise facilitated or solutions to real world events developed by emulation of a real-world environment (which can contain objects representing virtual objects) with a virtual environment and generating a prioritized sequence of locations and associated tasks in accordance with resources related to the event in a virtual universe. Performance of the prioritized tasks at the prioritized locations is facilitated in the virtual universe by locally generating teleportation invitations corresponding to locations in the ordered sequence of locations. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380197 | System and Methods for Managing Distributed Physics Simulation of Objects in a Virtual Environment - A computerized server managing a Virtual Environment (VE) has a network port for communicating with remote computerized appliances, a plurality of virtually-defined rigid objects in the VE, including one or more avatars representing persons in the VE, a physics simulation engine executing from a machine-readable medium, for calculating object states and properties, including motion of virtually-defined rigid objects, and a mechanism for assigning and tracking identification of remote computerized appliances connected via the network port, each remote appliance capable of physics simulation. The server responds to signals from the remote computerized appliances to assign individual ones of the virtually-defined rigid objects to individual ones of the remote computerized appliances for physics simulation, and the server simulates all virtually-defined objects in the VE that are not assigned to at least one of the remote computerized appliances. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380198 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND TERMINAL APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SESSION BASED ON GESTURE - A method for processing includes detecting a gesture operation to a session in a current session interface, determining whether the gesture operation is identified, and performing a corresponding processing to the session in the current session interface according to the gesture operation if the gesture operation is identified. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUALLY ENRICHING CONTENT OF A REFERRER PAGE WHEN RETURNING FROM A LANDING PAGE - Methods and systems for providing content on a webpage includes rendering a webpage having a plurality of page areas. Each of the plurality of page areas is associated with an entity having display content. Selection of one of the plurality of page areas is detected. The selection causes a landing page to be rendered in place of the webpage. A return to the webpage from the landing page is detected. In response to the return, the selected page area of the webpage is modified to include at least one additional entity having associated display content. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380200 | INTERNET BROWSER ZOOM FUNCTION - Methods are described to preload and display a plurality of webpages from a hyperlink list either previously saved or returned by one or more search engines, where said webpages are displayed in a web browser. The web browser has been augmented to display multiple webpages simultaneously and to allow changing the number of webpages displayed and their physical arrangement within the web browser display. Hyperlinks associated with any portion of this plurality of webpages can be saved as a list of hyperlinks (group bookmark) for later retrieval. Preloading may be dynamically altered to take advantage of network bandwidth availability and processor non-saturation. Descendant webpages of preloaded webpages may also be preloaded to further speed performance. The zoom factor for a displayed webpage may be altered by clicking on a zoom icon or alternately rotating a mouse wheel while the cursor is held over the zoom icon. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380201 | System and Method for the Auto-Detection and Presentation of Pre-Set Configurations for Multiple Monitor Layout Display - A system, method and computer program product for configuration of multiple monitor layout displays, including detecting a presence of multiple monitors installed in a computer system; configuring layouts for the multiple monitors, including, configuring at least one of size, shape and location of corresponding displays of the multiple monitors, and configuring at least one of size, shape and location of content for display on the multiple monitors; and displaying the configured layouts on the multiple monitors. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380202 | HARDWARE BUTTONS ACTIVATED BASED ON FOCUS - Methods and devices for providing one or more control buttons in connection with a multiple screen device are provided. More particularly, the screen of a multiple screen device having a current focus is identified, and one or more control buttons are provided as part of or in association with the identified screen. When a change in focus from a previously identified screen to a different screen is detected, the presentation of the one or more control buttons can also change. In particular, control buttons are presented as part of a screen having the current focus, while control buttons are not provided on or in association with a screen that does not have the current focus. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380203 | USER INTERFACE WITH SCREEN SPANNING ICON MORPHING - Methods and apparatus for indicating a status of an application that is displayable on one or more displays of a handheld computing device. An icon may be provided that indicates the status and/or potential statuses of the application (e.g., whether the application is expandable and/or expanded). The icon may be changeable between a first state and a second state depending on the status of the application. The change in the icon from the first state to the second state may be animated along with an animated change of the application between display states. As such, a user may observe the icon to determine the status of the application with respect to the one or more displays (e.g., whether the application is expandable, expanded, or expanding). | 2014-12-25 |
20140380204 | 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. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380205 | Interface Development and Operation - Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for interactive user interface operation and development. For instance, some implementations may generate a user interface data structure representing a user interface, the user interface data structure being generated based at least in part on state data and imperative programming code. Then, in response to a change in one of the imperative programming code or the state data, some implementations may update the user interface data structure and render an updated interactive graphical user interface based on the updated user interface data structure. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380206 | METHOD FOR EXECUTING PROGRAMS - The invention is directed to a method of operating an electronic device having a touchscreen. The device and touchscreen are configured to sense one or more physical gestures made by a user impacting the touchscreen. The gestures are sensed without regard to the location of the gesture input or orientation of the touchscreen. A signal converter converts the impacting physical gesture or combination of gestures into an input signal. If the device recognizes the input signal, the device initiates a function or executes and operation. The user may define a particular gesture combination as well as link gesture combinations with specific functions or operations to execute when the gesture combination is recognized by the device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380207 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO KNOWLEDGE AND MANAGEMENT - Aspects of the present disclosure involve methods and systems for managing various applications, services, configuration data, business data and the like corresponding to a business enterprise. An information technology portfolio knowledge and management system may generate an application management view configured to enable users to automatically manage the various applications, services, configuration data, and business data. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380208 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING USER INTERFACE OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for adjusting a location and a size of a user interface using an electronic device includes a three-axis acceleration sensor. The three-axis accelerometer is activated to detect three-axis acceleration values of the electronic device. A handheld gesture of the electronic device is determined according to the detected three-axis acceleration values. The method calculates a screen size of a touchscreen of the electronic device and calculates a reduction proportion for the user interface displayed on the touchscreen. A new location on the touchscreen for the user interface is determined according to the determined handheld gesture. The method further resizes the user interface according to the calculated reduction proportion, and adjusts a display of the resized user interface according to the confirmed new location. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380209 | METHOD FOR OPERATING PORTABLE DEVICES HAVING A TOUCH SCREEN - A portable device having a touch display is disclosed. A full screen having multiple graphical objects is initially presented on the touch display of the portable device. The touch display includes a comfortable operation area that is within the reach of a thumb of a hand holding the portable device, an inoperable area that is beyond the reach of the thumb of the hand holding the portable device, and a difficult operation area that is located between the comfortable operation area and the hand holding the portable device. In response to a request for a screen shifting operation, the full screen is shifted in a direction of a palm of the hand holding the portable device to present a portion of the full screen on the touch display. After receiving and confirming a user input from the touch screen, the full screen presentation is restored on the touch display. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380210 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECONFIGURING A MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTERFACE USING DIMENSION TILES - A method, system, and computer program product for human-machine interface devices. Embodiments commence upon receiving a set of dimensions, at least some of the dimensions having a plurality of dimension values, then generating for display, a first interactive user interface comprising a series of dimension tiles corresponding to the set of dimensions. A second interactive user interface comprising at least some of the dimensions is displayed in tandem such that a user interaction upon the first interactive user interface causes a change in the second interactive user interface. The dimension tiles can be used in configuration operations such that upon receiving a user interaction upon the dimension tiles, the change in configuration is reflected over the second interactive user interface. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380211 | GRAPHIC-INFORMATION FLOW METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY ANALYZING PATTERNS AND RELATIONSHIPS - A novel display control and information management system seamlessly integrates layered and slotted formatted data from local and remote sources to provide a highly versatile information display. The system permits selective control of display and display features so that complex data and data flows can be seamlessly accessed with enhanced cognition of salient information by a user. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380212 | Systems and Methods for Managing Communication - A method includes providing a contact list comprising a plurality of contacts and in response to at least one of (1) occurrence of a predetermined time and (2) receiving a manual initiation input, presenting at least one communication option of a first contact of the plurality of contacts selected from the contact list. The plurality of contacts is not presented during the period of time between the occurrence of the predetermined time and the presenting of the at least one communication option of the first contact. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380213 | LOCATION ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM AND RELATED METHOD - A location adjustment system with a floating icon displays a first region for displaying contents related to the applications and a second region for displaying the background picture. The location adjustment system comprises an obtaining module, a determining module, and an adjustment module. The obtaining module obtains first location information of the floating icon, a second location information of the first region, and a third location information of the second region based on the pixel coordinate. The determining module determines whether an overlapping area is existing between the first location information and the second location information. When an overlapping area is existing between the first location information and the second location information, the adjustment module adjusts the location of the floating icon. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380214 | DRAG AND DROP TECHNIQUES FOR DISCOVERING RELATED CONTENT - Techniques are disclosed for providing a drag and drop discovery mode in electronic touch sensitive devices. In response to a user dragging and dropping a content icon into a search box, the content discovery mode may perform a search for content similar to that deposited into the search box. The search box may increase in size or change appearance while receiving the content icon. The results of such a search may be displayed to the user with a content discovery animation that shows similar content icons emerging from the search box and populating the device screen. The animation may be accompanied by sound effects. The newly discovered content may be randomly scattered over a portion of the screen, or they may be bundled into groups based on similar characteristics, and each group may be accompanied by a header notifying the user of the characteristics of the group. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380215 | Aircraft Comparison System with Synchronized Displays - A method and apparatus for comparing aircraft parts. A first model is identified for a first aircraft with first customer options. A second model is identified for a second aircraft with second customer options. First parts for the first aircraft in the first model are compared with second parts for the second aircraft in the second model. Graphical representations of the first parts in a first location and the second parts in a second location are displayed simultaneously on a display system. The second location in the second aircraft corresponds to the first location in the first aircraft. Differences between the parts in corresponding locations in the first aircraft and the second aircraft are visually displayed. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380216 | Apparatus, methods and computer programs for displaying images - An apparatus comprising at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: causing display of an image of a first scene at a first position, the first scene comprising at least one object; causing detection of a selection event; and in response to detection of the selection event, causing display of a pre-recorded image of a second scene recorded at a second position, wherein the at least one object is between the first position and the second position. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380217 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING WELL DATA - A method of delivering data from an energy industry or formation operation includes: receiving a data set representing parameter values generated during at least a portion of the operation; generating at least one data structure on a display area, the at least one data structure providing a visual representation of at least a portion of the data set; selecting a visual indicator associated with each of the at least one data structure, the visual indicator including information identifying an associated data structure; iteratively determining a suitable location for placement of the visual indicator on the display area by a processor using a probabilistic algorithm; and generating the display including the visual indicator located at the suitable position. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380218 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MEDICAL CONDITION - Embodiments of the invention relate to a self-contained kit for medical condition monitoring and maintenance, such as the monitoring and maintenance of blood sugar levels. The kit is compact and includes components structurally retained therein for use without removal, wherein these components are normally separate and loose. Such components could include a glucose meter, an insulin pen and a lancing apparatus. Other embodiments of the invention relate to a computer system and method for monitoring a medical condition, monitoring a medical condition over time, correlating recorded results with environmental factors such as location, time and meals consumed. A method may also enable individual users to share information to provide support to one another. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380219 | CONFIGURING AND DISPLAYING MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA USING TWO OR MORE CORRELATED INTERACTIVE SCREEN INTERFACES - A method, system, and computer program product for human-machine interface devices. Embodiments commence upon receiving a set of dimensions then generating a first interactive user interface comprising a series of concentric rings corresponding to the set of dimensions. The concentric rings comprise a series of wedges representing dimension values. A second interactive user interface is displayed, wherein the second interactive user interface comprises at least some of the set of dimensions, and wherein a user interaction upon the first interactive user interface causes a change in the second interactive user interface. Embodiments can include a selector to select a wedge and/or a slice, and the second interactive user interface can be presented as a table. User interaction upon the second interactive user interface is reflected simultaneously on the first user interface and user interaction upon the first user interface is reflected simultaneously on the table. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER INTERFACE FOR MEDICAL IMAGING - A method for providing a UI for medical imaging of an object includes: generating UIs respectively corresponding to processes for imaging the object; determining a display order of the UIs; receiving a UI completion input of the medical professional regarding the first UI; and displaying the second UI in response to the receiving the UI completion input. The UIs corresponding to the processes for imaging the object may be automatically provided to the medical professional, based on the order. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380221 | INSTALLATION GUIDE SYSTEM FOR AIR CONDITIONER AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - An installation guide system for air conditioner and a method of using the same are provided. The system includes: a memory unit storing drawing information on a building where an air conditioner is to be installed; a display unit providing a user interface to design an arrangement of the air conditioner; a drawing displaying unit provided on the display unit, where at least one apparatus constituting the air conditioner is inserted; an effectiveness inspection selecting unit performing a verification on an capacity of an apparatus constituting the air conditioner on the basis of the design information on the air conditioner; and a system inspection displaying unit displaying a verification result on whether the capacity of the apparatus is within a predetermined reference range. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380222 | Complex Customizable Appointment Booking Workflows - A plurality of graphical user interface objects are displayed, wherein each object associated with a step in a sequence of user interface screens to be presented to a user in order to guide the user through an appointment scheduling process. Selections of the objects are received in order to build a customized appointment scheduling process. Information is stored representing the selections of the objects for the customized appointment scheduling process. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380223 | USER INTERFACE COMPRISING RADIAL LAYOUT SOFT KEYPAD - A processing device is configured to provide a user interface comprising a radial layout soft keypad. The radial layout soft keypad comprises a central region and one or more concentric groupings of keys arranged around the central region. For example, the one or more concentric groupings of keys may be arranged as multiple concentric circular rows of keys substantially surrounding the central region, with all of the keys of the concentric circular rows being simultaneously visible in the radial layout soft keypad. The radial layout soft keypad is illustratively presented on a display associated with the processing device and a user interacts with the radial layout soft keypad by making hand gestures in free space in a field of view of an image sensor. A gesture of a first type controls selection of a key and gestures of second and third types control acceptance and rejection of the selected key. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380224 | SMART USER-CUSTOMIZED GRAPHICAL KEYBOARD - A computing device automatically customizes attributes of a graphical keyboard based on user inputs to the graphical keyboard. For example, the computing device can display a first graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a first representation of a key associated with a target region of an input-sensitive display. The computing device receives a plurality of user inputs, each associated with a respective touch region of the input-sensitive display. Subsequent to determining that one or more of the touch regions is not substantially aligned with the target region, the computing device displays a second graphical keyboard arrangement that includes a second representation of the key, wherein at least one attribute of the second representation of the key is graphically modified relative to the first representation of the key so as to substantially align one or more of the touch regions with a target region associated with the second representation of the key. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380225 | Electronic Display Terminal, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium Stored with Program for Electronic Display Terminal, and Display Method - An electronic display terminal including a display unit which displays a file including a plurality of pages on a screen for each region of the file, and a scroll bar which includes a bar displayed on a screen and an indicator which indicates a page position of a page including the region displayed on the display unit by a relative position with respect to the length of the bar, wherein the scroll bar switches a region displayed on the display unit based on a position element of a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of the bar and a position element of a second direction which is different from the first direction at a position on a screen touched by a user, and moves the indicator to a position which indicates a page position of a page including the region displayed after the region is switched. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380226 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS ALLOWING OPERATION OF IMAGE SCREEN AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image, a detecting unit for detecting a position designated by an operation of designating a position on the displayed image and a file operation unit operating a file. The display unit displays images generated from a file on page-by-page basis on a partial area of the display unit. The file operating unit operates the file in accordance with the change of position detected by the detecting unit, when, in a state in which no position has been detected by the detecting unit, a designated position outside of the prescribed partial area is first detected by the detecting unit and the designated position changes while the position designating operation is maintained and then no position is detected by the detecting unit. Thus, the user can easily and intuitively operate the displayed page image or the file. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380227 | CONVERTIBLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A computing device including logic at least partially comprising hardware logic to set display modes is disclosed. The logic may be configured to determine if the computing device is closed, and, if so, set the computing device to a single tablet display mode in which the computing device is to render a tablet interface at a first display panel. The logic may be configured to determine if the computing device is open, and, if so, set one of two display modes comprising: a dual tablet display mode in which the computing device is to render a tablet interface at the first display panel and a second display panel; or a laptop mode in which the computing device is to render content at the first display panel and the second display panel is to receive input via a virtual input device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380228 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF CONTROLLING INPUT FOR INPUT BOXES - A method and device for controlling information input for text boxes are disclosed. The method includes: at a device having one or more processors, memory, and a display: detecting selection of a text input box in a user interface; in response to detecting the selection of the text input box and prior to receiving input text for the text input box, obtaining a regular expression for acceptable input corresponding to text input box; for each character in the regular expression, determining whether the character belongs to a respective validation filter character set for a predetermined data type; and in response to a determination that all characters in the regular expression belongs to the respective validation filter character set for the predetermined data type, selectively presenting a respective character keyboard corresponding to the predetermined data type to a user for text entry. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380229 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR DESIGNING CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS FROM A MOBILE DEVICE - A methodology and user interface enabling a user to create and edit a product design from an electronic device includes features that are particular optimal for designing customized products from mobile devices. By integrating form control with WYWIWYG presentation and including zoom and edit control independently and directly associated with the visual presentation element itself, users of mobile device experience a cleaner simplified design process, leading to more satisfied customers. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380230 | SELECTING USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS VIA POSITION SIGNAL - Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to selecting user interface elements via a periodically updated position signal. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising displaying on a graphical user interface a representation of a user interface element and a representation of an interactive target. The method further comprises receiving an input of coordinates of the periodically updated position signal, and determining a selection of the user interface element if a motion interaction of the periodically updated position signal with the interactive target meets a predetermined motion condition | 2014-12-25 |
20140380231 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROTECTING A USER INTERFACE COMPONENT FROM ACCIDENTAL OPERATION - Systems and methods are provided for protecting a user interface component from accidental operation. A user interface component is displayed that cannot be operated that includes an area and is associated with an action that can be invoked when the user interface component can be operated. Data indicative of an interaction with the user interface component is received. A portion of the area of the user interface component is modified based on the user interaction. If the modified portion is greater than a predetermined threshold, the user interface component is activated such that the user interface component can be operated to invoke the associated action. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380232 | EXPANDABLE TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW FOR CONTAINER HIERARCHY - Presenting items in a two-dimensional access pane includes presenting a first set of icons arranged contiguously and in two dimensions of the access pane, where each of the icons corresponds to an item and at least some of the items are container icons that represent containers that contain other items and expanding at least one of the container icons to show a first container pane having icons corresponding to items contained in a corresponding container, where icons in the first container pane are arranged contiguously and in two dimensions of the first container pane. At least some of the icons in the first container pane may be container icons that represent containers that contain other items. The items may be files in a file system provided in connection with a personal computer that runs Macintosh OS, MS Windows, and Linux. The items may be data in a database system. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380233 | User Interface With Sliding Cursor for Multimodal Communication Framework - A graphical user interface (GUI) for a device operable in a unified communication framework in which multiple users communicate using multiple modes. Conversations are kept consistent across users' devices. The GUI makes efficient use of a display, providing GUI options and menus that are exposed by sliding a cursor. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380234 | USER TERMINAL AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, CONTROL DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROL SYSTEM OF CONTROLLED DEVICE - A user terminal and a driving method thereof, a control device and a driving method thereof, and a control system of a controlled device are provided. The user terminal includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of controlled devices which are operated based on individually set setting values; a user interface configured to receive an adjustment value for collectively controlling the plurality of controlled devices as a group; and a controller configured to individually adjust each of the setting values based on a ratio which relates to the received adjustment value, and to control the plurality of controlled devices based on the adjusted setting values. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380235 | IMAGE INSPECTION ASSISTING METHOD AND IMAGE INSPECTION ASSISTING APPARATUS - An image inspection assisting apparatus has a first behavior mode in which a display area is allowed to move freely and a second behavior mode in which movement of the display area is restricted. The apparatus determines whether or not a move instruction input by the user instructs a movement within a predetermined non-restricted range when the current behavior mode is the second behavior mode. The movement of the display area is restricted when the move instruction is not an instruction instructing a movement within the non-restricted range. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380236 | PINCH GESTURE TO NAVIGATE APPLICATION LAYERS - Using pinch gestures to navigate user interface layers of an application. In particular embodiments, a pinch gesture may cause an application program to close a currently running user interface layer of the application and navigate to another user-interface layer of the application. In some implementations, a pinch gesture may cause an application to close. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380237 | Zoom View Mode for Digital Content Including Multiple Regions of Interest - Techniques are disclosed for a zoom view mode for use with digital content including multiple regions of interest. Regions of interest may include portions of viewable digital content (e.g., panels of a comic book). In some cases, the mode may be invoked using a zoom command (e.g., double tap) to zoom in on a region of interest. After the mode has been invoked, the user may shift from one region of interest to another using a shift command (e.g., swipe), along a shift path of motion. The shift path of motion may have a non-constant speed and/or non-linear shape (e.g., arc-shaped). In some cases, the shift path of motion speed may be defined by a non-linear easing function curve. In some cases, the mode may be configured to present an entire page when first shifting to a region of interest on that page, to provide overall context to the user. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380238 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCENARIO-DRIVEN STANDARD-COMPLIANT USER INTERFACE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR EFFORT ESTIMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for scenario-based conceptualization and visualization of web-based user interface for effort estimation. The method includes providing user-selectable scenarios on said web-based user interface. A plurality of web components is provided on pre-populated screen to display existing number of screens, further user can modify the screen by adding new functionality based on business requirement. After modification, a workflow is stored in a repository for proposing it as pre-populated screen to new users. An effort is estimated by an effort estimation processor based on said modified user-selectable scenarios and compliance standard, and a report is generated for each stage of the development cycle. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380239 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD EXECUTING OBJECT IN THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present invention provides an electronic apparatus and method for executing object in the electronic apparatus that performs a specific function based on relations between multiple objects, the object executing apparatus including a display unit for displaying a list of at least one related object to a first object for which a selection gesture is made, the at least one related object capable of performing respective function related to the first object; and a controller for controlling a specific function to be performed based on relationship between a first function of the first object and a second function of a second object among the at least one related object if a link gesture to connect the first object and the second object is made. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380240 | System and Method for a Human Machine Interface - A vehicle computer system comprising a wireless transceiver configured to send a nomadic device human machine interface to a nomadic device in a web browser format. The vehicle computer system further comprises a vehicle server utilizing a contextual data aggregator that utilizes vehicle data and off-board data to generate a dynamic human machine interface, the server further configured to generate an in-vehicle human machine interface for output on a vehicle display and generate the nomadic device human machine interface for the nomadic device to display. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380241 | ZOOM-BASED GESTURE USER INTERFACE - A user interface method, including presenting by a computer executing a user interface, multiple interactive items on a display. A first sequence of images is captured indicating a position in space of a hand of a user in proximity to the display, and responsively to the position, one of the interactive items is associated with the hand. After associating the item, a second sequence of images is captured indicating a movement of the hand, and responsively to the movement, a size of the one of the items is changed on the display. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380242 | DISPLAYING DATA PROTECTION LEVELS - For displaying data protection levels, a protection module receives a data protection level for a file system object. A display module modifies an icon representing the file system object in a file system graphical user interface to display the data protection level for the file system object. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380243 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A dial switch is operative to be rotated or tilted and to be pushed down, which can select any one of icons displayed on a menu screen of a display portion and display information regarding a function of an onboard apparatuses corresponding to a selected icon on the display portion. A central pushing switch is configured to function as a home key such that a default-state menu screen is displayed on the display portion whenever this switch is pushed down. Left or right pushing switches is configured to function as a shortcut key such that information regarding a function of an onboard apparatus corresponding to left-positioned or right-positioned icons positioned on left and right sides of a central icon is displayed on the display portion whenever the left or right pushing switches is pushed down. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380244 | VISUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for engaging and displaying a visual table of contents in electronic touch sensitive devices. The user can engage the visual table of contents by, for example, performing an activation gesture, such as an inward two-contact pinch gesture. The visual table of contents may display the paginated content to the user as a grid of image tiles, each image corresponding to a page or spread of pages. Each page of content may be accompanied by its appropriate page number. The visual table of contents may display the paginated content as page spreads, wherein each page is paired with its opposite facing page. The user may scroll through the visual table of contents if the device screen is not large enough to display all of the pages on a single screen. Selecting a page from the table of contents may display the selected page to the user. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380245 | SUPPORTING NAVIGATION ON TOUCH SCREENS DISPLAYING ELEMENTS ORGANIZED IN A FIXED NUMBER OF DIMENSIONS - An aspect of the present disclosure stores information related to the elements in the form of an array of objects. Each object contains information indicating the area covered by the object on the display. The index values used for accessing an element may be viewed as forming an N-tuple, with each value of the N-tuple representing the value of the corresponding dimension/index. A swipe is first mapped to a single one of the dimensions and an end position along the dimension. The value of the tuple corresponding to only the dimension is modified and the object corresponding to the tuple is accessed. The area information in the accessed object is examined to determine whether the end position of swipe falls in the display area covered by the element. The tuple value of only the dimension is modified in searching for the element that covers the end position. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380246 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LAYER USER CONTENT NAVIGATION - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing navigation control across multiple layers of content views within a mobile application. One method includes: providing a first layer of content views that are each selectable by a user for display via a graphical user interface of an application executable at a mobile device; responsive to receiving user input selecting at least one of the content views in the first layer, obtaining content views for a second layer corresponding to the content view selected in the first layer; and enabling the user to navigate between the content views in the first layer and corresponding content views in the second layer via the graphical user interface; wherein content views obtained for the second layer are automatically updated with content views corresponding to a currently selected content view in the first layer. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380247 | TECHNIQUES FOR PAGING THROUGH DIGITAL CONTENT ON TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES - Techniques are disclosed for providing a page flipping mode in electronic touch sensitive devices. The user can engage the page flipping mode by performing an activation gesture, which causes the device to display a magazine page flipping mode or a fast page flipping mode. The page flipping modes may show paginated content such as an opened book or magazine in a single stack or side-by-side layout. The fast page flipping modes may show a single page lying relatively flat or somewhat curled with the edges of subsequent pages visible at the right edge of the page. A page flipping gesture may prompt an animation showing one or more pages folding up to display subsequent pages to the user. In some cases, the number of pages being flipped and/or the speed at which the pages are flipped, is dependent upon the speed and/or length and/or duration of the page flipping gesture. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380248 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE BASED TEXT STYLING - A method and apparatus for gesture based text styling on a touch screen display is disclosed. The method comprises determining a gesture of a plurality of predefined gestures made on text displayed on a touch screen display, wherein the gesture selectively signifies at least one text style change to the text; and applying the text style change to a least a portion of the displayed text on the touch screen display. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380249 | VISUAL RECOGNITION OF GESTURES - Techniques that enable a user to interact with an electronic device using spatial gestures without touching the electronic device. An electronic device provides a contactless mode of operation during which a user can interact with the electronic device using touchless gestures. A touchless gesture may be used to indicate an action to be performed and also to set an action-related parameter value that is then used when the action is performed. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380250 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit to acquire screen information related to whether or not an operation screen accepts an input by a gesture operation; a retrieval unit to retrieve, from screen information associated with a plurality of screen configuration patterns applicable to the operation screen, the screen information which coincides with the screen information acquired by the acquisition unit; a determining unit to determine the screen configuration pattern to be applied to the operation screen, based on the screen information retrieved by the retrieval unit; and an applying unit to apply a display rule of a screen element defined by the screen configuration pattern determined by the determining unit to a display screen of the operation screen, whereby a user can easily acknowledge whether or not to be able to perform the gesture operation on the screen on which the user intends to perform an operation. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380251 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUGMENTED HANDLING OF MULTIPLE CALLS WITH GESTURES - A wireless communication device ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140380252 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND PROJECTION DEVICE - Provided is a convenient display device including: a display unit capable of projecting a projection image on a domain in accordance with a position of a user; and a judgment unit that judges whether the projection image can be projected on the domain. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380253 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION - [Object] To improve operability of an information processing apparatus. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380254 | GESTURE TOOL - Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a gesture tool. A capture device captures user movement and provides corresponding data to a gesture recognizer engine and an application. From that, the data is parsed to determine whether it satisfies one or more gesture filters, each filter corresponding to user-performed gesture. The data and the information about the filters is also sent to a gesture tool, which displays aspects of the data and filters. In response to user input corresponding to a change in a filter, the gesture tool sends an indication of such to the gesture recognizer engine and application, where that change occurs. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380255 | PRINTING PROCESS CALIBRATION AND CORRECTION - Various embodiments include approaches for calibrating a model for a lithographic printing process. Some embodiments include a computer-implemented method for calibrating a model for a lithographic printing process. Some approaches include: identifying parameters for a model of the lithographic printing process; assembling a population of design content including potentially printable features that can be printed by the lithographic printing process; preparing at least one matrix expressing a similarity between the potentially printable features in terms of the parameters for the model; determining a manifold of smaller dimensionality than the parameters for the model which exhibit maximum variation in similarity within the at least one matrix; and selecting a sample dataset of the potentially printable features from the manifold. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380256 | DOUBLE PATTERNING LAYOUT DESIGN METHOD - A double patterning layout design method comprises defining critical paths comprising a first path and a second path on a schematic circuit, and defining a double patterning layout divided into a first mask layout having a first color and a second mask layout having a second color, the double patterning layout corresponding to the schematic circuit. The defining of the double patterning layout comprises anchoring the critical paths on the schematic circuit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380257 | HIERARCHICAL PUSHDOWN OF CELLS AND NETS TO ANY LOGICAL DEPTH - A technique for generating pushdown data comprises performing logical pushdown of circuit elements and nets and detecting physical pushdown based on partition boundary crossings. Geometry associated with one logical level may be used as a keep-out region for the same physical layer when generating physical design of a different logical level. The technique may advantageously enable concurrent design in both top-level and low-level physical design phases, thereby reducing overall design cycle time in developing an integrated circuit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140380258 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT VERIFICATION - A method of performing layout verification for an integrated circuit (IC) layout is described. The method comprises receiving layout information for the IC layout, identifying at least one IC component within the IC layout, extracting localised layout information for the at least one IC component from the received layout information, defining the localised layout information for the at least one IC component within at least one component instance parameter therefor, and performing at least one layout verification check for the at least one component based at least partly on the at least one component instance parameter. | 2014-12-25 |