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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127209 | SCROLLING APPARATUS, SCROLLING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM AND INTERGRATED CIRCUIT A scrolling apparatus (1) that enables scrolling of display contents of a display unit (2) has: a load range determining unit (12) that determines a load range of display data to be loaded from a primary storage unit (15) to a secondary stora... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127208 | METHOD FOR SCROLLING SCREEN IN TOUCH SCREEN TERMINAL AND DEVICE THEREOF A method and apparatus scroll a screen in a touch screen terminal. The method includes entering a screen scroll mode, determining the direction of screen scroll, preparing screen scroll of the determined direction, and waiting to receive a screen scroll signal for opera... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105489 | Method and Apparatus for Organizing and Delivering Digital Media Content and Interactive Elements A method of displaying information on a display (and concomitant non-transitory medium comprising computer software) comprising displaying a cascading variant picker array and simultaneously displaying a gallery of images associated with the information content of the a... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120069056 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM An information display apparatus is provided capable of performing display control based on a plurality of touch inputs from a multi-touch input panel. The information display apparatus comprises: a contact-point acquisition section for acquiring a contact point on the ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120038681 | TOUCH SCREEN The present invention provides for a touch screen including control functionality through touch and movement of a digit of a user's hand over a defined path, and arranged to have the path selectively defined by the user's movement of a screen-engagement member and for e... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032988 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS LIST OF IMAGES ONTO DISPLAY UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR A display control apparatus that is capable of searching for a desired image from massive images listed by scrolling on a display unit. The display control apparatus controls a display unit to display a list of images. A display control unit controls so that the images ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110316888 | MOBILE DEVICE USER INTERFACE COMBINING INPUT FROM MOTION SENSORS AND OTHER CONTROLS Various embodiments provide user interfaces for mobile devices which combine input from motion sensors and other input controls. In one aspect, a handheld electronic device includes a display operative to display an image, an input control operative to sense a contact m... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110254864 | CALCULATION DEVICE, MOVEMENT DETECTION DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT The calculation device (36) according to the present invention receives a plurality of reflected light intensity information for indicating the intensity of each reflected light which reaches a single light receiver via a reflecting object, the reflected light ha... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258576 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A method includes displaying information on a touch-sensitive display of a portable electronic device, rendering a continuous scroll indicator in response to receipt of a continuous scroll input at the portable electronic device, detecting, on the touch-sensitive displa... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110214088 | AUTOMATIC SCROLLING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES A communication device and method for displaying messages, such as e-mail messages, is provided. When the message is lengthy, containing content from one or more replicated previous messages (such as earlier messages copied in a subsequent reply or forwarding message), ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110193881 | REGULATION OF NAVIGATION SPEED AMONG DISPLAYED ITEMS AND TILT ANGLE THEREOF RESPONSIVE TO USER APPLIED PRESSURE An electronic device can include a touch sensitive display screen and a controller circuit. The touch sensitive display screen identifies a location where a user is pressing and generates a force signal that indicates how hard the user is pressing. The controller circui... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187751 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME An apparatus capable of displaying a plurality of images while a screen is scrolled, including a processing unit configured to process an image to be displayed on a display unit, a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display a plurality of ima... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110175930 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal is provided that includes a display unit configured to display one or more windows at a time, and a controller configured to generate a first window and a second window separate from the first window when an event occurs in the first window. The contro... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110159896 | IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, IMAGE SERVER, METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION THEREOF AND MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION THEREOF Viewing of a scrolled image on a display screen is facilitated. Assume that a first image portion (81) is being displayed on the display screen of a mobile telephone and that a second image portion (82) is not being displayed on the screen. If scrolling is... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110134149 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF BROWSING IMAGES IN A LOOP A method of browsing images in a loop on an electronic device includes displaying a scroll interface. The scroll interface defines coordinates with a scale in pixels by a display. An initial coordinate value is located at a middle portion of the scroll interface. The sc... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110134126 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM An information processing device includes: an operation recognition part that recognizes a user operation for a display screen of a display unit; a determination part that determines whether the user operation recognized by the operation recognition part is an operation... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122159 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-REGION TOUCH SCROLLING An electronic device includes a user interface and a processor coupled thereto. The user interface includes a display screen operable to display text and/or graphics, and a touch-sensitive interface comprising an array of sensors operable to receive a scrolling input fr... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110102470 | PORTABLE COMPUTER WITH IMPROVED SCROLL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A portable computer with an improved scrolling mechanism preferably includes: a display panel through which an image is displayed; an image processing unit configured to process an image displayed through the display panel; a casing configured to accommodate the image p... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110096097 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD When a display position for any of a plurality of images is designated using a touch panel, an instruction accepting section enlarges, for a predetermined period of time, an area for accepting the input of an instruction associated with any of the image of the plurality... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110096096 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD A display device according to the present invention has: a display section; an image storage section that stores, as subjects to be displayed on the display section, a plurality of combinations of images, each of which is configured by a plurality of items associated wi... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110090541 | FINGERPRINT SCANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Embodiments relate to methods and systems for gathering, archiving, transmitting, and processing forensic and latent fingerprints. An integrated forensic fingerprint scanning system is provided that includes a number of features for use with forensic-quality fingerprint... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110080351 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING TOUCH INPUT ON A TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY WHEN A DISPLAY ELEMENT IS ACTIVE AND A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR THE SAME A method of controlling touch input on a touch-sensitive display when a display element is active and a portable electronic device configured for the same are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of controlling touch input on a touch-s... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110074826 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM According to the image display method, apparatus, and program of the present invention, when a user moves a display location to partially display text that is described in an image over a wide area, the burden of the user in performing return operations with respect to ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING NAVIGATION SCREEN UPDATE CYCLE IN A MOBILE TERMINAL A method and an apparatus for setting a navigation screen update cycle in a mobile terminal are provided. In the method, at least one of a velocity of the mobile terminal and a map scale used by the mobile terminal is obtained. A screen update cycle is set with consider... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057957 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display, sensors, and a controller. The display displays a plurality of items on one side of a display screen. The sensors detect an operation input to the one side of the display screen. When contact ope... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110025720 | DATA SCROLL METHOD AND APPARATUS Disclosed is a method and apparatus for scrolling data displayed on a screen, dividing a display region as a multiple of predefined weighted areas and setting a scroll velocity weight corresponding to each of the multiple of weighted areas when there is scrollable undis... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100321411 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCROLLING A SCREEN OF A PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING A TOUCH SCREEN Provided is a method of scrolling a screen of a portable terminal having a touch screen. The method includes outputting a scrollable image; checking an entire scrolling amount of the image; measuring a drag-related variation when a drag is generated; calculating a scrol... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100277496 | DATA DISPLAY DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DATA DISPLAY METHOD, DATA DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A data display device for displaying, on a display unit, a group of images related to a plurality of pieces of file data comprises: an operation unit operable to receive, from a user, a display operation pertaining to the group of images related to the pieces of file da... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271402 | Rotary Input Device and Electronic Equipment Disclosed is a rotary input device including: a rotary operation device; a rotation driving section; a detection section; a force sense presenting section to present a force sense by a combination of at least two of applying the rotary force in a clockwise direction, ap... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100259562 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A display control apparatus is provided which includes a detection unit for detecting proximity of an operation tool to, or contact of the operation tool with, a display unit including a first display area on which an object list in which a plurality of objects are arra... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100231612 | Smart Keyboard Management for a Multifunction Device with a Touch Screen Display A method is performed at a multifunction device with a touch screen display. The method includes displaying a text entry interface with a soft keyboard in a first area and a viewing area with a first size to display scrollable information. The method detects a finger ge... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100188431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method and apparatus for controlling a display of a portable electronic device are provided. The method comprises generating a screen comprising a list on the display. The list comprises one or more row elements, with each row element comprising one or more column sub... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100188432 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING A SCENE USING DETERMINISTIC MOVEMENT OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Systems and methods are providing for scrolling the display of information based on the displacement of the electronic device. An electronic device can include a motion sensing component operative to detect movement of the electronic device (e.g., an accelerometer). The... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100175028 | Display control device, display control method, and program A display control device includes a display control unit and an input unit. The display control unit is configured to display, on a display screen, a first selection area displaying a list of a plurality of first data items, a first scroll bar corresponding to the first... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100171741 | Image volume browser with variably adjustable orientation measurement A method, a monitor control module and system are disclosed for displaying a medical image from a volume dataset on a monitor of a computer-aided device, whereby, in addition to the image a number of orientation images from the volume dataset are to be displayed. In at ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100149211 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CROPPING AND ANNOTATING IMAGES ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY DEVICE The present invention is a system and method for cropping and annotating images on a touch sensitive display device or other handheld device, including the following steps: (a) displaying an image of the image file to be cropped/annotated; (b) receiving an first input f... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100131886 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING ENHANCED SCROLLBAR A display system is provided for displaying a categorized data group divided into multiple data group sections by at least one section break. In one embodiment, the display system includes a monitor, a cursor device; and a controller operably coupled to the monitor and ... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100094532 | System for transmitting, processing, receiving, and displaying traffic information A system for sharing and processing traffic information includes a number of traffic information computer systems within individual vehicles or devices and a virtual traffic information server on a mobile network. The traffic information computer systems are each connec... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100053213 | Medical image display apparatus and method, and program for displaying medical image A storage device of a report producing terminal stores an importance table. The importance table stores grades of importance of respective items of accessory information on medical images. Prior to displaying a medical image on a screen, an area defining section extract... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100053221 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF An information processing apparatus that can fix the position at which some of a plurality of objects are displayed, and scroll objects other than these objects in that state, using a small number of procedural steps is provided. A recognition unit recognizes that a plu... | 03/04/2010 |
