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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131463 | System and Method for Assembling and Displaying Individual Images as a Continuous Image A system for continuously displaying individual images to present a visual narrative is provided. The system includes a storage module that stores multiple digital images. The images include image data that corresponds to a portion of a least one panel of narrative artw... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120054622 | THREE DIMENSIONAL NAVIGATION OF LISTING INFORMATION Computerized methods and systems for three-dimensional (3-D) displaying and navigating of search results are provided. In embodiments, a criterion may be received from a user of a publication system. A database associated with the publication system may be searched base... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036438 | COMPUTER SYSTEM WITH ENHANCED USER INTERFACE FOR IMAGES A computer system and method are presented that enhance a user experience when viewing images displayed on the computer. The system includes a user interface for the computer that displays a number of thumbnail images that are small representations of image files existi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030013 | SLIDESHOWS IN SEARCH Techniques are provided to allow users to access interested information without performing engaging searches. A content-providing system may track collective interests of a large set of users and/or individual interests of a user. User-selectable items may be presented ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017154 | APPLICATION FOR DESIGNING PHOTO ALBUMS Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer-based application that allows its users to insert their pictures in a variety of different photo album books (called photo books below). Each photo book has several pages that have one or more picture fields for prese... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110314361 | GENERATING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVING A PRESENTATION DOCUMENT User actions, content, and other elements related to a presentation document are received. These elements are analyzed to generate recommendations for improving a presentation document. The presentation document may be modified in accordance with the recommendations.... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314053 | PRESENTATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM A presentation support device, comprises: a storage part for storing the presentation data and search filter information in which a keyword to specify the content of the presentation is registered; a data projection part for reading the presentation data in the storage ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110314381 | NATURAL USER INPUT FOR DRIVING INTERACTIVE STORIES A system and method are disclosed for combining interactive gaming aspects into a linear story. A user may interact with the linear story via a NUI system to alter the story and the images that are presented to the user. In an example, a user may alter the story by perf... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110306030 | METHOD FOR RETAINING, MANAGING AND INTERACTIVELY CONVEYING KNOWLEDGE AND INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT An instructive content creation and viewing system, including a first microprocessor assembly, an intuitive viewing interface, a second microprocessor assembly in communication with the first microprocessor assembly, and an content creation interface. The viewing interf... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110289414 | GUIDED NAVIGATION Browsing content stored in a content source. A content source identifier corresponding to the content source, a content type, and a hierarchical structure are received. The hierarchical structure defines a hierarchy of content stored in the content source that is indepe... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110270517 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED PRESENTATIONS BASED ON NAVIGATION INFORMATION Techniques for providing personalized presentations based on navigation information. A personalized presentation application determines one or more points of interest associated with a navigation. The personalized presentation application generates one or more presentat... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265004 | Interactive Media Device and Method An interactive media device and method allows a user to select a format by which stored text of a book or stored audio of a book or combinations thereof are presented to the user. For example, if the user wishes to read the book, the user may select display of the text ... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110264705 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERACTIVE GENERATION OF PRESENTATIONS Embodiments disclosed include computerized methods and systems for creating slideshow presentations using an outline based programming language. The outline based input is normalized, thereby permitting receipt of the input from devices using different operating systems... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258548 | MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION CREATION A method for creating a multimedia presentation, the method including determining the physical presence of at least one individual, selecting at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose physical presence has been determined, creating... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110238769 | AUTOMATED WEB CONFERENCE PRESENTATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT A web conference client device determines that it is configured to generate a higher-quality rendered output than a quality of a web conference presentation slide received from a server. A slide presentation file associated with the web conference presentation slide is ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231518 | LATENCY REDUCTION IN COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT A method and system for delivering a presentation created using a presentation application program are disclosed. One method includes initiating, from a presentation computing system, display of a presentation to one or more remote computing devices. The method also inc... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231766 | Systems and Methods for Customizing Photo Presentations Various systems and methods are described for customizing photo presentations. One particular method comprises receiving by the media display system, a plurality of photos depicting individuals and displaying one or more controls for specifying an action to one or more ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110191685 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING MULTIMEDIA ITEMS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE A system and method for providing a user interface for accessing multimedia items using an electronic device determines a set of first level categories based on multimedia items associated with the electronic device. The system determines second level category graphics ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181602 | USER INTERFACE FOR AN APPLICATION A user interface is provided for interacting with slides and objects provided on slides. In certain embodiments, the user interface includes features that are displayed attached to or proximate to selected slides or objects. In embodiments, aspects of the user interface... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181520 | VIDEO OUT INTERFACE FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE An electronic device is provided having a video out mode for providing output to an external display coupled to the electronic device. The electronic device may automatically detect connection of the external display and select a display mode from a list of display mode... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110161345 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SLIDE KITS A slide kit contains slides having citations. The slides are loaded into memory, and the citations are automatically parsed. The system automatically connects to external databases to obtain and download texts associated with the citations, so that the user can review t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110145709 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING USING SLIDESHOW FUNCTION An image processing apparatus having a slideshow function includes: a storage unit that stores files corresponding to a plurality of images; a display unit that displays the plurality of images; a slideshow performing unit that reads the files from the storage unit and ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110138014 | AUTOMATED WEB CONFERENCE PRESENTATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT A web conference client device determines that it is configured to generate a higher-quality rendered output than a quality of a web conference presentation slide received from a server. A slide presentation file associated with the web conference presentation slide is ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110131496 | SELECTION OF CONTENT TO FORM A PRESENTATION ORDERED SEQUENCE AND OUTPUT THEREOF A method of selecting content to form a content presentation, the presentation comprising an ordered sequence of selected amounts of content, there being a plurality of items of content available for the presentation, the method comprising: (a) for each of the items of ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110119591 | CONTENT TARGETING WITH AUDIENCES The present invention provides a system and method for targeting content to audiences. The audience is defined by rules that may be based on properties as well as organizational structure associated with the users. Each of the rules is compiled to determine the group of... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110113338 | Information output apparatus and method and program Disclosed herein is an information output apparatus including: a storage configured to store an output sequence of content; an output controller configured to control output of the content; and an acquirer configured to obtain output information of the content to be add... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110107223 | User Interface For Presenting Presentations A user interface and methods for presenting presentation pages are described herein. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method of the invention displays a first presentation page in a display area of a data processing system. Next, a second presentation page a... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110107222 | PRESENTATION SYSTEM AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR USE IN THE PRESENTATION SYSTEM A display device according synthesizes icons and messages with a portion where no descriptive display image is displayed by OSD for display. Icon functions are set by a PC so that the setting of the operation of the PC and the display device, and the setting of an exter... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110107221 | Web Based Sales Presentation Method and System With Synchronized Display A web based sales presentations with synchronized display. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises of receiving, by a server system, a request from a sales representative to have an invitation sent to a customer to remotely view a presentation; sendin... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110107217 | Interactive Storybook System and Method An interactive storybook system and method are provided that allow a user with or without the assistance of an operator to make a storybook their own by replacing markers with their own selection from a listing of provisional words and provisional images. The computer-b... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102327 | PHOTO ALBUM CONTROLLER A photo album controller which can simultaneously display a high-quality image data and attribute information on separate screens and can easily display the image data or change the attribute information through a small number of input operations is provided. | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110102142 | WEBCAST VIEWER VERIFICATION METHODS A system and associated method verify the attendance and/or identity of viewers of audio/video/data streams transmitted over the internet. The system and method captures various types of interaction with the viewers and either takes appropriate action, as configured by ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110078560 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying Emphasis Animations for an Electronic Document in a Presentation Mode A computing device with a display displays a first portion of an electronic document in a presentation mode of an electronic document authoring application. The first portion of the electronic document includes predefined activation regions for a plurality of presentati... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072351 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORGAE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREON An image display device (100A) includes: an icon display section (131) displaying a list of folder icons indicative of the folders, in an icon display area; and a preview slide show executing section (133) displaying a slide show of files stored in ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069002 | OPTO-ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING PRESENTATION PROGRAMS An input device for controlling a presentation program that is being run on a remote computing device is provided. The input device includes a first optical sensor configured to be activated by exposure to a focused beam of light and a second optical sensor configured t... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110060994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WIDGET RENDERING AND SHARING ON A PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICE Systems and methods for providing, sharing, storing and playing widgets and associated media content on a personal audiovisual device, such as a digital photo frame, are described. In one implementation, widgets may be selected by a user for rendering based on capabilit... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110050564 | Dynamic Picture Frame in Electronic Handset A portable electronic device configured to operate in a image presentation mode that presents a sequence of images on a display component. A controller is configured to determine a context of the portable electronic device and to vary a presentation time period of image... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110041062 | Systems, Methods, and Media for Coordinating the Presentation of Media with an Event Systems for coordinating the presentation of media with an event are provided, the systems comprising: at least one processor that: receives media characteristic data associated with an event and target media; identifies presentation media as being target media based on... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110016398 | Slide Show A method for displaying images of interest as a slide show including scanning metadata of images to identify the images which match one or more criteria, classifying the images which have metadata that match one or more of the criteria as the images of interest, and dis... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110010628 | Method and Apparatus for Automatic Annotation of Recorded Presentations Automatic annotation of recorded lectures includes the annotation of recorded presentations as presented on a computer screen during a presentation. Such annotation is accomplished with metadata that indicates the original slide and the time in the presentation that the... | 01/13/2011 |
