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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084686 | KEEPING FOCUS DURING DESKTOP REVEAL Systems and methods are provides for adjusting focus during a desktop reveal. A window has focus before the desktop is revealed. After the window is returned and the desktop hidden, the focus is again placed on the window. Further, a configurable area associated with th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084687 | FOCUS CHANGE UPON USE OF GESTURE Embodiments are described for handling focus when a gesture is input in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a first image displayed on a first touch sensitive display of a first screen may be currently in focus. In embodiments, the gesture is a tap on a second touch ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER INTERACTION In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, a computer program product and a method is provided for detecting via a user interface that a user interface element requiring user input is active (510), receiving via a short-range... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054654 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT An information processing apparatus detects an interaction area of a position detection surface specified by a manipulation object. A focused target extraction unit that extracts at least some of a plurality of focused targets on the basis of the interaction area. A sel... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054655 | MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OFFERING GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE Provided are a mobile device and method for operating a graphic user interface (GUI) in connection with a specific screen of a media-related application. In the method for operating the GUI, the mobile device displays a GUI screen containing a media region and a text re... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120042270 | USER INTERFACE VISUALIZATIONS Aspects of the invention pertain to user interface visualizations, enabling efficient display of content on a display device. At least some content is presented having diagonal views to emphasize certain portions of the content while deemphasizing other portions of the ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120019861 | DISPLAY OPERATION DEVICE ALLOCATING A PLURALITY OF FUNCTIONS TO A KEY, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF RECEIVING USER OPERATIONS A display operation device has a display-integrated operation panel with a display screen, on which a monochrome copy start key and a color copy start key are displayed. When black-toner-out or color-toner-out occurs, on the monochrome copy start key and the color copy ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120005606 | DISPLAY CONTROLLING DEVICE, DISIPLAY CONTROLLING METHOD, AND PROGRAM The present disclosure provides a display controlling device including: a receiving section receiving data of data broadcasting; a first display controlling section making a focus item as a predetermined item highlighted in a first display area of a display section and ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110314399 | WINDOWLESS RUNTIME CONTROL OF DYNAMIC INPUT DEVICE Windowless runtime control of a dynamic input device is provided by a computing system including a container module to host one or more runtime environments, including a windowless runtime environment. The computing system further includes an input-device user-interface... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307816 | Multi-Layered Online Calendaring and Purchasing A computer-implemented method and system for generating and displaying a calendar containing user-selected events from user-selected categories. A plurality of categories of events are provided. The user can select which categories are of interest, and then select indiv... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307815 | User Interface and Method for Collecting Preference Data Graphically The present invention enables a user to intuitively collect and share information on his personal preferences and priorities through the relational placement of graphical objects in a graphical user interface. This information can then, with the express permission of th... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110276910 | COMPUTER NAVIGATION METHOD A computer navigation method includes the steps of:
| 11/10/2011 |
| 20110225528 | Creating and Maintaining a Singular Uninterrupted Focus While Transitioning Through a Graduated User Interface Method, device, and computer product for displaying a single focus on a device. A piece of content is displayed in a first application on a display of the device. The piece of content is enlarged to create a single focus on the piece of content on the display. Parameter... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110209078 | DISPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMICALLY UPDATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE A display system provides a graphical user interface having a dynamic display field, which is contained within a useable display area. The dynamic display field can have an expanded state and collapsed state, and the current state of the dynamic display field can depend... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110179367 | SIMPLIFYING APPLICATION ACCESS TO SCHEMATIZED CONTACT DATA The present invention is directed to utilizing contact data controls to simplify access to schematized contact data. Contact data controls abstract the formatting of schematized contact data from applications. In some embodiments, applications that lack the configuratio... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110173553 | RELEVANCE ORIENTED GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF DISCUSSION MESSAGES Messages to a focal user are organized by relevance of the message originators. A visual representation of the messages includes a focal user representation (textual or graphic) and multiple contact representations (textual or graphic). The contact representations are d... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110167368 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM An information-processing device according to the present invention displays plural windows in a certain arrangement. The information-processing device selects one of displayed windows as a selected window, and in response to an operation to specify a direction, sets a ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110126140 | Program Object Properties Defined By Object Space A user-interface program includes a space that defines adoptable properties as a function of position in said logical space. Chameleon program objects adopt those properties as a function of their positions in the space. The chameleon objects on a display have appearanc... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110126139 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN VIRTUAL MACHINES An apparatus and method for switching a VM screen in an environment in which a plurality of OSs operating on a virtual machine monitor (VMM), are provided. The VM screen switching apparatus provides VM screen switching so that features of a home screen or an operation s... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110093804 | SCREEN OBJECT PLACEMENT OPTIMIZED FOR BLIND SELECTION An improved handheld electronic device includes an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a processor apparatus. The input apparatus includes a multi-axis input device such as a rollerball, trackball, joystick or touchpad, allowing the focus of a user interface progr... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110078601 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD AND MEDIUM A display device includes: a display unit configured to display a list screen visually listing plural setting items including a first setting item in a focused state and a second setting item in a non-focused state; a focus display unit configured to allocate two stages... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110055743 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a reception section which receives, from an information input apparatus which accepted input of direction information indicating a direction on a display surface, the direction information, an attention obj... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110041088 | REAL TIME MAP RENDERING WITH DATA CLUSTERING AND EXPANSION AND OVERLAY Systems and methods are provided for the organization, management, and graphical display of multiple logically related entities. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide the real-time display of status and location information for a fleet of tracked vehicles... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20100333005 | Display Processing Apparatus, Display Processing Method, and Computer Program Product According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a grouping module, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select key content. The relatio... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325568 | USER INTERFACE VISUALIZATIONS Aspects of the invention pertain to user interface visualizations, enabling efficient display of content on a display device. At least some content is presented having diagonal views to emphasize certain portions of the content while deemphasizing other portions of the ... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100299623 | Directional Focus Navigation A rendering engine that supports directional focus navigation, in response to a directional input, shifts the focus to an appropriate focusable element. The rendering engine determines one or more focusable elements that are candidates to receive the focus based on the ... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100281409 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING NOTIFICATIONS WITHIN A COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE A notification manager for a computing device which has a display which designates a notification display area for simultaneously displaying a plurality of notifications when said notification manager is in a foreground mode, said notification display area being hidden ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100211901 | ON-VEHICLE APPARATUS AND CONTENT PROVIDING METHOD The present invention is applied to, for example, a multimedia terminal having a function of navigation equipment and a function of playing back video and switches a display from a map display to a source display also with source switching operators 13P, 13 | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100169813 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND OPERATING USER INTERFACE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A method for displaying and operating a user interface and an electronic device are provided. In the method, a background frame is displayed. Further, a trigger signal triggered by an object on one of a plurality of areas of the background frame is received, in which th... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100153870 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN EVENT VISUALIZATION According to some embodiments, an event query to an item supply chain event database is processed such that a trace extraction algorithm will be executed to determine extracted trace data. A plurality of location nodes may then be graphically represented on an interacti... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145796 | SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR INTERACTIVE PRODUCT PLACEMENT A system is provided. The system includes a media server that provides a media file to a computing device. Further, the system includes a metadata server that provides metadata corresponding to the media file to the computing device. The metadata includes (i) a pluralit... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100138766 | GRAVITY DRIVEN USER INTERFACE Methods, systems, and techniques for presenting user interface elements on display screens are provided, in particular smaller display screens such as those available with mobile telecommunications devices. Example embodiments provide a gravity-based user interface mech... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100125804 | OBJECT POSITIONING IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE The invention provides a method, system, and program product for positioning an object in a graphical user interface (GUI). In one embodiment, the invention includes determining a position of focus within the GUI and positioning an object within the GUI such that the po... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100115439 | ASSIGNING SCREEN DESIGNATION CODES TO IMAGES A method of assigning screen designation codes to images is disclosed. The method includes accessing data operable to display a first image and a second image. A first screen designation code is assigned to the first image, wherein the first screen designation code is a... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100031176 | METHOD OF DEFINING FOCUS MOVEMENT ORDER AND MOVING FOCUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD Provided are a method of defining a focus movement order and a method of moving a focus. The method of moving the focus, according to the present invention, includes multi-dimensionally grouping two or more focusable elements into two or more focusable groups; displayin... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090293007 | NAVIGATING AMONG ACTIVITIES IN A COMPUTING DEVICE A computing device runs multiple activities concurrently and provides at least two modes for interacting with the activities. The user may toggle between the modes as desired. In a full-screen mode, one activity occupies substantially an entire display screen. In a wind... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090254424 | ENHANCED ONLINE ADVERTISING EXPERIENCE A method for enhancing user advertising experience, the method including operatively integrating advertising content of an advertisement to be displayed on a web page with additional web content different from web content displayed on the web page; displaying an indicia... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090228817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A SEARCH RESULT Systems and methods for displaying a search result are provided in which a submitted search query is received from a search requester. Responsive to the search query, search results relevant to the submitted search query are retrieved from a document index, where each r... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090222750 | ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE An enterprise-based social networking application. Events for individuals may be collected from various enterprise-based information systems automatically using adaptors that are specially tailored for particular types of information systems. Such events may then be use... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090207143 | Text Entry Into Electronic Devices A method of entering text into an electronic device 1 comprising a display 7, the method comprising: controlling 21 the display 7 to display one or more demarcated areas 51 having a transparent background 55; detecting 23... | 08/20/2009 |
