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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT USING EYE MOVEMENT TRAJECTORY An apparatus and method for displaying content are provided. The apparatus tracks the movement of the eyes of a user and generates an eye movement trajectory. The generated eye movement trajectory is mapped to content that is displayed by the apparatus. The display of t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131496 | Grouping and Browsing Open Windows Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for managing open windows in a desktop GUI are disclosed. In various implementations, open windows displayed within a 2D desktop plane can be organized into one or more 3D browsable stacks in a 3D desktop space, where each s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120084688 | MANIPULATING PREVIEW PANELS IN A USER INTERFACE Methods, machine media, and systems that can manipulate preview panels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a preview panel can be transformed, in response to user interaction with the preview panel, into an icon representing the file containing the content displayed in th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072863 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD When a scroll target consisting of an object or a group of objects is scrolled and displayed in a display area representing one part or the whole of a display screen, a uniform-velocity scrolling parameter representing a scroll amount for which the scroll target is scro... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072864 | Method and Device for Displaying Information Arranged in Lists In a method for displaying information arranged in lists, a portion of a list is displayed in a display area, which includes a plurality of list entries, multiple elements being associated at least in part with the list entries, the displayed portion of the list being m... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054670 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCROLLING DISPLAYED INFORMATION In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is provided for controlling scrolling of displayed information, comprising: causing a scrolling action on the basis of a scrolling input, detecting a hovering input on the basis of sensing prese... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054672 | Speed Reading and Reading Comprehension Systems for Electronic Devices Speed reading and reading comprehension capabilities are provided on an electronic device for one or more users. A method involves accessing reading material including text on the electronic device, accessing a graphical user interface to present the reading material, d... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054673 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONTACT LIST INPUT INTERFACE A contact list interface system and method is disclosed that displays upper and lower levels of the contact list via at least two separate view areas. The method includes displaying, when a phonebook menu is selected, a contact list on a screen; and providing an upper l... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054671 | MULTI-TOUCH INTERFACE GESTURES FOR KEYBOARD AND/OR MOUSE INPUTS A computing device includes a touch screen displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and a processing unit programmed to recognize gestures made on the touch screen and execute, in response thereto, a process associated with the gestures. The gestures include at least... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120046859 | MOBILE DEVICE WITH SCALABLE MAP INTERFACE FOR ZONE BASED ENERGY MANAGEMENT According to an aspect of the disclosure, a mobile energy management system includes controlling at least one network device at a site using the proximity detection of a mobile device based upon the detection of a plurality of zones. Various features may be presented on... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120042277 | DYNAMIC ARRAY PRESENTATION AND MULTIPLE SELECTION OF DIGITALLY STORED OBJECTS AND CORRESPONDING LINK TOKENS FOR SIMULTANEOUS PRESENTATION A system and method for the multiple selection of digitally stored objects and the link-tokens of each selected object for simultaneous presentation and examination of the selected objects with their associated linked objects and information, including organized array p... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036455 | USER INTERFACES FOR NAVIGATING STRUCTURED CONTENT User interfaces for navigating structured content. In one example embodiment, a user interface for navigating structured content includes a grid and a plurality of multi-dimensional cells each having a unique position in the grid. Each cell is configured to display only... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036473 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO CONTROL THE DISPLAY OF INFORMATION An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a system for displaying information. The system may include an input device, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain an input from the input device and redraw a plurality of objects ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026090 | SCROLLING INERTIA A computer mouse notifies a mouse driver whenever a scroll event occurs as a result of rotation of a scroll wheel. In response to receiving a notification of a scroll event, the mouse driver adjusts a stored value that represents inertia calculated based on elapsed time... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030613 | Zooming and Panning Widget for Internet Browsers In one aspect, a widget mechanism for zooming and panning a content item is provided. The widget mechanism includes a first region including a miniaturized and complete version the content item. The widget mechanism further includes a second region including a displayed... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023439 | Chunking Data Records Methods, program products, and systems of chunking data records are described. In general, in one aspect, a mobile device can provide for display on a display screen a scrollable window. The scrollable window can display first display content (e.g., a first segment of f... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023440 | MOTOR VEHICLE The invention relates to a motor vehicle having an operator control element for the operator control of a function of the motor vehicle, wherein the operator control element comprises an upwardly directed surface having a touchpad for the operator control of at least a ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017169 | System and method of dividing a window according to trail System and method of dividing a window according to trail are provided. The system and the method record the moving trail of an indicating signal and then divide the window according to the moving trail into two independent blocks to display the file separately. By comp... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011464 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM A display control device includes: a display signal output unit configured so as to output a display image signal on a display unit so as to execute normal display, zoom-in display, scroll display, and zoom-out display regarding data to be displayed as display operation... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011430 | Infinite Scrolling In one embodiment, a client application renders a structured document in a graphical user interface, determines whether a select place marker element in the structured document is viewable within the graphical user interface; if the select place marker element is viewab... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120005623 | Methods, Systems, and Media for Providing Content-Aware Scrolling Methods, systems, and media for providing content-aware scrolling are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a method for providing content-aware scrolling is provided, the method comprising: determining whether one or more regions of content in a document are i... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110307826 | USER INTERFACE WITH MOUSE-OVER FUNCTION Systems and methods to provide a user interface with a mouse-over function are provided. A system may comprise a detecting module to detect a user interface event received from a user device and to detect an event type. A pointer is detected as being within an area of i... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110291945 | User Interface with Z-Axis Interaction A user interface presents a plurality of items configured as a stack in a display of a device. The stack is scrollable in a direction oblique to a plane of the display for successively viewing the items in the stack. Some implementations provide for control of the user ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289449 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes a display, detection unit, and control unit. The display unit displays one or more windows. The detection unit detects touch operations made on the display unit. The control unit recognizes a pattern represented by the track ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283225 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY OF A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Method and apparatus for controlling a display of a data processing system. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of controlling a display of a data processing system includes: displaying a first list as a scrollable view of items in a first mode; recei... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110265029 | Method for Providing User Interface in Electric Device and Device thereof The present invention discloses a method of providing a user interface in an electronic device and a device thereof. According to embodiments of the present invention, the method of providing a user interface by an electronic device having a display unit comprises: divi... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258575 | DISPLAYING LARGE DATASETS IN A BROWSER ENVIRONMENT A mechanism for displaying large datasets may download an approximate range of the dataset along with a subset of the dataset to a client. The client may display the subset as well as indicators for the approximate range. When a user moves to a position within the datas... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252350 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Folders A multifunction device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device moves a first object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects across the display to a location on the displ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252302 | FITTING NETWORK CONTENT ONTO A REDUCED-SIZE SCREEN A computer-implemented method for fitting content of a network document onto a reduced-size screen comprises displaying the document on the reduced-size screen and receiving a user input to indicate a desired portion of the displayed document. In response to the user in... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252362 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the operation of the mobile terminal are provided. The method of one embodiment includes displaying an electronic document on a display module; responsive to detecting a scroll command, scrolling the electronic document in a... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246871 | OPTIMIZED READING EXPERIENCE ON CLAMSHELL COMPUTER The provision of an optimized arrangement for reading tasks at a clamshell or laptop computer, particularly to facilitate reading in portrait mode. Further contemplated herein are arrangements for readily switching between a reading (portrait) operating mode and a “no... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239155 | Gestures for Controlling, Manipulating, and Editing of Media Files Using Touch Sensitive Devices Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and software for implementing gestures with touch sensitive devices (such as a touch sensitive display) for managing and editing media files on a computing device or system. Specifically, gestural inputs of ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239154 | SCROLLING BEHAVIOR-INFLUENCED ALGORITHM SELECTION TO FACILITATE ADAPTIVE SCROLLING Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving one or more input factors associated with scrolling behavior of a user are described herein. Based on the received one or more input factors, at least one of (1) a tunable scrolling algorithm and (2) one or more non-linea... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239153 | POINTER TOOL WITH TOUCH-ENABLED PRECISE PLACEMENT A pointer tool in a touch-screen display is disclosed. The method includes activating a pointer tool in a touch screen display in response to contact with an area of the touch screen and persisting the displaying of the pointer tool in the touch screen display after the... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231789 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A method of controlling a portable electronic device that has a touch-sensitive display includes displaying information on the touch-sensitive display, detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive display, scrolling through the information in a first scrolling mode when t... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110227948 | MAP DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM Map display apparatus, methods, and programs store a first map image drawn based on map information stored in a map information storage unit and cause a partial range of the first map image to be displayed on a display unit. The apparatus, methods, and programs detect a... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110225539 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING APPLICATION OF A TOUCH DEVICE WITH TOUCH-BASED INPUT INTERFACE A method and system is disclosed that allows a user to easily and intuitively operate applications that require contact information, in a touch device, via a tray item associated with the contact information. The method for operating applications includes: displaying a ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219330 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND MAP SCROLL PROCESSING METHOD A navigation device that obtains the current position based on information from a satellite, and guides a travel path from the current position to the destination on a map image includes: a display unit that displays the map image; a touch sensor unit that is arranged o... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110214086 | DISPLAYING FEED DATA Concepts and technologies are described herein for displaying feed data. Feed data associated with a social networking service may be displayed in a multidimensional grid orientation that efficiently uses available display space, while improving the user experience. The... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110214087 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME A screen display apparatus includes an operation information reception unit that receives operation information regarding an inclination direction and an inclination angle of a joystick from the joystick, and a screen controller that performs a scroll process for scroll... | 09/01/2011 |
