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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131499 | COMPUTER METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TOPOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF TEXTUAL DATA Computer system, method and apparatus generate and display a graphical representation of a body of text. The graphical representation serves as a text map allowing navigation operations and other user interaction. The text map enables improved navigation of the body of ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131500 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS According to an aspect, a portable electronic apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image; an input detection unit for detecting contact with an area in which the image is displayed by the display unit as input; and a control unit for causing the display u... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110501 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND SCREEN CHANGE CONTROL METHOD BASED ON INPUT SIGNALS FOR THE SAME A screen change control method based on input signals and a mobile terminal supporting the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a display panel for outputting a screen assigned to a user function, and a control unit for collecting screen ratio information ba... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084720 | MANAGING EXPOSE VIEWS IN DUAL DISPLAY COMMUNICATION DEVICES The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling maximizing and minimizing of exposé views.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084722 | MULTIPLE CHILD WINDOWS IN DUAL DISPLAY COMMUNICATION DEVICES The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for handling maximizing and minimizing of hierarchically related windows.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084709 | FILLING STACK OPENING IN DISPLAY The present disclosure is directed to methodologies and devices for quitting an active application and controlling displayed images as a result of quitting the application.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084721 | WINDOW STACK MODIFICATION IN RESPONSE TO ORIENTATION CHANGE A multi-screen user device and methods for controlling data displayed thereby are disclosed. Specifically, the control of data displayed by at least one of the multiple screens of the multi-screen user device is conditioned upon the relative orientation of the multiple ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120039505 | DYNAMICALLY RESIZING TEXT AREA ON A DISPLAY DEVICE Dynamically resizing a text area in which text is displayed on a display device. A camera device periodically captures snapshots of a user's gaze point and head position while reading text, and the captured snapshots are used to detect movement of the user's head. Head ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042280 | Intelligent Display of Information in a User Interface User interfaces such as web pages may be customized in terms of appearance and content based on user interests. For example, information items may be arranged such that items corresponding to strong user interests are displayed in more visually identifiable locations wh... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042246 | CONTENT GESTURES Content gestures are described. In implementations, one or more controls are output to control output of content and for display in a user interface by a computing device. An input is recognized, by the computing device, which was detected using a camera as a gesture to... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LARGE DATA SET NAVIGATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE Example systems and methods provide navigation and review of images within a large data set via a handheld or other mobile device. A computer-implemented method includes providing a clinical data set divided into a plurality of portions. Each portion is associated with ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120030616 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING WINDOW DISPLAY A system and method for efficiently displaying multiple windows is disclosed. The system displays two adjacent windows such that adjusting a first window also adjusts a second window adjacent to the first window. For example, the system determines whether to resize or m... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023443 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES FOR GESTURE OPERATIONS At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include an environment with user interface software interacting with a software application to provide gesture operations for a display of a device. A method for operating through an application programming interfac... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017172 | DISPLAY-AGNOSTIC USER INTERFACE FOR MOBILE DEVICES Application user interfaces can be displayed on different sizes and types of displays without having to modify the application for each different display by scaling a layout of the user interface automatically for specific displays, especially smaller size displays such... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110307827 | Display Processing Apparatus and Display Processing Method According to one embodiment, there is provided a display processing apparatus, including: a display unit configured to display an image, the display unit having a screen on which the image is displayed; an input module configured to receive a first manipulation and a se... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302529 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM A display control apparatus includes an input unit configured to be operated to change the display state of a plurality of content items displayed on a display screen, a circling detector configured to detect a circling operation, detect the circling direction and numbe... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302527 | ADJUSTABLE AND PROGRESSIVE MOBILE DEVICE STREET VIEW Intuitive and user-friendly user interface (UI) techniques are provided for navigating street view applications on a mobile device enabling users to view different angles and segments of available street level images. Additionally, retrieval and presentation of street v... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302528 | Intelligent Window Sizing For Graphical User Interfaces A device displays a drop down detection area. When the computing device detects the presence of a cursor hovering over the drop down detection area, the computing device displays a tiling navigator on the display, which includes multiple window resizing options for a us... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110296339 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME An electronic device having a display; a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of external electronic devices on a network; and a controller configured to cause displaying of a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, the GUI having a plura... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292285 | Image Receiving Apparatus and Liquid Crystal Television Set This image receiving apparatus includes a communication portion capable of receiving content through a network, and a control portion controlling a menu display region on which a menu of the content is displayed and a content display region on which information of the c... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110283227 | DISPLAYING A USER INTERFACE IN A DEDICATED DISPLAY AREA Some embodiments are directed to techniques for displaying a user interface of an application program on a display device. The display device may be partitioned into two portions, such that the user interface and a computer desktop are displayed in separate portions of ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110271227 | ZOOM DISPLAY NAVIGATION Zoom display navigation is described. In embodiments, a client device renders media content with a rendering system. A focus window is generated to display a section of the media content in the focus window that maintains a display resolution quality of the media conten... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110258563 | Automatic Screen Zoom Level The invention automatically controls the zoom level of a web browser to optimize its use with the current web page and display device. When the web browser requests content from a web server by sending the URL of the content over its data connection, a client zoom level... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252309 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR HYBRID WORD PROCESSING AND GRAPHICAL CONTENT AUTHORING Embodiments provide interactive computer-implemented rich heterogeneous content authoring features. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes an interaction model that uses an input state associated with a user operation and an electronic page interface t... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252365 | Display system and method for zooming document file A display system and method for zooming document file contents obtains the original data of a document file according to the file path of the document file. The display parameter of the original data of the document file is set according to a zoom ratio to obtained zoom... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110225540 | DISPLAYING CONTENT OUTSIDE IFRAME CONTAINER A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for displaying content outside the initial boundary of an IFRAME container. The method includes: detecting a first action; and expanding the size of the IFRAME to a size that is sufficient to substantia... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110225544 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY OF VISUAL CONTENT ON MULTIPLE DISPLAY DEVICES Mechanisms to allow a user to flexibly display visual content on multiple display devices connected to a computer. Each of the multiple displays may be configured to display a portion of visual content from a computer desktop or from an external content source. Each por... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110219331 | WINDOW RESIZE ON REMOTE DESKTOPS Methods, apparatus, and articles for fitting a graphical user interface screen within a remote desktop screen. A predefined event may resize one of a graphical user interface screen within a remote desktop screen or the remote desktop screen itself such that the graphic... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110214063 | EFFICIENT NAVIGATION OF AND INTERACTION WITH A REMOTED DESKTOP THAT IS LARGER THAN THE LOCAL SCREEN Techniques are disclosed for the efficient navigation of and interaction with a remoted desktop that is larger than the local viewing area. In an embodiment, a client displays both a portion of the remoted desktop in its native size, as well as a “mini-map”—a scal... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110205437 | METHOD OF ZOOMING IN ON AN IMAGE AND A METHOD OF USING A GUI The present invention is directed to a method of zooming in on an image. An object is firstly detected, followed by capturing an image and recording the location and size of the object. The captured image is displayed on a screen with the detected object marked. A parti... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202834 | VISUAL MOTION FEEDBACK FOR USER INTERFACE Aspects of a user interface that provides visual feedback in response to user input. For example, boundary effects are presented to provide visual cues to a user to indicate that a boundary in a movable user interface element (e.g., the end of a scrollable list) has bee... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110202872 | Apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking Disclosed is an apparatus and method for performing multi-tasking, and more particularly to a multi-tasking performance apparatus and method which easily enable a shift between a plurality of applications being executed and a shift into an initial application. A current... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110191713 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD In one embodiment, there is provided an information processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a display on which a window is displayed; a touch screen on the display; a display controller configured to display an operation screen on the display such that the operati... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181528 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Resizing Objects A method for resizing a currently selected user interface object includes simultaneously displaying on a touch-sensitive display the currently selected user interface object having a center, and a plurality of resizing handles for the currently selected user interface o... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181527 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Resizing Objects A method for resizing a currently selected user interface object includes simultaneously displaying on a touch-sensitive display the currently selected user interface object having a center, and a plurality of resizing handles for the currently selected user interface o... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110179004 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AN INTERNET BROWSER ADD-ON PROVIDNG SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE INTERACTIVE WEBSITES The present invention describes a system and method of displaying and queuing search results and comprises a method of Internet browser add-ons or a web-based program where the multiple results from one or more search engines are displayed partially in one frame on one ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110173566 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY RESIZING WINDOWS The present invention provides a method for resizing windows and an apparatus for resizing windows. The method, in one embodiment, involves selecting a seam bordering a window, building a list of windows, and resizing more than one window in response to a single seam mo... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110173564 | EXTENDING VIEW FUNCTIONALITY OF APPLICATION The viewing functionality of an application may be extended by use of an adapter. An application is instantiated, and the application may provide a view box that contains a scrolling feature as part of its interface. The adapter uses the application “behind the scenes... | 07/14/2011 |
