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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120036459 | Apparatuses and Methods for Arranging and Manipulating Menu Items An electronic interaction apparatus is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit configures a touch screen to display a first set of the menu items in a first row on the touch screen, and to display a second set of the menu items in a second row on the touch ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20110185309 | GESTURE-BASED USER INTERFACE The invention includes methods, systems, computer program products and means for providing an intuitive user interface for interacting with a game console that obviates the need for, or use of, a typical game controller. In one embodiment, the user interface comprises a... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110083104 | METHODS AND DEVICES THAT RESIZE TOUCH SELECTION ZONES WHILE SELECTED ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE DISPLAY An electronic device includes a controller circuit that is configured to display selectable indicia on a touch sensitive display device. The controller defines a default size and location of a plurality of selection zones on the display device that are each associated w... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110047509 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GROUPING POINTS-OF-INTEREST ON A MAP An approach is provided for grouping points-of-interest on a map. Information is aggregated about a plurality of points-of-interest. The plurality of points-of-interest are categorized into a first level grouping based on a first criterion and the aggregated information... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110022983 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SEARCH ITEM IN PORTABLE TERMINALS A method and apparatus for displaying a search item in a portable terminal is disclosed. When an item (for example, a particular place, a route to a destination place, particular content, etc.), for which the user requests to search, is searched and displayed, the locat... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100333023 | DEVICE WITH E-MAIL FUNCTION [Object] To provide a device with an e-mail function that allows screen transition actions to be smoothly performed in the e-mail function. [Constitution] When checking detailed content of mail, a user selects a desired mail title from a li... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100302151 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR An image display device and an operation method thereof are provided. This may include displaying an image on a display, displaying a pointer that moves in correspondence with an operation of a pointing device on the display, and displaying an object for receiving a com... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100283743 | CHANGING OF LIST VIEWS ON MOBILE DEVICE Various embodiments related to a hand-held mobile computing device are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment comprises a hand-held mobile computing device having a touch-sensitive display forming a surface of the hand-held mobile computing device configured to receive tou... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100283744 | Methods, Devices and Computer Program Products for Positioning Icons on a Touch Sensitive Screen Methods, systems and computer program products for positioning a plurality of icons on a touch sensitive screen include receiving an input to the touch sensitive screen including a substantially continuous stroke between a first and a second position on the screen. The ... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100226593 | SCALABLE MUTABLE TILED MULTI-RESOLUTION TEXTURE ATLASES Functionality for storing and modifying multi-resolution texture atlases is provided so that applications can expose methods to enable users to access and browse a collection that includes multiple multi-resolution images. The images are stored as thumbnails in a textur... | 09/09/2010 |
| 20100146444 | Motion Adaptive User Interface Service Motion adaptive user interface service is described. In embodiment(s), a user interface can be displayed on an integrated display of a device when an application is executed on the device. Context data associated with movement of the device can be received and used to d... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100088629 | Method, Apparatus and System of Processing Correlated Keywords The present disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus and a system of processing related keywords. The method includes: receive a primary keyword inputted by a user; form a spliced URL for requesting related keywords based on the primary keyword; establish a link betw... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100076865 | Method and system for personalizing portable electronic devices A method and system for personalizing a portable electronic device and a personalized portable electronic device. The method of personalizing a portable electronic device comprises determining a customized graphics image based on input from a user. In some cases the use... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100050120 | User Interface for Selecting Options Icons can be combined to form toolbars such as those appearing on computer desktops and within application windows such as web browsers. Small icons are desired because desktop real estate is expensive. Small icons can be difficult to select or open because it can be ha... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042947 | ANIMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS Animations and transitions are provided for display of objects in a user interface. The animations and transitions include movement of objects into and within a display area, changes in the size or orientation of an object, and intensity changes for objects within a dis... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100005417 | POSITION EDITING TOOL OF COLLAGE MULTI-MEDIA In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for flexible and user-friendly position editing of loaded media in a multi-media presentation. In one embodiment, a method for editing the position of loaded media c... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090288039 | MANAGING INPUTS FROM A PLURALITY OF USER INPUT DEVICE ACTUATORS A computing device and method for managing inputs from a plurality of user input device actuators are provided. The computing device may include code stored in memory for implementing, via a processor, an actuator input module configured to receive a first actuator inpu... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090287992 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING LABELS USED BY PHARMACEUTICAL DISPENSING SYSTEMS Apparatus, methods and computer program products for creating and modifying labels for use by pharmaceutical dispensing machines are provided. A pharmaceutical dispensing apparatus includes a touch screen, a processor, memory coupled to the processor, and a computer pro... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090282352 | CONFIGURABLE ICON SIZING AND PLACEMENT FOR WIRELESS AND OTHER DEVICES A method for displaying icons of a graphical user interface on a display screen of a device (e.g., a wireless or other device), comprising: receiving a signal indicating a selected number of the icons to be displayed; comparing the selected number to a current number of... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090271735 | Extensible and Application-Adaptable Toolbar for Web Services Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more g... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090106694 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AFFECTING AN ARRANGEMENT OF SELECTABLE ITEMS Provided is an apparatus that includes a processing unit configured to monitor a quality of user performance in selecting one or more selectable items that are presented on a display. The processing unit is further configured to cause the one or more selectable items to... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090085874 | TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE AND CHARACTER INPUT METHOD THEREIN A device, computer program product and method of inputting a character in a touch screen device, in which a touch area is partitioned into a plurality of array positions, and one or more letters are assigned to each of the partitioned array positions. The method compris... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090037844 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING COORDINATES OF ICON ON DISPLAY SCREEN OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL Provided is an apparatus and a method for determining coordinates of an icon on a display screen of a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus includes a display unit displaying the icon selection screen including the at least one icon and icon regions including ico... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080250351 | MANIPULATING TOOLBAR COMPONENT DIMENSIONS Systems and methods for manipulating toolbar dimensions are provided. Each toolbar includes a number of toolbar components each having a first and second representation and the toolbar is associated with a reference value. As the toolbar dimensions are adjusted, if the ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080163116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PANNNING AND ZOOMING AN IMAGE ON A DISPLAY OF A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE Method and arrangement for panning and zooming a displayed image on a display screen of a handheld electronic device 300 using the same auxiliary user input device 328 is described. The displayed image can be toggled between panning and zooming modes that ... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080022218 | Method for cache image display A method for cache image display in an electronic apparatus having at least a LCD screen and a storage device, said method being applied when a user performs operations such as shrinking, enlarging, dragging or adjusting the viewing area of a thumbnail image on said scr... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20070234233 | Method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows A method of shifting between viewpoints of layout edit windows includes: adjusting a display multiplier of the edit window to display a first electric element at a first coordinate in the edit window; establishing a first view point shifting command, which corresponds t... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070209022 | Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizi... | 09/06/2007 |
| 20070198950 | Method and system for improving interaction with a user interface Upon detection of user input, a computing device (e.g., tablet PC, PDA, cellular device) may determine whether the input corresponds to a request to enhance elements of the user interface. In response to a positive determination, the computing device may magnify or othe... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070150837 | GRAPHICS STACK SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method are provided for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface on a display of a mobile device. A graphics stack is used to store pre-computed coordinate values to improve performance for drawing graphics, such as to display a user interface ... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070079255 | Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons A computer user interface is provided which allows a user to adjust the size of icons based upon a user's preference or based upon a characteristic of the objects that the icons represent. When the icon sizing is performed according to a user preference, a relative sizi... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070033518 | Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for hiding columns in an electronic table Under the present invention, when a user resizes or otherwise hides a column in the electronic table, a graphical indicia is displayed that represents the hidden column(s). If a user interacts with the indicia (e.g., by hovering a mouse/input device over it), a pop-wind... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060248476 | Printer control program and apparatus A program product for enabling a computer to control operations of a printer. The computer includes a display and a pointing device for controlling a position of a pointer on the display. The program product includes: software instructions for enabling the computer to p... | 11/02/2006 |
| 20060236264 | Automatic window resize behavior and optimizations A method and system for managing the layout of an application window during a resize operation. An application is responsive to a resize request to automatically resize the application window to have minimum height and/or width the dimensions when the user adjusts one o... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060230354 | User interface with multi-state menu A user interface having a persistent graphical interface element is disclosed. The element may have an appearance of a mechanical structure that traverses one or more displayed tracks. Movement along the tracks may be animated in response to navigation commands. Selecta... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060143577 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANIPULATING GRAPHIC IMAGES AND METHOD THEREOF A method for enabling the manipulation of a plurality of items in a graphic user interface (GUI) is provided. One embodiment of the method includes steps of: dividing the plurality of items to a plurality of groups, each group and item are represented by a graphic image... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060064647 | Web browser graphical user interface and method for implementing same An improved graphical user interface for browsing web pages on small screens is provided. The user interface first displays a reduced representation of the web page on the screen. Upon selection of a portion of interest within the web page, the user interface displays t... | 03/23/2006 |
| 20060059438 | Optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting size of OSD menu An optical reproducing apparatus and method capable of adjusting a size of a menu view. An user input unit selects a predetermined menu view mode among a plurality of menu view modes displaying a standard menu view in different sizes. A storage stores an image informati... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20050251757 | Display of enlarged visual container graphical user interface (GUI) components during GUI layout or design During Graphical User Interface (GUI) layout and design, selection of a GUI component causes either the selected component or an ancestor of the selected component to be displayed in a design area. If the selected component is capable of displaying other GUI components ... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050210399 | Method and system for improved viewing and navigation of content A system and method for small computing devices that present a thumbnail image of content such as a web page, allows a viewer to select a region, and zooms in on the selected region in a way that reduces scrolling and helps users to understand the content they are readi... | 09/22/2005 |
