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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110509 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM An electronic apparatus includes a thumbnail preparation unit configured to retrieve thumbnail images, each thumbnail image representing a scene of a different time of one or more moving images, a first thumbnail line display unit configured to time sequentially display... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084730 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, ICON DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ELECTRONIC APPARATUS According to one embodiment, there is provided an electronic apparatus, including: a display screen on which icons are displayed; a first icon display area within the display screen, the first icon display area displaying plural icons having approximately the same size ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084729 | PROACTIVE BROWSING METHOD WITH SWING GESTURE IN FREE SPACE The method provides a browsing environment for a user in a free space through proactive interface design and dragging-style operation gesture. The method contains the following steps. First, an interface is provided, which contains a number of selection items. Then, an ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072870 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD When displaying an object group consisting of a plurality of objects on a display device and when the plurality of objects are to be aligned and arranged in a first direction, arrangement positions of each of the objects are set in the first direction, and arrangement p... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120030625 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM An information processing apparatus includes: an operation section; and a control section adapted to cause, when dragging is carried out through the operation section, a cursor interconnecting a start point and an end point of the dragging to be displayed on a display s... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120030624 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Displaying Menus An electronic device displays one or more user interface objects on a touch-sensitive display. The device detects a finger contact on the touch-sensitive display at a first location away from any of the displayed user interface objects, and determines whether a predefin... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110314410 | COMPETITIVE EVENT STATISTIC DELIVERY DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD A competitive event statistic delivery system, device, and method is disclosed. The system may include a primary display configured to display a competitive event. The system may also include a secondary display configured to display multiple streams of statistics as th... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307778 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SWITCHING APPLICATION PROGRAMS THEREOF The present invention discloses a mobile electronic apparatus and a method of switching application programs thereof, the method is applied for the mobile electronic apparatus which has a screen, a storing unit and a processing unit, and the method comprises the followi... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302534 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display unit for arranging and displaying the plurality of items in a guide region, the display unit enlarging a series of items included in a specified range specified in the guide region to a size large... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110289455 | Gestures And Gesture Recognition For Manipulating A User-Interface Symbolic gestures and associated recognition technology are provided for controlling a system user-interface, such as that provided by the operating system of a general computing system or multimedia console. The symbolic gesture movements in mid-air are performed by a ... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110289456 | Gestures And Gesture Modifiers For Manipulating A User-Interface Gesture modifiers are provided for modifying and enhancing the control of a user-interface such as that provided by an operating system or application of a general computing system or multimedia console. Symbolic gesture movements are performed by a user in mid-air. A c... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110283212 | User Interface In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising receiving an indication of a first drag input on a user interface object within a user interface on a touch screen and in response to receiving a stationary input on... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110270824 | COLLABORATIVE SEARCH AND SHARE Collaborative search and share is provided by a method of facilitating collaborative content-finding, which includes displaying a toolbar user interface object for each user that not only allows each user to perform content-finding but also increases awareness of each u... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265040 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO A method for providing a Graphic User Interface (GUI) and a touch screen-based mobile device adapted thereto permit the user to be notified that additional items are available for display. The method preferably includes: determining whether there is an item to be displa... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110265039 | CATEGORY-BASED LIST NAVIGATION ON TOUCH SENSITIVE SCREEN A mechanism for a user to navigate a list on a touch sensitive screen by making on-screen gestures is described. Items in the list are sorted based on a common attribute, and grouped into different categories associated with the attribute. A portion of the items are dis... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110258582 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL A method of displaying items on a mobile terminal includes displaying a first icon group of a plurality of icons on a display of the mobile terminal, such that each icon of the first icon group is associated with an application that is executable on the mobile terminal.... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252369 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Concurrently Open Software Applications A method includes displaying a first application view. A first input is detected, and an application view selection mode is entered for selecting one of concurrently open applications for display in a corresponding application view. An initial group of open application ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110252370 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Concurrently Open Software Applications A method includes displaying a first application view. A first input is detected, and an application view selection mode is entered for selecting one of concurrently open applications for display in a corresponding application view. An initial group of open application ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246942 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a storage to classify images into each of groups, and to store the classified images; an output unit to output, as a representative image of the group, a thumbnail image of each of the images, which are extracted one by one... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243397 | SEARCHING DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS USING FACE RECOGNITION A method for searching a collection of digital images on a display screen, comprising: entering an image review mode and displaying on the display screen a first digital image from the collection of digital images; designating a face contained in the first digital image... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239115 | SELECTING AN AVATAR ON A DISPLAY SCREEN OF A MOBILE DEVICE Disclosed are techniques that allow the user of a mobile device to select an avatar within a virtual world presented on the display screen of the mobile device. In some embodiments, a user manipulates a thumbwheel. As the thumbwheel is turned, the avatars on the display... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110216095 | Methods, Devices, and Computer Program Products Providing Multi-Touch Drag and Drop Operations for Touch-Sensitive User Interfaces A method of operating an electronic device including a touch-sensitive interface and a display screen. A method of operating such an electronic device may include detecting primary and secondary contacts on the touch-sensitive interface, and detecting movement of the pr... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110209092 | GRAPHICAL DISPLAY WITH SCROLLABLE GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS Aspects of the disclosed subject matter are directed to a graphical display that efficiently conveys information to a vehicle operator. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that presents scrollable graphical elements on a shared screen area. More spec... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208836 | Document Sharing Using a Third-Party Document Delivery Service A virtual printer which includes a document transfer function can be activated within an application program using the standard operating system print mechanism. When the user selects the virtual printer, the software performs the steps of converting the document to a s... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110202880 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An information processing device includes a display panel for displaying display items belonging to a predetermined layer among display items divided into a plurality of layers, a manipulating body detection unit for detecting the number of manipulating bodies moving on... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110167366 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Modifying a Multi-Column Application A method includes: displaying simultaneously a plurality of columns in a multi-column application that comprises: a first column that includes user-modifiable content items; and a second column that includes user-selectable items; detecting a first input that correspond... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110167387 | GROUPING OF RELATED GRAPHICAL INTERFACE PANELS FOR INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTING DEVICE A stage-based user interface for a mobile device may include a sequence of panels that each include a cluster or grouping of items, such as graphical links, application shortcuts, representations of documents, or representations of other data associated with the mobile ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110167388 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF BROWSING IMAGES THEREON A method of browsing images on an electronic device is disclosed. The method includes confirming a first distance in which an image is desired to be moved. The image is moved a second distance along a first direction. The second distance is shorter than the first distan... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161882 | USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS FOR MEDIA CONTENT ACCESS SYSTEMS AND METHODS Exemplary user interface enhancements for media content access systems and methods are described herein. An exemplary method includes a media content access system launching a graphical user interface for display, the graphical user interface initially including a graph... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154263 | Method and Device for Controlling the Display of a Plurality of Elements of a List on a Display Device Elements of a list are caused to scroll in a first display mode on a display device in response to a movement made on a touch interface along a determined scroll axis, and starting from the first mode, a display is triggered on the display device of the list in at least... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110138329 | Display Interface and Method for Displaying Multiple Items Arranged in a Sequence A display interface and method for displaying multiple items arranged in a sequence are provided for presenting to the user via the display the multiple items along one of multiple paths as the user scrolls through the items. The display interface includes a display, a ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110122159 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING MULTI-REGION TOUCH SCROLLING An electronic device includes a user interface and a processor coupled thereto. The user interface includes a display screen operable to display text and/or graphics, and a touch-sensitive interface comprising an array of sensors operable to receive a scrolling input fr... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110107264 | Method and Device for Enhancing Scrolling Operations in a Display Device A method and device for enhancing scrolling operations in a display of a device is disclosed. The method includes detecting a scrolling operation on a list of objects in a linear direction. During the scrolling operation, it is determined whether the list of objects is ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110099522 | Mobile device and method for supporting list search based on item grouping A mobile device and method support an effective and quick search for a specific item in a list of many items through a simple, convenient and intuitive input process and interface. When one of the lists is selected, the mobile device detects the total number of items co... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110084967 | Visualization of Datasets Methods and apparatus for visualizing a dataset are presented. For example, a method for visualizing a dataset includes identifying a first portion and at least a second portion of the dataset, forming a summary of the second portion of the dataset, and visualizing, on ... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110087997 | LIST SCROLLING METHOD AND DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE SAME A list scrolling control method, system, and device are provided. When scrolling is controlled, the change in data is not displayed on the list area but scrolling information is provided via an information region additionally provided by the scroll bar, thereby quickly ... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110083105 | LIST-EDITING METHOD AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO A list-editing method and a mobile device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of items on a screen, selecting at least one of the plurality of items according to an input signal, fixing at least one selected item at one side of... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110078630 | SCROLLABLE CONTEXT MENU FOR MULTIPLE ELEMENT SELECTION Selections from a long list of elements on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) are presented. When a context window is presented for the selections, different cues are provided in the context window to provide feedback regarding the selections that are not in the current v... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110061025 | Auto Scroll In Combination With Multi Finger Input Device Gesture A gesture based method for scrolling through a document. More specifically, the gesture based method for scrolling through a document includes an automatic scroll gesture so that a user does not need to perform multiple scroll gestures when scrolling through a document.... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110035694 | METHOD FOR BROWSING PHOTO FILES A method for browsing photo files in an embedded electronic device includes the following steps. A user interface window is displayed on a display. The user interface window includes a navigator bar and a content display area for showing photos, and at least one control... | 02/10/2011 |
