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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120110453 | Display of Image Search Results Techniques involving display of image search results are described. In one or more implementations, an image search result is displayed having a plurality of images. Responsive to selection of a particular one of the images, a filmstrip is displayed having a contiguous ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084732 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING APPLICATIONS AND WIDGETS ON A MOBILE DEVICE INTERFACE A system provides a framework that allows a user to arrange the available applications on a display of the communications device. The framework limits the user's arrangement to maintain consistent organization and ease of location of the available applications for the u... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084731 | DISPLAYING IMAGES INTERESTING TO A USER One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for displaying images in a user's online page, such as to provide an engaging and interesting user experience. A subset of one or more images is identified from a set that comprises user accessible images. Images for t... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072871 | TERMINAL DEVICE FOR DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING AN APPLICATION AND METHOD THEREOF A method for installing an application includes inputting a command to download the application, selecting a page to add an identifier for executing the application, and displaying the identifier on the selected page.... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054688 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing apparatus including a press-down detection unit for detecting a press-down operation, and an information processing unit for performing, in a case a plurality of press-down operations are successively detected by the press-dow... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054075 | INTERACTIVE GENERIC CONFIGURATOR PROGRAM Method and System for creating item configurators intended to run under the control of computerized devices possessing GUI. This method comprises creating a plurality of graphic layer files and graphic layer thumbnail files comprising various layers of the item desired ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120036482 | Method of and System for Browsing and Displaying Items from a Collection In accordance with an embodiment, a method of browsing and displaying items from a collection is provided. Information about each of plurality of items in a collection is stored. A plurality of user-entered tags is obtained. Each tag comprises a term associated with one... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120036481 | Method of and System for Browsing and Displaying Items from a Collection In accordance with an embodiment, a method of browsing and displaying items from a collection is provided. Information about each of plurality of items is stored in machine-readable storage media. A group of the items is selected for display. One of a plurality of image... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120017179 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING LIST OF CONTENTS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME A method for providing a list of contents and a display apparatus applying the same are provided. The method displays images corresponding to a plurality of items included in a specific category of contents. If one of the displayed images is selected, a list of contents... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017180 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE BACKGROUND IMAGE ON A SCREEN Method for filling the screen 2 of a mobile terminal 1 with a background image, which is at least temporarily present in a memory of the terminal 1, whereby a selection mode is present, in which several background images are imaged on the screen ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016879 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USER INTERFACE FOR IMAGE DISPLAY Approaches to displaying image search results, and image content of computer readable media include providing a matrix display of images, with an interface to insert and remove floating date dividers, each indicative of a day on which one or more of the images was creat... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120017181 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM A method of controlling an image processing apparatus communicating with an image server storing first images, second images wherein one of the first images and one of the second images are managed as one image data in the image server. The method includes downloading a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011473 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD A first display control unit configured to display in a first display region a list of thumbnail images of image data on a display device. A direction receiving unit configured to acquire a selection by a user for the image data. A second display control unit configured... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120011472 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD In an image display apparatus, an image classification unit generates one or more of image groups by classifying image data to which attribution information is added based on the attribute information. A display control unit displays, on a display device, a list of a pl... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001935 | METHOD FOR IMAGE RENDERING IN A COMPUTER NETWORK A method of rendering user-specified image products by executing a plurality of user-interactive tasks relating to an image product. At least some of the user-interactive tasks specify a portion of the image product. A change probability of further changes to the portio... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005628 | Display Device, Display Method, and Program A method is provided for displaying thumbnail images corresponding to portions of content. The method comprises identifying a thumbnail image representing a portion of content. The method further comprises identifying an importance level of the content represented by th... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110307836 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF According to one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile terminal includes a touchscreen configured to display a list including a plurality of categories and at least one content grouped for each of the plurality of categories, and a controller, if a command for a... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307527 | Media Production Application Some embodiments provide a media production application. The application receives a script of a media project and parses the script to identify (i) story sections of the media project and (ii) characters in the media project. The application automatically creates data s... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307835 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THUMBNAIL GROUP ON IDLE SCREEN AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL
| 12/15/2011 |
| 20110295851 | REAL-TIME ANNOTATION AND ENRICHMENT OF CAPTURED VIDEO An annotation suggestion platform is described herein. The annotation suggestion platform may comprise a client and a server, where the client captures a media object and sends the captured object to the server, and the server provides a list of suggested annotations fo... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110289457 | ELECTRONIC READING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVIEWING FILES An electronic reading apparatus includes a storage unit storing electronic files and thumbnails corresponding to the electronic files, a display unit displaying thumbnails of a desired electronic file and a desired page associated with one of the thumbnails. In addition... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110258204 | SYSTEM FOR USING KEYWORD PHRASES ON A PAGE TO PROVIDE CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT CONTENT TO USERS A process is described for assessing the suitability of particular keyword phrases for use in serving contextually relevant content for display on pages of network-accessible sites. In one embodiment, the process involves scoring the key phrases based in part on collect... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110252357 | 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 |
| 20110252381 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110246947 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM When displaying a N-up image view in which a plurality of thumbnail images displayed in given windows are grouped and displayed in a single window by using a detecting section for detecting a contact position on a display screen of a display section, position specificat... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246946 | Apparatus and Method for Interacting with Embedded Objects in Mail Application Improved techniques are disclosed for interacting with embedded objects. The embedded objects may comprise digital media content, such as or images (e.g., photos), audio items (e.g., audio files, including music or songs), or videos (e.g., movies). By generating thumbna... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110239157 | Multi-Display Electric Devices and Operation Methods Thereof Multi-display electric devices and operation methods thereof are provided. The operation method is applicable to a multi-display electronic device including a screen, a touch-sensitive screen, and a processing module. A window is displayed in the screen, and a thumbnail... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110239162 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM A multifunction peripheral is provided with a thumbnail image generation instruction receiving section that receives an instruction to generate a thumbnail image of a page designated by an operator, a thumbnail image generating section that generates thumbnail images of... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110225549 | CONTENT CONTROLAPPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF A content control apparatus and method thereof in which an icon indicating a category of an application program displayed on a representative image of the application program is discussed. A content control apparatus according to embodiments of the present invention may... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110214090 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE VISUAL REPRESENTATION OF ITEMS ALONG A TIMELINE A system and method for data storage and data enhancement to facilitate the analysis of such data through a visual representation which depicts the data, its temporal aspects by aligning it along a timeline, and categorization of the data through tagging. The visual rep... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110214091 | PRESENTING OBJECT PROPERTIES The present disclosure includes, among other things, systems, methods and program products for presenting object properties by receiving selection of a component of a model presented in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer aided design tool, the GUI including ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208732 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORGANIZING DATA ITEMS Systems, methods, and software for organizing data are described. An organizational method is selected from one or more predetermined organizational methods, specified by a parameter, or determined from information about the data items. Data items are sorted based on th... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110209080 | DISPLAY METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR USING THE SAME The invention provides a display method for an electronic device. The electronic device has a display panel displaying at least one of a plurality of pages of contents and the pages of contents are contiguously arranged in a page flow. The display method comprising rece... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110197146 | Assisting The Authoring Of Posts To An Asymmetric Social Network Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for assisting the authoring of posts to an asymmetric social network. In one aspect, a method performed by a system of one or more data processing devices includes receivi... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110191721 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OF CONTENT A method and apparatus that display information about content as a thumbnail. The thumbnail may be an image that represents the content, and the thumbnail may be generated to include first and second portions based on information about the content. The information on th... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191720 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MENUS A method for displaying a menu includes generating a content selection menu which includes a plurality of contents and a location selection menu which includes a plurality of locations within a content that is currently selected among the plurality of contents, by using... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110185314 | Interactive thumbnails for transferring content among electronic documents Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to generating a reproduction of an electronic document, such as a thumbnail, that includes an input fie... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110173570 | DATA FEEDS WITH PERIPHERALLY PRESENTED INTERESTING CONTENT A social data feed, comprising a set of data items submitted by individuals in a social network, may be presented to the user, but the frequency of new data items appearing in the social data feed may be overwhelming, and may cause the user to miss data items that may b... | 07/14/2011 |
