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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120054690 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) OBJECT Provided are an apparatus and a method for displaying a three-dimensional (3D) object. The apparatus may include a display panel to display a 3D object having plural faces, an object generating unit to rotate the displayed 3D object in a rotation direction of the appara... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110283238 | Management of Digital Information via an Interface An interface for managing digital information is provided. Digital information including one or more digital files is stored in memory. An icon is associated with the digital information and rendered inside a translucent bubble. The bubble may be manipulated in the digi... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110145760 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EDITING A PRODUCT ASSEMBLY The present invention provides a computer implemented method for editing a product. The product comprises three-dimensional modeled objects. The method comprises the step of displaying a three-dimensional representation of a hierarchy of the three-dimensional modeled ob... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110078634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NAVIGATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA GUIDANCE APPLICATION Systems and methods for navigating a three-dimensional (3D) media guidance application are provided. A first selectable media guidance object may be displayed on a screen that when viewed through the stereoscopic optical device may appear in a first plane. A second sele... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110072397 | Image Data and Annotation Processing System A system automatically detects objects in an image and automatically displays a chosen object if the object is not currently visible in real time. An image data processing system automatically displays potentially hidden features in 3D (three dimensional) medical image ... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20100321379 | SERVER FOR PROVIDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONTENTS AND METHOD THEREOF, AND TERMINAL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY The present invention relates to a 3D contents providing service. A 3D contents providing server includes a 3D contents providing request receiver for receiving a 3D contents providing request through a communication network, a subscriber manager for checking a communic... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100262950 | EDITING OF TWO DIMENSIONAL SOFTWARE CONSUMABLES WITHIN A COMPLEX THREE DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL APPLICATION AND METHOD A set of methods and tools are described that permit a user to interact with a two dimensional (2D) photograph or image as if photograph or image is a three dimensional (3D) image of photograph.... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100231590 | CREATING AND MODIFYING 3D OBJECT TEXTURES A method and system for providing a graphical user interface to manipulate 3D object textures. The method includes retrieving a mesh object for editing, wherein the mesh object is associated with a mask layer, a detail layer, and a shadow layer. The method includes disp... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100164953 | Systems and methods for transporting physical objects from real physical life into virtual worlds Systems and methods for transporting physical objects from real physical life into virtual worlds. Briefly stated, the method includes receiving characteristic and structure data from an object constructed in the real world. The characteristic and structure data is obta... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100134490 | REAL TIME GENERATION OF ANIMATION-READY 3D CHARACTER MODELS Systems and methods for automatically generating animation-ready 3D character models based upon model parameter and clothing selections are described. One embodiment of the invention includes an application server configured to receive the user defined model parameters ... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100131533 | System for automatic organization and communication of visual data based on domain knowledge A computer-based system enables the creation of a time series based sequence of observations of a selected object. Each observation consists of a predefined, fixed set of standardized object views from which metadata about the visual data can be automatically determined... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100115471 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL WIDGETS Systems, methods, computer-readable mediums, user interfaces and other implementations are disclosed for implementing multidimensional widgets. A multidimensional widget is a three-dimensional object with application surfaces, and each application surface is associated ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100115455 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING 3 DIMENSIONAL OBJECT AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME A method is provided of controlling a 3D individual object on a map by displaying a 3D map image including a plurality of 3D individual objects on a first display area, selecting at least one 3D individual object, obtaining detailed information of the selected 3D indivi... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100064259 | CONTROLLING METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL USER INTERFACE SWITCHOVER AND MOBILE TERMINAL USING THE SAME The exemplary embodiment relates to a method of controlling a three-dimensional user interface, which controls a three-dimensional user interface to follow a user's motion, and a mobile terminal using the same. The method comprising: displaying a plurality of three-dime... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20090144664 | System And Method For Constraining A Graphical Hand From Penetrating Simulated Graphical Objects Movement of a graphical hand is constrained when the physical hand controlling the graphical hand does not have a similar physical constraint. An analysis of a revolute-joint-link-spring model in which an uncompressed/unextended spring position represents the correspond... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090112973 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPOSITE PART DATA EXTRACTION A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing ply lay-up data for a composite part. A designation of a location is received for the composite part in a three dimensional object from a requester. A three dimensional model is ope... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090113349 | FACILITATING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE VIA A 3D VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT A Web-based 3D virtual environment in which users can select a specific virtual object and, in response to that selection, relevant commercial information, such as advertisements, invitations to shop, offers, hyperlinks, or messages in general, that are related to the s... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20080295037 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING 3D CAROUSEL TREE DATA VISUALIZATION AND RELATED DEVICE A method for generating 3D carousel visualization of large-scale tree data, which comprises the steps of: receiving a user's selection of a node in the carousel; according to the radius of a sub-carousel corresponding to the user-selected node and the radius of a carous... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080270947 | Control of interactions within virtual environments A method for restricting the number of consequential interactions to further virtual objects having a relationship with a first virtual object, resulting from an interaction with said first virtual object. The method comprises: defining a maximum number of consequential... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080250355 | AUTOMATIC 3D OBJECT GENERATION AND DEFORMATION FOR REPRESENTATION OF DATA FILES BASED ON TAXONOMY CLASSIFICATION Disclosed are a system and method for generating three-dimensional objects to represent files in a three-dimensional environment. A primary classifier classifies stored files into groups based on a first set of properties and generates three-dimensional mesh objects to ... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20060253802 | Electronic device and control method thereof The present invention relates to an electronic device having a GUI generator capable of processing a GUI including at least one item in three dimensions. Further, the present invention includes a user selection part to allow a user to indicate or select the item; a cont... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060150124 | Computer-aided selection method for a portion of a volume A computer is provided with polyhedron corners. The computer uses the polyhedron corners to automatically determine the corresponding polyhedron edges and polyhedron areas and thus a closed polyhedron. The polyhedron corresponds to the selected portion of a volume. Only... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20050210391 | Systems and methods for navigating content in an interactive ticker Tickers on communications devices are navigated using a navigation mechanism associated with the communications devices. The navigation mechanisms can permit a user to navigate through content in a ticker or to configure presentation attributes of the ticker. Alternatel... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050204306 | Enhancements for manipulating two-dimensional windows within a three-dimensional display model One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates manipulating a window within a three-dimensional (3D) display model, wherein the window provides a 2D user interface for a 2D application. During operation, the system displays a view into the 3D... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050204292 | Browser back and forth navigation Integration of navigation both external to and internal to web-based applications is disclosed. A hidden history frame is used for storing the desired navigation URL that is intended for adding to the browser history. The hidden history HTML frame is created on the brow... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050188326 | Image assortment supporting device An image assortment supporting device displays an assortment window allocated including an assortment view R2 and a sorting view R4 on a display screen of a display unit of a computer. A sight of thumbnail images is displayed in the assortment view R2. ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050188325 | Highlighting panning window interface The present invention is a graphical user interface with a panning window interface that allows presentation of a high-level view of a dense graphical map structure simultaneously with a detailed sub-portion of the dense graphical map structure. The graphical user inter... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050154988 | Modal display, smooth scroll graphic user interface and remote command device suitable for efficient navigation and selection of dynamic data/options presented within an audio/visual system The efficient and intuitive presentation, navigation, and selection of available AV information in a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayed on a display apparatus of an AV system and controlled through user manipulation of a scrolling mechanism of a navigation... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050149872 | Systems and methods for providing alternate views when rendering audio/video content in a computing system Systems and methods for transitioning between alternate views when rendering A/V content in a computing system are provided. In various embodiments, a “Now Playing” state is exposed to a user experiencing media on a media device via a user interface, wherein the “... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050144570 | System and method for color coding list items A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting colo... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144569 | System and method for scrolling among categories in a list of documents A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting colo... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144561 | System and method for deleting related messages A system and method is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a ... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144568 | Method and apparatus for indicating and navigating related items A system and method is provided to enable a user to quickly identify related items in a list environment. A relationship icon is used to identify the presence of related items, such as email messages, occurring before and after a selected item. The relationship icon is ... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144574 | Constraining user movement in virtual environments An exemplary method for constraining a user's movement in a virtual environment includes determining a user's current location in the virtual environment, determining a permitted zone based on the current location, dividing areas outside the permitted zone into multiple... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144572 | System and method for providing a category separator in a list of documents A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting colo... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050144571 | System and method for secondary selection highlighting A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting colo... | 06/30/2005 |
| 20050138564 | Visualization of a significance of a set of individual elements about a focal point on a user interface A user interface having a focal point and reference icons is described. In one embodiment of the invention, the reference icons represent individual elements, such as elements of an ordered list. The reference icons are positioned radially about the focal point on the u... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050138574 | Interactive icon Networked icon (108) interacts with the electronic device user and uses user input (102), context information (104) and network information (106) to automatically update the icon's representation to the user. Icon (108) is also associa... | 06/23/2005 |
| 20050132292 | Electronic device An electronic device. A first operating mode (mobile phone) and a second operating mode (PDA) are provided by the electronic device. The electronic device has a host and a case. The host is provided with a first index portion. The case is disposed on the host for moving... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050114788 | Changing an orientation of a user interface via a course of motion The invention relates to a method for changing an orientation of a User Interface (UI), the method comprises the steps of detecting a course of motion that is performed on the UI, and changing the orientation of the UI with respect to a device in which the UI is integra... | 05/26/2005 |
