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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131519 | Surfacing Off-Screen Visible Objects A computer-implemented user input process for a computing device includes receiving, on a touch pad surface over a graphical display, a user input motion dragging across the touch pad surface, identifying the dragging input motion as originating off an edge of the touch... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131517 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF There is provided an information processing apparatus with an interface with high convenience for a user. A reference speed is set according to an amount of movement or a movement time period of a pointer of a stylus or a finger. It is determined based on a movement spe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131503 | APPLICATION DISPLAYING METHOD FOR TOUCH-CONTROLLED DEVICE AND TOUCH-CONTROLLED DEVICE THEREOF A method for displaying applications of a touch-controlled device includes the steps of: generating an electronic signal according a gesture applied on a touch panel of the touch-controlled device; generating a detection result according to the electronic signal, wherei... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131458 | Flick to Send or Display Content In an embodiment, a flick motion is detected on a touch screen interface of a first device. In response to detecting the flick motion: data associated with the flick motion is identified and transmitted to a second device. The data may be automatically displayed in resp... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131513 | Gesture Recognition Training Gesture recognition training is described. In an example, a gesture recognizer is trained to detect gestures performed by a user on an input device. Example gesture records, each showing data describing movement of a finger on the input device when performing an identif... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131515 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF ERROR CORRECTION IN RESISTIVE TOUCH PANELS A method and apparatus of generating display data based on at least one input display value received from a touch screen device is disclosed. According to one example method of operation the method may include receiving an input display value in a predefined enclosed ar... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131518 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING ITEM USING MOVEMENT OF OBJECT An item selecting apparatus includes a movement detecting unit detecting a movement of a user, a screen displaying image information, a display image storage unit storing data to generate an image to be displayed on the screen, a display image generating unit generating... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131514 | Gesture Recognition Gesture recognition is described. In one example, gestures performed by a user of an input device having a touch-sensitive portion are detected using a definition of a number of regions corresponding to zones on the touch-sensitive portion, each region being associated ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131520 | Gesture-based Text Identification and Selection in Images A device with a touch-sensitive screen supports tapping gestures for identifying, selecting or working with initially unrecognized text. A single tap gesture can cause a portion of a character string to be selected. A double tap gesture can cause the entire character st... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130762 | Building directory aided navigation A navigation system utilizes building directories to aid navigation. A mobile device, such as a mobile phone, captures an image of a building directory. The building directory includes information regarding the names and/or locations of tenants. An image recognition alg... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120131516 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR DOCUMENT VISUALIZATION WITH INTERACTIVE FOLDING GESTURE TECHNIQUE ON A MULTI-TOUCH DISPLAY A method, system and computer readable medium for folding a document page object are provided. A method for folding a document page object in a graphical user interface using multi-touch gestures includes establishing at least two contact points on a display; moving at ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127089 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING USER-DEFINED MACROS A method and apparatus for performing a task at a handheld device. The method includes detecting a first gesture at a handheld device, monitoring for a second gesture in response to detecting the first gesture, detecting the second gesture at the handheld device, determ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110518 | TRANSLATION OF DIRECTIONAL INPUT TO GESTURE A user device is disclosed which includes a touch input and a keypad input. The user device is configured to operate in a gesture capture mode as well as a navigation mode. In the navigation mode, the user interfaces with the touch input to move a cursor or similar sele... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110519 | GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF DATA OBJECTS In an embodiment, a user input defining an enclosed, graphical shape on a video display is received. A number of graphical items are identified as being included within the enclosed, graphical shape. Here, each graphical item is displayed on the video display and repres... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110517 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GESTURE RECOGNITION A touchscreen device is configured to display a number of user interface elements in accordance with a menu hierarchy. Upon receipt of a predetermined touchscreen gesture (e.g., the circular motion of a manipulator) the menu hierarchy is bypassed and the user is given i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110520 | DEVICE FOR USING USER GESTURE TO REPLACE EXIT KEY AND ENTER KEY OF TERMINAL EQUIPMENT A device for using user gesture to replace the exit key and the enter key of a terminal equipment, comprising a CPU module, a gesture input module, a gesture processing module, a terminal application module, a memory module and a terminal function module. The CPU module... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110516 | POSITION AWARE GESTURES WITH VISUAL FEEDBACK AS INPUT METHOD A gesture based user interface is provided for a user to interact with a device in order to operate and control the device through detection of gestures and movements of the user. Visual feedback of the user gestures is provided to the user to aid in the user's operatio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084736 | GESTURE CONTROLLED SCREEN REPOSITIONING FOR ONE OR MORE DISPLAYS Control of a computing device using gesture inputs. The computing device may be a handheld computing device with a plurality of displays. The displays may be capable of displaying a graphical user interface (GUI). The plurality of displays may be modified in response to... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084697 | USER INTERFACE WITH INDEPENDENT DRAWER CONTROL Methods and apparatus for controlling the display of one or more drawers of a user interface. One or more displays may be provided, each of which may have a corresponding independently controllable drawer displayable therein. The drawers may be opened in response to a g... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084734 | MULTIPLE-ACCESS-LEVEL LOCK SCREEN A multiple-access-level lock screen system allows different levels of functionality to be accessed on a computing device. For example, when a device is in a locked state, a user can select (e.g., by making one or more gestures on a touchscreen) a full-access lock screen... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084738 | USER INTERFACE WITH STACKED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT Methods and apparatus for controlling a computing device using gesture inputs. The gesture inputs may be operative to move screens corresponding to applications executing on the handheld computing device from one display to another. Additionally, a multi portion gesture... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084735 | GESTURE CONTROLS FOR MULTI-SCREEN USER INTERFACE Method and apparatus for controlling a computing device using gesture inputs. The computing device may be a handheld computing device with multiple displays. The displays may be capable of displaying a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI may be a multi screen GUI or... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084651 | Automatic Derivation Of Analogous Touch Gestures From A User-Defined Gesture Embodiments enable a mobile device to execute an action analogous to a user-defined action in response to receipt of a gesture analogous to a user-defined gesture. In an embodiment, a user input is received that defines a first touch gesture to initiate a first action o... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084739 | FOCUS CHANGE UPON USE OF GESTURE TO MOVE IMAGE Embodiments are described for handling focus when a gesture is input in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, the gesture indicates a request to move an image displayed on the multi-screen device. In response, the image is moved and the focus is placed on the moved ima... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084737 | GESTURE CONTROLS FOR MULTI-SCREEN HIERARCHICAL APPLICATIONS Control of a computing device using gesture inputs. The computing device may be a handheld computing device with a plurality of displays. The displays may be capable of displaying a graphical user interface (GUI). The plurality of displays may be modified in response to... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084690 | GESTURE BASED APPLICATION MANAGEMENT Methods and apparatus for controlling one or more displays using an application manager. The application manager may be displayed in response to a received gesture input. The application manager may provide information regarding applications or screens executing in one ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072873 | TRANSPARENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OBJECT INFORMATION According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing object information includes determining an eye direction of a person toward a first region of a transparent display, selecting at least one object seen via the transparent display in the determi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120071891 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HAND GESTURE CONTROL IN A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL SYSTEM In a minimally invasive surgical system, a hand tracking system tracks a location of a sensor element mounted on part of a human hand. A system control parameter is generated based on the location of the part of the human hand. Operation of the minimally invasive surgic... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054620 | AUTOMATED CONTROLS FOR SENSOR ENABLED USER INTERFACE A mobile unit includes a processor, a memory, and a display. The display shows a user interface including a plurality of commands. Each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands is shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054671 | MULTI-TOUCH INTERFACE GESTURES FOR KEYBOARD AND/OR MOUSE INPUTS A computing device includes a touch screen displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and a processing unit programmed to recognize gestures made on the touch screen and execute, in response thereto, a process associated with the gestures. The gestures include at least... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054692 | SCHEDULING PROFILE MODIFICATION INTERFACE Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus arranged to modify a scheduling profile according to a gesture of a user, the apparatus comprising a display unit for displaying scheduling profile display data a scheduling profile display data generating unit f... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047468 | Translating User Motion Into Multiple Object Responses A system for translating user motion into multiple object responses of an on-screen object based on user interaction of an application executing on a computing device is provided. User motion data is received from a capture device from one or more users. The user motion... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047469 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING A CONTENT PACKAGE COMPRISING A FIRST CONTENT SEGMENT FROM A FIRST CONTENT SOURCE TO DISPLAY A SECOND CONTENT SEGMENT FROM A SECOND CONTENT SOURCE An apparatus may include a user interface configured to display a content package including a first content segment from a first content source. A gesture interpreter may be configured to receive a gesture input in a positional relationship to the first content segment.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047470 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BROWSING AN ELECTRONIC BOOK ON A TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY A method is disclosed for navigating in an electronic book comprising a plurality of pages, the method comprising displaying in an interface a first given page of the electronic book with a fore edge section representative of a fore edge of the electronic book; detectin... | 02/23/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120042278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A USER WITH SELECTIVE CONTROL OVER SCROLLING FUNCTIONS A method for providing a scrolling mechanism may include receiving an indication of a stroke event at a display generating a content view of at least a portion of a content page, classifying the stroke event based on characteristics of the stroke event, and determining ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120042288 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTERACTIONS WITH DOCUMENTS ACROSS PAPER AND COMPUTERS Systems and methods provide for mixed use of physical documents and a computer, and more specifically provide for detailed interactions with fine-grained content of physical documents that are integrated with operations on a computer to provide for improved user interac... | 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 |
| 20120036048 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT A system and method for distribution of multimedia content over a computer communications network using a portable web widget, the web widget adapted for viral distribution and execution in a web browser on a client device, the client device having a processor and a mem... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120036485 | Motion Driven User Interface A motion driven user interface for a mobile device is described which provides a user with the ability to cause execution of user interface input commands by physically moving the mobile device in space. The mobile device uses embedded sensors to identify its motion whi... | 02/09/2012 |
