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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184121 | Methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods, systems, and apparatus for multi-domain markers. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8164595 | Computer-readable storage medium having distribution chart display program stored therein, information processing apparatus, and distribution chart display system A distribution chart representing a distribution of accomplishment times included in a plurality of pieces of result data is generated based on the plurality of pieces of result data including the accomplishment times of a racing game. Icons for identifying the plur... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161374 | Butterfly diagrams enabling multi-dimensional performance analysis A method for multi-dimensional performance analysis may be provided. A plurality of data may be displayed in a butterfly diagram comprising a data grid, a histogram associated with column sorting criteria, and a histogram associated with row-sorting criteria. Additi... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159493 | Adaptive grand tour A system and method of generating a dynamic visualization of a multi-dimensional dataset of data-points are disclosed. The method is an adaptation of the Grand Tour approach, but instead of using all possible projections comprising at least one data point, some of w... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154549 | Data display apparatus, data display method and data display program A data display apparatus includes: an axis display section that displays an axis indicating a predetermined range on a display section; a data association section that associates a plurality of data with positions on the axis based on attribute information of the da... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154548 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method A measured value of a physical quantity measured using a measuring device within a predetermined region on a real space, and a position where the measuring device performs measurement are acquired (S1001 to S1003). An analytic value of the physical qua... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149240 | Efficient symbolic differentiation using derivative graph factorization An efficient symbolic differentiation method and system that automatically computes one or more derivatives of a function using a computing device. A derivative graph is used to graphically represent the derivative of a function. Repeated factorization of the deriva... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144150 | Scripted graphics in a process environment Graphic elements and graphic displays are provided for use in a process environment to display information to one or more users about the process environment, such as the current state of devices within a process plant. The graphic elements and displays include one ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144152 | System and method for presentation of data streams An in-vivo sensing system and a method for creating a summarized graphical presentation of a data stream captured in-vivo. The graphical presentation may be in the form of for example a color bar. The color bar may be a fixed display along side a streaming display o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144151 | Spatial and temporal graphical display of verified/validated data organized as complex events Complex events for an entity are gathered, each including an event, the event's location, and the date of the event. A map encompassing the locations of the complex events is displayed. The location of each complex event is denoted on the map, such as by an icon cor... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139065 | Machine-implemented method and electronic device for presenting a dual-axis graph A machine-implemented method for presenting a dual-axis graph for a pair of data sets includes: reading the data sets; setting first and second boundaries of a first reference axis using first coordinates of data points of one data set having maximum and minimum val... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139064 | Method and apparatus for aligning an infrastructure to a template An exemplary method of determining a target configuration of an infrastructure aligned with a template includes a step of representing the current configuration of the infrastructure as a graph having a plurality of vertices representing elements of the infrastructu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139063 | Rendering data visualization with minimal round-off error Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for the rendering of data visualizations with minimal round-off errors. The data visualization method represents a dataset as graphical elements within a graphical layout are... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8125484 | Method, apparatus and user interface for determining an arterial input function used for calculating hemodynamic parameters A graphical user interface and method allows a user to interactively select an arterial input function. An anatomical image and time-course data corresponding to a selected region of interest are displayed simultaneously. The time-course data is displayed as an arra... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120610 | Methods and apparatus for using aliases to display logic A system traverses a directed cyclic graph to discover a relationship between a first object and a second object, and creates an alias. The alias represents the second object. The system replaces the relationship between the first object and the second object with t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115769 | System, method, and computer program product for conveying a status of a plurality of security applications A system, method and computer program product are provided for displaying a status of a security application. A status of at least one security application is initially identified. An index is calculated that is representative of a degree of risk associated with the... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8098249 | Apparatus and method for automatic scaling of tick marks A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to calculate a default number of major tick marks as a function of a minimum distance between major tick marks and the length of a GUI control. A whole number of major tick marks that evenly divides... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098248 | Method for semantic modeling of stream processing components to enable automatic application composition A method for modeling components of a stream processing application, includes: defining an input message pattern of a processing element, wherein the input message pattern includes variables representing data objects that must be included in a message input to the p... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094154 | Intelligent leading indicator display According to typical inventive practice, a baseline describing a statistical distribution is established for a set of historical occurrences of an event. Comparison is made between the baseline and at least one current occurrence of the same event. Any current occur... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089482 | Artists' color display system An assortment of color elements is grouped within a plurality of color families which are organized in accordance with a bi-radial circular color chart (FIG. 10-A) and a columnar chart (FIG. 11-A). Except for the neutral-gray color family, a pair of bo... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085269 | Representing and editing audio properties Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualization and editing of audio signals. In some implementations, a method is provided that include the actions of receiving one or more audio signals including digital audio data; generating one or more audio objects,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077178 | Displaying multi-ownership in a tree-map visualization A multi-ownership tree-map visualization system can include a tree-map configured to visualize a set of interrelated nodes in which at least one individual node in the set is related to at least two parent nodes in the set. The system further can include an event ha... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072457 | System and method for providing a dynamic expanded timeline Generating a child timeline on a drawing sheet of a diagramming program such that the child timeline is dynamically linked to a parent timeline. An automated method allows for the automatic placing of information on the child timeline that was on the parent timeline... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073821 | Method and apparatus for managing and archiving performance information relating to storage system A data management and archive method and apparatus, such as for implementation in an automated system to monitor and manage status, performance and configuration data for a plurality of networked storage components. Analysis and cross-correlation of data related to ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068105 | Visualizing audio properties Technologies relating to user interfaces for visualizing audio properties. In some implementations, a method is provided that includes the actions of receiving one or more audio signals including digital audio data; generating one or more audio objects, each of the ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068104 | Totally integrated intelligent dynamic systems display An apparatus for graphically displaying analytical data, comprising a generic model to graphically represent a complex set of physical characteristics potentially leading to catastrophic failure of a physical system. A central region represents failure of the physic... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063904 | Project timeline visualization methods and systems Methods, systems, and computer readable storage mediums for presenting project information are disclosed. Project information may be presented by receiving electronic planning information associated with a project, the planning information including project resource... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059125 | Computer-aided parallelizing of computation graphs An approach to automatically specifying, or assisting with the specification of, a parallel computation graph involves determining data processing characteristics of the linking elements that couple data processing elements of the graph. The characteristics of the l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044958 | Material creation support device, material creation support system, and program When a position on a displayed graph is selected, a graph information processor acquires time information which is a parameter on an axis at the selected position. A character information acquirer acquires character information that includes date/time information as... | 10/25/2011 |
| RE42847 | Expression tree optimization for processing obscured graphical objects The present invention relates to a method, apparatus and system for optimizing an expression tree (101,902,1102) for compositing an image. Such an expression tree (101,902, 1102) can comprise at least two nodes. Each node is either a graphical element (102,104) or i... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031195 | System and method of providing interactive data analysis with varying subjective parameters An interactive data analysis system is disclosed. The interactive data analysis system has a computer-generated user interface which includes a plurality of histogram elements having data band controls. The data band controls allow modification of subjective paramet... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022952 | Generating a visualization to show mining results produced from selected data items and attribute(s) in a selected focus area and other portions of a data set To visualize and analyze data, selection of at least one focus area in a visualization of a data set is received. Based on characteristics of the selected at least one focus area, using at least one analytic technique to mine relationships between data items and at ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022953 | Dimensions and computer aided modeling An object to be dimensioned may have such a small dimension that the dimension text will not fit within a space defined by extension lines. A dimensioning method is provided that exaggerates extension lines (24) of small dimensions so that the dimension text ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018459 | Calibration of transmission system using tonal visualization components The present disclosure relates to broadcast signal calibration devices and methods. A system is provided that permits calibration or tuning of broadcast signal transmission and reception equipment through the use of visual representation of test signals. The generat... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013858 | Statistical waveform drawing routine A statistical waveform drawing routine includes forming an image, determining discrete points of the image, forming count totals of the number of discrete points of the image in a sweep of the discrete points in a first direction, and determining a statistical value... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8013859 | Graphical display for illustrating effectiveness of resource management and resource balancing A graphical display combines multiple dimensions of information relating to resource allocation and usage by a group of computer systems and sub-systems of the computer systems. The graphical display includes a series of graphics, each indicating resource usage by o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009170 | Systems and methods for computing a variogram model Systems and methods for computing a variogram model, which utilize a variogram map and a rose diagram to compute the model. ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004525 | Displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other pla... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8004526 | Waveform data display device and method This invention discloses a waveform data display device and method, wherein the device comprising a microprocessor, for receiving collected parameter information and generating information on a position, a length and a color value with the maximum brightness of each... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999809 | Computer systems and methods for automatic generation of models for a dataset A method of automatically generating models from a dataset includes multiple steps. First, a description of a view of a dataset is provided. The description includes multiple fields associated with the dataset. Next, a set of properties is determined for each of the... | 08/16/2011 |
