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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7746362 | Automatic call distribution system using computer network-based communication Multiple communication types are integrated into a call center. The communication types can be chat, email, Internet Protocol (IP) voice, traditional telephone, web page, digital image, digital video and other types. Features of the invention include allowing a sing... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724267 | Information processing program and information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus has a pointing device for designating a position of an arbitrary point with respect to a reference point O, and a processor of the information processing apparatus detects a position of the point designated by the pointing device ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7679625 | Straightening digital images As the user operates the straighten control, the rotational orientation of a selected image is changed. According to one embodiment, a grid is superimposed over the image while the straighten control is being operated, to assist the user in selecting the proper rota... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7554564 | Method of utilizing a 2-dimensional display screen as a 3-dimensional multi-way rocker for pivoting an image displayed thereon and for revealing a hidden panel in relation to the image displayed thereon Utilizing a 2-dimensional display screen as a 3-dimensional multi-way rocker for pivoting an image displayed on the display screen in a 3-dimensional manner. The display screen may include a plurality of predefined and adjustable edge portions, such that each edge p... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7436292 | System and method for controlling a network of environmental control units A system for managing a network of environmental control units (ECUs) enables an ECU user to more easily move from one living environment to another. The system allows an ECU to be conveniently configured based on the contents of an ECU configuration profile databas... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436296 | System and method for controlling a remote environmental control unit An administration tool program generates a user interface displaying selectable living environment devices, each corresponding to a type of living environment device that can be controlled by a user through a remotely located ECU (environmental control unit). The us... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436293 | System and method for configuring and maintaining individual and multiple environmental control units over a communication network from an administration system A method and system that allow an ECU to be conveniently configured based on the contents of an ECU configuration profile database that stores ECU user profiles and living environment profiles, and that generates a user interface for a selected remote ECU displaying... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430729 | Design rule report utility This invention provides a graphical tool by which a person may quickly and efficiently check the relational information between elements of a computer model. The invention may be used to quickly validate the design rules, like minimum spacing requirements between th... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7397482 | String display system, string display method and storage medium A string display system for displaying display target strings includes a storage unit 50 that correlates and stores detection target strings and display numbers, a display time determination unit 56 that provisionally determines display times of the di... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7348998 | Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device The method of capturing a digital image for viewing from a stream of digital images on a touch display of a digital imaging device includes accessing a stream of digital images comprised of a plurality of individual digital images, selecting an individual image from... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330198 | Three-dimensional object manipulating apparatus, method and computer program When the user touches a display screen, a touch-operated input device (7) detects a coordinate of a user-touched point on the display screen and a touch-input conversion program is executed to determine an axis, direction and speed of rotation of a three-dime... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325191 | Preservation of source code formatting Documents before and after editing are compared. Changes are applied to the original document, thus preserving the existing formatting. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324121 | Adaptive manipulators A method of repositioning a manipulator in relation to a viewport is provided in a system for interacting with a three-dimensional object configured with a manipulator. The object and the manipulator are drawn in the viewport and the position of the manipulator is c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312803 | Method for producing graphics for overlay on a video source Discloses a method for producing graphical overlay elements on a source video program stream using Microsoft PowerPoint slides as a source of the graphical overlay elements to be overlaid on the source video program stream, including representations of real-time inf... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298382 | Figure selection method, figure selection device, and storage medium storing figure selection program A figure selection method and device including a retrieval operation of a figure element adjacent to a designated figure element where a figure is formed by a plurality of figure elements. According to an aspect of the present invention, the retrieval operation is c... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289235 | Information processing device, information processing system, method for controlling information processing device, storage medium and control program In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289316 | Visual serving tray and method A portable device includes a tray. The tray includes at least one serving face in which at least a substantial part of the serving face is constructed and arranged to hold at least one item to be carried. The tray carries at least one display monitor such that the m... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7193634 | Image transferring apparatus and method, file transferring apparatus and method, and program storage medium Disclosed is an image transferring apparatus for transferring an image displayed by a first program to a second program. The image transferring apparatus comprises: image copying means for storing a copy of the image into a predetermined temporary storage area; and ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7170533 | Method and device for imaging with reorientation of an object A medical imaging device and method having a display screen, a processor for processing image data in order to display the data in the form of a 3D model, and a user interface. The processor acquires at least two points positioned in the 3D model via the user interf... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164432 | Information processing apparatus and method therefor, and medium The present invention can realize an information processing apparatus and a method therefor which can prevent a degraded visibility even if the posture of the information processing apparatus is changed in order to provide better portability or to prevent surroundin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142185 | Liquid crystal display, image data compensation circuit, image data compensation method, and electronic apparatus An interpolation processor interpolates reference compensation data stored in a ROM according to the level, generates compensation data corresponding to levels available to image data for each pair of reference coordinates, and stores the compensation data in a comp... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7129974 | Image processing system, image processing method, electronic camera, and image processing apparatus camera system which obtain information for performing distortion correction processing When user gives instruction to perform front photographing correction (keystone distortion correction) while a digital camera displays an image photographed and stored by itself on a monitor in play mode, the digital camera identifies quadrangular contours to be use... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7120317 | Method and system for a programmable image transformation A method and system for a programmable image transformation is disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transforming an image comprises rotating an image by a predetermined angle. The image is copied from a first memory location associated... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116323 | Method of hidden surface reconstruction for creating accurate three-dimensional images converted from two-dimensional images An exemplary method of reconstructing a hidden surface area in an image includes the steps of: identifying a separation pixel gap in an image resulting from a repositioning of image pixels to create a three-dimensional image; identifying pixels from one or more imag... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7116324 | Method for minimizing visual artifacts converting two-dimensional motion pictures into three-dimensional motion pictures A method for converting two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images includes: tracking an object in an image, the object having an object edge and an object outline thereabout, from frame to frame over a sequence of images; and creating object outlines in s... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7081900 | Graphical user interface for color correction A graphical user interface facilitates color modification of a sequence of segments of moving images on a display of a general purpose computer. The graphical user interface may include a three-image display. The three image display may include a first region on the... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7076205 | Control method, control apparatus, data receiving and recording method, data receiver and receiving method A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information i... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7073149 | System for representing the logical and physical information of an integrated circuit A floor planner tool for integrated circuit design which provides tools and displays for a designer to create a floor plan to define desired placement of circuits defined in a logical netlist by creating a physical hierarchy comprised of nested physical blocks (pblo... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7057607 | Application-independent text entry for touch-sensitive display A user interface method and apparatus for an electronic device operates by detecting (108) a stroke of a touch sensitive display (170) forming a part of the electronic device. The stroke is categorized (116) as one of a swish type stroke and a n... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7047213 | Method for purging abandoned shopping carts from an electronic commerce web site An improved method for purging abandoned shopping carts from an electronic commerce web server. Periodically, the number of shopping carts that belong to guest shoppers is determined and compared with a threshold. When the number shopping carts that belong to guest ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7013435 | Three dimensional spatial user interface A method and system of providing a three dimensional spatial user interface (SUI) to a user of a computing device. The SUI may be manipulated in three dimensions and contains a plurality of portals. A portal may contain a sensory cue that provides a reminder as to t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999124 | Method for orienting a digital image on a display of an image display device A method of orienting a digital image for viewing on a display of a digital imaging device. The method comprises the steps of: accessing the digital image, the digital image being defined by a plurality of sides, each of the plurality of sides being substantially li... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6956588 | Liaison technology to connect plural end user devices to an interface for a computing resource having one port assigned to the interface A port-multiplexed system (and associated method and software) are disclosed. Such a system includes: a computing resource having a port; a monitoring interface to the computing resource available via the port; plural end user devices to be connected to the monitori... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6952414 | Portable internet browser device with cordless phone module and method of operation There is disclosed a personal access device (PAD) capable of browsing web sites on an Internet protocol (IP) network and also capable of operating as a cordless phone that provides a conventional phone connection or a voice-over-IP phone connection. The personal acc... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950113 | Method and apparatus for automatically displaying and manipulating identifiers of a mechanical design Computer instructions that operate to determine if one or more geometry pieces of a mechanical design are within a view boundary and automatically generate and order one or more identifiers corresponding to the geometry pieces within the view boundary, when executed... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6943556 | High-speed duty cycle test through DC measurement using a combination of relays According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of high-speed duty cycle test through DC measurement using a combination of relays. The method includes: providing a plurality of relays to generate one or more duty cycle control signals; providing the ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6927779 | Web-based well plate information retrieval and display system A graphical user interfaces (GUI) depicts multiple wells of a well plate that represents biological samples stored in an actual well-plate. Each well includes visual representations of data that corresponds to results of analyses of the corresponding biological samp... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6844885 | Image editing via grid elements An image editing program includes a user interface for displaying a work area and receiving image edit inputs; and an engine for overlaying a grid on the work area, and using grid elements to generate commands in response to the image edit inputs. ... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6810516 | Mechanism allowing separation of graphical display of object status from underlying data A system that isolates all of the information that determines the look and feel of status displays of a GUI into one file is described. This file can be quickly edited to change the appearance when needed. In one embodiment, a user requests that an object border sho... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6792595 | Source editing in a graphical hierarchical environment This invention relates to a method for viewing, writing, and modifying source code in an integrated development environment (IDE). When source code is being edited in a graphical environment, windows in the development environment display the code structure of a pro... | 09/14/2004 |
