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"It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone. "
Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7652680 | Method and apparatus for managing internet transactions The object-oriented approach used by the present invention provides the ability to develop and manage Internet transactions. Local applications can be accessed using any workstation connected to the Internet regardless of the workstation's configuration. Some or all... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7398478 | Controlled non-proportional scaling display An adjustment is made to the size of an original graphic data object in a substantially rectangular original screen to obtain a target graphic data object on a substantially rectangular target screen having a different aspect ratio than that of the original screen. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7375732 | Methods and apparatus for navigating an image Methods and apparatus are contemplated to perform various actions, including: zooming into or out of an image having at least one object, wherein at least some elements of the at least one object are scaled up and/or down in a way that is non-physically proportional... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7295221 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory An apparatus has a holding means for holding output images in a first size and their output positions, and output images in a second size and their output positions, and determines an output image and rendering position corresponding to the output size of the output... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7250947 | Method and device for constructing and viewing a computer model image The invention relates to a method and a device for constructing and viewing a computer model image. The invention comprises the following steps: at least one zone of the image is selected; the part of the image that is located outside the selected zone (2) is... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7233341 | Spacing objects within a constraint A system and method are described for spacing objects within a constraint. In one embodiment, data that defines the constraint and a set of spacing parameters that indicate how to space objects across the constraint are received. Further, a grid type from a pluralit... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230632 | Airport display method including changing zoom scales An airport display method including the steps of providing data related to an airport, selecting a degree of zoom for the airport to be displayed on a displayed from a plurality of different degrees of zoom, controlling the display to display in the at least one win... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7184046 | Method and apparatus for font storage reduction The present invention is aimed at three specific data areas of font compression, each of whose size has become significant as other data areas have been compressed. The three data areas include model factoring, character level feature measurement (local dimensions) ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164433 | Display device, display method, program recording medium, and program A display device comprising a CPU 53, displays section 67 and a video memory 70. The video memory 70 stores data about the character data and image data that the application software processes in an absolute coordinate system. The display... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7154478 | Terminal and method for remotely controlling device using the same Device names and device control parameters are registered in a content table of a terminal. These device names and control parameters are each associated in the content table with partial images forming a total image. A user causes an arbitrary partial image to be d... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154558 | Display control apparatus and method, and recording medium and program therefor A display control apparatus includes a display controller for receiving image signals corresponding to a plurality of images, to perform image processing on the image signals, and to synthesize images corresponding to the thus-processed image signals. While the imag... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154408 | Wireless remote controller having navigation function and method of providing navigation function to the same Disclosed herein is a wireless remote controller having a navigation function and method of providing the navigation function to the same. The remote controller of the present invention includes a wireless transmission/reception unit, a display unit, a storage unit,... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7133054 | Methods and apparatus for navigating an image Methods and apparatus are contemplated to perform various actions, including: zooming into or out of an image having at least one object, wherein at least some elements of the at least one object are scaled up and/or down in a way that is non-physically proportional... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7119849 | Multi-screen synthesis apparatus, method of controlling the apparatus, and program for controlling the apparatus There is provided a multi-screen synthesis apparatus that can execute display of video data and update of an OSD image without causing a user to feel a visual sense of incongruity, and reduce system costs. Periodic video source data and a periodic OSD image data are... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7075512 | Method and system for navigating a display screen for locating a desired item of information A method and a system for navigating a display screen to search for a desired item of information stored in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a novel fly over user interface (FOUI) capable of receiving commands from a user to provide a zoom out vi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075513 | Zooming and panning content on a display screen A method and system for manipulating content displayed on a display screen is disclosed. A data processing device has two attached user input controls, such as touch pads, joysticks, and the like. One of the controls may be used for panning (i.e. scrolling up and do... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7042469 | Multiple views for a measurement system diagram A system and method for displaying multiple views of a diagram of a measurement system. A first view of the diagram of the measurement system may be displayed at a first scale. The first view may illustrate a first portion, but not all, of the diagram. A second view... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7027881 | Remote control system, electronic device, and program A remote control system is constructed from a simple device configuration in which a device like a relay is not used. A higher degree of flexibility is provided to types of devices to be controlled which can be remotely controlled, and a control device which perform... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015936 | Scaling method by using dual point cubic-like slope control (DPCSC) A method using a dual point cubic-like slope (DPCSC) for scaling a source data to a destination data, wherein a function f(x) is determined to describe the destination data, in which x is a deviation from a current reference point 0, and two reference data of f(0) a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009600 | Data processing system display screen including an image alteration area A data processing system, method, and computer program product are disclosed which include a display screen within a housing. The housing includes a horizontal mechanism parallel to a horizontal side of the display screen and a vertical mechanism parallel to a verti... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009626 | Systems and methods for generating visual representations of graphical data and digital document processing Systems and methods for generating visual representations of graphical data and digital document processing, including: A method of redrawing a visual display of graphical data whereby a current display is replaced by an updated di... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006079 | Information input system There is provided an information input system enabling the realization of an input method easily understandable and operable by intuition. This information input system is provided with a camera 11 for picking up an image of a specified area including a finge... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003695 | Undo/redo algorithm for a computer program A method of tracking modifications of specific program objects during the runtime of a computer program, facilitates the creation of general UnDo and ReDo operations, as well as the support of an object-specific UnDo operation. When an object is modified, the object... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6975335 | Method of displaying magnified and reduced areas and apparatus thereof Magnified and/or reduced areas of a display are easily determined by the shades of color and a pattern densities which correspond to the magnification or reduction ratio of areas of the display. The areas that have been magnified and/or reduced are presented by vary... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6965388 | System and method for block scaling data to fit a screen on a mobile device The present invention is directed to a system and method for block scaling data in order to fit the data to a screen on a mobile device such that “horizontal scrolling” is minimized. The method of block scaling recursively fits blocks within other blocks within ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6937291 | Adaptive video scaler An adaptive filter is adjustable for performing scaling operations. During a scaling operation, the adaptive filter stores scaled data in a memory such that more data samples may be retrieved during a subsequent scaling operation. The size of a finite impulse respon... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933955 | Process and device for representations of application on a digital television screen The present invention relates to a process and device for representation on a digital television screen. The process for the representation on a digital television screen of a display comprising the representation of a video signal, the representation of appl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6914551 | Apparatus and method to facilitate universal remote control A universal remote control, which includes a display screen and a user input mechanism. The universal remote control also includes a processing unit that is configured to display information on the display screen and to accept selection data from the user input mech... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6882890 | Industrial controller based on distributable technology objects A method and system for controlling an industrial controller based on technology objects are disclosed. Technology object types may be loaded and instantiated into the run time system of a controller, thereby increasing the functionality and providing technological ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879331 | Method and apparatus for implementing enlarged virtual screen using dynamic zone-compression of screen content A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing enlarged virtual screen using dynamic zone compression of screen content in a graphical user interface of a computer. A maximum uncompressed view window size is determined. An uncompresse... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6873343 | Scalable graphics image drawings on multiresolution image with/without image data re-usage A method and apparatus for creating a background or foreground image at different resolutions with a scalable graphic thereon is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting a version of an image for display with a scalable graphic. The version of th... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6856325 | Information processing method and apparatus A center position used for scaling a virtual object is calculated to generate a CG image suitable for observing the perspective of the virtual object. A scaling center of a virtual object disposed in a virtual space is obtained. When an image containing the virtual ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6847382 | Method used to zoom in selective plot area in display and a plotting calculator applied the like This invention relates to a method used to zoom in selective plot area in display, which method is inserted an inserted box into the display screen of a display device, and said inserted box can be removed to said display screen anywhere and the plot covered within ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6798425 | Graphics detection method, graphics detection apparatus, semiconductor device, computer program and recording medium A three-dimensional graphic having a specific positional relationship with a predetermined point in an image made up of a three-dimensional graphic is detected. The image controller adds index information for identification to a plurality of three-dimensional graphi... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6747668 | Image reducing device and method An image reducing device comprises a simple-averaging device that calculates a simple average of data of pixels of each simple-averaging area of original image data to acquire a pixel of middle image data, and a weighted-averaging device that multiplies data of pixe... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6683622 | Method for defining the scale of reusable geometric content A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for enabling the creation of software content objects for displaying information on a monitor attached to a computer is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of creating a unit system of the shape object... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6452570 | Device for controlling the reproduction of an image displayed on a vehicle screen The device for controlling a map section reproduced on a screen is characterized by a window displayed on the screen, said window marking the map section, and by a control element that is rotatable around its lengthwise axis and can be deflected transvers... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6437799 | Method and apparatus for logical zooming of a directed graph A directed graph is logically zoomed, whereby the appearance of a node directly related to a target node can be exaggerated and the structure of an entire graph can be readily understood. A directed graph is used in which hierarchical nodes are connected ... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6369787 | Method and apparatus for interpolating a digital image A method and apparatus is provided for interpolating a digital image in response to a requested degree of sharpness. An adjusting signal representing the requested degree of sharpness will then be generated. The interpolated pixel data are computed based ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6366294 | Snapshot damage handling for rendering objects in a zooming graphical user interface A computer interface is provided for zooming representation objects in a zooming graphical user interface. Information is displayed as a collection of zooming spaces containing graphical objects that may be manipulated with interactive input devices. The ... | 04/02/2002 |
