Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085281 | Method of displaying input from a portable computing device A method and system is described for displaying input from a portable computing device to a second computing device. On the second computing device, a display region is created. The region may be a stand alone application or a region inside an application. The secon... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7667718 | Image scaling circuit and method thereof An image scaling circuit and a method for scaling an image into images with different ratios are provided. The image scaling circuit includes a line buffer memory apparatus, a line buffer control apparatus, a first and a second scaling circuit. The first scaling cir... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7365758 | System and method for scaling data according to an optimal width for display on a mobile device A system and method is included for scaling blocks of data according to an optimal width to increase usability of the data when scaling the blocks of data to fit a screen on a mobile device. The optimal width provides a minimum width to which the block of data may b... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352394 | Image modification based on red-eye filter analysis A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. A digital apparatu... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345693 | Airport display device An airport display device including a display including at least one window, a database including data related to an airport, a selector configured to select a degree of zoom for the airport to be displayed from a plurality of different degrees of zoom, a control un... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333120 | Zooming controller A method and device for accessing a broad data field having a fine resolution. The user selects a scale which can be varied. The scale controls a range within the data field. By moving the range to encompass different portions of the data field, the user can scan th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322011 | System and method of adjusting display characteristics of a displayable data file using an ergonomic computer input device An ergonomic pointing device, such as a mouse, is coupled to a computer having a visual display device. As a user rotates a roller associated with the mouse, the mouse generates computer signals that are interpreted by an operating system and software applications r... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312794 | Methods for driving electro-optic displays, and apparatus for use therein A bistable electro-optic display has a plurality of pixels, each of which is capable of displaying at least three gray levels. The display is driven by a method comprising: storing a look-up table containing data representing the impulses necessary to convert an ini... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307642 | Graphics compression A method of manipulating a vector graphics data file representative of at least one graphics element defined by a set of co-ordinate values in a graphics image, the method comprising the step of scaling down the at least one graphics element by applying a scaling fa... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7295975 | Systems and methods for extracting meaning from multimodal inputs using finite-state devices Multimodal utterances contain a number of different modes. These modes can include speech, gestures, and pen, haptic, and gaze inputs, and the like. This invention use recognition results from one or more of these modes to provide compensation to the recognition pro... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289132 | Method and apparatus for image acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286145 | System for describing markup language for mobile use, and information processing apparatus and program for generating display content An image to be displayed is divided into partial images. The partial images are arranged so that they have the same positional relationships as operation keys of an image display apparatus. Operating an operation key causes an enlarged version of a partial image in ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278117 | Image segmentation and warping for specialized display viewing A method, program product and system for warping image data, the method comprising in one embodiment: receiving image data for an image; segmentation of the image into a plurality of regions based on regional classification of the image; obtaining a set of warping r... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271780 | Display device and system A display device, system, and method are provided. The display device has a communication interface adapted to communicate with an archival storage device, a content source adapted to acquire content in an acquisition form, a presentation system for presenting conte... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7230742 | Image data interpolating apparatus and medium on which data interpolating program is recorded Even when a jaggy occurs in an original image, the image is accurately enlarged and a good image cannot be obtained as a result. In the case of performing pixel interpolation on an image in a dot matrix state, image data is entered in step 100, the whole imag... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227665 | Image magnification changing apparatus After an image compressed by a compressing portion is stored in a page memory, it is decoded by a decoding portion. A sub-scanning enlargement portion carries out sub-scanning direction enlargement processing upon the image decoded by the decoding portion and a prin... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227549 | Indicating and manipulating a zoom region of a waveform A method of indicating and manipulating a zoom region of a waveform being displayed includes a zoom region indicator. The zoom region indicator has an associated marker that spans the zoom region but is never less than a minimum span to allow ease of identifying or ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212189 | Capacitive mouse A pointing device some or all of whose elements are made from capacitive sensors. Such elements may include a rotary motion detector which includes a rotating member and a plurality of fixed capacitive detecting members; a rolling ball with patterned conductive surf... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212238 | Magnification alteration processing method which accords with types of image data and image processing apparatus which uses the method A device for outputting video signal includes a magnification alteration processing section that alters the magnification of image data expanded in frame memory in such a manner that the number of pixels in the frame memory and the number of pixels of the display ar... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7213214 | Graphical user interface with zoom for detail-in-context presentations A graphical user interface (GUI) is provided for manipulating a presentation of a region of interest within visual information displayed on a display screen of a computer display system. The GUI includes: a first bounding shape surrounding the focal region; a second... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212309 | Best fit printing Methods and systems are provided for automatically adjusting printing settings to optimize the fit of text, data and/or images on printed pages. Once selected text or data is designated for printing, a determination is made as to whether the selected text or data ma... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206002 | Image processing apparatus and method that avoid generation of moire An image processing apparatus includes a spatial filtering unit which applies spatial filtering to input image data to generate filtered image data such that the spatial filtering provides a broader dynamic range for outputs than for inputs, and a high-resolution co... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197194 | Video horizontal and vertical variable scaling filter An apparatus for variably scaling video picture signals comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more data signals vertically scaled to a first value in response to (i) the video picture signals and (ii)... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197718 | Interactive virtual area browser for selecting and rescaling graphical representations of displayed data A computer implemented graphical user interface and data processing method is provided that facilitates manipulation of objects on a display by directly manipulating a graphic representation of an active area of data. The user can select an active region of a larger... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7190379 | Method for resizing and moving an object on a computer screen A method for defining the size of an object displayed on a computer screen, the computer screen having a matrix of sensor points, said method comprising the steps of displaying an object on a computer screen, defining at least one screen area having a reference poin... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188322 | Circuit layout methodology using a shape processing application A circuit layout methology is provided for eliminating the extra processing time and file-space requirements associated with the optical proximity correction (OPC) of a VLSI design. The methodology starts with the design rules for a given manufacturing technology an... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7180519 | Image processing apparatus and image process method In a pipeline process in which plural image processing sections (image processing modules), for example, an image inputting section 131, a histogram producing section 132, and a binarizing section 133 are connected in a pipeline manner, each of ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7152211 | Resolution independent theming Several systems and associated methodologies are provided for rendering a themed image while mitigating pixelation and/or the disproportionate appearance thereof when the image is sized and/or scaled. The systems include at least one sizing module adapted to size co... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136083 | Display method by using sub-pixels A display method includes obtaining three-times magnified image data, which is made up of sub-pixels and with which a raster image to be displayed currently is magnified by three in the first direction. A filtering process on the three-times magnified image data is ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7137126 | Conversational computing via conversational virtual machine A conversational computing system that provides a universal coordinated multi-modal conversational user interface (CUI) (10) across a plurality of conversationally aware applications (11) (i.e., applications that “speak” conversational protocols) a... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7133492 | Method for reducing radiation exposure during patient positioning A method of reducing radiation exposure by panning and zooming the first acquired image rather than using continuous radiation fluoroscopy. ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116843 | Method and system using non-uniform image blocks for rapid interactive viewing of digital images over a network Apparatus and method for rapid interactive viewing of a digital image over a network. A client computer displays a view of an image. The image is originally resident on a server computer. The client computer maintains a cache, initially empty, of image blocks alread... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109997 | Systems and methods for direct storage of compressed scan converted data The described implementations provide arrangements and procedures for scan converting data into compressed representations of pixel data. In particular, shape geometry including shape and/or position attributes of one or more objects are directly scan converted into... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106383 | Method, system, and apparatus for configuring a signal processing device for use with a display device A method, system, and apparatus for configuring a signal processing device for use with a display device having a display size is disclosed. The signal processing device is configured by determining the display size of the display device and configuring the signal p... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7091974 | Method for selecting and displaying a subject or interest in a still digital image The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method for determining the coordinates of a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this subject of interest on the screen of a terminal with low display capac... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088871 | Method and system for transmitting data for a shared application A method and system for compressing bitmap data in a system for sharing an application running on a host computer with a remote computer, wherein the shared application's screen output is simultaneously displayed on both computers. Simultaneous display of screen out... | 08/08/2006 |
