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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7903126 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method thereof According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a first scaler, a second scaler, a generator, a coefficient assigner, and a blender. The first scaler converts the number of pixels of an image signal to scale up it according to control information... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7511723 | Method for requesting and viewing an attachment image on a portable electronic device A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7400330 | Magnification of indirection textures An indirection texture magnification system and method for producing high-resolution indirection texture results. The system and method uses an indirection texture, designed for use with a low-resolution texture image, and a high-resolution texture image, which is a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7359469 | Signal delaying device and method for dynamic delaying of a digitally sampled signal A signal delaying device (1) for the dynamic delaying of a digitally sampled input signal comprises a memory element (2) and a series-connected interpolation element (3). According to the invention, a register (30), which can be connected... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348983 | Method and apparatus for text image stretching A method and apparatus for horizontally expanding a video graphics adapter (VGA) text character display image to fully fill the screen of a flat panel display. Cell lines for each character are remapped to provide expanded cell lines. The flat panel apparatus includ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7345684 | Perceptually based display A display technique determines the desired size of an object to be displayed (using a distance dependent measure such as visual arc angle), determines the distance between the display unit and a user, and adjusts the size of the displayed object based on the desired... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339573 | Method and system for navigating within an image The present invention relates to at least one image section which is represented according to a zoom factor selected from a number of different zoom factors. Either the represented image section is changed when the zoom factor is lower than a zoom threshold value, o... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7310627 | Method of searching for text in browser frames Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for searching content in frames. In general, information located at one or more networked addresses may be displayed to a user in two or more frames. The content of a frame may be searched by designating one frame as a de... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307647 | Computer system, display control apparatus, display apparatus, display control method, recording medium, and program transmission apparatus To allow for switching between a normal display and a zoom display by a simple operation, thereby providing both of a large amount of information by high resolution and high visibility of the display. In a computer system having a display apparatus as output unit, a... | 12/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7287220 | Methods and systems for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or orientation The invention relates to methods, systems, and programming for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or in an orientation other than an operating system displays its graphical user interface. Some embodiments lay out digital content at a virtual pixel resolution a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280153 | Displaying data on lower resolution displays Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display. The conversion may be done in a way that preserves the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266516 | System and method for creating a customized electronic catalog A system and method for creating a customized product catalog. The customized catalog is created in response to a request to search an electronic catalog that has data representative of a plurality of products each having one or more attributes. The search request i... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262757 | Data driver and electro-optical device A data driver includes a capture start timing setting register in which is set data for setting capture start timing of the gray-scale data based on a signal which indicates supply start timing of the gray-scale data, and a capture instruction signal generation circ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7203911 | Altering a display on a viewing device based upon a user proximity to the viewing device A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture altering a displayed image presented to a user on a viewing device using the proximity of the user to the viewing device to determine how the displayed image is to be presented. The viewing device includes a plurality ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197719 | Graphical user interface for detail-in-context presentations A method for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer, the region of interest including a focal region and a base region. The method includes the steps of: providing means for selecting at least one parameter for tr... | 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 |
| 7194697 | Magnification engine An improved graphics processing system and method are described for magnifying visual output information for printing, display, or other output. A graphics engine transforms display information so as to magnify one or more components or areas of an output image for ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173636 | Method and system for generating detail-in-context lens presentations for elevation data A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an elevation data representation for display on a display screen, comprising: calculating a displacement height for at least one point in the representation falling within a lens by inversely scaling ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7154473 | Method for controlling position of indicator An apparatus and process for controlling the position of an indicator in a user interface using a menu is disclosed. By the method, when a menu having items selected and adjusted by an indicator is displayed, and the position and a size of the menu are changed, the ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7148909 | Image display system capable of displaying and scaling images on plurality of image sources and display control method therefor A multiple image display system includes a selection portion to select areas on a screen of a display portion at which input images are to be displayed, detection portions disposed at least at three different points to detect locations of the areas on the screen, an... | 12/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7116314 | Method for distribution wear for a touch entry display A method for distribution of wear for a touch display, includes: providing at least one graphic at a first location on a touch display, where the display includes at least one target area corresponding to the graphic; registering a first touch within the target area... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109998 | Stationary semantic zooming A system and method for stationary semantic zooming. Stationary semantic zooming allows selected non-spatial rendering attributes, such as level of detail, to be varied according to other specified non-spatial rendering attributes. Stationary semantic zooming allows... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106312 | Text input window with auto-growth A user input panel dynamically expands to accommodate user input, such as handwritten or keyboard input. Expansion may occur in one or two out of four possible directions, depending upon the language to be written or typed. For example, when writing English words, t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7099848 | Audio delivery and rendering method and apparatus Method and system for audio synthesis of a digital data file representing an assembly of information-bearing sounds in digital form. One or more spaced apart data segments are designated as key blocks and are removed from the original data file. The remainder of the... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079987 | Tunable filter device for spatial positioning systems A device for spatial positioning systems includes a programmable measurement filter that is dynamically tuned by the device signal processing unit. The signal processing unit analyzes available data including the measurement signal to determine the likelihood that a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075535 | System and method for exact rendering in a zooming user interface A method and apparatus is disclosed that facilitates realistic navigation of visual content by displaying an interpolated image during navigation and a more exact image when the navigation ceases. Methodologies are disclosed for rendering and displaying “tiles”,... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7069506 | Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails An enhanced thumbnail apparatus produces thumbnails in which one or more elements, such as a document header, or keywords specified by a user, are modified to facilitate review by the user. The enhanced thumbnails are produced by generating a reduced-size representa... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062723 | Systems, methods and apparatus for magnifying portions of a display Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which meaningful or semantic portions of displayed visual information, are modified in order to improve their visual perception by a user. In some embodiments, the meaningful portion is limited to a word, a plurali... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7031547 | User definable image reference points A method for image processing of a plurality of digital images comprising the steps of determining one or more sets of pixel characteristics, each set having at least one characteristic that is location independent; determining for each pixel characteristic set, an ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024228 | Movement and attitude controlled mobile station control A mobile station embodiment (400) is provided with a reflection detector (401) which may provide supplemental inputs along with keys (402) such that a character encoding, such as, e.g. ASCII, is selected on the basis of the reflection detector (... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017028 | Apparatus and method for updating pointers for indirect and parallel register access An apparatus and method are provided for updating one or more pluralities of pointers (i.e. one or more vector pointers) which are used for accessing one or more pluralities of data elements (i.e. one or more vector data elements) in a multi-ported memory. A first r... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6992661 | Electronic device, digital still camera and display control method An electronic device comprises a touch screen configured to output coordinate information corresponding to the position where it is touched, a display unit configured to display an item indicating an operating area in a predetermined position on the touch screen, an... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6972771 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program A technique is provided for improving visual recognition of letters, graphics, etc., in a portion of a displayed image that has been enlarged. An image display system includes an image display component for displaying on a screen an image based on image data, a regi... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970179 | Method and apparatus for the scaling up of data A method, system, and data structure for the scaling up of data is provided. A block of transformed data samples is received wherein the transformed data samples represent original data samples. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each table ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970181 | Bandwidth conserving near-end picture-in-picture video applications A method, system and article of manufacturer is provided to improve the quality of service and image display in videotelephony systems by combining digital zooming techniques and picture-in-picture functionality to conserve bandwidth and enhance selected portions of... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6970170 | Graphics resampling system and method for use thereof A resampling circuit and method where input sample values for samples arranged along a row of a source image are received by a row resampling circuit. The row resampling circuit calculates row output values which are provided to a column resampling circuit that calc... | 11/29/2005 |
