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| 8089496 | Method for three-dimensional depiction of a digital road map In order to provide a method that uses the region of a visual depiction of a digital road map in the vicinity of and above the horizon to convey to the user an enhanced impression of depth, provision is made that a plurality of image objects are drawn in the region ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7768537 | Display system and method of diminishing unwanted movement of a display element A method and apparatus for diminishing display transients and jitter. The method and system disclosed utilizes prior illumination and position histories in displaying and illuminating representations, and elements comprising the representations, on the display. Reco... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7714880 | Method and apparatus for displaying images on a display Combining one or more spatio-temporal sensors with a personal digital assistant or similar small electronic device and with sliding window (roaming and stabilization) software and memory management and user interface functions, to enable a user to see documents and ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7573491 | Method for formatting images for angle-specific viewing in a scanning aperture display device A method for formatting images for angle specific viewing in a scanning aperture dimensional display device. Input images are rearranged into slices or sections to create a set of output images. The images derived from the output images are formed by rearranging the... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7432938 | System and method for annotating electronic documents A system and method for annotating electronic documents is disclosed. The method for annotating displayable electronic documents generally includes the steps of receiving at least a first input from a first person, such as an annotator, generating, in response to th... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420575 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program An image processing apparatus comprises: a predicted information storage section which stores predicted information that indicates an operation content predicted for an image of a target operation; a predicted image generating portion which generates a predicted ima... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7405739 | System and method for changing the relative size of a displayed image Methods and apparatuses are provided for changing the relative size of an image in a display that includes one or more edges that define a display area in which at least a portion of the image is displayed. The methods and apparatus provide for a zoom point, which c... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403210 | Display mode management systems and methods Display mode management systems and methods. The system comprises a plurality of supported display modes, and a processing module. The processing module receives an expected display mode, and determines whether the expected display mode is among the supported displa... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7379063 | Mapping application for rendering pixel imagery A mapping application relies on a modified affine transformation algorithm to provide near real-time navigation of imagery, track-up capability and integration of segment and picture data. The affine transformation is modified to map a “world space” comprised of... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379076 | Using pixel homogeneity to improve the clarity of images The present invention provides for improving image clarity through sub-pixel positioning of the image in a grid space based on pixel homogeneity scores. The pixel homogeneity scores indicating the uniformity of state for sub-pixels produced from an over-sampling of ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375730 | Graphic entries for interactive directory The present invention provides an apparatus (800) and method (700) for a communication device (100) having a display for graphically organizing communication patterns (602) of the user. Visual attributes of the images associated with spec... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7343052 | End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development (“authoring”) of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7327376 | Multi-user collaborative graphical user interfaces A multi-user collaborative graphical user interface has a display area with a horizontal orientation, the display surface is positioned between the multiple users. The display area also has a centroid and a circumference. The display area is partitioned into work ar... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305617 | Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to be arranged within a current line in a grid displayed on a display d... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7283141 | Method and system for enhanced detail-in-context viewing An improved method for display of a transitional region of interest while transitioning between a first region of interest and a second region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer. The method comprising the steps of applying a tran... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274377 | Viewport panning feedback system A graphical user interface (GUI) displaying a viewport includes a panning control region defined within an outer boundary of the viewport within the GUI. The panning control region includes multiple segments, each of the multiple segments corresponding to a panning ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269664 | Network portal system and methods A network portal system includes a web-top manager and a universal content broker system. The web-top manager is configured to receive a content request from a user device, where the content request includes a content provider identifier. The universal content broke... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265763 | Method and system for image templates A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first edi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262763 | Image display apparatus and image display method The image display apparatus includes an mage data acquiring section for acquiring image data, an image display section having a plurality of substantially sheet-like image display mediums bundled and integrated for displaying images by using the obtained image data,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7250934 | Aircraft dialog device including discrete moving mechanism A dialog system for dialog between an operator of an aircraft and at least one system of the aircraft including a display configured to display at least one window including a plurality of responsive objects respectively associated with one of multiple functions of ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246321 | Editing data The invention relates to a method of editing data generated by handwriting. The method comprises the steps of detecting an initiation of an editing; identifying a marking stroke which marks data that is to be edite... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242402 | Method of visualization of a part of a three-dimensional image The invention concerns a method of visualization of a part of a three-dimensional image. The part is defined by a finite predetermined volume, a sphere, for example, the center of which is located on an element of interest present in the three-dimensional image. In ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239348 | Digital camera with a music playback function A digital camera, which includes: an image playback module; and a music playback module, wherein a plurality of images are played back accompanied by music, an image playback time for the plurality of images substantially coincides with a music playback time for the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239989 | Within-distance query pruning in an R-tree index A method for determining a with-distance relationship between a first geometry object and a second geometry object. The method includes defining an exterior approximation of the first geometry and the second geometry. A distance between the exterior approximations i... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237186 | Exiting a spreadsheet edit mode during a mouse drag operation A user can click on a spreadsheet cell to enter edit mode and alter the contents of the cell. Edit mode can be exited through a click and drag maneuver. The click and drag maneuver not only exits edit mode, but also selects a range of cells. The click and drag is pe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7227528 | Thin electronic reference device An electronic reference device is disclosed that can be used by a user when reading a book. The electronic reference device functions as a dictionary for the reader to look up words as they read. It can also have various other functions that would be suitable for a ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224360 | Image display method, image processing method, image processing apparatus, scan capturing apparatus and image signal generation method A plurality of captured images of a still subject are obtained by changing at least one of a position and a direction of illumination of a light source to illuminate the still subject. Sequenced frame images are formed based on the captured images. The sequenced fra... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218311 | Sequential image advancing system (the S.I.A.S.) The present invention is a computerized image-viewing device that allows the user to sequentially advance or reverse stored images by voice recognition and/or other sounds wherein the voice recognition means is electronically coupled with different colored buttons l... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7206961 | Preserving snapshots during disk-based restore The present invention provides a method for providing snapshots of data at different times and for performing rollbacks to a selected snapshot that does not result in any subsequent snapshots being rendered unusable. The method includes a mapping mechanism wherein w... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206804 | Methods and systems for transmitting digital images Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems for communicating a recipient-selected customization of a digital image using an index file. The index file associates a customization characteristic with the segments of the digital image required to... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7187185 | Area-change sensing through capacitive techniques An area-change sensing through capacitive techniques is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first conductive surface is substantially parallel to a second conductive surface. The first conductive surface may be moveable relative to the second conductive surface in a dir... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184587 | Three-dimensional shape creating program, three-dimensional shape creating method, three-dimensional shape creating apparatus, and computer readable recording medium recorded with three-dimensional shape creating program A three-dimensional shape creating program, a three-dimensional shape creating method, a three-dimensional shape creating apparatus and a computer readable recording medium recorded with the three-dimensional shape creating program, wherein one feature is made up of... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184038 | Using render bin parallelism for rendering scene graph based graphics data A system and method for rapid processing of scene-graph-based data and/or programs using a render bin is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to generate a plurality of structures and thread that manage the data originally received as part of t... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180528 | Method and system for image templates A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first edi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177523 | Image reproduction apparatus An image reproduction apparatus comprises a reproduction unit for reproducing an image recorded on an image recording medium, a display control unit for displaying, on a display unit such as a monitor display, the image reproduced by the reproduction unit, a renewal... | 02/13/2007 |
