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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7737999 | User interface for visual cooperation between text input and display device A user-interface system for entering an alphanumeric string or alphanumeric clusters for identifying information content is presented. The user-interface system has presentation logic for displaying an image of a virtual user alphanumeric interface on a presentation... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7439992 | Communication terminal The control circuit 11 causes display of messages received through the communication unit 1 in the display unit 14 in list form. A cursor for making selections from the messages displayed in list form has different patterns. The control circuit ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7348964 | Single-piece top surface display layer and integrated front cover for an electronic device A single-piece top surface display and integrated front cover for an electronic device. In one embodiment, the cover comprises a thin, flexible, transparent layer coupled with a supporting structure. The flexible layer is supported above a display screen which is co... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334055 | Status display for parallel activities When activities are operated in parallel, and there is only one status display, an ordered list is implemented with three methods of access: insertion at the top, removal from anywhere, and read of the top item. Items kept on this list are the status codes or words ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7296227 | Determining line leading in accordance with traditional Japanese practices Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling leading. A region including a plurality of lines in data being typeset and displayed on a display device is specified. One of the lines in the plurality of l... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7259691 | Wearable, attachable, or hand-held, super-bright, led-based, textual, safety alert sign and portable emergency/work light Accordingly, a primary object of the present invention is to provide a novel safety alert sign which provides a uniquely attention-getting and highly visible warning to oncoming drivers during both daylight, and, particularly twilight and dusk through the nighttime ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7209160 | Versatile teleconferencing eye contact terminal The present invention enables eye contact between conferees during a teleconference using a terminal equipped with a beam-splitter. The camera is positioned behind the viewing side of the beam-splitter to capture the conferee's image through the beam-splitter. The r... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7167186 | Systems and methods for motion adaptive filtering The systems detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame. If such movement is detected and meets a certain level or threshold, the subpixel rendering processing of such text or areas of high spatial frequency can be change... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156092 | Emergency air supply worn as normal apparel Provides an emergency air supply system that is worn around the arm, presumably the wrist, and intended for use in air restrictive emergency conditions. Primarily it has been designed for the need to improve safety for water recreation or water sports where an indiv... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155492 | Method and system for caching network data In prefetch caching program implementation for hiding the delay of data access via a network, the operation of the existing applications with the prefetch program must branch, depending on whether data to access is on the cache and it is necessary to add branch proc... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7145454 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for intuitive energy management of a short-range communication transceiver associated with a mobile terminal The method, terminal and computer program product determine the acceleration of a mobile terminal associated with the short-range communication transceiver and adjusts the power consumption of the short-range communication transceiver based upon whether a predefined... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7146387 | System and method for configuring and performing application backups and restores in diverse environments This invention is a system and method for a system and method for interfacing with a user for a client application for carrying out backup and restore operations and related configuration. The method includes presenting a user with a user interface for performing a ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7107077 | Method for displaying a message in a dual LCD folder-type mobile terminal Disclosed is a method for displaying a message in a folder-type mobile terminal including a main body, a sub-body foldably mounted to the main body, said sub-body having a first display mounted on an outer side and a second display mounted on an inner side thereof. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7079160 | Method and apparatus using a two-dimensional circular data buffer for scrollable image display A method and apparatus for buffering 2-dimensional graphical image data to be supplied to a scrolling display controller. A 2-dimensional, circularly addressed linear data buffer is used to store a portion of an entire image. The data buffer is larger than the amoun... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079159 | Motion estimation apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium capable of detecting scrolling text and graphic data A motion estimation apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium capable of detecting scrolling text or graphic data, which can provide information of whether text or graphic data scrolling in a horizontal direction on a screen exists and information related there... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7042443 | Speed Writer program and device with Speed Writer program installed A SpeedWriter program of this invention that upon loaded into a PDA, cell phone, tablet PC, or other computer processor, the loads lists of words, phrases and special characters on disk or memory in the computer that we will refer to as a dictionary. To get to the w... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035909 | Method for executing an object in a wireless internet access terminal The present invention relates to a method for executing an object in a wireless internet access terminal. The present invention includes steps of interpreting data inputted through the internet and displaying the inputted data; focusing any one of plural objects dis... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023402 | Scanned display with pinch, timing, and distortion correction A display apparatus includes an image source that scans about two axes. To offset motion about a first of the axes during sweeps about the second axis, the apparatus includes a structure to produce offsetting motion about the first axis at a scanning rate equal to t... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020843 | Method and system for implementing a browser object container A method and system for implementing a browser object container is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for implementing a browser object container comprises the steps of identifying content data for inclusion in a browser object container; defining one ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015922 | Image display method and portable terminal for displaying selected image An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting attribute values indicating attributes for specifying th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7006894 | Interactive medication cassette This invention relates to an interactive medication cassette with a machine readable and writable information strip that contains information corresponding to the medication in the cassette. The interactive medication cassette holds the medication and couples the co... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002582 | Character display apparatus, character display method, character display program, and recording medium therefor Character display apparatus includes a display device and a control section. The control section controls the display device such that: a color element level of at least one first sub-pixel, which corresponds to a basic portion of a first character, is set to a pred... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998976 | Operating device in a vehicle An operating device in a vehicle has hierarchical display screens. The hierarchical display screens have operation items for operating an operational object. An operation item on a lower-level screen is displayed on the top screen, based on the number of use of the ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6993362 | Portable communication apparatus having a hierarchical menu system and a dynamic menu A portable communication apparatus, such as a mobile telephone, has a display, a user-controlled input device, a memory, a controller, and a hierarchical menu system stored in the memory. The menu system has a plurality of menus, including top-level menus, sub-level... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6958749 | Apparatus and method for manipulating a touch-sensitive display panel The present invention enables to easily perform a graphic processing even when a touch panel is used. When a resistance film unit is pressed with a pen or a finger, output voltages associated with the X coordinate and the Y coordinate position are changed and these ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6937272 | Display device for a camera A camera is described having a display device for displaying one or more stored images after acquisition. The camera has a motion detector which enables the selection and/or display of a stored image to be controlled (at least partly) by physical movement of the cam... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933923 | View navigation and magnification of a hand-held device with a display System and method for view navigation and magnification of the display of hand-held devices in response to the orientation changes along only two axes of rotation as measured by sensors inside the devices. The view navigation system is engaged and controlled by a si... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931587 | Teleprompter device An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention provide an improved teleprompter device. The invention provides a method for defining a region of the display at which text is preferably read, and further provides a user interface for adjusti... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928331 | Orientation method A computerized orientation method that automatically extracts the three bounding box size values of CAD objects and then copies the values into the appropriate length, width and thickness columns of a grid or table. The process uses data stored in an orientation tag... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6907569 | “Show me” user interface command with scroll tracking Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for displaying a document on a display device. Methods include receiving a user input selecting a location in a document displayed in a display pane and requesting a show-me operation, and, in response to t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6906700 | 3D controller with vibration A hand operated controller or converter structured for allowing hand inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, the controller structured with a plate or platform moveable relative to a base or housing about two mutually perpendicular axes general... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6870551 | Method and apparatus for displaying full and selected dynamic data in a data processing system A method and apparatus in a data processing system for displaying data. A stream of data is received. The stream of data is displayed in a scrolling display field in which data is scrolling. Responsive to a user input selecting a portion of the data in the stream of... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6856326 | Smooth scrolling system and method A system and method for smooth scrolling a document and/or window within a graphical user interface is disclosed. The present invention in some preferred embodiments permits augmentation of traditional LINE UP/DOWN, PAGE UP/DOWN, and manual THUMBTRACK scrolling with... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6771279 | Automated scrolling control unit and automated scrolling control system An automated scrolling control unit comprises a table section 23 that causes a keyword and a scrolling speed to correspond, an acquisition section 19 that retrieves the keyword from contents, and a display section 22 that displays the contents b... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6686928 | Method and system for displaying textual information A system for displaying textual information includes a receiver (300) for receiving textual information that includes a plurality of words. A text segmenter (302), operatively associated with the receiver (300), segments the plurality of words into a plur... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6509907 | Personal communication terminal with variable speed scroll display feature A communication terminal having a display capable of scrolling a text message at variable speeds to thereby enhance message readability. A display of 6 full-size characters×3 lines for displaying a character message is provided on the portable telephone.... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6456494 | Entertainment system and external storage device therefor An external storage device connected to an entertainment system for storing game information is provided. Even if there are plural types of entertainment systems, and the correspondence between the types of entertainment systems and the kind of the extern... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6449517 | Factory mode free setting apparatus and method thereof A technique for collectively setting a factory mode of operation of a monitor offers adjustments or modifications for particulars of mode data to meet user requirements, by transmitting a set of factory mode timing data from an external controller to an e... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6441824 | Method and apparatus for dynamic text resizing A method and apparatus for determining a format for displaying information in a display area coupled to a computer system, the format being based on the size of the display area and the amount of information to display. As a user continues to enter inform... | 08/27/2002 |
