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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7373592 | Modeless child windows for application programs A computer system that assists the user of computer drawing programs is described. The computer system runs an application that displays modeless windows by first displaying an application window that presents information associated with the application. After the a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373593 | Apparatus and method for automatically setting constraints within a document layout A user can efficiently perform a setting operation in an automatic layout system. An information processing apparatus having an automatic layout function includes a function for, in editing containers, measuring a distance between a first container placed on the doc... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369277 | Image processing apparatus, drawing processing method, and computer program A drawing instruction processor refers to a bit map line table that shows whether the bit arrays in the row unit are the same in the order of concentrations. The drawing instruction processor decides whether dither patterns to be used for the adjacent specified draw... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369127 | Dynamic control of graphic representations of data The present invention provides user selections to control of one or more graphical representations of data in a graphical display. User selections can include parts of the graphical display, such as tick marks, offset bars scale values, combination bars and/or the g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366360 | Image synthesization method An image synthesization method, whereby a plurality of images, each of which has a partially overlapping image area, are synthesized to create a single synthetic image, comprises a determination step of inputting a plurality of image data sets that correspond to the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366982 | Packages that contain pre-paginated documents Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platfo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366993 | Automatic graph display System and method for displaying signals. First user input requesting display of a first signal is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised in a signal analysis function development environment, and the first signal programmatically analyzed in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358965 | Tapping to create writing The present invention provides a method and system for tapping to create document structure, such as writing. A tapping gesture received from the user is interpreted by a writing application to indicate that the user is about to write in a certain location on the pa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359840 | Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing database ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355614 | Filling an area of an image marked on a material with a laser A system converts graphic images, such as those created by graphics applications, to a format that can be efficiently printed on a material by a laser printing system. An image can be converted to a set of locations by defining progressively smaller contours of the ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350142 | Method and system for creating a table version of a document A table version of a document is generated by computing a table layout of the document and generating the table version based on the table layout. Computing the table layout can include recording the positions of each object in the document while recording the posit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350236 | Method and system for creation and use of a photo album A method including providing a user with a photo album form printed on a surface, the photo album form containing information relating to a photo album activity and including coded data indicative of an identity of the photo album form and of a plurality of points o... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349010 | Digital camera including an on-line sales mode A digital camera comprises an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images; a processor for processing the plurality of images and producing a corresponding plurality of digital image files; a memory for storing the plurality of digital image files; and a mode c... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346789 | Multimedia reproducing apparatus having function for efficient use of memory A multimedia reproducing apparatus having excellent operability and amenity. In the apparatus, a ROM contains an OS including a system program and a utility program. A control unit controls at suspend function by which data indicating the state of contents of displa... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343320 | Online digital image-based product ordering system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340683 | Programming tool A programming tool has selection means for selecting a plurality of function blocks displayed in a library format, storage means for storing the function blocks selected through the selection means in the order as they are selected, and drawing means, as a plurality... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337399 | Apparatus, system, and method for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for editing a region of a document intersecting multiple content component types in a single operation. The apparatus includes an input module, a function module, an identification module, a document editing module, and... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330807 | Method, computer program product and computer system for the automatic production of a filter unit The invention relates to a method for the automatic production of a filter installation that consists of a plurality of structural parts or elements. The inventive method comprises the following steps: choosing a field of application of the filter installation to be... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324924 | Curve fitting for signal estimation, prediction, and parametrization A method and system of automatically curve fit data series to generate data signal characterization and prediction is disclosed. The method includes receiving input data including a plurality of data series and set of input parameters. The method also includes prepr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320105 | Data display using multicolumn scrolling Apparatus, software and method for displaying line-formatted materials in multiple columns of a screen display and providing for scrolling through the materials such that lines spill from one column to another, are disclosed. The columns form a display area for disp... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319536 | Techniques for synchronizing any of a plurality of associated multimedia assets in a distributed system Automatically synchronizing any of a group of associated multimedia assets is described is described. A particular one of the set of distributed multimedia assets is modified and the others of the set of distributed multimedia assets are then synchronized based upon... | 01/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7308411 | Method of presenting leasing arrangements A method and apparatus are provided for presenting leasing arrangements for a plurality of rental spaces. The method includes the steps of providing a graphical user interface that depicts the plurality of rental spaces within a two-dimensional layout on a display o... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305611 | Authoring tool for remote experience lessons A computer-implemented presentation authoring method, tool, and interface is provided for creating a remote experience lesson defined with a hierarchy of pages, at least one of the pages including an interactive view of a three-dimensional model. Any number of three... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295955 | Computer-assisted evaluation of blueprints using computer-storable evaluation-criteria Techniques for representing criteria for blueprints as computer-readable expressions, and evaluating blueprints based on computer-storable (or readable) expressions are disclosed. A computer-storable expression can be constructed based on one or more functions, para... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287241 | Snaplines for control object positioning A visual code designer is provided that allows a user to manipulate control objects on a common design surface. Each control object has extensible snaplines that define alignment characteristics for the control. The snaplines are extensible in that a developer can d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283975 | System and method for tracking and managing construction projects System and methods are described for assisting a contractor in managing information associated with a construction project. The amount of information relating to labor, materials, scheduling and billing and the number of individuals accessing the information can be ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277886 | Method of retrieving entities Retrieving points that can be plotted in a predetermined area are achieved where the locations of the points are indexed in an index that includes regional data. The regional data defines a plurality of regions, and each region encompasses one or more of the points.... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7278094 | Variable text processing for an electronic press A software system is useful for generating a page file from a template file and database entries. The database entries are representative of variable information and the template file includes data designating a variable text area. The software system includes a com... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275211 | Rendering page sets Method and system for rendering a page set having logical pages into a physical report output page. The logical pages may have implicit or explicit repeating orders, implicit or explicit rendering orders; or identification attributes. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272628 | Communicating data using an HTTP client An apparatus includes a computer executable for processing a file of a first file type, and a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (“HTTP”) client that receives files of the first type and a second type from a network. The HTTP client causes the computer executable to pr... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7272541 | Method and system for generating and handling a harmonized network of points This invention presents methods and systems for generating and handling a harmonized network of points. More generally, this invention reorganizes and optimizes a network of points in terms of spatial distribution regularity. Implementations may allow users to manip... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269591 | Method and apparatus for providing a pay-for-service web site A web server for providing a pay-for-service web site is disclosed configured to execute an HTML front-end entry process configured for creating and storing a personal homepage for a owner. The web server is also configured to receive a fee for making the personal h... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7262773 | Multiple chart user interface A drag-and-drop user interface (DDUI) can generate multiple charts in an integrated chart report and supports the drag-and-drop method of adding fields to the integrated chart report. When a field is dropped from a field list into a multiple chart drop zone, the DDU... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7250944 | Geographic view of a modelling system Geo View is a three-dimensional virtual universe in which a real-world or virtual object may be represented by one or more virtual objects whose attributes are derived from attributes of the real-world object via a flexible user-specifiable mapping. Typically a two-... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251534 | System and method for communicating device descriptions between a control system and a plurality of controlled devices A system that employs a chosen one of a plurality of presentation selections to present information from a field device. The system has a field device interface that configures the field device in accordance with the chosen presentation selection. A control configur... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249250 | Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing datab... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245306 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, storage medium and program An image processing parameter is determined by moving an image displayed on a map representing a color space to an arbitrary position on the map, and an image process corresponding to the arbitrary position is performed on the image at the position after the movemen... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246049 | Analysis method and system of lamp member for vehicle An analysis method of a lamp member for a vehicle, includes (1) the point group data generation step of generating point group data that represents a region to be analyzed, on the basis of CAD data of a lamp member for a vehicle, (2) the analysis parameter extractio... | 07/17/2007 |
