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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166416 | Play menu and group auto organizer system and method for a multimedia player A multimedia play menu is generated into an auto playgroup organizer system for a multimedia player by using intelligence cursor/scroll sequence functions programmed for operation by an input device such as a hand-held mobile mouse. The intelligence cursor/scroll ca... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8082518 | Scrollable area multi-scale viewing Utilizing a scrollbar handle for both zooming and panning a display comprising items in a user interface may be accomplished by monitoring an input device's interaction with the scrollbar handle. If the scroll handle is dragged in a direction away from an orientatio... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065626 | Input/output device, input/output method and program therefor A dragged portion is moved by easily operating a mouse. An input/output device using a graphical user interface, includes: a display section that displays a dragged portion and a movement region in which the dragged portion is moved on a display screen; a dragged po... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7987433 | Methods, systems and computer program products for multidimensional movement in a display window Scrolling data in a display window having peripheral controls on a user interface of a data processing system includes a two-dimensional scrolling control that is integrated as part of the peripheral controls. The two-dimensional scrolling control includes at least ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7975237 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium containing information processing program with rotary operation There is provided a novel menu selection method in a mobile phone. Also provided is a cursor displaying method with which a user can intuitively recognize a moving direction and moving speed. In addition, a novel scrollbar with which the user can recognize, in a cas... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7934167 | Scrolling device content A method including displaying content on a display of a device, dividing the display into two or more display sections with a first pointing device where each of the two or more display sections includes a respective portion of the content, and scrolling the respect... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7908567 | Method and system for navigating in a document A method for displaying information about a document in a graphical user interface, that includes receiving an event of a pointer on a trough, identifying a position of the pointer in the trough corresponding to the event, wherein a puck on the trough is in a differ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7900157 | Scroll position estimation apparatus and method A scroll position estimation apparatus includes a unit acquiring a complex document including main data and sub-data items, the main data being for determining a layout of presentation of the complex document, a unit visualizing the main data, a unit presenting the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7873913 | Content scrolling system and method An exemplary content scrolling system includes a display unit for displaying content, a scroll bar for scrolling the displayed content, and a processing unit for scrolling the displayed content based on a scroll input of the scroll bar. The processing unit includes ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865838 | Zoom-capable scrollbar A graphical user interface displays a coarse control scrollbar to provide a user with coarse resolution sequential data control and a magnified view scrollbar proximate to the coarse control scrollbar. The magnified view scrollbar provides the user with fine resolut... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7844916 | Multimedia reproducing apparatus and menu screen display method In a multimedia reproducing apparatus, a read unit reads contents, content icons, and folders containing the contents from an external recording medium. A storage unit 80 stores data on a folder icon. A display processing unit processes menu screen display an... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7770129 | Viewable document section Systems, methods, and computer-readable media that include computer-executable instructions stored thereon for displaying electronic documents keep track of portions of an electronic document that have appeared in a user interface window at some point in time (i.e.,... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7689927 | Viewable document section Systems, methods, and computer-readable media that include computer-executable instructions stored thereon for displaying electronic documents keep track of portions of an electronic document that have appeared in a user interface window at some point in time (i.e.,... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7590946 | Display apparatus and display methods for scrolling item lists A display apparatus includes a display unit configured to display an item list component including at least one scroll indicator for scroll indication on a screen; and a display-position setting unit configured to set the display position of the scroll indicator suc... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7506269 | Bezel interface for small computing devices A user interface for small computing devices. The user interface includes a display screen and a bezel encircling the display screen. The bezel is adapted to move relative to the display screen in one or more axes. For example, the bezel may be rotated about the dis... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7506268 | User interface with visual tracking feature A user interface having a persistent graphical interface element is disclosed. The element may have an appearance of a mechanical structure that traverses one or more displayed tracks. Movement along the tracks may be animated in response to navigation commands. Sel... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7475360 | Method for dynamically providing scroll indicators A method, system, and computer program product for visually indicating the last line(s) of text on a page displayed in a window so that the user can see this visual indication as they are scrolling the text. The user also has the ability to specify a hard stop for t... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7437671 | Computer system control with user data via interface and sensor with identifier A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. The user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of at least one interac... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7428709 | Multiple-panel scrolling In a scrollable user interface window including two or more panels, a single scroll bar scrolls all of the panels. Panels move in lock-step with one another at certain times, but not at other times, depending on whether the lock-step scrolling would cause blank area... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421665 | Node scrollers Techniques employed in displays of graphs with large numbers of nodes for viewing details of an area of interest while preserving context. The techniques take advantage of parent-child and sibling relationships. Sibling nodes and children of sibling nodes are displa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415666 | Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page U... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412651 | Computer system interface surface with reference points and sensor with identifier A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. A user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of an identity of the int... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408538 | Enhanced scrolling A scrolling device for a computer may include a touch-sensitive surface, which may be elongated and/or have one or more active regions. Scrolling may be performed in manual as well as automated ways that may result in more accurate and efficient scrolling. Scrolling... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404152 | Displaying messages on handheld devices A method of displaying messages on handheld devices. The device displays messages in a scrollable viewport of vertically arranged fields. Date separators inserted into the vertically arranged list of messages to enable the user to associate the messages with a date.... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7401298 | Streaming algorithm that populates user information from database based on scrolling activity Displaying requested data from a database includes providing a display containing a scroll bar with a scroll tab therein, determining a total amount of the requested data, sizing the scroll tab in the scroll bar according to the total amount of the requested data an... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398477 | Spiral scrollbar A method and structure for a graphic user interface comprising a non-linear path region that corresponds to a list of items in a computer application, wherein a length of the path region is directly proportional to an amount of items in the list, a rotatable handle ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7395500 | Space-optimizing content display An apparatus, method, computer system, and computer program product to optimize space available for displaying text descriptions in a limited area, such as a sidebar. Space is optimized by displaying only the maximum portion of the text describing each selection tha... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7382691 | Multifunction watch system and method A multifunction watch provides plural worlds, each world supporting one or more modes of operation within the world. Separate configurations can be maintained for each world and separate navigation menus can be provided for each world. Modes of operation may be conf... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383510 | System for organization, display, and navigation of digital information The present invention is a system and method for the organization, display, and navigation of digital information. The present system allows for the easy navigation of a primary source of information, as well as the navigation of secondary information related to the... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380216 | Zoom-capable scrollbar A graphical user interface displays a coarse control scrollbar to provide a user with coarse resolution sequential data control and a magnified view scrollbar proximate to the coarse control scrollbar. The magnified view scrollbar provides the user with fine resolut... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372453 | Foot operated computer mouse A computer cursor control system (10) including a foot operated cursor control device (16) connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) (12). The cursor (20) is positioned by the operator (18) by depressing a left pedal (24)... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365738 | Guides and indicators for eye movement monitoring systems A computer system aids user positioning of a pointing device by providing an animated post warp retro guide in conjunction with an eye tracking system, based on perceived user intent, to assist a user in maintaining continuity for pointer warps. An eye tracking appa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366246 | Method to maximize receiver performance in a multi-stream system A receiver includes a channel decoder select circuit, a plurality of communication channels, at least one maximum ratio combiner circuit, and a forward error correction circuit. The plurality of communication channels receive wireless information from channel demodu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363592 | Tool group manipulations Herein discloses interactive user manipulations of tool groups within toolbars User-responsive tool group manipulation facilitates greater utility, user control, and customization potential, for toolbars. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363594 | Workflow event editor A workflow manager which executes software having one or more channels configured to communicate events-based messages between processes. Events are associated with transitions between states, which mark the progress of an order. An event remains in an associated ch... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7353459 | Legibility of selected content Systems and methods for repositioning selectable content. Content that includes selectable items is displayed on a display device through a user interface. When an item is selected, the item is repositioned and sometimes resized so that the selected item is more eas... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340688 | Application of paging to a dataset, graphical display window and graphical scrollbar grip A dataset is divided into overlapping logical pages, each associated with a different page index. A graphical display window is then filled with data corresponding to a current page offset which is mapped into a subset of data in a logical page corresponding to a cu... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340689 | Method, system and program product for automatically modifying a display view during presentation of a web page A system and method are disclosed for displaying a web page on a computer screen. The method and system provide zoom in and out viewing of the web page as the web page is constructed. In accordance with the method, a browser determines whether web object display has... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340399 | System and method for eye tracking controlled speech processing A system and method for operating and monitoring, in particular, an automation system and/or a production machine and/or machine tool. The visual field (9) of a user (1) directed onto at least one display (2) is recorded and an item of speech in... | 03/04/2008 |
