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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132122 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and li... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8132121 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and li... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117564 | Systems and methods for generating a media guidance application with multiple perspective views Systems and methods are provided for navigating a media guidance application with multiple perspective views. A first of a plurality of media guidance objects may be displayed in a first perspective view that appears flat on the screen. A second media guidance objec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8056019 | System and method for providing a dynamic user interface including a plurality of logical layers A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface including a plurality of logical layers is presented. A user interface is provided via a heads-up display generator. Clusters including one or more concepts arranged proximal to each other such cluster to fo... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8042064 | System and method for delivering virtual tour content using the hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP) A system and method for delivering Virtual Reality (VR) tour content and spatial navigation comprising the hyper-text transfer protocol (HTTP) through a dynamic web-based relational database that stores, manipulates, co-ordinates and classifies complex digital data ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8032842 | System and method for three-dimensional interaction based on gaze and system and method for tracking three-dimensional gaze A gaze-based three-dimensional (3D) interaction system and method, as well as a 3D gaze tracking system and method, are disclosed. The gaze direction is determined by using the image of one eye of the operator who gazes at a 3D image, while the gaze depth is determi... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7917869 | Human-computer interface incorporating personal and application domains The present invention provides a human-computer interface. The interface includes provision of an application domain, for example corresponding to a three-dimensional application. The user is allowed to navigate and interact with the application domain. The interfac... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7870507 | System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene with a navigation assistance panel A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene with a navigation assistance panel is presented. Clusters of semantically scored documents are placed in a three-dimensional scene and are arranged as a cluster spine. Eac... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861186 | Systems and methods for navigating page-oriented information assets Techniques provide for the dynamic display of a page-oriented information asset using an audio output mode. Pluralities of elements in the page-oriented information asset are determined based on chapters, sections, paragraphs, sentences, words and the like. The elem... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7827507 | System to navigate within images spatially referenced to a computed space A system for navigating images spatially referenced to a plurality of location coordinates from at least one coordinate location within a computed space provides travel with a non-linear itinerary. Specifically, serial navigation of a plurality of geographic images ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823085 | Knowledge-based polymorph undockable toolbar A software control method and apparatus for implementing a knowledge-based polymorph undockable toolbar within an object scene. The undockable toolbar can be used to perform actions on objects created and managed by computer software applications. A knowledge-based ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7689935 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for displaying content in a multi-dimensional topic space A computer system utilizing software to map content by determining a field of relevance and at least one topic in the field of relevance is presented. The system determines at least one content pertaining to the topic, retrieves a representation of the content and m... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7636900 | Personalized virtual reality home screen for mobile devices A system comprising a display, a processor, and a storage device is provided. The storage device is operable to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, display on the display as a home screen a portion of a virtual world. The virtual world includes ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7516421 | Information presentation system of visual field agreement type, and portable information terminal and server for use in the system A plurality of known markers is disposed in a specific district. A marker detection section detects the known markers existing in the image photographed by an image pickup device. A position/orientation relation calculation section identifies the detected known mark... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7493572 | Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the di... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7467356 | Graphical user interface for 3d virtual display browser using virtual display windows A graphical user interface comprising a main pane, a web button or interactive content button area, an input area, a mini map area, and a three-dimensional view area is disclosed. There are three main view that are displayed (a) three-dimensional perspective view of... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7464343 | Two level hierarchy in-window gallery A graphical user interface is disclosed which allows users to interface with a computer operating system and/or application programs running in conjunction with the operating system. For an Office-style suite application program, a gallery bar may be displayed under... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454715 | Open grid navigational system To assist a player in navigating an open grid within a game or virtual environment, a global indicator and a local indicator are displayed within the virtual environment. The global indicator continuously indicates a straight line direction between an object control... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7409647 | Control of interactions within virtual environments A virtual object for use in an object oriented environment; the virtual object comprising at least a user-sensible aspect and further comprising at least a functional aspect; the said user-sensible aspect being encapsulated as a user-sensible encapsulation, separate... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404151 | System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene is presented. Clusters are placed in a three-dimensional scene arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine. Each cluster includes one or more conc... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7379048 | Human-computer interface including efficient three-dimensional controls The present invention provides a method of human-computer interfacing that provides efficient implementation of intuitive controls in a three-dimensional space. The method comprises providing a three-dimensional space, characterized by x and y dimensions, together d... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373612 | Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies A method of displaying correlations among information objects comprises receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and l... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369130 | Method and apparatus for editing image data, and computer program product of editing image data A method for editing an image on a display unit, an apparatus for executing the method and a computer program product for the method, wherein a predetermined CG object is designated in an image on the display unit, and in order to edit the image, a first command lis... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362922 | Image database apparatus and method of controlling operation of same Ten representative images are extracted from an image database storing images of a number of frames. The extracted representative images are displayed in a coordinate area, along the coordinate axes of which the image characteristics of the images are plotted, in a ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356777 | System and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene A system and method for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene is presented. Clusters are placed in a three-dimensional scene arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine. Each cluster includes one or more conc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340678 | Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3D visualization of indexed media A 3D graphical user interface includes a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure. The interface further includes at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one build... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305626 | Method and apparatus for DOM filtering in UAProf or CC/PP profiles A method by which an application (22a 21a) on an origin server (22), or any other intermediary entity in an end-to-end network architecture connecting a client device (20) to a content provider entity, provides content to th... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290221 | User interface, method and apparatus for providing three-dimensional object fabrication status A method for providing three-dimensional object fabrication status includes the steps of: receiving data pertaining to three-dimensional object(s) fabrication progress; and controlling a graphical user interface to provide a visual representation of the three-dimens... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286708 | Method for encoding and serving geospatial or other vector data as images A system and method are disclosed which include providing a first layer of an image, the first layer including features of the image having locations within the first layer; and providing a second layer of the image, the second layer including data blocks correspond... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280948 | System and method for integrating geometric models A system and method of integrating geometric models, comprising identifying a product to design or manufacture, generating a product template, initiating the generation of at least one geometry, associating knowledge with the geometry, performing operations on the g... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277572 | Three-dimensional interior design system A system and method in a client-server computing environment is provided for generating and rendering a photorealistic three-dimensional (3D) perspective view of a 3D object selectively positioned within a 3D scene. A client is configured for communicably accessing ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277879 | Concept navigation in data storage systems Navigation among concepts in a free-form data object may be facilitated by using a text-mining tool to identify concepts in a free-form data object, with each concept having at least one concept instance. Using the identified concepts, a concept-navigable structure ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275219 | Fast and accurate rendering of pliable display technology distortions using pre-calculated texel coverages A method for generating a presentation of region-of-interest in an information representation including the steps of: selecting a viewpoint for the region-of-interest; selecting a location for the region-of-interest; creating a lens surface having a predetermined lo... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266445 | Method and a system for navigating around real site by creating and accessing database of positional reality images of real site A method and a system for navigating a vehicle around a real site. The method comprises the following steps: (A) creating a database of Positional Reality Images (PRI) that substantially accurately represents the real site, and (B) accessing the database of Position... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248269 | Magnification methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the di... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7240300 | Method for creating user-defined computer operations using arrows A method for creating user-defined computer operations involves drawing an arrow in response to user input and associating at least one graphic to the arrow to designate a transaction to the arrow. The transaction is designated to the arrow after analyzing the graph... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7216291 | System and method to display table data residing in columns outside the viewable area of a window A portion of a table is displayed in a window having a viewable area. For at least one row, information from one or more columns outside the viewable area of the window is displayed in a hovering row, which may be displayed below the associated row. Column headers m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203910 | Method and apparatus for organizing and processing information using a digital computer A method and apparatus for organizing and processing pieces of interrelated information (or “thoughts”) using a digital computer is disclosed. The invention employs a graphical user interface to facilitate user interaction with highly flexible, associative “ma... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200639 | Remote control system, server-client system, server for controlling terminal device, terminal device operating method, device information sharing method, storage media, and program transmission apparatus A remote control system includes: an electric home terminal device 11 having a control program; a server PC 12, for transmitting control data to the electric home terminal device 11 and for registering three-dimensional model data concerning the... | 04/03/2007 |
