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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7015920 | Method and system for providing useable images on a high resolution display when a 2D graphics window is utilized with a 3D graphics window A graphics pipeline for use with a high resolution display is disclosed. The graphics pipeline comprises a frame buffer configuration. The frame buffer configuration includes a first mode area and a second mode area. The graphics pipeline further includes a display ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6995760 | Editing method and medium in CAD system Disclosed is a technology of making a user grasp and specify a basic configuration invisible in a finally generated three-dimensional configuration in a three-dimensional CAD system for generating the three-dimensional configuration by sequentially combining the bas... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6976223 | Method and system to establish dedicated interfaces for the manipulation of segmented images A system and method that are capable of assembling customizable graphical user interfaces to facilitate image processing in segmented images. The system receives an input segmented image. A correlation is then made between a selected portion of the input image and a... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961912 | Feedback mechanism for use with visual selection methods A feedback mechanism usable with graphical user interface systems that do not have a cursor improves the usefulness of such graphical user interfaces. Locating, identifying and/or selecting hyperlink targets or active areas within a displayed image map or within a W... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6928622 | Persistent stateful ad hoc checkbox selection A method for stateful toggling of checkbox status, including detecting a touch event on a first checkbox, storing the initial status of all checkboxes in the set, and toggling the status of the first checkbox to a new status. Embodiments also include repeatedly, for... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925612 | Device and method for selecting electrophoresis band The present invention aims at easy and efficient selection of bands present on a lane. A region 502 is set on a display of a lane 503 having a plurality of bands 504 to 508, based on an input cursor 501 of a pointing unit. T... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6903722 | Computer system having a plurality of input devices and associated double-click parameters A computer system has a plurality of input pointing devices, such as a mouse, a track ball, a pointing stick, a tablet or a touch screen. Each of the plurality of input devices connected to the computer system has different parameters associated with a double-click ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898765 | User friendly remote system interface with menu highlighting A system, method, and medium for enhancing a GUI and viewing environment for a computer user is disclosed. Enabling a user to fully navigate and operate a computer through the use of a remote control device, the present invention includes at least a PC mode of opera... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6886138 | Directing users′ attention to specific icons being approached by an on-screen pointer on user interactive display interfaces In an interactive display interface, an implementation for highlighting all icons in any set of a plurality of the icons, wherein each icon in the set is within a predetermined distance of an approaching pointer or cursor. In other words, the point of the pointer or... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6704034 | Method and apparatus for providing accessibility through a context sensitive magnifying glass A method and apparatus in a data processing system for presenting a set of objects within the data processing system. Responsive to detecting movement of a pointer over an object within the set of objects, an object type is identified for the object. Pres... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6690356 | Method and apparatus for providing visual feedback during manipulation of text on a computer screen A method and apparatus providing visual feedback to a computer user while dragging selected text is described. As its first step, the processing logic creates a text object from the selected text once the computer user has initiated a drag. Simultaneously... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6654039 | Method, system and program for scrolling index scans A method, system and program for accessing records in a database object, such as an index or table. A cursor is maintained that points to a start entry in the database object. The database object has rows and columns of values. A runtime component receive... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6088027 | Method and apparatus for screen object manipulation The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for manipulating screen objects utilizing multiband regions of influence. Positioning a reference point of an object within a particular band invokes a particular functionality or operation related to... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5808604 | Apparatus and method for automatically positioning a cursor on a control A method and apparatus for managing controls on the screen of a computer controlled display. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides for quick and efficient activation and deactivation of controls by designating a number of controls as ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5625377 | Method for controlling a computerized organizer The method of the present invention includes the steps of executing a process to support a number of temporal-based functions and activating at least one of these temporal-based functions. Temporal-based functions of the present invention include a schedu... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5611040 | Method and system for activating double click applications with a single click A system and method for minimizing clicks in the operation of a graphical user interface such as the WINDOWS operating environment is disclosed. The invention emulates a double click (referred to as the "ClickSaver" feature) which virtually eliminates the... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5598183 | System and method for computer cursor control A system determining an intended cursor location on the computer display screen and automatically repositions the cursor at the intended location. If the user selects a command that alters the contents of the display, such as opening a new window, the sys... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5592195 | Information displaying device A storage stores n-dimensional information, n being an integer greater than or equal to three. A display displays an icon which is provided with a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, and displays information, among the n... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5565888 | Method and apparatus for improving visibility and selectability of icons Enhanced visibility of icons and other types of menu items is provided by increasing size and or skew or both of one or more icons or menu items in a generally inverse relation to proximity of a cursor image address to particular icons or menu items. Incr... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5561444 | Method and apparatus for providing visual feedback during manipulation of text on a computer screen A method and apparatus providing visual feedback to a computer user while dragging selected text is described. As its first step, the processing logic creates a text object from the selected text once the computer user has initiated a drag. Simultaneously... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5537662 | Electronic montage composing apparatus A montage composing apparatus is provided for composing a desired picture of a human face without any complicated manipulations. The apparatus requires no operation for selecting and combining part patterns to compose the picture of a human face. Several ... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5513309 | Graphic editor user interface for a pointer-based computer system A graphical editor user interface that is particularly well suited for use in pointer based computer systems. The graphical editor is arranged to permit the user to easily edit various selected graphic objects. The selected objects are highlighted and pre... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5504850 | Data processing apparatus with headline representation In a data processing apparatus, a specific portion of document data constructed of plural pages, for example, headlines of all pages is displayed within a single display screen. Since a cursor is moved to a certain headline of the document data displayed ... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5307457 | Trigger field display selection An apparatus is described which includes memory areas for storing an image and trigger fields for the image, and a display which indicates a cursor in one of two configurations. Circuitry is provided for moving the cursor and enabling it to implement a se... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5276797 | Dynamically extending selection choices An extended selection field for use in selecting one or more choices from a list on an information system display. The extended selection field exhibits the behavior and appearance of a standard single choice field, with the additional capability to switc... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5270689 | Multi-function operating device In the case of a multi-function operating device for motor vehicles, a single bidirectional rotary switch having stop positions and axial movability is used to designating function groups and to select them by means of an enter function arrangement and su... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5198802 | Combined keyboard and mouse entry Effectiveness of using both a mouse (13) and a keyboard (21) for entry of function selection by cursor (17) is achieved by the system recognizing a mouse entry as such and not moving cursor (17) with transition of displays, while keyboard operation moves ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5157763 | Visually assisted method for transfer of data within an application or from a source application to a receiving application Data is transferred between files within an application program or between multiple, independent, simultaneously active application programs appearing concurrently on a computer display screen using a visually assisted method. Data to be transferred from ... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5146210 | Wireless remote control system for a television receiver A system for remotely controlling a television receiver has a position-dependant transmitter and an electrooptical arrangement which controls the motion of a cursor on a television screen. The electrooptical arrangement also generates menu entries to faci... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4896291 | Valuator menu for use as a graphical user interface tool The system and method provides a user interface tool for simultaneously selecting a menu item and a value, from a range of values, for the menu item. The user interface tool is referred to as a valuator menu, since it allows both the selection of a value ... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4772882 | Cursor controller user interface system Menu item selection is performed in a personal computer system through the use of a mouse device which has means to allow the user to call up onto the display a header block which performs the function of the menu bar and to erase the header block from th... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4731609 | Fast correlation of markers with graphic entities Graphics display system having a moving cursor, such as a cursor, for selecting a displayed entity. The correlation of a cursor with an entity intended to be selected is performed by storing a unique tag assigned to each entity in a cell in a correlation ... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4725829 | Automatic highlighting in a raster graphics display system In an interactive graphics display system in which pels in a frame buffer are mapped to the display screen of a raster display device, a method of automatically highlighting and de-highlighting graphic segments as a cursor is moved across the display scre... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4661810 | Method for interactive rotation of displayed graphic objects A method is described for editing a graphic object being displayed by an interactive draw graphic system. The method is directed to a rotate edit action on a graphic object that can be selected from a group of individual objects that are being concurrentl... | 04/28/1987 |
| 4587520 | Cursor controlled page selection in a video display A teletext system in which viewer function selection is accomplished by superposing a cursor on one of the displayed function words. The teletext/videotext receiver includes a ROM for storing page selection control symbols and a RAM for storing symbols an... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4454507 | Real-time cursor generator A system for writing cursors on a raster scanned television screen that uses the microprocessor in a display controller to produce blocks of data defining the parameters of vectors that compose the cursor. The blocks are put in a first-in first-out memory... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4434475 | Method of entering criteria for selecting records of spatially related data stored in an interactive text processing system An improved method is disclosed for assisting the operator of an interactive text processing system. The method assists the operator in entering interactively selection criteria to be used in selecting records from the existing file. The improved method i... | 02/28/1984 |
